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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964)
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Movie Review by The Gravedigger
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02.15.08
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First season set 1:
I loved this series when I was a kid, though watching it now it seems extremely dated an unintentionally funny, particularly with everyone smoking cigarettes on the submarine, the Seaview.
The time is 1973, in the future (show was shot in 1964), and Seaview is a new, experimental submarine with a top crew headed by Captain Lee Crane and Admiral Nelson.
One episode cannibalizes scenes/footage from Irwin Allen's production of THE LOST WORLD, which also featured David Hedison. It's interesting to see how the episode pulls it off. Another episode features killer plankton and foreign saboteurs. There's also giant sea creatures, created by a mad scientist, though some continuity problems. In the opening shot of the episode there's a giant tentacle footage from IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA, then shots of actual tentacles of an octopus, then the tentacles of a giant squid (which look completely different from an octopus') when it attacks a rowboat of fishermen. Also, when we see the scientist's lab, during which he's explaining his cross-breeding of exotic sea fish, the aquariums are filled with big goldfish!.
If you're in the mood for a visit to a time when action/adventure television shows were unsophisticated, you'll enjoy the voyage.
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Rating: 5.0 out of 10.0 - 1 vote cast total
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