The WORST episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Every episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 enemy agents, mad scientists, deadly sea creatures, or impending nuclear disaster.
#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!
#2 - Nightmare
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/28/1968
Poor Captain Crane. The things he had to go through. This time, he's in the Flying Sub, when he receives a distress call from the Seaview. He comes back to his sub, only to find it abandoned -- again. But wait, there's a force-field on the spiral stairs which knocks Crane out, and there's a stranger aboard who naturally shoots at him. Eventually Crane sees the crew, and he hears the voice of Nelson calling him a traitor. It takes about an hour, and a bullet in the shoulder (fired by guess who?), before Crane discovers aliens are testing the human race. Most of what happens is a nightmare, but missiles are actually fired!
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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".
#5 - The Death Watch
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1966
Admiral Nelson and Captain Crane are involved in a mind-control experiment, with Chief Sharkey caught in the middle.
#6 - Secret of the Deep
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/11/1968
Naval ships have been disappearing, and Seaview is on a hunt for the undersea installation responsible. They find a sea-lab that is not only well-armed but surrounded by overgrown and ferocious sea-creatures. To complicate matters, the guest expert aboard is a traitor. Various "dangerous denizens" of the deep from earlier episodes reappear here, thanks to re-used footage: there's a whale, and one of those globular-eyed bottom-dwelling monsters seen in such episodes as "Deadly Creature Below".
#7 - Fires of Death
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1967
The Seaview is being buffeted about by underwater explosions due to the eruption of an active volcano. Dr. Turner (Victor Jory) is aboard to stop the eruptions. However, his true mission is to bring up ""elixir stones."" An alchemist, Turner needs the stones to keep him immortal. However, in order to bring up the stones, he needs to stimulate the volcano into full eruption!
#8 - The Heat Monster
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/15/1967
Arctic Listening Station XZ-5 receives a message from a voice from space (""laser beeeeeam""). Professor Bergstrom, ignoring the advice of his assistant, activates their beam and brings the alien, living flame, to Earth. Now, this Heat Monster wants the Seaview to detonate a bomb under the polar ice cap. How can the intrepid crew defeat this new menace?
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - Attack!
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/10/1968
Aliens are at it again. They're planning to destroy the Earth. However, one of the aliens claims to be a good guy. Can he be believed? Will mankind survive yet another close encounter with space visitors? * Skip Homeier also appears in "The Amphibians" and "The Day the World Ended" * Kevin Hagen guest-starred in "The Shape of Doom".
#13 - 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!
#14 - Man-Beast
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/18/1968
"You had no right -- no right to make that second dive without orders from me!" Nelson to Crane Another scientist with another artificial atmosphere (see Season 1's "The Condemned") that will revolutionize deep-sea diving. When will Admiral Nelson learn! Naturally, Captain Crane is used as a guinea pig for these dangerous experiments. And there are fatal side-effects. * A great Nelson/Crane argument takes place in the Admiral's cabin after the Captain has made his unauthorized second dive. * In this episode it is not Nelson who shoots Crane, but rather, Chip Morton. * Notice the tears of gratitude and relief in Crane's eyes after Nelson gives him the antidote at the very end of the episode. * Crane also shed a tear (from pain) in Season 3's "Day of Evil". Years later, David Hedison would appear in a Fantasy Island episode entitled: "Man-Beast"!
#15 - 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).
#17 - A Time to Die
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/3/1967
While on a mission, the Seaview appears to pass through an odd magnetic field. However, a dinosaur and alterations in the star patterns indicate that they have been thrown back in time one million years. Nelson encounters the mysterious Mr. Pem, a man who has learned how to control time, and wants to use the Seaview as a powerful source of energy for his time device. Nelson must try to outwit a man who can simply back up time and alter anything they attempt to do.
#18 - Deadly Amphibians
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/17/1967
Seaview has been sent to the ocean floor by mysterious pressure impacts. Crane, Sharkey, and Kowalski go out in the Flying Sub to investigate. They, too, are sent to the bottom of the sea. Strange creatures (half men-half fish) present themselves and explain that they intend to take over Seaview (who doesn't?) and eventually the world! Don Matheson starred as Mark Wilson in Land of the Giants.
#19 - The Creature
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/1/1967
The Seaview is called in to help track an artificially created life form, now loose in the Pacific. The creature, which is growing at a fantastic rate, has its own agenda -- starting with a takeover of the crew.
#20 - 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".
#21 - The Magnus Beam
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1964
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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - Day of Evil
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1966
A UFO crashes and an alien assumes the form of Admiral Nelson.