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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (ふしぎの海のナディア Fushigi no Umi no Nadia?, lit. "Nadia of the Mysterious Seas") is a Japanese animated television series inspired by the works of Jules Verne, particularly Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and the exploits of Captain Nemo. The series was created by NHK, Toho and Korad, from a concept of Hayao Miyazaki, and directed by Hideaki Anno of Gainax.
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water follows a young inventor named Jean and a former circus performer named Nadia, who wishes to return to her home in Africa.
In its original Japanese broadcast, it aired from 1990 to 1991 and ran for 39 episodes, and was distributed by ADV Films in the United States. ADV's Anime Network has broadcast the series in the United States. Following the 2009 closure of ADV, Sentai Filmworks re-licensed the anime series, which was re-released on Blu-ray and DVD in March 2014.
Episodes[edit]

Episode number
Title
Original air date

01
"The Girl at the Eiffel Tower"
"Efferutō no shōjo" (エッフェル塔の少女)  April 13, 1990
It is the first day of the Paris World Exposition in 1899. Jean Rocque Raltique, a brilliant young inventor, arrives at the fair to participate in a flying contest with his uncle. He is distracted, however, when he notices a mysterious dark-skinned girl pass by on a bicycle. Jean follows the girl, known as Nadia, to the Eiffel Tower and tries to make friends with her, but she acts cold and aloof. Just then, three bandits -- Grandis Granva, a fiery-tempered woman and her two sidekicks, vain, arrogant Sanson, and pudgy, nerdy Hanson -- appear and attempt to kidnap Nadia, but she escapes. Jean later finds Nadia performing at a circus across town and is instantly smitten with her performance. At the end of the show, the Grandis gang appear and take Nadia from her (unsympathetic) ringmaster through bribery and pretending to be her sister. After a wild chase, Jean rescues Nadia and earns her trust. Learning she has no place to go, he decides to take his new friend to his home in Le Havre. 
02
"The Little Fugitives"
"Chīsana tōbō-sha" (小さな逃亡者)  April 20, 1990
Using one of his inventions -- a boat that can shift into an automatic hydrofoil ship -- Jean successfully makes another escape from the Grandis gang, who are pursuing the pair in their multi-purpose tank, the Gratan. He takes Nadia to his aunt's house in Le Havre, but his grumpy, dour Auntie refuses to take Nadia in. Jean decides to take Nadia to his workshop in Le Havre, and she spends the night there. All the while, Jean learns from Nadia that she wishes to return to the country where she was born. Unfortunately, she has no idea where it is, but her pet lion King suspects it might be in Africa. Jean decides to take Nadia there himself using his all-new aircraft, and they make yet another escape from the Grandis gang. They do not get far, however, when the plane engine falters and the crafts plummets into the ocean. 
03
"The Riddle of the Giant Sea Monsters"
"Nazo no daikaijū" (謎の大海獣)  April 27, 1990
Jean, Nadia, and King are rescued from the ocean by a passing American battleship called the Abraham. Its captain, Melville, and his first mate Holland, are on the trail of a supposed "sea monster" responsible for sinking countless ships in the Pacific Ocean. Jean is intrigued to be aboard the vessel, but Nadia is gravely suspicious. While on the ship, they also meet Ayerton Grenavan, a flamboyant "scientist" who claims to be funding the pursuit. That night, the Abraham is attacked by a mysterious and dangerous presence. A torpedo finally strikes the Abraham, causing Jean, Nadia, King, and their aircraft to be thrown overboard into the ocean again. 
04
"Nautilus, The Fantastic Submarine"
"Ban'nō sensuikan Nōchirasu-gō" (万能潜水艦ノーチラス号)  May 04, 1990
Adrift on the ocean, Jean, Nadia, and King are once again rescued by another vessel — a mysterious submarine commanded by Captain Nemo and his first officer, Electra. The children are kept aboard the submarine for three days while Nemo and his command crew pursue an enemy submarine (the same "sea monster" that wrecked the Abraham). Eventually, Jean, Nadia, and King are released from the submarine and they set off into the sky on Jean's newly revamped aircraft. Before leaving, the children learn that the submarine is known as the Nautilus. 
05
"Marie's Island"
"Marī no shima" (マリーの島)  May 11, 1990
While airborne, Jean, Nadia, and King are shot down from the skies and crash-land onto an unfamiliar island. There, they rescue a lonely little girl named Marie, who tells them that her parents have been shot down by a murderous army of masked soldiers. Soon the children are forced to flee from the same soldiers. Marie takes her new "guardians" to a secluded cave containing blankets and supplies. That night, Jean and Nadia bury Marie's fallen parents and tearfully confess to the latter that her parents are dead. Meanwhile, the Grandis gang, having washed up on the island themselves, are taken captive by the soldiers and taken to a shadowy base where they are questioned by the soldiers' commander about the Blue Water, Nadia's pendant. 
06
"Infiltration of the Secret Base"
"Kotō no yōsai" (孤島の要塞)  May 18, 1990
Investigating the island, Jean discovers a trail of power lines leading to a power plant situated in a deep crater at the center of the island. He also witnesses an escaping villager brutally killed by the pursuing soldiers. The next day, Marie and King wander outside the cave to collect flowers (Jean and Nadia debating about their next move -- should they rescue the people on the island or not?) and are captured by the soldiers. Jean and Nadia follow them to the crater and find themselves in a complex of factories, where the villagers are forced to work as slaves. They also recognize the "sea monster" as another submarine, known as the Garfish, operated by the soldiers' ruthless ringleader, Gargoyle. While Gargoyle investigates a powerful artifact needed to complete his secret weapon, Nadia's Blue Water is accidentally set off, forcing the children to escape from the factories. To save Jean from being killed, Nadia gives him the Blue Water and turns herself in. Jean promises to rescue her. 
07
"The Tower of Babel"
"Baberu no tō" (バベルの塔)  May 25, 1990
Captured by the soldiers (also known as the Neo Atlanteans), Nadia is taken before Gargoyle, who implies that he has known Nadia since she was a baby. He demands his captive to reveal the whereabouts of the Blue Water. When Nadia refuses to obey, Gargoyle threatens to kill both Marie and King. With no choice, Nadia reluctantly admits that Jean has it. The soldiers begin to search the complex for Jean, while the Grandis gang decides to escape. Both sides inadvertently come across each other when they board a freight train bound for Gargoyle's castle. Gargoyle tours Nadia around the compound and introduces its center — a spiral tower known as Babel, which can obliterate anything in its path. That evening he forces Nadia to witness the tower's awesome powers as it demolishes an island in the distance. Out at sea, Captain Nemo sees the same explosion and declares that Gargoyle has "finally released the great abomination." 
08
"Mission to Rescue Nadia"
"Nadia kyūshutsu sakusen" (ナディア救出作戦)  June 01, 1990
In an unexpected turn of events, Jean joins forces with the Grandis gang to infiltrate the compound and rescue Nadia. They almost succeed… until Gargoyle's submarine, Garfish corners them at the intake point. Just when it all looks hopeless, the Nautilus rises from the ocean and attacks the Garfish, allowing the companions to make their escape. In the end, Gargoyle attempts to fight back using the Tower of Babel… but it demolishes his compound instead. The islanders are freed, but Gargoyle makes his getaway on a dirigible. 
09
"Nemo's Secret"
"Nemo no himitsu" (ネモの秘密)  June 08, 1990
The companions are taken aboard the Nautilus by Captain Nemo in gratitude for their bravery against Gargoyle, and to repair the damage the Gratan has taken. Jean and Hanson are thrilled to be aboard the Nautilus because they are intrigued by its technology and wonders, but nobody shares their enthusiasm. Grandis catches a cold and is treated by the doctor. When Captain Nemo and Electra stop by medical bay to check on the sick patient, Grandis falls hopelessly in love with Nemo… much to the dismay of Sanson and Hanson. Later, Nemo crosses paths with Nadia for the first time and acts quite surprised when he sees her… and her Blue Water. It turns out that Nemo happens to have a Blue Water of his own -- a larger one with a missing indent. 
10
"A Crowning Performance by the Gratan"
"Guratan no katsuyaku" (グラタンの活躍)  June 15, 1990
The Nautilus pursues Gargoyle through the LeMar Straits until it runs into a dangerous trap. The submarine is surrounded on all sides by a field of mines, which can be triggered should the underwater current shifts or if the submarine dares to move. In a race against time, Grandis, Sanson, and Hanson propose to use their Gratan to take out three of the mines so that the Nautilus can safely escape from Gargoyle's trap. However, Sanson knocks Grandis out, fearing for her safety. He and Hanson set aboard the Gratan and begin their mission, but the tank begins to malfunction. Jean, who has sneaked aboard the tank, helps the pair as best as he can, but soon the Gratan's underwater camera shatters, leaving the Gratan blind. With Grandis communicating from the Nautilus bridge, the trio barely manages to succeed and save the submarine from a deadly fate. 
11
"New Recruits for the Nautilus"
"Nōchirasu-gō no shin'nyūsei" (ノーチラス号の新入生)  June 22, 1990
Jean, Nadia, and the others are appointed as apprentice crew members aboard the Nautilus, each assigned to a different position. Jean, Sanson, and Hanson are given lessons by Sonar Officer Eiko Villan about the Nautilus, Marie and King are schooled by Electra (much to the little girl's infuriation), while Grandis and Nadia work in the rather extraordinary kitchen. Grandis tries to impress Nemo by cooking a (rather ugly) platter of fish, but things don't go as she expects. Later, King snatches Grandis' own dinner and there is a wild chase which results with King ending up in the Nautilus's forbidden engine room. When Jean retrieves him, Nemo explains that the Nautilus is powered by a particle annihilation engine that could potentially take them up to the stars… but also destroy the world if used improperly. 
12
"Grandis and Her First Love"
"Gurandisu no hatsukoi" (グランディスの初恋)  July 06, 1990
The Nautilus stops by an island for shore leave to take on new supplies. Humorous complications ensue as Jean accidentally stumbles into Nadia changing into her swimsuit (but they later go on a walk on the beach), Grandis and Electra get into a jealous rivalry for Nemo's love, while Nemo remains oblivious. While Jean goes off on a hunting expedition with Sanson and the others, Nadia bonds with Grandis as the latter explains about a tragic past. As a child, Grandis had grown into a wealthy family and was courted by a handsome man who turned out to be a swindler. She subsequently became obsessed with jewels, which explains why she was chasing after Nadia's Blue Water. But now that she has met Captain Nemo, she no longer sees Nadia's jewel as valuable. That night, the hunting party returns and Sanson throws down the main catch -- a murdered baby deer. Nadia is quite upset about this and leaves the camp. 
13
"Run, Marie, Run!"
"Hashire! Marī" (走れ！マリー)  July 13, 1990
Nadia is still angry with everyone over eating the deer, turning a deaf ear to Jean's attempts to reason with her. When Marie innocently states that she "made a grave for the baby deer", Nadia gives the little girl a nasty stare. Marie backs off. Together with King, Marie frolics around the island until she gets hopelessly lost -- and far away from camp. They soon discover that Neo-Atlanteans are also at the island and are chased. Marie and King become separated during this adventure. Pursued by a monstrous robotic giant with a mechanical claw, Marie is rescued by Sanson and they struggle to outrun the giant. After a thrilling chase on a mine cart, the pair barely returns to camp unscathed. The walker crashes after them and its pilot emerges from the cockpit, threatening to kill everyone. When the soldier almost shoots Nadia, Nemo takes his revolver and takes him down. Nadia is furious with Nemo for doing so, despite the latter insisting that a soldier was aiming at her. 
14
"The Valley of Dynicthus"
"Dinikuchisu no tani" (ディニクチスの谷)  July 20, 1990
As the Nautilus resumes its pursuit of Gargoyle, both Marie and Nadia become seriously ill from a tropical fever that will claim their lives in two days time if they are not cured. The only hope for a cure is in the depths of Reef 64. Alarmed to learn that Nadia is in danger, Nemo decides to change course, much to Electra's infuriation. Accompanied by Nemo, Jean, Sanson, Hanson, and King set off into a dangerous trek through the underwater domain of Reef 64. They find the herb in a cave situation on the opposite side of a cliff face. On their way back, however, they are attacked by a monstrous eel called a "Dinicthys." Jean and King bravely attempt to draw the Dinicthys away from their position by throwing their diving suits' lights into a void. Thanks to help from Nemo, they succeed, and the girls are cured. 
15
"The Nautilus Faces Its Biggest Crisis"
"Nōchirasu saidai no kiki" (ノーチラス最大の危機)  July 27, 1990
Several days later, the Nautilus falls into an even deadlier trap. First, mines drift into the submarine's intakes and disrupt its engines. Then torpedoes narrowly miss the submarine. A Garfish rams into its side, only to have its nose crippled, and the submarine drifts away, exploding. When the Nautilus attempts to surface, it is surrounded by the American fleet, commanded by vengeful Captain Melville, who has received an anonymous tip that the submarine is responsible for sinking the ships. (Naturally, the "source" of this information is Gargoyle.) The subsequent damage causes the Nautilus to drift to the bottom of the ocean. Because the American fleet wants to see them destroyed, the Nautilus is forced to stay underwater until the fleet departs. A brave sailor who had befriended Jean, Ensign Fait, is trapped inside an engine room poisoned by leaking gas, but Nemo orders the room sealed off so as to prevent further damage. Jean is crushed beyond grief as he painfully listens to his new friend die. 
16
"The Mystery of the Lost Continent"
"Kieta tairiku no himitsu" (消えた大陸の秘密)  August 24, 1990
To honor their fallen comrades, the Nautilus sets course for the underwater graveyard of Atlantis. On the way, Nadia begins to question everything that has happened and wonders why she was chosen to wield the Blue Water. Jean learns from Sonar Officer Eiko that the latter was a survivor on a French ship which was sunk by the Garfish. The boy is traumatically shocked when he adds that its captain is none other than his missing father. As the coffins are prepared for burial, Jean wanders off alone and throws away his wrench, deciding that he no longer wishes to invent if technology is so dangerous. Nadia is sad to see him so gloomy and tries to cheer him up. She succeeds by reminding him of the promise he made to her when they were in France. The episode ends when Fait and his comrades are laid to rest in the soil, with Nadia crying on Jean's shoulder. 
17
"Jean's New Invention"
"Jan no shin hatsumei" (ジャンの新発明)  August 31, 1990
Jean feels like the Nautilus crew is treating him like a kid and becomes eager to grow up. However, Nemo refuses to make him a crew member, while Electra, and the Grandis gang discourage him even further. Jean is at a loss, until Nadia offers that she has interest in flying again… "only in a craft built by Jean." Inspired, Jean decides to build another aircraft. He aspires to do so all by himself without the help of any grown-ups… a task that he finds more difficult than he anticipated when he can't get an engine to work. Even so, he refuses help from Hanson, straining his friendship with the latter. Later, however, Jean has a change of heart and decides to ask Hanson for help on making the finest aircraft he can. The aircraft is completed, and Jean takes Nadia on a joyous flight above the clouds. In doing so, he manages to impress Nadia and reassure her that he will get her to Africa someday. 
18
"Nautilus vs. Nautilus"
"Nōchirasu tai Nōchirasu-gō" (ノーチラス対ノーチラス号)  September 07, 1990
To repair the damage caused by the last attack from Gargoyle, Captain Nemo orders the Nautilus to set sail for Antarctica. The passengers are mortified by the thought, especially Sanson, who goes into an exaggerated tirade on what an unstably icy place Antarctica really is. Jean, however, is quite excited by the idea of traveling to a new place. When the submarine arrives at Antarctica, an ancient "shellfish" squid latches onto the Nautilus and threatens to destroy it. The Nautilus attempts to get rid of it by ramming into an iceberg, to no avail. They finally succeed in losing their menace by steering toward an explosive underwater volcano. Unable to endure the excruciating heat, the shellfish lets go and drifts away. The Nautilus then travels through a tunnel to its subterranean base. 
19
"Nemo's Best Friend"
"Nemo no shin'yū" (ネモの親友)  September 14, 1990
While repairs are made to the Nautilus, Nemo takes Jean and Nadia on a tour of his base. They discover wondrous sights -- a massive world tree, frozen dinosaurs, "moving" walkways, and a chamber filled with penguins. But the most spectacular sight of all is a massive (and ancient) whale named Irion, who happens to be close friends with Nemo. When Nadia speaks to the whale, he reveals that the latter will soon find her father… as well as her own brother. The children then witness a breathtaking aurora on the surface of Antarctica with Captain Nemo. The episode ends with Jean sharing his newest invention with Nadia and Marie -- a machine that creates ice cream, using the ice from Antarctica. 
20
"Jean Makes a Mistake"
"Jan no shippai" (ジャンの失敗)  September 21, 1990
Jean constructs another invention -- a miniature glider powered by a rocket for take off from the Nautilus's deck. Unfortunately, during the test flight, the engine backfires and the glider spirals out of control, finally exploding in the sky. The crew panics, fearing that Gargoyle will probably discover them because of this incident. Sure enough, they are proven right, because Nemo and the others are forced to take down more Garfish submarines. Afterwards, Nemo warns Jean to be more careful with his inventions. Nadia is infuriated to see Jean take Nemo's reprimand without the slightest impulse to stand up for himself, but she goes too far in trying to stand up for him and is slapped by Nemo, especially when she insults him and his crew. Furthermore, Nadia's burgeoning jealousy over Jean's friendship with Electra intensifies… until she finally learns from the latter that she is in no danger of losing Jean. Electra only considers Jean like a little brother she once lost years ago to an attack by an evil man. Nadia recognizes the murderer as Gargoyle, and begins to realize the error of her misjudgment. 
21
"Farewell Nautilus"
"Sayonara… Nōchirasu-gō" (さよなら…ノーチラス号)  October 26, 1990
Trapped in the Kermodec Trench by Gargoyle, the Nautilus barely survives a torpedo assault by six Garfish. Nemo retaliates with a torpedo attack that demolishes the fleet. But Gargoyle springs his newest ace: a super-charged, magnetic weapon called "SeaNet Beam Gun." With excruciating power it literally drags the Nautilus out of the ocean and draws it inexorably toward Gargoyle's Neo-Atlantean battleship in the sky. Then the Nautilus takes devastating damage from the battleship's "atomic vibrator", which all but compromises the submarine's power. Electra suggests self-destructing the Nautilus so as to take them all down with Gargoyle, but Grandis objects, stating that the "real" reason she's doing so is because she "wants to die with Captain Nemo because you know he will never love you!" The Grandis gang pretends to make a getaway in the Gratan but actually perform another heroic rescue by compromising the battleship's missile tube by blasting one of its annihilation bombs just before it hits the Nautilus. Furthermore, Jean rescues Nadia when the latter unwisely tries to surrender herself to Gargoyle (in order to stop the fighting) by using his spare glider, and the Nautilus engineers work manually launch their last missile, which destroys Gargoyle's deadly weapon. The compromised submarine splashes into the ocean and disappears underwater into a whirlpool. Gargoyle, knowing Nemo is doomed, orders another Garfish fleet to finish them off for good. 
22
"Electra the Traitor"
"Uragiri no Erekutora" (裏切りのエレクトラ)  November 02, 1990
To save themselves from being totally destroyed by the remaining Garfish fleet, the Nautilus severs its combat block from the main unit, which self-destructs, taking the enemy submarines with it. To save the children, Nemo relocates them to his personal cabin, warning that they will be jettisoned from the doomed Nautilus. Returning to the bridge, Nemo is confronted at gunpoint by Electra, who shoots his arm. Trapped in the cabin, Jean and Nadia listen in shock as Electra describes her tragic past. Thirteen years ago in the kingdom of Tartessos, Nemo's wife, the Queen, was killed in an attack by ruthless rebels led by Gargoyle and his puppet liege, Emperor Neo. Gargoyle attempted to unlock the Tower of Babel's ancient power, but Nemo put a stop to it by removing the Blue Water from its control device. The tower self-destructed and washed away all of Tartessos in seven days. Electra also lost her parents and little brother. Two nights later she was rescued by Nemo. She gradually fell in love with him… until she learned that the latter was responsible for the destruction of Tartessos and the deaths of the innocent people who lived there. Despite her grudge, however, Electra remained loyal to Nemo in mutual understanding of his goal to take down Neo-Atlantis. However, she admits that she was also jealous of Nadia, fearing that the latter would "steal Nemo's heart" away. It is at this point that Nadia realizes that Nemo is actually her father, much to her shock, and she begins to regret the way she treated him. Angry that Nemo has supposedly "gone back to being an ordinary father" and not sacrificing himself to stop Gargoyle, Electra has lost control and attempts to shoot Nemo again. But Nemo admits that he is merely fighting to atone for his sins and that he couldn't self-destruct the Nautilus because he cares about Electra and doesn't want to her to suffer the same fate. Ashamed and humiliated, Electra attempts to shoot herself, but Nemo stops her. He then releases the children from the crippled Nautilus, saying "Live, Nadia! Live!" 
23
"Young Drifters"
"Chīsana hyōryū-sha" (小さな漂流者)  November 09, 1990
Jean, Nadia, Marie, and King are shipwrecked and washed ashore on a beach that turns out to be a deserted island. After much discussion, they decide to stay and make it their home. 
24
"Lincoln Island"
"Rinkān shima" (リンカーン島)  November 16, 1990
Nadia rudely awakens Jean and Marie and takes charge, naming their new home "Lincoln Island" after the president of the same name. Then she abandons them and declares to “live with nature in the forest.” Unfortunately, surviving against nature without the benefits of Jean’s technology proves to be much more difficult than she expects. Indeed, her only method of finding food is to steal rations the children have taken from Nemo's cabin. Nadia almost drowns when she attempts to reclaim a hologram from Nemo's cabin, but Jean and Marie rescue her. Nadia is furious at both of them, however, because they have caught fish (she would rather have been saved by them). Marie calls Nadia out for her stubbornness, declaring they all would have starved to death otherwise. 
25
"The First Kiss"
"Hajimete no kisu" (はじめてのキス)  November 30, 1990
Because Nadia has stolen food from their camp, all they have left to eat is meat. Nadia refuses to cooperate and declares instead to starve. Later she becomes desperate and finds a can of spinach. Unfortunately the spinach is rotten and Nadia falls ill. Searching for a cure, Jean ends up in a cave where he becomes stoned by hallucinogenic mushrooms, causing him to fall into a trance. Later, Nadia gives Jean his first real kiss — not realizing that he is too delirious (as a result of the aforementioned mushrooms) to know about it. 
26
"King, the Lonely Lion"
"Hitoribotchi no Kingu" (ひとりぼっちのキング)  December 07, 1990
Nadia spends a whole day being romantic with Jean, culminating with another kiss under the stars -- until Jean thinks it's their first time, much to her infuriation. Jealous of the attention Nadia is giving Jean, King runs away (especially after Marie abuses him). When Jean sets off to find him, he steps off a cliff and falls to the ground, and has an extensive dream sequence in which he is unveiling invention after invention before an adoring Nadia and Marie. Among his inventions are a gravity bomb and another highly advanced flying machine (straight out of Thunderbirds). 
27
"The Island of the Witch"
"Majo no iru shima" (魔女のいる島)  December 14, 1990
A typhoon strikes Lincoln Island, and King is blown away into the night. In the aftermath of the storm, the children are surprised to discover a floating island drifting to their shore. When they explore the island -- which turns out to be a rather bizarre tropical paradise of trees of every sort, desert dunes, and shifting weathers, the children spot both King as well as Ayerton, who tells them crazy stories about the island and reveals he ended up ashore when the American Navy sunk the Nautilus. He warns them that there is a deep mystery at the heart of the island. 
28
"The Floating Island"
"Nagasare shima" (流され島)  December 21, 1990
A giant appears out of nowhere and terrorizes the companions… which turns out to be the Gratan disguised in cloth, and sure enough, Grandis, Sanson, and Hanson are there. The children decide to stay with their friends and are soon living together like a family. Nadia even tries to cook for Jean (perhaps to make amends for all the trouble she caused him). 
29
"King vs. King"
"Kingu tai Kingu" (キング対キング)  January 11, 1991
Sanson and Hanson get into an argument that turns into a race between two mechanical lions resembling King. In between this, Nadia finally reveals why she dislikes eating meat so much: years ago when she was in the circus, her friend Smoky, a goat, was taken away because he was too old to do anymore labor. The subsequent incident caused Nadia to understand what animals say. She adds that seeing people eat meat is like watching a friend being murdered. 
30
"Labyrinth in the Earth"
"Chitei no meiro" (地底の迷路)  January 25, 1991
Four months later, the Gratan has finally been repaired and the companions will soon set off for Africa. But first the balloon must be repaired. While Ayerton tries to seduce Grandis, Jean and Nadia make a remarkable discovery about their island home: there is an underground factory which resembles their former subaquatic home. While exploring, Nadia falls into a trance and mysteriously disappears behind a wall, leaving her clothes in Jean's hands. 
31
"Farewell Red Noah"
"Saraba, Reddo Noa" (さらば、レッドノア)  February 01, 1991
Trapped in a strange void, Nadia comes into contact with a mysterious voice who tells her that she is actually aboard Red Noah, a satellite city that descended to the depths of the ocean 2,400,000 years ago. Communicating with the mysterious identity, Nadia learns that she is, in fact, an heir to the throne of the Atlantis… and that she is not a human being. Furthermore, her real birthplace turns out to be Old Tartessos, the ancient kingdom Atlantis that was destroyed thirteen years ago. After learning about the history of her people, Nadia is told that she will be taken to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis to "guide the lost souls toward its restoration." The island begins to collapse and crumble, and the companions are forced to flee. But Jean stays behind and bravely returns to the same place where Nadia disappeared moments earlier, calling her name. Nadia realizes that Jean is more important to her than the Blue Water and is forced to admit it to the mysterious voice. Nadia is released, but warned that she cannot escape from her destiny, which is to rule over Atlantis, or use the power of the Blue Water to become a "god" or "devil." Nadia is overjoyed to see Jean and tearfully embraces him. The pair flee the cave and are almost swallowed up by the sinking island, but the Gratan comes to their rescue. Reunited, the companions watch as the island disappears into the ocean for good. 
32
"Nadia's Love...?"
"Nadia no hatsukoi" (ナディアの初恋)  February 08, 1991
The Gratan crash-lands into a tribal village, and the companions are captured… until one of its citizens recognizes both Nadia and her Blue Water. Nadia seems intrigued… that is, until she discovers that the warrior (who knows about Tartessos) is engaged to a bulky, strong warrior woman. 
33
"King's Rescue"
"Kingu kyūjo sakusen" (キング救助作戦)  February 15, 1991
King is captured by Grandis' ex-fiance, and the companions form a rescue operation to free him. 
34
"My Darling Nadia"
"Itoshi no Nadia" (いとしのナディア)  February 22, 1991
Most of this episode is a "clip show" featuring "image songs" accompanied by clips from the previous thirty-three episodes while Sanson suggests Jean to write a love song for Nadia. 
35
"The Secret of Blue Water"
"Burū Uōtā no himitsu" (ブルー・ウォーターの秘密)  March 01, 1991
Finally, the companions arrive at Tartessos, the ancient kingdom of Atlantis submerged to the bottom of a crater lake thirteen years ago. Exploring its ruins, Nadia reveals to the companions that they are, in truth, aboard Blue Noah, one of three "Noah's Arc" vessels that descended to the ocean thousands of years ago. The other two are Red Noah and Atlantis, respectively. During their exploration, Nadia reveals her identity as a princess of Atlantis and the dangers of the Blue Water. Whoever wields the pendant, it turns out, can either become god or devil… and destroy the world in a fit of rage. She also reveals that she doesn't want to have anything to do with her destiny and feels like she is a horrible person who brings nothing but misery to everyone. Impulsively, Nadia attempts suicide by stepping off the top of a tall tower. A few moments later she awakens to find herself on solid ground. Jean reveals that the Blue Water lit up during Nadia's fall and slowed her descent. Nadia laments that she cannot escape her fate after all. Everyone is shocked and traumatized by Nadia's latest actions, but Jean pacifies the situation by telling Nadia he loves her regardless of who she is, and forgives her past mistakes. Nadia is deeply touched by Jean's honesty, and learns that they have, in fact, arrived on her fifteenth birthday. 
36
"The New Nautilus"
"Ban'nō senkan N-Nōchirasu-gō" (万能戦艦Ν-ノーチラス号)  March 08, 1991
Gargoyle's Neo Atlantean battleships have trailed the companions to Tartessos. Nadia surrenders herself and the Blue Water to Gargoyle… but not before making the latter promise to spare her friends. Gargoyle goes back on his word anyway and orders his battleships to attack the companions. Jean and the others try to flee in the Gratan until they find themselves falling inexorably into a bottomless shaft. Just then, a mysterious force field snags the tank in mid-air and lands them safely on the ground. Their rescuer turns out to be none other than Electra, who informs them that Captain Nemo is still alive and well. She takes the companions aboard New Nautilus, a super-charged massive battleship with powerful electromagnetic turrets. However, the confrontation between Nemo and Gargoyle does not go well, and results with the captain reluctantly surrendering his own Blue Water to his enemy. Gargoyle then destroys Tartessos with a powerful blast and takes Nadia into the skies. 
37
"Emperor Neo"
"Neo kōtei" (ネオ皇帝)  March 29, 1991
Nadia is brought aboard Red Noah again, this time as it hovers in the sky, dwarfing even Gargoyle's battleships. There Gargoyle shows Nadia the ancient history of Atlantis, including an experimental massive "human" called Adam, and failed creations hovering in jars. She also meets Emperor Neo, who turns out to be none other than her long-lost brother -- a mechanical puppet under Gargoyle's control. Meanwhile, the New Nautilus has survived the destruction of Tartessos and sets off to fight back. Neo threatens the people around the world to surrender England, but just as the weapon fires, the New Nautilus intervenes, and the two crafts are face to face. 
38
"...To the Sky"
"Uchū (sora) e…" (宇宙（そら）へ…)  April 05, 1991
Both Red Noah and New Nautilus exchange laser fire and turret blasts in the sky. The subsequent battle causes much damage to the streets of Paris, destroying the Eiffel Tower. Eventually both crafts elevate to outer space. However, New Nautilus cannot take down Red Noah because the latter's powerful force field is still intact. Breaching a hole in Red Noah 's defenses, the Nautilus sends the Gratan into Red Noah. Grandis, Sanson, and Hanson traverse through the spaceship's corridors, cutting holes in the bulkheads with the tank's newly installed laser turrets. After a long chase they discover Red Noah 's power plant and sacrifice the Gratan to take down Red Noah 's barrier. New Nautilus breaches Red Noah, and Nemo, Electra, and Jean confront Gargoyle in a massive, observatory like chamber. Standing on pedestals more than two meters wide and a hundred meters above the floor, the trio is horrified to discover that Nadia is now under Gargoyle's control. 
39
"Successor to the Stars"
"Hoshiwotsugumono…" (星を継ぐ者…)  April 12, 1991
Both Neo and Nadia shoot Nemo, wounding him. Electra radios the New Nautilus to blast through the throne room. The subsequent explosion compromises Gargoyle's hold on Neo, who recognizes his father. Using his powers, Neo returns the Blue Waters to their rightful owners and approaches Nadia in order to break the crown that is controlling her mind. Just when he reaches the throne, however, he freezes -- Gargoyle has unplugged his source of energy. Using all his will, Neo breaks through and succeeds in freeing his sister. In doing so, he sacrifices himself. Then Gargoyle tortures Electra with deadly volts and causes Jean to fall to his death. The New Nautilus breaches the throne room and blasts at Gargoyle. Nemo gives Nadia his own Blue Water and explains that she can revive Jean if she prays to the Blue Water. With encouragement from Grandis and Electra, Nadia combines both Blue Waters, and its powers form a sphere of light. Ignoring Nemo's warning that only an Atlantean can withstand the power of the Blue Water, Gargoyle staggers toward the sphere and touches it… and his own being literally turns into salt and disintegrates -- he was a human being all along. Nadia successfully brings Jean back to life. Nemo then sacrifices himself to destroy Red Noah as the companions return to Earth aboard an all new submarine spaceship. Twelve years later, a grown Marie talks about how the companions have gone their separate ways: Grandis is single, Hanson a wealthy businessman, Electra a mother, and Jean and Nadia are happily married. Meanwhile, Marie has married Sanson and is expecting her firstborn child. 
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List of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water episodes
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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (ふしぎの海のナディア Fushigi no Umi no Nadia?, lit. "Nadia of the Mysterious Seas") is a Japanese animated television series inspired by the works of Jules Verne, particularly Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and the exploits of Captain Nemo. The series was created by NHK, Toho and Korad, from a concept of Hayao Miyazaki, and directed by Hideaki Anno of Gainax.
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water follows a young inventor named Jean and a former circus performer named Nadia, who wishes to return to her home in Africa.
In its original Japanese broadcast, it aired from 1990 to 1991 and ran for 39 episodes, and was distributed by ADV Films in the United States. ADV's Anime Network has broadcast the series in the United States. Following the 2009 closure of ADV, Sentai Filmworks re-licensed the anime series, which was re-released on Blu-ray and DVD in March 2014.
Episodes[edit]

