Talk:Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)

Citations & references?
I've been editing/cleaning up this article for the past couple of days and would HATE to see that "article doesn't cite its references" tags, as it was a fairly decent article when I started. I believe a "References" section with cites is needed to avoid such a tag. Any help in this regard would be appreciated. Sundevilesq 05:25, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Request for a Photograph
The article needs a photgraph to improve its quality. It should include the lead stars but a photo or drawing of the submarine would be nice as well.- Samdeham June 20,2007
 * DVD cover art added...don't know how long before some bot takes 'em down, but they ARE up and comport with Wiki licensing stds. Sundevilesq 22:54, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Timeline/chronology.
Since a person objected to the timeline and deleated it, I take it that there is some type of rule prohibiting it's addition to the main body of the article. I have included it here in the talk section so that fans of the show can enjoy it as it was. Bijou88Bijou88 15:26, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

- ==Chronology== -   - Based on "facts" provided in each episode, a chronology of the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea universe can be compiled. -

- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Chronology -

- The Voyages of the SNSS Seaview 1972-1982 -

-   - Four point six billion years ago – the Earth was formed. (Geological fact.) -   - Four billion years ago – A cellular form of life evolves near the location of what will later become the Vemus seamount. ("The Cradle of the Deep") -

- Several hundred million years ago – The Earth’s oceans formed. (Geological fact.) -

- 320 to 258 million years ago – Edaphosaurus roamed the earth. (Edaphosaurus appeared in "Turn Back the Clock." Dr. Ernst Zeigler estimated that the creature lived 150 million years ago and claimed that it was a dinosaur from the Mesozoic era. In actuality, Edaphosaurus preceded the dinosaurs and lived in the Permian period of the Paleozoic era. What’s a few hundred million years between friends?)

-   - 20 million years ago - Zar’s people, The products of a previous evolutionary cycle build an advanced civilization beneath the sea. They place themselves into suspended animation because the Earth’s temperature became too hot for them to survive. The Earth became a boiling sea. ("The Invader.") -

- One million years ago – The Seaview appears in a prehistoric ocean. (Mr. Pem sent them one million years into the past in "A Time to Die.") -

- Two Thousand Years Ago – The ancient Egyptians entomb a mummy, which will be discovered in the 20th century. (In "The Mummy," the mummy is referred to as being three thousand years old. In reality, the Egyptians stopped mummifying their dead two thousand years ago. Nelson and Sharky are experts in many fields but Egyptology is not one of them.) -

- 1323 – A party of South American Amerind speaking peoples journey south into Antarctic regions in a canoe and are drawn into a giant tropical underwater cavern. In isolation, they build a civilization that lasts 600 years. ("Turn Back the Clock." Nelson postulates that “Amerinds” from nearby South America made their way south in a “primitive canoe” and became drawn into the cavern “centuries ago.” Based on the level of technology (stone tipped spears) possessed by the aborigines in this lost world, it is reasonable to put forth the date of 650 years from 1973 as the date of this remarkable journey.) -

- 1506 – Leonardo Da Vinci creates the Mona Lisa. (In "The Buccaneer," Logan tries to steal the masterpiece.) -

- 1524 – A pirate’s ship is attacked. As the ship, laden with gold, sinks into the depths, The pirate captain vows that no one will touch his treasure for a thousand years. ("Dead Man’s Doubloons") -

- 1680 – Strange sounds are heard by a British fleet before being destroyed. Survivors of the fleet swear to the truth of the story. ("The Fossil Men." Set in 1980, Nelson tells Crane that the fleet was lost 300 years ago.) -

- November 22, 1718 – Blackbeard the pirate dies in a fierce battle with the British Royal Navy off the Carolina coast. ("The Return of Blackbeard." Also, historical fact. The pirate states he wants to plunder again as he did 120 years ago. The episode is set in 1982; this would set his reign of terror on the high seas in 1862. Clearly Edward Teach (a.k.a. Blackbeard) did not realize how far in the future he really was. He should have said 264 years ago.) -

- 1779 - The Seaview appears off the coast of Colonial America and meets Benedict Arnold and John Andre. (Mr. Pem transports them there in the "No Way Back.") -

- 1832 – Captain Shaemus O’Hara Nelson, a rich merchant seaman, dies at sea. ("The Haunted Submarine." Historical Note: The United States Congress passed a law prohibiting the importation of slaves after January 1, 1808. O’Hara Nelson truly deserved to be a restless soul for trading in human flesh in addition to doing it illegally.) -

- October 1871 – The first sighting of Loch Ness monster is reported. (McDougal remarks in "The Secret of the Loch" that there have been reports for 50 years or more. Clearly, McDougal didn’t do his homework. The first reported sighting was 103 years before 1974. The first historically recorded sighting of Nessie was by a D. Mackenzie in October 1871.)

-   - 1891 – James Barclay, an English sailor, is swallowed by a Sperm Whale. The whale expels him 24 hours later “bleached white as a bone and quite mad.” (Nelson relates the incident to Dr. Markhova in "Jonah and the Whale.") -

- July 1916 - The Imperial German Submarine U-444 is first commissioned and enters service. -

- September 1918 - The Imperial German Submarine U-444 commanded by Captain Gerhardt Krueger is sunk in the North Atlantic while attempting an attack on an allied convoy. ("The Phantom Strikes") -

- 1920 – “Curley” Jones is born. (This is an extrapolation based on actor Henry Kulky’s actual age during the first season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Kulky was born in 1911 making him 53 in 1965. If Kulky was 53, so was, by extension, Curley Jones. So, 1973 (the year Curly is first introduced) minus 53 equals 1920, Curley’s year of birth. This conceit is used to determine the birth years of all the main characters.) -

- 1923 – Harriman Nelson is born. -

- 1933 – “Doc” is born. -

- 1936 – Lee Crane is born. -

- 1938 – Francis Ethilbert Sharkey is born in Coney Island, Brooklyn, U.S.A.  -

- 1941 - Harriman Nelson attends United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. Jiggs Stark is one of his classmates. (Mutiny establishes that both Nelson and Crane attended Annapolis. Assuming Nelson entered the Naval Academy at age 18, he would have entered 18 years after his birth year of 1923.) -

- 1941 - Patterson is born. -

- December 7, 1941 - American naval and air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii are sneak-attacked by the armed forces of the Empire of Japan. The attack hurls the United States into World War II. (Historical fact) -

- 1942 – Chip Morton is born. -

- 1944 – Admiral Gustave Von Neuberg, A top Nazi research scientist, disappears from British Intelligence observation. ("Death from the Past")

-   - 1945 – Kowalski is born.

