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post #871 of 1497
7/25/08 at 9:26am

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

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I thought I would revive this thread.

Are there any new developments?
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post #872 of 1497
7/25/08 at 10:21am
Thread Starter 

VOYAGE COMPLETION POSSIBLY IN 2009?!!!!!

The last mention of a VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA DVD release was made by TV SHOWS ON DVD on June 02nd, 2008.

VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (Click Here!)

2009 could actually encompass most any time in the year so we just have wait patiently for more definite word but at least things are not nearly as uncertain as they originally seemed to be...at least to me that is!

For now let's look toward a (likely) Spring release.

Jeff T.
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post #873 of 1497
7/25/08 at 5:12pm

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

Hi to all,
I am new here(at least with regards to posting)
and I just came back from the 39th Annual San
Diego Comic-Con.
I did not expect to see, but saw the very exciting, very accurate
24-inch length Seaview Model w/ Flying Sub from Iconic Replicas:
iconicreplicas .com(HTF will not allow me to post the web address here)
there were several people taking pictures of it and it did look very
cool with the lights in front, back and underneath of it...(I examined
it from all angles)
the only bad thing about it was no lighting inside the bow's
interior/windows(but you can do that if you want).
it was suspended inside a huge acrylic or glass case with the Flying
Sub laying just below the right front 'manta-wing'.
they had a huge sign below the encasing, that had the "Voyage"
logo and separate smaller sign reading: "Fantasy Worlds Of Irwin Allen".
it was very cool, indeed(only $650.00, show special price)(!)
all you would need is a bank account and aquarium big enough for it.
also, was a replica of Land Of The Giants lunch-pails(and waste-basket
of lunch pail art)which were shown/announced for Nov. 2008:
tin10 .com (once again...)
they were giving away beautiful glossy postcards with the art on the front(cat attacking little people in front of the ship) and info about the show and items on the back.this was also emblazened with the "Fantasy Worlds Of Irwin Allen" logo.
I see that they are very busy marketing their 'brand'.
p.s. I want volume 4 of Voyage very badly, too.
can't wait!
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post #874 of 1497
11/13/08 at 12:10pm

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

Well it looks like we're not going to see anything of Season Four soon: the traditional "February release" has previously been announced in the first week of November. We're past that.

All we have is a vague idea that it might be released sometime in 2009...maybe.

Hope is fading. Despite Amazon having a placeholder listing for S4.
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post #875 of 1497
11/14/08 at 5:14am

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

Chalk it down with The Big Valley as a Fox dissapointment
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post #876 of 1497
11/14/08 at 5:49am

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

Hopefully if the studio does decide to release Voyage we will get the entire fourth season instead of half a season like before.
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post #877 of 1497
11/14/08 at 6:24am

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

I could settle for half season sets if they didn't resort to flippers.
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post #878 of 1497
11/14/08 at 7:55am
Thread Starter 

WE ARE FACING VERY DIFFICULT TIMES!!!!!

The current economic downturn plus other likely 20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment "disappointments" may well just place an uncertainty to continue on with the VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA tv series DVD releases.

I am still highly confident that it will be resumed once again but not necessarily as soon as hoped I'm afraid.

I think that in the upcoming year there is going to be a number of similar casualties in the film and tv series DVD sweepstakes due to oversaturation and an over abundance of choice.

I look at some of these film and tv series titles being proposed for release and it is clear that many of them are certain disasters-in-the-making. I am afraid that everything does NOT sell!

But who ever listens to me!?

Jeff T.
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post #879 of 1497
11/14/08 at 8:13am

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

We have a saying around here, actually: "When JeffT talks--people listen!!!!"

Put me down as one who feels that S4 is somewhere down in the murky ocean depths, tucked away inside Davy Jones locker. The economic slowdown and decidely lackluster sales for S3 undoubtedly is responsible for the last season getting sidelined--perhaps permanently. Ashame really, because I'm pining for "Man of Many Faces", "Sealed Orders" and "The Deadly Dolls".
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post #880 of 1497
11/15/08 at 7:46am
Thread Starter 

ABSENSE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER!!!!!

Well technically speaking it still hasn't been a year since the last release (or has it?) so there are no real grounds to press the panic button as yet.

