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 the deepest surveyed spot in the world's oceans, and is located in the Mariana Trench, southwest of Guam. From February 16, 1960, to May 10, 1960, the submarine , under the command of Captain Edward L. Beach, Jr., made the first submerged circumnavigation of the world. "Triton" observed and photographed Guam extensively through her periscope during this mission, without being detected by the U.S. Navy on Guam. In the film, "Seaview" fires a missile from a position northwest of Guam to extinguish the "skyfire." At the time that "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" was made, the Van Allen