Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea After the film was finished the sets were placed in storage. When Irwin Allen decided to make a "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" television series, all he had to do was pull the sets out of storage. This was done at a fraction of the cost that he might have had if he had begun from scratch. The film reduced the cost of setting up the show and was the template for the type of stories that were done. The studios, having made the film, helped make the television series easier to produce. The success of the television
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series) a yellow, two-man mini-submarine with passenger capacity, armed with a laser gun. It could leave the ocean and function as an airplane. The "Flying Sub" was referred to by the initials "FS-1". The futuristic craft greatly increased the "Seaview" crew's travel options. It was launched from a bay with automatic doors added in the lower part of the bow section of "Seaview" that was apparently built between Seasons One and Two. The "Seaview"'s private observation deck from the first season was never seen again. The ship's eight smaller observation windows became four large windows giving the sub a sleeker, more