''SeaQuest DSV'' (stylized as ''seaQuest DSV'' and also promoted as simply ''seaQuest'') is an American
science fiction television series created by
Rockne S. O'Bannon for
NBC. It aired between 1993 and 1996. In its final season, it was renamed ''seaQuest 2032''. Set in "the near future" (the year 2018 in the first season), ''seaQuest DSV'' originally mixed high drama with realistic scientific fiction. The first two seasons star
Roy Scheider
Roy Richard Scheider (; November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor and amateur boxer who achieved fame with his leading and supporting roles in celebrated films from the 1970s through to the mid-1980s. He was nominated for t ...
as
Captain Nathan Bridger, designer and commander of the eponymous naval
submarine
A submarine (often shortened to sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. (It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability.) The term "submarine" is also sometimes used historically or infor ...
''seaQuest'' DSV 4600, the
ship prefix
A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous purposes, such as identifying the vessel's mode of propulsion, purpose, or ownership/na ...
standing for "
deep-submergence vehicle".
Jonathan Brandis portrays
Lucas Wolenczak, a teenaged computer genius placed aboard ''seaQuest'' by his father, and
Stephanie Beacham portrayed
Kristin Westphalen, the chief medical officer and head of the ''seaQuest'' science department. In the opening episode of the third season Bridger departed DSV 4600 and was replaced by
Captain Oliver Hudson, played by
Michael Ironside. Also present was a
dolphin
A dolphin is an aquatic mammal in the cetacean clade Odontoceti (toothed whale). Dolphins belong to the families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the New World river dolphins), Pontopori ...
character called Darwin who, due to technological advances, was able to communicate with the crew.
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg ( ; born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest film directors of all time and is ...
expressed interest in the project and served as one of the show's executive producers during the first two seasons.
Production of the first season was marked by disputes between the producers, NBC and cast members, changes in the production staff, and an
earthquake
An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in intensity, from those so weak they ...
. The second season saw changes in the cast, as well as continued disputes between cast members and producers. The third season introduced a new lead actor and title. While initially popular, the series began to decline in ratings throughout its run and was abruptly canceled in the middle of its third season.
Overview
Season 1
The series follows the adventures of the high-tech submarine ''seaQuest'' DSV 4600, a
deep-submergence vehicle operated by the United Earth Oceans Organization (UEO), a global coalition of up-world countries and undersea confederations, similar to the United Nations. The UEO was created following a major showdown of nations and confederations at the Livingston Trench in the
North Atlantic Ocean that occurred circa 2018 as depicted in the pilot episode, "To Be Or Not to Be", and it remained a recurring element for the duration of the series.
The ''seaQuest'' was designed by retired naval captain Nathan Bridger and built by NORPAC (a military organization mentioned in the pilot) and given as a loan to the UEO after its creation. The storyline begins in the year 2018, after mankind has exhausted almost all
natural resources, except for the ones on the
ocean floor. Many new colonies have been established there and it is the mission of the ''seaQuest'' and its crew to protect them from hostile nonaligned nations and to aid in mediating disputes as well as engage in undersea research, much of which was still in the preliminary stages when the show began production in 1993.
Bridger, though originally reluctant due to a promise he made with his wife after their son, Robert, was killed in a naval military action before her death, is convinced to return to the navy, under the auspices of the UEO, and assume command of the ''seaQuest''. The first season's storylines primarily dealt with plausible oceanographic research, environmental issues, political machinations of the world and the interpersonal relationships of the crew.
Season 2
In the
first-season finale, Bridger sacrifices the ''seaQuest'' to prevent an
ecological disaster and for a short time it was not known if the show would be renewed for another season. The series had suffered in the ratings, as it was pitted against ''
Murder, She Wrote
''Murder, She Wrote'' is an American crime drama television series, created by Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson and William Link, starring Angela Lansbury, and produced and distributed by Universal Television for the CBS network. The series f ...
'' on
CBS and ''
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman'' on
ABC. When it was decided the show would return, NBC and
Universal used this opportunity to change the show's format, beginning by relocating the show's production from
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, ...
to
Orlando.
Several cast changes were also made as both
Royce D. Applegate (
Chief Petty Officer Manilow Crocker) and
John D'Aquino (Krieg) were released by NBC as the network wanted a younger cast for the second season. D'Aquino returned for a guest appearance in the third season.
Stacy Haiduk (Hitchcock) informed producers that she did not wish to relocate to Orlando for the second season, having just returned to Los Angeles after spending four years in Florida during the production of ''
The Adventures of Superboy''. Stephanie Beacham, who as Dr. Westphalen was one of the first season's strongest characters, was also hesitant to relocate to Florida. Beacham also blamed continued disputes between the network and the show's producers as a major reason why she did not return.
