Episode

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Death Watch

Name: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Death Watch
Released: 1966-11-13
Duration: 60 min
Cast: Paul Trinka, Del Monroe, Robert Dowdell, Richard Basehart, David Hedison

Voyage to the Bottom of the SeaSeason 31966-11-13

Overview

Admiral Nelson and Captain Crane are involved in a mind-control experiment, with Chief Sharkey caught in the middle.

Details

Series: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Season: Season 3
Episode: Episode 9
Air date: 1966-11-13
Runtime: 60 min

Episode context

The Death Watch is Episode 9 in Season 3 of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. It aired on 1966-11-13. The runtime is 60 min.

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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 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.

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

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

Episode 12: The Plant Man 1966-12-04 | 60 min Twin scientists - one good, one evil - come aboard Seaview. The evil twin is out to create a radioactive "plant man."

Episode 5: The Terrible Toys 1966-10-16 | 60 min Seaview is investigating a UFO. Along the way, they pick up a shipwrecked old man -- almost always a bad omen when our gallant crew finds a castaway! The bedraggled fellow has a sack full of strange, frightening toys capable of murder, and of destroying the submarine. Turns out the alien ship needs to melt down Seaview's hull for fuel. Nelson and Crane do their best to foil the aliens' plans before it is too late.

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

Episode 4: Night of Terror 1966-10-09 | 60 min Captain Crane searches for a lost diving bell containing Admiral Nelson, Chief Sharkey, and Dr. Sprague.

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 3: The Day the World Ended 1966-10-02 | 60 min As Admiral Nelson demonstrates a new tracking device for a visiting U.S. senator, it seems to show that Seaview is the only life left on earth.

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.