When are We going to see a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea DVD Release?!!!!!

Yeah, but what time elapsed between S3V2 and S4V1?  What about 2-3 yrs?  I wouldn't get too upset yet.

I wouldn't worry too much about the timing of S4V2 - Mr. Pem will alter time to make it seem like it's all on schedule...

:)

Harry

Voyage to the Bottom of the sea fans HAPPY LABOR DAY!!!  Seaview thankyou for the heads up on Michael Bailey. I wish I had been able to read his insights on Voyage.

I want to ask a question which I had read or heard years ago.  ABC was going to renew Voyage for a 4th season but Irwin Allen chose not to.  He offered the network Land of the Giants instead which would air in the Voyage time slot.  Has anyone else ever heard this?

Needless to say I am very unhappy about our last 13 shows release date.  I hate this waiting. When When When will Fox give us the last of our show.  I know I know quit your complaints.  I am sorry I just have to voice my frustration.

Voyage fans you are right to keep this thread going.  I will give input when I can.  I just wanted to comment on Seaview's posts.  Sir I really enjoy them!!!   I also must make a correction in my question to fans.  ABC gave Voyage  the green light for a 5th season.  Sorry it has been a long day.

HEY VOYAGE FANS GREAT NEWS GREAT NEWS!!!!!!  I just read that Warner's is going to release City Beneath The Sea!!!  

This IS great news!  Where can I find the detail on this? 

It's due to be released as part of the "Warner Archive"

Regarding the "City Beneath The Sea" video:

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Regarding the fourth season of Voyage.......

Since I work in commercial television I noted that when we got the first half of the fourth season that the audio in some episodes was what I will call shallow.  The dialogue conversation was fine but sound affects like explosions were not like they were originally.  The sounds lacked the frequency response that I heard and recorded on audio tape of the original showings.  This to me is significantly noted in the episode "Deadly Amphibians" in Disk 3, Side B.  My DVD player is hooked to a stereo amp which provides good frequency responce if it is present in the first place.

I am not complaining too much because we have what we have and could have received nothing.  The case was different this time as you all know.  I have to wonder with what I have stated if some short cuts were taken to get the this Fourth Season (first half) out there.  I may be wrong but I often wonder.

 

Regarding the second half of the fourth season................

You are anxious because you want it.  I am sure Fox will deliver the rest of the product in short order.  After all it is a product to them that can make them money.  In other words it is a product that is done and will be available for sale in their right time.  When that time is chosen the duplication will be underway.   Remember also that each package you have received has other ingredients in it (Special Features) that have to be acquired and processed as well.  It takes a plan to decide what is available after 40 years and what can be included as well.  The packaging with the artistic graphics requires a decision as well.  Duplication and distribution takes some time as you would expect. 

Take these factors into account as you wait.  I am sure the final half will come.

Oh, and one other tidbit.......................

I am sure you all realize that the David Hedison interviews were all taped in one interview session.  They are split up in small bits to spread out over several video sets.  I know all of you realize that.

The tidbit:  How many of your heard part of a new question being asked in the last interview you have in your current collection which would be the Fourth Season Part One?  More specifically if you put in Disk 3 - Side B where the David Hedison interviews are and instead of "Play All" advance ahead to "Voice-Overs" and play just that one all the way to the end.  After David finishes his remarks you will hear a man that is asking the questions say "did you watch" -- and then it ends abruptly.

It will be interesting to see what the remaining topics and answers will be when the Fourth Season Part Two hits the market.   And again be patient about that.  Getting upset will not bring it any sooner.

It would figure that the VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA episode "The Terrible Leprechaun" (07/01/1968) would have passable audience ratings at the time!  No accounting for taste.  This would also be the final closing VOYAGE episode aired in primetime on Sunday, September 15th, 1968.

Clearly by the tv audience ratings provided by Nick which are all generally below the passing baseline of a 15 this is a show in definite decline and there is no possible way that VOYAGE could have been renewed for a fifth season.

