VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA timeline

 

VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA timeline

 

1,000,000 BC: Pem transports Seaview here (A TIME TO DIE)

 

1,000, 000 BC: The Death Clock island in dimension is in this time.

 

1480-VBS-FIRES OF DEATH-Dr. Turner, alchemist, begins mining his      Elixir Stones, to rejuvenate his youth. He does this for five      centuries until FIRES OF DEATH's present events occur.

 

1524-pirate ship is attacked and a captain, who bears a resemblance      to Capt. Brent, vows no ship will touch his treasure for a      thousand years (VBS-DEAD MEN'S DOUBLOONS).

 

 

1585-VBS-CAVE OF THE DEAD-Capt. Van Wyck and his Flying Dutchman      square rigger vanish, cursed by the devil and Van Wyck's pact.

 

1680-VBS-THE FOSSIL MEN-the British fleet is destroyed by a   rocklike symphony--actually the fossil men.

 

1718-VBS-real death of BLACKBEARD.

 

1772-VBS-aliens in the VBS novel CITY UNDER THE SEA are said to      have come to Earth 200 years ago.

 

1780-VBS-NO WAY BACK-Benedict Arnold and Major Andre board the          Seaview thanks to Mr. Pem. Sept. 22, 1780.

 

1832-Capt. Shaemus O' Hara Nelson, Nelson's ancestor, is rich sea      merchant who died at sea in this year (VBS-THE HAUNTED         SUBMARINE).

 

     Blackbeard's ghost claims to have been roaming the seas in this time (VBS-THE RETURN OF BLACKBEARD).

 

1879-VBS-FIRES OF DEATH-Sailor Adam is changed by    Dr. Turner into  a silver skinned near immortal slave.

 

1916-Capt. Gerhardt Krueger, captain of the SS Edelweiss out of  Hamburg, an admiralty officer of the U-444, which sank  when it hit a submarine in WWI (VBS-THE PHANTOM STRIKES and VBS-THE RETURN OF THE PHANTOM).

 

1930-VBS-Seaview's main Doc is born.

 

1933- VBS-Harriman Nelson is born.

 

1937-VBS-Curly Jones is born.

 

1938-VBS-Francis Ethelbert Sharkey born-Coney Island, Brooklyn. VBS-Chip Morton born.

 

1939-Lee Crane is born.

 

1945-VBS-AND FIVE OF US ARE LEFT-WWII sub USS Tetra rescues        Japanese Lt. Nakamura, is then sunk but resurfaces in an      underwater cave where its crew and the Japanese officer        will remain for 28 years! Also aboard were Lt. Ryan,         Yeoman Johnson, Lt. Wilson, Torpedo man Bates. Ryan is        the father of Frank Werden, an operator who helps rescue          them 28 years later! 

 

1945-VBS-DEATH FROM THE PAST-German U Boat with Admiral Gustave Von         Neuberg and Lt. Froelich, Nazis, sinks. Later revived-35      years later in a suspended state all that time.

 

1945-VBS-Stan Kowalski is born (DEADLY WATERS).

 

1947-VBS-O'Brien born.

 

1948-VBS-Cathy Connors born.

 

  VBS-Cathy Kinney born (VBS WHITMAN NOVEL)  

 

    

 

1949-VBS-The younger Kowalski is born.

 

1950-Capt. Wren is lost on his submarine--it is later learned he   was fossilized by the FOSSIL MEN (VBS).

 

1950-VBS-Sparks born (Nicholas Q Peatty-CITY UNDER THE SEA novel).

 

1951-VBS-Patterson is born.

 

 

1952-VBS-Smith, later a crewmember of Seaview, is born. He was Dr.     Zachary Smith's brother. Their father was known in the             Navy as old Bricktop.

 

1953-VBS-MAN OF MANY FACES-Sharkey starts Lincoln High School.

 

 

1955-LIS-Nov. 6, 1955-Dr. Zachary Smith born.

 

 1955-    VBS-At 17, Sharkey joins the regular Navy (BLOW UP-20 yrs.)

 

  1955-   VBS-Chip Morton, 18 starts college; plays football against         Waymouth, Virginia's college team. 

 

1956-VBS-Stu Riley is born.

 

1958-VBS-The Nautilus sails to the North Pole undersea. Nelson served with Crane on this ship.

 

1963- VBS-Sailor on leave Harrimin Nelson on sabbatical, teaches  courses; Ellen (later Bryce) is in some, Walter  Bryce, later her husband, is also in some of Nelson's  classes. (THE GHOST OF MOBY DICK)

 

1967-VBS-Admiral Nelson retires from regular Navy. Begins building      Seaview & at the same time also turns the sagging Bureau      of Marine Exploration into his own Nelson Institute of       Marine Rearch. Dr. Ava Winters helps Nelson build and  plan Seaview's design.

