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Starring the Music Cues
StuOz1 September 2010
Captain Crane has nightmare-type visions on an almost empty submarine Seaview.

If this episode seems unlike other Voyage/Sea episodes, there is a very good reason for it: Other people were running the show in this hour! This one had a very different director and a very different writer, and adding to the situation, Irwin Allen was probably busy putting together Land Of The Giants at this time. In a nutshell: This is Voyage/Sea but it not Voyage/Sea!

Many people like Nightmare, I once knew a guy in New York who thought this hour was one of the wonders of the world. But I just can't get into this nightmare world created here. The trial scene, the "killing" of Patterson scene, none of it created the desired response from me. It just looked dumb.

But the hour has nice stock music cues which often play without actors talking over them.
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3/10
A spooky,creepy atmosphere,in an empty sub...
ronnybee211218 May 2024
There really isn't much actual substance to this episode. Despite this,the director somehow manages to project a spooky,creepy atmosphere from what little there is to work with here. Basically,the Seaview submarine seems to be haunted (or something?) Apparently the set-making crew had never toured a real submarine,because the whole interior of the Seaview is unbelievably,ridiculously,impossibly BIG. The cathedral ceilings,the long,wide hallways and the large empty rooms would make this submarine the size of an aircraft carrier in real life. Nobody thought about this or mentioned it to the show's producers ? This tv series had some definite possibities but there were simply too many weak episodes like this one for it to be taken seriously. 3/10.
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2/10
Irwin Allen at his cheap-skatery worst.
joegarbled-7948227 May 2024
Warning: Spoilers
The introduction to this episode promises far more than it ever gets near to delivering. It doesn't take very long before the experienced "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea" viewer/fan will recognise that the usual main cast of Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Terry Becker and Bob Dowdell's camera time has been culled, and no doubt for cost purposes.

There's only 17 minutes left when Basehart, Becker and Dowdell finally do a scene together with Hedison as Captain Crane is tried for "treason against The Seaview" as he attempts to stop the launching of the vessel's nuclear missiles...against Washington DC!! The cost cutting meant that Kowalski and Patterson are in far fewer scenes than usual and the rest of the control room "boilersuit brigade" are missing altogether. As for the episode's guest "star", I'd ask "WHY bother?". Paul Mantee was dreadfully wooden but he was hardly given anything to work with.

It's been suggested that Irwin Allen was putting together his latest baby, "Land Of The Giants" if this is the case, it would explain this dreadful episode and the obvious cost-cutting. Allen treated his show's fans abysmally.
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