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The Best Episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 1 - Jonah and the Whale
    7.1/10(137 votes)

    #1 - Jonah and the Whale

    S2:E1

    The Seaview is on a joint mission with Russian scientists to salvage the remains of a Soviet undersea lab. While a scientist is being lowered in the diving bell, a giant whale arrives and rams the bell. The glass is shattered, killing him. Nelson and the remaining Russian scientist, Katya Markova, go on a second dive. The whale reappears, this time swallowing the diving bell whole! Now it's a race against thime as Captain Crane and the crew of the Seaview find the diving bell and get it out before Nelson and Markova run out of oxygen!

    Director:Nathan Juran
    Writer:Shimon Wincelberg

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  2. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 2 - Time Bomb
    7.3/10(111 votes)

    #2 - Time Bomb

    S2:E2

    Nelson is injected with a radioactive material that makes him a walking time bomb. This episode marks the first appearance of the FS-1!

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  3. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 3 - ...And Five of Us Are Left
    7.3/10(118 votes)

    #3 - ...And Five of Us Are Left

    S2:E3

    Seaview comes to the rescue of newly discovered WWII survivors living in an underwater cave beneath a rumbling volcano.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 4 - The Cyborg
    7.8/10(124 votes)

    #4 - The Cyborg

    S2:E4

    Cybernetic genius Tabor Ulrich creates a perfect mechanical duplicte of Admiral Nelson. His plot: to make the crew of the Seaview they are fighting World War Three. In doing so, the sub will launch nuclear missles at the China, Russia and the USA. After the holocaust, Ulrich plans to take over and usher in "the age of the cyborg".

    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  5. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 5 - Escape from Venice
    7.7/10(106 votes)

    #5 - Escape from Venice

    S2:E5

    Crane is caught up with a circle of spies as he tries to make his way back to Seaview with important missile defense data.

    Director:Alex March
    Writer:Charles Bennett

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  6. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 6 - The Left-Handed Man
    7.4/10(111 votes)

    #6 - The Left-Handed Man

    S2:E6

    Nelson works on finding an assassin before he can kill the new Secretary of State.

    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 7 - The Deadliest Game
    7.5/10(100 votes)

    #7 - The Deadliest Game

    S2:E7

    While inspecting undersea bomb shelters with the President, aides attempt a power grab.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 8 - Leviathan
    7.5/10(108 votes)

    #8 - Leviathan

    S2:E8

    Nelson and crew are invited to a marine scientist's undersea lab for a visit but there is giant sea life in the way.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 9 - The Peacemaker
    7.4/10(105 votes)

    #9 - The Peacemaker

    S2:E9

    Defecting scientists create a proton bomb, but are killed by a foriegn power and the bomb is captured. A surviving scientist works at disarming the bomb...with other plans in mind.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  10. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 10 - The Silent Saboteurs
    7.1/10(97 votes)

    #10 - The Silent Saboteurs

    S2:E10

    Asian powers attempt to interfere with the American Space Program.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 11 - The X Factor
    7.2/10(100 votes)

    #11 - The X Factor

    S2:E11

    A toy manufacturer is involved with kidnapping and shipping politicians and scientists to foreign powers.

    Director:Leonard Horn
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 12 - The Machines Strike Back
    7.0/10(91 votes)

    #12 - The Machines Strike Back

    S2:E12

    A missile defense platform-drone malfunctions and threatens to destroy the East Coast of the US.

    Director:Nathan Juran
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 13 - The Monster from Outer Space
    7.6/10(102 votes)

    #13 - The Monster from Outer Space

    S2:E13

    A space probe returns to earth and is recovered by Seaview...only to unleash an alien organism aboard.

    Director:James B. Clark
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  14. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 14 - Terror on Dinosaur Island
    6.8/10(93 votes)

    #14 - Terror on Dinosaur Island

    S2:E14

    A submerged domed island is forced to the surface by its volcano and exposes a Jurassic-style world.

    Director:Leonard Horn
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 15 - Killers of the Deep
    7.5/10(119 votes)

    #15 - Killers of the Deep

    S2:E15

    A foreign power is salvaging sunken nuke missiles from the ocean floor to make themselves a superpower.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  16. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 16 - Deadly Creature Below!
    6.7/10(100 votes)

    #16 - Deadly Creature Below!