 

 

 

 

1971

 

1971-VBS-ALTERNATE UNIVERSE-VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA book

 

1971-Geneva Peace Conference (Pres. Henry Talbot Macneil kept the peace)

 

Logan steals money from the Bank of England

 

1972-VBS-Sept. 15th Seaview Keel Laid (from DEADLY WATERS plaque)

 

 

 

 

1972>???? VBS-ELEVEN DAYS TO ZERO through VBS-LONG LIVE THE KING- Christmas 1972. VBS-???? -Dec. 28, 1972.

 

 

1973

 

In general, the rest of the first season takes place in 1973? And possibly 1974.

 

 

1973-VBS-THE LAST BATTLE-Jan. 4, 1973 through to VBS-DOOMSDAY, THE      INVADERS, THE INDESTRUCTIVLE MAN

 

     TP-THE SLAVES OF JEDIKIAH-Stephen Jamieson breaks out.

 

     TP-THE MEDUSA STRAIN-.

 

     VBS-Sometime after VBS-THE TRAITOR and before THE BUCCANEER,      the Seaview is comissioned on July 26, 1973. It is        comissioned through JONAH AND THE WHALE to the end of the          series NO WAY BACK and possibly beyond (this comes from       a plaque in DEADLY WATERS).

 

     VBS-HOTLINE-May 27th, 1973--?

 

     VBS-DOOMSDAY-1973

 

     VBS-AND FIVE OF US ARE LEFT-Nov. 16, 1973--?

 

HOTLINE: 1973 (May 27, 1973)

 

HAIL TO THE CHIEF (June 24, 1973 on a Sunday)

 

DOOMSDAY-1973 crew initiation ceremony

 

AND FIVE OF US ARE LEFT-circa--Nov. 16, 1973--!!!!???!!!)—this is of course impossible as it is a second season episode; it could be a parallel universe either this or THE EXILE --which takes place in 1974 ---can be. 

 

1974

 

THE EXILE: October 3rd, 1974

 

VBS-COMIC-1-THE LAST SURVIVOR-Dr. Gamma returns.

 

 

 

 

 

1975

 

THE BUCCANEER-some sources say this is when France ship, the Lorraine was transporting the Mona Lisa to the World’s Fair in Australia in 1975.

 

1975-VBS-THE BUCCANEER through to VBS-THE TRAITOR

 

     VBS-KING PEARL-Korea, SS Morgan.

 

     VBS-CITY UNDER THE SEA NOVEL-Camberwell family

 

     VBS-WHITMAN NOVEL-Sea Baby-Minoan adventure

 

     VBS-COMIC-2-MONSTERS OF THE MOHO

 

     VBS-COMIC 3-THE JONAH CRUISE OF THE SEAVIEW

 

VBS-UK TV TORNADO comics?

SEAVIEW’S GHOST: A Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea comic strip from British comic magazine TV Tornado # 1 dated January 14, 1967.

THE GREEN MONSTERS OF THE DEEP: The second strip story from TV Tornado featuring Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea . This issue dated January 21, 1967.

CRIME ISLAND: The third Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea strip story from TV Tornado, dated January 28, 1967.

DANCE OF DEATH: The fourth TV Tornado strip story featuring Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea. This one dated February 4, 1967

THE LOST ROCKETS: The fifth comic strip featuring Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea from TV Tornado, dated February 11, 1967.

6- THE MOHOLE PROJECT:  The last Voyage.. comic strip before it changed to text stories, printed in TV Tornado no.6 (dated February 18, 1967).

7-MISSION TO ANARTICA: text story

THE CLAWS OF DEATH: TV Tornado issue 8 ( March 4 1967) which now carried a Voyage text story.

DEN OF THE DEVIL FISH: Another Voyage text story from issue 9 of TV Tornado (March 11 1967).

ISLAND OF GHOSTS: issue 10?

GRIP OF DEATH: Another Voyage text story from TV Tornado issue 11, dated March 25 1967.

BAY OF NIGHTMARES: Another text story featuring Voyage from TV Tornado No. 11 ( April 1, 1967)

ISLAND OF DOOM: The penultimate Voyage text story published in issue 13 of TV Tornado comic book, dated April 8, 1967.

CAPTURE THE SEAVIEW: The last Voyage text story published in issue 14 of  TV Tornado comic book, dated April 15, 1967. Voyage was replaced by a text story featuring The Invaders the following week, although Voyage does go on to appear in a couple of TV Tornado annuals.

