Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series) as Admiral Park, a colleague of Nelson's who substituted for him. Basehart returned for "Return of the Phantom," the final episode of the season. The third season of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" ran simultaneously with two other series produced by Irwin Allen, "Lost in Space" (in its second season) and "The Time Tunnel". The third season began with Dick Tufeld of "Lost in Space" playing an evil disembodied brain from outer space. The season continued with a werewolf story that is one of the few episodes to inspire a sequel. In one episode, the "Seaview"'s officers and
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Wilkins. Calvert wrote the book "Surface at the Pole" about this and the other Arctic missions of USS "Skate." The film "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" begins with "Seaview" in the Arctic for the final phase of her sea trials, including a dive under the ice cap. Two milestones in underwater exploration were achieved in 1960, the year before "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" was released. On January 23, 1960, Jacques Piccard and Lieutenant Don Walsh (USN), in the bathyscaphe "Trieste", made the first descent to the bottom of the Challenger Deep. The Challenger Deep is