Since the tv audience ratings for the second half of the fourth season (1967-68) have been provided it would be (very) nice to see the ratings for the first half as well.

Jeff T.

I hope they finish release the remaining parts of the series. I like to complete my collection of this series. I am huge sci-fi fan and love the sci-fi shows.

Yes, although this is Fox, and I wouldn;t trust them as far as I could throw the Seaview.

You know what.  I'll admit I've not been worrying about the completion of this series up to this point.  I've just assumed (I know that's a bad thing to do, especially in this hobby) that Fox wouldn't leave the last half season hanging out there... But now I am beginning to wonder.  They really do seem to be completely abandoning their classic TV shows (other than the one MTMS season set, which itself has changed more than once and been pushed back a couple of times).  I now have to consider the fact that we really might not get that final set.  And what a shame it would be.  But I'm being to think that's a distinct possibility.  I still say we should probably give them till the end of the 1st quarter of next year before we really give up the ghost, but I'm not nearly as confident about this release as I was 6 months ago, or even 6 weeks ago.

Gary "could Fox really be that lame to not finish this series out when they are so close to the finish line?" O.

I am not sure fox will not complete the series, but, they could be waiting to see how existing copies are selling around the first 4 seasons. I remember picking up the first season, volume 1 &2 for about $20/each. I am looking at doing that down the road. I am watching my budget, so, i wait to when i see deals on dvds. I just picked up Space 1999 for $87.00, which is the complete series, which was over $200 about a year or so ago. So, my question, is why do studios price the items for $45-50 then a year or so sell them for $20-25 dollar range. Would you not have a better pricing strategy, which could result in better sales. Sometimes the studios get greedy with pricing, like when I bought third watch for $20, when it was originally selling for 60-70. They wonder why people dont buy dvds. They forget that if you dont price it correctly especially with people having tight budgets then items may not sell..

It's not close enough to Christmas to panic that this has been abandoned so close to the end. There's always a chance that if they've really given up, Fox can always let Shout! handle it like they did Son of the Beach. But that would rule out them boxing them up for a Complete series collection.

Let Shout! handle it?! 

Please read any thread on IRONSIDE before you hand over our favorite incomplete classic sci-fi series to those folks! 

FOX will come through on this... just on their schedule, not ours! 

Shout! Factory will abandon Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 4 Vol. 2. 

I wouldn't feel compelled to have to remind people of Shout's failings (which are equal to those of other companies) if it weren't for the fact that there are too many people in this and other forums who seem determined to adopt a Princess Leia style attitude surrounding this company.      ("Help me Shout Factory, you're my only hope!")

Exactly, Jack!    FOX has give us no reason to believe that VOYAGE will be abandoned.  Slowed? Yes.  But even THE SIMPSONS has been slowed by FOX.  Abandoned?  No evidence yet! 

But. there's always this knee jerk reaction (seen in so many other threads) to give it to Shout! 

They haven't exactly earned the unconditional adoration I seem to see over and over again on this forum.  VOYAGE hasn't been abandoned, but IRONSIDE has.  So, I'll keep VOYAGE at FOX and take my chances! 

at least Shout! didn't abandon That Girl and McHales Navy and Dana Carvey Show. Those are complete and on the shelf.

I'll say this - if Shout! put out the VTBOS DVDs, they wouldn't be stupid flippers. 

you know you can watch Ironside online via hulu? you can also see VTBOS there for those wondering what the show is about.

But given Shout's readiness to accept subpar material, Fox would be more apt to let them have the last set of grainy transfers rather than the remastered ones they've been putting out.   (anyone remember "Rhoda"?)