-   - 1945 – A British Destroyer closes in on a German U-boat containing Admiral Gustave Von Neuberg and Lieutenant Froelich. They are on a mission to deliver secret weapons to a special site where they will be launched to destroy Allied capitals. The sub is sunk with depth charges. ("Death from the Past") -

- April 1945 – As the Third Reich crumbles, Colonel Alfred Schroder accompanied by Colonel Carl Deiner, escapes Germany and plan to build a Fourth Reich. ("The Last Battle") -

- Dr. Karl Reisner immigrates to the United States from the ruins of Nazi Germany. ("The Price of Doom." Reisner says that he came to the U.S. after the Nazi surrender.)

-   - July 20, 1945 – In the Pacific, Lt. Ryan, commanding the U.S. Navy submarine, U.S.S. Tetra, rescues Lt. Nakamura of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Japanese surface ships spot the Tetra and attempt to sink it with depth charges. The sub disappears beneath the waves and is presumed lost. The only known survivor is a sonar man named Hills who claims the ship was lost because Ryan panicked. (Nelson notes the date of the sub’s destruction in "…And Five of Us Are Left.")

-   - The Tetra is drawn into a vast underwater cavern by a strong current. The few survivors struggle to preserve their lives until they are rescued.

-   - Late August, 1945 - Frank Werden is born. (Werden tells Lt. Ryan that he was born one month after the Tetra was lost.) -

- 1945 – Harriman Nelson Graduates From Naval Academy commissioned as an Ensign. His classmate Jiggs Stark also graduates. (Annapolis is a four-year institution. On graduation, all cadets are commissioned as Ensigns. In Mutiny, Admiral Jiggs Stark mentions that he and Nelson went through the academy together.) -

- 1948 - Lee Crane, age 12, reads Bently Falk Sr’s book about deep-sea bathysphere diving. The book inspires young Crane and sparks his interest in the sea. (Crane remarks that he read Falk’s book as a youth in "The Condemned." Age twelve allows Crane to be old enough to comprehend the book and be inspired by its content.) -

- 1950 – The submarine commanded by Captain Wren is lost. ("The Fossil Men." Set in 1980, Wren was lost 30 years before.) -

- July 1951 – Congress authorizes the construction of the world’s first nuclear powered submarine the U.S.S. Nautilus SSN 571. (Historic fact.) -

- June 14, 1952 - The Nautilus’s keel is laid in Groton, Connecticut. (Historic fact.) -

- 1953 - Sharkey attends Lincoln High School and gets an “A” in home economics class. -

- 1953 – Stu Riley is born. -

- 1953 - Nelson meets Dr. Reisner for the first time. (In "The Price of Doom," an episode set in 1973, Reisner states that Nelson has known him for 20 years.)

-   - 1954 – Lee Crane enters United States Naval Academy. -

- September 30, 1954 - The U.S.S. Nautilus is commissioned. (Historic fact.) -

- Crane earns the title of intercollegiate middleweight boxing champion. ("In Eleven Days to Zero," Curley says that Crane earned this title.) -

- 1956 – The United States and Admiral Halder’s nation begin an alliance. ("In The Machines Strike Back," set in 1976, Nelson states that Halder’s people have been allies for twenty years. Halder’s nation is loosely based on Turkey, which joined NATO in 1952.) -

- 1958 – Lee Crane graduates from United State Naval Academy, commissioned as an Ensign. -

- August 3, 1958 - The Nautilus is the first vessel ever to navigate to the North Pole. (Historic fact.) -

- 1958 – Dr. Reisner begins his work on converting sea plankton into a mass-quantity food source for the hungry people of the world. (In "The Price of Doom," an episode set in 1973, Reisner states that he has given 15 years of his life to the project.) -

- At a date as yet unspecified, Crane, “On his first submarine duty in the Navy,” serves with Nelson on the U.S.S. Nautilus. (Crane informs Kowalski of this fact in "Eleven Days to Zero.") During his time in the Navy, Crane becomes familiar with Rear Admiral Walter “Trigger Happy” Tobin. (Crane tells Nelson that he knows Tobin in “The Sky is Falling.")

-   - 1960 - Chip Morton enters United States Naval Academy. (The date is speculative based on the assumption that he was 18 when he entered the academy. Nelson establishes in "The Saboteur" that Morton attended the academy, and that he knew Morton when he entered the school.) -

- 1962 – Chip Morton, a member of the Naval Academy football team, plays against Weymouth College. (Chip, in "The Deadliest Game," states he used to play against them in college.) -

- Prior to 1963, Nelson takes a sabbatical from the Navy to teach marine biology at co-educational universities. His students include Helen Bryce and Bill Corbett. (Nelson informs Crane that Helen Bryce was a former student of his in "The Ghost of Moby Dick." Nelson indicates that Corbett was his student for marine biology and chemistry in "Doomsday.")

