Episode

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Plant Man

Name: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Plant Man
Released: 1966-12-04
Duration: 60 min
Cast: Paul Trinka, Del Monroe, Robert Dowdell, Richard Basehart, David Hedison

Voyage to the Bottom of the SeaSeason 31966-12-04

Overview

Twin scientists - one good, one evil - come aboard Seaview. The evil twin is out to create a radioactive "plant man."

Details

Series: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Season: Season 3
Episode: Episode 12
Air date: 1966-12-04
Runtime: 60 min

Episode context

The Plant Man is Episode 12 in Season 3 of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. It aired on 1966-12-04. The runtime is 60 min.

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Episode 11: The Haunted Submarine 1966-11-27 | 60 min A ghostly ancestor of Admiral Nelson visits him aboard Seaview.

Episode 13: The Lost Bomb 1966-12-11 | 60 min Seaview and an enemy sub battle to recover a superbomb from the ocean floor.

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Episode 10: Deadly Invasion 1966-11-20 | 60 min Faceless aliens invade Earth and try to take over an underwater atomic base. The leader takes the form of an old, deseased friend of Admiral Nelson in order to convice Nelson they mean no harm. Nelson will have none of it and leads a landing party to the base to stop the aliens, even if the cost includes their own lives.

Episode 14: The Brand Of The Beast 1966-12-18 | 60 min While racing to help a foundering research vessel, the Seaview's nuclear reactor goes critical. Admiral Nelson's right hand is exposed to intense radiation as he fixes the problem, causing a flare-up of the "werewolf" virus that he carries.

Episode 9: The Death Watch 1966-11-13 | 60 min Admiral Nelson and Captain Crane are involved in a mind-control experiment, with Chief Sharkey caught in the middle.

Episode 15: The Creature 1967-01-01 | 60 min The Seaview is called in to help track an artificially created life form, now loose in the Pacific. The creature, which is growing at a fantastic rate, has its own agenda -- starting with a takeover of the crew.

Episode 8: Thing From Inner Space 1966-11-06 | 60 min Bainbridge Wells is filming a segment of his "Science On The Move" television series on a small island off the coast of Chile. A sea creature comes ashore and kills his crew. Wells convinces Admiral Nelson to return to the island because he wants to prove that the creature really exists. Crewman Patterson has a special interest in the mission.

Episode 16: Death from the Past 1967-01-08 | 60 min As World War II draws to a close, a secret underwater Nazi base is damaged during a sea battle. A Nazi scientist and his aide are accidently put in suspended animation. Thirty-five years later, the crew of the Seaview discovers and revives them. The Nazis attempt to carry out their interrupted mission: destroy the capital cities of the Allies.

Episode 7: Deadly Waters 1966-10-30 | 60 min Captain Crane rescues a diver from a wrecked atomic sub. He turns out to be Kowalski's brother, Stan, a Navy diving specialist. When the Seaview needs his help in getting off the ocean floor, Stan is not up to the job.

Episode 17: The Heat Monster 1967-01-15 | 60 min Arctic Listening Station XZ-5 receives a message from a voice from space (""laser beeeeeam""). Professor Bergstrom, ignoring the advice of his assistant, activates their beam and brings the alien, living flame, to Earth. Now, this Heat Monster wants the Seaview to detonate a bomb under the polar ice cap. How can the intrepid crew defeat this new menace?

Episode 6: Day of Evil 1966-10-23 | 60 min A UFO crashes and an alien assumes the form of Admiral Nelson.

Episode 18: The Fossil Men 1967-01-22 | 60 min The crew of a lost submarine returns as rock men to menace the Seaview. A new man, Kowalski's friend Richards, is captured on a diving mission and turned into a Fossil Man. Nelson is then ordered to turn command of the Seaview over to these rock men. Will Nelson comply? Will the crew be dipped into the transformation lava to exist as living rock?