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 novel. The cover submarine's bow is opaque, and her "Observation Room" is a rearward projection from the base of the conning tower. The basic shape of her hull resembles that of USS "Skipjack" (SSN-585), the first American nuclear-powered submarine with an "Albacore hull", including the cruciform stern and single propeller. A submarine design very similar to the craft on the 1961 cover, and its mission to save the world, shows up in a Dell Comics series called "Voyage to the Deep" in 1962 to capitalize on the movie's popularity. Its mission also took it to the Mariana Trench to stop