-   - 1963 – Helen Bryce, a former marine biology student of Nelson’s, earns her doctorate. (In "Ghost of Moby Dick," she tells Nelson that it has been ten years since she earned the degree.) -

- 1963 – Kowalski joins the U.S. Navy. ("Hail to the Chief" establishes that Kowalski was in the Navy. Assuming he was 18 when he joined, he signed up in 1963.) -

- 1964 – Chip Morton graduates from the academy as an Ensign. (Annapolis is a four-year institution and Morton entered in 1960.) -

- 1964 – Leopold Zeraff begins secret construction of his city beneath the sea in Aegean waters. ("The City Beneath the Sea." Clearly, it would have taken Zeraff years to design, finance, organize and construct the installation. Nine years seems like a fair estimate of the time necessary. In addition, a nice bit of serendipity is that the episode aired 1964.) -

- 1964 – Oscar Dalgren, a member of the Norwegian Royal Science Academy, becomes a recluse. He was working on a method of increasing the world’s food supply from the sea. (In "Village of Guilt," Nelson states that Dalgren disappeared nearly 10 years ago.) -

- 1964 – One of the survivors of the U.S.S. Tetra, Smith, goes mad and raves about hearing voices of rescuers. (The incident is described in "…And Five of Us Are Left." It is stated that this happened “10 years ago.”) -

- 1965 – Navy sub U.S.S. Sealion is lost in the region of the Vemus Sea mount. 120 men are lost. (The Sealion tragedy was referred to in "Cradle of the Deep." Clark says he had an older brother who was Exec officer on the ship. There is no indication that the sub’s loss occurred recently.) -

- 1966 – An escape tunnel dug by the survivors of the U.S.S. Tetra collapses and kills Sims and York. (A survivor remarks that a tunnel collapsed “8 years ago” in the 1974 adventure, "…And Five of Us Are Left.") -

- 1967 – U.S. Air Force Colonel Tom Washburn, a friend of Lee Crane, dies. (Crane states in "The Price of Doom," a voyage set in 1973, that Washburn has been dead for 6 years.) -

- 1967 - Benjamin Brewster, the world’s top authority on electronics, is assumed killed by an avalanche while skiing. ("The Last Battle," set in 1973, establishes that Brewster disappeared 6 years ago.) -

- November 1968 – Henry Talbot McNeil is elected President of the United States. (In "Hail to the Chief," it is indicated that President McNeil preserved the peace at summit meetings in 1971 and 1972. The episode is set in 1973 and 1972 was an election year. If he was President in 1971 he had to be elected in 1968. Accordingly, President McNeil is in his second term of office.)

-   - 1968 - Miss Julie Lyle, working for the Agricultural Information Department, begins her work in deep-sea plankton research. (Lyle says she has been working on the project for 5 years in the 1973 episode "The Price of Doom.")

-   - 1969 – Everett Lang, a promising theoretical physicist, defects and disappears behind the Bamboo Curtain. (It is stated that Lang crossed sides “about ten years ago” in the 1978 adventure "The Peacemaker.") -

- At a date as yet unspecified, Admiral Nelson retires from the Navy and founds the Nelson Institute of Marine Research (N.I.M.R.). Nelson designs Seaview and early concepts for the U.S.S. Polidor. He also designs and lobbies for the defense drone system. (Nelson retired at some point prior to the construction of Seaview in 1972.) -

- 1970 – Dr. Gustav Reinhardt, the world’s foremost psychologist, is supposedly killed when the airliner he is on crashes. "(The Last Battle," set in 1973, establishes that Reinhardt was presumed killed three years ago.) -

- 1971 – Five million pounds are stolen from the Bank of England. Scotland Yard and Interpol begin an international search for the mastermind behind the theft. (Nelson speculates that Mr. Logan was behind the robbery in "The Buccaneer.") -

- 1971 - The channel is cleared on the south side of Colonel Schroder’s island. (Nelson is informed that the channel was cleared two years ago in "The Last Battle.") -

- 1971 - Kowalski leaves the U.S. Navy with an Honorable Discharge. (Assuming he entered in 1963 and served two four-year enlistments, he would get out in 1971. Kowalski, the dependable and worthy crewman that he is, must have had an Honorable Discharge.) -

- 1971 – Dr. Anthony Sterling and his assistant Cara Stone, friends of Admiral Nelson and members of the N.I.M.R. research team, leave the institute to pursue private research. (It is inferred that Dr. Sterling and Ms. Stone left Nelson’s employ some time prior to Leviathan.)

-   - August 1972 – An expedition composed of Doctor Denning, Harridan, Younger and Jason Kemp go to the Antarctic. The diving bell the four used to explore the Antarctic depths is lost and the party is presumed lost. ("Turn Back the Clock." The expedition has been lost for nine months.) -

- September 15, 1972 – The keel for the SSRN Seaview is laid at the Philadelphia Shipyards. (The date is from Seaview ship’s plaque seen in "Deadly Waters." The location is from a Seaview schematic seen in "The Secret of the Loch.") -

- November 1972 – President Henry Talbot McNeil is elected for a second term of office.

-   - 1973 – Nelson’s Defense Drone System is deployed. (It is mentioned that the system has been deployed for three years in "The Machines Strike Back," an episode set in 1976.)

-   - Mid-February 1973 – Dr. Walter Bryce, his wife Dr. Helen Bryce, and their teenage son Jimmy embark on a whale tagging expedition to the South Atlantic. A giant whale rams the ship killing Jimmy and maiming Dr. Walter Bryce. (Dr. Bryce, in "The Ghost of Moby Dick," mentions that the tragedy occurred six months ago.)

-   - Early April 1973 – Construction of the Seaview is completed. A private ship’s christening ceremony is held and then the Seaview slides from her berth at the Philadelphis shipyards and enters the water for the first time. (This is based on several clues from the series. The first hard date presented in the series was in the episode "Hot Line." It was made clear that the date was May 27, 1973. Allowing three episodes per month, Seaview’s maiden voyage most likely occurred in early April 1973. Later in the series, a close-up of Seaview’s ship’s plaque indicates that the ship was commissioned on July 26, 1973. This is an honorary commission bestowed on Seaview in recognition of the personnel of N.I.M.R.’s service to humanity. That Seaview was constructed in a mere eight months can be accounted for by recognizing Admiral Nelson’s advanced submarine construction techniques.) -

- The SSRN Seaview goes on her maiden voyage, a shakedown cruise to test her systems under the command of Captain John Phillips. Seaview returns to N.I.M.R. during late April 1973. Admiral Nelson detects seismic activity that may lead to a world disaster. He calls for a high level meeting to address the problem. (It is reasonable to assume that the Seaview’s sea trials took place shortly after the end of construction and would take a week. In "Eleven Days to Zero," Seaview is underway and returns to dock C-24 at N.I.M.R. I propose that this was Seaview’s sea trial.) -