As a point of interest black & white reprints from a couple of the Gold Key comics did appear reworked as weekly instalments in the British magazine Look - In during the early seventies too.

 

 

1975-    VBS-Seaview put in dry dock and redesigned modified. Continued         work on Flying Sub prototype begins. Observation Deck          moved up to just in front of the Control Room. Windows       changed from 8 frames to 4.

 

     1975-VBS-Curley Jones retires or dies.

 

    1975- VBS-THE SURFERS-intro of Stu Riley, Sharkey

 

     1975-VBS-JONAH AND THE WHALE through to VBS-AND FIVE OF US ARE          LEFT (28 years after the end of the war-1945) ?.

 

1976-

1976-VBS-THE CYBORG to VBS-THE MACHINES STRIKE BACK

 

     VBS-THE SILENT SABOTEURS

 

     VBS-before THE MACHINES STRIKE BACK, the Arturus 3 space probe         is blown up by enemy country, Arturus 4 is sent up safely

 

     LIS-John Robinson enters California Institute of Technology.

 

 

 

1977

 

1977-VBS-COMIC-4-ROBINSON CRUSOE OF THE DEPTHS-Sargasso Sea,        undersea giant-one of first men on Earth, 2001 type       Seaview suits

 

     1977-VBS-COMIC-5-THE GREAT UNDERSEA SAFARI

 

1978

 

1978-VBS-THE DEADLIEST GAME-July 14, 1978--?

 

     VBS-THE PEACEMAKER-?

 

     VBS-THE MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE to VBS-THE MECHANICAL MAN

 

     VBS-THE MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE-automated Venus space probe

 

     WW-LIGHT FINGERED LADY to GAULT'S BRAIN

 

     GRANGE HILL 

 

     THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN NEMO-

 

     VBS-THE PHANTOM STRIKES

 

     VBS-THE SKY'S ON FIRE

 

     VBS-ALTERNATE-VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA movie takes          place 20 years after the Nautilus sailed under the North      Pole.

 

     VBS-DEAD MEN'S DOUBLOONS

 

     VBS-THE MECHANICAL MAN

 

     LIS-Feb. 26, 1978-Judy Robinson born.

 

 

VBS-THE RETURN OF THE PHANTOM-?-

 

     VBS-KING'S GAMBIT-Arabian suspended animation, CIA tale 

 

1979

 

 

VBS-COMIC-6-THE OVERLAND TRAIL

 

     VBS-COMIC 7-SAGA OF THE UNDERSEA ISLAND

 

     VBS COMIC 8-EXPEDITION TO DOOMSDAY

 

     VBS COMIC 9-SEAVIEW VS. THE ULTRA SUB

 

     VBS-Sato Six atomic missile sight closed down (DEADLY          INVASION).

 

     VBS-ANNUAL 66-TEN THOUSAND FEET OF ICE-Artic

 

     VBS-ANNUAL 66-ROCK OF TERROR    

 

     VBS-MONSTER FROM THE INFERNO

 

     VBS-WEREWOLF

 

1980-VBS-THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED

 

     VBS-DAY OF EVIL-alien is a demon maybe-?

 

     LOG-Chipper, Barry's dog, is born.

 

     Events of Gerry Anderson's UFO series begins here-UFO:         IDENTIFIED and COMPUTER AFFAIR to COURT MARTIAL.

 

     LOG-UNDERGROUND, freedom fighter Gorak found a crashed Earth      ship, spaceship RFX 23, captained by Captain Hartmann.        All the little people on it were killed. He says this was         about three years ago from 1983. Hartmann came from        Hadley Space Center which was closed down in the early       80s. Mark comments that it was about to be reopened in        1983..or thereabouts.

 

     VBS-DEATH FROM THE PAST-Oct. 3, 1980

 

     VBS-SHADOWMAN-3 interstellar space probes have been sabotaged.         A shadowman, an energy being of darkness, comes from           Alpha Centauri to stop the space program's fourth launch.          His people do not want Earth beings to venture out into        space. (Nov. 1980-?)

 

     TTT-comic 1-MARS COUNTDOWN-Tony & Doug land on a rocket bound      for Mars orbit, take it over, land at Project Mars-Cape        Kennedy on Earth.

 

     HULK-BROKEN IMAGE to ON THE LINE

 

     COLOSSUS, THE FORBIN PROJECT-THE FOG-20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH

 

     VBS-ANNUAL-66-PREHISTORIC VENTURE-Greenland

 

1980

 

1980-VBS-FIRES OF DEATH-?-

 

1981

 

1981-VBS-JOURNEY WITH FEAR-space capsules launched from Seaview;        Centaur aliens take capsules and later a Flying Sub to         Venus.

