VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
1961
 
PLOT:
A new, state of the art, nuclear submarine called Seaview is on diving trials in the Arctic Ocean. Captain Lee Crane is the Seaview's Commanding Officer. Also on board is her designer and engineering genius Admiral Harriman Nelson (USN-Ret), as well as a number of observers, including Dr. Susan Hiller, who is studying crew-related stress. The mission includes being out of radio contact for 96 hours while under the Arctic ice cap. While so doing however, the ice begins to crack and melt, with boulder-size pieces crashing into the ocean around the submarine. Surfacing, Admiral Nelson and Captain Crane discover fire burning in the sky. Radio contact with Mission Director Inspector Bergan at the Bureau of Marine Exploration confirms that a meteor shower has pierced the Van Allen radiation belt causing it to catch fire, resulting in a world-threatening increase in heat all across the globe.

Nelson informs the UN that according to his calculations, if the heat increase is not stopped, it will become irreversible with Earth having "a life expectancy of about three weeks." The Admiral and the Commodore come up with a plan to extinguish the sky fire, but will it work, and will they be in time?
 
CAST:
Walter Pidgeon ... Adm. Harriman Nelson
Joan Fontaine ... Dr. Susan Hiller
Barbara Eden ... Lt Cathy Connors
Peter Lorre ... Comm. Lucius Emery
Robert Sterling ... Capt. Lee Crane
Michael Ansara ... Miguel Alvarez
Frankie Avalon ... Lt (j.g.) Danny Romano
Regis Toomey ... Dr. Jamieson
John Litel ... Vice-Adm. B.J. Crawford
Howard McNear ... Congressman Llewellyn Parker
Henry Daniell ... Dr. Zucco
Skip Ward ... Crew member
Mark Slade ... Seaman Jimmy 'Red' Smith
Charles Tannen ... CPO Gleason
Del Monroe ... Seaman Kowski
Anthony Monaco ... Cookie
Michael Ford ... Crew member
Robert Easton ... Sparks
Jonathan Gilmore ... Seaman George Young
 
Director: Irwin Allen
Writers: Irwin Allen, Charles Bennett

RUNNING TIME: 105 MINUTES