Episode number
Title
Original air date

01
"The Girl at the Eiffel Tower"
"Efferutō no shōjo" (エッフェル塔の少女)  April 13, 1990
It is the first day of the Paris World Exposition in 1899. Jean Rocque Raltique, a brilliant young inventor, arrives at the fair to participate in a flying contest with his uncle. He is distracted, however, when he notices a mysterious dark-skinned girl pass by on a bicycle. Jean follows the girl, known as Nadia, to the Eiffel Tower and tries to make friends with her, but she acts cold and aloof. Just then, three bandits -- Grandis Granva, a fiery-tempered woman and her two sidekicks, vain, arrogant Sanson, and pudgy, nerdy Hanson -- appear and attempt to kidnap Nadia, but she escapes. Jean later finds Nadia performing at a circus across town and is instantly smitten with her performance. At the end of the show, the Grandis gang appear and take Nadia from her (unsympathetic) ringmaster through bribery and pretending to be her sister. After a wild chase, Jean rescues Nadia and earns her trust. Learning she has no place to go, he decides to take his new friend to his home in Le Havre. 
02
"The Little Fugitives"
"Chīsana tōbō-sha" (小さな逃亡者)  April 20, 1990
Using one of his inventions -- a boat that can shift into an automatic hydrofoil ship -- Jean successfully makes another escape from the Grandis gang, who are pursuing the pair in their multi-purpose tank, the Gratan. He takes Nadia to his aunt's house in Le Havre, but his grumpy, dour Auntie refuses to take Nadia in. Jean decides to take Nadia to his workshop in Le Havre, and she spends the night there. All the while, Jean learns from Nadia that she wishes to return to the country where she was born. Unfortunately, she has no idea where it is, but her pet lion King suspects it might be in Africa. Jean decides to take Nadia there himself using his all-new aircraft, and they make yet another escape from the Grandis gang. They do not get far, however, when the plane engine falters and the crafts plummets into the ocean. 
03
"The Riddle of the Giant Sea Monsters"
"Nazo no daikaijū" (謎の大海獣)  April 27, 1990
Jean, Nadia, and King are rescued from the ocean by a passing American battleship called the Abraham. Its captain, Melville, and his first mate Holland, are on the trail of a supposed "sea monster" responsible for sinking countless ships in the Pacific Ocean. Jean is intrigued to be aboard the vessel, but Nadia is gravely suspicious. While on the ship, they also meet Ayerton Grenavan, a flamboyant "scientist" who claims to be funding the pursuit. That night, the Abraham is attacked by a mysterious and dangerous presence. A torpedo finally strikes the Abraham, causing Jean, Nadia, King, and their aircraft to be thrown overboard into the ocean again. 
04
"Nautilus, The Fantastic Submarine"
"Ban'nō sensuikan Nōchirasu-gō" (万能潜水艦ノーチラス号)  May 04, 1990
Adrift on the ocean, Jean, Nadia, and King are once again rescued by another vessel — a mysterious submarine commanded by Captain Nemo and his first officer, Electra. The children are kept aboard the submarine for three days while Nemo and his command crew pursue an enemy submarine (the same "sea monster" that wrecked the Abraham). Eventually, Jean, Nadia, and King are released from the submarine and they set off into the sky on Jean's newly revamped aircraft. Before leaving, the children learn that the submarine is known as the Nautilus. 
05
"Marie's Island"
"Marī no shima" (マリーの島)  May 11, 1990
While airborne, Jean, Nadia, and King are shot down from the skies and crash-land onto an unfamiliar island. There, they rescue a lonely little girl named Marie, who tells them that her parents have been shot down by a murderous army of masked soldiers. Soon the children are forced to flee from the same soldiers. Marie takes her new "guardians" to a secluded cave containing blankets and supplies. That night, Jean and Nadia bury Marie's fallen parents and tearfully confess to the latter that her parents are dead. Meanwhile, the Grandis gang, having washed up on the island themselves, are taken captive by the soldiers and taken to a shadowy base where they are questioned by the soldiers' commander about the Blue Water, Nadia's pendant. 
06
"Infiltration of the Secret Base"
"Kotō no yōsai" (孤島の要塞)  May 18, 1990
Investigating the island, Jean discovers a trail of power lines leading to a power plant situated in a deep crater at the center of the island. He also witnesses an escaping villager brutally killed by the pursuing soldiers. The next day, Marie and King wander outside the cave to collect flowers (Jean and Nadia debating about their next move -- should they rescue the people on the island or not?) and are captured by the soldiers. Jean and Nadia follow them to the crater and find themselves in a complex of factories, where the villagers are forced to work as slaves. They also recognize the "sea monster" as another submarine, known as the Garfish, operated by the soldiers' ruthless ringleader, Gargoyle. While Gargoyle investigates a powerful artifact needed to complete his secret weapon, Nadia's Blue Water is accidentally set off, forcing the children to escape from the factories. To save Jean from being killed, Nadia gives him the Blue Water and turns herself in. Jean promises to rescue her. 
07
"The Tower of Babel"
"Baberu no tō" (バベルの塔)  May 25, 1990
Captured by the soldiers (also known as the Neo Atlanteans), Nadia is taken before Gargoyle, who implies that he has known Nadia since she was a baby. He demands his captive to reveal the whereabouts of the Blue Water. When Nadia refuses to obey, Gargoyle threatens to kill both Marie and King. With no choice, Nadia reluctantly admits that Jean has it. The soldiers begin to search the complex for Jean, while the Grandis gang decides to escape. Both sides inadvertently come across each other when they board a freight train bound for Gargoyle's castle. Gargoyle tours Nadia around the compound and introduces its center — a spiral tower known as Babel, which can obliterate anything in its path. That evening he forces Nadia to witness the tower's awesome powers as it demolishes an island in the distance. Out at sea, Captain Nemo sees the same explosion and declares that Gargoyle has "finally released the great abomination." 
08
"Mission to Rescue Nadia"
"Nadia kyūshutsu sakusen" (ナディア救出作戦)  June 01, 1990
In an unexpected turn of events, Jean joins forces with the Grandis gang to infiltrate the compound and rescue Nadia. They almost succeed… until Gargoyle's submarine, Garfish corners them at the intake point. Just when it all looks hopeless, the Nautilus rises from the ocean and attacks the Garfish, allowing the companions to make their escape. In the end, Gargoyle attempts to fight back using the Tower of Babel… but it demolishes his compound instead. The islanders are freed, but Gargoyle makes his getaway on a dirigible. 
09
"Nemo's Secret"
"Nemo no himitsu" (ネモの秘密)  June 08, 1990
The companions are taken aboard the Nautilus by Captain Nemo in gratitude for their bravery against Gargoyle, and to repair the damage the Gratan has taken. Jean and Hanson are thrilled to be aboard the Nautilus because they are intrigued by its technology and wonders, but nobody shares their enthusiasm. Grandis catches a cold and is treated by the doctor. When Captain Nemo and Electra stop by medical bay to check on the sick patient, Grandis falls hopelessly in love with Nemo… much to the dismay of Sanson and Hanson. Later, Nemo crosses paths with Nadia for the first time and acts quite surprised when he sees her… and her Blue Water. It turns out that Nemo happens to have a Blue Water of his own -- a larger one with a missing indent. 
10
"A Crowning Performance by the Gratan"
"Guratan no katsuyaku" (グラタンの活躍)  June 15, 1990
The Nautilus pursues Gargoyle through the LeMar Straits until it runs into a dangerous trap. The submarine is surrounded on all sides by a field of mines, which can be triggered should the underwater current shifts or if the submarine dares to move. In a race against time, Grandis, Sanson, and Hanson propose to use their Gratan to take out three of the mines so that the Nautilus can safely escape from Gargoyle's trap. However, Sanson knocks Grandis out, fearing for her safety. He and Hanson set aboard the Gratan and begin their mission, but the tank begins to malfunction. Jean, who has sneaked aboard the tank, helps the pair as best as he can, but soon the Gratan's underwater camera shatters, leaving the Gratan blind. With Grandis communicating from the Nautilus bridge, the trio barely manages to succeed and save the submarine from a deadly fate. 
11
"New Recruits for the Nautilus"
"Nōchirasu-gō no shin'nyūsei" (ノーチラス号の新入生)  June 22, 1990
Jean, Nadia, and the others are appointed as apprentice crew members aboard the Nautilus, each assigned to a different position. Jean, Sanson, and Hanson are given lessons by Sonar Officer Eiko Villan about the Nautilus, Marie and King are schooled by Electra (much to the little girl's infuriation), while Grandis and Nadia work in the rather extraordinary kitchen. Grandis tries to impress Nemo by cooking a (rather ugly) platter of fish, but things don't go as she expects. Later, King snatches Grandis' own dinner and there is a wild chase which results with King ending up in the Nautilus's forbidden engine room. When Jean retrieves him, Nemo explains that the Nautilus is powered by a particle annihilation engine that could potentially take them up to the stars… but also destroy the world if used improperly. 
12
"Grandis and Her First Love"
"Gurandisu no hatsukoi" (グランディスの初恋)  July 06, 1990
The Nautilus stops by an island for shore leave to take on new supplies. Humorous complications ensue as Jean accidentally stumbles into Nadia changing into her swimsuit (but they later go on a walk on the beach), Grandis and Electra get into a jealous rivalry for Nemo's love, while Nemo remains oblivious. While Jean goes off on a hunting expedition with Sanson and the others, Nadia bonds with Grandis as the latter explains about a tragic past. As a child, Grandis had grown into a wealthy family and was courted by a handsome man who turned out to be a swindler. She subsequently became obsessed with jewels, which explains why she was chasing after Nadia's Blue Water. But now that she has met Captain Nemo, she no longer sees Nadia's jewel as valuable. That night, the hunting party returns and Sanson throws down the main catch -- a murdered baby deer. Nadia is quite upset about this and leaves the camp. 
13
"Run, Marie, Run!"
"Hashire! Marī" (走れ！マリー)  July 13, 1990
Nadia is still angry with everyone over eating the deer, turning a deaf ear to Jean's attempts to reason with her. When Marie innocently states that she "made a grave for the baby deer", Nadia gives the little girl a nasty stare. Marie backs off. Together with King, Marie frolics around the island until she gets hopelessly lost -- and far away from camp. They soon discover that Neo-Atlanteans are also at the island and are chased. Marie and King become separated during this adventure. Pursued by a monstrous robotic giant with a mechanical claw, Marie is rescued by Sanson and they struggle to outrun the giant. After a thrilling chase on a mine cart, the pair barely returns to camp unscathed. The walker crashes after them and its pilot emerges from the cockpit, threatening to kill everyone. When the soldier almost shoots Nadia, Nemo takes his revolver and takes him down. Nadia is furious with Nemo for doing so, despite the latter insisting that a soldier was aiming at her. 
14
"The Valley of Dynicthus"
"Dinikuchisu no tani" (ディニクチスの谷)  July 20, 1990
As the Nautilus resumes its pursuit of Gargoyle, both Marie and Nadia become seriously ill from a tropical fever that will claim their lives in two days time if they are not cured. The only hope for a cure is in the depths of Reef 64. Alarmed to learn that Nadia is in danger, Nemo decides to change course, much to Electra's infuriation. Accompanied by Nemo, Jean, Sanson, Hanson, and King set off into a dangerous trek through the underwater domain of Reef 64. They find the herb in a cave situation on the opposite side of a cliff face. On their way back, however, they are attacked by a monstrous eel called a "Dinicthys." Jean and King bravely attempt to draw the Dinicthys away from their position by throwing their diving suits' lights into a void. Thanks to help from Nemo, they succeed, and the girls are cured. 
15
"The Nautilus Faces Its Biggest Crisis"
"Nōchirasu saidai no kiki" (ノーチラス最大の危機)  July 27, 1990
Several days later, the Nautilus falls into an even deadlier trap. First, mines drift into the submarine's intakes and disrupt its engines. Then torpedoes narrowly miss the submarine. A Garfish rams into its side, only to have its nose crippled, and the submarine drifts away, exploding. When the Nautilus attempts to surface, it is surrounded by the American fleet, commanded by vengeful Captain Melville, who has received an anonymous tip that the submarine is responsible for sinking the ships. (Naturally, the "source" of this information is Gargoyle.) The subsequent damage causes the Nautilus to drift to the bottom of the ocean. Because the American fleet wants to see them destroyed, the Nautilus is forced to stay underwater until the fleet departs. A brave sailor who had befriended Jean, Ensign Fait, is trapped inside an engine room poisoned by leaking gas, but Nemo orders the room sealed off so as to prevent further damage. Jean is crushed beyond grief as he painfully listens to his new friend die. 
16
"The Mystery of the Lost Continent"
"Kieta tairiku no himitsu" (消えた大陸の秘密)  August 24, 1990
To honor their fallen comrades, the Nautilus sets course for the underwater graveyard of Atlantis. On the way, Nadia begins to question everything that has happened and wonders why she was chosen to wield the Blue Water. Jean learns from Sonar Officer Eiko that the latter was a survivor on a French ship which was sunk by the Garfish. The boy is traumatically shocked when he adds that its captain is none other than his missing father. As the coffins are prepared for burial, Jean wanders off alone and throws away his wrench, deciding that he no longer wishes to invent if technology is so dangerous. Nadia is sad to see him so gloomy and tries to cheer him up. She succeeds by reminding him of the promise he made to her when they were in France. The episode ends when Fait and his comrades are laid to rest in the soil, with Nadia crying on Jean's shoulder. 
17
"Jean's New Invention"
"Jan no shin hatsumei" (ジャンの新発明)  August 31, 1990
Jean feels like the Nautilus crew is treating him like a kid and becomes eager to grow up. However, Nemo refuses to make him a crew member, while Electra, and the Grandis gang discourage him even further. Jean is at a loss, until Nadia offers that she has interest in flying again… "only in a craft built by Jean." Inspired, Jean decides to build another aircraft. He aspires to do so all by himself without the help of any grown-ups… a task that he finds more difficult than he anticipated when he can't get an engine to work. Even so, he refuses help from Hanson, straining his friendship with the latter. Later, however, Jean has a change of heart and decides to ask Hanson for help on making the finest aircraft he can. The aircraft is completed, and Jean takes Nadia on a joyous flight above the clouds. In doing so, he manages to impress Nadia and reassure her that he will get her to Africa someday. 
18
"Nautilus vs. Nautilus"
"Nōchirasu tai Nōchirasu-gō" (ノーチラス対ノーチラス号)  September 07, 1990
To repair the damage caused by the last attack from Gargoyle, Captain Nemo orders the Nautilus to set sail for Antarctica. The passengers are mortified by the thought, especially Sanson, who goes into an exaggerated tirade on what an unstably icy place Antarctica really is. Jean, however, is quite excited by the idea of traveling to a new place. When the submarine arrives at Antarctica, an ancient "shellfish" squid latches onto the Nautilus and threatens to destroy it. The Nautilus attempts to get rid of it by ramming into an iceberg, to no avail. They finally succeed in losing their menace by steering toward an explosive underwater volcano. Unable to endure the excruciating heat, the shellfish lets go and drifts away. The Nautilus then travels through a tunnel to its subterranean base. 
19
"Nemo's Best Friend"
"Nemo no shin'yū" (ネモの親友)  September 14, 1990
While repairs are made to the Nautilus, Nemo takes Jean and Nadia on a tour of his base. They discover wondrous sights -- a massive world tree, frozen dinosaurs, "moving" walkways, and a chamber filled with penguins. But the most spectacular sight of all is a massive (and ancient) whale named Irion, who happens to be close friends with Nemo. When Nadia speaks to the whale, he reveals that the latter will soon find her father… as well as her own brother. The children then witness a breathtaking aurora on the surface of Antarctica with Captain Nemo. The episode ends with Jean sharing his newest invention with Nadia and Marie -- a machine that creates ice cream, using the ice from Antarctica. 
20
"Jean Makes a Mistake"
"Jan no shippai" (ジャンの失敗)  September 21, 1990
Jean constructs another invention -- a miniature glider powered by a rocket for take off from the Nautilus's deck. Unfortunately, during the test flight, the engine backfires and the glider spirals out of control, finally exploding in the sky. The crew panics, fearing that Gargoyle will probably discover them because of this incident. Sure enough, they are proven right, because Nemo and the others are forced to take down more Garfish submarines. Afterwards, Nemo warns Jean to be more careful with his inventions. Nadia is infuriated to see Jean take Nemo's reprimand without the slightest impulse to stand up for himself, but she goes too far in trying to stand up for him and is slapped by Nemo, especially when she insults him and his crew. Furthermore, Nadia's burgeoning jealousy over Jean's friendship with Electra intensifies… until she finally learns from the latter that she is in no danger of losing Jean. Electra only considers Jean like a little brother she once lost years ago to an attack by an evil man. Nadia recognizes the murderer as Gargoyle, and begins to realize the error of her misjudgment. 
21
"Farewell Nautilus"
"Sayonara… Nōchirasu-gō" (さよなら…ノーチラス号)  October 26, 1990
Trapped in the Kermodec Trench by Gargoyle, the Nautilus barely survives a torpedo assault by six Garfish. Nemo retaliates with a torpedo attack that demolishes the fleet. But Gargoyle springs his newest ace: a super-charged, magnetic weapon called "SeaNet Beam Gun." With excruciating power it literally drags the Nautilus out of the ocean and draws it inexorably toward Gargoyle's Neo-Atlantean battleship in the sky. Then the Nautilus takes devastating damage from the battleship's "atomic vibrator", which all but compromises the submarine's power. Electra suggests self-destructing the Nautilus so as to take them all down with Gargoyle, but Grandis objects, stating that the "real" reason she's doing so is because she "wants to die with Captain Nemo because you know he will never love you!" The Grandis gang pretends to make a getaway in the Gratan but actually perform another heroic rescue by compromising the battleship's missile tube by blasting one of its annihilation bombs just before it hits the Nautilus. Furthermore, Jean rescues Nadia when the latter unwisely tries to surrender herself to Gargoyle (in order to stop the fighting) by using his spare glider, and the Nautilus engineers work manually launch their last missile, which destroys Gargoyle's deadly weapon. The compromised submarine splashes into the ocean and disappears underwater into a whirlpool. Gargoyle, knowing Nemo is doomed, orders another Garfish fleet to finish them off for good. 
22
"Electra the Traitor"
"Uragiri no Erekutora" (裏切りのエレクトラ)  November 02, 1990
To save themselves from being totally destroyed by the remaining Garfish fleet, the Nautilus severs its combat block from the main unit, which self-destructs, taking the enemy submarines with it. To save the children, Nemo relocates them to his personal cabin, warning that they will be jettisoned from the doomed Nautilus. Returning to the bridge, Nemo is confronted at gunpoint by Electra, who shoots his arm. Trapped in the cabin, Jean and Nadia listen in shock as Electra describes her tragic past. Thirteen years ago in the kingdom of Tartessos, Nemo's wife, the Queen, was killed in an attack by ruthless rebels led by Gargoyle and his puppet liege, Emperor Neo. Gargoyle attempted to unlock the Tower of Babel's ancient power, but Nemo put a stop to it by removing the Blue Water from its control device. The tower self-destructed and washed away all of Tartessos in seven days. Electra also lost her parents and little brother. Two nights later she was rescued by Nemo. She gradually fell in love with him… until she learned that the latter was responsible for the destruction of Tartessos and the deaths of the innocent people who lived there. Despite her grudge, however, Electra remained loyal to Nemo in mutual understanding of his goal to take down Neo-Atlantis. However, she admits that she was also jealous of Nadia, fearing that the latter would "steal Nemo's heart" away. It is at this point that Nadia realizes that Nemo is actually her father, much to her shock, and she begins to regret the way she treated him. Angry that Nemo has supposedly "gone back to being an ordinary father" and not sacrificing himself to stop Gargoyle, Electra has lost control and attempts to shoot Nemo again. But Nemo admits that he is merely fighting to atone for his sins and that he couldn't self-destruct the Nautilus because he cares about Electra and doesn't want to her to suffer the same fate. Ashamed and humiliated, Electra attempts to shoot herself, but Nemo stops her. He then releases the children from the crippled Nautilus, saying "Live, Nadia! Live!" 
23
"Young Drifters"
"Chīsana hyōryū-sha" (小さな漂流者)  November 09, 1990
Jean, Nadia, Marie, and King are shipwrecked and washed ashore on a beach that turns out to be a deserted island. After much discussion, they decide to stay and make it their home. 
24
"Lincoln Island"
"Rinkān shima" (リンカーン島)  November 16, 1990
Nadia rudely awakens Jean and Marie and takes charge, naming their new home "Lincoln Island" after the president of the same name. Then she abandons them and declares to “live with nature in the forest.” Unfortunately, surviving against nature without the benefits of Jean’s technology proves to be much more difficult than she expects. Indeed, her only method of finding food is to steal rations the children have taken from Nemo's cabin. Nadia almost drowns when she attempts to reclaim a hologram from Nemo's cabin, but Jean and Marie rescue her. Nadia is furious at both of them, however, because they have caught fish (she would rather have been saved by them). Marie calls Nadia out for her stubbornness, declaring they all would have starved to death otherwise. 
25
"The First Kiss"
"Hajimete no kisu" (はじめてのキス)  November 30, 1990
Because Nadia has stolen food from their camp, all they have left to eat is meat. Nadia refuses to cooperate and declares instead to starve. Later she becomes desperate and finds a can of spinach. Unfortunately the spinach is rotten and Nadia falls ill. Searching for a cure, Jean ends up in a cave where he becomes stoned by hallucinogenic mushrooms, causing him to fall into a trance. Later, Nadia gives Jean his first real kiss — not realizing that he is too delirious (as a result of the aforementioned mushrooms) to know about it. 
26
"King, the Lonely Lion"
"Hitoribotchi no Kingu" (ひとりぼっちのキング)  December 07, 1990
Nadia spends a whole day being romantic with Jean, culminating with another kiss under the stars -- until Jean thinks it's their first time, much to her infuriation. Jealous of the attention Nadia is giving Jean, King runs away (especially after Marie abuses him). When Jean sets off to find him, he steps off a cliff and falls to the ground, and has an extensive dream sequence in which he is unveiling invention after invention before an adoring Nadia and Marie. Among his inventions are a gravity bomb and another highly advanced flying machine (straight out of Thunderbirds). 
27
"The Island of the Witch"
"Majo no iru shima" (魔女のいる島)  December 14, 1990
A typhoon strikes Lincoln Island, and King is blown away into the night. In the aftermath of the storm, the children are surprised to discover a floating island drifting to their shore. When they explore the island -- which turns out to be a rather bizarre tropical paradise of trees of every sort, desert dunes, and shifting weathers, the children spot both King as well as Ayerton, who tells them crazy stories about the island and reveals he ended up ashore when the American Navy sunk the Nautilus. He warns them that there is a deep mystery at the heart of the island. 
28
"The Floating Island"
"Nagasare shima" (流され島)  December 21, 1990
A giant appears out of nowhere and terrorizes the companions… which turns out to be the Gratan disguised in cloth, and sure enough, Grandis, Sanson, and Hanson are there. The children decide to stay with their friends and are soon living together like a family. Nadia even tries to cook for Jean (perhaps to make amends for all the trouble she caused him). 
29
"King vs. King"
"Kingu tai Kingu" (キング対キング)  January 11, 1991
Sanson and Hanson get into an argument that turns into a race between two mechanical lions resembling King. In between this, Nadia finally reveals why she dislikes eating meat so much: years ago when she was in the circus, her friend Smoky, a goat, was taken away because he was too old to do anymore labor. The subsequent incident caused Nadia to understand what animals say. She adds that seeing people eat meat is like watching a friend being murdered. 
30
"Labyrinth in the Earth"
"Chitei no meiro" (地底の迷路)  January 25, 1991
Four months later, the Gratan has finally been repaired and the companions will soon set off for Africa. But first the balloon must be repaired. While Ayerton tries to seduce Grandis, Jean and Nadia make a remarkable discovery about their island home: there is an underground factory which resembles their former subaquatic home. While exploring, Nadia falls into a trance and mysteriously disappears behind a wall, leaving her clothes in Jean's hands. 
31
"Farewell Red Noah"
"Saraba, Reddo Noa" (さらば、レッドノア)  February 01, 1991
Trapped in a strange void, Nadia comes into contact with a mysterious voice who tells her that she is actually aboard Red Noah, a satellite city that descended to the depths of the ocean 2,400,000 years ago. Communicating with the mysterious identity, Nadia learns that she is, in fact, an heir to the throne of the Atlantis… and that she is not a human being. Furthermore, her real birthplace turns out to be Old Tartessos, the ancient kingdom Atlantis that was destroyed thirteen years ago. After learning about the history of her people, Nadia is told that she will be taken to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis to "guide the lost souls toward its restoration." The island begins to collapse and crumble, and the companions are forced to flee. But Jean stays behind and bravely returns to the same place where Nadia disappeared moments earlier, calling her name. Nadia realizes that Jean is more important to her than the Blue Water and is forced to admit it to the mysterious voice. Nadia is released, but warned that she cannot escape from her destiny, which is to rule over Atlantis, or use the power of the Blue Water to become a "god" or "devil." Nadia is overjoyed to see Jean and tearfully embraces him. The pair flee the cave and are almost swallowed up by the sinking island, but the Gratan comes to their rescue. Reunited, the companions watch as the island disappears into the ocean for good. 
32
"Nadia's Love...?"
"Nadia no hatsukoi" (ナディアの初恋)  February 08, 1991
The Gratan crash-lands into a tribal village, and the companions are captured… until one of its citizens recognizes both Nadia and her Blue Water. Nadia seems intrigued… that is, until she discovers that the warrior (who knows about Tartessos) is engaged to a bulky, strong warrior woman. 
33
"King's Rescue"
"Kingu kyūjo sakusen" (キング救助作戦)  February 15, 1991
King is captured by Grandis' ex-fiance, and the companions form a rescue operation to free him. 
34
"My Darling Nadia"
"Itoshi no Nadia" (いとしのナディア)  February 22, 1991
Most of this episode is a "clip show" featuring "image songs" accompanied by clips from the previous thirty-three episodes while Sanson suggests Jean to write a love song for Nadia. 
35
"The Secret of Blue Water"
"Burū Uōtā no himitsu" (ブルー・ウォーターの秘密)  March 01, 1991
Finally, the companions arrive at Tartessos, the ancient kingdom of Atlantis submerged to the bottom of a crater lake thirteen years ago. Exploring its ruins, Nadia reveals to the companions that they are, in truth, aboard Blue Noah, one of three "Noah's Arc" vessels that descended to the ocean thousands of years ago. The other two are Red Noah and Atlantis, respectively. During their exploration, Nadia reveals her identity as a princess of Atlantis and the dangers of the Blue Water. Whoever wields the pendant, it turns out, can either become god or devil… and destroy the world in a fit of rage. She also reveals that she doesn't want to have anything to do with her destiny and feels like she is a horrible person who brings nothing but misery to everyone. Impulsively, Nadia attempts suicide by stepping off the top of a tall tower. A few moments later she awakens to find herself on solid ground. Jean reveals that the Blue Water lit up during Nadia's fall and slowed her descent. Nadia laments that she cannot escape her fate after all. Everyone is shocked and traumatized by Nadia's latest actions, but Jean pacifies the situation by telling Nadia he loves her regardless of who she is, and forgives her past mistakes. Nadia is deeply touched by Jean's honesty, and learns that they have, in fact, arrived on her fifteenth birthday. 
36
"The New Nautilus"
"Ban'nō senkan N-Nōchirasu-gō" (万能戦艦Ν-ノーチラス号)  March 08, 1991
Gargoyle's Neo Atlantean battleships have trailed the companions to Tartessos. Nadia surrenders herself and the Blue Water to Gargoyle… but not before making the latter promise to spare her friends. Gargoyle goes back on his word anyway and orders his battleships to attack the companions. Jean and the others try to flee in the Gratan until they find themselves falling inexorably into a bottomless shaft. Just then, a mysterious force field snags the tank in mid-air and lands them safely on the ground. Their rescuer turns out to be none other than Electra, who informs them that Captain Nemo is still alive and well. She takes the companions aboard New Nautilus, a super-charged massive battleship with powerful electromagnetic turrets. However, the confrontation between Nemo and Gargoyle does not go well, and results with the captain reluctantly surrendering his own Blue Water to his enemy. Gargoyle then destroys Tartessos with a powerful blast and takes Nadia into the skies. 
37
"Emperor Neo"
"Neo kōtei" (ネオ皇帝)  March 29, 1991
Nadia is brought aboard Red Noah again, this time as it hovers in the sky, dwarfing even Gargoyle's battleships. There Gargoyle shows Nadia the ancient history of Atlantis, including an experimental massive "human" called Adam, and failed creations hovering in jars. She also meets Emperor Neo, who turns out to be none other than her long-lost brother -- a mechanical puppet under Gargoyle's control. Meanwhile, the New Nautilus has survived the destruction of Tartessos and sets off to fight back. Neo threatens the people around the world to surrender England, but just as the weapon fires, the New Nautilus intervenes, and the two crafts are face to face. 
38
"...To the Sky"
"Uchū (sora) e…" (宇宙（そら）へ…)  April 05, 1991
Both Red Noah and New Nautilus exchange laser fire and turret blasts in the sky. The subsequent battle causes much damage to the streets of Paris, destroying the Eiffel Tower. Eventually both crafts elevate to outer space. However, New Nautilus cannot take down Red Noah because the latter's powerful force field is still intact. Breaching a hole in Red Noah 's defenses, the Nautilus sends the Gratan into Red Noah. Grandis, Sanson, and Hanson traverse through the spaceship's corridors, cutting holes in the bulkheads with the tank's newly installed laser turrets. After a long chase they discover Red Noah 's power plant and sacrifice the Gratan to take down Red Noah 's barrier. New Nautilus breaches Red Noah, and Nemo, Electra, and Jean confront Gargoyle in a massive, observatory like chamber. Standing on pedestals more than two meters wide and a hundred meters above the floor, the trio is horrified to discover that Nadia is now under Gargoyle's control. 
39
"Successor to the Stars"
"Hoshiwotsugumono…" (星を継ぐ者…)  April 12, 1991
Both Neo and Nadia shoot Nemo, wounding him. Electra radios the New Nautilus to blast through the throne room. The subsequent explosion compromises Gargoyle's hold on Neo, who recognizes his father. Using his powers, Neo returns the Blue Waters to their rightful owners and approaches Nadia in order to break the crown that is controlling her mind. Just when he reaches the throne, however, he freezes -- Gargoyle has unplugged his source of energy. Using all his will, Neo breaks through and succeeds in freeing his sister. In doing so, he sacrifices himself. Then Gargoyle tortures Electra with deadly volts and causes Jean to fall to his death. The New Nautilus breaches the throne room and blasts at Gargoyle. Nemo gives Nadia his own Blue Water and explains that she can revive Jean if she prays to the Blue Water. With encouragement from Grandis and Electra, Nadia combines both Blue Waters, and its powers form a sphere of light. Ignoring Nemo's warning that only an Atlantean can withstand the power of the Blue Water, Gargoyle staggers toward the sphere and touches it… and his own being literally turns into salt and disintegrates -- he was a human being all along. Nadia successfully brings Jean back to life. Nemo then sacrifices himself to destroy Red Noah as the companions return to Earth aboard an all new submarine spaceship. Twelve years later, a grown Marie talks about how the companions have gone their separate ways: Grandis is single, Hanson a wealthy businessman, Electra a mother, and Jean and Nadia are happily married. Meanwhile, Marie has married Sanson and is expecting her firstborn child. 
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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
Nadia DVD cover.jpg
North American DVD Collection 1 cover

ふしぎの海のナディア
(Fushigi no Umi no Nadia)

Genre
Adventure, Historical, Romance, Science fiction
Anime television series
Directed by
Hideaki Anno
Shinji Higuchi
Written by
Hisao Ōkawa
 Kaoru Umeno
 Hayao Miyazaki (concept)
Music by
Shirō Sagisu
Yukihiro Takahashi[1]
Studio
Group TAC, Gainax, Sei Young
Licensed by

NA
Sentai Filmworks

Network
NHK-G
English network

NA
Anime Network

Original run
April 13, 1990 – April 12, 1991
Episodes
39 (List of episodes)
Anime film
Directed by
Sho Aono
Written by
Kaoru Umeno
Music by
Shirō Sagisu
Studio
Group TAC (production)
Gainax, Sei Young (production cooperation)
Licensed by

NA
ADV Films

Released
June 29, 1991
Runtime
90 minutes
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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (ふしぎの海のナディア Fushigi no Umi no Nadia?, lit. "Nadia of the Mysterious Seas") is a Japanese animated television series inspired by the works of Jules Verne, particularly Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and the exploits of Captain Nemo. The series was created by NHK, Toho and Korad, from a concept of Hayao Miyazaki, and directed by Hideaki Anno of Gainax.
The series follows a young inventor named Jean and a former circus performer named Nadia, who wishes to return to her home in Africa.
In its original Japanese broadcast, it aired from 1990 to 1991 and ran for 39 episodes, and was distributed by ADV Films in the United States. ADV's Anime Network has broadcast the series in the United States. Following the 2009 closure of ADV, Sentai Filmworks has re-licensed the anime series, and it was re-released on Blu-ray and DVD in March 2014.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Production
3 Media 3.1 Manga
3.2 Music
3.3 Video games
4 Reception
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
Main article: List of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water characters
The series centers around Nadia, a young girl of unknown origins, and Jean, a young French inventor. Early in the story, the two protagonists are chased by Grandis Granva, Sanson, and Hanson, a group of jewel thieves who pursue Nadia for the blue jeweled pendant she possesses. After being rescued by Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus, the jewel thieves and the young protagonists join forces and participate in the struggle against the Neo-Atlantean forces, who seek to dominate the world.
In the process, Nadia and Jean save the world from violent domination by the Neo-Atlantean forces led by Gargoyle, explore worldly mysteries and the powers of the blue pendant, uncover Nadia's hidden family ties, and ultimately discover the secret origins of Nadia.
Production[edit]
This show's origins date to the mid-1970s when Hayao Miyazaki was hired by Toho to develop a television series. One of these concepts was "Around the World in 80 days by Sea", (adapted from Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea), in which two orphan children pursued by villains team up with Captain Nemo and the Nautilus. It was never produced, but Toho retained the rights for the story outline, while the animator reused elements from his original concept in later projects like Future Boy Conan and Castle in the Sky.[2][3]
Gainax's initial involvement with the project occurred during an internal power struggle within the company. During a pitch with NHK, Group TAC requested character designs and settings. Hiroaki Inoue provided character designs and storyboards for the pitch that were provided by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and Mahiro Maeda working in secret. After the conclusion of the pitch NHK chose to proceed with Inoue's Nadia presentation. However the estimated cost of producing the show would cause Gainax to lose money. After a meeting at NHK where senior Gainax staff demanded Inoue was removed from the project or else they would withdraw from the project, Inoue left the company. Sadamoto was originally assigned to be director but eventually dropped out preferring to concentrate on design and animation. Hideaki Anno was chosen as his replacement.[4][5] The series contains references and in-jokes to other anime works including Space Battleship Yamato, Macross and Time Bokan.[6] Parts of the series were animated in Korea.[5]
At the completion of the series Gainax had lost 80 million yen on the project and had no rights to the series itself. However they were allowed rights to produce a game of the series, which would set record earnings for the company. During production of the series the company was also involved in others works to offset the losses, however other issues arose surrounding those projects which highlighted several issues within the company.[7] Group TAC later requested Gainax produce a Nadia movie and provided a 50 million yen advance. Hideaki Anno was convinced to direct it after initially declining the role due to the stress of making the series. Initial production work began and included character designs by Sadamoto, however the company was unable to develop the project and withdrew. The original advance had brought Gainax's loss on the series down to 30 million yen but the advance was spent on early production and Gainax was unable to repay it. After the success of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gainax returned the advance to Group TAC, minus some costs from Gainax's involvement in providing designs and edited footage from the series.[8]
Media[edit]
Main article: List of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water episodes
The series was broadcast on NHK between April 13, 1990 and April 12, 1991 and consisted of 39 episodes.[9] Two DVD box sets were released in Japan between June 1 and October 1, 2007. 10 Individual discs were released between April 23 and May 21, 2008. A Blu-ray box set consisting of seven discs was released in Japan on November 23, 2011.[10]
Streamline Pictures licensed the series for North America and dubbed 8 episodes into English. They were released as 8 VHS tapes as Nadia between March 1992 and August 1993.[11] Plans for a television broadcast were dropped and no more English episodes were produced by Streamline.[6] Orion Home Video then distributed the same episodes on two VHS tapes in January 1996 as The Secret of Blue Water.[12]
During June 1999, ADV Films announced they had licensed the series for North America.[13] In February 2000 it was announced the series would be released on the new ADV Fansubs range of subtitled releases intended for direct sales via mail order and at conventions.[14] The series was later released on 10 DVDs and VHS between June 19, 2001 and July 16, 2002.[15][16] The DVDs were later collected the series into 2 box sets, released on May 18, 2004 and July 6, 2004.[17][18] Sentai Filmworks have announced that they will release the series through digital outlets as well as on DVD and Blu-ray in 2014.[19] The Blu-ray was released March 4, 2014.[20]
A Nadia feature film sequel premiered in Japanese theaters in 1992. The events take place three years after the defeat of Gargoyle and Neo-Atlantis. ADV licensed it and released as Nadia: The Motion Picture on DVD in August 2002.
Manga[edit]
In 1992 a manga adaption of the series was released under the name The Secret of Comic Blue Water. Although the characters from the series appear in the manga, the stories are not related to the original story and are typically of a comedic nature.[21]
Music[edit]
ADV Films released three cd soundtracks of the series and a cd of the movie soundtrack in North America on November 25, 2003.[22]
On August 27, 2012, Starchild released a complete box set of music from the series. The set consists of 11 CDs and a DVD-ROM.[10]
Video games[edit]
The first Nadia video game was released in 1991 for the Famicom console. The player controls a cast of characters in a simplistic strategy battle game. Battles are carried out through an RPG style turn-based system.



