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Post by matthewsee on Oct 26, 2015 20:30:50 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_to_the_Bottom_of_the_Sea_(TV_series)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is the first in Irwin Allen's quartet 1960s sci fi series. It earlier had been a movie in 1961 with a different cast and the TV series is not a continuation of the movie.
Eleven Days To Zero: Series opener. On the DVD release saw this episode both in black and white and in colour. When the announcer introduced the series at the beginning the subtitles refer to him as Male Announcer. Surely the gender of the announcer is not relevant and it would have been sufficient just to refer to him as Announcer. Very good opener to the series and very good first mission for Seaview in their television adventures. Enthralling teaser which saw the death of Captain Phillips in an ambush. Very bold the way Lee Crane makes his entrance in the series. Good resolution to the situation which led to Crane becoming permanent captain of the Seaview.
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Post by drwhat on Oct 28, 2015 10:50:43 GMT -5
The episode The Lost World where the team encounters dinosaurs that are just lizards with props stuck to them is quite hilarious. I love this show.
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Post by matthewsee on Dec 27, 2015 16:21:41 GMT -5
The Village of Guilt: Season 1, Episode 8 on the original transmission order, season 1, episode 2 on the DVD order. The crew comes to the said village where a sea monster has attacked and killed some of the villagers. Not bad as it was eventually discovered to be the work of a scientist who has literally gone mad and the said monster not bad as the menace the Seaview had to fight off.
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 21, 2016 8:17:46 GMT -5
The Mist of Silence: Season 1, Episode 4 on the original transmission order, season 1, episode 3 on the DVD order. Pretty enjoyable episode about a revolution as the crew helps to rescue an imprisoned Latin American president. This plus guest star Rita Gam was very good to look at.
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 23, 2016 8:41:14 GMT -5
The City Beneath The Sea: Season 1, Episode 2 on the original transmission order, season 1, Episode 4 on the DVD order. The said city beneath the sea belongs to the villain Zeraff. Originally broadcast on September 21 1964 this episode came over a couple of years before Doctor Who: The Underwater in January-February 1967 which also had an underwater city Atlantis and a similarly named villain Zaroff. Hurd Hatfield is very good as Zeraff with Lee describing him as a man-eating piranha. Exciting sequences that took place in the said city. Guest star Linda Cristal was very good to look at and amusing with jokes about the cover stories.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 22, 2016 19:35:48 GMT -5
Turn Back The Clock: Season 1, Episode 7 on the original transmission order, season 1, episode 5 on the DVD order. Guest stars Yvonne Craig. The Yvonne Craig character along with Lee and Nelson goes to a prehistoric-style place in order to find her father. This is rather akin to Irwin Allen's own version of The Lost World. Quite good and not really surprised on what the Nick Adams character ultimately decided.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 26, 2016 17:43:52 GMT -5
Hail To The Chief: Season 1, Episode 16 on the original transmission order, season 1, episode 6 on the DVD order. Guest stars Ed Platt and an uncredited appearances by James Doohan and Susan Flannery. The Chief of the episode title refers to the US President and this episode which was broadcast on December 28 1964 featured a prophetic appearance by Platt. Although Platt did not play the US President, Platt would later be seen almost nine months later in September 1965 for his regular appearances in Get Smart as a different kind of Chief, the Chief of CONTROL. I thought the stenographer was very pretty and I was surprised to just discover that she was played by an uncredited Susan Flannery. Flannery would later be a luminary of The Bold and The Beautiful for her role as Forrester family matriarch Stephanie Forrester. If I am to be bold (no pun intended) I thought she looked much prettier in this Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea then later on in The Bold and the Beautiful. A fascinating episode about an operation on the President that had to take place on the Seaview and the planned use of a delicate machine as an unlikely assassination weapon.
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Post by matthewsee on Apr 25, 2016 22:34:03 GMT -5
The Fear-Makers: Season 1, Episode 3 on the original transmission order, season 1, episode 7 on the DVD order. The episode begins with the tragedy on another submarine the Palidor caused by the crew reacting to fear gas. This has consequences on the Seaview crew as it question how long the crew can survived in the submarine with a couple of observers on board. One of them Davis (Lloyd Bochner) is in fact an enemy agent and he placed the fear gas on the Seaview in order to cancel the Seaview's mission. However when the fear-gas evolved into something more this leads Davis to panic and reveal himself for what he is to the Nelson and Crane. Quite tense episode and fits well with its premise especially the lead-up to Davis exposing himself as an enemy episode in order to save his own life.
