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
Ted Robinson (TV director) Ted Robinson (TV director) Ted Robinson (born 1944) is an Australian television producer and director who is best known for his work and a director and producer of live TV comedy. Robinson began his TV career at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, working on "The Aunty Jack Show", under the tutelage of series director Maurice M. Murphy. His TV directorial debut was in 1973, with the ABC sitcom "Our Man in the Company". In 1974 he took over from Murphy as director of the two Aunty Jack spinoff series, "Wollongong the Brave" and "Flash Nick from Jindavik". During the late 1970s