What was good was very good. The 'Seaview' submarine was certainly a very slickly executed piece of work both inside and out, as indeed was the 'flying sub' that appeared later. The programme brought a couple of very capable leading actors to our screens each week in the form of Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Unfortunately, they found themselves typecast just as surely as did Shatner and Nimoy on the bridge of the 'Enterprise'.
But the series overstayed its welcome by at least 150 episodes and simply ran out of story-lines. The result was endless repetition to the extent that it became a parody of itself. Contributor 'Joebergeron' has listed 6 silly things about the series, omitting what was perhaps the silliest. Every week the ship would be subject to explosions or sea-quakes or some such turbulence that would cause it to rock violently back and forth. The crew would inevitably run from side to side, and all of the computers would catch fire or explode in a shower of sparks, yet this never impeded the functioning of the vessel or led to a dangerous conflagration or problems with smoke. This happened EVERY week without fail.
It didn't occur to anybody when shore-side to review their design so that they wouldn't self-destruct each time the ship got shaken.
Passable in its early incarnations, laughable later, repetitive and boring eventually.
But the series overstayed its welcome by at least 150 episodes and simply ran out of story-lines. The result was endless repetition to the extent that it became a parody of itself. Contributor 'Joebergeron' has listed 6 silly things about the series, omitting what was perhaps the silliest. Every week the ship would be subject to explosions or sea-quakes or some such turbulence that would cause it to rock violently back and forth. The crew would inevitably run from side to side, and all of the computers would catch fire or explode in a shower of sparks, yet this never impeded the functioning of the vessel or led to a dangerous conflagration or problems with smoke. This happened EVERY week without fail.
It didn't occur to anybody when shore-side to review their design so that they wouldn't self-destruct each time the ship got shaken.
Passable in its early incarnations, laughable later, repetitive and boring eventually.