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
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