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The Best Episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2

Every episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2!

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...
Genres:Action & AdventureDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:ABC

Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Jonah and the Whale" is the best rated episode of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" season 2. It scored 7/10 based on 122 votes. Directed by Nathan Juran and written by Shimon Wincelberg, it aired on 9/19/1965. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Time Bomb".

  • Jonah and the Whale
    7.0/10122 votes

    #1 - Jonah and the Whale

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1965

    The Seaview is on a joint mission with Russian scientists to salvage the remains of a Soviet undersea lab. While a scientist is being lowered in the diving bell, a giant whale arrives and rams the bell. The glass is shattered, killing him. Nelson and the remaining Russian scientist, Katya Markova, go on a second dive. The whale reappears, this time swallowing the diving bell whole! Now it's a race against thime as Captain Crane and the crew of the Seaview find the diving bell and get it out before Nelson and Markova run out of oxygen!

    Director: Nathan Juran

    Writer: Shimon Wincelberg

  • Time Bomb
    7.6/1098 votes

    #2 - Time Bomb

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1965

    Nelson is injected with a radioactive material that makes him a walking time bomb. This episode marks the first appearance of the FS-1!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Allan Balter

  • ...And Five of Us Are Left
    7.5/10106 votes

    #3 - ...And Five of Us Are Left

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1965

    Seaview comes to the rescue of newly discovered WWII survivors living in an underwater cave beneath a rumbling volcano.

    Director: Harry Harris

    Writer: N/A

  • The Cyborg
    7.8/10111 votes

    #4 - 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

  • Escape from Venice
    7.7/1093 votes

    #5 - 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

  • The Left-Handed Man
    7.3/1098 votes

    #6 - The Left-Handed Man

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1965

    Nelson works on finding an assassin before he can kill the new Secretary of State.

    Director: Jerry Hopper

    Writer: N/A

  • The Deadliest Game
    7.5/1089 votes

    #7 - The Deadliest Game

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1965

    While inspecting undersea bomb shelters with the President, aides attempt a power grab.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Leviathan
    7.4/1098 votes

    #8 - Leviathan

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1965

    Nelson and crew are invited to a marine scientist's undersea lab for a visit but there is giant sea life in the way.

    Director: Harry Harris

    Writer: N/A

  • The Peacemaker
    7.4/1095 votes

    #9 - The Peacemaker

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1965

    Defecting scientists create a proton bomb, but are killed by a foriegn power and the bomb is captured. A surviving scientist works at disarming the bomb...with other plans in mind.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Allan Balter

  • The Silent Saboteurs
    7.1/1085 votes

    #10 - The Silent Saboteurs

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1965

    Asian powers attempt to interfere with the American Space Program.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The X Factor
    7.2/1089 votes

    #11 - The X Factor

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1965

    A toy manufacturer is involved with kidnapping and shipping politicians and scientists to foreign powers.

    Director: Leonard Horn

    Writer: N/A

  • The Machines Strike Back
    7.0/1081 votes

    #12 - The Machines Strike Back

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1965

    A missile defense platform-drone malfunctions and threatens to destroy the East Coast of the US.

    Director: Nathan Juran

    Writer: N/A

  • The Monster from Outer Space
    7.6/1090 votes

    #13 - The Monster from Outer Space

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1965

    A space probe returns to earth and is recovered by Seaview...only to unleash an alien organism aboard.

    Director: James B. Clark

    Writer: Allan Balter

  • Terror on Dinosaur Island
    6.8/1084 votes

    #14 - Terror on Dinosaur Island

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/26/1965

    A submerged domed island is forced to the surface by its volcano and exposes a Jurassic-style world.

    Director: Leonard Horn

    Writer: N/A

  • Killers of the Deep
    7.6/10106 votes

    #15 - Killers of the Deep

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/2/1966

    A foreign power is salvaging sunken nuke missiles from the ocean floor to make themselves a superpower.

    Director: Harry Harris

    Writer: Allan Balter

  • Deadly Creature Below!
    6.7/1088 votes

    #16 - Deadly Creature Below!

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/9/1966

    Seaview rescues two men adrift at sea, only to discover they are escaped prisoners intent on not returning to prison. While they attempt to hijack the sub, an undersea creature surfaces to menace the Seaview.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Allan Balter

  • The Phantom Strikes
    7.6/1089 votes

    #17 - The Phantom Strikes

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/16/1966

    Seaview encounters a sunken WWI sub...with someone still left aboard.

    Director: Sutton Roley

    Writer: N/A

  • The Sky's On Fire
    7.2/10101 votes

    #18 - The Sky's On Fire

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/23/1966

    Cruising for days under the ice, Seaview surfaces to find the sky is ablaze thanks to the Van Allen belt catching fire. Nelson races to Washington to confer with fellow scientists and hatches a plan to detonate a nuclear device into the atmosphere and extinguish the fire. Weber, a Fellow scientist, feels they should do nothing and allow the fire to burn out. Nelson disagrees and takes Weber and two others aboard Seaview to decide the course of action as the sub races to the firing point. However, Weber is determined to stop Nelson and is willing to kill to do it!

    Director: Gerald Mayer

    Writer: Irwin Allen, Charles Bennett

  • Graveyard of Fear
    7.3/1087 votes

    #19 - Graveyard of Fear

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/30/1966

    A scientist and his secretary come aboard Seaview when their research vessel is sunk by a giant Portugese Man-Of-War. They want Admiral Nelson to return to the scene, but won't tell him the real reason.

    Director: Jus Addiss

    Writer: N/A

  • The Shape of Doom
    6.5/1079 votes

    #20 - The Shape of Doom

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/6/1966

    Dr. Alex Holden is hunting a gigantic whale in which he has injected an experimental growth serum. It turns and destroys his boat, killing his crew. He is rescued by Seaview, which was on en route to plant a nuclear device to blast an undersea channel Holden obsesses over getting his swallowed equipment from the whale when it turns and comes at the sub, swallowing the bomb as it is being lowered! Nelson cannot detonate the bomb, as the president's carrier is in the area. The nearly insane Holden steals Nelson's remote detonating device and threatens to blow up the whale if he's not permitted to get samples of the whale.

    Director: Nathan Juran

    Writer: N/A

  • Dead Men's Doubloons
    6.7/1074 votes

    #21 - Dead Men's Doubloons

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/13/1966

    A 16th century pirate seemingly comes back from the grave to threaten Seaview.

    Director: Sutton Roley

    Writer: N/A

  • The Death Ship
    7.8/1086 votes

    #22 - 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

  • The Monster's Web
    7.4/1080 votes

    #23 - The Monster's Web

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/27/1966

    Captain Gantt, an ego-maniacal scientist, is in a nuclear sub testing a powerful new fuel. Due to his bungling, the sub crashes into a giant web and is attacked by a monsterous sea spider. The Seaview investigates and rushes to retrieve the remaining fuel canisters before the enormous underwater pressure collapses the test sub abd detonates the fuel - an explosion which would kill millions!

    Director: Jus Addiss

    Writer: N/A

  • The Menfish
    7.2/1087 votes

    #24 - The Menfish

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/6/1966

    With Admiral Nelson away, his old friend Admiral Park takes over Seaview's current mission. Dr. Borgman is conducting experiments, and Park suspects he is up to no good.

    Director: Tom Gries

    Writer: Allan Balter

  • The Mechanical Man
    7.9/1089 votes

    #25 - 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