Updated: September 30, 2026

Irwin Allen who gave us so many good science fiction spectaculars for the big screen and a couple clinkers took a hand in converting one of his big screen efforts for television. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea cast Richard Basehart as Admiral Harriman Nelson who designed and now owns the Seaview which is like the Starship Enterprise exploring strange new horizons and going where no one has gone before under the sea. Even today a lot of the ocean depths are still unexplored so viewers imaginations are stimulated. Like Star Trek Basehart and the Seaview run into all kinds of villains and situations in the ocean depths.