Monster of the Day #3204

Again, when one looks at a toy artifact from the 1960s, such as this one, we must consider how rare something like this was. Like the Aurora model kits and those records that voice acted issues of Marvel Comics, including lots of monster titles like Man-Thing, Tomb of Dracula, Werewolf by Night, etc. (Although those were probably in the ’70s.)  You had lunchboxes that might license monsters, and…not much more. I didn’t remember View-Master doing stuff like this, but man, I would have loved to have had this wheel in my View-Master collection when I was a tot.

  • Jamie B.

    I must confess I have never seen an episode of “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea”.

    Not sure why.

  • Gamera977

    Same. I’ve seen the movie multiple times but not even a single episode of the series.

    I’ve got to look it up someday.

  • KeithB

    It plays on METV late at night on Saturdays

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I saw some of it as a kid. It’s typical Irwin Allen. I remember Ken posted a link to an episode with a lobster man. I ended up fast-forwarding through a lot of it.

  • Ken_Begg

    It’s an Irwin Allen show. The first season, ala Lost in Space, is in black and white and is fairly serious, with fewer monsters and more espionage. The wackiness starts hardcore with the second season and grows from there, with Vincent Price attacking the ship with evil puppets and Blackbeard’s Ghost and giant monsters and aliens and mummies and so on.

  • KeithB

    Not to mention that about every other episode they had to go outside the sub to put one of those goofy timers on one of the nuclear missiles.

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