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Post by matthewsee on May 14, 2016 21:37:24 GMT -5
Hot Line: Season 1, Episode 9 on the original transmission order, season 1, episode 8 on the DVD order. Guest stars James Doohan, Michael Ansara and John Banner. Doohan makes another appearance as the presidential assistant. Ansara was in the original Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea movie but plays a different character here. Ansara later appeared in the original Star Trek episode Day of the Dove featuring Doohan as a series regular. Banner later played Sgt Schultz in Hogan's Heroes. In Hogan's Heroes, Banner as the German Sgt Schultz during World War III at times gets warnings of being sent to the Russian Front. Funnily enough here in this Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode he plays the Russian Chairman! This brought in a reminder of an old high school teacher Karen Mould, who I have sexual relations with and at one time made an imitation of Schultz during class. This episode deals with the likely devastating effects of a satellite. Coincidentally I saw the movie Midnight Special (2016) which also had a satellite with devastating effects. Understandable of Clark getting scared for his wife and kid with the prospect of the satellite exploding and killing them. Good way of the admiral of flushing out the Russian imposter and what a heck of time in stopping the satellite from exploding
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Post by matthewsee on Jun 25, 2016 17:48:19 GMT -5
The Sky Is Falling: Season 1, Episode 6 on the original transmission order, season 1, episode 9 on the DVD order. The Seaview crew encountered a UFO which has accidentally landed on Earth. Pretty good episode in which the UFO pilot had to prove to Nelson and then to Crane that he is no threat to Earth. All of this with the presence in the Seaview of Rear Admiral Tobin who wants nothing more but to blast the UFO to smithereens and therefore whose presence was barely tolerable.
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 17, 2016 17:37:58 GMT -5
The Price of Doom: Season 1, Episode 5 on the original transmission order, season 1, episode 10 on the DVD order. Written by Harlan Ellison under the pseudonym Cord Wainer Bird. Guest stars David Opatoshu and Jill Ireland. The teaser ends with the demise of the Pennells with Mr Pennell giving his last message on a tape recorder beforehand. This episode came on October 12 1964 and Doctor Who did something similar almost a year later on October 9 1965 in Mission To The Unknown when Marc Cory left a message on a tape recorder just before being exterminated by the Daleks and Mission To The Unknown had served as a teaser to The Daleks Master Plan. Very menacing plankton that the crew faced here. There sure is sympathy to Reisner (Opatoshu) the moment he revealed to Nelson that he has months to live due to accidental poisoning of his body. Quite a surprise that Julie (Jill Ireland) turned out to be the enemy surprise and kind of sad how she came to her end. The enemy pilot definitely failed Crane's test when he said that he sees someone that Crane knows and who has been dead for six years. The enemy pilot was dubbed by Crane as Smiling Jack who we only hear his voice via communications with Crane and I was surprised to learn from IMDb that he was voiced uncredited by James Frawley who I am familiar with as director of the movie Fraternity Vacation. Very good the significance of the name Anna as revealed here.
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 2, 2016 20:12:12 GMT -5
Long Live The King: Season 1, Episode 15 on the original transmission order, season 1, episode 11 on the DVD order.
A boy prince suddenly becomes king after his father the previous king got assassination in their homeland.
The new king was in the US when this happens and the Seaview got tasked to bring him home and oh my what a brat this new king turned out to be giving orders here and there to the Seaview crew with Crane even joking about killing the king himself.
Pretty good when the assassin got revealed and Carroll O’Connor delivered a very sincere performance as John who is greatly implied to be Santa Claus as he was found near Christmas Island.
In fact this episode came on December 21 1964 making it the series Christmas episode of that year.
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 1, 2016 23:44:39 GMT -5
Submarine Sunk Here: Season 1, Episode 10 on the original transmission order, Season 1, Episode 12 on the DVD order. The Seaview has sunk due to its encountering a minefield added by a problem that occur in the control room. Quite an intense episode that goes on as attempts are made to bring the Seaview back up but ultimately a sacrifice is made along the way.
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Post by matthewsee on Dec 11, 2016 23:08:34 GMT -5
The Magnus Beam: Season 1, Episode 11 on the original transmission order, Season 1, Episode 13 on the DVD order. Broadcast on November 23 1964 exactly a year after the debut of Doctor Who. Coincidentally I also saw another TV episode that was originally broadcast on a November 23 that of Jumanji’s The Trial which was shown in 1997. Guest stars Malachi Throne and coincidentally I also recently saw him in The Outer Limits episode Cold Hands, Warm Heart. Here Throne played the villain General Gamal who has in his disposal a weapon that produces a magnetic beam that renders metallic weapons useless. Gamal’s top aide Major Amadi pretends to be a defector to Seaview and he was sure overconfident in what he was doing. Patterson sure took pleasure in punching Amadi when the situation demands it. A very good climax which saw the destruction of the magnus beam and General Gamal leaving Amadi to genuinely plead for asylum for fear of what the new government will do to him.
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 30, 2017 5:29:23 GMT -5
No Way Out: Season 1, Episode 12 on the original transmission order, Season 1, Episode 14 on the DVD order. The Seaview is transporting a Soviet defector as he carry with him the information that is vital to the US government. Of course Koslow sends an agent Victor Vail to kill this defector. Vail kills and impersonates a government official to get on the Seaview. Quite thrilling and impressive when it was revealed that Vail was not the only agent sent by Koslow to kill the defector.
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