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 (TV series) non-speaking role. In March 1968 it was announced that "Voyage" would not be back for a fifth season. The series' main theme, "The Seaview Theme", was written by Paul Sawtell. A new darker, more serious theme composed by Jerry Goldsmith was introduced at the beginning of the second-season episode "Jonah and the Whale", but this was quickly replaced by the original version. A version of the Goldsmith suite re-orchestrated by Nelson Riddle was heard as incidental music in the episode "Escape From Venice", and the original Goldsmith suite was used as incidental music throughout the rest of the series. The