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##Fushigi no Umi Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Family Computer, March 15, 1991, developed by Advance Communication Company and published by Toho)
##Fushigi no Umi no Nadia (Mega Drive, March 19, 1991, published by Namco)
##Fushigi no Umi Nadia: The Secret of the Blue Water (NEC PC-9801, March 27, 1992, developed and published by Gainax)
##Fushigi no Umi Nadia: The Secret of the Blue Water (Sharp X68000, October 23, 1992, developed and published by Gainax)
##Fushigi no Umi Nadia: The Secret of the Blue Water (FM Towns)
##Fushigi no Umi Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (PC Engine CD, January 29, 1993, published by Hudson Soft)
##Fushigi no Umi no Nadia: Inherit the Blue Water (PlayStation 2, September 22, 2005, published by Jinx)
Reception[edit]
The series won a number of awards in the Animage Anime Grand Prix of 1991 including "Best Work". The opening theme Blue Water was voted as best song, Jean, Sanson and Nemo were respectively voted as fourth, fifth and thirteenth best male character. Six episodes were voted into the top 20 best episodes, including episode 22 which was voted as best episode overall. Nadia herself was voted as best female character, and was also the first character to overtake Nausicaä as the favourite female anime character in Animage's readers poll.[6][23] In 2001 the series placed 72 in a list of top 100 anime productions decided by Animage.[24]
In The Anime Encyclopedia, Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy noted the series made an obvious attempt to reach the mass audience adding that "Very rarely has this approach produced a show of such enduring charm and emotional validity". They recognise that the audience is aware of a "dark and terrible fate" hiding behind the otherwise positive nature of the shows visuals and music. The series is compared to Gainax's later Neon Genesis Evangelion, which made the "lurking darkness" a central theme.[25]
See also[edit]
##Castle in the Sky, a 1986 anime film based on a similar idea by Hayao Miyazaki.
##Atlantis: The Lost Empire, a 2001 Disney film that bears certain similarities.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Synthpop's YMO to Hold 1st L.A. Concert in 32 Years". Anime News Network. 2011-01-31. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
2.Jump up ^ Patten, Fred (2004). Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years of Essays and Reviews. Stone Bridge Press. pp. 185–189. ISBN 1-880656-92-2.
3.Jump up ^ Clements, Jonathan; McCarthy, Helen (2006). The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 (Revised and Expanded edition). p. 572. ISBN 1-933330-10-4.
4.Jump up ^ Takeda, Yasuhiro (August 2005). The Notenki Memoirs. ADV Films. pp. 130–131. ISBN 1-4139-0234-0.
5.^ Jump up to: a b "Animerica" 4 (3). Viz Media. p. 23.
6.^ Jump up to: a b c Camp, Brian; Davis, Julie. Anime Classics Zettai!. p. 230. ISBN 978-1-933330-22-8.
7.Jump up ^ Takeda, Yasuhiro (August 2005). The Notenki Memoirs. ADV Films. pp. 132–134. ISBN 1-4139-0234-0.
8.Jump up ^ Takeda, Yasuhiro (August 2005). The Notenki Memoirs. ADV Films. pp. 135–136. ISBN 1-4139-0234-0.
9.Jump up ^ "ふしぎの海のナディア アニメ　詳細データ". tvdrama-DB.com. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
10.^ Jump up to: a b "ふしぎの海のナディア リリース". Starchild. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
11.Jump up ^ Patten, Fred (2004). Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years of Essays and Reviews. Stone Bridge Press. p. 188. ISBN 1-880656-92-2.
12.Jump up ^ "Protoculture Addicts" (38).
13.Jump up ^ "Companies make announcements at A-kon". Anime News Network. June 10, 1999. Retrieved February 23, 2014.
14.Jump up ^ "ADV Katsucon Announcements". February 15, 2000. Retrieved February 23, 2014.
15.Jump up ^ "Upcoming releases". Anime News Network. May 4, 2001. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
16.Jump up ^ Beveridge, Chris (May 28, 2002). "Nadia Vol. #10". Mania.com. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
17.Jump up ^ Barkley, Brett (December 2, 2005). "Nadia, Secret of Blue Water Collection 1 (w/CD)". Mania.com. Retrieved February 2, 2024. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
18.Jump up ^ "Nadia, Secret of Blue Water Collection 2 (w/CDs)". Mania.com. Retrieved February 2, 2024. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
19.Jump up ^ "Sentai Filmworks Adds Gainax's Nadia - The Secret of Blue Water TV". Anime News Network. November 9, 2013. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
20.Jump up ^ "Nadia Secret of Blue Water: Complete [Blu-ray] (1990)". Amazon.com. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
21.Jump up ^ Helen McCarthy. 500 Manga Heroes and Villains. p. 120.
22.Jump up ^ "Newtype USA" 2 (11). ADV Films. p. 60.
23.Jump up ^ "第13回アニメグランプリ　［1991年5月号］　". Tokuma Shoten. Archived from the original on May 23, 2010. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
24.Jump up ^ "Animage Top-100 Anime Listing". Anime News Network. January 15, 2001. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
25.Jump up ^ Clements, Jonathan; McCarthy, Helen (2006). The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 (Revised and Expanded edition). p. 572. ISBN 1-933330-10-4.
External links[edit]
##Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
##Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water at the Internet Movie Database
##Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water at TV.com


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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
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 It has been suggested that List of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water characters be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since February 2014.
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
Nadia DVD cover.jpg
North American DVD Collection 1 cover

ふしぎの海のナディア
(Fushigi no Umi no Nadia)

Genre
Adventure, Historical, Romance, Science fiction
Anime television series
Directed by
Hideaki Anno
Shinji Higuchi
Written by
Hisao Ōkawa
 Kaoru Umeno
 Hayao Miyazaki (concept)
Music by
Shirō Sagisu
Yukihiro Takahashi[1]
Studio
Group TAC, Gainax, Sei Young
Licensed by

NA
Sentai Filmworks

Network
NHK-G
English network

NA
Anime Network

Original run
April 13, 1990 – April 12, 1991
Episodes
39 (List of episodes)
Anime film
Directed by
Sho Aono
Written by
Kaoru Umeno
Music by
Shirō Sagisu
Studio
Group TAC (production)
Gainax, Sei Young (production cooperation)
Licensed by

NA
ADV Films

Released
June 29, 1991
Runtime
90 minutes
Portal icon Anime and Manga portal
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (ふしぎの海のナディア Fushigi no Umi no Nadia?, lit. "Nadia of the Mysterious Seas") is a Japanese animated television series inspired by the works of Jules Verne, particularly Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and the exploits of Captain Nemo. The series was created by NHK, Toho and Korad, from a concept of Hayao Miyazaki, and directed by Hideaki Anno of Gainax.
The series follows a young inventor named Jean and a former circus performer named Nadia, who wishes to return to her home in Africa.
In its original Japanese broadcast, it aired from 1990 to 1991 and ran for 39 episodes, and was distributed by ADV Films in the United States. ADV's Anime Network has broadcast the series in the United States. Following the 2009 closure of ADV, Sentai Filmworks has re-licensed the anime series, and it was re-released on Blu-ray and DVD in March 2014.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Production
3 Media 3.1 Manga
3.2 Music
3.3 Video games
4 Reception
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
Main article: List of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water characters
The series centers around Nadia, a young girl of unknown origins, and Jean, a young French inventor. Early in the story, the two protagonists are chased by Grandis Granva, Sanson, and Hanson, a group of jewel thieves who pursue Nadia for the blue jeweled pendant she possesses. After being rescued by Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus, the jewel thieves and the young protagonists join forces and participate in the struggle against the Neo-Atlantean forces, who seek to dominate the world.
In the process, Nadia and Jean save the world from violent domination by the Neo-Atlantean forces led by Gargoyle, explore worldly mysteries and the powers of the blue pendant, uncover Nadia's hidden family ties, and ultimately discover the secret origins of Nadia.
Production[edit]
This show's origins date to the mid-1970s when Hayao Miyazaki was hired by Toho to develop a television series. One of these concepts was "Around the World in 80 days by Sea", (adapted from Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea), in which two orphan children pursued by villains team up with Captain Nemo and the Nautilus. It was never produced, but Toho retained the rights for the story outline, while the animator reused elements from his original concept in later projects like Future Boy Conan and Castle in the Sky.[2][3]
Gainax's initial involvement with the project occurred during an internal power struggle within the company. During a pitch with NHK, Group TAC requested character designs and settings. Hiroaki Inoue provided character designs and storyboards for the pitch that were provided by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and Mahiro Maeda working in secret. After the conclusion of the pitch NHK chose to proceed with Inoue's Nadia presentation. However the estimated cost of producing the show would cause Gainax to lose money. After a meeting at NHK where senior Gainax staff demanded Inoue was removed from the project or else they would withdraw from the project, Inoue left the company. Sadamoto was originally assigned to be director but eventually dropped out preferring to concentrate on design and animation. Hideaki Anno was chosen as his replacement.[4][5] The series contains references and in-jokes to other anime works including Space Battleship Yamato, Macross and Time Bokan.[6] Parts of the series were animated in Korea.[5]
At the completion of the series Gainax had lost 80 million yen on the project and had no rights to the series itself. However they were allowed rights to produce a game of the series, which would set record earnings for the company. During production of the series the company was also involved in others works to offset the losses, however other issues arose surrounding those projects which highlighted several issues within the company.[7] Group TAC later requested Gainax produce a Nadia movie and provided a 50 million yen advance. Hideaki Anno was convinced to direct it after initially declining the role due to the stress of making the series. Initial production work began and included character designs by Sadamoto, however the company was unable to develop the project and withdrew. The original advance had brought Gainax's loss on the series down to 30 million yen but the advance was spent on early production and Gainax was unable to repay it. After the success of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gainax returned the advance to Group TAC, minus some costs from Gainax's involvement in providing designs and edited footage from the series.[8]
Media[edit]
Main article: List of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water episodes
The series was broadcast on NHK between April 13, 1990 and April 12, 1991 and consisted of 39 episodes.[9] Two DVD box sets were released in Japan between June 1 and October 1, 2007. 10 Individual discs were released between April 23 and May 21, 2008. A Blu-ray box set consisting of seven discs was released in Japan on November 23, 2011.[10]
Streamline Pictures licensed the series for North America and dubbed 8 episodes into English. They were released as 8 VHS tapes as Nadia between March 1992 and August 1993.[11] Plans for a television broadcast were dropped and no more English episodes were produced by Streamline.[6] Orion Home Video then distributed the same episodes on two VHS tapes in January 1996 as The Secret of Blue Water.[12]
During June 1999, ADV Films announced they had licensed the series for North America.[13] In February 2000 it was announced the series would be released on the new ADV Fansubs range of subtitled releases intended for direct sales via mail order and at conventions.[14] The series was later released on 10 DVDs and VHS between June 19, 2001 and July 16, 2002.[15][16] The DVDs were later collected the series into 2 box sets, released on May 18, 2004 and July 6, 2004.[17][18] Sentai Filmworks have announced that they will release the series through digital outlets as well as on DVD and Blu-ray in 2014.[19] The Blu-ray was released March 4, 2014.[20]
A Nadia feature film sequel premiered in Japanese theaters in 1992. The events take place three years after the defeat of Gargoyle and Neo-Atlantis. ADV licensed it and released as Nadia: The Motion Picture on DVD in August 2002.
Manga[edit]
In 1992 a manga adaption of the series was released under the name The Secret of Comic Blue Water. Although the characters from the series appear in the manga, the stories are not related to the original story and are typically of a comedic nature.[21]
Music[edit]
ADV Films released three cd soundtracks of the series and a cd of the movie soundtrack in North America on November 25, 2003.[22]
On August 27, 2012, Starchild released a complete box set of music from the series. The set consists of 11 CDs and a DVD-ROM.[10]
Video games[edit]
The first Nadia video game was released in 1991 for the Famicom console. The player controls a cast of characters in a simplistic strategy battle game. Battles are carried out through an RPG style turn-based system.



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##Fushigi no Umi Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (Family Computer, March 15, 1991, developed by Advance Communication Company and published by Toho)
##Fushigi no Umi no Nadia (Mega Drive, March 19, 1991, published by Namco)
##Fushigi no Umi Nadia: The Secret of the Blue Water (NEC PC-9801, March 27, 1992, developed and published by Gainax)
##Fushigi no Umi Nadia: The Secret of the Blue Water (Sharp X68000, October 23, 1992, developed and published by Gainax)
##Fushigi no Umi Nadia: The Secret of the Blue Water (FM Towns)
##Fushigi no Umi Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (PC Engine CD, January 29, 1993, published by Hudson Soft)
##Fushigi no Umi no Nadia: Inherit the Blue Water (PlayStation 2, September 22, 2005, published by Jinx)
Reception[edit]
The series won a number of awards in the Animage Anime Grand Prix of 1991 including "Best Work". The opening theme Blue Water was voted as best song, Jean, Sanson and Nemo were respectively voted as fourth, fifth and thirteenth best male character. Six episodes were voted into the top 20 best episodes, including episode 22 which was voted as best episode overall. Nadia herself was voted as best female character, and was also the first character to overtake Nausicaä as the favourite female anime character in Animage's readers poll.[6][23] In 2001 the series placed 72 in a list of top 100 anime productions decided by Animage.[24]
In The Anime Encyclopedia, Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy noted the series made an obvious attempt to reach the mass audience adding that "Very rarely has this approach produced a show of such enduring charm and emotional validity". They recognise that the audience is aware of a "dark and terrible fate" hiding behind the otherwise positive nature of the shows visuals and music. The series is compared to Gainax's later Neon Genesis Evangelion, which made the "lurking darkness" a central theme.[25]
See also[edit]
##Castle in the Sky, a 1986 anime film based on a similar idea by Hayao Miyazaki.
##Atlantis: The Lost Empire, a 2001 Disney film that bears certain similarities.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Synthpop's YMO to Hold 1st L.A. Concert in 32 Years". Anime News Network. 2011-01-31. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
2.Jump up ^ Patten, Fred (2004). Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years of Essays and Reviews. Stone Bridge Press. pp. 185–189. ISBN 1-880656-92-2.
3.Jump up ^ Clements, Jonathan; McCarthy, Helen (2006). The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 (Revised and Expanded edition). p. 572. ISBN 1-933330-10-4.
4.Jump up ^ Takeda, Yasuhiro (August 2005). The Notenki Memoirs. ADV Films. pp. 130–131. ISBN 1-4139-0234-0.
5.^ Jump up to: a b "Animerica" 4 (3). Viz Media. p. 23.
6.^ Jump up to: a b c Camp, Brian; Davis, Julie. Anime Classics Zettai!. p. 230. ISBN 978-1-933330-22-8.
7.Jump up ^ Takeda, Yasuhiro (August 2005). The Notenki Memoirs. ADV Films. pp. 132–134. ISBN 1-4139-0234-0.
8.Jump up ^ Takeda, Yasuhiro (August 2005). The Notenki Memoirs. ADV Films. pp. 135–136. ISBN 1-4139-0234-0.
9.Jump up ^ "ふしぎの海のナディア アニメ　詳細データ". tvdrama-DB.com. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
10.^ Jump up to: a b "ふしぎの海のナディア リリース". Starchild. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
11.Jump up ^ Patten, Fred (2004). Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years of Essays and Reviews. Stone Bridge Press. p. 188. ISBN 1-880656-92-2.
12.Jump up ^ "Protoculture Addicts" (38).
13.Jump up ^ "Companies make announcements at A-kon". Anime News Network. June 10, 1999. Retrieved February 23, 2014.
14.Jump up ^ "ADV Katsucon Announcements". February 15, 2000. Retrieved February 23, 2014.
15.Jump up ^ "Upcoming releases". Anime News Network. May 4, 2001. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
16.Jump up ^ Beveridge, Chris (May 28, 2002). "Nadia Vol. #10". Mania.com. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
17.Jump up ^ Barkley, Brett (December 2, 2005). "Nadia, Secret of Blue Water Collection 1 (w/CD)". Mania.com. Retrieved February 2, 2024. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
18.Jump up ^ "Nadia, Secret of Blue Water Collection 2 (w/CDs)". Mania.com. Retrieved February 2, 2024. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
19.Jump up ^ "Sentai Filmworks Adds Gainax's Nadia - The Secret of Blue Water TV". Anime News Network. November 9, 2013. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
20.Jump up ^ "Nadia Secret of Blue Water: Complete [Blu-ray] (1990)". Amazon.com. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
21.Jump up ^ Helen McCarthy. 500 Manga Heroes and Villains. p. 120.
22.Jump up ^ "Newtype USA" 2 (11). ADV Films. p. 60.
23.Jump up ^ "第13回アニメグランプリ　［1991年5月号］　". Tokuma Shoten. Archived from the original on May 23, 2010. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
24.Jump up ^ "Animage Top-100 Anime Listing". Anime News Network. January 15, 2001. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
25.Jump up ^ Clements, Jonathan; McCarthy, Helen (2006). The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 (Revised and Expanded edition). p. 572. ISBN 1-933330-10-4.
External links[edit]
##Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
##Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water at the Internet Movie Database
##Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water at TV.com


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Fantastic Voyage
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Fantastic Voyage
Fantasticvoyageposter.jpg
film poster by Tom Chantrell

Directed by
Richard Fleischer
Produced by
Saul David
Written by
Story:
Jerome Bixby
 Otto Klement
Screenplay:
 Harry Kleiner
Adaptation:
David Duncan
Starring
Stephen Boyd
Raquel Welch
Edmond O'Brien
Donald Pleasence
Music by
Leonard Rosenman
Cinematography
Ernest Laszlo
Edited by
William B. Murphy
Distributed by
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Release dates

August 24, 1966 (U.S.)


Running time
 100 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$5,115,000[1]
Box office
$12,000,000[2]
Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 science fiction film written by Harry Kleiner, based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby. The film is about a scientist who's nearly killed in an assassination, and the medical team who shrink to microscopic size and venture into his body to repair damage to his brain. However, an unknown assailant tries to sabotage their mission.[3][4][5][6] The original story took place in the 19th century and was meant to be a Jules Verne–inspired adventure tale with a sense of wonder. Kleiner abandoned all but the concept of miniaturization and added a Cold War element. It was directed by Richard Fleischer and stars Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien and Donald Pleasence.
Bantam Books obtained the rights for a paperback novelization based on the screenplay and approached Isaac Asimov to write it.[7] Because the novelization was released six months before the movie, many people mistakenly believed Asimov's book had inspired the film.[8]
The movie inspired an animated television series.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Biological issues and accuracy
5 Music
6 Reception 6.1 Awards and honors
7 Adaptations 7.1 Novelization
7.2 Related novels and comics
7.3 1968 animated television series
8 Similarly-themed movies 8.1 Innerspace (1987)
8.2 Antibody (2002)
9 Sequel/remake plans
10 In popular culture
11 See also
12 References
13 External links

Plot[edit]
The United States and the Soviet Union have both developed technology that can miniaturize matter by shrinking individual atoms, but only for a limited amount of time, depending on how small the item is miniaturized.
Scientist Jan Benes, working behind the Iron Curtain, has figured out how to make the process work indefinitely. With the help of the CIA, he escapes to the West, but an attempted assassination leaves him comatose with a blood clot in his brain.
To save his life, agent Charles Grant (Stephen Boyd), pilot Captain Bill Owens (William Redfield), Dr. Michaels (Donald Pleasence), surgeon Dr. Peter Duval (Arthur Kennedy) and his assistant Cora Peterson (Raquel Welch) are placed aboard a specially designed submarine at the C.M.D.F. (Combined Miniaturized Deterrent Forces) facilities. The submarine, named the Proteus, is then miniaturized and injected into Benes. The ship is reduced to one micrometer, giving the team one hour to remove the clot. After 60 minutes the submarine will begin to revert to its normal size and become vulnerable to Benes' immune system.
The crew faces many obstacles during the mission. An arteriovenous fistula forces them to detour through the heart, where cardiac arrest must be induced to avoid turbulence, through the inner ear (all outside personnel have to remain silent to prevent turbulence) and replenish their supply of oxygen in the lungs. When the surgical laser needed to destroy the clot is damaged, it becomes obvious there is a saboteur on the mission. They cannibalize their radio to repair the device. When they finally reach the clot, there are only six minutes remaining to operate and then exit the body.
Before the mission, Grant was briefed that Duval was the prime suspect as a potential surgical assassin. But as the mission progresses, he pieces the evidence together and begins to suspect Michaels. During the critical phase of the operation, Dr. Michaels knocks Owens out and takes control of the Proteus while the rest of the crew is outside for the operation. Duval successfully removes the clot with the laser, but Michaels tries to crash the sub into the clot area to kill Benes. Grant fires the laser at the ship causing it to veer away and crash. Michaels is trapped in the wreckage and killed when white blood cells attack and destroy the Proteus. Grant saves Owens from the ship and they all swim desperately to one of the eyes where they escape via a teardrop seconds before they return to normal size.
In the original screenplay, there was a follow-up scene where we learn that, because of brain damage caused by the submarine, Benes no longer remembers the formula for unlimited miniaturization. Surviving stills suggest this scene was filmed but never used.
Cast[edit]
Stephen Boyd as Grant
Raquel Welch as Cora
Edmond O'Brien as General Carter
Donald Pleasence as Dr. Michaels
Arthur O'Connell as Colonel Donald Reid          
William Redfield as Captain Bill Owens
Arthur Kennedy as Dr. Duval
Jean Del Val as Jan Benes
Barry Coe as communications aide
Ken Scott as Secret Service
Shelby Grant as nurse
James Brolin as technician
Production[edit]
Isaac Asimov, asked to write the novel from the script, declared that the script was full of plot holes, and received permission to write the book the way he wanted. The novel came out first because he wrote quickly and because of delays in filming.[9] Director Richard Fleischer originally studied medicine and human anatomy in college before choosing to be a movie director.
For the technical and artistic elaboration of the subject, Richard Fleischer asked for the collaboration of two people of the crew he had worked with on the production of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the film he directed for Walt Disney in 1954. The designer of the Nautilus from the Jules Verne adaptation, Harper Goff, also designed the Proteus; the same technical adviser, Fred Zendar, collaborated on both productions.
The military headquarters is 100×30 metres, the Proteus 14×8. The artery, in resin and fiberglass, is 33 metres long and 7 metres wide; the heart is 45×10; the brain 70×33. The plasma effect is produced by chief operator Ernest Laszlo via the use of multicolored turning lights, placed on the outside translucent decors.[10]
Frederick Schodt's book The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the Manga/Anime Revolution claims that FOX wanted to use ideas from an episode of Japanese animator Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy in the film, but never credited him.
Biological issues and accuracy[edit]
In the original movie, the crew (apart from the saboteur) manage to leave Benes's body safely before reverting to normal size, but the Proteus remains inside, as do the remains of the saboteur's body (albeit digested by a white blood cell), and several gallons (full scale) of a carrier solution (presumably saline) used in the injection syringe. Isaac Asimov pointed out that this was a serious logical flaw in the plot,[11] since the submarine (even if reduced to bits of debris) would also revert to normal size, killing Benes in the process. Therefore, in his novelization Asimov had the crew provoke the white cell into following them, so that it drags the submarine to the tear duct, and its wreckage expands outside Benes's body. Asimov solved the problem of the syringe fluid by having the staff inject only a very small amount of miniaturized fluid into Benes, minimizing its effect on him when it expands.
Asimov also dealt with another logical flaw in the original, involving extra oxygen needed by the submarine's crew members. In the film, the submarine enters the lung and crew members pump oxygen into the submarine's stores. However, Asimov knew that the miniaturized crew members would not be able to breathe unminiaturized oxygen molecules. So, in the novel, the oxygen from the lung is processed through a miniaturizing device installed on board the submarine; there is no such device in the original film script.
There is also a flaw when the laser runs out. Grant uses it to stop the Proteus. After he fails to save Michaels, the four survivors swim for Benes' optic nerve, leaving the laser behind in Benes' head. No mention is made regarding this serious flaw, meaning the laser should have grown back, killing Benes.
Music[edit]
The score was composed and conducted by Leonard Rosenman. The composer deliberately wrote no music for the first four reels of the film, before the protagonists enter the human body. Rosenman wrote that "the harmony for the entire score is almost completely atonal except for the very end when our heroes grow to normality".[12]
The complete film score was released in 1998 on compact disc, on Film Score Monthly records.
Reception[edit]
The film received mostly positive reviews and a few criticisms. The weekly entertainment-trade magazine Variety gave the film a positive pre-release review, stating, "The lavish production, boasting some brilliant special effects and superior creative efforts, is an entertaining, enlightening excursion through inner space—the body of a man."[13] Bosley Crowther of the New York Times summarized, "Yessir, for straight science-fiction, this is quite a film—the most colorful and imaginative since Destination Moon" (1950).[14] Richard Schickel of Life Magazine wrote that the rewards would be "plentiful" to audiences who get over the "real whopper" of suspended disbelief required. He found that though the excellent special effects and sets could distract from the scenery's scientific purpose in the story, the "old familiar music of science fiction" in lush new arrangements was a "true delight", and the seriousness with which screenwriter Kleiner and director Fleischer treated the story made it more believable and fun. Schickel made note of, but dismissed, other critics' allegations of "camp."[15]
As of 2012, the film holds a 92% approval rating at the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus being: "The special effects may be a bit dated today, but Fantastic Voyage still holds up well as an imaginative journey into the human body."[16]
Awards and honors[edit]
The film won two Academy Awards and was nominated for three more:[17]
Academy Awards (1966)
Won: Best Art Direction – Color (Jack Martin Smith, Dale Hennesy, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss)Won: Best Special Effects (Art Cruickshank)Nominated: Best Cinematography (Ernest Laszlo)Nominated: Best Film Editing (William B. Murphy)Nominated: Best Sound Editing (Walter Rossi)American Film Institute lists
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – Nominated[18]
AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores – Nominated[19]
AFI's 10 Top 10 – Nominated Science Fiction Film[20]
Adaptations[edit]
Novelization[edit]
After acquiring the film's paperback novelization rights, Bantam Books approached Isaac Asimov to write the novelization, offering him a flat sum of $5,000 with no royalties involved. In his autobiography In Joy Still Felt, Asimov writes, "I turned down the proposal out of hand. Hackwork, I said. Beneath my dignity."[9] However, Bantam Books persisted, and at a meeting with Marc Jaffe and Marcia Nassiter on April 21, 1965, Asimov agreed to read the screenplay.
In the novelization's introduction, Asimov states that he was rather reluctant to write the book because he believed that the miniaturization of matter was physically impossible. But he decided that it was still good fodder for story-telling and that it could still make for some intelligent reading. Plus it was known that 20th Century Fox wanted someone with some science-fiction clout to help promote the film. To his credit, aside from the initial "impossibility" of the shrinking machine, Asimov went to great lengths to accurately portray what it would actually be like to be shrunk to that scale, such as the lights on the sub being highly penetrating to normal matter, time distortion, and other side effects that are completely ignored in the movie.
As noted above, Asimov was bothered by the way the Proteus was left in Benes, and in a subsequent meeting with Jaffe he insisted that he would have to change the ending so that the submarine was brought out. Asimov also felt the need to gain permission from his usual science fiction publisher, Doubleday, to do the novel. Doubleday did not object, and had suggested his name to Bantam in the first place. Asimov began work on the novel on May 31, and completed it on July 23.[21]
Asimov did not want any of his books, even a film novelization, to appear only in paperback, so in August he persuaded Austin Olney of Houghton Mifflin to publish a hardcover edition, assuring him that the book would sell at least eight thousand copies, which it did.[22] However, since the rights to the story were held by Otto Klement, who had co-written the original story treatment, Asimov would not be entitled to any royalties. By the time the hardcover edition was published in March 1966, Houghton Mifflin had persuaded Klement to allow Asimov to have a quarter of the royalties.[23] Klement also negotiated for The Saturday Evening Post to serialize an abridged version of the novel, and he agreed to give Asimov half the payment for it. Fantastic Voyage appeared in the February 26 and March 12, 1966 issues of the Post.[24]
Bantam Books released the paperback edition of the novel in September 1966 to coincide with the release of the film.[25]
Harry Harrison, reviewing the Asimov novelization, called it a "Jerry-built monstrosity", praising the descriptions of science-fiction events as "Asimov at his best" while condemning the narrative framework as "inane drivel".[26]
Related novels and comics[edit]
Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain was written by Isaac Asimov as an attempt to develop and present his own story apart from the 1966 screenplay. This novel is not a sequel to the original, but instead is a separate story taking place in the Soviet Union with an entirely different set of characters.
Fantastic Voyage: Microcosm is a third interpretation, written by Kevin J. Anderson, published in 2001. This version has the crew of the Proteus explore the body of a dead alien that crash-lands on earth, and updates the story with such modern concepts as nanotechnology (replacing killer white cells).
A comic book adaptation of the film was released by Gold Key Comics in 1967. Drawn by industry legend Wally Wood, the book followed the plot of the movie with general accuracy, but many scenes were depicted differently and/or outright dropped, and the ending was given an epilogue similar as that seen in some of the early draft scripts for the film.
A parody of the film titled Fantastecch Voyage was published in Mad Magazine. It was illustrated by Mort Drucker and written by Larry Siegel in regular issue #110, April 1967.[27] The advertising-business-themed spoof has the crew—from L.S.M.F.T. (Laboratory Sector for Making Folks Tiny)—sent to inject decongestant into a badly plugged-up nose.
1968 animated television series[edit]
Two years after the film was released, ABC aired an animated series of the same name on Saturday mornings. The series was produced by Filmation.
In the series, a different team of experts performed their missions in a craft known as Voyager, a submarine which featured wedge-shaped wings and large, swept T-tail, and was capable of flight. A model kit of Voyager was offered by Aurora Model Company for several years, and has become a sought-after collectors' item since then.
As of June 2008, the Voyager kit has been re-released by the Moebius model company.
Similarly-themed movies[edit]
Innerspace (1987)[edit]
Main article: Innerspace
In 1987, director Joe Dante made Innerspace, which reworked the story of Fantastic Voyage, but remade as a comedy starring Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, and Meg Ryan. A test miniaturized sub and pilot are injected into a grocery store clerk in error, instead of a test rabbit as planned. Now trapped in an unwitting human's body, the pilot needs to work with the clerk to escape and stop the bad guys from trying to steal the prototype technology.
Antibody (2002)[edit]
Main article: Antibody (film)
Antibody, a movie closely based on Fantastic Voyage, was released on the SciFi channel in 2002. In this film a submarine with its crew is miniaturized and injected into the body of a terrorist, to prevent an attack on Washington D.C.
Sequel/remake plans[edit]
Plans for a sequel or remake have been in discussion since at least 1984, but the project has been stuck in development hell ever since. In 1984, Isaac Asimov was approached to write Fantastic Voyage II, out of which a movie would be made.[28] Asimov "was sent a suggested outline" that mirrored the movie Innerspace and "involved two vessels in the bloodstream, one American and one Soviet, and what followed was a kind of submicroscopic version of World War III".[28] Asimov was against such an approach. Following a dispute between publishers, the original commissioners of the novel approached Philip José Farmer, who "wrote a novel and sent [in] the manuscript" that was rejected despite "stick[ing] tightly to the outline [that was sent to Asimov]".[28] "It dealt with World War III in the bloodstream, and it was full of action and excitement".[28] Although Asimov urged the publisher to accept Farmer's manuscript, it was insisted that Asimov write the novel. So, Asimov eventually wrote the book in his own way (completely different in plot from what [Farmer] had written), which was eventually published by Doubleday in 1987 as Fantastic Voyage II and "dealt not with competing submarines in the bloodstream, but with one submarine, with [an] American hero cooperating (not entirely voluntarily) with four Soviet crew members".[28] The novel was not made into a movie, however.
James Cameron was also interested in directing a remake (since at least 1997),[29] but decided to devote his efforts to his Avatar project. He still remained open to the idea of producing a feature based on his own screenplay, and in 2007, 20th Century Fox announced that pre-production on the project was finally underway. Roland Emmerich agreed to direct, but rejected the script written by Cameron.[29][30] Marianne and Cormac Wibberley were hired to write a new script, but the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike delayed filming, and Emmerich began working on 2012 instead.[30][31]
In spring 2010, Paul Greengrass was considering directing the remake from a script written by Shane Salerno and produced by James Cameron, but later dropped out to be replaced by Shawn Levy. It is intended that the film be shot in native stereoscopic 3D.[32]
In popular culture[edit]
Many films, television shows, cartoons and video games parodied Fantastic Voyage:
A 1980 episode of Saturday Night Live parodies the story with a miniaturized team of dentists sent to fix Anwar Sadat's teeth. Host Kirk Douglas plays the team leader.[33]
The film is alluded to in Season 4 of the medical drama series House, where the Emmy Award-winning 2008 episode "House's Head" jokes about exploring a patient's brain in a miniaturized submarine.
The show is parodied in Season 2, Episode 25 of the animated Nickelodeon TV series Rugrats, and Season 1, Episode 14 of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, especially an episode of Invader Zim, entitled "NanoZiM", where ZiM invades Dib's body, as well as in The Fairly Oddparents episode entitled "Tiny Timmy".
Two The Ren & Stimpy Show episodes parody the story, namely "The Cat That Laid The Golden Hairball" from season 2 and "Blazing Entrails" from season 4.
In "Journey to the Centre of the Punk" of The Mighty Boosh, Howard and Lester shrink to microscopic size to fight a malignant jazz cell infecting Vince.
It was also parodied on The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror XV". "Parasites Lost", Episode 2 of Season 3 of Futurama, is another Fantastic Voyage parody.
"Fruitastic VoyOrange", Episode 12 of Season 1 of The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange was also a Fantastic Voyage Parody.
Another Fantastic Voyage parody was "Itsy Bitsy Enemy Within", an episode of Pucca, where Tobe and his minions go inside of Garu's body to mess with his life.
Fantastic Voyage was also parodied in an episode of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, where grandpa swallows Wayne and his family.
Cow and Chicken did also parody Fantastic Voyage in an episode where Chicken ends up inside of cow in "Journey to the Center of Cow".
There was also an episode of Lilo & Stitch that parodied Fantastic Voyage.
It was also parodied in an episode of Space Goofs called "Inside Gorgious", and an episode of Oggy and the Cockroaches called "Globulopolis".
It was also parodied in an episode of Sidekick called "Internal Affairs", where Master XOX invades Eric's body.
Fantastic Voyage was parodied in the Dexter's Laboratory episode "Fantastic Boyage."
Fantastic Voyage was parodied in the Codename: Kids Next Door episode "Operation: S.P.R.O.U.T."
Fantastic Voyage was Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Unremarkable Voyage"
Tiny Toons Adventures did a parody of Fantastic Voyage in the episode "Inside Plucky Duck."
It was also parodied in SpongeBob SquarePants in two episodes, as "Squidtastic Voyage" and "The Inside Job".
It was also parodied in The Mask: The Animated Series as "Fantashtick Voyage".
Fantastic Voyage was also parodied in the "Journey to the Center of Mason" episode of Wizards of Waverly Place.
Batman: The Brave and the Bold also made a parody of Fantastic Voyage inside of Batman in "Journey to the Center of the Bat".
"The Journey" episode of Animorphs is based on, and mentions, Fantastic Voyage.
In the "Emission Impossible" episode of Family Guy, Stewie miniaturizes himself and a spaceship to enter Peter's body and prevent Peter and Lois from having another baby.
It was also parodied in the entire show, Ozzy & Drix, as well as the theatrical pilot, Osmosis Jones.
Regular Show also even made a Fantastic Voyage parodied episode called "Cool Cubed", where Thomas freezes his brain after chugging down a "Cool Cubed" slushie. Because of that, Mordecai and Rigby travel into his head to stop it from freezing his brain's core.
The Epcot attraction Body Wars was based on the film.
The movie's title is parodied in the fifth novel in the Franny K. Stein series, Frantastic Voyage.
An episode of Phineas and Ferb titled "Journey to the Center of Candace" had the boys in a submarine shrunken down and inside their big sister Candace.
In the 1977 Doctor Who story The Invisible Enemy, the Doctor and his companion Leela are cloned, miniaturized and injected into the Doctor's host body in attempt to locate the nucleus of an intelligent virus which is possessing the Time Lord. Many aspects of the original film are used including some areas of set-design, the use of hostile anti-bodies and the tear-duct as a means of escape.
Another Doctor Who episode from 2014, "Into the Dalek", has the Doctor and his companion being miniaturized again. Only this time they go inside a Dalek.
The music video for Placebo single "Special K" is based loosely on the film.
The Venture Bros. episode "The Diving Bell Vs. The Butter-Glider" includes a parody of Fantastic Voyage.
See also[edit]
List of American films of 1966
Microsurgery
References[edit]
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2.Jump up ^ "Fantastic Voyage, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
3.Jump up ^ Menville, Douglas Alver; R. Reginald (1977). Things to Come: An Illustrated History of the Science Fiction Film. Times Books. p. 133. ISBN 0-8129-0710-8.
4.Jump up ^ Fischer, Dennis (2000). Science Fiction Film Directors, 1895–1998. McFarland. p. 192. ISBN 0-7864-0740-9.
5.Jump up ^ Maltin, Leonard (2008). Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide (2009 ed.). Penguin Group. p. 438. ISBN 0-452-28978-5. Retrieved 2009-11-23.
6.Jump up ^ "Full cast and crew for 'Fantastic Voyage'". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-11-23.
7.Jump up ^ Asimov, Isaac (1980). In Joy Still Felt: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1954–1978. New York: Avon. p. 363. ISBN 0-380-53025-2.
8.Jump up ^ Asimov 1980:390.
9.^ Jump up to: a b Asimov 1980:363
10.Jump up ^ Brodesco, Alberto (2011). "I’ve Got you under my Skin: Narratives of the Inner Body in Cinema and Television". Nuncius. Journal of the material and visual history of science 26: 206. Retrieved 19 July 2012.
11.Jump up ^ Asimov 1980:363–364
12.Jump up ^ Bond, Jeff (1998). Fantastic Voyage (CD insert notes). Leonard Rosenman. Los Angeles, California: Film Score Monthly. pp. p. 2. Vol. 1, No. 3.
13.Jump up ^ "Fantastic Voyage Review". Variety. Reed Business Information. December 31, 1965. Retrieved 2010-08-01. (extract)
14.Jump up ^ Crowther, Bosley (September 8, 1966). "Screen: 'Fantastic Voyage' Is All That". New York Times. Viewed 2010-09-09. (registration required)
15.Jump up ^ Schickel, Richard (September 23, 1966). "A Wild Trip in a Blood Vessel". Movie Review. Life Magazine. p. 16. Retrieved 2010-09-09. (archive)
16.Jump up ^ "Fantastic Voyage Movie Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2012-11-08.
17.Jump up ^ "NY Times: Fantastic Voyage – Awards". NY Times. All Movie Guide. Retrieved 2008-12-27.
18.Jump up ^ AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies Nominees
19.Jump up ^ AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores Nominees
20.Jump up ^ AFI's 10 Top 10 Ballot
21.Jump up ^ Asimov 1980:366–370
22.Jump up ^ Asimov 1980:371
23.Jump up ^ Asimov 1980:390
24.Jump up ^ Asimov 1980:388–389
25.Jump up ^ Asimov 1980:407
26.Jump up ^ "Critique, Impulse, September 1966, p. 159.
27.Jump up ^ MAD Cover Site, MAD #110 April 1967.
28.^ Jump up to: a b c d e Asimov, Isaac (1994). I, Asimov. Bantam Books. p. 501. ISBN 0-553-56997-X.
29.^ Jump up to: a b Sciretta, Peter (September 26, 2007). "Roland Emmerich Tries To Explain Why James Cameron's Fantastic Voyage Script Sucked". /Film. Retrieved 2009-11-24.
30.^ Jump up to: a b "Exclusive: Emmerich On Fantastic Voyage". empireonline.com (Bauer Consumer Media). September 25, 2007. Retrieved 2009-11-24.
31.Jump up ^ Fleming, Michael (August 15, 2007). "Emmerich to Captain 'Voyage'". variety.com (Reed Business Information). Retrieved 2007-08-15.
32.Jump up ^ Leins, Jeff (April 4, 2010). "Paul Greengrass Eyes ‘Fantastic Voyage’ in 3D". News in Film. Retrieved 2010-04-04.
33.Jump up ^ "SNL Transcripts: Kirk Douglas: 02/23/80". Retrieved 13 July 2012.
External links[edit]
Fantastic Voyage at the Internet Movie Database
Fantastic Voyage at the TCM Movie Database
Fantastic Voyage at AllMovie
Proteus
3D Model of Proteus Submarine
Various releases of music from the film


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Fantastic Voyage
Fantasticvoyageposter.jpg
film poster by Tom Chantrell

Directed by
Richard Fleischer
Produced by
Saul David
Written by
Story:
Jerome Bixby
 Otto Klement
Screenplay:
 Harry Kleiner
Adaptation:
David Duncan
Starring
Stephen Boyd
Raquel Welch
Edmond O'Brien
Donald Pleasence
Music by
Leonard Rosenman
Cinematography
Ernest Laszlo
Edited by
William B. Murphy
Distributed by
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Release dates

August 24, 1966 (U.S.)