Joining the series for season two were
Edward Kerr as
Lieutenant James Brody, ''seaQuest''s weapons officer;
Kathy Evison as
Lieutenant Lonnie Henderson, ship's helmsman;
Rosalind Allen as
Dr. Wendy Smith, the boat's new chief medical officer;
Michael DeLuise as
Seaman Anthony Piccolo, an ex-convict who has
genetically engineered gill
A gill () is a respiration organ, respiratory organ that many aquatic ecosystem, aquatic organisms use to extract dissolved oxygen from water and to excrete carbon dioxide. The gills of some species, such as hermit crabs, have adapted to allow r ...
s and
Peter DeLuise as
Dagwood, a prototype genetically engineered life form (G.E.L.F. or "dagger"—a racial slur) who serves as ''seaQuests custodian. As the ''seaQuest'' itself was rebuilt in the storyline, it allowed for the sets to be redesigned for the new Florida location and a shortened version of the
Emmy award
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winning main title theme was instituted as the series returned to the airwaves on September 18, 1994 with the two-hour
television movie
A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie, telefilm, telemovie or TV film/movie, is a film with a running time similar to a feature film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a Terrestr ...
season premiere, "
Daggers".
NBC and the show's producers also decided they wanted more traditionally science-fiction oriented episodes this season, a direction that was explored toward the end of the first season when ''seaQuest'' discovered a million-year-old alien ship entombed in the ocean floor in the episode "Such Great Patience". The second season explored heavy science-fiction concepts such as genetic engineering, aliens,
parapsychology
Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, teleportation, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry (paranormal), psychometry) and other paranormal cla ...
,
time travel and various "
monsters of the week" (including killer plants, a giant fire-breathing worm, a prehistoric crocodile and an ancient demon.)
Roy Scheider was vocal in his anger at the show's new direction. In an interview given during the second season, Scheider averred: "It's childish trash... I am very bitter about it. I feel betrayed... It's (the new season) not even good fantasy. I mean, ''Star Trek'' does this stuff much better than we can do it. To me the show is now ''
21 Jump Street'' meets ''Star Dreck''." Scheider felt the series had strayed too far away from its premise, and that he "became more of a combat commander than a scientific commander and I hadn't signed up for that."
Scheider added that after moving production to Florida, the show was "going to present human beings who had a life on land as well as on the boat... we've had one script that has done that (the episode '
Vapors')," Scheider said. "The other shows are Saturday afternoon 4 o'clock junk for children. Just junk—old, tired, time-warp robot crap," making reference to the much maligned episode "Playtime."
As Scheider explained, "I don't do this kind of stuff... I said (to the production executives), 'If I wanted to do the fourth generation of ''Star Trek'', I would have signed up for it. I wouldn't have done ''seaQuest''. You guys have changed it from handball into field hockey and never even bothered to talk to me.'" Scheider's comments left him in trouble with some of the executive producers, including
Patrick Hasburgh who, in reply, had strong words for Scheider as well: "I'm sorry he is such a sad and angry man. ''seaQuest'' is going to be a terrific show, and he is lucky to be part of it."
By the end of season two, ''seaQuest DSV'' was again suffering, partly attributed to a perceived decrease in the quality of the writing as well as preemptions by NBC due to
sports coverage. The possibility of cancellation appeared likely but NBC kept the show in production after plans for a new series titled ''Rolling Thunder'' to replace ''seaQuest DSV'' were canceled. Producer
Lee Goldberg claimed the new series was canceled because the premise was "awful." The season finale, written as a possible series finale, involved the ''seaQuest'' and its crew being abducted by aliens and forced into a civil war on an alien world where the ship appeared to be destroyed and the crew presumed dead.
Season 3
Blaming continued disputes with producers and abandonment of the show's original premise, Roy Scheider requested to be released from his contract with NBC. However, the network only partially agreed and demanded that Bridger would make several appearances throughout the third season. Edward Kerr had been very frustrated with the episode entitled "Alone" (Reportedly, Kerr hated the script so much that he left the set. Brody is absent from that episode)
and also wished to exit the series in the third season, which is why his character was critically injured in the season finale, "
Splashdown".
NBC would only agree to release him from his contract if he continued to play Brody for a few episodes in the third season so his character could be killed off for more dramatic impact in the episode "SpinDrift".
Because of rescheduling, the episode "Brainlock", with Brody still alive, aired after the character's death.
Rosalind Allen was released as Dr. Smith proved to be unpopular with the audience and because producers felt that her character's telepathic abilities would not fit with the more serious tone planned for the new season.
Marco Sanchez (
Chief Petty Officer Miguel Ortiz), who had requested to remain with the series, was also released after NBC decided it wanted the principal cast number dropped from ten to nine, leaving
Jonathan Brandis (
Lucas Wolenczak),
Don Franklin (
Commander Jonathan Ford), and
Ted Raimi (
Lieutenant Tim O'Neill) as the only three cast members who remained with the show since the first episode. The marine trivia presentations at the end of the show, formerly hosted by
oceanographer Dr. Bob Ballard in the season one and the main cast excluding Scheider in season two, were dropped entirely. The show itself was renamed to ''seaQuest 2032'', with the storyline pushed ahead ten years after the end of season two.