 

     VBS-SEALED ORDERS

 

     VBS-TIME LOCK

 

     Events of Gerry Anderson's UFO end here-UFO: CLOSE UP to UFO:      TIMELASH, MINDBENDER, and THE LONG SLEEP.

 

TTT-fan fiction-TRAVELER'S RETURN-fan fiction-Tony & Doug meet         Doctor Who's Fourth Doctor, an older Tony; another Time        Lord has helped the time traveling slave trader race the      Kgnashkir. 1981 Doug survives a heart attack. Tony and         Doug are from 1968 or 1969 or so. The 4th Doctor worried      over what the Time Lords were going to do to Earth--time      loop it due to Tic Toc, shuts Tic Toc down, returns Doug      and Tony to their proper time.

 

     THE MEMORY OF EVA RIKER

 

     VBS-ANNUAL 66-THE LOST ATLANTIS-Lt. Bishop stays behind in the         lost section of Atlantis whose people can make people          live almost forever and can change people into water           breathers. Nelson keeps what happened to Bishop and       Atlantis secret.

 

CODE RED

 

VBS-COMIC 10-DAVY JONES' LOCKER

 

     VBS-ANNUAL 66-KING NEPTUNE-lost Mu. Christmas time.

 

1982-CODE RED-episode FROM ONE LITTLE SPARK--1-3-1982 through to        FIRE BELOW--3-28-1982.

 

     ADVENTURES IN RAINBOW COUNTRY-Canadian wilderness hotel

 

     VBS-ANNUAL 67-THE KINGDOM OF DAVY JONES-Cape of Good Hope,              Cape Horn; Higgs-reactor technician. Sea beasts and      beings.

 

     VBS-ANNUAL 67-THE STATUE MAKERS-Easter Island, Lt. Briggs,   

 

1982

 

 

1982-VBS-THE RETURN OF BLACKBEARD

 

 

 

     VBS-COMIC 11-SOS SEAVIEW

 

     VBS-NIGHTMARE

 

     VBS-COMIC 12-THE EMPEROR OF THE OCEANS

 

     VBS-THE DEATH CLOCK-time manipulation

 

     VBS-NO WAY BACK

 

     VBS-COMIC 13-THE RENEGADE ISLAND-7 miles deep

 

     VBS-COMIC 14-THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE SEAVIEW-Moho Drilling      sequel to COMIC 2, Prof. Enright returns. Seaview comes        alive!  

 

     LIS-WELCOME STRANGER-US astronaut Jim Hapgood lifts off for        Saturn from Earth in small rocket Travelin Man. Claims to          have been lost in space but no one is sure he just didn't          take off.

 

     VBS-THOSE BELOW-fan fiction by Carolyn R. Meredith-links many      evils encountered by Seaview as part of Cthululu &        minions. Bernard Quartermass appears as part of a        scientific meeting about the things. Strong links and         crossovers to HP Lovecraft. Very well written and tense       and scary!

 

 

1983

 

VBS-THE DEATH CLOCK-Mallory, time manipulator, alternate time      track creator, makes a world of tomorrow for Seaview           where Crane kills Nelson and heads Seaview into a ray          that will destroy it. He also sends Crane to an island         where the crew hunt him down lead by Chip...and monsters      are.

 

     V: THE VISITORS

 

     THE MASTER OF KUNG FU ends.

 

     VBS-ANNUAL 67-THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY-anti gravity rocket, giant         sea monsters, a giant spider, squid-octopus giant, Tom         Mottram sails off in rocket into space...no food, no           water.

 

     VBS-ANNUAL 67-VANDERDECKEN SAILS AGAIN-another Flying Dutchman         tale. Indian Ocean, Mombasa, black plague, giant crab,         ghost ship, none of it true--merely a treasure hunting         ship and the ancient ship filled with treasure, rigged to          come up but the giant crabs and fish were real!

 

     VBS-ANNUAL 67-TRAPPED IN LOST ATLANTIS-Azores, Cape Verde          Islands, 2001 sea suits used by Seaviewers, more giant         monsters.

 

 

 

2823-VBS-TIMELOCK-?-Alpha

 

2873-THE STARLOST-the Space Ark, heading for Alpha Centuari, has an         accident in its controls, mechanisms damaged. It is now        heading for a collision coarse with a distant sun.

 

2881-VBS-TIME LOCK-?-Alpha