When are We going to see a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea DVD Release?!!!!! - Page 14

Nice post Jeff. While I'm not a Voyage/Time Tunnel fan anywhere near the to degree that you are....I love your fanmanship on here. You and Harry keep the Irwin Allen threads rolling....and these threads are certainly among my favorites to read.

Gary OS, I wasn't intending to a do a MST3K on the second half of season 1. I was just wondering if I had to make fun of it during later seasons. There are some little plot holes and same plot elements used over and over for the first half of season 1. As for TT, The first half of the series was better than the second half (when it started to feature aliens and Merlin).

Regarding the color pilot, does anyone know if the VHS release from Columbia House featured the correct opening titles? Also, how does one recognize the color pilots' correct opening titles vs. what is on the DVD release?

Counting the days till we get the rest of Season 1 on dvd.

Gary "I hope people who review this second set at Amazon give it a good rating because I sincerely believe the poor ratings given to set 1, due only to bad discs and not bad episodes, caused the show to lag behind 'Time Tunnel' in Amazon's sales ranking - if not for the poor ratings it would have done much better at that particular online site, of this I am positive!" O.

I think Voyage did better at the retail level than TT. Voyage was available at
Walmart as well as the usual outlets whereas TT was not carried by Walmart in their stores. My local Walmart sold at least 6 copies of Voyage.

I had such a blast watching through both Time Tunnel and Voyage (especially Voyage!). It was a lot of fun revisiting the episodes and seeing them in their complete form and looking so good. It was made even better by being able to enjoy talking about them with folks on here and over at TrekBBS (where Harry N and I talked about it as well). Where I used to believe I was the only one who still loved the show, the internet has made it possible to enjoy the DVDs with other similar-minded fans. Still haven't convinced the gf to watch an episode with me. She saw part of one on VHS once and thought it was dopey. What does she know!?!

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You said it! This was a series that I wasn't sure of buying since I don't remember hardly any of the eps from their original airings. I just fnished "The Sky Is Falling" yesterday. Neat series! Thanks for your posts here at HTF - it helped me decide on getting this one.

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Thanks for that info Jeff. It's really nice to know that our [the folks on this particular thread] enthusiasm for the series helped you make the decision to buy. I feel equally confident that you will absolutely love the rest of Season 1. As I've said many times before, I think this first season of VOYAGE represents the finest of all the IA series, bar none.

Gary "can't wait for this second set so I can enjoy some more priceless and compelling episodes from a priceless and compelling 1st Season of VTTBOTS" O.

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Fans will dicker, but IMO there are four 4-star episodes in the first half of S1 and 4 in the remaining half:

"The Fear-Makers"
"The Mist of Silence"
"Submarine Sunk Here"
"The Ghost of Moby Dick"

vs.

"Mutiny"
"Doomsday"
"The Enemies"
"The Condemned"

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I guess I will have to disagree a tad with that assessment, because I'd give "The Invaders" (w/Robert Duval) a 4 Star rating along with the others you mentioned. On top of that "The Exile", "Secret of the Loch" and "The Traitor" are all close to 4 Star episodes, IMHO.

Gary "of course, I'd give just about every episode in that first season either a 3 or 4 - there just weren't many clunkers" O.

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This morning I looked up VTTBOTS vol. 2 on Amazon, wanting to see if they had posted an image of the cover (which they did). Anyway, look at what I came across--a complete guide to all four IA series! To be released this November. At $65.00 it's pricey, but hey, I'm there:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/078...Fencoding=UTF8

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I might buy Season 2 part one, but I remember as a kid not liking the changes at all-the reworked Seaview-new windows and it looked like it had a case of the mumps-the sonar domes on each side-and the Flying sub, while cool, well, lets just say no matter how advanced engineering was in 1986 (the future, at that time) when any ship dives straight into the water from 10,000 feet like it did, BAM! there would be no more flying sub. End of discussion-even if it was science fiction.
Now the Seaviews windows could be logically forgiven-they were supposedly sheets of a see-through steel and plastic combination material called Herculite®-invented by Admiral Nelson himself! And those season 2 "Crash Doors"-they didnt look exactly water tight to me-
And of course none of the architecture changes made sense-the control room up front, yet the periscope was way back midship on the "sail"
and of course, how could ther have been a control /view room if a docking bay was needed for the Flying Sub.
And the missle room-with 4 missle tubes out of a probable 16-and when they shot torpedos from there-the back end-they came from the front of the sub!
Even as a kid, those things bothered me.
And for the Seaview-it looked like they mostly used the smaller models-using constant stock shots.
Except for surface shots-where they may have used the larger model-it still didnt look quite right to me.
Maybe black and white covered sense of scale flaws, but the sub looked like a smaller model-it had no scale-and instead of shooting in Fox's lake, where the water was realistically murky, and there was some fake or real underwater terrain, the second season had the sub sittiing in clear blue water because they used Foxes water tank-so the water was always crystal clear, and you could see the moving sunlight patterns on the wall of the tank in the background. It to me just looked like a model ship sitting in a swimming pool.
It also felt like they had a smaller budget-the same camera setups, few or no new "areas" (I wonder why we never saw an engine room-oh well)
I dearly loved VTTBOTS on its first season.
Oh well, I eagerly await S1 box 2 and maybe S2, box 1;
If you are reading this FOX, consider a box that will fit ALL of Season one in it. or better yet give it the DVD9 treatment like Lost in Space Season one got
Im aliitle worried about the longevity of these Mexican made DVD 18s youre using. Sorry for the rant-just drank a vodka tonic.