Running time
 100 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$5,115,000[1]
Box office
$12,000,000[2]
Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 science fiction film written by Harry Kleiner, based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby. The film is about a scientist who's nearly killed in an assassination, and the medical team who shrink to microscopic size and venture into his body to repair damage to his brain. However, an unknown assailant tries to sabotage their mission.[3][4][5][6] The original story took place in the 19th century and was meant to be a Jules Verne–inspired adventure tale with a sense of wonder. Kleiner abandoned all but the concept of miniaturization and added a Cold War element. It was directed by Richard Fleischer and stars Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien and Donald Pleasence.
Bantam Books obtained the rights for a paperback novelization based on the screenplay and approached Isaac Asimov to write it.[7] Because the novelization was released six months before the movie, many people mistakenly believed Asimov's book had inspired the film.[8]
The movie inspired an animated television series.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Biological issues and accuracy
5 Music
6 Reception 6.1 Awards and honors
7 Adaptations 7.1 Novelization
7.2 Related novels and comics
7.3 1968 animated television series
8 Similarly-themed movies 8.1 Innerspace (1987)
8.2 Antibody (2002)
9 Sequel/remake plans
10 In popular culture
11 See also
12 References
13 External links

Plot[edit]
The United States and the Soviet Union have both developed technology that can miniaturize matter by shrinking individual atoms, but only for a limited amount of time, depending on how small the item is miniaturized.
Scientist Jan Benes, working behind the Iron Curtain, has figured out how to make the process work indefinitely. With the help of the CIA, he escapes to the West, but an attempted assassination leaves him comatose with a blood clot in his brain.
To save his life, agent Charles Grant (Stephen Boyd), pilot Captain Bill Owens (William Redfield), Dr. Michaels (Donald Pleasence), surgeon Dr. Peter Duval (Arthur Kennedy) and his assistant Cora Peterson (Raquel Welch) are placed aboard a specially designed submarine at the C.M.D.F. (Combined Miniaturized Deterrent Forces) facilities. The submarine, named the Proteus, is then miniaturized and injected into Benes. The ship is reduced to one micrometer, giving the team one hour to remove the clot. After 60 minutes the submarine will begin to revert to its normal size and become vulnerable to Benes' immune system.
The crew faces many obstacles during the mission. An arteriovenous fistula forces them to detour through the heart, where cardiac arrest must be induced to avoid turbulence, through the inner ear (all outside personnel have to remain silent to prevent turbulence) and replenish their supply of oxygen in the lungs. When the surgical laser needed to destroy the clot is damaged, it becomes obvious there is a saboteur on the mission. They cannibalize their radio to repair the device. When they finally reach the clot, there are only six minutes remaining to operate and then exit the body.
Before the mission, Grant was briefed that Duval was the prime suspect as a potential surgical assassin. But as the mission progresses, he pieces the evidence together and begins to suspect Michaels. During the critical phase of the operation, Dr. Michaels knocks Owens out and takes control of the Proteus while the rest of the crew is outside for the operation. Duval successfully removes the clot with the laser, but Michaels tries to crash the sub into the clot area to kill Benes. Grant fires the laser at the ship causing it to veer away and crash. Michaels is trapped in the wreckage and killed when white blood cells attack and destroy the Proteus. Grant saves Owens from the ship and they all swim desperately to one of the eyes where they escape via a teardrop seconds before they return to normal size.
In the original screenplay, there was a follow-up scene where we learn that, because of brain damage caused by the submarine, Benes no longer remembers the formula for unlimited miniaturization. Surviving stills suggest this scene was filmed but never used.
Cast[edit]
Stephen Boyd as Grant
Raquel Welch as Cora
Edmond O'Brien as General Carter
Donald Pleasence as Dr. Michaels
Arthur O'Connell as Colonel Donald Reid          
William Redfield as Captain Bill Owens
Arthur Kennedy as Dr. Duval
Jean Del Val as Jan Benes
Barry Coe as communications aide
Ken Scott as Secret Service
Shelby Grant as nurse
James Brolin as technician
Production[edit]
Isaac Asimov, asked to write the novel from the script, declared that the script was full of plot holes, and received permission to write the book the way he wanted. The novel came out first because he wrote quickly and because of delays in filming.[9] Director Richard Fleischer originally studied medicine and human anatomy in college before choosing to be a movie director.
For the technical and artistic elaboration of the subject, Richard Fleischer asked for the collaboration of two people of the crew he had worked with on the production of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the film he directed for Walt Disney in 1954. The designer of the Nautilus from the Jules Verne adaptation, Harper Goff, also designed the Proteus; the same technical adviser, Fred Zendar, collaborated on both productions.
The military headquarters is 100×30 metres, the Proteus 14×8. The artery, in resin and fiberglass, is 33 metres long and 7 metres wide; the heart is 45×10; the brain 70×33. The plasma effect is produced by chief operator Ernest Laszlo via the use of multicolored turning lights, placed on the outside translucent decors.[10]
Frederick Schodt's book The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the Manga/Anime Revolution claims that FOX wanted to use ideas from an episode of Japanese animator Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy in the film, but never credited him.
Biological issues and accuracy[edit]
In the original movie, the crew (apart from the saboteur) manage to leave Benes's body safely before reverting to normal size, but the Proteus remains inside, as do the remains of the saboteur's body (albeit digested by a white blood cell), and several gallons (full scale) of a carrier solution (presumably saline) used in the injection syringe. Isaac Asimov pointed out that this was a serious logical flaw in the plot,[11] since the submarine (even if reduced to bits of debris) would also revert to normal size, killing Benes in the process. Therefore, in his novelization Asimov had the crew provoke the white cell into following them, so that it drags the submarine to the tear duct, and its wreckage expands outside Benes's body. Asimov solved the problem of the syringe fluid by having the staff inject only a very small amount of miniaturized fluid into Benes, minimizing its effect on him when it expands.
Asimov also dealt with another logical flaw in the original, involving extra oxygen needed by the submarine's crew members. In the film, the submarine enters the lung and crew members pump oxygen into the submarine's stores. However, Asimov knew that the miniaturized crew members would not be able to breathe unminiaturized oxygen molecules. So, in the novel, the oxygen from the lung is processed through a miniaturizing device installed on board the submarine; there is no such device in the original film script.
There is also a flaw when the laser runs out. Grant uses it to stop the Proteus. After he fails to save Michaels, the four survivors swim for Benes' optic nerve, leaving the laser behind in Benes' head. No mention is made regarding this serious flaw, meaning the laser should have grown back, killing Benes.
Music[edit]
The score was composed and conducted by Leonard Rosenman. The composer deliberately wrote no music for the first four reels of the film, before the protagonists enter the human body. Rosenman wrote that "the harmony for the entire score is almost completely atonal except for the very end when our heroes grow to normality".[12]
The complete film score was released in 1998 on compact disc, on Film Score Monthly records.
Reception[edit]
The film received mostly positive reviews and a few criticisms. The weekly entertainment-trade magazine Variety gave the film a positive pre-release review, stating, "The lavish production, boasting some brilliant special effects and superior creative efforts, is an entertaining, enlightening excursion through inner space—the body of a man."[13] Bosley Crowther of the New York Times summarized, "Yessir, for straight science-fiction, this is quite a film—the most colorful and imaginative since Destination Moon" (1950).[14] Richard Schickel of Life Magazine wrote that the rewards would be "plentiful" to audiences who get over the "real whopper" of suspended disbelief required. He found that though the excellent special effects and sets could distract from the scenery's scientific purpose in the story, the "old familiar music of science fiction" in lush new arrangements was a "true delight", and the seriousness with which screenwriter Kleiner and director Fleischer treated the story made it more believable and fun. Schickel made note of, but dismissed, other critics' allegations of "camp."[15]
As of 2012, the film holds a 92% approval rating at the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus being: "The special effects may be a bit dated today, but Fantastic Voyage still holds up well as an imaginative journey into the human body."[16]
Awards and honors[edit]
The film won two Academy Awards and was nominated for three more:[17]
Academy Awards (1966)
Won: Best Art Direction – Color (Jack Martin Smith, Dale Hennesy, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss)Won: Best Special Effects (Art Cruickshank)Nominated: Best Cinematography (Ernest Laszlo)Nominated: Best Film Editing (William B. Murphy)Nominated: Best Sound Editing (Walter Rossi)American Film Institute lists
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – Nominated[18]
AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores – Nominated[19]
AFI's 10 Top 10 – Nominated Science Fiction Film[20]
Adaptations[edit]
Novelization[edit]
After acquiring the film's paperback novelization rights, Bantam Books approached Isaac Asimov to write the novelization, offering him a flat sum of $5,000 with no royalties involved. In his autobiography In Joy Still Felt, Asimov writes, "I turned down the proposal out of hand. Hackwork, I said. Beneath my dignity."[9] However, Bantam Books persisted, and at a meeting with Marc Jaffe and Marcia Nassiter on April 21, 1965, Asimov agreed to read the screenplay.
In the novelization's introduction, Asimov states that he was rather reluctant to write the book because he believed that the miniaturization of matter was physically impossible. But he decided that it was still good fodder for story-telling and that it could still make for some intelligent reading. Plus it was known that 20th Century Fox wanted someone with some science-fiction clout to help promote the film. To his credit, aside from the initial "impossibility" of the shrinking machine, Asimov went to great lengths to accurately portray what it would actually be like to be shrunk to that scale, such as the lights on the sub being highly penetrating to normal matter, time distortion, and other side effects that are completely ignored in the movie.
As noted above, Asimov was bothered by the way the Proteus was left in Benes, and in a subsequent meeting with Jaffe he insisted that he would have to change the ending so that the submarine was brought out. Asimov also felt the need to gain permission from his usual science fiction publisher, Doubleday, to do the novel. Doubleday did not object, and had suggested his name to Bantam in the first place. Asimov began work on the novel on May 31, and completed it on July 23.[21]
Asimov did not want any of his books, even a film novelization, to appear only in paperback, so in August he persuaded Austin Olney of Houghton Mifflin to publish a hardcover edition, assuring him that the book would sell at least eight thousand copies, which it did.[22] However, since the rights to the story were held by Otto Klement, who had co-written the original story treatment, Asimov would not be entitled to any royalties. By the time the hardcover edition was published in March 1966, Houghton Mifflin had persuaded Klement to allow Asimov to have a quarter of the royalties.[23] Klement also negotiated for The Saturday Evening Post to serialize an abridged version of the novel, and he agreed to give Asimov half the payment for it. Fantastic Voyage appeared in the February 26 and March 12, 1966 issues of the Post.[24]
Bantam Books released the paperback edition of the novel in September 1966 to coincide with the release of the film.[25]
Harry Harrison, reviewing the Asimov novelization, called it a "Jerry-built monstrosity", praising the descriptions of science-fiction events as "Asimov at his best" while condemning the narrative framework as "inane drivel".[26]
Related novels and comics[edit]
Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain was written by Isaac Asimov as an attempt to develop and present his own story apart from the 1966 screenplay. This novel is not a sequel to the original, but instead is a separate story taking place in the Soviet Union with an entirely different set of characters.
Fantastic Voyage: Microcosm is a third interpretation, written by Kevin J. Anderson, published in 2001. This version has the crew of the Proteus explore the body of a dead alien that crash-lands on earth, and updates the story with such modern concepts as nanotechnology (replacing killer white cells).
A comic book adaptation of the film was released by Gold Key Comics in 1967. Drawn by industry legend Wally Wood, the book followed the plot of the movie with general accuracy, but many scenes were depicted differently and/or outright dropped, and the ending was given an epilogue similar as that seen in some of the early draft scripts for the film.
A parody of the film titled Fantastecch Voyage was published in Mad Magazine. It was illustrated by Mort Drucker and written by Larry Siegel in regular issue #110, April 1967.[27] The advertising-business-themed spoof has the crew—from L.S.M.F.T. (Laboratory Sector for Making Folks Tiny)—sent to inject decongestant into a badly plugged-up nose.
1968 animated television series[edit]
Two years after the film was released, ABC aired an animated series of the same name on Saturday mornings. The series was produced by Filmation.
In the series, a different team of experts performed their missions in a craft known as Voyager, a submarine which featured wedge-shaped wings and large, swept T-tail, and was capable of flight. A model kit of Voyager was offered by Aurora Model Company for several years, and has become a sought-after collectors' item since then.
As of June 2008, the Voyager kit has been re-released by the Moebius model company.
Similarly-themed movies[edit]
Innerspace (1987)[edit]
Main article: Innerspace
In 1987, director Joe Dante made Innerspace, which reworked the story of Fantastic Voyage, but remade as a comedy starring Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, and Meg Ryan. A test miniaturized sub and pilot are injected into a grocery store clerk in error, instead of a test rabbit as planned. Now trapped in an unwitting human's body, the pilot needs to work with the clerk to escape and stop the bad guys from trying to steal the prototype technology.
Antibody (2002)[edit]
Main article: Antibody (film)
Antibody, a movie closely based on Fantastic Voyage, was released on the SciFi channel in 2002. In this film a submarine with its crew is miniaturized and injected into the body of a terrorist, to prevent an attack on Washington D.C.
Sequel/remake plans[edit]
Plans for a sequel or remake have been in discussion since at least 1984, but the project has been stuck in development hell ever since. In 1984, Isaac Asimov was approached to write Fantastic Voyage II, out of which a movie would be made.[28] Asimov "was sent a suggested outline" that mirrored the movie Innerspace and "involved two vessels in the bloodstream, one American and one Soviet, and what followed was a kind of submicroscopic version of World War III".[28] Asimov was against such an approach. Following a dispute between publishers, the original commissioners of the novel approached Philip José Farmer, who "wrote a novel and sent [in] the manuscript" that was rejected despite "stick[ing] tightly to the outline [that was sent to Asimov]".[28] "It dealt with World War III in the bloodstream, and it was full of action and excitement".[28] Although Asimov urged the publisher to accept Farmer's manuscript, it was insisted that Asimov write the novel. So, Asimov eventually wrote the book in his own way (completely different in plot from what [Farmer] had written), which was eventually published by Doubleday in 1987 as Fantastic Voyage II and "dealt not with competing submarines in the bloodstream, but with one submarine, with [an] American hero cooperating (not entirely voluntarily) with four Soviet crew members".[28] The novel was not made into a movie, however.
James Cameron was also interested in directing a remake (since at least 1997),[29] but decided to devote his efforts to his Avatar project. He still remained open to the idea of producing a feature based on his own screenplay, and in 2007, 20th Century Fox announced that pre-production on the project was finally underway. Roland Emmerich agreed to direct, but rejected the script written by Cameron.[29][30] Marianne and Cormac Wibberley were hired to write a new script, but the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike delayed filming, and Emmerich began working on 2012 instead.[30][31]
In spring 2010, Paul Greengrass was considering directing the remake from a script written by Shane Salerno and produced by James Cameron, but later dropped out to be replaced by Shawn Levy. It is intended that the film be shot in native stereoscopic 3D.[32]
In popular culture[edit]
Many films, television shows, cartoons and video games parodied Fantastic Voyage:
A 1980 episode of Saturday Night Live parodies the story with a miniaturized team of dentists sent to fix Anwar Sadat's teeth. Host Kirk Douglas plays the team leader.[33]
The film is alluded to in Season 4 of the medical drama series House, where the Emmy Award-winning 2008 episode "House's Head" jokes about exploring a patient's brain in a miniaturized submarine.
The show is parodied in Season 2, Episode 25 of the animated Nickelodeon TV series Rugrats, and Season 1, Episode 14 of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, especially an episode of Invader Zim, entitled "NanoZiM", where ZiM invades Dib's body, as well as in The Fairly Oddparents episode entitled "Tiny Timmy".
Two The Ren & Stimpy Show episodes parody the story, namely "The Cat That Laid The Golden Hairball" from season 2 and "Blazing Entrails" from season 4.
In "Journey to the Centre of the Punk" of The Mighty Boosh, Howard and Lester shrink to microscopic size to fight a malignant jazz cell infecting Vince.
It was also parodied on The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror XV". "Parasites Lost", Episode 2 of Season 3 of Futurama, is another Fantastic Voyage parody.
"Fruitastic VoyOrange", Episode 12 of Season 1 of The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange was also a Fantastic Voyage Parody.
Another Fantastic Voyage parody was "Itsy Bitsy Enemy Within", an episode of Pucca, where Tobe and his minions go inside of Garu's body to mess with his life.
Fantastic Voyage was also parodied in an episode of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, where grandpa swallows Wayne and his family.
Cow and Chicken did also parody Fantastic Voyage in an episode where Chicken ends up inside of cow in "Journey to the Center of Cow".
There was also an episode of Lilo & Stitch that parodied Fantastic Voyage.
It was also parodied in an episode of Space Goofs called "Inside Gorgious", and an episode of Oggy and the Cockroaches called "Globulopolis".
It was also parodied in an episode of Sidekick called "Internal Affairs", where Master XOX invades Eric's body.
Fantastic Voyage was parodied in the Dexter's Laboratory episode "Fantastic Boyage."
Fantastic Voyage was parodied in the Codename: Kids Next Door episode "Operation: S.P.R.O.U.T."
Fantastic Voyage was Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Unremarkable Voyage"
Tiny Toons Adventures did a parody of Fantastic Voyage in the episode "Inside Plucky Duck."
It was also parodied in SpongeBob SquarePants in two episodes, as "Squidtastic Voyage" and "The Inside Job".
It was also parodied in The Mask: The Animated Series as "Fantashtick Voyage".
Fantastic Voyage was also parodied in the "Journey to the Center of Mason" episode of Wizards of Waverly Place.
Batman: The Brave and the Bold also made a parody of Fantastic Voyage inside of Batman in "Journey to the Center of the Bat".
"The Journey" episode of Animorphs is based on, and mentions, Fantastic Voyage.
In the "Emission Impossible" episode of Family Guy, Stewie miniaturizes himself and a spaceship to enter Peter's body and prevent Peter and Lois from having another baby.
It was also parodied in the entire show, Ozzy & Drix, as well as the theatrical pilot, Osmosis Jones.
Regular Show also even made a Fantastic Voyage parodied episode called "Cool Cubed", where Thomas freezes his brain after chugging down a "Cool Cubed" slushie. Because of that, Mordecai and Rigby travel into his head to stop it from freezing his brain's core.
The Epcot attraction Body Wars was based on the film.
The movie's title is parodied in the fifth novel in the Franny K. Stein series, Frantastic Voyage.
An episode of Phineas and Ferb titled "Journey to the Center of Candace" had the boys in a submarine shrunken down and inside their big sister Candace.
In the 1977 Doctor Who story The Invisible Enemy, the Doctor and his companion Leela are cloned, miniaturized and injected into the Doctor's host body in attempt to locate the nucleus of an intelligent virus which is possessing the Time Lord. Many aspects of the original film are used including some areas of set-design, the use of hostile anti-bodies and the tear-duct as a means of escape.
Another Doctor Who episode from 2014, "Into the Dalek", has the Doctor and his companion being miniaturized again. Only this time they go inside a Dalek.
The music video for Placebo single "Special K" is based loosely on the film.
The Venture Bros. episode "The Diving Bell Vs. The Butter-Glider" includes a parody of Fantastic Voyage.
See also[edit]
List of American films of 1966
Microsurgery
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p. 254
2.Jump up ^ "Fantastic Voyage, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
3.Jump up ^ Menville, Douglas Alver; R. Reginald (1977). Things to Come: An Illustrated History of the Science Fiction Film. Times Books. p. 133. ISBN 0-8129-0710-8.
4.Jump up ^ Fischer, Dennis (2000). Science Fiction Film Directors, 1895–1998. McFarland. p. 192. ISBN 0-7864-0740-9.
5.Jump up ^ Maltin, Leonard (2008). Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide (2009 ed.). Penguin Group. p. 438. ISBN 0-452-28978-5. Retrieved 2009-11-23.
6.Jump up ^ "Full cast and crew for 'Fantastic Voyage'". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-11-23.
7.Jump up ^ Asimov, Isaac (1980). In Joy Still Felt: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1954–1978. New York: Avon. p. 363. ISBN 0-380-53025-2.
8.Jump up ^ Asimov 1980:390.
9.^ Jump up to: a b Asimov 1980:363
10.Jump up ^ Brodesco, Alberto (2011). "I’ve Got you under my Skin: Narratives of the Inner Body in Cinema and Television". Nuncius. Journal of the material and visual history of science 26: 206. Retrieved 19 July 2012.
11.Jump up ^ Asimov 1980:363–364
12.Jump up ^ Bond, Jeff (1998). Fantastic Voyage (CD insert notes). Leonard Rosenman. Los Angeles, California: Film Score Monthly. pp. p. 2. Vol. 1, No. 3.
13.Jump up ^ "Fantastic Voyage Review". Variety. Reed Business Information. December 31, 1965. Retrieved 2010-08-01. (extract)
14.Jump up ^ Crowther, Bosley (September 8, 1966). "Screen: 'Fantastic Voyage' Is All That". New York Times. Viewed 2010-09-09. (registration required)
15.Jump up ^ Schickel, Richard (September 23, 1966). "A Wild Trip in a Blood Vessel". Movie Review. Life Magazine. p. 16. Retrieved 2010-09-09. (archive)
16.Jump up ^ "Fantastic Voyage Movie Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2012-11-08.
17.Jump up ^ "NY Times: Fantastic Voyage – Awards". NY Times. All Movie Guide. Retrieved 2008-12-27.
18.Jump up ^ AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies Nominees
19.Jump up ^ AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores Nominees
20.Jump up ^ AFI's 10 Top 10 Ballot
21.Jump up ^ Asimov 1980:366–370
22.Jump up ^ Asimov 1980:371
23.Jump up ^ Asimov 1980:390
24.Jump up ^ Asimov 1980:388–389
25.Jump up ^ Asimov 1980:407
26.Jump up ^ "Critique, Impulse, September 1966, p. 159.
27.Jump up ^ MAD Cover Site, MAD #110 April 1967.
28.^ Jump up to: a b c d e Asimov, Isaac (1994). I, Asimov. Bantam Books. p. 501. ISBN 0-553-56997-X.
29.^ Jump up to: a b Sciretta, Peter (September 26, 2007). "Roland Emmerich Tries To Explain Why James Cameron's Fantastic Voyage Script Sucked". /Film. Retrieved 2009-11-24.
30.^ Jump up to: a b "Exclusive: Emmerich On Fantastic Voyage". empireonline.com (Bauer Consumer Media). September 25, 2007. Retrieved 2009-11-24.
31.Jump up ^ Fleming, Michael (August 15, 2007). "Emmerich to Captain 'Voyage'". variety.com (Reed Business Information). Retrieved 2007-08-15.
32.Jump up ^ Leins, Jeff (April 4, 2010). "Paul Greengrass Eyes ‘Fantastic Voyage’ in 3D". News in Film. Retrieved 2010-04-04.
33.Jump up ^ "SNL Transcripts: Kirk Douglas: 02/23/80". Retrieved 13 July 2012.
External links[edit]
Fantastic Voyage at the Internet Movie Database
Fantastic Voyage at the TCM Movie Database
Fantastic Voyage at AllMovie
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The Sea Around Us
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Film poster for "The Sea Around Us"

Directed by
Irwin Allen
Produced by
Irwin Allen
Rachel L. Carson
Written by
Irwin Allen
Narrated by
Don Forbes
Theodore von Eltz
Music by
Constantin Bakaleinikoff
Cinematography
Doane Harrison
Edited by
Frederic Knudtson
Distributed by
RKO

Release dates

July 7, 1953[1]


Running time
 61 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
The Sea Around Us is a 1953 American documentary film directed by Irwin Allen and released by RKO. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[2][3] It was based on the Rachel Carson book of the same name.
Cast[edit]
##Don Forbes as Narrator
##Theodore von Eltz as Narrator
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "The Sea Around Us: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved June 1, 2014.
2.Jump up ^ Crowther, Bosley. "NY Times: The Sea Around Us". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-11-08.
3.Jump up ^ "The 25th Academy Awards (1953) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-20.
External links[edit]
##The Sea Around Us at the Internet Movie Database


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The Sea Around Us
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Film poster for "The Sea Around Us"

Directed by
Irwin Allen
Produced by
Irwin Allen
Rachel L. Carson
Written by
Irwin Allen
Narrated by
Don Forbes
Theodore von Eltz
Music by
Constantin Bakaleinikoff
Cinematography
Doane Harrison
Edited by
Frederic Knudtson
Distributed by
RKO

Release dates

July 7, 1953[1]


Running time
 61 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
The Sea Around Us is a 1953 American documentary film directed by Irwin Allen and released by RKO. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[2][3] It was based on the Rachel Carson book of the same name.
Cast[edit]
##Don Forbes as Narrator
##Theodore von Eltz as Narrator
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "The Sea Around Us: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved June 1, 2014.
2.Jump up ^ Crowther, Bosley. "NY Times: The Sea Around Us". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-11-08.
3.Jump up ^ "The 25th Academy Awards (1953) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-20.
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##The Sea Around Us at the Internet Movie Database


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The Sea Around Us
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For the documentary film, see The Sea Around Us (film).
The Sea Around Us
TheSeaAroundUs.jpg
First edition1

Author
Rachel Carson
Cover artist
'the Strimlams'
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Sea trilogy
Subject
Marine biology and history
Genre
Nature writing
Publisher
Oxford

Publication date
 July 1951 (previously serialized in part)
Media type
Print
Preceded by
Under the Sea Wind
Followed by
The Edge of the Sea
The Sea Around Us is a prize-winning and best-selling book by the American marine biologist Rachel Carson, first published as a whole by Oxford University Press in 1951. It reveals the science and poetry of the sea while ranging from its primeval beginnings to the latest scientific probings. Often described as "poetic", it was Carson's second published book and the one that launched her into the public eye and a second career as a writer and conservationist; in retrospect it is counted the second book of her so-called sea trilogy.
The Sea Around Us won both the 1952 National Book Award for Nonfiction[1] and a Burroughs Medal in nature writing.[2] It remained on the New York Times Best Seller List for 86 weeks[3] and it has been translated into 28 languages.[4]


Contents  [hide]
1 History
2 Critical reception
3 Adaptations
4 See also
5 Notes and references

History[edit]
Simon & Schuster had published her first book Under the Sea Wind in 1941; it was reviewed favorably but it sold poorly. Carson initially planned to call the sequel Return to the Sea, and began writing in 1948, just after hiring Marie Rodell as her literary agent.[5] Carson began by writing a single chapter (what would be "The Birth of an Island") along with a detailed outline, which Rodell used to pitch the book to publishers. During research for the book, Carson met with a number of oceanographers to discuss current research. Carson and Rodell had little initial success with magazines as outlets for the islands chapter, nor for a second chapter titled "Another Beachhead". In April 1949, with about a third of the chapters complete, Rodell began trying to find a publisher for the entire book. By June she had arranged a contract with Oxford University Press that promised completion of the manuscript by March 1, 1950. Carson continued to write and research through 1949 and into 1950, despite unexpected health and financial difficulties. In part the research involved a trip aboard a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ship, Albatross III. After revising the completion date, Carson completed the manuscript in June 1950. By that time, several periodicals (The New Yorker, Science Digest, and The Yale Review) were interested in publishing some of the chapters.[6]
Nine of fourteen chapters were serialized in The New Yorker beginning on June 2, 1951, and the book was published on July 2 by Oxford University Press. The serialization created a very large popular response, and the book was the subject of the feature review in The New York Times Book Review the day before publication. One chapter ("The Birth of an Island") was published in The Yale Review; it won the George Westinghouse Science Writing prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[7]
Critical reception[edit]
After the book's release, Carson was inundated with an unexpected volume of fan mail and media attention. She was soon the object of attention from "the literary crowd", and because of a subsequent condensation in Reader's Digest, a very broad general audience as well. The book sold over 250,000 copies in 1951, in addition to the condensation and excerpts published elsewhere.[8]
Adaptations[edit]
A film version was filmed in 1952 and released in 1953; it won the 1953 Oscar for Best Documentary (though Carson was extremely disappointed with the script and would never sell film rights to her work again).[9]
See also[edit]
Sea Around Us Project
Notes and references[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "National Book Awards – 1952". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
 (With acceptance speech by Carson and essay by Neil Baldwin from the Awards 50-year anniversary publications.)
2.Jump up ^ Lear, Rachel Carson, chapters 8 and 9
3.Jump up ^ Miller GT. 2004. Sustaining the Earth, 6th edition. Thompson Learning, Inc. Pacific Grove, California. Chapter 9, Pages 211–16.
4.Jump up ^ The Water Encyclopedia claims thirty-three translations. Retrieved September 13, 2007.
5.Jump up ^ Lear, Rachel Carson, chapter 6
6.Jump up ^ Lear, Rachel Carson, chapter 7
7.Jump up ^ Lear, Rachel Carson, chapter 8
8.Jump up ^ Lear, Rachel Carson, p. 223.
9.Jump up ^ Lear, Rachel Carson, chapter 10
Lear, Linda. Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. Henry Holt and Company, New York: 1997. ISBN 0-8050-3427-7
  


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The Sea Around Us
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For the documentary film, see The Sea Around Us (film).
The Sea Around Us
TheSeaAroundUs.jpg
First edition1

Author
Rachel Carson
Cover artist
'the Strimlams'
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Sea trilogy
Subject
Marine biology and history
Genre
Nature writing
Publisher
Oxford

Publication date
 July 1951 (previously serialized in part)
Media type
Print
Preceded by
Under the Sea Wind
Followed by
The Edge of the Sea
The Sea Around Us is a prize-winning and best-selling book by the American marine biologist Rachel Carson, first published as a whole by Oxford University Press in 1951. It reveals the science and poetry of the sea while ranging from its primeval beginnings to the latest scientific probings. Often described as "poetic", it was Carson's second published book and the one that launched her into the public eye and a second career as a writer and conservationist; in retrospect it is counted the second book of her so-called sea trilogy.
The Sea Around Us won both the 1952 National Book Award for Nonfiction[1] and a Burroughs Medal in nature writing.[2] It remained on the New York Times Best Seller List for 86 weeks[3] and it has been translated into 28 languages.[4]


Contents  [hide]
1 History
2 Critical reception
3 Adaptations
4 See also
5 Notes and references

History[edit]
Simon & Schuster had published her first book Under the Sea Wind in 1941; it was reviewed favorably but it sold poorly. Carson initially planned to call the sequel Return to the Sea, and began writing in 1948, just after hiring Marie Rodell as her literary agent.[5] Carson began by writing a single chapter (what would be "The Birth of an Island") along with a detailed outline, which Rodell used to pitch the book to publishers. During research for the book, Carson met with a number of oceanographers to discuss current research. Carson and Rodell had little initial success with magazines as outlets for the islands chapter, nor for a second chapter titled "Another Beachhead". In April 1949, with about a third of the chapters complete, Rodell began trying to find a publisher for the entire book. By June she had arranged a contract with Oxford University Press that promised completion of the manuscript by March 1, 1950. Carson continued to write and research through 1949 and into 1950, despite unexpected health and financial difficulties. In part the research involved a trip aboard a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ship, Albatross III. After revising the completion date, Carson completed the manuscript in June 1950. By that time, several periodicals (The New Yorker, Science Digest, and The Yale Review) were interested in publishing some of the chapters.[6]
Nine of fourteen chapters were serialized in The New Yorker beginning on June 2, 1951, and the book was published on July 2 by Oxford University Press. The serialization created a very large popular response, and the book was the subject of the feature review in The New York Times Book Review the day before publication. One chapter ("The Birth of an Island") was published in The Yale Review; it won the George Westinghouse Science Writing prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[7]
Critical reception[edit]
After the book's release, Carson was inundated with an unexpected volume of fan mail and media attention. She was soon the object of attention from "the literary crowd", and because of a subsequent condensation in Reader's Digest, a very broad general audience as well. The book sold over 250,000 copies in 1951, in addition to the condensation and excerpts published elsewhere.[8]
Adaptations[edit]
A film version was filmed in 1952 and released in 1953; it won the 1953 Oscar for Best Documentary (though Carson was extremely disappointed with the script and would never sell film rights to her work again).[9]
See also[edit]
Sea Around Us Project
Notes and references[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "National Book Awards – 1952". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
 (With acceptance speech by Carson and essay by Neil Baldwin from the Awards 50-year anniversary publications.)
2.Jump up ^ Lear, Rachel Carson, chapters 8 and 9
3.Jump up ^ Miller GT. 2004. Sustaining the Earth, 6th edition. Thompson Learning, Inc. Pacific Grove, California. Chapter 9, Pages 211–16.
4.Jump up ^ The Water Encyclopedia claims thirty-three translations. Retrieved September 13, 2007.
5.Jump up ^ Lear, Rachel Carson, chapter 6
6.Jump up ^ Lear, Rachel Carson, chapter 7
7.Jump up ^ Lear, Rachel Carson, chapter 8
8.Jump up ^ Lear, Rachel Carson, p. 223.
9.Jump up ^ Lear, Rachel Carson, chapter 10
Lear, Linda. Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. Henry Holt and Company, New York: 1997. ISBN 0-8050-3427-7
  


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Under the Sea Wind
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Under the Sea Wind
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Author
Rachel L. Carson
Illustrator
Howard Frech (first)
Robert W. Hines (1991)
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Sea trilogy
Subject
Ocean and shore life
Genre
Nature writing
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
 Oxford 1952; Penguin Nature Classics 1996

Publication date
 1941
Media type
Print
Followed by
The Sea Around Us
Under the Sea Wind: A Naturalist's Picture of Ocean Life (1941) is the first book written by the American marine biologist Rachel Carson. It was published by Simon & Schuster in 1941, when it received very good reviews but sold poorly. After the great success of a sequel The Sea Around Us (Oxford, 1951), it was reissued by Oxford University Press; that edition was an alternate Book-of-the-Month Club selection and became another bestseller. It is recognised today as one of the "definitive works of American nature writing,"[1] and is in print as one of the Penguin Nature Classics.
Description[edit]
Under the Sea Wind describes the behaviour of fish and seabirds accurately, but in story form, often using the scientific names of species as character names. Carson's stated goal in doing so was "to make the sea and its life as vivid a reality for those who may read the book as it has become for me during the past decade."[2] The first of her characters is introduced this way:

With the dusk a strange bird came to the island from its nesting grounds on the outer banks. Its wings were pure black, and from tip to tip their spread was more than the length of a man's arm. It flew steadily and without haste across the sound, its progress as measured and as meaningful as that of the shadows which little by little were dulling the bright water path. The bird was called Rynchops, the black skimmer.[3]
The middle section of the book follows the life-story of Scomber, the mackerel, while the last part describes pond creatures such as eels and ducks. A glossary at the end of the book provides additional detail.[4]
Assessment[edit]
The style of Carson's writing makes the book suitable for children as well as adults, and the appeal is enhanced with illustrations, originally by Howard Frech, and replaced in 1991 with illustrations by Robert W. Hines. Carson acknowledged the influence of nature-novelist Henry Williamson on her writing style,[5] but uses her scientific expertise to ground Under the Sea Wind in scientifically accurate detail on each animal's appearance, diet and behaviour.[6]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Bryson, Michael A. Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology. University of Virginia Press, 2002, page 144. ISBN 0-8139-2107-4.
2.Jump up ^ Quaratiello, Arlene. Rachel Carson: A Biography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2004, pages 26–27. ISBN 0-313-32388-7.
3.Jump up ^ Carson, Rachel. Under the Sea-Wind. Penguin Nature Classics edition (1996), pages 4–5. ISBN 0-14-025380-7.
4.Jump up ^ Carson, pages 273–304.
5.Jump up ^ Quaratiello, page 29.
6.Jump up ^ Stewart, Frank. A Natural History of Nature Writing. Island Press, 1995, page 170. ISBN 1-55963-279-8.
  


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Under the Sea Wind
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Under the Sea Wind
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Author
Rachel L. Carson
Illustrator
Howard Frech (first)
Robert W. Hines (1991)
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Sea trilogy
Subject
Ocean and shore life
Genre
Nature writing
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
 Oxford 1952; Penguin Nature Classics 1996

Publication date
 1941
Media type
Print
Followed by
The Sea Around Us
Under the Sea Wind: A Naturalist's Picture of Ocean Life (1941) is the first book written by the American marine biologist Rachel Carson. It was published by Simon & Schuster in 1941, when it received very good reviews but sold poorly. After the great success of a sequel The Sea Around Us (Oxford, 1951), it was reissued by Oxford University Press; that edition was an alternate Book-of-the-Month Club selection and became another bestseller. It is recognised today as one of the "definitive works of American nature writing,"[1] and is in print as one of the Penguin Nature Classics.
Description[edit]
Under the Sea Wind describes the behaviour of fish and seabirds accurately, but in story form, often using the scientific names of species as character names. Carson's stated goal in doing so was "to make the sea and its life as vivid a reality for those who may read the book as it has become for me during the past decade."[2] The first of her characters is introduced this way:

With the dusk a strange bird came to the island from its nesting grounds on the outer banks. Its wings were pure black, and from tip to tip their spread was more than the length of a man's arm. It flew steadily and without haste across the sound, its progress as measured and as meaningful as that of the shadows which little by little were dulling the bright water path. The bird was called Rynchops, the black skimmer.[3]
The middle section of the book follows the life-story of Scomber, the mackerel, while the last part describes pond creatures such as eels and ducks. A glossary at the end of the book provides additional detail.[4]
Assessment[edit]
The style of Carson's writing makes the book suitable for children as well as adults, and the appeal is enhanced with illustrations, originally by Howard Frech, and replaced in 1991 with illustrations by Robert W. Hines. Carson acknowledged the influence of nature-novelist Henry Williamson on her writing style,[5] but uses her scientific expertise to ground Under the Sea Wind in scientifically accurate detail on each animal's appearance, diet and behaviour.[6]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Bryson, Michael A. Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology. University of Virginia Press, 2002, page 144. ISBN 0-8139-2107-4.
2.Jump up ^ Quaratiello, Arlene. Rachel Carson: A Biography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2004, pages 26–27. ISBN 0-313-32388-7.
3.Jump up ^ Carson, Rachel. Under the Sea-Wind. Penguin Nature Classics edition (1996), pages 4–5. ISBN 0-14-025380-7.
4.Jump up ^ Carson, pages 273–304.
5.Jump up ^ Quaratiello, page 29.
6.Jump up ^ Stewart, Frank. A Natural History of Nature Writing. Island Press, 1995, page 170. ISBN 1-55963-279-8.
  


