City Beneath The Sea

 

For a control room these operations needs more chairs or safety railings. And can't the women be allowed more sensible shoes than the hooker heels they are forced to wear?

 

 

They even have a merman guy that can breath underwater. This was years before 'The Man From Atlantis' came to television. The concept must have just stuck. I think people like people who can breath underwater. I think and Aquaman movie would be a huge hit.

 

This is such an Irwin Allen production that they borrowed the Flying Sub from Journey To The Bottom Of The Sea. Conveniently, there are two mission to fulfill here and each is about an hour long (with commercials) so you know they just cut together two episodes of a failed TV series and called it a motion picture. This was the second time the concept failed under Allen's direction. I don't blame him for trying to pitch this idea several times. I would watch such a show today. I miss shows like Sea Quest, especially the first season.

 

I found it interesting that Allen first produced a pilot three years earlier that was not picked up by NBC. It had the same name and setting as the motion picture and several of the same characters. You can get a look at it here.

 

In 1967 Irwin Allen produced this network promo for NBC as a potential replacement series for Star Trek. It combines themes and plot-devices from all of Irwin Allen's previous series (specifically Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea), as well as several subtle (yet obvious) nods to Star Trek. The costumes (designed by Paul Zastupnevich) have the ribbed turtleneck-like collar similar to both of the Star Trek pilots, as well as color co-ordinated department stripes (gold, red, blue, green) - decades ahead of Rick Berman's prequel series - "Star Trek: Enterprise".

When NBC declined to pick-up the series, Irwin expanded this concept into a motion picture in 1970 and recruited the majority of his stable to reprise similar roles.