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The submarine featured on "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" is called the Seaview and it's supposed to be the most modern and wonderful ship afloat. How, then, does the crew of this great ship seem like such an awful group of misfits?? You'd think they'd be the most professional and well trained crew you could get...yet in so many episodes you see them fighting, insubordinate and in this one a couple of the crew members rifle through a scientist's belongings and read about his work! Personally, I think Admiral Nelson would have been better to get chimps or inmates of an institute for the criminally insane to run his ship!!

There is a LOT of stuff going on in this episode of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea". Dr. Ames (Robert Loggia) is aboard with a woman he claims is 200 years old and he's got some formula to make people young. Then, there's a portion of the sea he needs to get to that is filled with sunken ships! And, it's apparently because of a weirdo creature that looks a bit like a HUGE jellyfish that shots out lightning!! If that seems like a lot, you also learn that the Doctor has got issues and will do ANYTHING to make sure the monster is killed and he's able to gain access to one of the sunken ships to get some sort of equipment or plans related to his life-extending research. He's a lot like a more insane version of Captain Ahab!!

All in all, apart from the stupid cliche involving the crew, an enjoyable episode. Sure, the monster seems silly to look at, but it was 1966...and for that era it's not too bad. Enjoy.

I'm trying figure out why the screenwriter of Voyage had some gigantic monsters like jellyfish as appears here once again, they are a morbidity surrealistic in these creatures often in large scale, seemingly should be a pathological, someone can disown such statement?

A survey ship sunk due those giant Jellyfish embrace the vessel coming to sunk afterwards so fast, the nature of the research is a full of oddities, a hidden formula of human rejuvenation at least 200 years old, thus the scientist Dr. Crandall Ames (Robert Loggia) asking for Admiral Nelson a possible recue of its ship aiming for to recover all technical description of formula that locked in a safe on board of sunk vessel, also in another part of the ship holds a sort of protein self-called Vitasynthesis whereof is the own formula to use right away in his sidekick the mid-age Mr. Karyl (Marian McCargo).

However Dr. Ames hidden of Nelson why his ship sunk, keeping for his own due Nelson did not agree to rescue, arriving there Cpt. Crane realizes that such place actually is a graveyard of ships, such insight seems strange and doesn't escape of Cpt. Crane's sharp look, Dr. Ames urges that the time is running out, strangely enough the Seaview didn't shoot any missile against the giant jellyfish, instead what hell they decided send a Flying-sub to attack the creature, misguided judgement.

Someone wrote in his review that Seaview's crew has been taken worst choice due didn't trained properly, it doesn't measure up US's marine trademark and I agreed deeply!!

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First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5.

When I think of horror I think of wonderful movies like The Omega Man (1971), 60s/70s Godzilla, 60s Roger Corman and Vincent Price. Now mild horror is in VTTBOTS. How do I feel about it? I am not sure if it totally fits with the series but VTTBOTS is VTTBOTS - I like almost anything it does.

I will say this about Graveyard Of Fear, the early parts of the hour, when the Seaview is entering the graveyard, are very well done and come close to being called golden moments of Voyage/Sea.

Nice small talk moments with Ski and Riley as they are curious about the female guest on the Seaview.

It takes a few repeat viewings for this hour to grow on you. The first half is better than the second half. One word defines the episode - epic. It just looks and feels so grand.