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
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea the Earth from wobbling out of orbit. It stopped publishing by issue #4. That ship was named "Proteus", later the name of the 'submarine' in "Fantastic Voyage". In 1961 Dell Comics created a full color adaptation of the "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" movie. The comic was "Four Color Comics" #1230 and drawn by Sam Glanzman. It has a few publicity stills of the movie plus a section on the history of submarines. In the comic book the Admiral's first name is Farragut instead of Harriman. There was also a "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" coloring