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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Season 1

32 episodes Premiered Sep 13, 1964 Updated Jul 19, 2026
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Episodes

S1·E1

Eleven Days to Zero

Sep 14, 1964 · 60 min

A gigantic tidal wave will destroy much of the civilized world, but Admiral Harriman Nelson has a plan to stop it -- Seaview will set off a nuclear explosion at precisely the right

S1·E2

The City Beneath the Sea

Sep 21, 1964 · 60 min

While investigating the disappearance of research ships in the Aegean, the Seaview is damaged by a bomb. Captain Crane goes ashore, and pretends to be a diver for hire. The Captain

S1·E3

The Fear-Makers

Sep 28, 1964 · 60 min

After Seaview's sister ship, Polidor, is lost on an experimental deep dive, Seaview continues with the tests. Unknown to the already stressed crew, one of the visiting psychologist

S1·E4

The Mist Of Silence

Oct 5, 1964 · 60 min

On a rendezvous mission, Crane and several crewmen are drugged into unconsciousness on a deserted yacht. Waking up in a South American prison, the men are taken out to the courtyar

S1·E5

The Price of Doom

Oct 12, 1964 · 60 min

A husband and wife Antarctic research team is killed by an experiment on plankton gone wild. Seaview arrives to investigate and take plankton samples. Soon the submarine is in dang

S1·E6

The Sky is Falling

Oct 19, 1964 · 60 min

An alien spaceship lands in the ocean, and Seaview is sent to investigate. Although Seaview is powerless in the vicinity of their ship, the aliens seem friendly, and Nelson manages

S1·E7

Turn Back the Clock

Oct 26, 1964 · 60 min

A lush, tropical, verdant paradise in the South Pole? Living dinosaurs? Such fanciful ideas must surely be the ravings of a madman. Or perhaps not, as Admiral Nelson soon discovers

S1·E8

The Village of Guilt

Nov 2, 1964 · 60 min

A sea monster kills three villagers in a Norwegian fjord; however, one man survives. Seaview arrives to investigate. Nelson and Crane are met with hostility from the locals and fin

S1·E9

Hot Line

Nov 9, 1964 · 60 min

A Soviet satellite has crashed into the sea and its nuclear reactor must be disarmed before it causes a disaster. Two Soviet scientists come aboard Seaview to carry out the work --

S1·E10

Submarine Sunk Here

Nov 16, 1964 · 60 min

Damaged by an explosion from an old mine field, Seaview takes a dive to the ocean floor. Listing dangerously, running out of oxygen, having to deal with fire and flood, the crew ca

S1·E11

The Magnus Beam

Nov 23, 1964 · 60 min

A mysterious weapon is destroying American U2s. The Seaview's mission is to find the weapon and destroy it. Captain Crane goes undercover. A night-club performer, who is also a res

S1·E12

No Way Out

Nov 30, 1964 · 60 min

Nelson and Crane go undercover and risk their lives in order to bring a Communist defector back to the United States. But the man is injured in the attempt, and his lover is left b

S1·E13

The Blizzard Makers

Dec 7, 1964 · 60 min

In blizzard-wracked Florida, Nelson contacts a meteorologist who may be able to help explain the strange weather conditions. That night, however, the scientist is abducted, and ""p

S1·E14

The Ghost of Moby Dick

Dec 14, 1964 · 60 min

An old friend of Nelson's comes aboard Seaview to continue his research into the giant whale that destroyed his ship, crippling him and killing his son. His real motives, however,

S1·E15

Long Live the King

Dec 21, 1964 · 60 min

When the King of a small but friendly nation is assassinated, Seaview is assigned to take the young Crown Prince back home to assume his throne. Neither Nelson (who gets turned out

S1·E16

Hail to the Chief

Dec 28, 1964 · 60 min

Injured in a fall, the President of the United States is in desperate need of surgery -- and the operation must be kept secret. Naturally, Seaview is chosen as the best place for t

S1·E17

The Last Battle

Jan 4, 1965 · 60 min

Admiral Nelson is kidnapped from a plane during mid-flight and held on a remote island by Nazis who plan to conquer the world.

S1·E18

Mutiny

Jan 11, 1965 · 60 min

After Nelson's experimental submarine is attacked by a giant jellyfish, tension mounts aboard the Seaview as Nelson exhibits signs of a mental breakdown.

S1·E19

Doomsday

Jan 18, 1965 · 60 min

When a mass missile launching by a foreign power sets the U.S. on nuclear alert, the Seaview goes into a fail-safe maneuver, but is the launch really what it appears to be, and doe

S1·E20

The Invaders

Jan 25, 1965 · 60 min

An undersea earthquake exhumes hundreds of strange metallic capsules, and a powerful humanoid creature who could destroy mankind is restored to life after millions of years in susp

S1·E21

The Indestructible Man

Feb 1, 1965 · 60 min

After returning from a mission on deep space, a lifelike robot is brought aboard the Seaview, but the crew soon discovers that the robot has been mysteriously reprogrammed to wreak

S1·E22

The Buccaneer

Feb 8, 1965 · 60 min

A mad art connoisseur seizes control of the Seaview and plans to pirate Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa from a French Ship bound for the World's Fair.

S1·E23

The Human Computer

Feb 15, 1965 · 60 min

A newly installed super-computer is tested on the Seaview...but the enemy has other plans.

S1·E24

The Saboteur

Feb 22, 1965 · 60 min

Crane is brainwashed by enemy agents, and his new mission is to deactivate certain strategic undersea missiles and to assassinate Admiral Nelson!

S1·E25

Cradle of the Deep

Mar 1, 1965 · 60 min

A strange experiment to speed up evolution goes horribly awry, and an enormous protoplasm monster threatens the lives of the entire crew.

S1·E26

The Amphibians

Mar 8, 1965 · 60 min

The cre of the Seaview is called to investigate an undersea laboratory where scientists are surgically transforming humans into amphibians.

S1·E27

The Exile

Mar 15, 1965 · 60 min

Nelson is stranded aboard a life raft with the ex-premier of a hostile foreign power who carries vital information on a plot to destroy the free world.

S1·E28

The Creature

Mar 22, 1965 · 60 min

The crew is joined by Captain Adams, the sole survivor of an ill-fated missile launch, in search of the mysterious force responsible for the disaster.

S1·E29

The Enemies

Mar 29, 1965 · 60 min

Nelson and Crane hear about the destruction of the submarine Angler. When they read the captain's log and hear the tapes made in the control room, Nelson and Crane are puzzled: Cap

S1·E30

The Secret of the Loch

Apr 5, 1965 · 60 min

The Seaview travels to Scotland via a secret, underground conduit to investigate the mystery of the legendary Loch Ness Monster.

S1·E31

The Condemned

Apr 12, 1965 · 60 min

Nelson and Crane are dismayed when an egotistical, publicity-seeking scientist is given command of the Seaview to test a new pressure system which will allow the sub to explore unc

S1·E32

The Traitor

Apr 19, 1965 · 60 min

Nelson's sister is abducted by enemy agents who demand top-secret information as ransom, but will Nelson betray his country to protect the only family he has?