Dive! Dive! Full dive on the planes!
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annathepiperAnd now, a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season One, Volume One review!
Season One of Voyage holds fairly true to the Irwin Allen pattern of Cheesy Skiffy TV Shows: the first season, even if already establishing the fantastic (in the sense of 'bizarro', not in the sense of 'excellence') sorts of plotlines that'd get ramped up hardcore in the later seasons, is still reasonably sane. Note also that Season One is in black and white, and doesn't start in on the truly hardcore goofy until it goes to color in Season Two.
I think the biggest kick I'm getting out of re-watching all these episodes, aside from reliving some of my very first fangirly squee ever (gods, I loved Captain Crane when I was a teenager), is the number of actors I'm recognizing from Elvis movies, Star Trek, or other shows of the era. Including:
* James Doohan! Very, very odd to hear him without the Scotty accent
* Carroll O'Connor, a.k.a. Archie Bunker from All in the Family
* Yvonne Craig, a.k.a. Batgirl, love interest from two different Elvis flicks (It Happened At the World's Fair and Kissin' Cousins), and of course the crazy green chick who wants to kill Kirk in Star Trek
* June Lockhart, a.k.a. Maureen Robinson, from that other grand Irwin Allen cheesefest, Lost in Space
* Edward Platt, who played the Chief in Get Smart
* Eddie Albert, the dude from Green Acres
* Alejandro Rey, who I recognized from the Elvis movie Fun in Acapulco
* David Lewis, who I recognized from the Elvis movie Kid Galahad
Here's the count for trends noticed thus far:
* Episodes featuring the League of Evil Bald Guys (what else are we supposed to call 'em when all the head honchos in these evil plans are bald?): 2
* Episodes featuring an evil dictator/madman bent on taking over the world and/or reshaping according to his master plan: 5
* Episodes featuring Nazi survivors who want to start a Fourth Reich: 1
* Episodes featuring international intrigue: 9
* Episodes featuring giant undersea creatures: 2
* Episodes featuring fighting off giant creatures by sending a charge through the hull: 1
* Episodes featuring giant land creatures: 1
* Episodes featuring a lifeform that threatens to spread through the ship and destroy it: 1
* Episodes featuring ALIENS!: 1
* Episodes featuring Captain Crane in the air vents or air-vent-like portions of the sub: 2
* Episodes featuring Captain Crane and a babe du jour who probably has the hots for him: 3
* Episodes featuring a member of the crew who isn't Crane hitting on a babe: 1
* Episodes featuring named crewmen who actually survive the course of the series: Most of them. Kowalski and Patterson show up quite a few times, and they're regulars all throughout the series. There are two episodes with Clark, though I don't remember whether we see more of him later.
* Episodes featuring quite a few deaths of unnamed personnel: Just one, but damn, "Submarine Sunk Here" took out what, twenty guys in the crew? I mean, damn!
* Episodes that demonstrate that the Seaview does in fact have other officers besides Nelson, Crane, and Morton: Three or four, maybe. Lieutenant O'Brian is mentioned a time or two and occasionally has speaking lines. Bishop is prominently featured in "Submarine Sunk Here", not only as officer of the watch but also as the catalyst for a good bit of the tension in the plot.
* Episodes featuring shots that establish that the Seaview is the most ridiculously humongous and spacious submarine ever: All of them!
I (heart) this show. I definitely need me a Voyage icon. And whoops, wait, I think I missed two on the B side of Disc One. Oops! I'm going to have to doublecheck those to check my counts. ;)
Season One of Voyage holds fairly true to the Irwin Allen pattern of Cheesy Skiffy TV Shows: the first season, even if already establishing the fantastic (in the sense of 'bizarro', not in the sense of 'excellence') sorts of plotlines that'd get ramped up hardcore in the later seasons, is still reasonably sane. Note also that Season One is in black and white, and doesn't start in on the truly hardcore goofy until it goes to color in Season Two.
I think the biggest kick I'm getting out of re-watching all these episodes, aside from reliving some of my very first fangirly squee ever (gods, I loved Captain Crane when I was a teenager), is the number of actors I'm recognizing from Elvis movies, Star Trek, or other shows of the era. Including:
* James Doohan! Very, very odd to hear him without the Scotty accent
* Carroll O'Connor, a.k.a. Archie Bunker from All in the Family
* Yvonne Craig, a.k.a. Batgirl, love interest from two different Elvis flicks (It Happened At the World's Fair and Kissin' Cousins), and of course the crazy green chick who wants to kill Kirk in Star Trek
* June Lockhart, a.k.a. Maureen Robinson, from that other grand Irwin Allen cheesefest, Lost in Space
* Edward Platt, who played the Chief in Get Smart
* Eddie Albert, the dude from Green Acres
* Alejandro Rey, who I recognized from the Elvis movie Fun in Acapulco
* David Lewis, who I recognized from the Elvis movie Kid Galahad
Here's the count for trends noticed thus far:
* Episodes featuring the League of Evil Bald Guys (what else are we supposed to call 'em when all the head honchos in these evil plans are bald?): 2
* Episodes featuring an evil dictator/madman bent on taking over the world and/or reshaping according to his master plan: 5
* Episodes featuring Nazi survivors who want to start a Fourth Reich: 1
* Episodes featuring international intrigue: 9
* Episodes featuring giant undersea creatures: 2
* Episodes featuring fighting off giant creatures by sending a charge through the hull: 1
* Episodes featuring giant land creatures: 1
* Episodes featuring a lifeform that threatens to spread through the ship and destroy it: 1
* Episodes featuring ALIENS!: 1
* Episodes featuring Captain Crane in the air vents or air-vent-like portions of the sub: 2
* Episodes featuring Captain Crane and a babe du jour who probably has the hots for him: 3
* Episodes featuring a member of the crew who isn't Crane hitting on a babe: 1
* Episodes featuring named crewmen who actually survive the course of the series: Most of them. Kowalski and Patterson show up quite a few times, and they're regulars all throughout the series. There are two episodes with Clark, though I don't remember whether we see more of him later.
* Episodes featuring quite a few deaths of unnamed personnel: Just one, but damn, "Submarine Sunk Here" took out what, twenty guys in the crew? I mean, damn!
* Episodes that demonstrate that the Seaview does in fact have other officers besides Nelson, Crane, and Morton: Three or four, maybe. Lieutenant O'Brian is mentioned a time or two and occasionally has speaking lines. Bishop is prominently featured in "Submarine Sunk Here", not only as officer of the watch but also as the catalyst for a good bit of the tension in the plot.
* Episodes featuring shots that establish that the Seaview is the most ridiculously humongous and spacious submarine ever: All of them!
I (heart) this show. I definitely need me a Voyage icon. And whoops, wait, I think I missed two on the B side of Disc One. Oops! I'm going to have to doublecheck those to check my counts. ;)
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Date: 2006-10-02 06:52 pm (UTC)Hang tight, you'll get more of these.
I used to live in a house with a guy who swore he worked on the models for the series. Alas, he's very famous (in sf circles) for "creative use of the truth" but he did (and probably still does) own a ginormous model of the Seaview... much larger than any commercially released models. (cf Revell et. al.)
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Date: 2006-10-03 02:39 am (UTC)Coooooooool about the model, though!