And sure, Shout finished two titles, just as the much maligned CBS/Paramount has also finished "Mission: Impossible" and "Wild Wild West" and Fox finished all the other Irwin Allen titles, but they've also got "The Bill Cosby Show" as another black mark next to them along with "Ironside", plus the abandonment of future volumes of the Dick Cavett talk shows and "The Electric Company".       That adds up to a track record that once again, please is *no better* than any one else's!      So if you want to praise what they do finish, fine, but please, please let us hear the last of this "Help me Shout Factory, you're our only hope" nonsense every time a show runs into trouble from one of the other companies.    

And you don't know that for a fact. It was clearly established that if SF were to license anything from another company, they would get whatever has been recently remastered. In other words, if SF were to release the final vol. of VTTBOTS, Fox will give them the same clean looking prints that Fox has been releasing so far. "Rhoda" was taken from transfers made decades ago, so of course they look terrible. It's apples and oranges here.

 the abandoned second season of The Bill Cosby Show is on Hulu, too. 

Don't get to bitter on the subject of Shout!. Maybe they aren't the salvation, but they appear to be one of the few DVD companies that's able to work with Sony, Fox and Universal.

They did finish off Son of the Beach after that show had been abandoned by Fox.

There are 6 more seasons of Ironside and if Shout! received too many returns of Season 1, it's easy to see why they didn't continue the series. Perry Mason used to get a lot of rerun action from cable in the 90s. I hadn't seen Ironside on TV after it was taken off the air until RTN started running it.

I'd like to point out that it isn't the simple abandonment of titles that has gotten Shout a black mark with me, it's the fact that they have a frequent habit of being less than candid regarding what they are doing.      On both "Bill Cosby Show" and "Ironside" the fans of those shows were strung along for one solid year with false assurances that the titles were not abandoned.     This went on for more than a year before they finally compelled themselves to admit otherwise.    The "sales figures" excuse on "Ironside" did not wash for the simple reason that they had that available data for quite some time when they were still giving out our leaking assurances (one of which was repeated at this very forum by one of the two men responsible for TV Shows on DVD) that the show was not abandoned (plus, I really will never understand how they could advance commit to a *second* release of "Peyton Place" even before they could have any sales figures to digest over the first release!).     But if sales was the real reason, then they set an absolute low for customer releations PR in their public statements and on their message board that is unmatched by any other studio/company in this business.       They were also less than candid about the "Rhoda" situation, in which we had to find out from an outside reviewer with an advance copy that two-thirds of the episodes were butchered.  That makes them *equally* guilty of the PR deception CBS/Paramount played regarding the music replacement on "The Fugitive" S2 V1 which we had no advance word about.        We have always rightly blasted CBS/Paramount about this even to the point where their making amends for that to a large degree that we ALL would have taken on the day S2 V1 first came out, is still not good enough for some people and reason for them to continue depicting CBS/Paramount as a fraud with its "We put television on a pedestal" spin.    But Shout?    They're always the innocent victim.    "At least they tried."     That kind of inconsistent standard just boggles my mind.

I would rather see them finish what they started before they overcommit to other titles, especially when as the "Werewolf" debacle reveals, they still haven't learned their lesson about how to practice good customer relations PR.

And if you actually read carefully, you'll know full well that nowhere did they say, word-for-word, that "ALL EPISODES OF RHODA ARE COMPLETE". And the fact that they had to rely on private collectors just to get full-length episodes, should have been a clear indication of that.

And please, stop saying "an Outside reviewer". It's getting boring and reptetitive the more you say it.

Why should I stop saying "an outside reviewer" when that happens to be the *truth* regarding what happened?    I guess I should come away from that remark convinced that your determination to whitewash Shout extends to insisting that all inconvenient facts be declared "boring".   To say Shout was totally candid ahead of time on "Rhoda" based on what you're saying is like saying CBS/Paramount sufficiently covered their butts with the "some music has been replaced" disclaimer on "The Fugitive".

Boring repetition IMO is when someone falls into Princess Leia mode regarding a title.

I didn't say that they were totally candid about "Rhoda". I just said that nowhere, did they say, word-for-word, that "ALL EPISODES ARE COMPLETE".