Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series) color episodes. The ship's enlisted men were also given more colorful uniforms (red or light blue jumpsuits) and white Keds Champion sneakers, evidently to take advantage of the changeover from black-and-white filming. The traditional sailor uniforms worn in the first season were only seen in stock footage from the first season and on characters who were newly filmed to match up with that footage. All these changes occurred between seasons. A second-season episode, "The Sky's On Fire", was a remake of the basic storyline of Irwin Allen's 1961 film "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" utilizing considerable film color
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series) Admiral Harriman Nelson (Richard Basehart), and Commander Lee Crane (David Hedison), who becomes the "Seaview"'s captain after the murder of her original commanding officer. The submarine is based at the Nelson Institute of Marine Research in Santa Barbara, California, and is often moored some 500 feet beneath the facility in a secret underground submarine pen carved out of solid rock. The "Seaview" is officially for undersea marine research and visits many exotic locations in the Seven Seas, but its secret mission is to defend the planet from all world and extraterrestrial threats in the then-future of the 1970s. The first