VOYAGE fans rallied in tremendous numbers and contacted 20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment via the U.S. Postal Service, e-mail and telephone and even representatives from TV SHOWS ON DVD contacted Fox sales representatives who reassured everyone that a continued (and completion) DVD release of VOYAGE has not been abandoned.

The current abysmal economic may well have some bearing on the company's intended plans and right now it wouldn't make much sense to rally the troops once again until Fox has the opportunity to properly ascess the situation and formalize its plans.

Perhaps this (seeming) delay is all a deliberate strategem on the part of Fox to create some increased demand!

I still feel that the fourth season (1967-68) will be released but there are always going to be skeptics. Even if Fox comes out and announces a release date there will still be those who (perhaps justifiably) cloud the situation with disastisfaction over the doublesided DVD-14 format (?) or that the season is broken up into two volumes.

This negativism never ends with these things! Perhaps I'm guilty of that myself at times (but in the case of the recent Abbott and Costello complete film series DVD release I feel fully justified in this and as yet have not purchased this particular set).

Pertaining to the third season (1966-67) not having sold well (at least not well enough to satisfy the powers-that-be at Fox) that's something that may or may not be true. I find it difficult to accept that with the entire North American market not to be mention likely sales from abroad that it didn't turn a profit.

I discussed the matter with a local DVD dealer in my city and he told me that Fox has involved itself primarily with other properties acquired and leased from MGM and that is what has (temporarily) diverted its focus and direction. And just looking at the retail store shelves this is precisely what I have primarily seen lately coming out of Fox Home Entertainment.

I stated all this before in an earlier posting in this discussion thread!

To compound the situation even further there are now two official Region 1 formats consisting of standard play and blu-ray DVDs. Eventually there has to be a transition point where there is only one dominant format.

While continued interest is encouraged don't fret as we are carefully monitoring the situation and right now Fox has to be given some latitude to implement its intended plans on its own...at least for the present!

Jeff T.
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post #881 of 1497
11/15/08 at 3:47pm

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

It's been over a year...

I'd hoped that Series 4 would resume in the "normal" February spot that two previous half-seasons were released on, but the two previous announcements for those were both in the first week of the prior November.

If you look you'll see this is a pattern that other studios follow also - first week of November is when the February releases get announced usually.

I can;t help but feel that sales were hurt by the substantial numbe rof customers who apparently had problems with the first set of discs.

What a pity Fox decided to do half-seasons...if they'd done full ones, I am sure that we'd have had the complete series long since even if the times between seasons had been longer....
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post #882 of 1497
11/15/08 at 4:55pm

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

I have to admit that my faith is shaken as far as believing we will see this set any time soon. Sure, we can all declare that it's bound to come out "eventually" - but we can say that about almost anything. When we narrow the question down to "Will we see this set in February of next year?" I have to say the chances seem very poor. I hope I'm wrong.

Gary "of course I'm of the mindset that the entire vintage portion of TV on DVD market is going to really come up short in comparison with what we are seeing in this last quarter of 2008 - the economy will surely hurt our chances for a repeat performance" O.
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post #883 of 1497
11/27/08 at 10:34am
Thread Starter 

IT'S FINALLY COMING!!!!!

For all of you loyal VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA fans who have been simply pining away for continuance of this Irwin Allen 1960s SF tv series classic fret no more for (at least according to the TV SHOWS ON DVD online information service) the first 13 colour hour long episodes from the fourth season (1967-68) will be out in a 3-disc set on March 31st, 2009.

For those who aren't privy to these matters the 13 episodes will consist of the following:

01) "Fires of Death" (17/09/1967)
02) "The Deadly Dolls" (01/10/1967)
03) "Cave of the Dead" (08/10/1967)
04) "Journey with Fear" (15/10/1967)
05) "Sealed Orders" (22/10/1967)
06) "Man of Many Faces" (29/10/1967)
07) "Fatal Cargo" (05/11/1967)
08) "Time Lock" (12/11/1967)
09) "Rescue" (19/11/1967)
10) "Terror" (26/11/1967)
11) "A Time to Die" (03/12/1967)
12) "Blow Up" (10/12/1967)
13) "Deadly Amphibians" (17/12/1967)

From the sound of some of these titles you should well know what precisely can be expected here!

Obviously there is no definite word on any extras at this premature point in time but you can rely upon fully restored and digitally remastered video transfers taken from the original 35mm print negatives...and just how many of these other tv series DVD releases can honestly lay claim to that?!