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The Edge of the Sea
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The Edge of the Sea
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First US edition

Author
Rachel Carson
Illustrator
Bob Hines
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Sea Trilogy
Subject
Ocean and shore life
Genre
Nature writing
Publisher
OUP (UK) Houghton Mifflin (US)

Publication date
 1955
Media type
Print
ISBN
n/a
Preceded by
The Sea Around Us
The Edge of the Sea is a book by the American conservationist Rachel Carson, first published by Houghton Mifflin in the U.S. in 1955. It is counted the third book of her so-called sea trilogy.
The Edge of the Sea was made commercially possible by the smash success of its predecessor The Sea Around Us in 1951 and 1952. Carson had become a full-time writer and this third book may be called her first as a conservationist rather than a marine biologist.
Excerpt[edit]
“ The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place. All through the long history of Earth it has been an area of unrest where waves have broken heavily against the land, where the tides have pressed forward over the continents, receded and then returned. For no two successive days is the shore line precisely the same. Not only do the tides advance and retreat in their eternal rhythms, but the level of the sea itself is never at rest. It rises or falls as the glaciers melt or grow, as the floor of the deep ocean basins shifts under its increasing load of sediments, or as the earth's crust along the continental margins warps up or down in adjustment to strain and tension. Today a little more land may belong to the sea, tomorrow a little less. Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. ”
See also[edit]
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The Edge of the Sea
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The Edge of the Sea
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First US edition

Author
Rachel Carson
Illustrator
Bob Hines
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Sea Trilogy
Subject
Ocean and shore life
Genre
Nature writing
Publisher
OUP (UK) Houghton Mifflin (US)

Publication date
 1955
Media type
Print
ISBN
n/a
Preceded by
The Sea Around Us
The Edge of the Sea is a book by the American conservationist Rachel Carson, first published by Houghton Mifflin in the U.S. in 1955. It is counted the third book of her so-called sea trilogy.
The Edge of the Sea was made commercially possible by the smash success of its predecessor The Sea Around Us in 1951 and 1952. Carson had become a full-time writer and this third book may be called her first as a conservationist rather than a marine biologist.
Excerpt[edit]
“ The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place. All through the long history of Earth it has been an area of unrest where waves have broken heavily against the land, where the tides have pressed forward over the continents, receded and then returned. For no two successive days is the shore line precisely the same. Not only do the tides advance and retreat in their eternal rhythms, but the level of the sea itself is never at rest. It rises or falls as the glaciers melt or grow, as the floor of the deep ocean basins shifts under its increasing load of sediments, or as the earth's crust along the continental margins warps up or down in adjustment to strain and tension. Today a little more land may belong to the sea, tomorrow a little less. Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. ”
See also[edit]
Environmentalism
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City Beneath the Sea (1971 film)
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City Beneath the Sea

Directed by
Irwin Allen
Produced by
Irwin Allen
 Sidney Marshall
Written by
Story: Irwin Allen
Screenplay: John Meredyth Lucas
Starring
Stuart Whitman
Rosemary Forsyth
Robert Colbert
Burr DeBenning
Robert Wagner
Richard Basehart
Music by
Richard LaSalle
Cinematography
Kenneth Peach
Edited by
James Baiotto

Production
 company

Motion Pictures International

Distributed by
Warner Bros. Television Distribution

Release dates

January 25, 1971


Running time
 98 min
Country
United States
Language
English

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City Beneath the Sea is a 1971 science fiction television film and television pilot for a proposed series by Irwin Allen. It started as a conceptual 10 minute demo reel as a means to sell the plot and concept to television studios. The concept was not bought initially and a few years later Allen produced a two hour telefilm for NBC. The two hour movie again failed to gain the response necessary to be picked up as a series, but has remained a cult favorite amongst sci-fi and Irwin Allen fans. In the UK it was shown theatrically in 1972. It was released on DVD as part of the Warner Archive Collection.


Contents  [hide]
1 Storyline
2 The original concept
3 1971 telefilm
4 External links

Storyline[edit]
 This section is incomplete. (February 2011)
On June 12, 2053, a futuristic oil rig explodes somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. Retired Admiral Michael Matthews (Whitman) is busy in his New York City office, administering various engineering projects in different parts of the world. He receives a phone call from the President of the United States (Basehart). After much debate and against his will, he is reactivated at his old rank as administrator of Pacifica, the underwater city. His escort, Commander Woody Patterson (Colbert), arrives. They take off via flying submarine for Pacifica. Matthews regrets returning to the city, due to a past tragedy that occurred there, and apologizes because his return means that Patterson will be forcibly demoted without cause. The two officers discuss the ongoing transfer of gold from Fort Knox to Pacifica, a project that began under Matthews' previous administration six months previously and is now nearing completion. The entirety of the United States gold reserve will be secured at Pacifica within 17 days.
The original concept[edit]
Allen filmed the original concept for City Beneath The Sea as a sci-fi vehicle set in the year 2068. The proposed cast consisted of Glenn Corbett, Lloyd Bochner, Lawrence Montaigne, Francine York, Cecile Ozorio and a young but experienced James Brolin. The plot concerned the destruction of an undersea drilling project that could possibly threaten the undersea city of Triton. Triton is a thriving underwater city run by General Kevin Matthews (Corbett) with his associates Lia Holmes (York), scientific advisor Dr. Raymond Aguila (Montaigne) — an amphibian/human hybrid who can breathe underwater — and his head of security Choo Choo Kino (Ozorio). Their lead engineer Temple (Bochner) is scheming to put an end to an underwater drilling project, which is spearheaded by the US government and run by Matthews' team. The finale involves Matthews confronting Temple on the project's surface platform as it is destroyed in flames.
The original concept was never aired. It remained unseen by the public until the release of the DVD The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen in 1995, where it was included as a special feature.
1971 telefilm[edit]
The concept was later revisited by Allen and seasoned TV screenwriter John Meredyth Lucas in the form of a 2 hour movie of the week. The story combined a natural disaster story with high-stakes crime drama and futuristic adventure. In addition, many props and models from Allen's previous scifi series made appearances. Stuart Whitman would play the lead as the city's administrator Admiral Michael Matthews with Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Colbert, Burr DeBenning and Robert Wagner as supporting cast. Richard LaSalle composed the music to the film. The movie became a cult favorite amongst sci-fi and Irwin Allen fans,[citation needed] but again failed to be picked up as a series.
External links[edit]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896922/ 1968 Pre Production Reel Entry
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065556/ 1971 Telemovie Entry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZrifEjU-H0 Original Pre Production Reel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNH_q0qXSHw Excerpt from 1971 Film


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City Beneath the Sea (1971 film)
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City Beneath the Sea

Directed by
Irwin Allen
Produced by
Irwin Allen
 Sidney Marshall
Written by
Story: Irwin Allen
Screenplay: John Meredyth Lucas
Starring
Stuart Whitman
Rosemary Forsyth
Robert Colbert
Burr DeBenning
Robert Wagner
Richard Basehart
Music by
Richard LaSalle
Cinematography
Kenneth Peach
Edited by
James Baiotto

Production
 company

Motion Pictures International

Distributed by
Warner Bros. Television Distribution

Release dates

January 25, 1971


Running time
 98 min
Country
United States
Language
English

Question book-new.svg
 This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (February 2011)
City Beneath the Sea is a 1971 science fiction television film and television pilot for a proposed series by Irwin Allen. It started as a conceptual 10 minute demo reel as a means to sell the plot and concept to television studios. The concept was not bought initially and a few years later Allen produced a two hour telefilm for NBC. The two hour movie again failed to gain the response necessary to be picked up as a series, but has remained a cult favorite amongst sci-fi and Irwin Allen fans. In the UK it was shown theatrically in 1972. It was released on DVD as part of the Warner Archive Collection.


Contents  [hide]
1 Storyline
2 The original concept
3 1971 telefilm
4 External links

Storyline[edit]
 This section is incomplete. (February 2011)
On June 12, 2053, a futuristic oil rig explodes somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. Retired Admiral Michael Matthews (Whitman) is busy in his New York City office, administering various engineering projects in different parts of the world. He receives a phone call from the President of the United States (Basehart). After much debate and against his will, he is reactivated at his old rank as administrator of Pacifica, the underwater city. His escort, Commander Woody Patterson (Colbert), arrives. They take off via flying submarine for Pacifica. Matthews regrets returning to the city, due to a past tragedy that occurred there, and apologizes because his return means that Patterson will be forcibly demoted without cause. The two officers discuss the ongoing transfer of gold from Fort Knox to Pacifica, a project that began under Matthews' previous administration six months previously and is now nearing completion. The entirety of the United States gold reserve will be secured at Pacifica within 17 days.
The original concept[edit]
Allen filmed the original concept for City Beneath The Sea as a sci-fi vehicle set in the year 2068. The proposed cast consisted of Glenn Corbett, Lloyd Bochner, Lawrence Montaigne, Francine York, Cecile Ozorio and a young but experienced James Brolin. The plot concerned the destruction of an undersea drilling project that could possibly threaten the undersea city of Triton. Triton is a thriving underwater city run by General Kevin Matthews (Corbett) with his associates Lia Holmes (York), scientific advisor Dr. Raymond Aguila (Montaigne) — an amphibian/human hybrid who can breathe underwater — and his head of security Choo Choo Kino (Ozorio). Their lead engineer Temple (Bochner) is scheming to put an end to an underwater drilling project, which is spearheaded by the US government and run by Matthews' team. The finale involves Matthews confronting Temple on the project's surface platform as it is destroyed in flames.
The original concept was never aired. It remained unseen by the public until the release of the DVD The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen in 1995, where it was included as a special feature.
1971 telefilm[edit]
The concept was later revisited by Allen and seasoned TV screenwriter John Meredyth Lucas in the form of a 2 hour movie of the week. The story combined a natural disaster story with high-stakes crime drama and futuristic adventure. In addition, many props and models from Allen's previous scifi series made appearances. Stuart Whitman would play the lead as the city's administrator Admiral Michael Matthews with Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Colbert, Burr DeBenning and Robert Wagner as supporting cast. Richard LaSalle composed the music to the film. The movie became a cult favorite amongst sci-fi and Irwin Allen fans,[citation needed] but again failed to be picked up as a series.
External links[edit]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896922/ 1968 Pre Production Reel Entry
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065556/ 1971 Telemovie Entry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZrifEjU-H0 Original Pre Production Reel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNH_q0qXSHw Excerpt from 1971 Film


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 Dangerous Mission (1954) ·
 The Animal World (1956) ·
 The Story of Mankind (1957) ·
 The Big Circus (1959) ·
 The Lost World (1960) ·
 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) ·
 Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962) ·
 City Beneath the Sea (1971) ·
 The Poseidon Adventure (1972) ·
 The Towering Inferno (1974) ·
 The Swarm (1978) ·
 The Return of Captain Nemo (1978 TV film) ·
 Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) ·
 When Time Ran Out (1980) ·
 Alice in Wonderland (1985 TV film)
 

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ·
 Lost in Space ·
 The Time Tunnel ·
 Land of the Giants ·
 The Swiss Family Robinson ·
 Code Red
 

  


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The Return of Captain Nemo
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The Return of Captain Nemo
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A poster bearing the film's theatrical title: The Amazing Captain Nemo

Directed by
Alex March
Paul Stader
Produced by
Irwin Allen
Arthur Weiss
Written by
Jules Verne(novel)
 Larry Alexander
Robert Bloch
Robert C. Dennis
Norman Katkov
 William Keys
Mann Rubin
Preston Wood
Starring
José Ferrer
Music by
Richard LaSalle
Cinematography
Lamar Boren

Release dates

March 8, 1978


Running time
 102mins
Country
United States
Language
English
The Return of Captain Nemo (a.k.a. The Amazing Captain Nemo) was a 1978 science fiction TV mini-series directed by Alex March and Paul Stader(the latter directed the underwater sequences), and loosely based on characters and settings from Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It was written by six writers including Robert Bloch. It has been considered an attempt by producer Irwin Allen to duplicate the success of his Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. [1]
During naval exercises in 1978 Captain Nemo (played by José Ferrer) is found in suspended animation aboard his submarine Nautilus beneath the Pacific Ocean. Revived by members of a modern day US Government agency, Nemo is persuaded to rescue United States interests and in so doing battles Professor Cunningham, a typical mad scientist played by Burgess Meredith.
Not originally aired as a movie, it was broken into three parts, expanded somewhat with about 45 minutes of additional footage over the three episodes to become a very brief action series. Sometimes described as a "miniseries", it was intended to be the first story-arc in an ongoing serial. Ratings were dismal, and the series never materialized.
Instead this proved to be Irwin Allen's final foray into weekly science fiction television.
Robert Bloch makes no mention of the series in his autobiography (Once Around the Bloch) but commented on it in an interview: "I did an episode for a show about five years ago which was an abortive attempt at a science-fiction series (Editor’s note: The Return of Captain Nemo). The network gave the go-ahead on it, and they were going to do a four-part story. They assigned each individual episode to a different writer. You had four writers working, neither one of them knew what the other ones were doing, and they had a three-week deadline! And it went off the air after those first four weeks." [2] Bloch's segment (co-written with Larry Alexander) was titled "Atlantis: Dead Ahead" [3] although in the theatrical release there are no titles for individual segments of the story.
The film was a co-production between Irwin Allen Productions and Warner Bros. Television. It was distributed by CBS Television but was also released theatrically as The Amazing Captain Nemo.


Contents  [hide]
1 Cast
2 Plot 2.1 Segment One
2.2 Segment Two
2.3 Segment Three
3 Reception
4 Awards
5 References
6 External links

Cast[edit]

Actor
Role
José Ferrer Captain Nemo
Burgess Meredith Prof. Waldo Cunningham
Mel Ferrer Dr. Robert Cook
Horst Buchholz King Tibor of Atlantis
Tom Hallick Tom Franklin
Burr DeBenning Jim Porter
Lynda Day George Kate
Warren Stevens Miller
Med Flory Tor (silver android)
Anthony McHugh Radio Operator
Randolph Roberts Helmsman
Richard Angarola Trog (leader of Atlantis Great Council)
Art Balinger 
Harvey Fisher 
Anthony Geary Bork (an Atlantean)
Peter Jason 
Jerry Maren 
Stephen Powers Lloyd
Yale Summers Sirak (an Atlantean)
David Westberg 
Plot[edit]
Segment One[edit]
The story opens with a transmission received by the White House from the renegade Professor Cunningham, who threatens Washington DC with nuclear destruction from a missile fired from his submarine Raven. His extortion demand is one billion dollars in gold bullion. To demonstrate his capability he blows up small island with the Raven's 'Delta beam'. Cunningham, bespectacled and cardigan-clad, is assisted by various androids including a large silver-headed one known as Tor.
Meanwhile, during US Naval exercises, two Navy officers, Porter and Franklin, while detached from their scuba reconnaissance team happen upon the submerged Nautilus, trapped under a reef since a seismic event dating back to 1877. Once on board they find an intact but inactive vessel, and the cryogenically preserved Captain Nemo, the sole survivor of the original crew.
Subsequent events prompt the newly revived Nemo to offer his services in exchange for repairs to his ship, including the pursuit and defeat of Cunningham's Raven and its crew of mechanised androids. The plot trades heavily on the concept of Nautilus being constructed years ahead of its time, even possessing laser weaponry, defensive force fields and a Nuclear Reactor constructed 127 years before the events of the story take place. Nemo, whose submarine is protected from the Delta beam by an electric force field, manages to intercept and destroy Raven's missile fired at Washington, with only second to spare, thus saving Washington and earning the repairs to his ship.
Segment Two[edit]
At Pearl Harbor, the Nautilus takes on board Kate, who is both a nuclear physicist and a strong feminist. She may be able to provide advice regarding the radiation cylinders. Raven, meanwhile, is running low on fuel. Cunningham heads for the Mindanao Trench where there are radiation canisters he can 'fish' for and use to re-power the Raven. Nemo intends to sail for Atlantis, but is persuaded to delay until he can stave off the danger posed by Cunningham once again. Nautilus pursues Raven, but Cunningham leads it off course and through an underwater minefield. There is a fight between Nemo and Dr Cook; Cook is killed. Nemo gets through the mines and then creates a clone of Nautilus via 'kinetic projection'. He send the clone into the Mindanao Trench to fool Cunningham. Cunningham destroys the clone and thinks the Nautilus destroyed momentarily but then detects signs of life still aboard the real Nautilus.
The Nautilus now heads for Atlantis. They discover its wondrous underwater ruins. Someone greets them and boards the Nautilus. This proves to be Tibor, King of Atlantis, who wears a short girdled tunic and headband. He understands English and explain that the ruins are the old Atlantis. The new city has been moved to underneath the ocean floor due to the prevalence of earthquakes. Nemo and Tibor swim out to Atlantis, while the rest of Nautilus's crew watch on viewscreens. In a columned hall, Nemo meets the Atlantean Great Council, led by the antagonistic Trog. Nemo uses his energy weapon to destroy half a column, demonstrating his superior firepower. Tibor says that he trusts Nemo. Tibor and Nemo, with Sirak and Bork (two of the Atlantean Council) return to the Nautilus only to find the crew 'frozen' motionless; this later proves to be due to Cunningham's 'Z ray' device.
Segment Three[edit]
The Nautilus itself is now under outside control from Cunningham. Nemo manually activates the afterburners but they are returned to the Raven. It is revealed that Cunningham had previously captured many Atlanteans, which is why the Great Council hates humans. Tom is already aboard the Raven and is controlled by Cunninghma via a special headband. Nemo is strapped to a table. Cunningham plans to take all his knowledge, including that of how the Nautilus nuclear reactor works, become the foremost intellect in the world, and devastate all the world's capital cities. He plans to do this via twenty destructive orbs he calls 'crozar-elements'. Nemo projects vision of the US Navy Head reminding Tom of their mission, and Tom manages to remove his controlling headband. He immediately 'freezes' Cunningham and his crew with the Z-ray gun and frees Nemo. Nemo and Tom now free King Tibor, who had been locked up.
Tibor and his two fellow Atlanteans take the minisub back to Atlantis. The android Tor unfreezes Cunningham and his crew but Nemo and Tom escape the Raven in scuba gear and head for the Nautilus, chased by members of Cunningham's crew armed with underwater lasers. Nemo and Tom overpower one scuba diver and take his flare, which explodes, killing the rest of Cunningham's agents underwater. Back on Nautilus, they unfreeze their own crew (including Kate). Raven now fires its Delta beam at Nautilus. Nautilus fires back, destroying the Raven at last. In Atlantis, King Tibor bids them farewell. Nemo promises not to return to Atlantis - it should "remain untouched by our progress."
Reception[edit]
Sadly the quality of the script did not match the calibre of the actors; in order to fit the story into the specified serial timeframe (including commercial breaks), the plot had been pared down to the bare bones. This resulted in a two dimensional comic strip that compared poorly with contemporary science fiction based on the character of Nemo. The basic plot of Nuclear Extortion suffered from being both heavily edited and resolved in the first episode; indeed the same combat scene of a shootout on board the Raven appeared twice in the series. The final production for theatre release was condensed into 102 minutes and marketed as The Amazing Captain Nemo, and only served to highlight the inherent defects. Despite this the production was nominated for several awards.
Awards[edit]
In 1978 the movie received two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Any Area of Creative Technical Crafts. These were for Frank Van der Veer (optical effects) and L.B. Abbott (special photographic effects).[4]
References[edit]
Wingrove, David. Science Fiction Film Source Book (Longman Group Limited, 1985)
1.Jump up ^ Michael Weldon. The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film. London: Plexus, 1983, p. 10.
2.Jump up ^ Don Harden and Tim Farley. "An Interview with Robert Bloch and David Gerrold". Sensor Readings 1 (April 1984). Online at: [1]
3.Jump up ^ Randall Larson. Robert Bloch Starmont Reader's Guide 37.Mercer Island,WA: Starmont House, 1986), p. 139
4.Jump up ^ "Advanced Primetime Awards Search". The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
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The Return of Captain Nemo
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The Return of Captain Nemo
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A poster bearing the film's theatrical title: The Amazing Captain Nemo

Directed by
Alex March
Paul Stader
Produced by
Irwin Allen
Arthur Weiss
Written by
Jules Verne(novel)
 Larry Alexander
Robert Bloch
Robert C. Dennis
Norman Katkov
 William Keys
Mann Rubin
Preston Wood
Starring
José Ferrer
Music by
Richard LaSalle
Cinematography
Lamar Boren

Release dates

March 8, 1978


Running time
 102mins
Country
United States
Language
English
The Return of Captain Nemo (a.k.a. The Amazing Captain Nemo) was a 1978 science fiction TV mini-series directed by Alex March and Paul Stader(the latter directed the underwater sequences), and loosely based on characters and settings from Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It was written by six writers including Robert Bloch. It has been considered an attempt by producer Irwin Allen to duplicate the success of his Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. [1]
During naval exercises in 1978 Captain Nemo (played by José Ferrer) is found in suspended animation aboard his submarine Nautilus beneath the Pacific Ocean. Revived by members of a modern day US Government agency, Nemo is persuaded to rescue United States interests and in so doing battles Professor Cunningham, a typical mad scientist played by Burgess Meredith.
Not originally aired as a movie, it was broken into three parts, expanded somewhat with about 45 minutes of additional footage over the three episodes to become a very brief action series. Sometimes described as a "miniseries", it was intended to be the first story-arc in an ongoing serial. Ratings were dismal, and the series never materialized.
Instead this proved to be Irwin Allen's final foray into weekly science fiction television.
Robert Bloch makes no mention of the series in his autobiography (Once Around the Bloch) but commented on it in an interview: "I did an episode for a show about five years ago which was an abortive attempt at a science-fiction series (Editor’s note: The Return of Captain Nemo). The network gave the go-ahead on it, and they were going to do a four-part story. They assigned each individual episode to a different writer. You had four writers working, neither one of them knew what the other ones were doing, and they had a three-week deadline! And it went off the air after those first four weeks." [2] Bloch's segment (co-written with Larry Alexander) was titled "Atlantis: Dead Ahead" [3] although in the theatrical release there are no titles for individual segments of the story.
The film was a co-production between Irwin Allen Productions and Warner Bros. Television. It was distributed by CBS Television but was also released theatrically as The Amazing Captain Nemo.


Contents  [hide]
1 Cast
2 Plot 2.1 Segment One
2.2 Segment Two
2.3 Segment Three
3 Reception
4 Awards
5 References
6 External links

Cast[edit]

Actor
Role
José Ferrer Captain Nemo
Burgess Meredith Prof. Waldo Cunningham
Mel Ferrer Dr. Robert Cook
Horst Buchholz King Tibor of Atlantis
Tom Hallick Tom Franklin
Burr DeBenning Jim Porter
Lynda Day George Kate
Warren Stevens Miller
Med Flory Tor (silver android)
Anthony McHugh Radio Operator
Randolph Roberts Helmsman
Richard Angarola Trog (leader of Atlantis Great Council)
Art Balinger 
Harvey Fisher 
Anthony Geary Bork (an Atlantean)
Peter Jason 
Jerry Maren 
Stephen Powers Lloyd
Yale Summers Sirak (an Atlantean)
David Westberg 
Plot[edit]
Segment One[edit]
The story opens with a transmission received by the White House from the renegade Professor Cunningham, who threatens Washington DC with nuclear destruction from a missile fired from his submarine Raven. His extortion demand is one billion dollars in gold bullion. To demonstrate his capability he blows up small island with the Raven's 'Delta beam'. Cunningham, bespectacled and cardigan-clad, is assisted by various androids including a large silver-headed one known as Tor.
Meanwhile, during US Naval exercises, two Navy officers, Porter and Franklin, while detached from their scuba reconnaissance team happen upon the submerged Nautilus, trapped under a reef since a seismic event dating back to 1877. Once on board they find an intact but inactive vessel, and the cryogenically preserved Captain Nemo, the sole survivor of the original crew.
Subsequent events prompt the newly revived Nemo to offer his services in exchange for repairs to his ship, including the pursuit and defeat of Cunningham's Raven and its crew of mechanised androids. The plot trades heavily on the concept of Nautilus being constructed years ahead of its time, even possessing laser weaponry, defensive force fields and a Nuclear Reactor constructed 127 years before the events of the story take place. Nemo, whose submarine is protected from the Delta beam by an electric force field, manages to intercept and destroy Raven's missile fired at Washington, with only second to spare, thus saving Washington and earning the repairs to his ship.
Segment Two[edit]
At Pearl Harbor, the Nautilus takes on board Kate, who is both a nuclear physicist and a strong feminist. She may be able to provide advice regarding the radiation cylinders. Raven, meanwhile, is running low on fuel. Cunningham heads for the Mindanao Trench where there are radiation canisters he can 'fish' for and use to re-power the Raven. Nemo intends to sail for Atlantis, but is persuaded to delay until he can stave off the danger posed by Cunningham once again. Nautilus pursues Raven, but Cunningham leads it off course and through an underwater minefield. There is a fight between Nemo and Dr Cook; Cook is killed. Nemo gets through the mines and then creates a clone of Nautilus via 'kinetic projection'. He send the clone into the Mindanao Trench to fool Cunningham. Cunningham destroys the clone and thinks the Nautilus destroyed momentarily but then detects signs of life still aboard the real Nautilus.
The Nautilus now heads for Atlantis. They discover its wondrous underwater ruins. Someone greets them and boards the Nautilus. This proves to be Tibor, King of Atlantis, who wears a short girdled tunic and headband. He understands English and explain that the ruins are the old Atlantis. The new city has been moved to underneath the ocean floor due to the prevalence of earthquakes. Nemo and Tibor swim out to Atlantis, while the rest of Nautilus's crew watch on viewscreens. In a columned hall, Nemo meets the Atlantean Great Council, led by the antagonistic Trog. Nemo uses his energy weapon to destroy half a column, demonstrating his superior firepower. Tibor says that he trusts Nemo. Tibor and Nemo, with Sirak and Bork (two of the Atlantean Council) return to the Nautilus only to find the crew 'frozen' motionless; this later proves to be due to Cunningham's 'Z ray' device.
Segment Three[edit]
The Nautilus itself is now under outside control from Cunningham. Nemo manually activates the afterburners but they are returned to the Raven. It is revealed that Cunningham had previously captured many Atlanteans, which is why the Great Council hates humans. Tom is already aboard the Raven and is controlled by Cunninghma via a special headband. Nemo is strapped to a table. Cunningham plans to take all his knowledge, including that of how the Nautilus nuclear reactor works, become the foremost intellect in the world, and devastate all the world's capital cities. He plans to do this via twenty destructive orbs he calls 'crozar-elements'. Nemo projects vision of the US Navy Head reminding Tom of their mission, and Tom manages to remove his controlling headband. He immediately 'freezes' Cunningham and his crew with the Z-ray gun and frees Nemo. Nemo and Tom now free King Tibor, who had been locked up.
Tibor and his two fellow Atlanteans take the minisub back to Atlantis. The android Tor unfreezes Cunningham and his crew but Nemo and Tom escape the Raven in scuba gear and head for the Nautilus, chased by members of Cunningham's crew armed with underwater lasers. Nemo and Tom overpower one scuba diver and take his flare, which explodes, killing the rest of Cunningham's agents underwater. Back on Nautilus, they unfreeze their own crew (including Kate). Raven now fires its Delta beam at Nautilus. Nautilus fires back, destroying the Raven at last. In Atlantis, King Tibor bids them farewell. Nemo promises not to return to Atlantis - it should "remain untouched by our progress."
Reception[edit]
Sadly the quality of the script did not match the calibre of the actors; in order to fit the story into the specified serial timeframe (including commercial breaks), the plot had been pared down to the bare bones. This resulted in a two dimensional comic strip that compared poorly with contemporary science fiction based on the character of Nemo. The basic plot of Nuclear Extortion suffered from being both heavily edited and resolved in the first episode; indeed the same combat scene of a shootout on board the Raven appeared twice in the series. The final production for theatre release was condensed into 102 minutes and marketed as The Amazing Captain Nemo, and only served to highlight the inherent defects. Despite this the production was nominated for several awards.
Awards[edit]
In 1978 the movie received two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Any Area of Creative Technical Crafts. These were for Frank Van der Veer (optical effects) and L.B. Abbott (special photographic effects).[4]
References[edit]
Wingrove, David. Science Fiction Film Source Book (Longman Group Limited, 1985)
1.Jump up ^ Michael Weldon. The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film. London: Plexus, 1983, p. 10.
2.Jump up ^ Don Harden and Tim Farley. "An Interview with Robert Bloch and David Gerrold". Sensor Readings 1 (April 1984). Online at: [1]
3.Jump up ^ Randall Larson. Robert Bloch Starmont Reader's Guide 37.Mercer Island,WA: Starmont House, 1986), p. 139
4.Jump up ^ "Advanced Primetime Awards Search". The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
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Cover art from the 2006 DVD release of the 1st season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea showing stars Richard Basehart and David Hedison, with the submarine, Seaview (center)

Created by
Irwin Allen
Starring
Richard Basehart
David Hedison
Bob Dowdell
Derrik Lewis
Henry Kulky
Terry Becker
Del Monroe
Arch Whiting
Paul Trinka
Allan Hunt
Richard Bull
Paul Carr
Composer(s)
Paul Sawtell
Hugo Friedhofer
Alexander Courage
Morton Stevens
Michael Hennagin (one episode)
Jerry Goldsmith (one episode)
Leith Stevens
Lennie Hayton
Nelson Riddle (one episode)
Herman Stein (one episode)
Robert Drasnin (one episode)
Harry Geller
Joseph Mullendore
Irving Gertz (one episode)
Country of origin
United States
No. of seasons
4
No. of episodes
110
Production

Running time
60 minutes (including commercials)
Production company(s)
Cambridge
20th Century Fox Television
Broadcast

Original channel
ABC
Original run
September 14, 1964 – March 31, 1968
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a 1960s American science fiction television series based on the 1961 film of the same name. Both were created by Irwin Allen, which enabled the movie's sets, costumes, props, special effects models, and sometimes footage, to be used in the production of the television series. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was the first of Irwin Allen's four science fiction television series, as well as the longest-running. The show's main theme was underwater adventure.
Voyage was broadcast on ABC from September 14, 1964 to March 31, 1968, and was the decade's longest-running American science fiction television series with continuing characters. The 110 episodes produced included 32 shot in black-and-white (1964–1965), and 78 filmed in color (1965–1968). The first two seasons took place in the then future of the 1970s. The final two seasons took place in the 1980s. The show starred Richard Basehart and David Hedison.


Contents  [hide]
1 Show history 1.1 Pilot episode
1.2 Season One
1.3 Season Two
1.4 Season Three
1.5 Fourth and final season
2 Music
3 Cast
4 Episode list 4.1 Season One (1964–1965)
4.2 Season Two (1965–1966)
4.3 Season Three (1966–1967)
4.4 Season Four (1967–1968)
5 Other media
6 Popular culture
7 DVD releases
8 Notes
9 References
10 External links

Show history[edit]
Pilot episode[edit]
The pilot episode "Eleven Days to Zero" was filmed in color but shown in black-and-white. It introduces the audience to the futuristic nuclear submarine S.S.R.N. Seaview and the lead members of her crew, including the designer and builder of the submarine Admiral Harriman Nelson (Richard Basehart), and Commander Lee Crane (David Hedison), who becomes the Seaview's captain after the murder of her original commanding officer. The submarine is based at the Nelson Institute of Marine Research (NIMR) in Santa Barbara, California, and is often moored some 500 feet below NIMR in a secret underground submarine pen carved out of solid rock. The Seaview is officially for undersea marine research and visits many exotic locations in the Seven Seas, but its secret mission is to defend the planet from all world and extraterrestrial threats[1] in the then-future of the 1970s.
Season One[edit]



 Adm. Nelson and the ill-fated Capt. Phillips are attacked after leaving the Nelson Institute of Marine Research.
The first season of 32 episodes began with Admiral Nelson and the crew of the Seaview fighting against a foreign government in order to prevent a world-threatening earthquake, continuing with a foreign government destroying American submarines with new technologies in The Fear Makers and The Enemies. The season also had several ocean peril stories in which the Seaview crew spent the episode dealing with the normal perils of the sea. Two examples are "Submarine Sunk Here" and "The Ghost of Moby Dick".[2] The season introduced the diving bell and a mini-submarine, as well as the first alien story (Don Brinkley's; 'The Sky is Falling') and the first sea monsters. The season ended with the Seaview crew fighting a foreign government to save a defense weapon.
In the first season, the gritty, atmospheric, and intense series featured story lines devoted to Cold War themes, as well as excursions into near-future speculative fiction. Many episodes involved espionage and sci-fi elements. While aliens and sea monsters, not to mention dinosaurs, did become the subject of episodes, the primary villains were hostile foreign governments. While fantastic, there was a semblance of reality in the scripts.
During the course of the first season Admiral Nelson was promoted from Three Star to a Four Star Admiral, and it was established that while essentially a marine research vessel SSRN Seaview was also a key part of the U.S. military in the nuclear armed fleet (most notably defined in William Read Woodfield's episode; Doomsday).
The first season opening credits depicted Seaview rising towards the surface, and the closing credits played out over a still of the Seaview's spectacular arctic surface, as featured at the start of the 1961 film.
Season Two[edit]



 DVD cover art of the 2nd season (Vol. 2) of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea featuring depictions of Seaview and the Flying Sub (bottom)
The second season began with a trip inside a whale, a trip inside a volcano, and a few Cold War intrigue and nuclear war-themed episodes, and saw several brushes with world disaster. The season ended with a ghost story, one of the show's few sequels.
Due to ABC's demands for a somewhat "lighter" tone to the series,[citation needed] the second season saw an increase in monster-of-the-week type plots, yet there were still some episodes that harkened back to the tone of the first season. The second season also saw a change from black-and-white to color. The beginning of the second season saw the permanent replacement of Chief "Curly" Jones with Chief Francis Ethelbert Sharkey, due to the death of Henry Kulky, who portrayed Chief Jones.
The most important change in the series occurred during this season when a notably redesigned Seaview interior was introduced, along with the Flying Sub, a yellow, two-man mini-submarine with passenger capacity, armed with a laser gun. It could leave the ocean and function as an airplane. The Flying Sub was referred to by the initials FS-1. The futuristic craft greatly increased the Seaview crew's travel options. The Flying Sub was launched from a bay with automatic doors added in the lower part of the bow section of Seaview that was apparently built between Seasons One and Two (though stock color footage from the 1961 film that was used in Season Two occasionally showed a Seaview minus this addition, despite it being present in later color footage included in the same episodes). The Seaview's private observation deck from the first season was never seen again. The ship's eight smaller observation windows became four large windows giving the sub a sleeker, more futuristic look. The control room was made larger and more open-plan showing the bow windows beyond the control room area (previously this was both closed off by a bulkhead and doorway and on another level in the black-and-white first season), while a memorable large rectangular panel screen of flickering lights was moved across the control room, and access to the Flying Sub via a sealed hatch stairway at the bow section was added. The Seaview also now had a powerful laser beam in its bow light. The small mini-sub ridden by two men from the first season was retained and occasionally still used in the color episodes. The ship's enlisted men were also given more colorful uniforms (red or light blue jumpsuits) and white Keds Champion sneakers, evidently to take advantage of the changeover from black-and-white to color. The officers and petty officers, however, retained their khaki works from the first season. The traditional sailor uniforms worn in the first season were only seen in stock footage from the first season and on characters who were newly filmed to match up with that footage. All these changes occurred between seasons. The Flying Sub was showcased in the show's closing credits for the entire season, while the initial opening was a color version of the first season sequence, though this was soon replaced by a new color sequence of Seaview descending beneath the surface.
The Flying Sub also made an appearance in the 1971 Irwin Allen film, City Beneath the Sea (1971 film), as did the Seaview itself during the evacuation scene.
A second season episode, "The Sky's On Fire", was a remake of the basic storyline of Irwin Allen's 1961 film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea utilizing considerable film color footage, though several film sequences were removed and had been featured in other first season episodes such as 'The Village of Guilt' (the giant octopus) and 'Submarine Sunk Here' (the derelict minefield)
A few later season two episodes were filmed without Richard Basehart, who was hospitalized for a bleeding ulcer. He filmed the scenes in the Flying Sub for "The Monster's Web" before hospitalization, requiring a stand in and other characters taking over his lines. He was missing entirely from the next two episodes. These episodes didn't feature his character at all, while in one story "The Menfish" Gary Merrill guested as Admiral Park, a colleague of Nelson's who substituted for him. Basehart returned for "Return of the Phantom," the final episode of the season.
Season Three[edit]
The third season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ran simultaneously with two other Allen-produced television series: the second season of Lost in Space and the premiere (and only) season of The Time Tunnel.
The third season began with Dick Tufeld of Lost in Space playing an evil disembodied brain from outer space. The season continued with a werewolf story that is one of the few episodes to inspire a sequel. In one episode, the Seaview's officers and crew encountered Nazis who believed World War II was still ongoing. The third season only had two espionage stories and one ocean peril story that were reminiscent of the first season. One of those three stories was about a hostile foreign government trying to steal a strange new mineral with the aid of a brainwashed Admiral Nelson. This espionage story was the end of the third season.
The final two seasons continued the shift towards paranormal storylines that were popular in the late 1960s.[1] Mummies, werewolves, talking puppets, and an evil leprechaun all walked the corridors of the Seaview. There were also fossil men, flame men, frost men, lobster men, and shadow men. The opening credits were largely identical to the revised season two, but the initial season two yellow lettering credits that were first altered to white, (and then back to yellow on the later revised sequence) were now depicted in a golden/yellowish lettering, and closing credits were set over a green-backed painting of Seaview underwater.
Fourth and final season[edit]



