5.3/1073 votesLoading...#1 - Terrible Leprechaun
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/7/1968
About the plot . . . Um . . . Well . . . Uh . . . Okay, here it is: You see, there are these twin leprechauns, one good, the other icky. The icky one wants all the gold that's buried beneath an underwater defense installation in the Irish Sea. The good leprechaun does his best to stop his evil brother from doing any harm . * Footage of Morton and Kowalski trapped in an underwater cave was borrowed from previous episodes. So what else is new? * Why this episode wasn't broadcast on St.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: N/A
6.5/1079 votesLoading...#2 - 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
6.5/1066 votesLoading...#3 - The Brand Of The Beast
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1966
While racing to help a foundering research vessel, the Seaview's nuclear reactor goes critical. Admiral Nelson's right hand is exposed to intense radiation as he fixes the problem, causing a flare-up of the "werewolf" virus that he carries.
Director: Jus Addiss
Writer: N/A
6.5/1062 votesLoading...#4 - The Return of Blackbeard
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 12/31/1967
The ghost of Blackbeard is alive and well, and he wants the Seaview and her crew. The pirate 'drafts' Kowalski, who makes a very convincing and quite blood-thirsty buccaneer. Nelson and Crane have their hands full trying to protect the President of the United States (a guest of a Middle Eastern Shah on a nearby yacht), and regain control of their ship.
Director: Jus Addiss
Writer: N/A
6.6/10134 votesLoading...#5 - Turn Back the Clock
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1964
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/1081 votesLoading...#6 - Cradle of the Deep
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/1/1965
A strange experiment to speed up evolution goes horribly awry, and an enormous protoplasm monster threatens the lives of the entire crew.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/1066 votesLoading...#7 - No Escape from Death
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 2/19/1967
While searching the deep for an enemy complex, the Seaview is rammed by another sub. The crew rushes to make repairs before the air runs out and a lurking monster swallows a diving party led by Crane.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
6.6/1062 votesLoading...#8 - Doomsday Island
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 2/26/1967
While Nelson and Sharkey search by air for an uncharted island, Seaview brings aboard a gigantic egg from the bottom of the sea during a routine specimen collection. It later hatches a fully grown, orange creature which kills a background guy and tosses Kowalski around the missle room. Nelson returns and (in a very un-urgent manner) has the crew hunt down this grunting thing as it terrorizes the crew. Later, Crane and Kowalski take the flying sub out to investigate the area, crash landing near the uncharted island. Another orange crature (one that speaks and is the leader) captures them and brings them to creature HQ. The monsters are aliens from Scorpious which are trying to hatch millions of eggs. Can the crew stop this invasion before these amphibian aliens take of the Earth?
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: N/A
6.6/1066 votesLoading...#9 - The Abominable Snowman
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1968
"But that's not the goal of a man -- of a scientist!" Admiral Nelson At an experimental station in the Antarctic, the crew discovers a 'tropical paradise' -- but most of the scientists are missing. When two unconscious survivors are brought aboard Seaview, something deadly starts to stalk the corridors. Meanwhile, the temperature outside is still rising .... * The white furry monster costume also appears in at least one Lost in Space episode.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/1097 votesLoading...#10 - The Indestructible Man
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/1/1965
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: N/A
6.7/1074 votesLoading...#11 - 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
6.7/1074 votesLoading...#12 - Fatal Cargo
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1967
Doctor Blanchard has created a device to control the actions of a white gorilla. Unfortunately, his assistant Leo Brock wants the fame that the inventor of such a device would gain. As a result he uses the device to enrage the gorilla and kill Blanchard. Nelson gets there too late to save Blanchard, but the gorilla is taken on board. Brock sets the gorilla free and he runs amock until both Brock and the gorilla are killed.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: N/A
6.7/1064 votesLoading...#13 - Terror
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/1967
A scientist experimenting with plant life on a remote island has run into trouble. A shore party from Seaview arrives only in time to hear his dying warning that the world will be taken over in eight hours. Nelson brings aboard the only unusual thing he can find -- a red orchid, which proves to be a malign alien (that proceeds to take over his mind and those of the crew).
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: N/A
6.8/10116 votesLoading...#14 - Long Live the King
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/21/1964
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: N/A
6.8/1083 votesLoading...#15 - 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
6.8/1087 votesLoading...#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
6.8/1087 votesLoading...#17 - Werewolf
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1966
Two scientists examining a radioactive volcano are attacked by a wolf. One dies, and the survivor is infected by a virus that causes him to change from man to werewolf and back again. Admiral Nelson is exposed to the virus and the crew must find a vaccine.
Director: Jus Addiss
Writer: N/A
6.8/1072 votesLoading...#18 - Night of Terror
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1966
Captain Crane searches for a lost diving bell containing Admiral Nelson, Chief Sharkey, and Dr. Sprague.
Director: Jus Addiss
Writer: N/A
6.8/1077 votesLoading...#19 - The Terrible Toys
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1966
Seaview is investigating a UFO. Along the way, they pick up a shipwrecked old man -- almost always a bad omen when our gallant crew finds a castaway! The bedraggled fellow has a sack full of strange, frightening toys capable of murder, and of destroying the submarine. Turns out the alien ship needs to melt down Seaview's hull for fuel. Nelson and Crane do their best to foil the aliens' plans before it is too late.
Director: Jus Addiss
Writer: N/A
6.8/1076 votesLoading...#20 - The Haunted Submarine
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1966
A ghostly ancestor of Admiral Nelson visits him aboard Seaview.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
6.8/1074 votesLoading...#21 - Deadly Cloud
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 3/12/1967
A mysterious cloud is enveloping the Earth and causing massive Tsunami and other catastrophic environmental damage. Crane takes the flying sub in to find out the cause and is taken over by an evil alien. Once aboard, this alien tries to stop Nelson before he can destroy the cloud with nuclear weapons.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: N/A
6.8/1060 votesLoading...#22 - Destroy Seaview!
Season 3 Episode 26 - Aired 3/19/1967
Admiral Nelson has been brainwashed. After getting a vital energy source, he attempts to kill Crane and the visiting Dr. Land in an undersea cave. He then returns to the sub, gasses the crew and sets the reactor to blow. Can Crane recover and return to the Seaview before Nelson can destroy it?
Director: Jus Addiss
Writer: N/A
6.8/1067 votesLoading...#23 - Journey with Fear
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1967
Aliens snatch a manned space probe launched from Seaview with Chip Morton aboard, and transport it at the speed of light to their observation post on the rocky, unstable surface of Venus. Checking out the duplicate capsule, Crane suffers the same fate before he even has time to launch. With Chip blinded and a prisoner, and the planet's surface due to undergo catastrophic quakes in a few hours, the odds seem to be against the two men.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
6.8/1069 votesLoading...#24 - The Lobster Man
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/21/1968
A lobster-like alien emerges from a capsule retrieved from the ocean floor. He claims that all he wants is one of Seaview's nuclear rods to power his ship for the homeward journey, but neither Captain Crane nor Admiral Nelson is convinced he can be trusted. Victor Lundin also played the neck-braced Hansjurg in Season 2's "The Menfish".
Director: Jus Addiss
Writer: N/A
6.9/10114 votesLoading...#25 - The Ghost of Moby Dick
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/14/1964
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: N/A
Writer: Robert Hamner
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Terrible Leprechaun" is the worst rated episode of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea". It scored 5.3/10 based on 73 votes. Directed by Jerry Hopper and written by N/A, it aired on 1/7/1968. This episode scored 1.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Shape of Doom".