I have them all and just started to do a bit of a marathon. 17 episodes with the first 4 being movies that were later broken up into 8.
I think it premiered in 1977.
I agree that it was slow moving. Especially the first 4 movies that could have easily been chopped down to one hour each.
I remember saying that to my wife and saying these probably wouldn't seem so slow moving at an hour.
The later episodes are more entertaining but it seems like they ran out of good Idea's with almost every episode consisting of another world that they find under water. Of course that's the 70s way of writing and it's still entertaining today. It was as if they wanted to do a star trek type of show but took the space part of the equation .
That made for an original kind of approach. I found it cool how the sub that went missing in the first movie was called the Sea Quest and Ted Neely from the movie Jesus Christ super star, Guest starred twice on this shortly lived show while Victor Buono was in just about every second episode.
It would be cool to see a continuation of this show where Patrick Duffy has long sense returned home to sit on the thrown as king of the sea while a younger generation does the swimming and adventuring in a well written continuation.
But such a money making idea would never reach production because Hollywood is to busy trying to find a better way to reach one age group only.
Now I'm off to watch the last 3 episodes of Man from Atlantis.
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Desanto and Larson, Larson and desanto.
Did you see that? I think the Giant just opened an eye.
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