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Rating: - five stars, with two warnings.
I really enjoyed the first season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and will be purchasing the rest of the seasons soon. I like the acting, the action, the plots, and especially the whole cold war take on science used to advance the good guys and stop the bad guys. I didn't watch this show much as a kid, maybe a few episodes, which I don't really remember too well.

Watching this show now is enjoyable, the nostalgia, the cold war background, the fact that the good guys always win, and that there's no question who the good guys are in this show. Each show actually ends too, no cliffhangers, no left over moral questions about who the bad guys really are, them or us. Tune in next week for an exciting new adventure that has nothing to do with the previous episodes - yea!

With that said here's my warning to some viewers. When I watch these shows, I get the whole cold war background, and can fill in areas of the plot with certain assumptions that have to do with the cold war and all of its ramifications. However, when I watched this show with my twenty something kids, they didn't get it. The cold war to them is something they learned in school, they've never actually lived with it, so for them this is an abstract concept. In Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, the cold war is never actually explained to the viewers, it is only inferred, since in that period it was such as integral part of our lives.

That was my warning for viewers, or rather younger viewers, who may not enjoy this show because the majority of the time the menace is the cold war, a concept that was unique to the 1960's, and which is never really explained in any of these episodes. It's as if a whole sub-plot is missing, which may make it rather difficult to watch and enjoy.

My other warning has to do with the blooper reel. These are the most humorless bloopers I have ever seen, the actors flub their lines, the director yells cut, and that's about it. There's no joking around, not a lot of laughter if someone messes up. It's not at all entertaining to watch, I'm not sure the person who gathered up the bloopers understood that the bloopers should be funny and entertaining, not just a bunch of actors screwing up their lines.

I am giving the DVD a five star review because neither of those issues impact my enjoyment of the show. However, the first issue may impact anyone too young to remember the cold war, and they may want to consider that before buying.

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