Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (novel) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (novel) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a science-fiction novel written by Theodore Sturgeon and first published in 1961 by Pyramid Books. Sturgeon wrote the novel from the screenplay that Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett wrote from an original story written by Irwin Allen. The movie also inspired a television series that ran for four years on ABC. Under the command of Captain Lee Crane and with Admiral Harriman Nelson, Vice-Admiral B. J. Crawford, Congressman Llewellyn Parker, and psychologist Susan Hiller aboard, the nuclear-powered submarine USOS. "Seaview" goes under the Arctic
Land of the Lost (1974 TV series) Krofft team was influential in live-action children's television, producing many shows that were oddly formatted, highly energetic, and made frequent use of special effects, with most of them following a "stranger in a strange land" storyline. Most of these shows were comedic in nature, but "Land of the Lost" was considerably more serious, especially during its first season, though as the series progressed the dramatic tone diminished. The Marshalls are brought to the mysterious world by means of a dimensional portal, a device used frequently throughout the series and a major part of its internal mythology. This portal opens when