Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Promo Season One #2

1964 promo for "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," "televisions most exciting show." This one-minute black-and-white video aired on ABC on September 21, 1964 at the end of the second episode of Voyage, "City Beneath the Sea." This copy was recorded from a local TV rebroadcast in 1987. Clips from the episodes "Hot Line" (episode 9), "The Fear Makers" (episode 3), "Hail to the Chief" (episode 16), "Turn Back the Clock" (episode 7), and "The Mist of Silence" (episode 4) comprise the promo.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Irwin Allen
• Voyage
• ABC
• Richard Basehart
• David Hedison
• 1964
• TV
• television
• 1960's
• scifi
• science fiction
• 60's
• sixties

[65kowalski]

SirReal1958 - You are full of shit. The latter season episodes were tailored for a juvenile audience, I'll concede. But the acting and plots during season 1, most of season 2 and occasionally even in seasons 3 and 4 were top-notch. Richard Basehart was a great actor, David Hedison got better under his tutellage and many - if not most - of the guest star were good actors.(And the early episodes of Lost in Space were good TV fare, too!)

[TooleMan87]

@65kowalski Hear, hear!

[go1567]

Let's be a bit nostalgic...

Oh my, where a such man like Harriman Nelson or the gallant Captain Crane today?

Not to mention the 'always-on- duty' Exec!

[kilburnhall]

Irwin Allen, TV's master of science fiction is sorely missed in 2000's. Few of today's TV science fiction match the imagination, awesome writing, plot, narrative and even special effects of many of these early 1960's series, Voyage, Land Of The Giants, Time Tunnel etc.

[chobit389]

its like 1960's SeaQuest DSV!!!

[Aquaman1054]

@SirReal1958 What truth? That you have a low opinion of a 1960's TV series that most people who are viewing this clip remember fondly? No, I won't deny that. The rest of your comment was just funny. Oh, and just 1 point: VTTBOTS pre-dates LIS on TV by a year .

[RovingCounter]

As with all Irwin Allen shows, the premise was so limited that it became difficult to come up with new shows. How many underwater shows can you do? So they came up with the flying sub for example to expand possibilities. LIS, Time Tunnel, Land of Giants all had this major flaw. Good ideas for movies, but not weekly TV shows. LIS and Voyage had some great shows the first season or so.

[spacepatrolman]

0:39 thats mike kellin he is a  gangster in the untouchables episode the white slavers and an indian in the black saddle episode apache trail

[danzamphi]

@jbmbryant The best twisting of the title was MAD Magazine's parody, "Voyage to See What's on the Bottom"!

[spacepatrolman]

@danzamphi the first time i watched star trek when it was originally on at this girls house i didnt know what it was sort of like voyage in space didnt really get into it until reruns