Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Flying Sub Claw and More!

[robharding1957]

another of my tv favourites,great show from a great period,

[CrankyOldster]

Chief is so cool, grabbing that impossibly thin cable while tolerating Nelson's backseat driving. :)

[SuperFLOFLO08]

A REMETRE SURE LES ECRANT

[BOOOZB]

Quelles tronches de cake !!

[LakewoodDallas]

It was thrilling in 1968 and it still is!

[LesMGM1]

Voyage to the Bottom of the sea is available on DVD. There are 3 seasons and 3 discs each season. Part is in black & white, the rest r in color.

[TooleMan87]

@LesMGM1 There are four seasons, the first is b&W, and there are 6 disks per season.

[Comodebedeser]

@LesMGM1 Excusme, wold you can give me some page with the 4 seasons, for view ?

[The1baddman]

Voyage to the bottom of the sea can be seen on Me-TV on the weekends (late night) starting next saturday (early sunday 1:00 a.m).

[orange12v]

A great show have you ever noticed when the flying sub approaches seaview, seaview is submerged then it docks with seaview, seaview is clearly on the surface

[chabelo8868]

¡ it was amazing for the age ! . thanks for this.

[lewisner]

0.25 if those bubbles were to scale they'd be three feet across.

[etrax2000]

in one episode they had a puppet of basehart, i guess it didn't take much work to make !(LOL)

[Lucasvicenteable]

Lembro-me do filme eu assistia toda tarde é uma pena que não vi mais. Gostaria de encontrar em DVD toda a temporada. Valeu pelo video.

[jiminkorea]

I always felt that old school special effects seemed more real. Maybe it's because of suspension of disbelief. Good upload anyhow!

[roaklin]

CGI is cool but these old school models just had a certain level of coolness of their own.

[MrLolman666]

More like Voyage to the bottom of the bathtub...I still enjoyed it tho

[DaBoogie049]

models look much more realistic than cgi!

[josephebacon]

When I was a kid, I couldn't wait for Sunday Nights at 7AM, I loved this show! Looking at if 40+ years later, the special effects are cheesy, but I still love it. SO glad the whole series is finally out on DVD, now, if they would please bring it out on Blu-Ray!!!!

[KlunkerRider]

WOW what crappy FX at 1:33, yeah like I totally dont see the huge backyard floodlight behind the FS front windows, oh wait those trap doors open right into the cabin where I can see even more of that crappy backyard floodlight, I know these shows were made on the cheap but come on, you'd never see an FX gap like that on Thunderbirbs, and those were puppets! LOL

[archie1961]

What was so great about the show was that it was futuristic. The ideas were unique and truly amazing. And without today's CGI cap. Thanks.

[andyshorrors]

Wish they could deploy the Seaview to Fukushima right now!!!

[othur]

Lol not too good of a special effect but hey. It worked and it was the 60's!!

[luridplanet]

Filmmakers should use model effects as good as this, instead of CGI all the time.

[quarqill]

I would like to see a reboot version of the show.Keep the same theme music Flying Sub and more.Also bring in the writers who are still alive as consultants.My choice to play Nelson and Crane,Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

[paullubliner]

@quarqill Too young and inexperienced for the Admiral too old for the Captain.

[SIXPACK110]

Thanks for the vid....I have one of the miniature diving bells that were used on the show...my dad worked at fox in the 60's.....

[TooleMan87]

@SIXPACK110 That's great! Send me a PM and tell me more about your dad's Voyages! ;-)

[paullubliner]

@SIXPACK110 Let ts talk about that. I have other "things" you may wish to peruse.

[rangeclerk]

@SIXPACK110 How "big" are they? I am guessing--about 3-6 inches across?

[mondeo1701]

always wanted a flying sub in real life!!!

[82abnoff]

I was just a teenage. I was ? Star Trek.

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[drkam6]

that was AWESOME, my fav ship from childhood! Thank you for posting!

[TooleMan87]

@EMS8643 Continuity problems in Voyage? NEVER!

It's possible that the resolution of the YouTube image makes the docking bay doors look smooth when in fact they are actually corrugated.

(Ever notice how many times the number of windows changes in the nose of the Seaview?)

[BPrice1A]

@TooleMan87 The windows just depended on which season of the show you were watching. The Seaview had 8 windows in the original movie and the first season of the series, then was redesigned to four windows for season two through four.