    S2:E16

    Seaview rescues two men adrift at sea, only to discover they are escaped prisoners intent on not returning to prison. While they attempt to hijack the sub, an undersea creature surfaces to menace the Seaview.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  17. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 17 - The Phantom Strikes
    7.6/10(103 votes)

    #17 - The Phantom Strikes

    S2:E17

    Seaview encounters a sunken WWI sub...with someone still left aboard.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 18 - The Sky's On Fire
    7.0/10(115 votes)

    #18 - The Sky's On Fire

    S2:E18

    Cruising for days under the ice, Seaview surfaces to find the sky is ablaze thanks to the Van Allen belt catching fire. Nelson races to Washington to confer with fellow scientists and hatches a plan to detonate a nuclear device into the atmosphere and extinguish the fire. Weber, a Fellow scientist, feels they should do nothing and allow the fire to burn out. Nelson disagrees and takes Weber and two others aboard Seaview to decide the course of action as the sub races to the firing point. However, Weber is determined to stop Nelson and is willing to kill to do it!

    Director:Gerald Mayer
    Writers:Irwin Allen, Charles Bennett

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  19. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 19 - Graveyard of Fear
    7.4/10(94 votes)

    #19 - Graveyard of Fear

    S2:E19

    A scientist and his secretary come aboard Seaview when their research vessel is sunk by a giant Portugese Man-Of-War. They want Admiral Nelson to return to the scene, but won't tell him the real reason.

    Director:Jus Addiss
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 20 - The Shape of Doom
    6.5/10(88 votes)

    #20 - The Shape of Doom

    S2:E20

    Dr. Alex Holden is hunting a gigantic whale in which he has injected an experimental growth serum. It turns and destroys his boat, killing his crew. He is rescued by Seaview, which was on en route to plant a nuclear device to blast an undersea channel Holden obsesses over getting his swallowed equipment from the whale when it turns and comes at the sub, swallowing the bomb as it is being lowered! Nelson cannot detonate the bomb, as the president's carrier is in the area. The nearly insane Holden steals Nelson's remote detonating device and threatens to blow up the whale if he's not permitted to get samples of the whale.

    Director:Nathan Juran
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 21 - Dead Men's Doubloons
    6.8/10(82 votes)

    #21 - Dead Men's Doubloons

    S2:E21

    A 16th century pirate seemingly comes back from the grave to threaten Seaview.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 22 - The Death Ship
    7.8/10(101 votes)

    #22 - The Death Ship

    S2:E22

    Things go wrong when Nelson and Crane test out a new automated system for Seaview.

    Director:Abner Biberman
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  23. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 23 - The Monster's Web
    7.4/10(89 votes)

    #23 - The Monster's Web

    S2:E23

    Captain Gantt, an ego-maniacal scientist, is in a nuclear sub testing a powerful new fuel. Due to his bungling, the sub crashes into a giant web and is attacked by a monsterous sea spider. The Seaview investigates and rushes to retrieve the remaining fuel canisters before the enormous underwater pressure collapses the test sub abd detonates the fuel - an explosion which would kill millions!

    Director:Jus Addiss
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 24 - The Menfish
    7.2/10(96 votes)

    #24 - The Menfish

    S2:E24

    With Admiral Nelson away, his old friend Admiral Park takes over Seaview's current mission. Dr. Borgman is conducting experiments, and Park suspects he is up to no good.

    Director:Tom Gries
    Writer:Allan Balter

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  25. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2 Episode 25 - The Mechanical Man
    7.9/10(98 votes)

    #25 - The Mechanical Man

    S2:E25

    Drs. Paul Ward and Peter Omir have discovered a powerful new element -- Subterranium 116. This element can produce limitless pure energy, but Omir may have another agenda.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Jonah and the Whale" is the best rated episode of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" season 2. It scored 7.1/10 based on 137 votes. Directed by Nathan Juran and written by Shimon Wincelberg, it aired on 9/19/1965. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Time Bomb".