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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1964 · TV series · 50 min episodes · 4 seasons
Created by Irwin Allen
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Join the crew of the Seaview aboard their super high-tech submarine, where no mission is too dangerous and no threat is too deadly, be it enemy agents, mad scientists, deadly sea creatures, or impending nuclear disaster.
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I didn't really understand much of Star Trek or the series of that time, like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel or Mission: Impossible. I loved the imagery, the diving or space scenes and the gadgets, but the plots were impenetrable.
Space: 1999 appeared a few years later and I not only understood what was going on, but had devoured a fat Astronomy book so I also had a decent idea of the distances involved.
The episode with Ian McShane was great anyway.
Neat stuff. Still needs tethering, which makes sense while it's being developed.
However, reality is no match for imagination. When I was a kid the TV show Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was popular. One of the absolute coolest things was the Flying Sub[1][2]:
36 foot wide and long, flying submersible, aptly called the "Flying Sub" ... It was deployed through bomb-bay like doors. As it broke the surface, its engines could generate enough thrust for the vehicle to take off and fly at supersonic speeds.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USOS_Seaview#Refit_and_the_Flying_Sub [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHNNXVZ1mYg