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Looks good!
While it's irritating when they goof things up like the cover on the volume 1 set, ultimately it's a minor nit to me. I have Voyage on DVD looking better than it ever has and unedited! They could put a picture of Ashlee Simpson giving a thumbs up on the cover and I wouldn't care.

Ok, it might be a little irritating, but I'd live as long as the eps were there.

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I just now did and noticed something odd. The spine is that of S1, vol 1. I wonder if that means that David Hedison's photo might still grace the bottom of the spine after all. Also, did Capt. Crane sport a pistol like object in the first season as is shown on the cover? Just what is that thing?

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...and Fox still haven't announced either series for r2 - just dreck like Prison Break and 24 (in October!). At least we've seen the end of the endless Buffy/Angel churns, for now I suppose.


I was hoping we'd see an announcement for Time Tunnel release in July or maybe August. I suppose there's time yet, but this is getting very annoying.

I'd buy the r1's except they're on those crummy flipper discs, and exchanging duff discs is a pain when you have to ship stuff back ad forwards across the Atlantic.

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well, in the UK Fox has released the Lost In Space by season box, with one sided DVD9s. gold star for them.
I notice that the UK OUTER LIMITS BOX is 8 discs, one sided dvd9-and it vastly cheaper to buy than here! gold star for MGM-some noted compression problems on cramming them onto 4 dvd 18s
I would buy a UK one season VOYAGE box, especially if they were DVD9

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That's why I'm waiting for an r2 edition.

DVD-18 discs are rare here - WB's Wonder Woman sets are one of the few that are 18's here as well as the US. Most things turn into DVD9's, for example, stuff that Universal are doing is on DVD9. WHich is why I'm buying the r2's of The Munsters.

It looks as though the r2 release of the complete Kolchak will be single discs, too, looking at the price.

I keept hoping that Fox would announce Time Tunnel for July or August - a complete set following the release of the second half in r1 in June, no sign yet.

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VTTBOTS is released on DVD-14's and not DVD-18's

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I don't remember this series. But I am a fan of Firefly, and SG-1. Would everyone recomend that I buy this series? Is it that good?

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It doesn't really compare to either series you mentioned the closest modern series would be Seaquest but thats not fair to VTTBOTS as its much better than Seaquest although I do like Seaquest. Voyage also changed along the way. The 1st two Seasons are much more serious and rooted in Cold War spy stories as well as sci-fi stories while the 3rd and 4th seasons became more like Lost in Space with monster of the week plots. All 4 seasons are enjoyable for different reasons though. Hope that helps.

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Well, it's my holy grail, so yes...it's that good! Alot is going to depend on how open you are to a B&W show from the middle 1960s. For my money, the casting of Richard Basehart together with David Hedison was just about the greatest pairing of actors I've ever come across in episodic television. There was enormous potential there for the series to out perform Star Trek's Shatner/Nimoy ensemble but sadly this was not fully realized as 'Voyage' began degrading in quality by the third season.

Still, the first two seasons (second in color) are exceptional for the two stars and the brilliant miniatures (both in design and execution). "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" has its legions of fans for 40 years running who are fond of what the series was and lament the incredible potential it failed to live up to. Fans like me often imagine what a stellar series this would have been in the sci-fi/adventure tv canon had Irwin Allen been more like a Gene Roddenberry or Leslie Stevens.

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Yep, I know - but they're still multiple layer flippers. Dual layer on one side. And the Amazon reviews are full of people complaining about playback glitches!

Oddly enough it seems to be VTTBOTS rather than TT that is generating the complaints. Are the TT discs 14's as well?

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I did experience a playback problem myself on "Turn Back the Clock" during the diving bell descent sequence. On two separate players it stops and forwards about 15-20 seconds. I believe disc two, which this episode is featured on has shown to the one and only disc affected. An annoyance, nonetheless. I experienced no problems with TT and yet I'm almost certain these must be DVD-14s as well.

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Really I didn't see alot of playback complaints on this forum unlike DVD-18's which had plenty. Although I have had no playback issues with either. I have only had problems with 4 DVD's and they were all DVD-9's.