The BEST episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Every episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea!
Join the crew of the Seaview aboard their super high-tech submarine, where no mission is too dangerous and no threat is too deadly, be it enemy agents, mad scientists, deadly sea creatures, or impending nuclear disaster.
#1 - Hail to the Chief
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/28/1964
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 the operation. An enemy agent, taking the place of the doctor who would have used a radiological device on the President, will attempt to kill the Commander-in-Chief with a deadly ray. Will she be discovered in time to save the President?
#2 - Turn Back the Clock
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1964
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. The question is, will he and Crane survive their trip to a lost world?
#3 - Submarine Sunk Here
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1964
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 can do nothing but wait for help. But will help arrive in time?
#4 - Doomsday
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/18/1965
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 does this actually mean it's "doomsday?"
#5 - The Mist of Silence
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1964
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 courtyard, one per hour, and executed. All will die unless Crane breaks his oath and confesses what he cannot. Will Nelson's rescue mission succeed? Will the country in question survive the machinations of the evil man who wants to take over?
#6 - The Deadly Dolls
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1967
The Seaview crew is being entertained by puppet cairactures of the Captain and Admiral, compliments of Professor Multiple. Multiple remains on-board when the sub departs, and his dolls soon come to life, replacing their real-life counterparts. Only Nelson and Crane avoid capture and transformation. Multiple boasts that he and the others are all puppets, created by machines from the future that have traveled into the present, and need the Seaview as a new host body. Can Nelson and Crane overcome this fantastic threat?
#7 - Fatal Cargo
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1967
Doctor Blanchard has created a device to control the actions of a white gorilla. Unfortunately, his assistant Leo Brock wants the fame that the inventor of such a device would gain. As a result he uses the device to enrage the gorilla and kill Blanchard. Nelson gets there too late to save Blanchard, but the gorilla is taken on board. Brock sets the gorilla free and he runs amock until both Brock and the gorilla are killed.
#8 - The Mechanical Man
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/13/1966
Drs. Paul Ward and Peter Omir have discovered a powerful new element -- Subterranium 116. This element can produce limitless pure energy, but Omir may have another agenda.
#9 - The Creature
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/22/1965
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.
#10 - Flaming Ice
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/3/1968
Seaview is under polar ice, trying to discover the cause of increased flooding around the world. Nelson finds out that Frost Men are in the process of melting the ice cap. The Seaview's reactor is just what they need to finish the job.
#11 - The Lost Bomb
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1966
Seaview and an enemy sub battle to recover a superbomb from the ocean floor.
#12 - The Phantom Strikes
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/16/1966
Seaview encounters a sunken WWI sub...with someone still left aboard.
#13 - Killers of the Deep
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/2/1966
A foreign power is salvaging sunken nuclear missiles from the ocean floor to make themselves a superpower.
#14 - Terror on Dinosaur Island
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/26/1965
A submerged domed island is forced to the surface by its volcano and exposes a Jurassic-style world.
#15 - The Buccaneer
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/8/1965
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.
#16 - No Way Out
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1964
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 behind. He won't speak to the agent waiting for him on Seaview (actually a double agent) until he is reunited with his Anna. But even Anna is not all she seems.
#17 - Hot Line
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1964
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 -- but one of them is an imposter.
#18 - The Monster from Outer Space
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1965
A space probe returns to earth and is recovered by Seaview...only to unleash an alien organism aboard.
#19 - The Left-Handed Man
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1965
Nelson works on finding an assassin before he can kill the new Secretary of State.
#20 - The X Factor
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1965
A toy manufacturer is involved with kidnapping and shipping politicians and scientists to foreign powers.
#21 - Eleven Days to Zero
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1964
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 time and place. Evil forces seek to destroy Nelson before he implements his plan -- in the chaos following the tidal wave, they hope to take over the world! Seaview's original Skipper is killed and it's Lee Crane from the US Navy to the rescue.
#22 - The Deadliest Game
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1965
While inspecting undersea bomb shelters with the President, aides attempt a power grab.
#23 - The Brand of the Beast
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1966
While racing to help a foundering research vessel, the Seaview's nuclear reactor goes critical. Admiral Nelson's right hand is exposed to intense radiation as he fixes the problem, causing a flare-up of the "werewolf" virus that he carries.
#24 - The Machines Strike Back
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1965
A missile defense platform-drone malfunctions and threatens to destroy the East Coast of the US.
#25 - The Plant Man
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1966
Twin scientists - one good, one evil - come aboard Seaview. The evil twin is out to create a radioactive "plant man."