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The Best Episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 1 - Eleven Days to Zero
    7.3/10(214 votes)

    #1 - 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.

    Director:Irwin Allen
    Writer:Irwin Allen

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  2. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 2 - The City Beneath the Sea
    7.0/10(155 votes)

    #2 - The City Beneath the Sea

    S1:E2

    While investigating the disappearance of research ships in the Aegean, the Seaview is damaged by a bomb. Captain Crane goes ashore, and pretends to be a diver for hire. The Captain meets an ex-diver, now a mute due to a tragic accident, who claims to have seen a ""city beneath the sea"". Crane gets hired by the ""bad guy"", but his cover is soon blown. He is taken prisoner and nearly loses his life.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 3 - The Fear-Makers
    7.8/10(147 votes)

    #3 - 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.

    Director:Leonard Horn
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 4 - The Mist Of Silence
    7.2/10(131 votes)

    #4 - The Mist Of Silence

    S1:E4

    On a rendezvous mission, Crane and several crewmen are drugged into unconsciousness on a deserted yacht. Waking up in a South American prison, the men are taken out to the courtyard, one per hour, and executed. All will die unless Crane breaks his oath and confesses what he cannot. Will Nelson's rescue mission succeed? Will the country in question survive the machinations of the evil man who wants to take over?

    Director:Leonard Horn
    Writer:John McGreevey

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  5. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 5 - The Price of Doom
    7.5/10(150 votes)

    #5 - 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.

    Director:James Goldstone
    Writer:Harlan Ellison

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  6. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 6 - The Sky is Falling
    8.3/10(145 votes)

    #6 - 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.

    Director:Leonard Horn
    Writer:Don Brinkley

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  7. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 7 - Turn Back the Clock
    6.6/10(143 votes)

    #7 - Turn Back the Clock

    S1:E7

    A lush, tropical, verdant paradise in the South Pole? Living dinosaurs? Such fanciful ideas must surely be the ravings of a madman. Or perhaps not, as Admiral Nelson soon discovers. The question is, will he and Crane survive their trip to a lost world?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 8 - The Village of Guilt
    7.3/10(120 votes)

    #8 - The Village of Guilt

    S1:E8

    A sea monster kills three villagers in a Norwegian fjord; however, one man survives. Seaview arrives to investigate. Nelson and Crane are met with hostility from the locals and find the survivor has died. Nelson does his best to make sure the ""sea monster"" doesn't destroy Seaview.

    Director:Irwin Allen
    Writer:Berne Giler

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  9. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 9 - Hot Line
    7.6/10(123 votes)

    #9 - 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.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Berne Giler

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  10. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 10 - Submarine Sunk Here
    8.4/10(146 votes)

    #10 - 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?

    Director:Leonard Horn
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 11 - The Magnus Beam
    7.4/10(106 votes)

    #11 - 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.

    Director:Leonard Horn
    Writer:Alan Caillou

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  12. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 12 - No Way Out
    7.6/10(112 votes)

    #12 - 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.

    Director:Felix E. Feist
    Writer:Robert Hamner

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  13. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 13 - The Blizzard Makers
    7.5/10(98 votes)

    #13 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 14 - The Ghost of Moby Dick
    6.9/10(122 votes)

    #14 - The Ghost of Moby Dick

    S1:E14

    An old friend of Nelson's comes aboard Seaview to continue his research into the giant whale that destroyed his ship, crippling him and killing his son. His real motives, however, have more to do with vengeance than science, and Crane becomes concerned that the Admiral is caught up in his friend's obsession.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Robert Hamner

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  15. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 15 - Long Live the King
    6.8/10(130 votes)

    #15 - Long Live the King

    S1:E15

    When the King of a small but friendly nation is assassinated, Seaview is assigned to take the young Crown Prince back home to assume his throne. Neither Nelson (who gets turned out of his own cabin) nor Crane are used to handling children. Help arrives in the form of a mysterious flute-playing old man who befriends the boy after he is picked up at sea.

    Director:László Benedek
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 16 - Hail to the Chief
    7.7/10(106 votes)

    #16 - 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?

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:Don Brinkley

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  17. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 17 - The Last Battle
    7.3/10(105 votes)

    #17 - The Last Battle

    S1:E17

    Admiral Nelson is kidnapped from a plane during mid-flight and held on a remote island by Nazis who plan to conquer the world.

    Director:Felix E. Feist
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 18 - Mutiny
    7.6/10(105 votes)

    #18 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 19 - Doomsday
    8.2/10(116 votes)

    #19 - 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?"

    Director:James Goldstone
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 20 - The Invaders
    7.5/10(124 votes)

    #20 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 21 - The Indestructible Man
    6.8/10(109 votes)

    #21 - The Indestructible Man

    S1:E21

    After returning from a mission on deep space, a lifelike robot is brought aboard the Seaview, but the crew soon discovers that the robot has been mysteriously reprogrammed to wreak havoc.

    Director:Felix E. Feist
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 22 - The Buccaneer
    7.0/10(93 votes)

    #22 - The Buccaneer

    S1:E22

    A mad art connoisseur seizes control of the Seaview and plans to pirate Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa from a French Ship bound for the World's Fair.

    Director:László Benedek
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 23 - The Human Computer
    7.2/10(99 votes)

    #23 - The Human Computer

    S1:E23

    A newly installed super-computer is tested on the Seaview...but the enemy has other plans.

    Director:James Goldstone
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 24 - The Saboteur
    7.8/10(98 votes)

    #24 - 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!

    Director:Felix E. Feist
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 1 Episode 25 - Cradle of the Deep
    6.7/10(91 votes)

    #25 - Cradle of the Deep

    S1:E25

    A strange experiment to speed up evolution goes horribly awry, and an enormous protoplasm monster threatens the lives of the entire crew.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Eleven Days to Zero" is the best rated episode of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 214 votes. Directed by Irwin Allen and written by Irwin Allen, it aired on 9/14/1964. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The City Beneath the Sea".