After making a successful feature film entitled Journey to the bottom of the sea. Irwin Allen transformed the idea into a weekly series, but this time its protagonists would be Richard Basehart and David Hedison. The first season made in black and white was focused on pure adventure and espionage with a dose of fiction, this was the season that has the best stories. With season 2 comes the color and the aerosub (A kind of mini ship that can move both underwater or fly. It begins to show a little wear of ideas in some episodes. For season 3 there was a budget cut and this was noticeable Much, Allen argued that women delayed the recordings and increased the costs in terms of costumes, makeup and hairstyles and decided to eliminate the female element of the stories. The series became absurd and sometimes even ridiculous with all kinds of monsters that before already we had seen in Lost In Space, mummies, robots, fossil men, various types of aliens and mad scientists appeared. Richard Basehart did his best to bring seriousness to almost childish scripts. The fourth and final season tried to return to the roots of the beginnings and I improved a lot. The series ended up being quite irregular in its quality with extraordinary episodes like The Enemies or Turn Back The Clock until ridiculous episodes Like The Terrible Toys or The Wax Men.
Review of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
(1964–1968)
CLASSIC SERIES OF IRREGULAR QUALITY IN ITS 4 SEASONS
30 August 2022