Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Nemesis 2, Chapter 4

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Turn Back the Clock (Airdate: October 26, 1964)
STORYLINE:

Jason Kemp makes good his underwater escape from lost world in "Turn Back The Clock."

Jason Kemp, trapped on a tropical island thick with rampaging dinosaurs manages to escape and falls in with Nelson, Crane and company who have flown Kemp's fiance (Carol Denning) to Washington to reunite with him. He claims amnesia, but a recording found with him reveals a story of a tropical island in the arctic loaded with dinosaurs. Nelson (being Nelson) is curious, and with Kemp and Denning aboard, heads Seaview to the arctic. Recreating previous conditions, Nelson, Crane and Kemp take the diving bell down to four thousand feet.

In anger, Carol's father strikes Jason for having abandoned his comrades.

They are soon swept by tidal forces through a cave access to a dangerous tropical land of dinosaurs, surly natives and one particularly beautiful native girl. Kemp's fiance is crushed when it comes to light that he was responsible for the deaths of several others in the party, although Carol's father is found still alive. Unlike he, having feigned madness, the newcomers are scheduled to die.

Volcanic activity, Nelson concludes, is providing the heat for all this tropicality. But they must get off they island before they are sacrificed by the locals. As they race through the bowels of the volcano to escape, justice is perhaps served, when Jason is killed by one of the dinosaurs. To effect their final escape, Crane must divert a damned up lava flow. This is an act which, once the boys are off the island, causes the volcano to blow the island sky-high.

Jason meets untimely (if deserved) end.

Dino plateau says goodbye.

Written: Sheldon Stark
Directed: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Guest Cast
Jason Kemp.......................Nick Adams
Carol Denning.................Yvonne Craig
Dr. Denning...................Les Tremayne
Dr. Ernst Ziegler...Robert Cornthwaite
Malone...............................Mark Slade
Native girl......................Vitina Marcus
Navy Doctor...................Robert Patten
O’Brien............................Derrik Lewis
Dr. William.......................Paul Kremin
Native guard.......................John Lamb
Native................................Paul Stader
Coffee man........................Frank Arno
M. P. driver..............William Burnside
Repairmen....................Buddy Garrett
Ray Didsbury

Astonished Admiral and Captain.
Nelson & Crane stunned by the size of dino
footprint. "Turn Back the Clock"

Mark says: This episode always gets an unfair rap as the Lost World rip-off. Actually, it's a solid adventure, all the way from Jason running frantically from the giant lizard during the opening scenes to many new special effects of the diving bell being engulfed by undersea shock waves. The late Nick Adams was a "name" star at the time, having just finished a starring role as Johnny Yuma on The Rebel series and receiving an Oscar nomination for Twilight of Honor. He turns in a good performance and even the stock footage is well integrated.

Indigenous wildlife looks to get a bite of the action.
Hedison dodges dino in The Lost World, now found in Voyage episode.

Mike says: I always liked dinosaurs, and L.B. Abbott and his crew were the only people in Hollywood who could really make "blown-up" lizards "sing." His absolute best lizard work was in the underground-sea dino sequence in Journey to the Center of the Earth, but his lizard work for Irwin was also excellent. Although much of the dinosaur footage for this episode was

lifted from Allen's The Lost World, it was extremely well integrated. The island sets integrate with with the movie footage. Due to the lesser cost of black & white film stock and processing, Voyage's budget went much further in the b&w shows of season one.

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