There will be some discontented individuals here who will (predictably) complain about the doublesided disc pressings (and for the record the much preferable singlesided discs are not always a guarantee of flawless quality ie. THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. - THE COMPLETE SERIES 41-disc set) or the two volume division of this final season but you wanted VOYAGE and you are getting it.

If you were happy with the three previous VOYAGE seasons DVD releases then this should be more of the exact same thing...for better or worse!

Actually the truth be known the previously released VOYAGE third season (1966-67) two volume sets gave me absolutely no trouble at all.

I am now looking forward to the finalized packaging design myself.

Jeff T.
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post #884 of 1497
11/27/08 at 10:59am

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

Now here's something to be Thankful For!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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post #885 of 1497
11/27/08 at 4:18pm

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

Excellent news. Thank you very much Fox.
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post #886 of 1497
11/27/08 at 5:26pm

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

YEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!

I'd really given up hope...
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post #887 of 1497
11/27/08 at 6:16pm

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

Fantastic news on Thanksgiving Day.
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post #888 of 1497
11/28/08 at 5:52am

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

What great news. Thanks to our friends at TV Shows on DVD, we all have this terrific news to "digest" on this Thanksgiving holiday.

I'm on the road for the holiday, but happy to have brought along the ol' laptop, especially to get news of this nature.

Like many of us, I've been looking at my DVD shelf with the incomplete VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA series staring back at me - the only one of his big four that is in this incomplete state.

And over these past "no-news-is-good-news" months, I've been reading through various books and webpages devoted to the subject and brushing up on the episodes yet to come, eager to someday get to view the final season of this venerable science-fiction series.

As corny as the series had become at this point, there are still some highlights yet to come, and it will be a treat to see those come to fruition with the new DVD set on March 31. I can't wait to see the re-designed opening credits sequence that will greet us about nine episodes into the season, all nicely remastered for us and looking better than they probably ever did.

This will certainly give us one more reason to look forward to Spring next year!

And it likely means that come late Summer or Fall, the final half-season will at last make its appearance, and allow us Irwin Allen completists to say that we've got it all.

So lay in a course for March 31, 2009 - full speed ahead!

Harry
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post #889 of 1497
11/28/08 at 2:46pm

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

I’m not usually one to say “I told you so”… but, I told you so!

Of course VOYAGE could have been abandoned. Anything can happen, but indications were (based on the also-slowed releases of THE SIMPSONS) that FOX was just slowing things down. Though it was JUST my “feeling” and based on nothing more, I’m delighted to receive this news!

Lots of highlights to come:

Victor Jory and the depths of a volcano (“Fires of Death”).

Vincent Price (“Deadly Dolls”) ‘Nuff said!

Warren Stevens, one of Sci-Fi’s great character actors and the Flying Dutchman (“Cave of the Dead”).

An improbable, but imaginative, trip to Venus (“Journey with Fear”) features a vastly reconfigured Seaview!

Disappearing crewman – including Richard Basehart’s SON (always cut on Sci-Fi Channel) – and a ticking doomsday bomb (“Sealed Orders”)

Season Two style suspense with a dash of Season Four improbability (“Man of Many Faces”)

Janos Prohaska (Star Trek’s Mugato and others) redressed as a rampaging white gorilla. (“Fatal Cargo”)

Nelson is kidnapped to the future. If you liked TIME TUNNEL’S “The Kidnappers”, you’ll like this – it’s just about the same thing, by the same writer. (“Time Lock”)

Cat and Mouse with stock footage of The Vulcan, Season Three’s “special guest enemy submarine” (“Rescue”)

Alien plant controls Nelson. Yeah, we’ve seen it before and done better – but there is a great battle between the Seaview and the Flying Sub (“Terror”)

Time-Master Mr. Pem invades the Seaview. (“A Time to Die”) Henry Jones is marvelously unassuming in the role! This episode’s sequel is the series finale.

Basehart gets to “stretch” as a dangerously paranoid Nelson. (“Blow Up”). He does a wonderful job. Consider how Shatner would have overacted something like this.

Season Three’s “Fossil Men” recast with amphibians. (“Deadly Amphibians”). Soon to be LAND OF THE GIANTS star (and two time LOST IN SPACE guest star) Don Matheson lurks within the “head amphibian” suit.

