This originally aired on NBC around the same time as the first Babylon 5 pilot movie, early 1993.
Both were pilots that hopefully would land series, but only Babylon 5 got a series.
NBC was aiming at Star Trek underground. That fall they launched Star Trek underwater instead with SeaQuest.
They built a semi-diverse team. Built in some lore and a lot of mystery. The creature effects are practical and fun. The ship/tank thing looks like it was designed by Toho. There's a lot here and it's all great fun.
And the beginning of the film we get F Murray Abraham doing his best Daniel Jackson a year before Stargate and 8 years before Milo in Atlantis The Lost Continent.
Also Sam Rami (Spider-Man, The Evil Dead, Army of Darkness) has a tiny role as he travels with Abraham in his first drill-ship.
There's plenty of movies that are relatively faithful to the Jules Verne book, most or all of which are fun. This was supposed to be a TV show, aboard a subterranean ship with a crew. It was never trying to be anything else.
I watched this when it first aired and loved it. Now decades later I rewatched it on Prime Video and loved it all over again. Currently it's just free w/ subscription. Hopefully it gets a purchase option because I would love to purchase it so I can watch it again after it's no longer free w/ subscription.
If you are down for adventure fun with rubber monsters, this is a good time. But also a little sad because there is no more.
Both were pilots that hopefully would land series, but only Babylon 5 got a series.
NBC was aiming at Star Trek underground. That fall they launched Star Trek underwater instead with SeaQuest.
They built a semi-diverse team. Built in some lore and a lot of mystery. The creature effects are practical and fun. The ship/tank thing looks like it was designed by Toho. There's a lot here and it's all great fun.
And the beginning of the film we get F Murray Abraham doing his best Daniel Jackson a year before Stargate and 8 years before Milo in Atlantis The Lost Continent.
Also Sam Rami (Spider-Man, The Evil Dead, Army of Darkness) has a tiny role as he travels with Abraham in his first drill-ship.
There's plenty of movies that are relatively faithful to the Jules Verne book, most or all of which are fun. This was supposed to be a TV show, aboard a subterranean ship with a crew. It was never trying to be anything else.
I watched this when it first aired and loved it. Now decades later I rewatched it on Prime Video and loved it all over again. Currently it's just free w/ subscription. Hopefully it gets a purchase option because I would love to purchase it so I can watch it again after it's no longer free w/ subscription.
If you are down for adventure fun with rubber monsters, this is a good time. But also a little sad because there is no more.