- 1973 - "Eleven Days to Zero." Enemy agents kill the first Captain of the SNSS Seaview, Captain John Phillips. The Seaview has “exactly eleven days” to avert the disaster. This mission is code-named "Operation Counter-Force." They leave Santa Barbara and set sail for the arctic ice cap “near the North Pole.” Admiral Nelson appoints Captain Lee Crane as captain of the Seaview and arranges to have him transferred from the U.S. Navy to the Nelson Institute for Marine Research. The Seaview returns to N.I.M.R. during March 11, 1973. (The return date is based on the fact that it took Seaview eleven days to get back to Santa Barbara from the arctic. Interestingly, It took the U.S.S. Nautilus eleven days to first reach the North Pole from Hawaii in 1958.) -

- 1973 – "The City Beneath the Sea." At the request of Washington, Nelson is asked to investigate the explosive destruction of two oceanographic vessels, one of which is the Dayna. The Seaview leaves N.I.M.R. and heads for the Aegean Sea. (I postulate that this mission took place in mid-March. This would allow Seaview to travel from Santa Barbara to the Aegean Sea.) -

- On returning to port, nine members of the crew go on leave. 85 of Seaview’s crew are temporarily transferred to U.S.N.S. Polidor. -

- 1973 – "The Fear-Makers." The Polidor, a new U.S. Navy Submarine designed by Admiral Nelson, is destroyed during sea trials. Seaview sails to the wreckage site to investigate. It is located in a trench “nearly eight miles down.” (The deepest trench in the sea is the Mariana Trench near Guam. It is 37,800 feet deep. It would take at least a week and a half to travel from N.I.M.R to Guam and then return. The trench in this voyage is 48,000 feet deep (nine miles down!). At the end of this voyage, Seaview heads back to Santa Barbara.  -

- Admiral Nelson is called to Washington.

-   - Early April 1973 – "The Mist of Silence." Seaview is unofficially assigned to transport President Fuente to the United States. Seaview journeys to Latin America (Central or South?) Once on scene, Nelson states that the mission will take 48 hours to complete. -

- Mid-April 1973 – "The Price of Doom." Ice Station Tick Tock, a polar sea research installation, is destroyed. Seaview heads towards the Arctic location near Baffin Island to investigate why. -

- CPO Curley Jones is on leave and another NIMR CPO fills his place temporarily. (Henry Kulky did not appear in the following episode. It is reasonable to believe Curley was on leave.)

-   - An alien spacecraft collides with a large meteor and heads to Earth to repair the damage. (The alien informs Nelson of the cause of the accident.) -

- Late April 1973 – "The Sky is Falling." The Seaview is under weigh on a scientific mission involving the collection of water samples. A UFO enters the Earth’s atmosphere and crashes into the sea off the coast of California. The Seaview is temporarily assigned to the U.S. Navy to investigate the destruction of submarine U.S.S Madison by the UFO. (Seaview does not need to travel far in this episode. A map shows that the crash site is a few hundred miles off the southern coast if California. This voyage probably took only a few days to complete.) -

- Jason Kemp, a survivor of the August 1972 Antarctic expedition, is rescued by an icebreaker and transported to Bethesda Naval Hospital for treatment. (This occurs at the beginning of "Turn Back the Clock.") -

- Early May 1973 – "Turn Back the Clock." Nelson and Carol Denning, the daughter of the leader of the ill-fated Antarctic expedition, go to Washington D.C. to meet with the convalescing Kemp. Nelson, Denning and Kemp return to N.I.M.R. to take Seaview to the location where the expedition was lost to find answers. (It would have taken Seaview at least a week to travel to the Antarctic peninsula from N.I.M.R. Since Nelson and the others did not spend much time in the prehistoric world, It is safe to say that this voyage took a total of two weeks.)

-   - May 1973 - Benjamin Brewster, a prisoner on Colonel Schroder’s island, installed special wiring at the south side channel of the island. (Brewster relates this information to Nelson in "The Last Battle." He said he did it four months ago.) -   - Mid-May 1973 – "The Village of Guilt." Seaview takes a short journey to Norway to investigate reports of a “sea monster.” -

- May 27, 1973 – "Hot Line." This is the first time the year is indicated in the series. -

- June 1973 - Submarine nets are delivered to Colonel Schroder’s island. (In "The Last Battle," Nelson is informed that the nets were delivered months ago.)

-   - Early June 1973 – "Submarine Sunk Here." The Seaview hits a mine 12 miles off the coast of New London, Connecticut. The ship is severely damaged and sinks to the bottom of Long Island Sound. A mini-sub is destroyed. -

- June/July 1973 - Seaview is raised and repaired.

-   - July 1973 – Seaview transports Dr. Winslow and Dr. Jenkins to Underwater Experimental Post 1. The facility is set up to develop the ability of humans to live beneath the sea for extended periods of time. ("The Amphibians," set in January 1974, establishes that Seaview brought the men to the post six months ago.) -

- Mid-July 1973 - "The Magnus Beam." The Seaview travels to the Red Sea to investigate the destruction of three U-2 spy planes. -

- Nelson is directed to Djakarta, Indonesia to pick up a Soviet defector and transport him to the United States.

