Episode

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Killers of the Deep

Name: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Killers of the Deep
Released: 1966-01-02
Duration: 60 min
Cast: Paul Trinka, Del Monroe, Robert Dowdell, Richard Basehart, David Hedison

Voyage to the Bottom of the SeaSeason 21966-01-02

Overview

A foreign power is salvaging sunken nuke missiles from the ocean floor to make themselves a superpower.

Details

Series: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Season: Season 2
Episode: Episode 15
Air date: 1966-01-02
Runtime: 60 min

Episode context

Killers of the Deep is Episode 15 in Season 2 of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. It aired on 1966-01-02. The runtime is 60 min.

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Episode 14: Terror on Dinosaur Island 1965-12-26 | 60 min A submerged domed island is forced to the surface by its volcano and exposes a Jurassic-style world.

Episode 16: Deadly Creature Below! 1966-01-09 | 60 min Seaview rescues two men adrift at sea, only to discover they are escaped prisoners intent on not returning to prison. While they attempt to hijack the sub, an undersea creature surfaces to menace the Seaview.

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Episode 13: The Monster from Outer Space 1965-12-19 | 60 min A space probe returns to earth and is recovered by Seaview...only to unleash an alien organism aboard.

Episode 17: The Phantom Strikes 1966-01-16 | 60 min Seaview encounters a sunken WWI sub...with someone still left aboard.

Episode 12: The Machines Strike Back 1965-12-12 | 60 min A missile defense platform-drone malfunctions and threatens to destroy the East Coast of the US.

Episode 18: The Sky's On Fire 1966-01-23 | 60 min Cruising for days under the ice, Seaview surfaces to find the sky is ablaze thanks to the Van Allen belt catching fire. Nelson races to Washington to confer with fellow scientists and hatches a plan to detonate a nuclear device into the atmosphere and extinguish the fire. Weber, a Fellow scientist, feels they should do nothing and allow the fire to burn out. Nelson disagrees and takes Weber and two others aboard Seaview to decide the course of action as the sub races to the firing point. However, Weber is determined to stop Nelson and is willing to kill to do it!

Episode 11: The X Factor 1965-12-05 | 60 min A toy manufacturer is involved with kidnapping and shipping politicians and scientists to foreign powers.

Episode 19: Graveyard of Fear 1966-01-30 | 60 min A scientist and his secretary come aboard Seaview when their research vessel is sunk by a giant Portugese Man-Of-War. They want Admiral Nelson to return to the scene, but won't tell him the real reason.

Episode 10: The Silent Saboteurs 1965-11-28 | 60 min Asian powers attempt to interfere with the American Space Program.

Episode 20: The Shape of Doom 1966-02-06 | 60 min Dr. Alex Holden is hunting a gigantic whale in which he has injected an experimental growth serum. It turns and destroys his boat, killing his crew. He is rescued by Seaview, which was on en route to plant a nuclear device to blast an undersea channel Holden obsesses over getting his swallowed equipment from the whale when it turns and comes at the sub, swallowing the bomb as it is being lowered! Nelson cannot detonate the bomb, as the president's carrier is in the area. The nearly insane Holden steals Nelson's remote detonating device and threatens to blow up the whale if he's not permitted to get samples of the whale.

Episode 9: The Peacemaker 1965-11-21 | 60 min Defecting scientists create a proton bomb, but are killed by a foriegn power and the bomb is captured. A surviving scientist works at disarming the bomb...with other plans in mind.

Episode 21: Dead Men's Doubloons 1966-02-13 | 60 min A 16th century pirate seemingly comes back from the grave to threaten Seaview.