[Haselius00]

The claw was a good idea, but not executed well. At 1:50 you can see right through the claw hatch and into the interior. The cabin would have been flooded. But that's Irwin Allen for 'ya. Same problems with all his shows. Still, good fun!

[TooleMan87]

@Haselius00 Actually, air pressure in the cabin would keep the water out. Without proper air pressure the hull of the Flying Sub would be crushed. But it's still poorly done with the car headlight up inside FS1.

[paullubliner]

@TooleMan87 ACTUALLY there is no room for a floor and all the cable operated machined brass mechanisms.  I had the thing here for years. There's no rear either!

[theshadow1932]

@Haselius00 On the other hand, when those super heated nuclear engines hit the water at several hundred miles per, you may WANT your cabin flooded. Ah, Irwin, Irwin, Irwin!

Norm

[rangeclerk]

There was in Anaheim Ca back in the late 90s a National Science Fiction Convention and one of the items on display was SEAVIEW from the studio. I do not know how many they made but this one was BIG and it looked like it had done some battles with some nasty underwater critters!

[paullubliner]

@rangeclerk: Only one. It is 206 inches long and in Seattle.

[rangeclerk]

@paullubliner Then they must have transported to Anaheim as that was the World Science Fiction Convention (late 1990's)---was there as a member of the Orange County Space Society (NSS-Nat. Space Society) had paid for OCSS to have a booth at the convention.

[kitchenaut]

Does anyone else think that  Richard Basehart could be Rick Astley's real dad?

[TooleMan87]

@kitchenaut No. Basehart was more handsome. ;-)

[49bobbyk]

Voyage, like all Irwin Allen shows had cool looking ships and started out with decent stories. Unfortunately the writing went down hill on every show. With Voyage it became the monster of the week. Lost In Space is still my favorite but it went bad after the first half of the first season. The Jupiter 2 and it's engine noise is still the coolest out there. Land of the Giants was not all that great. And Time Tunnel could have been better. It all came down to writers.

[rangeclerk]

When the series first started it delt with Intel ops and the SEAVIEW, Capt and the Admiral were Intel ops CIA/NSA---made sense and guess what the US NAVY has used it nuke subs for---Intel ops---later the series went BIG TIME STUPID---one wk the monster on VOYAGE would be LOST IN SPACE OR the other way round--I ended up giving this show my own title "Voyage to See What is on the Bottom" of the 'ratings list'.

[TooleMan87]

@rangeclerk I have to respond to the comment you made: from the beginning, the Nelson Institute of Marine Research (NIMR) operated the Seaview, and Nelson and Crane were independent of CIA/NSA/Navy unless they were drawn in during a crisis (which happened fairly often). But yes, the show was more sensible in its first and second season.

[rangeclerk]

@TooleMan87 Totally agree with you and I think their base of ops was Santa Barbara---always wondered since NIMR was "Independent" of the US NAVY what was a non-military sub carring around missiles and nuclear warheads around? I am a strong supporter of the 2nd Admend & it looked like Adm Nelson was too! :D

[paullubliner]

@TooleMan87 Not quite. It was the "Bureau of Marine Research" in the feature.

[paullubliner]

@rangeclerk Yet it still won many Emmys for special effects!

[rangeclerk]

@paullubliner Well there is no accting for taste in HOLLYWOOD--- later esps where they were supposedly way deep underwater, yet when they sent out frogmen in "special underwater suits" u could see their fins---breaking the surface of the water----one wk a monster would attack SEAVEIW & later that wk, same monster attacks the JUPITER 2 and later "bother" the time travellers in TIME TUNNEL---way to funny! Also sub interior was also used in a BATMAN Movie! :D

[johnyjoe2k]

You gotta love the old special effects. Love how they miniaturize everything.

[escueladeleyi]

you can see the wire they spun the flying sub in the air with if you look on DVD quality.

[fortknoxguy]

Loved this show when I was a kid. Flying sub and a mother ship sub that had caddy fins was too much.

[Probesoul]

I wonder what those colored flashing lights are for? Each color must have significance... but all flashing on and off at the same time? I guess when they all flash on and off at the same time it means everything's ok... if they all go off but one of them stays on... like say the red one.... that means it's time to get the hell atta there.. :)

[TooleMan87]

@Probesoul It means the show was filmed in color, which was a big deal in 1968.