-   - Late July 1973 – "No Way Out"

-   - July 26, 1973 – The SNSS Seaview receives an honorary commission from the U.S. Navy. (Date from Seaview ship’s plaque seen in "Deadly Waters." The commissioning date on the plaque is well after the time period established in "Hot Line." Crane states that “today is May 27, 1973.” This would mean that Seaview was active well before she was commissioned. It has been made clear on several occasions that N.I.M.R. personnel and Seaview are not part of the Navy. It is reasonable to propose that the commissioning date noted on the plaque is an honorary commission granted by the Navy to recognize the achievements of Admiral Nelson and the crew of the Seaview.) -

- Early August 1973 – "The Blizzard Makers." (A headline is “Summer Snow Startles the World.”) -

- Mid-August 1973 – "The Ghost of Moby Dick." From N.I.M.R., the Seaview voyages to the South Atlantic to search for Dr. Walter Bryce’s giant whale. -

- Late August 1973 – "The Last Battle." Nelson flies to Washington. Seaview heads for Norfolk, Virginia. Nelson is abducted and is missing for two weeks. -

- Early September 1973 - President McNeil sustains a serious head injury while on a goodwill tour of South America. -   - Mid-September 1973 – "Hail to the Chief." The Seaview is assigned the secret transport of the President. The President attends a NATO summit meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. ("Hail to the Chief" makes clear that the President’s attendance is vital to the success of the summit.) -

- Late September 1973 – "Doomsday." The Seaview crosses the Equator. (The 1973 initiation ceremony is held for “polliwogs” in the ship’s complement. A Mini-sub is lost.)

-   - October 1973 – Dr. Windslow surgically alters Dr. Jenkins with artificial gills that allow him to breathe both air and water. (The teaser of The Amphibians takes place three month before the rest of the episode.) -

- Early October 1973 – "Mutiny." Admiral Nelson is onboard the Neptune, a new U.S. Navy Sub as an observer. The Neptune is on her trial run, and while Nelson is diving for some core samples, Neptune is destroyed. Seaview is given a temporary commission from the Secretary of Defense to investigate. Admiral Jiggs Stark is placed in command for the mission. -

- Mid-October 1973 – "The Invaders." Zar is awakened from twenty million years of suspended animation. -

- Nelson receives an honorary promotion to four star admiral. (Before "The Invaders," Nelson wears three stars. Starting with "The Invaders," he wears four. The events of "The Exile" occurred before "The Invaders," but the episode was produced after it.)

-   - October 3, 1973 – "The Exile." Seaview travels to the territorial waters of the People’s Republic to rendezvous with Premier Alexis Brynov. (At the beginning of the episode, the date is given as October 3, 1974. However, this would date this episode as occurring after Seaview’s refit. Clearly, Brynov’s co-conspirator was anxious and slipped up on the year.) -

- Premier Alexis Brynov of The People’s Republic is secretly arrested and sentenced to death. -

- Late October 1973 – "The Indestructible Man." The Man in Space Probe –1 returns to Earth after the first round trip probe into deep space. Seaview retrieved the capsule. -   - October 1973 - Dr. Carl Reisner dies of radiation poisoning. (In "The Price of Doom," Reisner indicates he has six months to live due to an accident with radiation.)

-   - November 1973 – Over the course of the next few months, scuba divers are mysteriously lost in the vicinity of Underwater Experimental Post 1. (It is stated in "The Amphibians" that divers have been missing in this area over the course of the last few months.)

-   - November 1973 - Dr. Shinera begins testing his hate inducing process on animals. (General Tau complains that Shinera has been testing his process “for months” in "The Enemies." Three months before "The Enemies" would be a good length of time to try the General’s patience.)

-   - Early November 1973 – "The Buccaneer." The Mona Lisa is being transported to Australia for the World’s Fair. Mr. Logan and his mercenary crew hijack Seaview.

-   - November 16, 1973 - "…And Five of Us Are Left." This date is apocryphal. While a newscaster states this date and Nelson says that the Tetra, lost on July 20, 1945, sank “28 years ago.” However, placing this adventure in 1973 contradicts everything that has been established up to this point. Since this is a season two episode, it is clear that it occurred after the refit of Seaview. Placing the story in November 1973 would make it precede "Long Live The King" which occurred during the 1973 Christmas - before the refit. Clearly this is an anomaly that contradicts the established timeline. An explanation may be that the newscaster misstated the date (It was really 1974.) and Nelson, eager to stress the urgency of the rescue attempt, rounded off the years to an even number (29 to 28 years.) -

- Seaview travels to the Washington D.C. area to participate in test maneuvers. -

- Mid-November 1973 - "The Human Computer"

-   - The President attends an international conference in Paris. On a Friday night, Lee Crane is abducted my agents of The People’s Republic and is brainwashed to follow their instructions.

-   - Late November 1973 – "The Saboteur." The Seaview gets underweigh on a Tuesday to deploy Dr. Ullman’s self-contained underwater missile silos in the pacific. An enemy agent breaches the Seaview’s transparent bow plate. (Crane was abducted on a Friday. He was missing for three days. The Seaview got underweigh on Tuesday morning.)

-   - Late November 1973 - Due to ultrasonic interference, a U.S. missile test ends in disaster. 20 men are killed in a tracking station bunker on a pacific island. Captain Wayne Adams, the project director for the program is nearly court-martialed for faulty judgement. (It is inferred in "The Creature" that the missile explosion occurred within the past few months.)

-   - 1973 – Bill Clark passes his officer qualifications.

-   - Early December 1973 – "Cradle of the Deep." Seaview journeys to the Vemus Sea mount to collect specimens of a 4 billion-year-old life form. -

- December 1973 (presumed) - Prince Ang’s Father, the King, is assassinated. -

- December 18-25, 1973 - "Long Live the King." Seaview leaves Santa Barbara and heads for Prince Ang’s nation (This takes place the week of Christmas.) -

- Seaview visits Underwater Experimental Post 1.

-   - Mid-January 1974 – "The Amphibians." Seaview returns ten days later to drop off supplies at the Underwater Experimental Post 1.

-   - Late January 1974 - "The Creature." Seaview investigates the source of ultrasonic interference hampering the progress of the United State’s missile program.

-   - Early February 1974 – "The Enemies." The U.S. Navy sub Angler, commanded by Captain Jim Williams, is lost with all hands. Seaview is on a routine scientific mission to measure salinity at different depths. COMSUBPAC wants Seaview to investigate the loss of Angler.

-   - Mid-February 1974 - "Secret of the Loch." The Seaview journeys to Scotland to meet with Austin Cruthers. The meeting day is on a Tuesday.

