Irwin Allen including "Poseidon" (2006) and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea". The 2002 TV pilot was included as a bonus feature on Volume 2 of Fox's 2006 DVD release of the 30-episode "Time Tunnel" (1966–67) TV series. On January 3, 2008, BBC Four showed a night of Allen's work which included the 1995 documentary "The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen" along with episodes of "Lost in Space", "Land of the Giants" and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea". Episode 57 of the Disney TV series "Duck Tales" screened December 8, 1987, titled "The Uncrashable Hindentanic" features a character called
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Wilkins. Calvert wrote the book "Surface at the Pole" about this and the other Arctic missions of USS "Skate." The film "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" begins with "Seaview" in the Arctic for the final phase of her sea trials, including a dive under the ice cap. Two milestones in underwater exploration were achieved in 1960, the year before "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" was released. On January 23, 1960, Jacques Piccard and Lieutenant Don Walsh (USN), in the bathyscaphe "Trieste", made the first descent to the bottom of the Challenger Deep. The Challenger Deep is