 Nelson and Sharkey fight an alien spy, 1968.
The fourth and final season of Voyage began with Victor Jory playing a five century old alchemist while the Seaview is threatened by buffeting underwater currents created by a volcano on the verge of a major eruption. After a few episodes there were revamped opening credits depicting action sequences and the stars' pictures in color set on a sonar board design. The closing credits picture remained unchanged from season three. Near the end of the fourth season, there were three unrelated stories of extraterrestrial invasion in three weeks. One episode had an unknown master of disguise infiltrating and wreaking havoc aboard the Seaview. Another episode has Nelson, Morton and Sharkey actually "gaslight" Crane! There were two time travel stories in two weeks, which both featured the enigmatic but dangerous Mister Pem. The second of the two had the Seaview going back in time to the American Revolution. The episode ended with the Seaview returning to the present and sailing into television history.
In March 1968 it was announced that Voyage would not be back for a fifth season.[3]
Music[edit]
The series' main theme, "The Seaview Theme", was written by Paul Sawtell. A new darker, more serious theme composed by Jerry Goldsmith was introduced at the beginning of the second season episode "Jonah and the Whale", but this was quickly replaced by the original version. A version of the Goldsmith suite re-orchestrated by Nelson Riddle was heard as incidental music in the episode "Escape From Venice", and the original Goldsmith suite was used as incidental music throughout the rest of the series. The series' main composer, supervisor and conductor was Lionel Newman, who for the second season composed a serious sounding score for when the episode credits (episode title/guests/writer/director) were shown just after the theme song, which would be used by many episodes (starting with "The Left Handed Man") thru the second and into the early third season. Other guest composers included Lennie Hayton, Hugo Friedhofer, Star Trek: The Original Series composer Alexander Courage, Morton Stevens, Leith Stevens (no relation) who wrote the music to seven episodes, and Sawtell, who worked on the show for a while in the first season.
GNP Crescendo issued a soundtrack album in 1997 as part of its series tying into the documentary The Fantasy Worlds Of Irwin Allen, featuring Sawtell's theme from the series and his score for the pilot episode "Eleven Days To Zero" (tracks 2–6) and Goldsmith's work for "Jonah and the Whale."
1.Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Main Title (:29)
2.Murderous Pursuit (2:54)
3.Ocean Floor Search/Squid Fight (5:34)
4.Solid Ice (1:48)
5.Lost/Job Well Done (3:35)
6.End Title (The Seaview Theme) (:40)
7.Jonah and the Whale (Main Title) (:30)
8.A Whale of a Whale/Thar She Blows/A Whale of a Time/The Second Dive (4:23)
9.A Meal Fit for a Whale/Crash Dive/Sub Narcotics (4:18)
10.Collision Course I/Collision Course II/Diving Party/Going Down (4:44)
11.Home Free Part I/Home Free Part II (3:58)
12.Jonah and the Whale (End Credit) (:50)
Cast[edit]



 David Hedison as Lee Crane in the episode "Time Lock", 1967Richard Basehart as Admiral Harriman Nelson
David Hedison as Commander Lee Crane
Bob Dowdell as Lieutenant Commander Chip Morton
Derrik Lewis as Lieutenant Commander O'Brien (pilot episode, 1st-2nd seasons)
Henry Kulky as Chief "Curly" Jones (1st season)
Terry Becker as Chief Petty Officer Francis Ethelbert Sharkey (2nd–4th seasons)
Del Monroe as Kowalski
Arch Whiting as Sparks
Paul Trinka as Patterson
Brent Davis as Peters (crew member – 1 episode)
Lew Gallo as Kruger (crew member – 1 episode)
Ralph Garrett as Somers (crew member – 1 episode)
Allan Hunt as Riley (2nd Season)
Richard Bull as the Doctor
Wayne Heffley as Seaview Doctor (2nd Season 1965–1966, 3 episodes)
Paul Carr as Casey Clark (1st season, recurring afterwards only in stock footage scenes)
Scott McFadden, Ray Didsbury, Marco Lopez, and Ron Stein provided additional crewman in non-speaking roles often requiring stunt work.
Episode list[edit]
Note: Two different episodes (28 and 73) are both titled "The Creature".
Season One (1964–1965)[edit]

Ep #
Title
Airdate
01 "Eleven Days to Zero" (Guest Starring Eddie Albert) September 14, 1964
02 "The City Beneath the Sea"(Guest Starring Hurd Hatfield, Linda Cristal) September 21, 1964
03 "The Fear Makers" (Guest Starring Lloyd Bochner, And Special Guest Star Edgar Bergen) September 28, 1964
04 "The Mist of Silence" (Guest Starring Rita Gam, Alejandro Rey) October 5, 1964
05 "The Price of Doom" (Guest Starring David Opatoshu, John Milford and Jill Ireland). Screenplay by Harlan Ellison (under his Cordwainer Bird alias, credited as "Cord Wainer Bird") October 12, 1964
06 "The Sky is Falling" (Guest Starring Charles McGraw) October 19, 1964
07 "Turn Back the Clock" (Guest Starring Nick Adams, Yvonne Craig) October 26, 1964
08 "The Village of Guilt" (Guest Starring Richard Carlson, Anna-Lisa) November 2, 1964
09 "Hot Line" (Guest Starring Everett Sloane, And Special Guest Star: Michael Ansara) November 9, 1964
10 "Submarine Sunk Here" November 16, 1964
11 "The Magnus Beam" November 23, 1964
12 "No Way Out" November 30, 1964
13 "The Blizzard Makers" December 7, 1964
14 "The Ghost of Moby Dick" Guest stars June Lockhart, Edward Binns December 14, 1964
15 "Long Live the King" December 21, 1964
16 "Hail to the Chief" December 28, 1964
17 "The Last Battle" (Co-starring John Van Dreelen, Joe De Santis, Rudy Solari). Establishes that the series takes place in an alternate timeline when Admiral Nelson states that the Third Reich lasted for 19 years (as opposed to 12 years in the real world) January 4, 1965
18 "Mutiny" (Guest starring Harold J. Stone) January 11, 1965
19 "Doomsday" (Co-starring Donald Harron, Paul Carr) January 18, 1965
20 "The Invaders" (Guest starring Robert Duvall, credited as "Robert Duval") January 25, 1965
21 "The Indestructible Man" (Co-starring Michael Constantine) February 1, 1965
22 "The Buccaneer" (Co-starring Barry Atwater) February 8, 1965
23 "The Human Computer" February 15, 1965
24 "The Saboteur" (Guest stars Bert Freed, Warren Stevens, featuring James Brolin February 22, 1965
25 "Cradle of the Deep" March 1, 1965
26 "The Amphibians" March 8, 1965
27 "The Exile" Guest star Edward Asner, co-starring David Sheiner March 15, 1965
28 "The Creature" Guest star Leslie Nielsen March 22, 1965
29 "The Enemies" (Guest star Henry Silva, co-starring Malachi Throne) March 29, 1965
30 "Secret of the Loch" (Guest star Torin Thatcher, co-starring Hedley Mattingly, George Mitchell and John McLiam) April 5, 1965
31 "The Condemned" (Guest star J. D. Cannon, co-starring Arthur Franz, Alvy Moore) April 12, 1965
32 "The Traitor" April 19, 1965
Season Two (1965–1966)[edit]

Ep #
Title
Airdate
33/ 01 "Jonah and the Whale" (Guest starring Gia Scala) September 19, 1965
34/02 "Time Bomb" September 26, 1965
35/03 "And Five of Us Are Left " (Guest Star Phillip Pine, co-starring Robert Doyle, Teru Shimada) October 3, 1965
36/04 "The Cyborg" With special guest star Victor Buono co-starring Brooke Bundy October 17, 1965
37/05 "Escape From Venice" October 24, 1965
38/06 "The Left-Handed Man" October 31, 1965
39/07 "The Deadliest Game" (Guest starring Lloyd Bochner. Co-starring, Audrey Dalton, Robert Cornthwaite and Robert F. Simon) November 7, 1965
40/08 "Leviathan" November 14, 1965
41/09 "The Peacemaker" (Guest starring John Cassavetes, co-starring Whit Bissell, Irene Tsu, Dale Ishimoto) November 21, 1965
42/10 "The Silent Saboteurs" (Guest starring Pilar Seurat, co-starring George Takei, Bert Freed) November 28, 1965
43/11 "The X Factor" December 5, 1965
44/12 "The Machines Strike Back" December 12, 1965
45/13 "The Monster From Outer Space" December 19, 1965
46/14 "Terror On Dinosaur Island" December 26, 1965
47/15 "Killers of the Deep" January 2, 1966
48/16 "Deadly Creature Below!" (Guest star Nehemiah Persoff, co-starring Paul Comi) January 9, 1966
49/17 "The Phantom Strikes" January 16, 1966
50/18 "The Sky's On Fire" (Guest Star David J. Stewart, Co-starring Robert H. Harris, Frank Marth) January 23, 1966
51/19 "Graveyard of Fear" (Guest starring Robert Loggia) January 30, 1966
52/20 "The Shape of Doom" (Guest star Kevin Hagen) February 6, 1966
53/21 "Dead Man's Doubloons" (Guest star Albert Salmi) February 13, 1966
54/22 "The Death Ship" February 20, 1966
55/23 "The Monster's Web" (Guest star Mark Richman) February 27, 1966
56/24 "The Menfish" (Guest star Gary Merrill, special guest star John Dehner) March 6, 1966
57/25 "The Mechanical Man" (Guest star James Darren, special guest star Arthur O'Connell) March 13, 1966
58/26 "The Return of the Phantom" March 20, 1966
Season Three (1966–1967)[edit]

Ep #
Title
Airdate
59/01 "Monster From the Inferno" September 18, 1966
60/02 "Werewolf" September 25, 1966
61/03 "The Day The World Ended" October 2, 1966
62/04 "Night of Terror" October 9, 1966
63/05 "The Terrible Toys" October 16, 1966
64/06 "Day of Evil" October 23, 1966
65/07 "Deadly Waters" October 30, 1966
66/08 "Thing From Inner Space" November 6, 1966
67/09 "The Death Watch" November 13, 1966
68/10 "Deadly Invasion" November 20, 1966
69/11 "The Haunted Submarine" November 27, 1966
70/12 "The Plant Man" December 4, 1966
71/13 "The Lost Bomb" December 11, 1966
72/14 "The Brand of the Beast" December 18, 1966
73/15 "The Creature" January 1, 1967
74/16 "Death From The Past" January 8, 1967
75/17 "The Heat Monster" January 15, 1967
76/18 "The Fossil Men" January 22, 1967
77/19 "The Mermaid" January 29, 1967
78/20 "The Mummy" February 5, 1967
79/21 "The Shadowman" February 12, 1967
80/22 "No Escape From Death" February 19, 1967
81/23 "Doomsday Island" February 26, 1967
82/24 "The Wax Men" Guest star Michael Dunn March 5, 1967
83/25 "Deadly Cloud" March 12, 1967
84/26 "Destroy Seaview!" March 19, 1967
Season Four (1967–1968)[edit]

Ep #
Title
Airdate
085/01 "Fires of Death" (Guest Starring Victor Jory) September 17, 1967
086/02 "The Deadly Dolls" (Guest Starring Vincent Price) October 1, 1967
087/03 "Cave of the Dead" (Guest Starring Warren Stevens) October 8, 1967
088/04 "Journey With Fear" October 15, 1967
089/05 "Sealed Orders" October 22, 1967
090/06 "Man of Many Faces" October 29, 1967
091/07 "Fatal Cargo"(Guest Starring Woodrow Parfrey) November 5, 1967
092/08 "Time Lock" (Guest Starring John Crawford) November 12, 1967
093/09 "Rescue" (Guest Starring Don Dubbins) November 19, 1967
094/10 "Terror" November 26, 1967
095/11 "A Time To Die" (Guest Starring Henry Jones) December 3, 1967
096/12 "Blow Up" December 10, 1967
097/13 "The Deadly Amphibians" (Guest Starring Don Matheson) December 17, 1967
098/14 "The Return of Blackbeard" (Guest Starring Malachi Throne) December 31, 1967
099/15 "The Terrible Leprechaun" (Guest Starring Walter Burke) January 7, 1968
100/16 "The Lobster Man" (Guest Starring Victor Lundin) January 21, 1968
101/17 "Nightmare" (Guest Starring Paul Mantee) January 28, 1968
102/18 "The Abominable Snowman" February 4, 1968
103/19 "Secret of the Deep" (Guest Starring Peter Mark Richman) February 11, 1968
104/20 "Man-Beast" (Guest Starring Lawrence Montaigne) February 18, 1968
105/21 "Savage Jungle" (Guest Starring Perry López) February 25, 1968
106/22 "Flaming Ice" March 3, 1968
107/23 "Attack!" March 10, 1968
108/24 "The Edge of Doom" March 17, 1968
109/25 "The Death Clock" March 24, 1968
110/26 "No Way Back" March 31, 1968
[4]
Other media[edit]
A paperback novel, City Under the Sea, authored by Paul W. Fairman, was published in 1965, to tie into the series. It had a different storyline than the episode of the same name. The book should also not be confused with the later Irwin Allen film of nearly the same name, which was about the attempts of the world's first under-sea city to prevent the earth from being hit by a rogue asteroid. It is not about "A wealthy family attempting to move the Earth's oceans to another planet for resettlement" as has occasionally been stated.[5]
Western Publishing published a comic book based on the series. Western's comic company, Gold Key Comics put out a series that ran 16 issues from 1964 to 1970. Most covers were painted, and most had a photo of either Richard Basehart or David Hedison on them. The first issue of the Gold Key comic was a story called "The Last Survivor". The story bought back Dr. Gamma, the villain from the pilot episode, "Eleven Days to Zero". Gold Key's story was the only sequel to the pilot episode. Hermes Press reprinted the entire run in 2 hardback volumes; the first was released in 2009.
In 1966, World Distributors, a British publishing company in Manchester, published a hardback book called the Annual. The British-made book used the series characters in all new stories. The book contained a reprint of a story from Gold Key Comics. Both books were mostly prose stories with some illustrations.
Aurora Plastics Corporation released a plastic model kit of Seaview as well as the Flying Sub during the original run of the series. From 1975 - 1977, Aurora reissued both kits; the Seaview (kit #253) was modified with a sea floor base (originally created for the Dick Tracy Space Coupe kit #819) and sub surface details, while The Flying Sub (kit #254) was remodeled in a different base color. The 1975 - 1977 kits—part of Aurora's reissue of 5 of their 11 TV & movie-related science-fiction kits, also included instruction sheets with a detailed history of the TV series or movie plot.
Both kits were recently re-released by Polar Lights. The Flying Sub model sold more than the Seaview model.[citation needed]
Other collectables from the show include a Milton Bradley board game with a drawing based on the pilot episode, and a school lunch box with depictions of Admiral Nelson and Captain Crane trying to save the Flying Sub from an evil looking octopus. There was also a View-Master slide reel based on the episode "Deadly Creature Below."
In 1964, a 66-card set of black-and-white trading cards was released by Donruss. Selling for 5 cents a pack, the set consisted of stills from the first season. Today, a set in mint condition can sell for several hundred dollars.
Popular culture[edit]
The popularity of the TV show inspired Mad Magazine (March, 1966) to spoof the show, their version being called Voyage to See What's on the Bottom, featuring a submarine called the Seapew.
Australian TV show Fast Forward sent-up the series as Voyage to the Bottom of the Harbour.
Stock footage of Seaview was used in the Wonder Woman episode "The Bermuda Triangle Crisis."
An often referenced running joke is that in many episodes of the series, characters lurch to camera movements on the visibly static set, to give the illusion that Seaview had sustained impact. This was an old movie trick, and was commonly used by other television shows of the period, including Star Trek, but none did it so frequently, nor with such relish as Voyage.[6] Hence, the technique is still commonly known as "Seaview Rock and Roll."
British television sitcom Red Dwarf frequently utilized parodies of this gimmick, including an extended outtake of the cast lurching from side to side of the Starbug set at the insistence of Craig Charles.
On the SciFi Channel's 1995 documentary tribute to Irwin Allen, The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen, series co-star June Lockhart recalled this technique being used also on Lost In Space, where the cast also knew it as "the rock-and-roll".
The Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb has an episode with a pun on the title called Voyage to the Bottom of Buford.
DVD releases[edit]
20th Century Fox has released all 4 seasons on DVD in Region 1 in two volume sets.
In Region 2, Revelation Films has released the entire series on DVD in the UK in four complete season sets.[7][8][9][10] On March 26, 2012, they released Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: The Complete Collection, a 31-disc set featuring all 110 episodes of the series as well as bonus features.[11]
In Region 4, Madman Entertainment released the first two seasons on DVD in Australia on August 20, 2014.[12][13]

DVD Name
Ep #
Release Date
Additional Information
Season 1 Vol. 1 16 February 21, 2006 Unaired Color Pilot
Behind the scenes home movie from Irwin Allen
Promotional Reel featuring Irwin Allen from 1964
Still Gallery

Season 1 Vol. 2 16 July 11, 2006 Still Gallery (22 images)
Blooper Reel
David Hedison Interviews

Season 2 Vol. 1 13 October 24, 2006 Special Effects Footage (22:04)
Concept Art Gallery (5 stills)
Episodic Photo Gallery (35 stills)
Publicity Photo Gallery (8 stills)

Season 2 Vol. 2 13 February 20, 2007 David Hedison Interview
Still Gallery

Season 3 Vol. 1 13 June 19, 2007 Still Galleries
David Hedison Interviews
Visitors on Set
Letters from Fans
"The Rock and Roll"
David Hedison 1966 Interview (audio only)

Season 3 Vol. 2 13 October 23, 2007 Episodic Photo Gallery
Publicity Photos
TV Merchandise
David Hedison Interviews
Richard Basehart 1966 Interview (audio only)

Season 4 Vol. 1 13 March 31, 2009 Eleven Days to Zero (re-cut unaired pilot)
David Hedison Interviews: Years 1–4
Irwin's Goal
Irwin's Office
Work Hours
Voice-overs
Still Gallery

Season 4 Vol. 2 13 January 11, 2011 Original Unaired Pilot
Broadcast Pilot with Vintage Commercials
Still Gallery

Notes[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b King, Susan (2011-01-30). "'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea': David Hedison looks back on periscope days". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-01-30.
2.Jump up ^ Richard Basehart also starred in Moby Dick (1956 film), directed by John Huston.
3.Jump up ^ TV winter season getting shorter
4.Jump up ^ tv.com
5.Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065556/
6.Jump up ^ Season 3 Vol 1 DVD extra feature "The Rock and Roll"
7.Jump up ^ "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea — The Complete Series One DVD 1964: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Robert Dowdell, Dell Monroe: Film & TV". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
8.Jump up ^ "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea — The Complete Second Series DVD 1961: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Irwin Allen: Film & TV". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
9.Jump up ^ "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea — The Complete Series Three DVD 1964: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Irwin Allen: Film & TV". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
10.Jump up ^ "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea — The Complete Series Four DVD 1964: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Irwin Allen: Film & TV". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
11.Jump up ^ "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea The Complete Collection DVD 1964: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Irwin Allen: Film & TV". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
12.Jump up ^ Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Season 1
13.Jump up ^ Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Season 2
References[edit]
'SEAVIEW: The making of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea by Tim Colliver, copyright 1992, published by Alpha Control Press.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea DVD sets
The Irwin Allen Scrapbook Volume One Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Edited by William E. Anchors, Jr.; copyright 1992 by Alpha Control Press.
Irwin Allen Television Productions 1964–1970, Jon Abbot, McFarland and Company, 1996
Voyage au fond des mers : guide pour la série d'Irwin Allen, Max Philippe Morel, Lulu.com, 2012
TV.Com
External links[edit]
 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series).
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea at the Internet Movie Database
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea at TV.com


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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
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Cover art from the 2006 DVD release of the 1st season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea showing stars Richard Basehart and David Hedison, with the submarine, Seaview (center)

Created by
Irwin Allen
Starring
Richard Basehart
David Hedison
Bob Dowdell
Derrik Lewis
Henry Kulky
Terry Becker
Del Monroe
Arch Whiting
Paul Trinka
Allan Hunt
Richard Bull
Paul Carr
Composer(s)
Paul Sawtell
Hugo Friedhofer
Alexander Courage
Morton Stevens
Michael Hennagin (one episode)
Jerry Goldsmith (one episode)
Leith Stevens
Lennie Hayton
Nelson Riddle (one episode)
Herman Stein (one episode)
Robert Drasnin (one episode)
Harry Geller
Joseph Mullendore
Irving Gertz (one episode)
Country of origin
United States
No. of seasons
4
No. of episodes
110
Production

Running time
60 minutes (including commercials)
Production company(s)
Cambridge
20th Century Fox Television
Broadcast

Original channel
ABC
Original run
September 14, 1964 – March 31, 1968
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a 1960s American science fiction television series based on the 1961 film of the same name. Both were created by Irwin Allen, which enabled the movie's sets, costumes, props, special effects models, and sometimes footage, to be used in the production of the television series. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was the first of Irwin Allen's four science fiction television series, as well as the longest-running. The show's main theme was underwater adventure.
Voyage was broadcast on ABC from September 14, 1964 to March 31, 1968, and was the decade's longest-running American science fiction television series with continuing characters. The 110 episodes produced included 32 shot in black-and-white (1964–1965), and 78 filmed in color (1965–1968). The first two seasons took place in the then future of the 1970s. The final two seasons took place in the 1980s. The show starred Richard Basehart and David Hedison.


Contents  [hide]
1 Show history 1.1 Pilot episode
1.2 Season One
1.3 Season Two
1.4 Season Three
1.5 Fourth and final season
2 Music
3 Cast
4 Episode list 4.1 Season One (1964–1965)
4.2 Season Two (1965–1966)
4.3 Season Three (1966–1967)
4.4 Season Four (1967–1968)
5 Other media
6 Popular culture
7 DVD releases
8 Notes
9 References
10 External links

Show history[edit]
Pilot episode[edit]
The pilot episode "Eleven Days to Zero" was filmed in color but shown in black-and-white. It introduces the audience to the futuristic nuclear submarine S.S.R.N. Seaview and the lead members of her crew, including the designer and builder of the submarine Admiral Harriman Nelson (Richard Basehart), and Commander Lee Crane (David Hedison), who becomes the Seaview's captain after the murder of her original commanding officer. The submarine is based at the Nelson Institute of Marine Research (NIMR) in Santa Barbara, California, and is often moored some 500 feet below NIMR in a secret underground submarine pen carved out of solid rock. The Seaview is officially for undersea marine research and visits many exotic locations in the Seven Seas, but its secret mission is to defend the planet from all world and extraterrestrial threats[1] in the then-future of the 1970s.
Season One[edit]



 Adm. Nelson and the ill-fated Capt. Phillips are attacked after leaving the Nelson Institute of Marine Research.
The first season of 32 episodes began with Admiral Nelson and the crew of the Seaview fighting against a foreign government in order to prevent a world-threatening earthquake, continuing with a foreign government destroying American submarines with new technologies in The Fear Makers and The Enemies. The season also had several ocean peril stories in which the Seaview crew spent the episode dealing with the normal perils of the sea. Two examples are "Submarine Sunk Here" and "The Ghost of Moby Dick".[2] The season introduced the diving bell and a mini-submarine, as well as the first alien story (Don Brinkley's; 'The Sky is Falling') and the first sea monsters. The season ended with the Seaview crew fighting a foreign government to save a defense weapon.
In the first season, the gritty, atmospheric, and intense series featured story lines devoted to Cold War themes, as well as excursions into near-future speculative fiction. Many episodes involved espionage and sci-fi elements. While aliens and sea monsters, not to mention dinosaurs, did become the subject of episodes, the primary villains were hostile foreign governments. While fantastic, there was a semblance of reality in the scripts.
During the course of the first season Admiral Nelson was promoted from Three Star to a Four Star Admiral, and it was established that while essentially a marine research vessel SSRN Seaview was also a key part of the U.S. military in the nuclear armed fleet (most notably defined in William Read Woodfield's episode; Doomsday).
The first season opening credits depicted Seaview rising towards the surface, and the closing credits played out over a still of the Seaview's spectacular arctic surface, as featured at the start of the 1961 film.
Season Two[edit]



 DVD cover art of the 2nd season (Vol. 2) of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea featuring depictions of Seaview and the Flying Sub (bottom)
The second season began with a trip inside a whale, a trip inside a volcano, and a few Cold War intrigue and nuclear war-themed episodes, and saw several brushes with world disaster. The season ended with a ghost story, one of the show's few sequels.
Due to ABC's demands for a somewhat "lighter" tone to the series,[citation needed] the second season saw an increase in monster-of-the-week type plots, yet there were still some episodes that harkened back to the tone of the first season. The second season also saw a change from black-and-white to color. The beginning of the second season saw the permanent replacement of Chief "Curly" Jones with Chief Francis Ethelbert Sharkey, due to the death of Henry Kulky, who portrayed Chief Jones.
The most important change in the series occurred during this season when a notably redesigned Seaview interior was introduced, along with the Flying Sub, a yellow, two-man mini-submarine with passenger capacity, armed with a laser gun. It could leave the ocean and function as an airplane. The Flying Sub was referred to by the initials FS-1. The futuristic craft greatly increased the Seaview crew's travel options. The Flying Sub was launched from a bay with automatic doors added in the lower part of the bow section of Seaview that was apparently built between Seasons One and Two (though stock color footage from the 1961 film that was used in Season Two occasionally showed a Seaview minus this addition, despite it being present in later color footage included in the same episodes). The Seaview's private observation deck from the first season was never seen again. The ship's eight smaller observation windows became four large windows giving the sub a sleeker, more futuristic look. The control room was made larger and more open-plan showing the bow windows beyond the control room area (previously this was both closed off by a bulkhead and doorway and on another level in the black-and-white first season), while a memorable large rectangular panel screen of flickering lights was moved across the control room, and access to the Flying Sub via a sealed hatch stairway at the bow section was added. The Seaview also now had a powerful laser beam in its bow light. The small mini-sub ridden by two men from the first season was retained and occasionally still used in the color episodes. The ship's enlisted men were also given more colorful uniforms (red or light blue jumpsuits) and white Keds Champion sneakers, evidently to take advantage of the changeover from black-and-white to color. The officers and petty officers, however, retained their khaki works from the first season. The traditional sailor uniforms worn in the first season were only seen in stock footage from the first season and on characters who were newly filmed to match up with that footage. All these changes occurred between seasons. The Flying Sub was showcased in the show's closing credits for the entire season, while the initial opening was a color version of the first season sequence, though this was soon replaced by a new color sequence of Seaview descending beneath the surface.
The Flying Sub also made an appearance in the 1971 Irwin Allen film, City Beneath the Sea (1971 film), as did the Seaview itself during the evacuation scene.
A second season episode, "The Sky's On Fire", was a remake of the basic storyline of Irwin Allen's 1961 film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea utilizing considerable film color footage, though several film sequences were removed and had been featured in other first season episodes such as 'The Village of Guilt' (the giant octopus) and 'Submarine Sunk Here' (the derelict minefield)
A few later season two episodes were filmed without Richard Basehart, who was hospitalized for a bleeding ulcer. He filmed the scenes in the Flying Sub for "The Monster's Web" before hospitalization, requiring a stand in and other characters taking over his lines. He was missing entirely from the next two episodes. These episodes didn't feature his character at all, while in one story "The Menfish" Gary Merrill guested as Admiral Park, a colleague of Nelson's who substituted for him. Basehart returned for "Return of the Phantom," the final episode of the season.
Season Three[edit]
The third season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ran simultaneously with two other Allen-produced television series: the second season of Lost in Space and the premiere (and only) season of The Time Tunnel.
The third season began with Dick Tufeld of Lost in Space playing an evil disembodied brain from outer space. The season continued with a werewolf story that is one of the few episodes to inspire a sequel. In one episode, the Seaview's officers and crew encountered Nazis who believed World War II was still ongoing. The third season only had two espionage stories and one ocean peril story that were reminiscent of the first season. One of those three stories was about a hostile foreign government trying to steal a strange new mineral with the aid of a brainwashed Admiral Nelson. This espionage story was the end of the third season.
The final two seasons continued the shift towards paranormal storylines that were popular in the late 1960s.[1] Mummies, werewolves, talking puppets, and an evil leprechaun all walked the corridors of the Seaview. There were also fossil men, flame men, frost men, lobster men, and shadow men. The opening credits were largely identical to the revised season two, but the initial season two yellow lettering credits that were first altered to white, (and then back to yellow on the later revised sequence) were now depicted in a golden/yellowish lettering, and closing credits were set over a green-backed painting of Seaview underwater.
Fourth and final season[edit]



 Nelson and Sharkey fight an alien spy, 1968.
The fourth and final season of Voyage began with Victor Jory playing a five century old alchemist while the Seaview is threatened by buffeting underwater currents created by a volcano on the verge of a major eruption. After a few episodes there were revamped opening credits depicting action sequences and the stars' pictures in color set on a sonar board design. The closing credits picture remained unchanged from season three. Near the end of the fourth season, there were three unrelated stories of extraterrestrial invasion in three weeks. One episode had an unknown master of disguise infiltrating and wreaking havoc aboard the Seaview. Another episode has Nelson, Morton and Sharkey actually "gaslight" Crane! There were two time travel stories in two weeks, which both featured the enigmatic but dangerous Mister Pem. The second of the two had the Seaview going back in time to the American Revolution. The episode ended with the Seaview returning to the present and sailing into television history.
In March 1968 it was announced that Voyage would not be back for a fifth season.[3]
Music[edit]
The series' main theme, "The Seaview Theme", was written by Paul Sawtell. A new darker, more serious theme composed by Jerry Goldsmith was introduced at the beginning of the second season episode "Jonah and the Whale", but this was quickly replaced by the original version. A version of the Goldsmith suite re-orchestrated by Nelson Riddle was heard as incidental music in the episode "Escape From Venice", and the original Goldsmith suite was used as incidental music throughout the rest of the series. The series' main composer, supervisor and conductor was Lionel Newman, who for the second season composed a serious sounding score for when the episode credits (episode title/guests/writer/director) were shown just after the theme song, which would be used by many episodes (starting with "The Left Handed Man") thru the second and into the early third season. Other guest composers included Lennie Hayton, Hugo Friedhofer, Star Trek: The Original Series composer Alexander Courage, Morton Stevens, Leith Stevens (no relation) who wrote the music to seven episodes, and Sawtell, who worked on the show for a while in the first season.
GNP Crescendo issued a soundtrack album in 1997 as part of its series tying into the documentary The Fantasy Worlds Of Irwin Allen, featuring Sawtell's theme from the series and his score for the pilot episode "Eleven Days To Zero" (tracks 2–6) and Goldsmith's work for "Jonah and the Whale."
1.Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Main Title (:29)
2.Murderous Pursuit (2:54)
3.Ocean Floor Search/Squid Fight (5:34)
4.Solid Ice (1:48)
5.Lost/Job Well Done (3:35)
6.End Title (The Seaview Theme) (:40)
7.Jonah and the Whale (Main Title) (:30)
8.A Whale of a Whale/Thar She Blows/A Whale of a Time/The Second Dive (4:23)
9.A Meal Fit for a Whale/Crash Dive/Sub Narcotics (4:18)
10.Collision Course I/Collision Course II/Diving Party/Going Down (4:44)
11.Home Free Part I/Home Free Part II (3:58)
12.Jonah and the Whale (End Credit) (:50)
Cast[edit]



 David Hedison as Lee Crane in the episode "Time Lock", 1967Richard Basehart as Admiral Harriman Nelson
David Hedison as Commander Lee Crane
Bob Dowdell as Lieutenant Commander Chip Morton
Derrik Lewis as Lieutenant Commander O'Brien (pilot episode, 1st-2nd seasons)
Henry Kulky as Chief "Curly" Jones (1st season)
Terry Becker as Chief Petty Officer Francis Ethelbert Sharkey (2nd–4th seasons)
Del Monroe as Kowalski
Arch Whiting as Sparks
Paul Trinka as Patterson
Brent Davis as Peters (crew member – 1 episode)
Lew Gallo as Kruger (crew member – 1 episode)
Ralph Garrett as Somers (crew member – 1 episode)
Allan Hunt as Riley (2nd Season)
Richard Bull as the Doctor
Wayne Heffley as Seaview Doctor (2nd Season 1965–1966, 3 episodes)
Paul Carr as Casey Clark (1st season, recurring afterwards only in stock footage scenes)
Scott McFadden, Ray Didsbury, Marco Lopez, and Ron Stein provided additional crewman in non-speaking roles often requiring stunt work.
Episode list[edit]
Note: Two different episodes (28 and 73) are both titled "The Creature".
Season One (1964–1965)[edit]

Ep #
Title
Airdate
01 "Eleven Days to Zero" (Guest Starring Eddie Albert) September 14, 1964
02 "The City Beneath the Sea"(Guest Starring Hurd Hatfield, Linda Cristal) September 21, 1964
03 "The Fear Makers" (Guest Starring Lloyd Bochner, And Special Guest Star Edgar Bergen) September 28, 1964
04 "The Mist of Silence" (Guest Starring Rita Gam, Alejandro Rey) October 5, 1964
05 "The Price of Doom" (Guest Starring David Opatoshu, John Milford and Jill Ireland). Screenplay by Harlan Ellison (under his Cordwainer Bird alias, credited as "Cord Wainer Bird") October 12, 1964
06 "The Sky is Falling" (Guest Starring Charles McGraw) October 19, 1964
07 "Turn Back the Clock" (Guest Starring Nick Adams, Yvonne Craig) October 26, 1964
08 "The Village of Guilt" (Guest Starring Richard Carlson, Anna-Lisa) November 2, 1964
09 "Hot Line" (Guest Starring Everett Sloane, And Special Guest Star: Michael Ansara) November 9, 1964
10 "Submarine Sunk Here" November 16, 1964
11 "The Magnus Beam" November 23, 1964
12 "No Way Out" November 30, 1964
13 "The Blizzard Makers" December 7, 1964
14 "The Ghost of Moby Dick" Guest stars June Lockhart, Edward Binns December 14, 1964
15 "Long Live the King" December 21, 1964
16 "Hail to the Chief" December 28, 1964
17 "The Last Battle" (Co-starring John Van Dreelen, Joe De Santis, Rudy Solari). Establishes that the series takes place in an alternate timeline when Admiral Nelson states that the Third Reich lasted for 19 years (as opposed to 12 years in the real world) January 4, 1965
18 "Mutiny" (Guest starring Harold J. Stone) January 11, 1965
19 "Doomsday" (Co-starring Donald Harron, Paul Carr) January 18, 1965
20 "The Invaders" (Guest starring Robert Duvall, credited as "Robert Duval") January 25, 1965
21 "The Indestructible Man" (Co-starring Michael Constantine) February 1, 1965
22 "The Buccaneer" (Co-starring Barry Atwater) February 8, 1965
23 "The Human Computer" February 15, 1965
24 "The Saboteur" (Guest stars Bert Freed, Warren Stevens, featuring James Brolin February 22, 1965
25 "Cradle of the Deep" March 1, 1965
26 "The Amphibians" March 8, 1965
27 "The Exile" Guest star Edward Asner, co-starring David Sheiner March 15, 1965
28 "The Creature" Guest star Leslie Nielsen March 22, 1965
29 "The Enemies" (Guest star Henry Silva, co-starring Malachi Throne) March 29, 1965
30 "Secret of the Loch" (Guest star Torin Thatcher, co-starring Hedley Mattingly, George Mitchell and John McLiam) April 5, 1965
31 "The Condemned" (Guest star J. D. Cannon, co-starring Arthur Franz, Alvy Moore) April 12, 1965
32 "The Traitor" April 19, 1965
Season Two (1965–1966)[edit]

Ep #
Title
Airdate
33/ 01 "Jonah and the Whale" (Guest starring Gia Scala) September 19, 1965
34/02 "Time Bomb" September 26, 1965
35/03 "And Five of Us Are Left " (Guest Star Phillip Pine, co-starring Robert Doyle, Teru Shimada) October 3, 1965
36/04 "The Cyborg" With special guest star Victor Buono co-starring Brooke Bundy October 17, 1965
37/05 "Escape From Venice" October 24, 1965
38/06 "The Left-Handed Man" October 31, 1965
39/07 "The Deadliest Game" (Guest starring Lloyd Bochner. Co-starring, Audrey Dalton, Robert Cornthwaite and Robert F. Simon) November 7, 1965
40/08 "Leviathan" November 14, 1965
41/09 "The Peacemaker" (Guest starring John Cassavetes, co-starring Whit Bissell, Irene Tsu, Dale Ishimoto) November 21, 1965
42/10 "The Silent Saboteurs" (Guest starring Pilar Seurat, co-starring George Takei, Bert Freed) November 28, 1965
43/11 "The X Factor" December 5, 1965
44/12 "The Machines Strike Back" December 12, 1965
45/13 "The Monster From Outer Space" December 19, 1965
46/14 "Terror On Dinosaur Island" December 26, 1965
47/15 "Killers of the Deep" January 2, 1966
48/16 "Deadly Creature Below!" (Guest star Nehemiah Persoff, co-starring Paul Comi) January 9, 1966
49/17 "The Phantom Strikes" January 16, 1966
50/18 "The Sky's On Fire" (Guest Star David J. Stewart, Co-starring Robert H. Harris, Frank Marth) January 23, 1966
51/19 "Graveyard of Fear" (Guest starring Robert Loggia) January 30, 1966
52/20 "The Shape of Doom" (Guest star Kevin Hagen) February 6, 1966
53/21 "Dead Man's Doubloons" (Guest star Albert Salmi) February 13, 1966
54/22 "The Death Ship" February 20, 1966
55/23 "The Monster's Web" (Guest star Mark Richman) February 27, 1966
56/24 "The Menfish" (Guest star Gary Merrill, special guest star John Dehner) March 6, 1966
57/25 "The Mechanical Man" (Guest star James Darren, special guest star Arthur O'Connell) March 13, 1966
58/26 "The Return of the Phantom" March 20, 1966
Season Three (1966–1967)[edit]

Ep #
Title
Airdate
59/01 "Monster From the Inferno" September 18, 1966
60/02 "Werewolf" September 25, 1966
61/03 "The Day The World Ended" October 2, 1966
62/04 "Night of Terror" October 9, 1966
63/05 "The Terrible Toys" October 16, 1966
64/06 "Day of Evil" October 23, 1966
65/07 "Deadly Waters" October 30, 1966
66/08 "Thing From Inner Space" November 6, 1966
67/09 "The Death Watch" November 13, 1966
68/10 "Deadly Invasion" November 20, 1966
69/11 "The Haunted Submarine" November 27, 1966
70/12 "The Plant Man" December 4, 1966
71/13 "The Lost Bomb" December 11, 1966
72/14 "The Brand of the Beast" December 18, 1966
73/15 "The Creature" January 1, 1967
74/16 "Death From The Past" January 8, 1967
75/17 "The Heat Monster" January 15, 1967
76/18 "The Fossil Men" January 22, 1967
77/19 "The Mermaid" January 29, 1967
78/20 "The Mummy" February 5, 1967
79/21 "The Shadowman" February 12, 1967
80/22 "No Escape From Death" February 19, 1967
81/23 "Doomsday Island" February 26, 1967
82/24 "The Wax Men" Guest star Michael Dunn March 5, 1967
83/25 "Deadly Cloud" March 12, 1967
84/26 "Destroy Seaview!" March 19, 1967
Season Four (1967–1968)[edit]