-   - February 20, 1974 – "The Condemned." Seaview serves as a test platform for Admiral Bently Falk Jr’s atmosphere equalization process. (Nelson states that it will be the 27th of the month in one week.) -

- Early March 1974 – "The Traitor." Seaview heads for the Mediterranean coast of France. They are to meet with two Western Alliance security men to receive the detection navigator device. Seaview then goes on a underwater missile site inspection tour. -

- Between March and October 1974 - Seaview heads back to Santa Barbara. The ship is dry-docked, and, over the course of the next eight months, undergoes extensive redesign and upgrades to the ship’s systems. The control room is lowered one deck to be aft of the observation bay. The “flying sub” FS-1 is added to the ship and a docking bay is installed under the ship’s bow. Because of the vulnerability demonstrated by the saboteur’s bomb, the bow observation plates are reduced from six to three. This reduction of the number of plates strengthens the ship’s structural integrity. Retractable collision screens are installed for addittional protection. N.I.M.R. uniforms for a non-commissioned personnel are altered from Navy-issue work uniforms to red or blue jump suits.

-   - CPO Curley Jones dies of natural causes. (The actor who played Curley, Henry Kulky, passed on between the first and second seasons of the show. If Kulky lived for another few years, it is safe to conclude that Curley would have been on the Seaview instead of Sharky.)

-   - CPO Sharky and Stu Riley join the ship’s complement.

-   - April 30, 1974 – Lt. Ryan sends out a message in a bottle telling the world that only five survivors of the Tetra’s destruction are left alive. ("…And Five of Us Are Left." Nelson states that the note was dated 140 days ago. The major events within the episode occurred on November 16, 1974.)

-   - A Soviet deep-sea lab is endangered by migrating Sperm Whales. The U.S. and Russia form a joint rescure team.