The opening credits sequence changes with EPISODE NINE (!). Paul Sawtell’s classic theme is slowed and given a more brass and bass sound – and a freeze frame teaser to match the one created for that year's LOST IN SPACE – begins with “Rescue” (but is not included in “Blow Up”).

I AM disappointed that we will complete the series with none of the “Next Week Scenes”. That would have been a better extra than more stills… BUT it looks as if we WILL complete the series and that is cause for celebration.
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post #890 of 1497
11/28/08 at 7:58pm

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

Count me as one of the pessimists who really didn't think we'd see this series completed. I'm so glad that's now been proven to be wrong! Although the series isn't what it once was by the time the 4th year rolled around, I'm certainly going to buy this set and the next one to finish out one of my favorite all time shows.

Gary "I've always loved submarines, and this show no doubt is the main reason" O.
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post #891 of 1497
11/28/08 at 9:11pm

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

YAY!! I'm very glad the first half of season 4 is coming in March and I'm also glad we will be getting more interviews with David Hedison. I don't care about the quality drop-off for this upcoming season, this is one of my all time favourite shows and I've enjoyed every episode released so far! Can't wait for the Vincent Price episodes. Bring on the monsters! I knew this series wasn't going to be abandoned, thanks FOX!
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post #892 of 1497
11/29/08 at 1:05am
Thread Starter 

ELEVEN DAYS TO ZERO PILOT!!!!!

Boy! Joe really makes the fourth season (1967-68) sound interesting!

Right now my full attention is really on the upcoming THE INVADERS second season (1967-68) DVD release so it is really nice that there are some devout VOYAGE fans who are capably maintaining the torch fires burning bright as it were.

I never really had any doubts about completion of VOYAGE because I know too well that SF entertainment in general is a big seller. It has tremendous appeal to a younger generation. It is not only the entertainment of today in the 21st Century but the entertainment of tomorrow as well. This is a fact!

Now already the intended special extras have been made known for the impending VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA - SEASON FOUR, VOLUME ONE 3-disc set at least according to TV SHOWS ON DVD which will include the following:

* "Eleven Days to Zero" (14/09/1964) recut unaired (colour?) pilot
* David Hedison Interviews
* Still Gallery

Obviously 20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment was diligently busy working on all of this while we were here uselessly debating about whether the fourth season would be released or not!

It was originally mentioned that three versions of the VOYAGE pilot would be made available on DVD and it looks like this will be the third incarnation.

If you further check back to the previous message postings in this discussion thread I specifically suggested the inclusion of yet another version of the pilot episode with the "correct" main opening title this time around.

Pertaining to the next week previews as radically different as VOYAGE becomes in its fourth (and final) season mini-capsulizations do maintain its familiar identity at least in these previews.

I would have liked to have both the preteaser "In Colour" bumpers and the next week previews not to be mention the original tv promos all included but....

Let's hope that this is it!

Jeff T.
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post #893 of 1497
11/29/08 at 10:25am

Voyage and Invaders… Does it get any better?!

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Originally Posted by JeffT.
Boy! Joe really makes the fourth season (1967-68) sound interesting!

Right now my full attention is really on the upcoming THE INVADERS second season (1967-68) DVD release so it is really nice that there are some devout VOYAGE fans who are capably maintaining the torch fires burning bright as it were.

And, Jeff, with THE INVADERS second season, followed by VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA - SEASON FOUR, VOLUME ONE, 2009’s going to be a great year! I can’t wait for ‘em both!

I should also have mentioned that, within those 13 episodes of VOYAGE, there are five all new music scores by Harry Geller, Lennie Hayton… and the shamefully underrated Leith Stevens! The others are the usual mixes of Jerry Goldsmith, Alexander Courage, Hayton and Stevens’ existing scores.

Both shows, presuming a “Voyage Season Four, Volume Two” to soon follow, will cover the 1967-1968 season – and will (at least to my mind) COMPLETE sixties TV sci-fi on DVD.

As much as we tend to rant at Studio practices at times, they’ve all done a great job of getting out far more material than I could ever have imagined back in 2004.
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post #894 of 1497
11/29/08 at 9:50pm
Thread Starter 

VOYAGE FOURTH SEASON MUSIC!!!!!

