Episode

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Death Ship

Name: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Death Ship
Released: 1966-02-20
Duration: 60 min
Cast: Paul Trinka, Del Monroe, Robert Dowdell, Richard Basehart, David Hedison

Voyage to the Bottom of the SeaSeason 21966-02-20

Overview

Things go wrong when Nelson and Crane test out a new automated system for Seaview.

Details

Series: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Season: Season 2
Episode: Episode 22
Air date: 1966-02-20
Runtime: 60 min

Episode context

The Death Ship is Episode 22 in Season 2 of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. It aired on 1966-02-20. The runtime is 60 min.

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

Episode 23: The Monster's Web 1966-02-27 | 60 min Captain Gantt, an ego-maniacal scientist, is in a nuclear sub testing a powerful new fuel. Due to his bungling, the sub crashes into a giant web and is attacked by a monsterous sea spider. The Seaview investigates and rushes to retrieve the remaining fuel canisters before the enormous underwater pressure collapses the test sub abd detonates the fuel - an explosion which would kill millions!

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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 24: The Menfish 1966-03-06 | 60 min With Admiral Nelson away, his old friend Admiral Park takes over Seaview's current mission. Dr. Borgman is conducting experiments, and Park suspects he is up to no good.

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.

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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 26: The Return of the Phantom 1966-03-20 | 60 min Captain Krueger returns to compel Nelson to shoot Crane. Once that is done, Krueger takes over Crane's body and searches out a host for Lani, Krueger's dead lover, so the two can be reunited. Can Admiral Nelson save his friend and end the plans of the evil Captain forever?

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

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.

Episode 15: Killers of the Deep 1966-01-02 | 60 min A foreign power is salvaging sunken nuke missiles from the ocean floor to make themselves a superpower.

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.