-   - Late October 1974 - "Jonah and the Whale." Nelson and Dr. Markhova attempt a rescue in the diving bell. -   - An official visit to San Christobal by Seaview is scheduled. Seaview goes on a scientific core sampling mission. -   - Early November 1974 – "Time Bomb." Nelson goes to Washington, DC to receive secret mission orders. He then takes the seaview to the Black Sea. (The year is identified as 1974.) -   - November 16, 1974 – "…And Five of Us Are Left." This takes place 28 years after World War II. The first flying sub is destroyed. -   - After November 16, 1974 - The destroyed Flying Sub is replaced. -   - 1975 – Admiral Nelson, at the request of the government, begins designing an underwater bomb shelter for the President. In the event of nuclear attack, the President can be protected in this completely invulnerable bomb shelter. The facility is constructed by Grosvenor Dynamics, a firm whose CEO is retired U.S. Army General Hobson. Dr. Lydia Parrish, a physicist, assists in the facility’s construction. (The complexity of the facility would require a number of years prior to the 1978 date of "The Deadliest Game." Since there are no, as yet, recorded adventures in 1975, it seems reasonable that Nelson would have the time to design the facility.) -   - Two months prior to "The Cyborg," the mind of the designer of the nuclear strike fail-safe device is assimilated into Dr. Ulrich’s computer. (Ulrich boasts of this in "The Cyborg.") -   - 1976 – "The Cyborg." Admiral Harriman Nelson wins a Nobel Prize in biology. Nelson then visits Dr. Taybor Ulrich in Falkonmat, Switzerland. A peace conference is held in Zurich, Switzerland. (The year is mentioned.) -   - 1976 - Dr. Leonetti sends Nelson coded information about the defence against a Russian "ultimate weapon." Seaview heads for Venice, Italy. Crane goes ashore undercover to make contact with Dr. Leonetti. (Occurs before "Escape from Venice.") -   - 1976 – "Escape from Venice." Nelson’s secretary is Lola Hale. -   - President McNeil nominates George W. Penfield for Secretary of Defense. Senate hearings begin on the nomination. (Before "The Left-Handed Man.") -   - A giant plane is found and all aboard are safe. (This is on the front page of the newspaper declaring Penfield’s nomination.) -   - 1976 - "The Left-Handed Man." George W. Penfield boards Seaview for an inspection tour. Nelson Stays at N.I.M.R. whild Crane takes Penfield on a short cruise. Seaview returns to base and all of the crew stays on base except for the standby watch. -   - 1976 – "Leviathan." Seaview gets underway on a Pacific voyage to help research the deep-sea fissure discovered by Dr. Anthony Sterling. -   - 1976 – "The Silent Saboteurs." Seaview travels to Southeast Asia to discover the cause of Venus probe Arcturus IV destruction. (The year is specified.) -   - 1976 – "The X Factor." On the way back from Southeast Asia to N.I.M.R., Nelson takes FS-1 to Pearl Harbor. He later rendezvous with Seaview and goes on to Santa Barbara. -   - 1976 – "The Machines Strike Back." On the way to N.I.M.R., the Defense Drone System incident occurs. (The year 1976 is mentioned.) -   - 1976 – "Terror on Dinosaur Island." The Second Flying Sub is destroyed. -   - 1976 – "Killers of the Deep." The Third Flying Sub is destroyed. -   - 1976 – "Deadly Creature Below" -   - November, 1976 - A new American President is elected. -   - 1977 – "The Phantom Strikes." During a scientific trip to the South Seas, the crew sees the battered hulk of a WWI-era U-boat (a German submarine), then the Seaview picks up a castaway who claims to be the captain of the West German freighter SS Edelweiss. As the crew prepares to continue their mission and bring him to port, some bizarre events happen, one way or another related with the misteryous castaway. Crane distrusts Krueger because his odd behavior, and finally arrests him. However, Krueger is soon seen wandering in the corridors of the Seaview (although his cell was heavily guarded). It turns out that he is the ghost of the famous German captain Gerhardt Krueger (a WWI German Imperial Navy officer whose submarine, the U-444, was sunk in September 1918 while attacking an Allied convoy), attempting to seize the Seaview in order to "get a body" so he can come back to life and search his ill-fated lover Lani, a Polynesian princess. He soon chooses Captain Crane and demands his surrender; should he reject his demands, Krueger will sink the Seaview with his dark powers. The crew successfully defeats him and offers him a sea burial to give his soul a final peace (the emotive service is conducted by Captain Crane). -   - 1977 - The events of "The Return of the Phantom" take place. Captain Krueger comes back to achieve his wicked goal. This time, however, he demands Admiral Nelson to kill Crane, so he can get his body. He refuses, but then Krueger seizes the Seaview, forcing it to stay in the sea floor. Unable to regain the control of the Seaview and in the verge of madness, Nelson shoots at Crane. Then Krueger seizes his body, heals his wounds and leaves (now Crane speaks with German accent and his voice is that of Krueger). The crew regains the control of the ship and seeks for Krueger/Crane, who has landed in the island were Lani was born. He soon finds a nightclub were a young, beautiful girl by the name of Maria works. Because Maria strongly resembles Lani, Krueger mistakenly believes that Lani has got a body and he relentlessly pursues Maria, just to fight Nelson and the crew. They finally defeat him for once and all, and Krueger finds out that Maria was, indeed, his granddaughter. Crane is finally free from the sinister Krueger, but still feels sad and ashamed by Krueger's deeds while he controlled his body. Krueger finally joins to Lani in the afterlife, and their love finally redeems him. -   - 1977 – "Graveyard of Fear" -   - 1977 – "The Shape of Doom" -   - Seaview transports the President and his top advisors to Deep Center. This facility, designed by Admiral Nelson and constructed by General Hobson, is the world’s only invulnerable bomb shelter. -   - July 14, 1978 – "The Deadliest Game." Seaview travels from Deep Center to the coast of Wymouth, Virginia. (Crane mentions the date.) -   - Seaview sails to the arctic to secretly observe the test detonation of the first Photon bomb. -   - 1978 – "The Peacemaker." The Seaview crew observes the test and sets a course to Santa Barbara to report. Seaview then heads for Chougi, a coastal city in Communist China. (The year is specified as 1978 at the beginning of the episode.) -   - 1978 – "The Sky’s on Fire." (The year is specified. Nelson states that the missile must be fired on the “29th of this month,” so it cannot be February. At the beginning of this adventure, the Seaview has been under the Arctic ice for four days.) -   - 1978 – “Dead Man’s Doubloons.” A mini-sub is destroyed. (Anchor’s dates this episode 1978) -   - 1978 – The events of “The Monster from Outer Space” takes place. (The year is mentioned.) -   - 1978 - “The Death Ship.” A mini-sub is destroyed. -   - Seaview monitors Captain Gantt’s underwater speed test experiments. -   - 1978 – "The Monster’s Web" -   - 1978 – “The Menfish.” Admiral Nelson attends a scientific conference. Admiral Roy Park, a friend of Admiral Nelson, oversees the ships operations during this voyage. -   - 1978 – "The Mechanical Man." (The year is mentioned as 1978.) -   - 1978 – Stu Riley leaves the Seaview’s crew. -   - 1979 – "Monster from the Inferno" -   - 1979 – "Werewolf" -   - May 26, 1979 - The Nautilus is decommissioned. (Historic fact.) -   - 1979 – "Night of Terror" -   - 1979 – "The Terrible Toys" -   - 1980 – "The Day the World Ended." (The year is noted.) -   - 1980 – "Day of Evil." (The date is mentioned as 1980.) -   - 1980 – "Deadly Waters" -   - 1980 – "Thing From Inner Space" -   - 1980 – "The Death Watch" -   - 1980 – "Deadly Invasion" -   - 1980 - "The Haunted Submarine." Admiral Nelson discovers the bitter truth that his ancestor, Captain Shaemus O’Hara Nelson, made his fortune selling slaves. -   - 1980 – "The Plant Man" -   - 1980 – "The Lost Bomb" -   - 1980 – "Brand of the Beast" -   - 1980 – "The Creature" -   - October 3, 1980 - "Death from the Past." The post-1945 events of this adventure take place. -   - 1980 – "The Heat Monster" -   - 1980 – "The Fossil Men" -   - 1980 – "The Mermaid" -   - 1980 – "The Mummy" -   - 1980 – "The Seaview" is issued newly developed laser sidearms. "The Shadowmen" is the first voyage to feature these weapons. -   - 1980 – "The Shadowmen" -   - 1980 – "No Escape from Death" -   - 1980 – "Doomsday Island" -   - 1980 – "The Wax Men" -   - 1980 – "Deadly cloud" -   - 1980 - "Destroy Seaview!" -   - - "Fires Of Death" -   - 1981 – "The Deadly Dolls" -   - 1981 – "Cave of the Dead" -   - 1981 – “Journey with Fear” (The date is mentioned as 1981.) -   - 1981 – “Sealed Orders” -   - 1981 – "The Man of Many Faces" -   - 1981 – "Fatal Cargo" -   - 1981 – "Time Lock." Nelson is transported 900 years into the future via Alpha’s Time Bridge. -   - 1981 – "Rescue" -   - 1981 – "Terror" -   - 1981 – "A Time to Die." Nelson encounters Mr. Pem for the first time. -   - 1981 – "Blow Up" -   - 1981 – "The Deadly Amphibians" -   - – "The Return of Blackbeard" -   - 1982 – "The Terrible Leprechaun" -   - 1982 – "The Lobster Man" -   - 1982 – "Nightmare" -   - 1982 – "The Abominable Snowman" -   - – "Secrets of the Deep" -   - – "Man-Beast" -   - 1982 – "Savage Jungle" -   - – "Flaming Ice" -   - 1982 - "Attack!" -   - – "The Edge of Doom" -   - 1982 – "The Death Clock" -   - 1982 - "No Way Back." Mr. Pem encounters the crew of the Seaview a second time. This is the Seaview's final recorded voyage to date. -   - 2881 – Alpha transports military figures from the past to 2881 via his Time Bridge. (Alpha states that Nelson has been transported 900 years into the future. "Time Lock" is set in 1981.) -   - 1,001,524 – The Pirate Captain’s curse wears off. (In "Dead Man’s Doubloons," set in 1524, the captain curses his treasure for a thousand times a thousand years.)

