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.

Last Updated: 8/21/2024Network: FOXStatus: Ended
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The Sky's On Fire
star
8.30
10 votes

#1 - The Sky's On Fire

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/23/1966

Cruising for days under the ice, Seaview surfaces to find the sky is ablaze thanks to the Van Allen belt catching fire. Nelson races to Washington to confer with fellow scientists and hatches a plan to detonate a nuclear device into the atmosphere and extinguish the fire. Weber, a Fellow scientist, feels they should do nothing and allow the fire to burn out. Nelson disagrees and takes Weber and two others aboard Seaview to decide the course of action as the sub races to the firing point. However, Weber is determined to stop Nelson and is willing to kill to do it!

Directors: Sobey Martin
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Turn Back the Clock
star
7.92
26 votes

#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?

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The Monster from Outer Space
star
7.92
64 votes

#3 - 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.

Directors: James B. Clark
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The Phantom Strikes
star
7.90
10 votes

#4 - The Phantom Strikes

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/16/1966

Seaview encounters a sunken WWI sub...with someone still left aboard.

Directors: Sutton Roley
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star
7.88
17 votes

#5 - 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?"

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Hail to the Chief
star
7.88
16 votes

#6 - 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?

Directors: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Don Brinkley
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Killers of the Deep
star
7.87
8 votes

#7 - 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.

Directors: Harry Harris
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The Terrible Toys
star
7.78
9 votes

#8 - The Terrible Toys

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1966

Seaview is investigating a UFO. Along the way, they pick up a shipwrecked old man -- almost always a bad omen when our gallant crew finds a castaway! The bedraggled fellow has a sack full of strange, frightening toys capable of murder, and of destroying the submarine. Turns out the alien ship needs to melt down Seaview's hull for fuel. Nelson and Crane do their best to foil the aliens' plans before it is too late.

Directors: Justus Addiss
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Terror on Dinosaur Island
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7.75
8 votes

#9 - 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.

Directors: Leonard J. Horn
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Submarine Sunk Here
star
7.75
24 votes

#10 - 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?

Directors: Leonard J. Horn
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star
7.69
39 votes

#11 - 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.

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Deadly Waters
star
7.67
9 votes

#12 - Deadly Waters

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1966

Captain Crane rescues a diver from a wrecked atomic sub. He turns out to be Kowalski's brother, Stan, a Navy diving specialist. When the Seaview needs his help in getting off the ocean floor, Stan is not up to the job.

Directors: Gerald Mayer
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The Death Ship
star
7.56
9 votes

#13 - The Death Ship

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/20/1966

Things go wrong when Nelson and Crane test out a new automated system for Seaview.

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The Mist of Silence
star
7.55
29 votes

#14 - 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?

Directors: Leonard J. Horn
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Hot Line
star
7.55
22 votes

#15 - 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.

Directors: John Brahm
Writer: Berne Giler
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star
7.54
13 votes

#16 - 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.

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The Price of Doom
star
7.48
25 votes

#17 - The Price of Doom

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1964

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 danger of succumbing to the horrible, slimy growth. Nelson, Crane and crew face another problem: one of the three scientists on board the sub is an enemy agent.

Directors: James Goldstone
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Eleven Days to Zero
star
7.45
113 votes

#18 - 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.

Directors: Irwin Allen
Writer: Irwin Allen
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The City Beneath the Sea
star
7.42
48 votes

#19 - The City Beneath the Sea

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1964

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 meets an ex-diver, now a mute due to a tragic accident, who claims to have seen a "city beneath the sea". Crane gets hired by the "bad guy", but his cover is soon blown. He is taken prisoner and nearly loses his life.

Directors: John Brahm
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The Mermaid
star
7.40
5 votes

#20 - The Mermaid

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/29/1967

As the Seaview conducts a marine census, Captain Crane spots a mermaid. He brings her aboard and falls under her spell. A sea creature follows the mermaid and proceeds to cause big trouble on the sub. The problems are compounded when the Seaview is ordered to disarm a nuclear device that has been planted off the coast of California.

Directors: Jerry Hopper
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The X Factor
star
7.40
63 votes

#21 - 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.

Directors: Leonard J. Horn
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The Left-Handed Man
star
7.39
66 votes

#22 - 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.

Directors: Jerry Hopper
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Deadly Creature Below!
star
7.33
9 votes

#23 - Deadly Creature Below!

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/9/1966

Seaview rescues two men adrift at sea, only to discover they are escaped prisoners intent on not returning to prison. While they attempt to hijack the sub, an undersea creature surfaces to menace the Seaview.

Directors: Sobey Martin
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Werewolf
star
7.30
10 votes

#24 - Werewolf

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1966

Two scientists examining a radioactive volcano are attacked by a wolf. One dies, and the survivor is infected by a virus that causes him to change from man to werewolf and back again. Admiral Nelson is exposed to the virus and the crew must find a vaccine.

Directors: Justus Addiss
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star
7.30
10 votes

#25 - The Secret of the Loch

Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/5/1965

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

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