Ep #
Title
Airdate
085/01 "Fires of Death" (Guest Starring Victor Jory) September 17, 1967
086/02 "The Deadly Dolls" (Guest Starring Vincent Price) October 1, 1967
087/03 "Cave of the Dead" (Guest Starring Warren Stevens) October 8, 1967
088/04 "Journey With Fear" October 15, 1967
089/05 "Sealed Orders" October 22, 1967
090/06 "Man of Many Faces" October 29, 1967
091/07 "Fatal Cargo"(Guest Starring Woodrow Parfrey) November 5, 1967
092/08 "Time Lock" (Guest Starring John Crawford) November 12, 1967
093/09 "Rescue" (Guest Starring Don Dubbins) November 19, 1967
094/10 "Terror" November 26, 1967
095/11 "A Time To Die" (Guest Starring Henry Jones) December 3, 1967
096/12 "Blow Up" December 10, 1967
097/13 "The Deadly Amphibians" (Guest Starring Don Matheson) December 17, 1967
098/14 "The Return of Blackbeard" (Guest Starring Malachi Throne) December 31, 1967
099/15 "The Terrible Leprechaun" (Guest Starring Walter Burke) January 7, 1968
100/16 "The Lobster Man" (Guest Starring Victor Lundin) January 21, 1968
101/17 "Nightmare" (Guest Starring Paul Mantee) January 28, 1968
102/18 "The Abominable Snowman" February 4, 1968
103/19 "Secret of the Deep" (Guest Starring Peter Mark Richman) February 11, 1968
104/20 "Man-Beast" (Guest Starring Lawrence Montaigne) February 18, 1968
105/21 "Savage Jungle" (Guest Starring Perry López) February 25, 1968
106/22 "Flaming Ice" March 3, 1968
107/23 "Attack!" March 10, 1968
108/24 "The Edge of Doom" March 17, 1968
109/25 "The Death Clock" March 24, 1968
110/26 "No Way Back" March 31, 1968
[4]
Other media[edit]
A paperback novel, City Under the Sea, authored by Paul W. Fairman, was published in 1965, to tie into the series. It had a different storyline than the episode of the same name. The book should also not be confused with the later Irwin Allen film of nearly the same name, which was about the attempts of the world's first under-sea city to prevent the earth from being hit by a rogue asteroid. It is not about "A wealthy family attempting to move the Earth's oceans to another planet for resettlement" as has occasionally been stated.[5]
Western Publishing published a comic book based on the series. Western's comic company, Gold Key Comics put out a series that ran 16 issues from 1964 to 1970. Most covers were painted, and most had a photo of either Richard Basehart or David Hedison on them. The first issue of the Gold Key comic was a story called "The Last Survivor". The story bought back Dr. Gamma, the villain from the pilot episode, "Eleven Days to Zero". Gold Key's story was the only sequel to the pilot episode. Hermes Press reprinted the entire run in 2 hardback volumes; the first was released in 2009.
In 1966, World Distributors, a British publishing company in Manchester, published a hardback book called the Annual. The British-made book used the series characters in all new stories. The book contained a reprint of a story from Gold Key Comics. Both books were mostly prose stories with some illustrations.
Aurora Plastics Corporation released a plastic model kit of Seaview as well as the Flying Sub during the original run of the series. From 1975 - 1977, Aurora reissued both kits; the Seaview (kit #253) was modified with a sea floor base (originally created for the Dick Tracy Space Coupe kit #819) and sub surface details, while The Flying Sub (kit #254) was remodeled in a different base color. The 1975 - 1977 kits—part of Aurora's reissue of 5 of their 11 TV & movie-related science-fiction kits, also included instruction sheets with a detailed history of the TV series or movie plot.
Both kits were recently re-released by Polar Lights. The Flying Sub model sold more than the Seaview model.[citation needed]
Other collectables from the show include a Milton Bradley board game with a drawing based on the pilot episode, and a school lunch box with depictions of Admiral Nelson and Captain Crane trying to save the Flying Sub from an evil looking octopus. There was also a View-Master slide reel based on the episode "Deadly Creature Below."
In 1964, a 66-card set of black-and-white trading cards was released by Donruss. Selling for 5 cents a pack, the set consisted of stills from the first season. Today, a set in mint condition can sell for several hundred dollars.
Popular culture[edit]
The popularity of the TV show inspired Mad Magazine (March, 1966) to spoof the show, their version being called Voyage to See What's on the Bottom, featuring a submarine called the Seapew.
Australian TV show Fast Forward sent-up the series as Voyage to the Bottom of the Harbour.
Stock footage of Seaview was used in the Wonder Woman episode "The Bermuda Triangle Crisis."
An often referenced running joke is that in many episodes of the series, characters lurch to camera movements on the visibly static set, to give the illusion that Seaview had sustained impact. This was an old movie trick, and was commonly used by other television shows of the period, including Star Trek, but none did it so frequently, nor with such relish as Voyage.[6] Hence, the technique is still commonly known as "Seaview Rock and Roll."
British television sitcom Red Dwarf frequently utilized parodies of this gimmick, including an extended outtake of the cast lurching from side to side of the Starbug set at the insistence of Craig Charles.
On the SciFi Channel's 1995 documentary tribute to Irwin Allen, The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen, series co-star June Lockhart recalled this technique being used also on Lost In Space, where the cast also knew it as "the rock-and-roll".
The Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb has an episode with a pun on the title called Voyage to the Bottom of Buford.
DVD releases[edit]
20th Century Fox has released all 4 seasons on DVD in Region 1 in two volume sets.
In Region 2, Revelation Films has released the entire series on DVD in the UK in four complete season sets.[7][8][9][10] On March 26, 2012, they released Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: The Complete Collection, a 31-disc set featuring all 110 episodes of the series as well as bonus features.[11]
In Region 4, Madman Entertainment released the first two seasons on DVD in Australia on August 20, 2014.[12][13]

DVD Name
Ep #
Release Date
Additional Information
Season 1 Vol. 1 16 February 21, 2006 Unaired Color Pilot
Behind the scenes home movie from Irwin Allen
Promotional Reel featuring Irwin Allen from 1964
Still Gallery

Season 1 Vol. 2 16 July 11, 2006 Still Gallery (22 images)
Blooper Reel
David Hedison Interviews

Season 2 Vol. 1 13 October 24, 2006 Special Effects Footage (22:04)
Concept Art Gallery (5 stills)
Episodic Photo Gallery (35 stills)
Publicity Photo Gallery (8 stills)

Season 2 Vol. 2 13 February 20, 2007 David Hedison Interview
Still Gallery

Season 3 Vol. 1 13 June 19, 2007 Still Galleries
David Hedison Interviews
Visitors on Set
Letters from Fans
"The Rock and Roll"
David Hedison 1966 Interview (audio only)

Season 3 Vol. 2 13 October 23, 2007 Episodic Photo Gallery
Publicity Photos
TV Merchandise
David Hedison Interviews
Richard Basehart 1966 Interview (audio only)

Season 4 Vol. 1 13 March 31, 2009 Eleven Days to Zero (re-cut unaired pilot)
David Hedison Interviews: Years 1–4
Irwin's Goal
Irwin's Office
Work Hours
Voice-overs
Still Gallery

Season 4 Vol. 2 13 January 11, 2011 Original Unaired Pilot
Broadcast Pilot with Vintage Commercials
Still Gallery

Notes[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b King, Susan (2011-01-30). "'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea': David Hedison looks back on periscope days". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-01-30.
2.Jump up ^ Richard Basehart also starred in Moby Dick (1956 film), directed by John Huston.
3.Jump up ^ TV winter season getting shorter
4.Jump up ^ tv.com
5.Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065556/
6.Jump up ^ Season 3 Vol 1 DVD extra feature "The Rock and Roll"
7.Jump up ^ "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea — The Complete Series One DVD 1964: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Robert Dowdell, Dell Monroe: Film & TV". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
8.Jump up ^ "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea — The Complete Second Series DVD 1961: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Irwin Allen: Film & TV". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
9.Jump up ^ "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea — The Complete Series Three DVD 1964: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Irwin Allen: Film & TV". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
10.Jump up ^ "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea — The Complete Series Four DVD 1964: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Irwin Allen: Film & TV". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
11.Jump up ^ "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea The Complete Collection DVD 1964: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Irwin Allen: Film & TV". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
12.Jump up ^ Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Season 1
13.Jump up ^ Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Season 2
References[edit]
'SEAVIEW: The making of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea by Tim Colliver, copyright 1992, published by Alpha Control Press.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea DVD sets
The Irwin Allen Scrapbook Volume One Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Edited by William E. Anchors, Jr.; copyright 1992 by Alpha Control Press.
Irwin Allen Television Productions 1964–1970, Jon Abbot, McFarland and Company, 1996
Voyage au fond des mers : guide pour la série d'Irwin Allen, Max Philippe Morel, Lulu.com, 2012
TV.Com
External links[edit]
 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series).
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea 1961.jpg
1961 movie poster

Directed by
Irwin Allen
Produced by
Irwin Allen
Written by
Irwin Allen and
Charles Bennett
Starring
Walter Pidgeon
Joan Fontaine
Barbara Eden
Peter Lorre
Robert Sterling
Michael Ansara
Frankie Avalon
Music by
Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter
Cinematography
Winton Hoch
Edited by
George Boemler

Production
 company

Windsor Productions

Distributed by
20th Century Fox

Release dates

July 12, 1961


Running time
 105 min.
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$1,580,000[1]
Box office
$2.3 million (US/ Canada)[2]
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is an American science fiction film, produced and directed by Irwin Allen, released by 20th Century Fox in 1961. The story was written by Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett. Walter Pidgeon starred as Admiral Harriman Nelson, with Robert Sterling as Captain Lee Crane. The supporting cast included Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Michael Ansara, and Peter Lorre. The theme song was sung by Frankie Avalon, who also appeared in the film.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Historical and technical background
4 The submarine Seaview
5 Reception
6 Impact
7 Other media 7.1 Television
7.2 Printed media
7.3 Other
8 References
9 Other sources
10 External links

Plot[edit]
The new, state of the art nuclear submarine Seaview is on diving trials in the Arctic Ocean. The Seaview is designed and built by scientist and engineering genius Admiral Harriman Nelson (USN-Ret) (Walter Pidgeon). Captain Lee Crane (Robert Sterling) is the Seaview's Commanding Officer. One of the on-board observers is Dr. Susan Hiller (Joan Fontaine), studying crew-related stress. The mission includes being out of radio contact for 96 hours while under the Arctic ice cap, but the ice begins to crack and melt, with boulder-size pieces crashing into the ocean around the submarine. Surfacing, they discover fire burning in the sky. After the rescue of a scientist and his dog at Ice Floe Delta, Miguel Alvarez (Michael Ansara), the sub receives radio contact from Mission Director Inspector Bergan at the Bureau of Marine Exploration. He advises that a meteor shower pierced the Van Allen radiation belt causing it to catch fire, resulting in a world-threatening increase in heat all across the Earth. Nelson's on-board friend and scientist, retired Commodore Lucius Emery (Peter Lorre) concurs that it is possible. Bergan informs Nelson that the President wants him at a UN Emergency Scientific Meeting as soon as possible.
Nelson and Commodore Emery calculate a plan to end the catastrophe. The USOS Seaview arrives in New York Harbor in two days. At the meeting Nelson informs the UN that according to their calculations, if the heat increase is not stopped, it will become irreversible and Earth has "a life expectancy of about three weeks." The Admiral and the Commander have come up with a plan to extinguish the Skyfire. He proposes firing a nuclear missile at the burning belt from the best calculated location, the Marianas. Nelson posits that when fired at the right place and time, 1600 hours on August 29, the nuclear explosion should overwhelm and extinguish the flames, away into space, essentially "amputating" the belt from the Earth. The Seaview has the capability to fire the missile.
However, the Admiral's plan is rejected by the chief scientist and head delegate, Emilio Zucco (Henry Daniell) of Vienna. His reasons are that he knows the composition of gases in the belt and he believes the Skyfire will burn itself out at 173 degrees. Zucco's plan is to let the Skyfire do just that and he feels the Admiral's plan is too risky. Nelson claims that Zucco's burn-out point, however, is beyond that date and time if the current rise rate is maintained. But at Zucco's urging, Nelson and Emery are shouted down and the plan is rejected. Despite the rejection, the Admiral and the Commodore quickly leave the proceedings, advising that his only authorization will be from the President himself.
It is a race against the clock as the Seaview speeds to reach the proper firing position, above the trench in the Marianas in the Pacific. During this time Nelson and Crane agree on tapping the Rio-to-London telephone cable to try to eventually reach the President. However, an unsuccessful attempt on the Admiral's life makes it clear that there is a saboteur on board. But the confusion over who the saboteur might be revolves around rescued scientist Miguel Alvarez, who has become a religious zealot regarding the catastrophe, and Dr. Hiller, who secretly admires Dr Zucco's plan. Other obstacles present themselves: a minefield and a near-mutiny. And Crane himself begins to doubt the Admiral's tactics and reasoning. During the telephone cable attempt, Crane and Alvarez battle a giant squid. Although the London cable connection is made, Nelson is told there's been no contact with the States for 35 hours. Also, a hostile submarine follows the Seaview deep into the Mariana Trench, but implodes before it can destroy the Seaview.
Near the end of the film the saboteur is revealed to be Dr. Hiller. Captain Crane happens by as she exits the ship's "Off Limits" Nuclear Reactor core, looking rather ill. She has been exposed to a fatal dose of radiation: her detector badge is deep red. Walking over the submarine's shark tank, she falls in during a struggle with the Captain, and is killed by a shark. The Admiral learns that temperatures are rising faster than expected. He realizes that Zucco's belief that the Skyfire will burn itself out is in error.
At the end, Seaview reaches the Marianas. There, in spite of the threats and objections of Alvarez, Seaview launches a missile toward the belt and it explodes the burning flames outward, saving the world.
Cast[edit]
Walter Pidgeon as Admiral Harriman Nelson
Joan Fontaine as Dr. Susan Hiller
Barbara Eden as Lieutenant (JG) Cathy Connors
Peter Lorre as Commodore Lucius Emery
Robert Sterling as Captain Lee Crane
Michael Ansara as Miguel Alvarez
Frankie Avalon as Lieutenant (JG) Danny Romano
Regis Toomey as Dr. Jamieson
John Litel as Vice-Admiral B.J. Crawford
Howard McNear as Congressman Llewellyn Parker
Henry Daniell as Dr. Emilio Zucco
Skip Ward as Crew Member
Mark Slade as Seaman Jimmy 'Red' Smith
Charles Tannen as Chief Gleason
Del Monroe as Kowalski
Jonathan Gilmore as Seaman George Young
Historical and technical background[edit]
The name of the film is an inversion of a phrase popular at the time, concerning the exploration of the Arctic Ocean by nuclear submarines, namely, "a voyage to the top of the world."
From August 1, 1958 through August 5, 1958, USS Nautilus (SSN-571) (the first nuclear-powered submarine, and the first nuclear-powered ship of any kind), under the command of Commander (later Captain) William R. Anderson, steamed under the Arctic ice cap to make the first crossing from the Pacific to the Atlantic via the North Pole. On August 3, 1958 she became the first ship to reach the North Pole.[3]
For this accomplishment, Nautilus and her crew were awarded the Presidential Unit Citation, the first Presidential Unit Citation awarded in peacetime. The citation began with the words, "For outstanding achievement in completing the first voyage in history across the top of the world, by cruising under the Arctic ice cap from the Bering Strait to the Greenland Sea."[4]
Nautilus 90 North (1959, with Clay Blair) was the first book Captain Anderson wrote about the Arctic missions of USS Nautilus. It was named for the radio message he sent to the Chief of Naval Operations to announce that Nautilus had reached the pole. His second book about these missions, The Ice Diaries: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Daring Mission (with Don Keith), was completed shortly before Captain Anderson's death. This second book includes many previously classified details.
On March 17, 1959, the nuclear submarine USS Skate (SSN-578), under the command of Commander (later Vice Admiral) James F. Calvert, became the first submarine to surface at the North Pole. While at the Pole, her crew scattered the ashes of Arctic explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins.[5] Commander Calvert wrote the book Surface at the Pole about this and the other Arctic missions of USS Skate.
The film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea begins with Seaview in the Arctic for the final phase of her sea trials, including a dive under the ice cap.
Two milestones in underwater exploration were achieved in 1960, the year before Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was released. On January 23, 1960, Jacques Piccard and Lieutenant Don Walsh (USN), in the bathyscaphe Trieste, made the first descent to the bottom of the Challenger Deep. The Challenger Deep is the deepest surveyed spot in the world's oceans, and is located in the Mariana Trench, southwest of Guam.[6] From February 16, 1960 to May 10, 1960, the submarine USS Triton (SSRN-586), under the command of Captain Edward L. Beach, Jr., made the first submerged circumnavigation of the world. Triton observed and photographed Guam extensively through her periscope during this mission, without being detected by the U.S. Navy on Guam.[7]
In the film, Seaview fires a missile from a position northwest of Guam to extinguish the "skyfire."
At the time that Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was made, the Van Allen radiation belts had only recently been discovered, and much of what the film says about them is made up for the film. Discoveries since then clearly invalidate what the film says: the Van Allen belts (actually somewhat more radiation-dense portions of the magnetosphere) are made up of sub-atomic particles trapped by the Earth's magnetic field in the vacuum of space and cannot catch fire, as fire requires oxygen, fuel and an ignition source, all of which are insufficient in the Van Allen Belts. Unburned hydrocarbon emissions have never reached concentrations that could support a "skyfire."
The submarine Seaview[edit]
Main article: USOS Seaview
The film's submarine design is unique in that it features an eight-window bow viewport that provides panoramic undersea views. In the novel of the film by Theodore Sturgeon, the windows are described as "... oversized hull plates which happen to be transparent." They are made of "X-tempered herculite", a process developed by Nelson.[8] In the film, Seaview's bow has eight windows in the exterior shots, but only four windows appear to be seen in the interior shots of the Observation Room (the four upper windows were implied to be out of frame, at the top of the observation room). The bow also has a shark-like bottom flare, and the stern has 1961 Cadillac tail-fins, the "Cadillac" of submarines. In the film, the USOS Seaview (United States Oceanographic Survey) is under the authority of Nelson and the Bureau of Marine Exploration rather that the U.S. Navy. The novel mentions the bureau as being part of the U.S. Department of Science.
Reception[edit]
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was released to movie theaters in early July 1961 and had run its course by late fall (September/October). The film played to mixed reviews from critics, but audiences made it a success. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was made for US$2 million and brought in US$7 million in box office revenue.
Impact[edit]
For the filming of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, a number of detailed sets, props and scale models were created to realize the Seaview submarine. After the film was finished the sets were simply placed in storage. When Irwin Allen decided to make a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea television series, all he had to do was pull the sets out of storage. This was done at a fraction of the cost that he might have had if he had been beginning from scratch. The film reduced the cost of setting up the show and was the template for the type of stories that were done. The studios, having made the film, helped make the television series easier to produce.
The success of the television series encouraged Irwin Allen to produce other science fiction television shows. The most notable of these shows were Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, and Land of the Giants.[citation needed]
Other media[edit]
Television[edit]
The success of the film led to the 1964–1968 television version on ABC, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. During the run of the series this film was remade as a one-hour episode. The episode was written by Willam Welch and was titled "The Sky's on Fire." No mention is made in the episode of the skyfire ever happening before. This is one of several reasons that proves the film is not part of the television series' continuity. Many of the scenes in the film became scenes or even episodes in the television series.
Printed media[edit]
In June 1961, Pyramid Books published a novelization of the feature film by Theodore Sturgeon. The book was reprinted several times during the 1960s. One of those reprintings has Richard Basehart and David Hedison pictured on the cover, but the book is still based on the Walter Pidgeon film. Collectors who want a novelization of the television series should find City Under the Sea. That book uses the television characters, but should not be confused with either the television episode or the later Irwin Allen film of the same name.
Sturgeon's book is based on an early version of the film's script and has the same basic story as the film. The book also has a few characters that were not shown in the film and some additional technical explanation. Some scenes are different from the film. Some scenes in the book are wholly absent from the film, and likewise some scenes from the film are entirely missing from the book.
The original 1961 cover of Sturgeon's book shows a submarine meeting a fanged sea serpent. This scene appears in neither the novel nor the film. The design of the submarine on the 1961 cover matches neither the Seaview shown in the film nor the Seaview described in the novel. The cover submarine's bow is opaque, and her "Observation Room" is a rearward projection from the base of the conning tower. The basic shape of her hull resembles that of USS Skipjack (SSN-585), the first American nuclear-powered submarine with an "Albacore hull", including the cruciform stern and single propeller.[9]
A submarine design very similar to the craft on the 1961 cover, and its mission to save the world, shows up in a Dell Comics series called Voyage to the Deep in 1962 to capitalize on the movie's popularity. Its mission also took it to the Mariana Trench to stop the Earth from wobbling out of orbit. It stopped publishing by issue #4.[citation needed] That ship was named Proteus, later the name of the 'submarine' in Fantastic Voyage.
In 1961 Dell Comics created a full color adaptation of the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea movie. The comic was Four Color Comics #1230. The comic book has a few publicity stills of the movie plus a section on the history of submarines. In the comic book the Admiral's first name is Farragut instead of Harriman. There was also a "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" coloring book released in the mid-1960s.
MAD Magazine published a parody based on the TV series in one of their monthly issues entitled, "Voyage to See What's on the Bottom".
The movie poster shown at the top of this article is one of four posters that were made to promote the film. Each has different wording and slightly different drawings. Each poster promotes the movie from a different perspective. The poster shown also promotes Sturgeon's book.
Other[edit]
There is also a board game, manufactured by a company called GemColor, that is tied to the movie and not the television show. The box has a photo of a diver with an eight-foot miniature of the Seaview.
The film has been released on VHS,DVD and Blu-ray.
Recently,[when?] models of Seaview have also begun turning up and can be located either at the show's (and Allen's) official Web site and under other sites featuring science-fiction models. A 36-inch Seaview, with lights and interior details, is top of the line.[citation needed]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p253
2.Jump up ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p228. Please note figures are rentals accruing to distributors.
3.Jump up ^ Anderson, Captain William R., and Keith, Don. The Ice Diaries: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Daring Mission. Nashville, Thomas Nelson, 2008. Pages 268 through 292.
4.Jump up ^ Anderson and Keith, 2008, pages 303 to 304.
5.Jump up ^ Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
6.Jump up ^ "Navy's Bathyscaph Dives 7 Miles in Pacific Trench"; The New York Times; January 24, 1960; page 1
7.Jump up ^ Beach, Captain Edward L.; Around the World Submerged: The Voyage of the Triton; Annapolis, Bluejacket Books, Naval Institute Press, 1962 (Bluejacket Books edition 2001); page 292, and pages 197 through 201
8.Jump up ^ Sturgeon, Theodore; Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea; Pyramid Books, 1961; page 10
9.Jump up ^ Sturgeon, 1961. 1st printing: June 1961, front cover painting, credited to Jim Mitchell on back cover
Other sources[edit]
1.Tim Colliver, Seaview: The Making of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 1992, Alpha Control press.
2.Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (VHS)
External links[edit]
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea at the Internet Movie Database
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea at AllMovie
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea at the TCM Movie Database
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea at the American Film Institute Catalog
David Merriman's radio controlled model of the Seaview on YouTube
Mike's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Zone – the movie.


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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea 1961.jpg
1961 movie poster

Directed by
Irwin Allen
Produced by
Irwin Allen
Written by
Irwin Allen and
Charles Bennett
Starring
Walter Pidgeon
Joan Fontaine
Barbara Eden
Peter Lorre
Robert Sterling
Michael Ansara
Frankie Avalon
Music by
Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter
Cinematography
Winton Hoch
Edited by
George Boemler

Production
 company

Windsor Productions

Distributed by
20th Century Fox

Release dates

July 12, 1961


Running time
 105 min.
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$1,580,000[1]
Box office
$2.3 million (US/ Canada)[2]
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is an American science fiction film, produced and directed by Irwin Allen, released by 20th Century Fox in 1961. The story was written by Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett. Walter Pidgeon starred as Admiral Harriman Nelson, with Robert Sterling as Captain Lee Crane. The supporting cast included Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Michael Ansara, and Peter Lorre. The theme song was sung by Frankie Avalon, who also appeared in the film.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Historical and technical background
4 The submarine Seaview
5 Reception
6 Impact
7 Other media 7.1 Television
7.2 Printed media
7.3 Other
8 References
9 Other sources
10 External links

Plot[edit]
The new, state of the art nuclear submarine Seaview is on diving trials in the Arctic Ocean. The Seaview is designed and built by scientist and engineering genius Admiral Harriman Nelson (USN-Ret) (Walter Pidgeon). Captain Lee Crane (Robert Sterling) is the Seaview's Commanding Officer. One of the on-board observers is Dr. Susan Hiller (Joan Fontaine), studying crew-related stress. The mission includes being out of radio contact for 96 hours while under the Arctic ice cap, but the ice begins to crack and melt, with boulder-size pieces crashing into the ocean around the submarine. Surfacing, they discover fire burning in the sky. After the rescue of a scientist and his dog at Ice Floe Delta, Miguel Alvarez (Michael Ansara), the sub receives radio contact from Mission Director Inspector Bergan at the Bureau of Marine Exploration. He advises that a meteor shower pierced the Van Allen radiation belt causing it to catch fire, resulting in a world-threatening increase in heat all across the Earth. Nelson's on-board friend and scientist, retired Commodore Lucius Emery (Peter Lorre) concurs that it is possible. Bergan informs Nelson that the President wants him at a UN Emergency Scientific Meeting as soon as possible.
Nelson and Commodore Emery calculate a plan to end the catastrophe. The USOS Seaview arrives in New York Harbor in two days. At the meeting Nelson informs the UN that according to their calculations, if the heat increase is not stopped, it will become irreversible and Earth has "a life expectancy of about three weeks." The Admiral and the Commander have come up with a plan to extinguish the Skyfire. He proposes firing a nuclear missile at the burning belt from the best calculated location, the Marianas. Nelson posits that when fired at the right place and time, 1600 hours on August 29, the nuclear explosion should overwhelm and extinguish the flames, away into space, essentially "amputating" the belt from the Earth. The Seaview has the capability to fire the missile.
However, the Admiral's plan is rejected by the chief scientist and head delegate, Emilio Zucco (Henry Daniell) of Vienna. His reasons are that he knows the composition of gases in the belt and he believes the Skyfire will burn itself out at 173 degrees. Zucco's plan is to let the Skyfire do just that and he feels the Admiral's plan is too risky. Nelson claims that Zucco's burn-out point, however, is beyond that date and time if the current rise rate is maintained. But at Zucco's urging, Nelson and Emery are shouted down and the plan is rejected. Despite the rejection, the Admiral and the Commodore quickly leave the proceedings, advising that his only authorization will be from the President himself.
It is a race against the clock as the Seaview speeds to reach the proper firing position, above the trench in the Marianas in the Pacific. During this time Nelson and Crane agree on tapping the Rio-to-London telephone cable to try to eventually reach the President. However, an unsuccessful attempt on the Admiral's life makes it clear that there is a saboteur on board. But the confusion over who the saboteur might be revolves around rescued scientist Miguel Alvarez, who has become a religious zealot regarding the catastrophe, and Dr. Hiller, who secretly admires Dr Zucco's plan. Other obstacles present themselves: a minefield and a near-mutiny. And Crane himself begins to doubt the Admiral's tactics and reasoning. During the telephone cable attempt, Crane and Alvarez battle a giant squid. Although the London cable connection is made, Nelson is told there's been no contact with the States for 35 hours. Also, a hostile submarine follows the Seaview deep into the Mariana Trench, but implodes before it can destroy the Seaview.
Near the end of the film the saboteur is revealed to be Dr. Hiller. Captain Crane happens by as she exits the ship's "Off Limits" Nuclear Reactor core, looking rather ill. She has been exposed to a fatal dose of radiation: her detector badge is deep red. Walking over the submarine's shark tank, she falls in during a struggle with the Captain, and is killed by a shark. The Admiral learns that temperatures are rising faster than expected. He realizes that Zucco's belief that the Skyfire will burn itself out is in error.
At the end, Seaview reaches the Marianas. There, in spite of the threats and objections of Alvarez, Seaview launches a missile toward the belt and it explodes the burning flames outward, saving the world.
Cast[edit]
Walter Pidgeon as Admiral Harriman Nelson
Joan Fontaine as Dr. Susan Hiller
Barbara Eden as Lieutenant (JG) Cathy Connors
Peter Lorre as Commodore Lucius Emery
Robert Sterling as Captain Lee Crane
Michael Ansara as Miguel Alvarez
Frankie Avalon as Lieutenant (JG) Danny Romano
Regis Toomey as Dr. Jamieson
John Litel as Vice-Admiral B.J. Crawford
Howard McNear as Congressman Llewellyn Parker
Henry Daniell as Dr. Emilio Zucco
Skip Ward as Crew Member
Mark Slade as Seaman Jimmy 'Red' Smith
Charles Tannen as Chief Gleason
Del Monroe as Kowalski
Jonathan Gilmore as Seaman George Young
Historical and technical background[edit]
The name of the film is an inversion of a phrase popular at the time, concerning the exploration of the Arctic Ocean by nuclear submarines, namely, "a voyage to the top of the world."
From August 1, 1958 through August 5, 1958, USS Nautilus (SSN-571) (the first nuclear-powered submarine, and the first nuclear-powered ship of any kind), under the command of Commander (later Captain) William R. Anderson, steamed under the Arctic ice cap to make the first crossing from the Pacific to the Atlantic via the North Pole. On August 3, 1958 she became the first ship to reach the North Pole.[3]
For this accomplishment, Nautilus and her crew were awarded the Presidential Unit Citation, the first Presidential Unit Citation awarded in peacetime. The citation began with the words, "For outstanding achievement in completing the first voyage in history across the top of the world, by cruising under the Arctic ice cap from the Bering Strait to the Greenland Sea."[4]
Nautilus 90 North (1959, with Clay Blair) was the first book Captain Anderson wrote about the Arctic missions of USS Nautilus. It was named for the radio message he sent to the Chief of Naval Operations to announce that Nautilus had reached the pole. His second book about these missions, The Ice Diaries: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Daring Mission (with Don Keith), was completed shortly before Captain Anderson's death. This second book includes many previously classified details.
On March 17, 1959, the nuclear submarine USS Skate (SSN-578), under the command of Commander (later Vice Admiral) James F. Calvert, became the first submarine to surface at the North Pole. While at the Pole, her crew scattered the ashes of Arctic explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins.[5] Commander Calvert wrote the book Surface at the Pole about this and the other Arctic missions of USS Skate.
The film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea begins with Seaview in the Arctic for the final phase of her sea trials, including a dive under the ice cap.
Two milestones in underwater exploration were achieved in 1960, the year before Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was released. On January 23, 1960, Jacques Piccard and Lieutenant Don Walsh (USN), in the bathyscaphe Trieste, made the first descent to the bottom of the Challenger Deep. The Challenger Deep is the deepest surveyed spot in the world's oceans, and is located in the Mariana Trench, southwest of Guam.[6] From February 16, 1960 to May 10, 1960, the submarine USS Triton (SSRN-586), under the command of Captain Edward L. Beach, Jr., made the first submerged circumnavigation of the world. Triton observed and photographed Guam extensively through her periscope during this mission, without being detected by the U.S. Navy on Guam.[7]
In the film, Seaview fires a missile from a position northwest of Guam to extinguish the "skyfire."
At the time that Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was made, the Van Allen radiation belts had only recently been discovered, and much of what the film says about them is made up for the film. Discoveries since then clearly invalidate what the film says: the Van Allen belts (actually somewhat more radiation-dense portions of the magnetosphere) are made up of sub-atomic particles trapped by the Earth's magnetic field in the vacuum of space and cannot catch fire, as fire requires oxygen, fuel and an ignition source, all of which are insufficient in the Van Allen Belts. Unburned hydrocarbon emissions have never reached concentrations that could support a "skyfire."
The submarine Seaview[edit]
Main article: USOS Seaview
The film's submarine design is unique in that it features an eight-window bow viewport that provides panoramic undersea views. In the novel of the film by Theodore Sturgeon, the windows are described as "... oversized hull plates which happen to be transparent." They are made of "X-tempered herculite", a process developed by Nelson.[8] In the film, Seaview's bow has eight windows in the exterior shots, but only four windows appear to be seen in the interior shots of the Observation Room (the four upper windows were implied to be out of frame, at the top of the observation room). The bow also has a shark-like bottom flare, and the stern has 1961 Cadillac tail-fins, the "Cadillac" of submarines. In the film, the USOS Seaview (United States Oceanographic Survey) is under the authority of Nelson and the Bureau of Marine Exploration rather that the U.S. Navy. The novel mentions the bureau as being part of the U.S. Department of Science.
Reception[edit]
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was released to movie theaters in early July 1961 and had run its course by late fall (September/October). The film played to mixed reviews from critics, but audiences made it a success. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was made for US$2 million and brought in US$7 million in box office revenue.
Impact[edit]
For the filming of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, a number of detailed sets, props and scale models were created to realize the Seaview submarine. After the film was finished the sets were simply placed in storage. When Irwin Allen decided to make a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea television series, all he had to do was pull the sets out of storage. This was done at a fraction of the cost that he might have had if he had been beginning from scratch. The film reduced the cost of setting up the show and was the template for the type of stories that were done. The studios, having made the film, helped make the television series easier to produce.
The success of the television series encouraged Irwin Allen to produce other science fiction television shows. The most notable of these shows were Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, and Land of the Giants.[citation needed]
Other media[edit]
Television[edit]
The success of the film led to the 1964–1968 television version on ABC, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. During the run of the series this film was remade as a one-hour episode. The episode was written by Willam Welch and was titled "The Sky's on Fire." No mention is made in the episode of the skyfire ever happening before. This is one of several reasons that proves the film is not part of the television series' continuity. Many of the scenes in the film became scenes or even episodes in the television series.
Printed media[edit]
In June 1961, Pyramid Books published a novelization of the feature film by Theodore Sturgeon. The book was reprinted several times during the 1960s. One of those reprintings has Richard Basehart and David Hedison pictured on the cover, but the book is still based on the Walter Pidgeon film. Collectors who want a novelization of the television series should find City Under the Sea. That book uses the television characters, but should not be confused with either the television episode or the later Irwin Allen film of the same name.
Sturgeon's book is based on an early version of the film's script and has the same basic story as the film. The book also has a few characters that were not shown in the film and some additional technical explanation. Some scenes are different from the film. Some scenes in the book are wholly absent from the film, and likewise some scenes from the film are entirely missing from the book.
The original 1961 cover of Sturgeon's book shows a submarine meeting a fanged sea serpent. This scene appears in neither the novel nor the film. The design of the submarine on the 1961 cover matches neither the Seaview shown in the film nor the Seaview described in the novel. The cover submarine's bow is opaque, and her "Observation Room" is a rearward projection from the base of the conning tower. The basic shape of her hull resembles that of USS Skipjack (SSN-585), the first American nuclear-powered submarine with an "Albacore hull", including the cruciform stern and single propeller.[9]
A submarine design very similar to the craft on the 1961 cover, and its mission to save the world, shows up in a Dell Comics series called Voyage to the Deep in 1962 to capitalize on the movie's popularity. Its mission also took it to the Mariana Trench to stop the Earth from wobbling out of orbit. It stopped publishing by issue #4.[citation needed] That ship was named Proteus, later the name of the 'submarine' in Fantastic Voyage.
In 1961 Dell Comics created a full color adaptation of the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea movie. The comic was Four Color Comics #1230. The comic book has a few publicity stills of the movie plus a section on the history of submarines. In the comic book the Admiral's first name is Farragut instead of Harriman. There was also a "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" coloring book released in the mid-1960s.
MAD Magazine published a parody based on the TV series in one of their monthly issues entitled, "Voyage to See What's on the Bottom".
The movie poster shown at the top of this article is one of four posters that were made to promote the film. Each has different wording and slightly different drawings. Each poster promotes the movie from a different perspective. The poster shown also promotes Sturgeon's book.
Other[edit]
There is also a board game, manufactured by a company called GemColor, that is tied to the movie and not the television show. The box has a photo of a diver with an eight-foot miniature of the Seaview.
The film has been released on VHS,DVD and Blu-ray.
Recently,[when?] models of Seaview have also begun turning up and can be located either at the show's (and Allen's) official Web site and under other sites featuring science-fiction models. A 36-inch Seaview, with lights and interior details, is top of the line.[citation needed]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p253
2.Jump up ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p228. Please note figures are rentals accruing to distributors.
3.Jump up ^ Anderson, Captain William R., and Keith, Don. The Ice Diaries: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Daring Mission. Nashville, Thomas Nelson, 2008. Pages 268 through 292.
4.Jump up ^ Anderson and Keith, 2008, pages 303 to 304.
5.Jump up ^ Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
6.Jump up ^ "Navy's Bathyscaph Dives 7 Miles in Pacific Trench"; The New York Times; January 24, 1960; page 1
7.Jump up ^ Beach, Captain Edward L.; Around the World Submerged: The Voyage of the Triton; Annapolis, Bluejacket Books, Naval Institute Press, 1962 (Bluejacket Books edition 2001); page 292, and pages 197 through 201
8.Jump up ^ Sturgeon, Theodore; Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea; Pyramid Books, 1961; page 10
9.Jump up ^ Sturgeon, 1961. 1st printing: June 1961, front cover painting, credited to Jim Mitchell on back cover
Other sources[edit]
1.Tim Colliver, Seaview: The Making of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 1992, Alpha Control press.
2.Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (VHS)
External links[edit]
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea at the Internet Movie Database
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea at AllMovie
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea at the TCM Movie Database
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea at the American Film Institute Catalog
David Merriman's radio controlled model of the Seaview on YouTube
Mike's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Zone – the movie.


