Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is an American science fiction television series based on the 1961 film of the same name. Both were created by Irwin Allen, which enabled the movie's sets, costumes, props, special effects models, and sometimes footage, to be used in the production of the television series. "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" was the first of Irwin Allen's four science fiction television series, and the longest-running. The show's theme was underwater adventure. "Voyage" was broadcast on ABC from September 14, 1964, to March 31,
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series) Admiral Harriman Nelson (Richard Basehart), and Commander Lee Crane (David Hedison), who becomes the "Seaview"'s captain after the murder of her original commanding officer. The submarine is based at the Nelson Institute of Marine Research in Santa Barbara, California, and is often moored some 500 feet beneath the facility in a secret underground submarine pen carved out of solid rock. The "Seaview" is officially for undersea marine research and visits many exotic locations in the Seven Seas, but its secret mission is to defend the planet from all world and extraterrestrial threats in the then-future of the 1970s. The first