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- From: m14494@mwvm.mitre.org (Mike White)
- Subject: The SeaView submarine... what show?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.183921.5422@linus.mitre.org>
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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 18:39:21 GMT
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- "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea", of course. Admiral Nelson,
- Captain Crane, et al, were a spinoff of a not-too-bad sci fi
- movie of the same name staring Walter Pidgeon and Peter Lorrie. In it,
- a nuclear explosion or something ignites the ionosphere or
- some such, and Adm. Nelson and the gang have to save the world.
- The TV show started out pretty well (in black and white); part
- adventure series, part spy show (very hip back then), it featured
- the "flying sub", a little disk-shaped aircraft that could submerge
- and dock with the SeaView. Later, the show degenerated into
- the "monster of the week" show, with all the monsters of the
- "guy in a rubber suit" variety. Week after week, a Kelp
- Monster, or a Crab Monster, or a Carrot Monster (so help me,
- I'm no making this up) would ravage the sub, it would sink
- to the bottom, a few instrument panels would blow up, and
- the crew would zap the carrot and save the sub just in time for
- the last commercial. Whew... ! Just thinking about it makes me
- want to blow up my tv. Glad to hear that folks are modeling the
- SeaView, though... it was pretty cool looking, even though it
- would have cracked like a beer can at the depths they said they
- were operating at. Well, that's show biz...
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