8.4/10138 votesLoading...#1 - Submarine Sunk Here
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1964
Damaged by an explosion from an old mine field, Seaview takes a dive to the ocean floor. Listing dangerously, running out of oxygen, having to deal with fire and flood, the crew can do nothing but wait for help. But will help arrive in time?
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: N/A
8.4/1077 votesLoading...#2 - Edge of Doom
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 3/17/1968
"Idiots!!!" Admiral Nelson to himself. There is an imposter on Seaview. Lee Crane is the main suspect. Admiral Nelson takes Morton and Sharkey into his confidence. They must put Crane to the test to find out whether or not he's the man they know. Captain Crane is really put through the ringer in this episode! Admiral Nelson hurts his feelings on purpose, the Captain practically chokes to death from a fire in the Circuitry Room that he gets blamed for, he gets locked in a storage room, and he's driven half out of his mind by the Admiral, Morton and Sharkey. Through it all, Crane maintains his inner belief in himself.
Director: Jus Addiss
Writer: N/A
8.3/10138 votesLoading...#3 - The Sky is Falling
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1964
An alien spaceship lands in the ocean, and Seaview is sent to investigate. Although Seaview is powerless in the vicinity of their ship, the aliens seem friendly, and Nelson manages to open negotiations. The military authorities, however, have other ideas, and Seaview may be in as much danger from human interference as from the aliens.
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: Don Brinkley
8.2/1088 votesLoading...#4 - The Day the World Ended
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1966
As Admiral Nelson demonstrates a new tracking device for a visiting U.S. senator, it seems to show that Seaview is the only life left on earth.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: N/A
8.1/10112 votesLoading...#5 - Doomsday
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/18/1965
When a mass missile launching by a foreign power sets the U.S. on nuclear alert, the Seaview goes into a fail-safe maneuver, but is the launch really what it appears to be, and does this actually mean it's "doomsday?"
Director: James Goldstone
Writer: N/A
8.1/1078 votesLoading...#6 - The Lost Bomb
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1966
Seaview and an enemy sub battle to recover a superbomb from the ocean floor.
Director: Gerald Mayer
Writer: Oliver Crawford
8.1/1084 votesLoading...#7 - Man of Many Faces
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1967
In an attempt to control the planet's tides, Dr. Randolph Mason (a nut if ever there was one -- he is part scientist, part make-up artist!) has invented a powerful electromagnet and established a magnetic field around the moon. The only person who seems to recognize the obvious danger in this silly plan is Harriman Nelson. At first glance, it would appear that Nelson has killed Dr. Randolph. At second glance, it would appear that Captain Crane has betrayed the Admiral. On third glance, the moon is getting closer and closer to Earth, and will soon collide with our beautiful blue orb -- unless the Seaview can save the world. Again. * In this episode, we learn that Chief Sharkey attended Lincoln High in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. (There actually is a Lincoln High in Coney Island.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
7.9/1087 votesLoading...#8 - The Saboteur
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/22/1965
Crane is brainwashed by enemy agents, and his new mission is to deactivate certain strategic undersea missiles and to assassinate Admiral Nelson!
Director: Felix E. Feist
Writer: N/A
7.9/1074 votesLoading...#9 - The Condemned
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 4/12/1965
Nelson and Crane are dismayed when an egotistical, publicity-seeking scientist is given command of the Seaview to test a new pressure system which will allow the sub to explore uncharted depths.
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: N/A
7.9/1089 votesLoading...#10 - The Mechanical Man
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/13/1966
Drs. Paul Ward and Peter Omir have discovered a powerful new element -- Subterranium 116. This element can produce limitless pure energy, but Omir may have another agenda.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1080 votesLoading...#11 - Cave of the Dead
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1967
"Those who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore." Investigating the loss of Navy ships, Nelson finds an ancient dagger in a cave on an uncharted island, and falls under a strange curse. Haunted by visions of skeletons and an anachronistic ship, he has trouble convincing the crew of his sanity. Meanwhile, Seaview is sailing in circles, and the visiting Commander Van Wyck seems to have disappeared. Guest star Warren Stevens also appeared in "The Saboteur" and "Deadly Invasion".
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
7.8/10137 votesLoading...#12 - The Fear-Makers
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1964
After Seaview's sister ship, Polidor, is lost on an experimental deep dive, Seaview continues with the tests. Unknown to the already stressed crew, one of the visiting psychologists aboard is an enemy agent who has released a fear-causing gas into the air system. As Seaview plunges into the depths a dangerous panic starts to spread.
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: N/A
7.8/10111 votesLoading...#13 - The Cyborg
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1965
Cybernetic genius Tabor Ulrich creates a perfect mechanical duplicte of Admiral Nelson. His plot: to make the crew of the Seaview they are fighting World War Three. In doing so, the sub will launch nuclear missles at the China, Russia and the USA. After the holocaust, Ulrich plans to take over and usher in "the age of the cyborg".
Director: Leo Penn
Writer: Allan Balter
7.8/1086 votesLoading...#14 - The Death Ship
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/20/1966
Things go wrong when Nelson and Crane test out a new automated system for Seaview.
