Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Production information and notes by Mark Phillips Story synopses, Mike Bailey

Crane blasts the creature with Seaview's laser and effects a rescue of FS-1 and the two crooks, who shoot Kowalksi in the head as they regain their freedom on Seaview.  In a later struggle to escape, Dobbs kills Hawkins instead of the Seaview crew he's aiming for, and then lunges for the escape hatch.  Upon exiting the sub, the pressure kills him as he heads for the surface, trying to escape.

Seaview is left struggling in the grasp of the Deadly Creature and Nelson must risk firing a time-delayed missile into the beast in order to escape.  The ruse works and Seaview once again escapes for the grasp of a deep-sea monster.  Crane and Nelson are last seen chatting in the observation nose about how perhaps the dumb creature and the two men had no real choice in what they were and how they acted.

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Written: William Read Woodfield, Allan Balter Directed: Sobey Martin Guest Cast Francis J. Dobbs.........Nehemiah Persoff Joe Hawkins..........................Paul Comi Doctor............................Wayne Heffley Missileroom man................Hubie Kerns

Paul Comi: "Sobey Martin kept asking me and Nehemiah Persoff what we were laughing at.  It was the dialog!  Some of the lines we had to say were hilarious. We had a hard time keeping a straight face on that show."

Nememiah Persoff

Mark Says: Like many year-two segments, this episode juggles two stories at once - desperate convicts who terrorize Seaview and a two-headed jellyfish that is simply defending its turf.  A great monster, lots of unpretentious action and suspense, all of which concludes with a thoughtful conversation between Nelson and Crane.

Paul Comi

Mike Says:  I've never liked this episode for several reasons.  Dobbs and Hawkins are not only very bad men, they're crass and stupid.  Seeing them confound an entire sub full of trained professionals is not only illogical, it's frustrating as all get-out.  If these two lugs can run wild on the world's most advanced research and defense platform, then what chance would the men of Seaview have against an intelligent foe?  Everyone should have listened to Kowalski -- the only one to immediately see all the warning signs.  But what does Kowalski get for his insight?  He gets shot in the head.  Director Sobey Martin's lazy work does not add any sorely needed pizzazz to the pedestrian business.  In comparison to season one's The Condemned, the infamous Deadly Creature of the title headlines a pointless exercise rather than a riveting story with a point.  On top of all this, we once again get to see Seaview jump from thousands of feet beneath the sea to the surface and back down again when the flying sub docks and the editor cuts in surface docking footage instead of submerged.  Aye yi yi!