Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Jonah and the Whale
TV Flash files “Jonah and the Whale” as a desk essential hour — Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–1968) on ABC, season 2, episode 1, aired 1965-09-19, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E01: listed hour 33 of 110 in the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea guide, first listed hour of season 2. It aired 1965-09-19 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Traitor” (S01E32). Next is “Time Bomb” (S02E02).
Essential hour: “Jonah and the Whale”. Jonah and the Whale opens season two on a title that already sounds like the submarine's weekly set piece.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
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!
Viewer FAQ
Where does Jonah and the Whale sit in the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea guide?
S02E01 is listed hour 33 of 110 — first listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 1.
When did Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea S02E01 air?
Jonah and the Whale aired 1965-09-19 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
Nelson and Crane on the Seaview in an early, straighter adventure hour show the film-to-series contract. Later monster weeks are the camp-adjacent spectacle if you want creatures over Cold War nerves.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is Irwin Allen spectacle in a flying-sub hull: Richard Basehart's Admiral Nelson, David Hedison's Captain Crane, and the Seaview meeting monsters, spies, and weekly disaster. It spun from Allen's 1961 film into four seasons of underwater set pieces. Cold War nerves as creature feature — straight faces, big models.
The silhouette is a glass nose on an experimental submarine. *Flying-sub hull, big models, Cold War nerves dressed as creature couture.* Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is Irwin Allen spectacle: Richard Basehart's Admiral Nelson, David Hedison's Captain Crane, the Seaview meeting monsters, spies, and weekly disaster. Spun from Allen's 1961 film onto ABC (1964–1968; four seasons, 110 episodes). Straight faces, big stakes. **This was not a quiet patrol; this was disaster theater in a hull.**
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Filed against
- Richard Basehart as Adm. Harriman Nelson
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- David Hedison as Capt. Lee Crane
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