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) 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