Episode
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Brand Of The Beast
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 1966-12-18
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
The Brand Of The Beast is Episode 14 in Season 3 of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. It aired on 1966-12-18. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 13: The Lost Bomb
Seaview and an enemy sub battle to recover a superbomb from the ocean floor.
Episode 15: The Creature
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.
More episodes from this season
Episode 12: The Plant Man
Twin scientists - one good, one evil - come aboard Seaview. The evil twin is out to create a radioactive "plant man."
Episode 16: Death from the Past
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 11: The Haunted Submarine
A ghostly ancestor of Admiral Nelson visits him aboard Seaview.
Episode 17: The Heat Monster
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 10: Deadly Invasion
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 18: The Fossil Men
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?
Episode 9: The Death Watch
Admiral Nelson and Captain Crane are involved in a mind-control experiment, with Chief Sharkey caught in the middle.
Episode 19: The Mermaid
As the Seaview conducts a marine census, Captain Crane spots a mermaid. He brings her aboard and falls under her spell. A sea creature follows the mermaid and proceeds to cause big trouble on the sub. The problems are compounded when the Seaview is ordered to disarm a nuclear device that has been planted off the coast of California.
Episode 8: Thing From Inner Space
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 20: The Mummy
The Seaview is on a top secret mission to transport a 3,000 year old sarcophagus from New York to a country in the Middle East. The United States hopes that by returning a national treasure, war will be prevented. The inhabitant of the sarcophagus has other ideas, and attempts to prevent the Seaview from reaching her destinaton.