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Films
The Sea Around Us (1953) ·
 Dangerous Mission (1954) ·
 The Animal World (1956) ·
 The Story of Mankind (1957) ·
 The Big Circus (1959) ·
 The Lost World (1960) ·
 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) ·
 Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962) ·
 City Beneath the Sea (1971) ·
 The Poseidon Adventure (1972) ·
 The Towering Inferno (1974) ·
 The Swarm (1978) ·
 The Return of Captain Nemo (1978 TV film) ·
 Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) ·
 When Time Ran Out (1980) ·
 Alice in Wonderland (1985 TV film)
 

Television
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ·
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Ship of Fools
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First edition

Author
Katherine Anne Porter
Country
United States
Language
English
Publisher
Little, Brown

Publication date
 1962
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Ship of Fools is a 1962 novel by Katherine Anne Porter which tells the tale of a group of disparate characters sailing from Mexico to Europe aboard a German freighter and passenger ship. It is an allegory that traces the rise of Nazism and looks metaphorically at the progress of the world on its "voyage to eternity".


Contents  [hide]
1 Background
2 Reception
3 Theme
4 See also
5 References

Background[edit]
Porter had been widely praised for her short stories, mostly written between 1922 and 1940. She began work on the novel in 1940, intending it initially to be a novella. It was based on a journal she kept in 1931 during a sea voyage from Veracruz, Mexico, on her way to study in Bremerhaven, Germany, on a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the characters in the novel were based on real people she met during the trip. The title was taken from "Das Narrenschiff" ("The Fool-Ship"), a 15th-century German poem by Sebastian Brant.[1]
For many years, the initial publisher Harcourt Brace would announce the forthcoming novel, but she remained unable to complete it for 22 years. As a result, it became eagerly expected by the literary world. In response to critics who complained about the long wait, Porter said, "Look here, this is my life and my work and you keep out of it. When I have a book I will be glad to have it published."[1]
Reception[edit]
Ship of Fools outsold every other American novel published in 1962. It was a Book of the Month Club selection and immediately, the film rights were sold for $500,000 ($3,898,240 adjusted for inflation).[1]
Critical reception was mixed. While Mark Schorer of The New York Times and Glenway Wescott in The Atlantic Monthly were effusive in their praise, Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic and Granville Hicks in the Saturday Review were disappointed. Porter herself was never satisfied with the novel, calling it "unwieldy" and "enormous".[1]
The critic Elizabeth Hardwick had this to say about Ship of Fools: "All is too static and the implied parable is never quite achieved. There is something a little musty, like old yellowing notes. The flawless execution of the single scenes impresses and yet the novel remains too snug and shipshape for the waters of history."[2]
The 1965 film was adapted from the novel by Abby Mann and directed by Stanley Kramer. It won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Robert Clatworthy, Joseph Kish) and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. Porter's first reaction to the film adaptation was that Mann had omitted too much from the book, distorting its message.[1] It was also noteworthy for being the last film to feature the actress Vivien Leigh.
Theme[edit]
The theme of the novel is the passengers' unavailing withdrawal from a life of disappointment, seeking a kind of utopia, and, "without knowing what to do next", setting out for a long voyage to pre-World-War-II Europe, a world of prejudice, racism and evil. Mrs. Treadwell, a nostalgic American divorcee, hopes to find happiness in Paris, where she once spent her youth. Elsa Lutz, the plain daughter of a Swiss hotelkeeper, thinks heaven might be in the Isle of Wight. Jenny, an artist, says the most dangerous and happiest moment in her life was when she was swimming alone in the Gulf of Mexico, confronted with a school of dolphins. And at the end of the novel, one of the ship's musicians, a gangly starving boy, feels overjoyed to finally be off the ship and back in his home country, as if Germany were a "human being, a good and dear trusted friend who had come a long way to welcome him". Thus Porter manages to convey that salvation is an illusion, and evil is inevitable.
See also[edit]

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References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e Johnston, Laurie (September 19, 1980). "Katherine Anne Porter Dies at 90; Won a Pulitzer for Short Stories". The New York Times.
2.Jump up ^ Hardwick, Elizabeth (November 7, 1982). "What She Was and What She Felt Like". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
  


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Ship of Fools (Porter novel)
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Ship of Fools
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First edition

Author
Katherine Anne Porter
Country
United States
Language
English
Publisher
Little, Brown

Publication date
 1962
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Ship of Fools is a 1962 novel by Katherine Anne Porter which tells the tale of a group of disparate characters sailing from Mexico to Europe aboard a German freighter and passenger ship. It is an allegory that traces the rise of Nazism and looks metaphorically at the progress of the world on its "voyage to eternity".


Contents  [hide]
1 Background
2 Reception
3 Theme
4 See also
5 References

Background[edit]
Porter had been widely praised for her short stories, mostly written between 1922 and 1940. She began work on the novel in 1940, intending it initially to be a novella. It was based on a journal she kept in 1931 during a sea voyage from Veracruz, Mexico, on her way to study in Bremerhaven, Germany, on a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the characters in the novel were based on real people she met during the trip. The title was taken from "Das Narrenschiff" ("The Fool-Ship"), a 15th-century German poem by Sebastian Brant.[1]
For many years, the initial publisher Harcourt Brace would announce the forthcoming novel, but she remained unable to complete it for 22 years. As a result, it became eagerly expected by the literary world. In response to critics who complained about the long wait, Porter said, "Look here, this is my life and my work and you keep out of it. When I have a book I will be glad to have it published."[1]
Reception[edit]
Ship of Fools outsold every other American novel published in 1962. It was a Book of the Month Club selection and immediately, the film rights were sold for $500,000 ($3,898,240 adjusted for inflation).[1]
Critical reception was mixed. While Mark Schorer of The New York Times and Glenway Wescott in The Atlantic Monthly were effusive in their praise, Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic and Granville Hicks in the Saturday Review were disappointed. Porter herself was never satisfied with the novel, calling it "unwieldy" and "enormous".[1]
The critic Elizabeth Hardwick had this to say about Ship of Fools: "All is too static and the implied parable is never quite achieved. There is something a little musty, like old yellowing notes. The flawless execution of the single scenes impresses and yet the novel remains too snug and shipshape for the waters of history."[2]
The 1965 film was adapted from the novel by Abby Mann and directed by Stanley Kramer. It won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Robert Clatworthy, Joseph Kish) and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. Porter's first reaction to the film adaptation was that Mann had omitted too much from the book, distorting its message.[1] It was also noteworthy for being the last film to feature the actress Vivien Leigh.
Theme[edit]
The theme of the novel is the passengers' unavailing withdrawal from a life of disappointment, seeking a kind of utopia, and, "without knowing what to do next", setting out for a long voyage to pre-World-War-II Europe, a world of prejudice, racism and evil. Mrs. Treadwell, a nostalgic American divorcee, hopes to find happiness in Paris, where she once spent her youth. Elsa Lutz, the plain daughter of a Swiss hotelkeeper, thinks heaven might be in the Isle of Wight. Jenny, an artist, says the most dangerous and happiest moment in her life was when she was swimming alone in the Gulf of Mexico, confronted with a school of dolphins. And at the end of the novel, one of the ship's musicians, a gangly starving boy, feels overjoyed to finally be off the ship and back in his home country, as if Germany were a "human being, a good and dear trusted friend who had come a long way to welcome him". Thus Porter manages to convey that salvation is an illusion, and evil is inevitable.
See also[edit]

Portal icon Novels portal
Ship of Fools allegory
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e Johnston, Laurie (September 19, 1980). "Katherine Anne Porter Dies at 90; Won a Pulitzer for Short Stories". The New York Times.
2.Jump up ^ Hardwick, Elizabeth (November 7, 1982). "What She Was and What She Felt Like". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
  


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Ship of Fools (Porter novel)
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Ship of Fools
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First edition

Author
Katherine Anne Porter
Country
United States
Language
English
Publisher
Little, Brown

Publication date
 1962
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Ship of Fools is a 1962 novel by Katherine Anne Porter which tells the tale of a group of disparate characters sailing from Mexico to Europe aboard a German freighter and passenger ship. It is an allegory that traces the rise of Nazism and looks metaphorically at the progress of the world on its "voyage to eternity".


Contents  [hide]
1 Background
2 Reception
3 Theme
4 See also
5 References

Background[edit]
Porter had been widely praised for her short stories, mostly written between 1922 and 1940. She began work on the novel in 1940, intending it initially to be a novella. It was based on a journal she kept in 1931 during a sea voyage from Veracruz, Mexico, on her way to study in Bremerhaven, Germany, on a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the characters in the novel were based on real people she met during the trip. The title was taken from "Das Narrenschiff" ("The Fool-Ship"), a 15th-century German poem by Sebastian Brant.[1]
For many years, the initial publisher Harcourt Brace would announce the forthcoming novel, but she remained unable to complete it for 22 years. As a result, it became eagerly expected by the literary world. In response to critics who complained about the long wait, Porter said, "Look here, this is my life and my work and you keep out of it. When I have a book I will be glad to have it published."[1]
Reception[edit]
Ship of Fools outsold every other American novel published in 1962. It was a Book of the Month Club selection and immediately, the film rights were sold for $500,000 ($3,898,240 adjusted for inflation).[1]
Critical reception was mixed. While Mark Schorer of The New York Times and Glenway Wescott in The Atlantic Monthly were effusive in their praise, Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic and Granville Hicks in the Saturday Review were disappointed. Porter herself was never satisfied with the novel, calling it "unwieldy" and "enormous".[1]
The critic Elizabeth Hardwick had this to say about Ship of Fools: "All is too static and the implied parable is never quite achieved. There is something a little musty, like old yellowing notes. The flawless execution of the single scenes impresses and yet the novel remains too snug and shipshape for the waters of history."[2]
The 1965 film was adapted from the novel by Abby Mann and directed by Stanley Kramer. It won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Robert Clatworthy, Joseph Kish) and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. Porter's first reaction to the film adaptation was that Mann had omitted too much from the book, distorting its message.[1] It was also noteworthy for being the last film to feature the actress Vivien Leigh.
Theme[edit]
The theme of the novel is the passengers' unavailing withdrawal from a life of disappointment, seeking a kind of utopia, and, "without knowing what to do next", setting out for a long voyage to pre-World-War-II Europe, a world of prejudice, racism and evil. Mrs. Treadwell, a nostalgic American divorcee, hopes to find happiness in Paris, where she once spent her youth. Elsa Lutz, the plain daughter of a Swiss hotelkeeper, thinks heaven might be in the Isle of Wight. Jenny, an artist, says the most dangerous and happiest moment in her life was when she was swimming alone in the Gulf of Mexico, confronted with a school of dolphins. And at the end of the novel, one of the ship's musicians, a gangly starving boy, feels overjoyed to finally be off the ship and back in his home country, as if Germany were a "human being, a good and dear trusted friend who had come a long way to welcome him". Thus Porter manages to convey that salvation is an illusion, and evil is inevitable.
See also[edit]

Portal icon Novels portal
Ship of Fools allegory
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e Johnston, Laurie (September 19, 1980). "Katherine Anne Porter Dies at 90; Won a Pulitzer for Short Stories". The New York Times.
2.Jump up ^ Hardwick, Elizabeth (November 7, 1982). "What She Was and What She Felt Like". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
  


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Ship of Fools (Porter novel)
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Ship of Fools
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First edition

Author
Katherine Anne Porter
Country
United States
Language
English
Publisher
Little, Brown

Publication date
 1962
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Ship of Fools is a 1962 novel by Katherine Anne Porter which tells the tale of a group of disparate characters sailing from Mexico to Europe aboard a German freighter and passenger ship. It is an allegory that traces the rise of Nazism and looks metaphorically at the progress of the world on its "voyage to eternity".


Contents  [hide]
1 Background
2 Reception
3 Theme
4 See also
5 References

Background[edit]
Porter had been widely praised for her short stories, mostly written between 1922 and 1940. She began work on the novel in 1940, intending it initially to be a novella. It was based on a journal she kept in 1931 during a sea voyage from Veracruz, Mexico, on her way to study in Bremerhaven, Germany, on a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the characters in the novel were based on real people she met during the trip. The title was taken from "Das Narrenschiff" ("The Fool-Ship"), a 15th-century German poem by Sebastian Brant.[1]
For many years, the initial publisher Harcourt Brace would announce the forthcoming novel, but she remained unable to complete it for 22 years. As a result, it became eagerly expected by the literary world. In response to critics who complained about the long wait, Porter said, "Look here, this is my life and my work and you keep out of it. When I have a book I will be glad to have it published."[1]
Reception[edit]
Ship of Fools outsold every other American novel published in 1962. It was a Book of the Month Club selection and immediately, the film rights were sold for $500,000 ($3,898,240 adjusted for inflation).[1]
Critical reception was mixed. While Mark Schorer of The New York Times and Glenway Wescott in The Atlantic Monthly were effusive in their praise, Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic and Granville Hicks in the Saturday Review were disappointed. Porter herself was never satisfied with the novel, calling it "unwieldy" and "enormous".[1]
The critic Elizabeth Hardwick had this to say about Ship of Fools: "All is too static and the implied parable is never quite achieved. There is something a little musty, like old yellowing notes. The flawless execution of the single scenes impresses and yet the novel remains too snug and shipshape for the waters of history."[2]
The 1965 film was adapted from the novel by Abby Mann and directed by Stanley Kramer. It won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Robert Clatworthy, Joseph Kish) and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. Porter's first reaction to the film adaptation was that Mann had omitted too much from the book, distorting its message.[1] It was also noteworthy for being the last film to feature the actress Vivien Leigh.
Theme[edit]
The theme of the novel is the passengers' unavailing withdrawal from a life of disappointment, seeking a kind of utopia, and, "without knowing what to do next", setting out for a long voyage to pre-World-War-II Europe, a world of prejudice, racism and evil. Mrs. Treadwell, a nostalgic American divorcee, hopes to find happiness in Paris, where she once spent her youth. Elsa Lutz, the plain daughter of a Swiss hotelkeeper, thinks heaven might be in the Isle of Wight. Jenny, an artist, says the most dangerous and happiest moment in her life was when she was swimming alone in the Gulf of Mexico, confronted with a school of dolphins. And at the end of the novel, one of the ship's musicians, a gangly starving boy, feels overjoyed to finally be off the ship and back in his home country, as if Germany were a "human being, a good and dear trusted friend who had come a long way to welcome him". Thus Porter manages to convey that salvation is an illusion, and evil is inevitable.
See also[edit]

Portal icon Novels portal
Ship of Fools allegory
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e Johnston, Laurie (September 19, 1980). "Katherine Anne Porter Dies at 90; Won a Pulitzer for Short Stories". The New York Times.
2.Jump up ^ Hardwick, Elizabeth (November 7, 1982). "What She Was and What She Felt Like". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
  


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Ship of Fools
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Directed by
Stanley Kramer
Produced by
Stanley Kramer
Written by
Abby Mann
Based on
the novel
 by Katherine Anne Porter
Starring
Vivien Leigh
José Ferrer
Lee Marvin
Simone Signoret
Oskar Werner
Michael Dunn
Music by
Ernest Gold
Cinematography
Ernest Laszlo
Edited by
Robert C. Jones
Distributed by
Columbia Pictures

Release dates

July 29, 1965


Running time
 149 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
 German
 Spanish
Box office
$3,500,000 (rentals)Anticipated rentals accruing distributors in North America[1]
Ship of Fools is a 1965 drama directed by Stanley Kramer, which recounts the overlapping stories of several passengers aboard an ocean liner bound to Germany from Mexico in 1933. It stars Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner, Michael Dunn, Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal, José Greco and Heinz Rühmann. It was to be Vivien Leigh's last film and Christiane Schmidtmer's first U.S. production.
Ship of Fools was highly regarded, with reviewers praising the cast's performance but also noted the movie's overlong runtime. The movie was nominated for eight Academy Awards in 1966, including for Best Picture, Best Actor for Oskar Werner and Best Actress for Simone Signoret, and won for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. Both Werner and Signoret's performance, clocking just around 20 minutes, were some of the briefest performances to be nominated for the leading acting category at the Academy Awards.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception
5 Awards
6 Media
7 References 7.1 Notes
7.2 Citations
7.3 Bibliography
8 External links

Plot[edit]
A pastiche of characters board a German ocean liner in Veracruz, Mexico, for a voyage to Bremerhaven, Germany, along with 600 displaced workers in steerage, being deported from Cuba back to Spain, and a not-so-exotic band of entertainers, for whom the voyage is just a job. Some are happy to be bound for a rising Nazi Germany, some are apprehensive, while others appear oblivious to its potential dangers.
The ship's doctor, Schumann (Oskar Werner) (with dueling scar), takes a special interest in La Condesa (Simone Signoret), a countess from Spain who has an addiction to drugs and is being shipped to a German-run prison. Her sense of certain doom is contrasted by the doctor's determination to fight the forces of oppression, embodied by his insistence that the people in steerage be treated like human beings rather than animals. The doctor himself has a secret, a terminal heart condition, and his sympathy for the countess soon evolves into love.
Several passengers are invited to dine each night at the captain's table. There, some are amused and others offended by the Anti-Semitic rants of a German businessman named Rieber (José Ferrer). The Jewish Lowenthal (Heinz Rühmann) is invited instead to join a dwarf named Glocken (Michael Dunn) for his meals, and the two bond over their exclusion. Eventually a passenger named Freytag (Alf Kjellin) seems shocked to find himself ostracized when Rieber learns that his wife is Jewish.
Others aboard include a young American couple, David (George Segal) and Jenny (Elizabeth Ashley), who bicker because David is unhappy at his lack of success with painting. A divorcée, Mary Treadwell (Vivien Leigh), drinks and flirts, on a quest to recapture her youth in Paris. Bill Tenny (Lee Marvin) is a former baseball player disappointed in the way his career never quite took off. They are distracted by the music and the professional dancers, whose flirtations seem to skirt the edges of solicitation, or dive right in to the seedy side of oblivion.
When the passengers disembark, two are no longer with them - the countess, who has been taken to an island prison, and the doctor, who has died.
Cast[edit]
As appearing in Ship of Fools, (main roles and screen credits identified):[2]
##Vivien Leigh as Mary Treadwell
##José Ferrer as Siegfried Rieber
##Lee Marvin as Bill Tenny
##Simone Signoret as La Condesa
##Oskar Werner as Dr. Wilhelm "Willi" Schumann
##Elizabeth Ashley as Jenny Brown
##George Segal as David Scott
##José Greco as Pepe
##Michael Dunn as Carl Glocken
##Charles Korvin as Capt. Thiele
##Heinz Rühmann (credited as "Heinz Ruehmann") as Julius Lowenthal
##Lilia Skala as Frau Hutten
##Barbara Luna as Amparo
##Christiane Schmidtmer as Lizzi Spokenkieker
##Alf Kjellin as Freytag
##Werner Klemperer as Lt. Huebner
##John Wengraf as Graf
##Olga Fabian as Frau Schmitt
##Gila Golan as Elsa
##Oscar Beregi as Lutz
##Stanley Adams as Hutten
##Karen Verne as Frau Lutz
##Charles de Vries as Johann
##Lydia Torea as Pastora
##Henry Calvin as Fat man
##David Renard as Woodcarver



 The anguished portrayal of a desperate older woman by Vivien Leigh was punctuated by her real-life "battle with demons".[3]
Production[edit]
Katherine Anne Porter's novel, Ship of Fools was published in 1962.[4] The celebrated essayist and short story author's sole novel was the culmination of a 20-year long project that was based on her reminiscences of a 1931 ocean cruise she had taken from Vera Cruz to Germany.[N 1][6]
Producer David O. Selznick was after the film rights but United Artists who owned the property, demanded $400,000. The novel was adapted for film by Abby Mann. Producer and director Stanley Kramer who ended up with the film, planned to star Vivien Leigh but was initially unaware of the fragile mental and physical health of his star.[N 2] The film proved to be her last film and in later recounting her work, he remembered her courage in taking on the difficult role, "She was ill, and the courage to go ahead, the courage to make the film-was almost unbelievable."[6] Leigh's performance was tinged by paranoia and resulted in outbursts that marred her relationship with other actors, although both Simone Signoret and Lee Marvin were sympathetic and understanding.[8] In one unusual instance, she hit Marvin so hard with a spiked shoe, that it marked his face.[9]
Other acclaimed actors made up the all-star ensemble. The character of the fat man was portrayed by Henry Calvin, who was known for starring on Walt Disney's television series, Zorro as Sergeant Demetrio Lopez Garcia. Lt. Huebner was portrayed by Werner Klemperer, who was best known for his portrayal of Colonel Wilhelm Klink in the 1965–1971 CBS television comedy, Hogan's Heroes.[10]
Reception[edit]
Although both acclaimed critically and well received by audiences, Ship of Fools was looked at by some reviewers as a Grand Hotel afloat, the 1932 film that was often aped. "Preachy and melodramatic" was another criticism, although the cast was universally praised.[11]
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times saw the film as much more, "... Stanley Kramer has fetched a powerful, ironic film ... there is such wealth of reflection upon the human condition in Ship of Fools and so subtle an orchestration of the elements of love and hate, achieved through an expert compression of the novel by Mr. Kramer and his script writer, Abby Mann, that it is really not fair to tag it with the label of any previous film. It has its own quiet distinction in the way it illuminates a theme." He also singled out the work of Oskar Werner.[12] In a similar vein, Variety noted, "Director-producer Stanley Kramer and scenarist Abby Mann have distilled the essence of Katherine Anne Porter’s bulky novel in a film that appeals to the intellect and the emotions."[13]
Awards[edit]
Ship of Fools won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Robert Clatworthy, Joseph Kish) and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. Leigh won the L'Étoile de Cristal for her performance in a leading role.[14][N 3] Marvin won the 1966 National Board of Review Award for male actors, while Werner received the 1965 New York Film Critics Circle Award.[15]
The film was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Oskar Werner), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Michael Dunn), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Simone Signoret). In addition, the leading and supporting cast was nominated for British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and Golden Globe Awards.[15] Other nominations included Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (Bill Thomas), Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.[16]
Media[edit]
Ship of Fools has been broadcast on television many times over the years, as well as released to VHS, laserdisc and DVD. The film's standalone DVD release is an open-matte pan-and-scan 1.33:1 transfer with no supplements.[17] This release is currently out of print. The film was later reissued in widescreen with supplements in a Stanley Kramer box set from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.[N 4] Currently, the film is also available in a budget-priced two-disc, four-movie collection DVD licensed from Sony to Mill Creek Entertainment[N 5] All four films are presented in their original theatrical aspect ratios and are anamorphically enhanced. The film has been released on Blu-ray in a double feature pack with the film Lilith via Mill Creek.[18]
References[edit]
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Porter also wrote three novellas or short novels.[5]
2.Jump up ^ At one point in the pre-production, Katharine Hepburn was considered for the role of Mary Treadwell, but dropped out and was replaced by Leigh.[7]
3.Jump up ^ L'Étoile de Cristal was the French equivalent of the Oscar.[14]
4.Jump up ^ The Sony re-release was bundled with The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, The Wild One, The Member of the Wedding, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
5.Jump up ^ Other films that are included are Bobby Deerfield, Baby the Rain Must Fall and The Chase.
Citations[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Top Grossers of 1965". Variety, January 5, 1966, p. 36.
2.Jump up ^ "Credits: Ship of Fools (1965)." IMDb. Retrieved: October 10, 2013.
3.Jump up ^ Bean 2013, p. 155.
4.Jump up ^ Porter 1984, p. 3.
5.Jump up ^ Porter 1979, Back cover.
6.^ Jump up to: a b Steinberg, Jay. "Articles: Ship of Fools." Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved: October 10, 2013.
7.Jump up ^ Andersen 1997, pp. 552–553.
8.Jump up ^ David 1995, p. 46.
9.Jump up ^ Walker 1987, p. 281.
10.Jump up ^ Erickson, Glenn. "DVD Savant Review: Ship of Fools". DVD Talk, November 19, 2003. Retrieved: October 11, 2013.
11.Jump up ^ Epstein 2013, p. 149.
12.Jump up ^ Crowther, Bosley. "Review: Ship of Fools". The New York Times, July 29, 1965. Retrieved: October 10, 2013.
13.Jump up ^ "Review: Ship of Fools". Variety, December 31, 1964. Retrieved: October 10, 2013.
14.^ Jump up to: a b Bean 2013, p. 279.
15.^ Jump up to: a b "Awards: Ship of Fools (1965)." IMDb.Retrieved: October 11, 2013.
16.Jump up ^ "Awards: Ship of Fools". The New York Times. Retrieved: October 10, 2013.
17.Jump up ^ Krauss, David. "Columbia TriStar Home Video presents Ship of Fools (1965)." Digitallyobsesed.com, January 21, 2004. Retrieved: October 11, 2013.
18.Jump up ^ "ship of Fools DVD". CD Universe. Retrieved: October 11, 2013.
Bibliography[edit]
##Andersen, Christopher P. An Affair to Remember: The Remarkable Love Story of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Glasgow, Scotland: William Morrow & Co., 1997. ISBN 978-0-68815-311-3.
##Bean, Kendra. Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Running Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-76245-099-2.
##David, Catherine. Simone Signoret. New York: Overlook Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0-87951-581-2.
##Epstein, Dwayne. Lee Marvin: Point Blank. Tucson, Arizona: Schaffner Press, Inc., 2013. ISBN 978-1-93618-240-4.
##Porter, Katherine Anne. The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1979. ISBN 978-1-56188-767-5.
##Porter, Katherine Anne. Ship of Fools. New York: Back Bay Books, Revised edition 1984. ISBN 978-0-31671-390-0.
##Walker, Alexander. Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh. New York: Grove Press, 1987. ISBN 0-8021-3259-6.
External links[edit]
##Ship of Fools at the TCM Movie Database
##Ship of Fools at AllMovie
##Ship of Fools at the Internet Movie Database
##Ship of Fools at Rotten Tomatoes
##Complete original soundtrack by Ernest Gold released by the "Monstrous Movie Music" label (sound samples available)


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Ship of Fools
Theshipoffools.jpg
Theatrical poster

Directed by
Stanley Kramer
Produced by
Stanley Kramer
Written by
Abby Mann
Based on
the novel
 by Katherine Anne Porter
Starring
Vivien Leigh
José Ferrer
Lee Marvin
Simone Signoret
Oskar Werner
Michael Dunn
Music by
Ernest Gold
Cinematography
Ernest Laszlo
Edited by
Robert C. Jones
Distributed by
Columbia Pictures

Release dates

July 29, 1965


Running time
 149 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
 German
 Spanish
Box office
$3,500,000 (rentals)Anticipated rentals accruing distributors in North America[1]
Ship of Fools is a 1965 drama directed by Stanley Kramer, which recounts the overlapping stories of several passengers aboard an ocean liner bound to Germany from Mexico in 1933. It stars Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner, Michael Dunn, Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal, José Greco and Heinz Rühmann. It was to be Vivien Leigh's last film and Christiane Schmidtmer's first U.S. production.
Ship of Fools was highly regarded, with reviewers praising the cast's performance but also noted the movie's overlong runtime. The movie was nominated for eight Academy Awards in 1966, including for Best Picture, Best Actor for Oskar Werner and Best Actress for Simone Signoret, and won for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. Both Werner and Signoret's performance, clocking just around 20 minutes, were some of the briefest performances to be nominated for the leading acting category at the Academy Awards.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception
5 Awards
6 Media
7 References 7.1 Notes
7.2 Citations
7.3 Bibliography
8 External links

Plot[edit]
A pastiche of characters board a German ocean liner in Veracruz, Mexico, for a voyage to Bremerhaven, Germany, along with 600 displaced workers in steerage, being deported from Cuba back to Spain, and a not-so-exotic band of entertainers, for whom the voyage is just a job. Some are happy to be bound for a rising Nazi Germany, some are apprehensive, while others appear oblivious to its potential dangers.
The ship's doctor, Schumann (Oskar Werner) (with dueling scar), takes a special interest in La Condesa (Simone Signoret), a countess from Spain who has an addiction to drugs and is being shipped to a German-run prison. Her sense of certain doom is contrasted by the doctor's determination to fight the forces of oppression, embodied by his insistence that the people in steerage be treated like human beings rather than animals. The doctor himself has a secret, a terminal heart condition, and his sympathy for the countess soon evolves into love.
Several passengers are invited to dine each night at the captain's table. There, some are amused and others offended by the Anti-Semitic rants of a German businessman named Rieber (José Ferrer). The Jewish Lowenthal (Heinz Rühmann) is invited instead to join a dwarf named Glocken (Michael Dunn) for his meals, and the two bond over their exclusion. Eventually a passenger named Freytag (Alf Kjellin) seems shocked to find himself ostracized when Rieber learns that his wife is Jewish.
Others aboard include a young American couple, David (George Segal) and Jenny (Elizabeth Ashley), who bicker because David is unhappy at his lack of success with painting. A divorcée, Mary Treadwell (Vivien Leigh), drinks and flirts, on a quest to recapture her youth in Paris. Bill Tenny (Lee Marvin) is a former baseball player disappointed in the way his career never quite took off. They are distracted by the music and the professional dancers, whose flirtations seem to skirt the edges of solicitation, or dive right in to the seedy side of oblivion.
When the passengers disembark, two are no longer with them - the countess, who has been taken to an island prison, and the doctor, who has died.
Cast[edit]
As appearing in Ship of Fools, (main roles and screen credits identified):[2]
##Vivien Leigh as Mary Treadwell
##José Ferrer as Siegfried Rieber
##Lee Marvin as Bill Tenny
##Simone Signoret as La Condesa
##Oskar Werner as Dr. Wilhelm "Willi" Schumann
##Elizabeth Ashley as Jenny Brown
##George Segal as David Scott
##José Greco as Pepe
##Michael Dunn as Carl Glocken
##Charles Korvin as Capt. Thiele
##Heinz Rühmann (credited as "Heinz Ruehmann") as Julius Lowenthal
##Lilia Skala as Frau Hutten
##Barbara Luna as Amparo
##Christiane Schmidtmer as Lizzi Spokenkieker
##Alf Kjellin as Freytag
##Werner Klemperer as Lt. Huebner
##John Wengraf as Graf
##Olga Fabian as Frau Schmitt
##Gila Golan as Elsa
##Oscar Beregi as Lutz
##Stanley Adams as Hutten
##Karen Verne as Frau Lutz
##Charles de Vries as Johann
##Lydia Torea as Pastora
##Henry Calvin as Fat man
##David Renard as Woodcarver



 The anguished portrayal of a desperate older woman by Vivien Leigh was punctuated by her real-life "battle with demons".[3]
Production[edit]
Katherine Anne Porter's novel, Ship of Fools was published in 1962.[4] The celebrated essayist and short story author's sole novel was the culmination of a 20-year long project that was based on her reminiscences of a 1931 ocean cruise she had taken from Vera Cruz to Germany.[N 1][6]
Producer David O. Selznick was after the film rights but United Artists who owned the property, demanded $400,000. The novel was adapted for film by Abby Mann. Producer and director Stanley Kramer who ended up with the film, planned to star Vivien Leigh but was initially unaware of the fragile mental and physical health of his star.[N 2] The film proved to be her last film and in later recounting her work, he remembered her courage in taking on the difficult role, "She was ill, and the courage to go ahead, the courage to make the film-was almost unbelievable."[6] Leigh's performance was tinged by paranoia and resulted in outbursts that marred her relationship with other actors, although both Simone Signoret and Lee Marvin were sympathetic and understanding.[8] In one unusual instance, she hit Marvin so hard with a spiked shoe, that it marked his face.[9]
Other acclaimed actors made up the all-star ensemble. The character of the fat man was portrayed by Henry Calvin, who was known for starring on Walt Disney's television series, Zorro as Sergeant Demetrio Lopez Garcia. Lt. Huebner was portrayed by Werner Klemperer, who was best known for his portrayal of Colonel Wilhelm Klink in the 1965–1971 CBS television comedy, Hogan's Heroes.[10]
Reception[edit]
Although both acclaimed critically and well received by audiences, Ship of Fools was looked at by some reviewers as a Grand Hotel afloat, the 1932 film that was often aped. "Preachy and melodramatic" was another criticism, although the cast was universally praised.[11]
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times saw the film as much more, "... Stanley Kramer has fetched a powerful, ironic film ... there is such wealth of reflection upon the human condition in Ship of Fools and so subtle an orchestration of the elements of love and hate, achieved through an expert compression of the novel by Mr. Kramer and his script writer, Abby Mann, that it is really not fair to tag it with the label of any previous film. It has its own quiet distinction in the way it illuminates a theme." He also singled out the work of Oskar Werner.[12] In a similar vein, Variety noted, "Director-producer Stanley Kramer and scenarist Abby Mann have distilled the essence of Katherine Anne Porter’s bulky novel in a film that appeals to the intellect and the emotions."[13]
Awards[edit]
Ship of Fools won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Robert Clatworthy, Joseph Kish) and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. Leigh won the L'Étoile de Cristal for her performance in a leading role.[14][N 3] Marvin won the 1966 National Board of Review Award for male actors, while Werner received the 1965 New York Film Critics Circle Award.[15]
The film was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Oskar Werner), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Michael Dunn), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Simone Signoret). In addition, the leading and supporting cast was nominated for British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and Golden Globe Awards.[15] Other nominations included Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (Bill Thomas), Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.[16]
Media[edit]
Ship of Fools has been broadcast on television many times over the years, as well as released to VHS, laserdisc and DVD. The film's standalone DVD release is an open-matte pan-and-scan 1.33:1 transfer with no supplements.[17] This release is currently out of print. The film was later reissued in widescreen with supplements in a Stanley Kramer box set from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.[N 4] Currently, the film is also available in a budget-priced two-disc, four-movie collection DVD licensed from Sony to Mill Creek Entertainment[N 5] All four films are presented in their original theatrical aspect ratios and are anamorphically enhanced. The film has been released on Blu-ray in a double feature pack with the film Lilith via Mill Creek.[18]
References[edit]
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Porter also wrote three novellas or short novels.[5]
2.Jump up ^ At one point in the pre-production, Katharine Hepburn was considered for the role of Mary Treadwell, but dropped out and was replaced by Leigh.[7]
3.Jump up ^ L'Étoile de Cristal was the French equivalent of the Oscar.[14]
4.Jump up ^ The Sony re-release was bundled with The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, The Wild One, The Member of the Wedding, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
5.Jump up ^ Other films that are included are Bobby Deerfield, Baby the Rain Must Fall and The Chase.
Citations[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Top Grossers of 1965". Variety, January 5, 1966, p. 36.
2.Jump up ^ "Credits: Ship of Fools (1965)." IMDb. Retrieved: October 10, 2013.
3.Jump up ^ Bean 2013, p. 155.
4.Jump up ^ Porter 1984, p. 3.
5.Jump up ^ Porter 1979, Back cover.
6.^ Jump up to: a b Steinberg, Jay. "Articles: Ship of Fools." Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved: October 10, 2013.
7.Jump up ^ Andersen 1997, pp. 552–553.
8.Jump up ^ David 1995, p. 46.
9.Jump up ^ Walker 1987, p. 281.
10.Jump up ^ Erickson, Glenn. "DVD Savant Review: Ship of Fools". DVD Talk, November 19, 2003. Retrieved: October 11, 2013.
11.Jump up ^ Epstein 2013, p. 149.
12.Jump up ^ Crowther, Bosley. "Review: Ship of Fools". The New York Times, July 29, 1965. Retrieved: October 10, 2013.
13.Jump up ^ "Review: Ship of Fools". Variety, December 31, 1964. Retrieved: October 10, 2013.
14.^ Jump up to: a b Bean 2013, p. 279.
15.^ Jump up to: a b "Awards: Ship of Fools (1965)." IMDb.Retrieved: October 11, 2013.
16.Jump up ^ "Awards: Ship of Fools". The New York Times. Retrieved: October 10, 2013.
17.Jump up ^ Krauss, David. "Columbia TriStar Home Video presents Ship of Fools (1965)." Digitallyobsesed.com, January 21, 2004. Retrieved: October 11, 2013.
18.Jump up ^ "ship of Fools DVD". CD Universe. Retrieved: October 11, 2013.
Bibliography[edit]
##Andersen, Christopher P. An Affair to Remember: The Remarkable Love Story of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Glasgow, Scotland: William Morrow & Co., 1997. ISBN 978-0-68815-311-3.
##Bean, Kendra. Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Running Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-76245-099-2.
##David, Catherine. Simone Signoret. New York: Overlook Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0-87951-581-2.
##Epstein, Dwayne. Lee Marvin: Point Blank. Tucson, Arizona: Schaffner Press, Inc., 2013. ISBN 978-1-93618-240-4.
##Porter, Katherine Anne. The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1979. ISBN 978-1-56188-767-5.
##Porter, Katherine Anne. Ship of Fools. New York: Back Bay Books, Revised edition 1984. ISBN 978-0-31671-390-0.
##Walker, Alexander. Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh. New York: Grove Press, 1987. ISBN 0-8021-3259-6.
External links[edit]
##Ship of Fools at the TCM Movie Database
##Ship of Fools at AllMovie
##Ship of Fools at the Internet Movie Database
##Ship of Fools at Rotten Tomatoes
##Complete original soundtrack by Ernest Gold released by the "Monstrous Movie Music" label (sound samples available)


[hide]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
Films directed by Stanley Kramer


Not as a Stranger (1955) ·
 The Pride and the Passion (1957) ·
 The Defiant Ones (1958) ·
 On the Beach (1959) ·
 Inherit the Wind (1960) ·
 Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) ·
 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) ·
 Ship of Fools (1965) ·
 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) ·
 The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) ·
 R. P. M. (1970) ·
 Bless the Beasts and Children (1971) ·
 Oklahoma Crude (1973) ·
 The Domino Principle (1977) ·
 The Runner Stumbles (1979)
 

  


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Films directed by Stanley Kramer
Black-and-white films
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