Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series) color episodes. The ship's enlisted men were also given more colorful uniforms (red or light blue jumpsuits) and white Keds Champion sneakers, evidently to take advantage of the changeover from black-and-white filming. The traditional sailor uniforms worn in the first season were only seen in stock footage from the first season and on characters who were newly filmed to match up with that footage. All these changes occurred between seasons. A second-season episode, "The Sky's On Fire", was a remake of the basic storyline of Irwin Allen's 1961 film "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" utilizing considerable film color
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series) and sea monsters. The season ended with the "Seaview" crew fighting a foreign government to save a defense weapon. The first season included gritty, atmospheric story lines devoted to Cold War themes and excursions into near-future speculative fiction. Many episodes involved espionage and sci-fi elements. Aliens, sea monsters and dinosaurs were featured, but the primary villains were hostile foreign governments. While fantastic, the scripts had a semblance of reality. During the course of the first season, Nelson was promoted from a three-star to a four-star admiral. It was also established that while essentially a marine research vessel, SSRN "Seaview" was