When I said "let's hope this is it" I meant the correct "Eleven Days to Zero" (14/09/1964) pilot with the proper titles (not something with a main opening title taken from another season that is artificially appended on). I am always open to new worthy tv series DVD releases and there is still ONE STEP BEYOND, MEN INTO SPACE, BORIS KARLOFF'S THRILLER, THE MAN AND THE CHALLENGE, THE AQUANAUTS, ROALD DAHL'S WAY OUT! and whatever else I neglected to mention.

Very early on in VOYAGE's fourth season (1967-68) some of the established music is phased out and new compositions are introduced and integrated for the remainder of the show's run somewhat giving VOYAGE an entirely new identity.

Pertaining to "Man of Many Faces" (29/10/1967) I like the colourfully exciting aspect of a great scientific experiment gone awry and threatening the world instead of the already well addressed political intrigue scenario which had become over familiar by 1967.

To its credit VOYAGE's parting show "No Way Back" (31/03/1968) ends the series on a reasonably high note (despite some of the shaky episodes that precede it) especially with its memorably effective opening teaser.

It is likely that during the past year's moratorium specifically with the VOYAGE tv series DVD sets that 20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment has not been idle and the preparation of the remaining two volumes have already been well mapped.

If there is to be a final volume release it is really up to VOYAGE fans to support the impending VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA - SEASON FOUR, VOLUME ONE 3-disc set (tentatively) due out on March 31st, 2008. If you read back to previous postings in this discussion thread there was (at least) one devout VOYAGE fan who said they hadn't as yet purchased the third season (1966-67) two volume sets as the price was deemed too high and this will never do.

Some one has to get out there and buy these things at cost! But in the awesome wake of what this upcoming VOYAGE DVD release promises I really don't think that there will be too much trouble with this.

Jeff T.
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post #895 of 1497
11/30/08 at 7:53am

Re: VOYAGE FOURTH SEASON MUSIC!!!!!

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Originally Posted by JeffT.
Very early on in VOYAGE's fourth season (1967-68) some of the established music is phased out and new compositions are introduced and integrated for the remainder of the show's run somewhat giving VOYAGE an entirely new identity.

To its credit VOYAGE's parting show "No Way Back" (31/03/1968) ends the series on a reasonably high note (despite some of the shaky episodes that precede it) especially with its memorably effective opening teaser.

If there is to be a final volume release it is really up to VOYAGE fans to support the impending VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA - SEASON FOUR, VOLUME ONE 3-disc set (tentatively) due out on March 31st, 2008. If you read back to previous postings in this discussion thread there was (at least) one devout VOYAGE fan who said they hadn't as yet purchased the third season (1966-67) two volume sets as the price was deemed too high and this will never do.

Some one has to get out there and buy these things at cost! But in the awesome wake of what this upcoming VOYAGE DVD release promises I really don't think that there will be too much trouble with this. Jeff T.

Jeff:

Yes, while there was minimal new footage of the Seaview and Flying Sub for Season Four (“Fires of Death”, “Deadly Dolls”, “Cave of the Dead”, and “Savage Jungle” MAY have it been it), there was no shortage of new music scores!

In addition to the five new scores that would fall into Season Four, Volume One, there are SEVEN more credited new scores that would fall into Volume Two! As Jeff points out, TWELVE new scores (almost half the season) and the revised opening credit sequence appears to be an effort toward giving VOYAGE a new “identity”. Especially considering that, later in the season the older scores are almost entirely phased out in favor of the new.

The remaining scores (that would be in Volume Two) are by Joseph Mullendore, Leith Stevens, Harry Geller, Alexander Courage, and Irving Gertz (…though Gertz’s credited score for “Attack” seems to be more of a partial score. “Savage Jungle” and “Death Clock” also lead off with more “traditional” cues before veering off into the new.

The true standout of what is to come in Volume Two would be Leith Stevens’ uncharacteristically dark score for “Man-Beast”. It REALLY helps sell the episode!

I think that “No Way Back” was as good as it was is that the producers knew that it was the end for VOYAGE (LAND OF THE GIANTS was poised to take its place), and they made an unusual (for the mid-sixties) effort at a fitting series finale, rather than simply let the show fade away.

For LOST IN SPACE fans, it would be as if “Time Merchant” was the series finale… but in the case of LIS it was solidly believed that it was renewed for a fourth season.

And, folks, I’m seconding Jeff’s suggestion that we all support VOYAGE Season Four, Volume One as it is released! Not later, waiting for sales! Best Buy, for instance, has discounted each previous volume upon release. The online retailers should follow suit.