[Probesoul]

@TooleMan87 I was only kidding... that was one of my favorite shows. I used to watch it back in 1968 in an 26 inch RCA color TV. :)

[TooleMan87]

@TooleMan87 You had me beat. I watched it in 1968 on a 21" Zenith color set.

[bozo47p]

hell yea its cheesey...all irwin allen flicks were cheesey ...cheap too...they even use the same props in lost in space, land of the giants and time machine ...but when your a kid all this crap is fun to watch...and when your doing bong hits all of this crap turns into comedy...that makes it more fun to watch

[oldschoolsituationz]

i'm disapointed couldnt irwin do better than that, you can see a big old fashion car headlight through the window of the flying sub at frame 1:30. i know he had better production staff than that.

[TooleMan87]

@oldschoolsituationz It is cheesy, isn't it? Probably why they only used the footage once... or was it twice?

[CatapultYourMom]

@oldschoolsituationz I wish the real government would save money and use an old fashioned car headlight when possible, instead of some $9 million "special" headlight for some vehicle.

[CaptAntiGravity]

I really think that this was quite a brilliant Concept Movie for the Time & lack of leading edge Technologies that were No where in Sight!!!

I feel that "Sir Steven Spielberg" should Re-Do a Latest Version of this Same "Voyage to Bottom of the Sea" Series!!!I trust he would make this Concept Movie Series a most Awesome Experience without a doubt!!I feel like it's finally time for him to jump on this Idea!!

[paullubliner]

@CaptAntiGravity: You want Speilberg? You mean the guy who brought that work of art out in the form of the last Indiana Jones movie? Oh that's great! Just as long as he employs the same "Ghost Director" he used on Schindler's List.

[rangeclerk]

@CaptAntiGravity If it is, PLEASE let it NOT be "Off-The-Wall story line like the series was though---hopefully they would write a story that has some "thinking" behind it, however given HOLLYWOOD's trend over the last 30+ yrs in that they do use real science fiction writers (BOVA, GUNN, Eillson,) but rather a stable of "studio writers" suspect the story will be what a 6 yr old would write & want to be disproven---ex of crap---most of the ST movies---including the 1st one; others had hugh holes.

[dataflowc]

For a nuclear submarine the seaview wasnt exactly what you could call stealthy was it. I mean painted white, spot lights on the front and constantly pinging its sonar, the ruskies could have located from 100 miles away. Also I wouldnt like to be the doctor on board, can you imagine the broken bones he would have to set every time it surfaced by leaping out the water at a 45 degree angle.

[TooleMan87]

The Seaview is not white. She is GRAY. And her primary mission is scientific exploration of the underwater world... spies, aliens, monsters, and psychos wreaking havoc aside.

As for being the doctor... well, he's never bored.

[dataflowc]

so what were the 10 silos (see 2:12) intended for then, not removing the Earth's Van Allen rariation belt I bet.

btw can you remenber who the doctor was in the series?

[dataflowc]

sorry see  0:26 for silos

[TooleMan87]

Seaview carried missiles for national defense in time of war. See the first episode for more on her mission.

Richard Bull played the doctor in most episodes, but there were one or two other actors who played him, too.

Do you remember the Seaview doctor's name?

[rolko52]

It tough to say who could chew on the scenery better...Richard Basehart or William Shatner.

[TooleMan87]

Curb thy tongue, nave! Basehart was a truly great actor, though he didn't always have the greatest material to work with (Lobster Man, etc, etc)

Shatner winds the scenery-chewing award hands-down.

[rolko52]

@TooleMan87 You have to catch his portral of Adolph Hitler in the 1964 epic "Hitler". Over the top...but so was Schicklgruber.

[rolko52]

You sure that it isn't a "craw"?

[X4RAR]

Ace shots of Flying sub, still looks better than CGI to me...The claw freaked me as it was so unexpected to see new props so late in the series likewise the large amount of new music recorded towards the end as well...I did not like the claw effect but the fact it was there at all was cool :)

[TooleMan87]

I wondered about those things, too. There must have been some extra money to spend on music and effects that year, since Lost In Space had only produced 22 episodes, most of them using the blinking jail cell as the primary prop.

[othur]

That is soo cool lol. Old School Action!