Director: Abner Biberman
Writer: Allan Balter
7.7/10106 votesLoading...#15 - No Way Out
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1964
Nelson and Crane go undercover and risk their lives in order to bring a Communist defector back to the United States. But the man is injured in the attempt, and his lover is left behind. He won't speak to the agent waiting for him on Seaview (actually a double agent) until he is reunited with his Anna. But even Anna is not all she seems.
Director: Felix E. Feist
Writer: Robert Hamner
7.7/10101 votesLoading...#16 - Mutiny
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/11/1965
After Nelson's experimental submarine is attacked by a giant jellyfish, tension mounts aboard the Seaview as Nelson exhibits signs of a mental breakdown.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1093 votesLoading...#17 - Escape from Venice
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1965
Crane is caught up with a circle of spies as he tries to make his way back to Seaview with important missile defense data.
Director: Alex March
Writer: Charles Bennett
7.7/1079 votesLoading...#18 - Thing From Inner Space
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1966
Bainbridge Wells is filming a segment of his "Science On The Move" television series on a small island off the coast of Chile. A sea creature comes ashore and kills his crew. Wells convinces Admiral Nelson to return to the island because he wants to prove that the creature really exists. Crewman Patterson has a special interest in the mission.
Director: Alex March
Writer: N/A
7.7/1066 votesLoading...#19 - A Time to Die
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/3/1967
finds herself suddenly out of touch with the rest of the world, in the wrong part of the ocean and encountering strange creatures. It seems she's been thrown a million years back in time. Then the Admiral opens his cabin door and finds himself back in his Santa Barbara office, confronting the strange Mr. Pem and his pocket-sized time machine, and has to play a risky game before time can return to its normal course. The early part of this episode contains two astronomical errors. First, Nelson takes snapshots of the eclipse-darkened sky with an ordinary camera, but when the shots are developed they show galaxies and nebulae that could only be seen with a telescope. Second, the Admiral describes the pictures as showing 'constellations'. Henry Jones (Pem) also appears as Sprague in "Night of Terror" and once again as Pem in "No Way Back". This episode features re-used footage from "Thing from Inner Space".
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1058 votesLoading...#20 - The Death Clock
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 3/24/1968
"... but the Flying Sub's my baby!" Captain Crane to Chief Sharkey Seaview's reactor is running wild -- again. Without taking the time to don protective anti-radiation gear, Captain Crane runs into the Reactor Room to shut down the pile. An explosion renders him unconscious. Although treated in Sickbay with a special anti-radiation device, the Captain does not come out of his coma-like state. Doc can find no explanation. (Apparently, Doc hasn't read the script.) Corpsman Mallory has turned that life-saving device into a time-machine. Mallory is testing his fourth-dimension gadget on Crane before using it to enslave the entire world! A warped and insane Captain Crane from the future shoots and kills Admiral Nelson, because he believes the Admiral has held him back from achieving all he should have. Maybe he's paying Nelson back for the Krueger incident.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: N/A
7.7/1074 votesLoading...#21 - No Way Back
Season 4 Episode 26 - Aired 3/31/1968
Seaview experiences a sudden power overload and blows up, killing all hands aboard. When Admiral Nelson (who was at the Nelson Institute at the time of the accident) hears of the destruction of the Seaview, he gets an impossible to refuse offer from Mr. Pem (who survived from A Time To Die): in exchange for the use of the sub's nuclear reactor, Pem will transport Nelson back in time to before the explosion which destroyed Seaview. Once back in time, Pem renergizes his time travel device and brings the sub back even further in time to the American Civil War. Before the crew has time to absorb this, the ship is boarded by Major General Benedict Arnold! Now Nelson has to stop Pem's far-reaching plan to take over the world and avoid the explosive disentergration of Seaview.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10115 votesLoading...#22 - Hot Line
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1964
A Soviet satellite has crashed into the sea and its nuclear reactor must be disarmed before it causes a disaster. Two Soviet scientists come aboard Seaview to carry out the work -- but one of them is an imposter.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Berne Giler
7.6/1099 votesLoading...#23 - Hail to the Chief
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 12/28/1964
Injured in a fall, the President of the United States is in desperate need of surgery -- and the operation must be kept secret. Naturally, Seaview is chosen as the best place for the operation. An enemy agent, taking the place of the doctor who would have used a radiological device on the President, will attempt to kill the Commander-in-Chief with a deadly ray. Will she be discovered in time to save the President?
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Don Brinkley
7.6/1091 votesLoading...#24 - The Enemies
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 3/29/1965
Nelson and Crane hear about the destruction of the submarine Angler. When they read the captain's log and hear the tapes made in the control room, Nelson and Crane are puzzled: Captain Williams wen insane and machine-gunned officer Richardson, yet both men were close friends. It seems that after they had left a mysterious island, the men became deadly enemies.
Director: Felix E. Feist
Writer: N/A
7.6/1084 votesLoading...#25 - The Traitor
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 4/19/1965
Nelson's sister is abducted by enemy agents who demand top-secret information as ransom, but will Nelson betray his country to protect the only family he has?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
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Network:ABC
Best Episodes Summary
"Submarine Sunk Here" is the best rated episode of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea". It scored 8.4/10 based on 138 votes. Directed by Leonard Horn and written by N/A, it aired on 11/16/1964. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Edge of Doom".