This way we are better assured of Season Four, Volume Two. Let’s not consider it a given, especially in this economy! There are 893 Posts and over 82, 000 Views of this thread. Let’s show ‘em some numbers!
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post #896 of 1497
12/1/08 at 8:44am

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

The rule for the 4th season was generally simple. When it stayed away from monster of the week formula it had fallen into, it was very good. When it fell back into it, the show had problems. The few exceptions was the Deadly Dolls episode which was more inventive and obviously had Vincent Price. Man-Beast was another monster show that worked. It also suggests the problem with Voyage was the writing.

Also I was reading something that suggested that Irwin Allen was ready to move on as well. That was one of the reasons for Voyage's cancellation.

Sci-fi channel ran a version of the pilot that had completely different opening titles and music. Is this the one that will be on the next volume?
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post #897 of 1497
12/1/08 at 12:52pm

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

Quote:
Originally Posted by FrancisP
The rule for the 4th season was generally simple. When it stayed away from monster of the week formula it had fallen into, it was very good. When it fell back into it, the show had problems. The few exceptions was the Deadly Dolls episode which was more inventive and obviously had Vincent Price. Man-Beast was another monster show that worked. It also suggests the problem with Voyage was the writing.

Also I was reading something that suggested that Irwin Allen was ready to move on as well. That was one of the reasons for Voyage's cancellation.

Sci-fi channel ran a version of the pilot that had completely different opening titles and music. Is this the one that will be on the next volume?

Excellent news. I never doubted it was coming. Can't wait!
I believe the unaired pilot will be the color version, this was previously issued on the Columbia House VHS release so it is available.
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post #898 of 1497
12/1/08 at 12:59pm
Thread Starter 

THE VOYAGE COLOUR PILOT!!!!!

I am no expert on the subject but I have seen elements of the unaired colour VOYAGE colour pilot "Elevens Days to Zero" (14/09/1964) which had a completely different theme for the main opening and closing titles in addition to a scene involving Dr. Gamma (Theodore Marcuse) who angrily shoves a model replica of the SSRN Seaview off his council meeting table vowing to the stop the fantastic futuristic submarine and its intrepid crew from interfering with his dastardly plans for global domination.

The unaired colour VOYAGE pilot that was included with the initial VOYAGE first season DVD release was legitmate enough except that an early incarnation second season (1965-66) opening title was appended to it completely ruining the full satisfaction of this rare acquisition. When aired in my local tv viewing area the correct title had reliably been featured.

If given the go ahead I am sure that Irwin Allen would have been more than willing to continue on with VOYAGE but likely its ratings drastically fell below a passable range due to an ever-decreasing drop in the quality of the latter produced episodes and it has further been suggested that VOYAGE was sacrificed to make room for Mr. Allen's newest effort LAND OF THE GIANTS which really didn't fare very well at all in the adult audience viewing ratings and would only barely last two seasons anyway. I guess it was felt that VOYAGE was all played out so why not give GIANTS a chance as it was something different.

This was a common practice back in the 1960s to clear away some of the older tv shows (even if the audience ratings were still acceptable) and make room for new product just to keep a fresh face on things. Which is irrational and risky if you think about it!

Jeff T.
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post #899 of 1497
12/3/08 at 4:44am

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

For anyone who missed season 3 (or season 1 and 2, for that matter), Deep Discount currently has a "buy 1, get 1 free" sale on Fox TV box sets. You can get both volumes for around $24 shipped. List of all Fox sets on sale here (sale runs through 12/21):

DVD - Fox/MGM Buy 1 Get 1 Free
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post #900 of 1497
12/3/08 at 2:08pm

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

I am so glad to hear the news on the release of Voyage. I had almost given up hope. Thankyou Fox and everyone who pushed for season 4 release. There are a some choice episodes with good guest stars and some very good acting from Richard Baseheart and David Hedison. I too had always heard that ABC had renewed Voyage for season 5 but Irwin Allen was tired of the show and really wanted to do the Giants which ABC gave him the Voyage time slot for two years. I believe the show could have gone on one more year even though they were running out of plot lines. I cannot wait to see season 4 . Voyage thru the Blu ray machine looks fantastic! The episodes are so clear they look like mini movies.
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Voyage to the Bottom of Sea: Season 2, Vol. 1
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Season 1 Vol. 2
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