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A 1964-68 Creator/IrwinAllen SciFi show starring Richard Basehart as Admiral Harriman Nelson and David Hedison as Captain Lee Crane, and set on the experimental nuclear-powered research submarine, ''Seaview''. The ultimate use of the RecycledScript: almost every episode can be summarized as "MonsterOfTheWeek is defeated by [[RayGun Laser of the Week]]." The first season, filmed and broadcast in black & white[[note]]except for the pilot, which was filmed in color[[/note]], featured more serious and thoughtful stories, along with a greater UsefulNotes/ColdWar emphasis. When the series [[UsefulNotes/SwitchToColor switched to colour]] starting with the second season, it was used as an excuse for a big dramatic storyline during the switch, and the introduction of a new version of the ship.

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A 1964-68 Creator/IrwinAllen SciFi show starring Richard Basehart Creator/RichardBasehart as Admiral Harriman Nelson and David Hedison as Captain Lee Crane, and set on the experimental nuclear-powered research submarine, ''Seaview''. The ultimate use of the RecycledScript: almost every episode can be summarized as "MonsterOfTheWeek is defeated by [[RayGun Laser of the Week]]." The first season, filmed and broadcast in black & white[[note]]except for the pilot, which was filmed in color[[/note]], featured more serious and thoughtful stories, along with a greater UsefulNotes/ColdWar emphasis. When the series [[UsefulNotes/SwitchToColor switched to colour]] starting with the second season, it was used as an excuse for a big dramatic storyline during the switch, and the introduction of a new version of the ship.
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* ReplacedTheThemeTune: Like ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'' decades later, the series had a different theme tune on exactly ''one'' episode - Music/JerryGoldsmith scored the season two opener "Jonah And The Whale" and wrote his own rather more serious theme to replace the brighter Paul Sawtell one. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kgMx0ib5YQ You can hear both themes here.]] [[Film/TheSwarm He would later return to Irwin Allen territory]].

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* ReplacedTheThemeTune: Like ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'' decades later, the series had a different theme tune on exactly ''one'' episode - Music/JerryGoldsmith scored the season two opener "Jonah And The Whale" and wrote his own rather more serious theme to replace the brighter Paul Sawtell one. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kgMx0ib5YQ You can hear both themes here.]] [[Film/TheSwarm [[Film/TheSwarm1978 He would later return to Irwin Allen territory]].
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** The monsters in "Deadly Amphibians", who look like a cross between the Creature and the Mutant from ''Film/ThisIslandEarth'', are even less friendly. They're an ancient race trapped in caves the beneath the ocean floor, but they invent sonic weaponry to help them escape. Their leader regards humans as "[[FantasticRacism a sub-species to be used or discarded at our will]]", and he wants to use the Seaview to TakeOverTheWorld. They also convert Kowalski into one of them both physically and mentally, but his physical mutation is a BitByBitTransformation and [[StatusQuoIsGod he's back to normal by the end of the story]].

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** The monsters in "Deadly Amphibians", who look like a cross between the Creature and the Mutant from ''Film/ThisIslandEarth'', are even less friendly. They're an ancient race trapped in caves the beneath the ocean floor, but they invent sonic weaponry to help them escape. Their leader regards humans as "[[FantasticRacism a sub-species to be used or discarded at our will]]", and he wants to use the Seaview to TakeOverTheWorld. They also convert Kowalski into one of them both physically and mentally, but his physical mutation is a BitByBitTransformation and [[StatusQuoIsGod he's back to normal by the end of the story]].



* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Italian-British Gia Scala isn't the most convincing Russian scientist in "Jonah and the Whale."

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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Italian-British Gia Scala actress isn't the most convincing Russian scientist in "Jonah and the Whale."
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* SealedOrders: In the aptly named episode "Sealed Orders", the orders are to dispose of a NeutronBomb and aren't informed until the characters near said bomb's location.

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* SealedOrders: In the aptly named episode [[Recap/VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSeaS4E5SealedOrders "Sealed Orders", Orders"]], the orders are to dispose of a NeutronBomb and aren't but the crew isn't informed until the characters they are near said bomb's location.

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