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The Best Episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

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The Best Episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

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...

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  1. Background image for Submarine Sunk Here
    8.4/10(142 votes)

    #1 - Submarine Sunk Here

    S1:E10

    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?

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    Director:Leonard Horn
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Sky is Falling
    8.3/10(142 votes)

    #2 - The Sky is Falling

    S1:E6

    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.

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    Director:Leonard Horn
  3. Background image for The Day the World Ended
    8.2/10(92 votes)

    #3 - The Day the World Ended

    S3:E3

    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.

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    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Doomsday
    8.1/10(113 votes)

    #4 - Doomsday

    S1:E19

    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?"

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    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for The Lost Bomb
    8.1/10(83 votes)

    #5 - The Lost Bomb

    S3:E13

    Seaview and an enemy sub battle to recover a superbomb from the ocean floor.

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  6. Background image for The Condemned
    7.9/10(82 votes)

    #6 - The Condemned

    S1:E31

    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.

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    Director:Leonard Horn
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for The Fear-Makers
    7.8/10(141 votes)

    #7 - The Fear-Makers

    S1:E3

    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.

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    Director:Leonard Horn
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Saboteur
    7.8/10(95 votes)

    #8 - The Saboteur

    S1:E24

    Crane is brainwashed by enemy agents, and his new mission is to deactivate certain strategic undersea missiles and to assassinate Admiral Nelson!

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    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for No Way Out
    7.7/10(108 votes)

    #9 - No Way Out

    S1:E12

    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.

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  11. Background image for Hail to the Chief
    7.7/10(101 votes)

    #10 - Hail to the Chief

    S1:E16

    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?

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    Director:Gerd Oswald
  12. Background image for Mutiny
    7.7/10(101 votes)

    #11 - Mutiny

    S1:E18

    After Nelson's experimental submarine is attacked by a giant jellyfish, tension mounts aboard the Seaview as Nelson exhibits signs of a mental breakdown.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Hot Line
    7.6/10(117 votes)

    #12 - Hot Line

    S1:E9

    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.

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    Director:John Brahm
  14. Background image for The Enemies
    7.6/10(101 votes)

    #13 - The Enemies

    S1:E29

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for The Traitor
    7.6/10(92 votes)

    #14 - The Traitor

    S1:E32

    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?

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Thing From Inner Space
    7.6/10(84 votes)

    #15 - Thing From Inner Space

    S3:E8

    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.

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    Director:Alex March
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for The Price of Doom
    7.5/10(146 votes)

    #16 - The Price of Doom

    S1:E5

    A husband and wife Antarctic research team is killed by an experiment on plankton gone wild. Seaview arrives to investigate and take plankton samples. Soon the submarine is in danger of succumbing to the horrible, slimy growth. Nelson, Crane and crew face another problem: one of the three scientists on board the sub is an enemy agent.

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  18. Background image for The Magnus Beam
    7.5/10(103 votes)

    #17 - The Magnus Beam

    S1:E11

    A mysterious weapon is destroying American U2s. The Seaview's mission is to find the weapon and destroy it. Captain Crane goes undercover. A night-club performer, who is also a resistance fighter, comes to Crane's aid. The Captain is soon captured and severely beaten. Meanwhile, on Seaview, Major Amadi demands asylum. To prove his sincere intentions, he promises to lead the sub to the powerful magnetic weapon responsible for taking out those U2s. Nelson suspects he wants to lead Seaview to a watery grave.

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    Director:Leonard Horn
  19. Background image for The Blizzard Makers
    7.5/10(95 votes)

    #18 - The Blizzard Makers

    S1:E13

    In blizzard-wracked Florida, Nelson contacts a meteorologist who may be able to help explain the strange weather conditions. That night, however, the scientist is abducted, and ""programmed"" to kill Nelson. When his first attempt fails, he comes aboard Seaview when she sails to investigate the source of the problem, and continues his efforts.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for The Invaders
    7.5/10(122 votes)

    #19 - The Invaders

    S1:E20

    An undersea earthquake exhumes hundreds of strange metallic capsules, and a powerful humanoid creature who could destroy mankind is restored to life after millions of years in suspended animation.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Monster from the Inferno
    7.5/10(81 votes)

    #20 - Monster from the Inferno

    S3:E1

    Seaview is investigating a thousand-mile wide communication blackout. The source of this is a large alien brain found under the sea. It is broght aboard and takes over visiting scientist, Dr. Lindsay. With his help, and after possessing Captain Crane, the alien vows to take over the Seaview and after that, the Earth.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Deadly Waters
    7.5/10(81 votes)

    #21 - Deadly Waters

    S3:E7

    Captain Crane rescues a diver from a wrecked atomic sub. He turns out to be Kowalski's brother, Stan, a Navy diving specialist. When the Seaview needs his help in getting off the ocean floor, Stan is not up to the job.

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    Director:Gerald Mayer
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for The Fossil Men
    7.5/10(78 votes)

    #22 - The Fossil Men

    S3:E18

    The crew of a lost submarine returns as rock men to menace the Seaview. A new man, Kowalski's friend Richards, is captured on a diving mission and turned into a Fossil Man. Nelson is then ordered to turn command of the Seaview over to these rock men. Will Nelson comply? Will the crew be dipped into the transformation lava to exist as living rock?

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  24. Background image for The Amphibians
    7.4/10(97 votes)

    #23 - The Amphibians

    S1:E26

    The cre of the Seaview is called to investigate an undersea laboratory where scientists are surgically transforming humans into amphibians.

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    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for The Secret of the Loch
    7.4/10(88 votes)

    #24 - The Secret of the Loch

    S1:E30

    The Seaview travels to Scotland via a secret, underground conduit to investigate the mystery of the legendary Loch Ness Monster.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Eleven Days to Zero
    7.3/10(206 votes)

    #25 - Eleven Days to Zero

    S1:E1

    A gigantic tidal wave will destroy much of the civilized world, but Admiral Harriman Nelson has a plan to stop it -- Seaview will set off a nuclear explosion at precisely the right time and place. Evil forces seek to destroy Nelson before he implements his plan -- in the chaos following the tidal wave, they hope to take over the world! Seaview's original Skipper is killed and it's Lee Crane from the US Navy to the rescue.

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    Director:Irwin Allen

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 142 votes. Directed by Leonard Horn and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/16/1964. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Sky is Falling".