Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea series encouraged Irwin Allen to produce other science fiction television shows. The most notable of these shows were "Lost in Space", "The Time Tunnel", and "Land of the Giants". The success of the feature film led to the 1964–1968 television series on ABC, "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea". During the series run, the film's storyline was remade as a one-hour episode. That episode was written by Willam Welch and was titled "The Sky's on Fire". Other scenes in the film were also rewritten and incorporated into the television series. In June 1961, Pyramid Books published a novelization of
Robert Drasnin notable TV shows as "The Twilight Zone", "Mission: Impossible", "Wild, Wild West", "Hawaii Five-0", "Time Tunnel", "Lost In Space", "Mannix", "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." and "Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea". Robert Drasnin served as music supervisor at CBS for such TV shows as "Gunsmoke", "Wagon Train", "The Twilight Zone" and a host of made for TV movies. In 1959 Robert Drasnin received his M.A. in Music from UCLA in Los Angeles. That same year, while working at Tops Records, Drasnin was approached by David Pell, the head of the label, to create an Exotica album. Pell wanted a