Whoever did this did an excellent job! Well done! Only one concern is that the 'death from the past' base was not a German Uboat but an underwater research/ weapons lab. (complete with computers identical to those used by advanced aliens in the 'attack' episode..) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.47.205.101 (talk) 17:25, 28 December 2006 (UTC).


 * Sorry, but fan speculation and extrapolation is not acceptable (see WP:OR), unless of course you publish a book first. Clarityfiend 03:31, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

The show produced some excellent special effects, notably the Flying Sub in flight, but Irwin allen recycled the same footage over and over again. One episode reused footage from his film version of The Lost World, (which Hedison had starred in). Horror movie star Vincent Price appeared in one episode. (User:arthurchappell

The timeline as you posted it is fanon rather than series canon -- most of it isn't backed up by information from any of the episodes. Only the actual dates as shown on the series should be listed here. No dates of birth were ever given for any of the series characters, so the timelime misrepresents the series as shown. Fanon has no place here. Kathya11 22:42, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

I removed many instances of juvenile "fanboy" lingo, such as the silly word "darned" in one case ("darned gratuitous violence", I think the line was), and other types of quasi-comical writing. Also, the latter bits of the article were horrendously written, and full of mangled fragment sentences. I think this article at some point should be reviewed to make that it isn't turning into a romper-room for fan fiction, as Kathya11 above warns.

Jack Brooks 02:44, 23 August 2007 (UTC

Abbythecat (talk) 06:32, 28 June 2015 (UTC)RETURN OF BLACKBEARD begins with 1982 shown on the screen. Thanks. Abbythecat Abbythecat (talk) 06:32, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Popular culture - Trino's parody video
Can I add again the information about Trino's parody video?

"In 2006, an internet video regarding Voyage to the bottom of the sea earned great popularity in Mexico. The video contained the spanish dubbing of one episode, by the mexican cartoonist Trino, where the dialogues were replaced with absurd, often vulgar lines, involving the main characters of the series characterized as homosexuals, in a comical fashion. Since that, the series has gained more adepts in Mexico, becoming a somewhat cult classic. Some of the catchphrases (for example the "tutitu" ["too-tee-too"] one, mimic of a submarine's sonar system noise) of the video have reached some recognizance in popular culture."

If it is MAD's parody allowed in the Popular Culture section, why not including Trino's video? It became hugely popular and recognizable in spanish speak countries, where there was not too much people that knew the show. The Trino's video can be found here:  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Magegg (talk • contribs) 19:27, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Removed statement about Dr. Gamma
I have removed the following: "The comic was also the villain's second appearance, but not his final one as is commonly thought: the character was re-cast mid-way through the filming of the pilot episode, and appeared in five more episodes in the first season. The character was retired when Werner Klemperer joined the cast of Hogan's Heroes in 1965."

Dr. Gamma was used in one episode only, the pilot. ABC felt the character was too cliched - a James Bond-type villain, and had him written out of future scripts. Werner Klemperer did indeed return to the series, but as different characters. Also, the role was not "recard mid-way through the filming of the pilot episode." The unaired pilot shows Theo Marcuse playing the role fro beginning to end. When edits and reshoots became necessary, the actor was apparently unavailable, and at that point was recast.

There's far too much fanwank and supposition in this article.

Ssosmcin (talk) 16:40, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Color or B/W.
Re-the color version of the Pilot being shown in black and white, surely the wording is wrong, shouldn it be from a b/w print of the color film, from which copies would have been made for overseas sales etc.., or something similar? 81.111.127.132 (talk) 02:07, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Land of the Giants replacing Voyage...
...Land of the Giants was planned as a 1968 mid season replacement show and was filming its first 12 or so episodes starting in sept 1967.This is long before any talks about a 5th season for Voyage.Part of the story may be true,but the pitch was made for Giants long,long before 1968 renewal meetings. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.93.45.43 (talk) 05:52, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Neither reason for Voyage going off the air has any reliable sources to back it up, so it all came down. In its place is a brief mention of when Voyage's demise became known to the public with a 1968 newspaper article citation to back it up....William 19:30, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

S.S.R.N. and diving bell

 * I changed "USOS Seaview" to "S.S.R.N. Seaview" because it was always S.S.R.N. in the series. USOS was used only in the film.
 * The diving bell was not named "Nimr." The "NIMR" (all capitals) on the outside of the bell stood for "Nelson Institute for Marine Research."
 * The name of the article about the Seaview is "USOS Seaview." It should be "USOS Seaview/S.S.R.N. Seaview" to reflect the difference between the film and the series. I can't figure out how to change it. Would someone who does know please make the change?SWMSEMFEM2 (talk) 18:04, 10 June 2012 (UTC)SWMSEMFEM2 (talk) 18:06, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Venus episode?
What's the episode where they go to Venus? CFLeon (talk) 22:38, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

The Satan Bug
I removed this: "A few later season two episodes were filmed without Richard Basehart, who was away filming 'The Satan Bug'." The Satan Bug was released in April of 1965, long before the second season even aired. I replaced it with the actual reason he missed those episodes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ssosmcin (talk • contribs) 05:24, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Nielsen Ratings
The episode guide can be formatted to be more like other series' pages since it is pretty spartan right now. Ratings info is apparently printed in Seaview: The Making of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea by Tim Colliver (1992). So anyone who has that book can add a lot of info and build this page's information up to be more comparable to more modern series' episode guides.

Pages 54-55 of the link below give the season ratings for Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Seasons 1-3 and the average share: Season 1- 33rd, Season 2- 67th, Season 3- 63rd. http://americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Television-Magazine/Television-1967-Aug.pdf Anyone who knows how to format the tables that other tv series pages have with the seasons, years, and their rating for the season can plug in this data. I can't find any data for the 1967-68 Season. The above pages also show Lost in Space finished 32nd in Season 1, 44th in Season 2. Time Tunnel (and Green Hornet as well as The Outer Limits Season 2), we can deduce finished under 70th place. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.201.246.17 (talk) 01:37, 19 April 2016 (UTC)