The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen

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• The Greatest Submarine Stories Ever Told : Dive! Dive! Fourteen Unforgettable Stories from the Deep - For decades, readers and filmgoers alike have found the drama of submarine stories to be compelling and irresistible: men locked in steel cocoons, fighting the sea, the enemy, even themselves. There are sea chases, submarine wolf packs stalking their prey, stunning and numbing depth-charge attacks, survival epics, miraculous rescues, and journeys of exploration. Submarine tales inherently are filled with action, adventure, and vivid portraits of extraordinary skill and courage in the face of agonizing death beneath the waves.
• Blue Submarine 6 - Blue Submarine No.6 is one of the best animes. Not only are the CG and animation smooth and well done, the characters are creatively designed and interesting . The funky jazz music adds a unique feeling to this already wonderful anime. It does a wonderful job of taking you through all your emotions and making you think about things.
• Irwin Allen Television Productions, 1964-1970: A Critical History of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants - Before establishing himself as the "master of disaster" with the 1970s film hits The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, Irwin Allen created four of television's most exciting and enduring science-fiction series: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants. Filmed within yards of each other on the busy and successful studio lots of 20th Century' Fox, these 1960s series were full of Allen's favorite tricks and techniques. Sometimes adapted from earlier sources, sometimes devised by Allen and his award-winning special effects teams, those characteristic Allen touches have influenced other productions from the original Star Trek to shows of the present day. Every science-fiction show owes something to Allen, and yet none has equaled his series for pace, excitement, or originality. This book documents and examines in detail the premise and origin of each of the four shows and offers an objective evaluation of every episode. In this close-up look at these television landmarks, the author proves that when Irwin Allen's television episodes were good, they were great and when they were bad, they were still terrific fun.
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Voyage chronicled the adventures of the world's first privately owned nuclear submarine, the SSRN Seaview. Designed by Admiral Harriman Nelson, she was a tool of oceanographic research for the Nelson Institute of Marine Research. Though the show is known for its few "monster" episodes, many plots were veiled commentaries of what was happening in the news. Such plotlines as nuclear doomsday, pollution of natural resources, foreign threat, and theft of American technology are all still relevant today.