In
the season premiere, the ''seaQuest'' reappears on Earth, its crew mostly intact, ten years after their abduction at the end of season two. Captain Bridger retires to raise his new grandson and
Michael Ironside joins the cast as the more militaristic
Captain Oliver Hudson. Originally, Ironside refused to take over from Scheider as star of the series. "I saw so many problems that I couldn't see where I'd be able to do the work I wanted to do." claimed Ironside. Also considered for the lead of the series was actor
Jonathan Banks, who had previously appeared in the first season episode "Whale Songs" as radical environmentalist Maximilian Scully.
After weeks of negotiations where Ironside offered producers a number of changes to the storytelling structure of the series, which were agreed upon, he finally signed on. "You won't see me fighting any man-eating glowworms, rubber plants, 40-foot crocodiles and I don't talk to Darwin." he said. Though not cast as the new lead of the series, Jonathan Banks reprised his character of Scully in the third season. Also joining the cast was
Elise Neal as
Lieutenant J.J. Fredericks, who served as ''seaQuests sub-fighter pilot.
Steering story lines back towards more reality-based themes, the third season attempted to blend the sense of the first season with some of the unique elements of the second season, while at the same time, pushing forward in an entirely new direction altogether as the UEO faces the threat of the Macronesian Alliance and the ever growing corporate conglomerate Deon International. The series was perceived as becoming much darker than it was in the previous two seasons, focusing less on science (as it had in the first season) and science fiction (as it had in the second season) and more on international politics. While these changes were met with mostly positive reactions, ratings continued to decline and NBC canceled the series after thirteen episodes.
The 57th and final network airing of ''seaQuest 2032'' took place on June 9, 1996.
Cast
Main
Season 1
*
Roy Scheider
Roy Richard Scheider (; November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor and amateur boxer who achieved fame with his leading and supporting roles in celebrated films from the 1970s through to the mid-1980s. He was nominated for t ...
as
Captain Nathan Bridger (47 episodes)
*
Jonathan Brandis as
Lucas Wolenczak (57 episodes)
*
Stephanie Beacham as
Dr. Kristin Westphalen (22 episodes)
*
Stacy Haiduk as
Lieutenant Commander Katherine Hitchcock (23 episodes)
*
Don Franklin as
Commander Jonathan Ford (56 episodes)
*
John D'Aquino as
Lieutenant Benjamin Krieg (22 episodes)
*
Royce D. Applegate as
CPO Manilow Crocker (22 episodes)
*
Ted Raimi as
Lieutenant Tim O'Neill (54 episodes)
*
Marco Sanchez as
CPO Miguel Ortiz (40 episodes)
*
Frank Welker as voice of
Darwin
*
Dr. Bob Ballard as himself, marine trivia during credits
Season 2
*
Rosalind Allen as
Dr. Wendy Smith (19 episodes)
*
Edward Kerr as
Lieutenant James Brody (26 episodes)
*
Michael DeLuise as
Seaman Anthony Piccolo (33 episodes)
*
Kathy Evison as
Lieutenant Lonnie Henderson (32 episodes)
*
Peter DeLuise as
Dagwood (31 episodes)
Season 3
*
Michael Ironside as
Captain Oliver Hudson (13 episodes)
*
Elise Neal as
Lieutenant J.J. Fredericks (10 episodes)
Recurring
*
Shelley Hack as Captain Marilyn Stark
*
Richard Herd as Admiral/Secretary General William Noyce
*
W. Morgan Sheppard as "The Old Man", Professor Martinson
*
Dustin Nguyen as
CPO William Shan
*Jesse Doran as General Francis Gideon Thomas
*
Kent McCord as Commander Scott Keller
*
Robert Engels as Malcolm Lansdowne
*
Mark Fauser as Weapons Officer Dalton Phillips
*
Timothy Omundson as Dr. Joshua Levin
*
Dan Hildebrand as Helmsman Carleton
*
Roscoe Lee Browne as Dr. Raleigh Young
*Sarah Koskoff as Julianna
*
Denis Arndt as Navy Quartermaster Bickle
*
James Shigeta
James Saburo Shigeta (; June 17, 1929 – July 28, 2014) was an American actor and singer. He was known for his roles in ''The Crimson Kimono'' (1959), ''Walk Like a Dragon'' (1960), ''Flower Drum Song (film), Flower Drum Song'' (1961), ''B ...
as Montegnard Confederation President Chi
*
Jonathan Banks as Maximilian Scully
*Michael Costello as Secretary General McGath
*
Sam Jenkins as Mariah
*
Mark Hamill as Tobias LeConte
*
Karen Fraction as Dr. Perry
*
Michael York as President Alexander Bourne of Macronesia
*
Andrew Stahl as General Stassi
*
Tim DeKay as Larry Deon
*
Ralph Wilcox as Mason Freeman
*
Patricia Charbonneau as Elaine Morse
Episodes
During the first and second seasons, NBC aired the show on Sundays at 8:00 p.m.
Eastern Time
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.
* Eastern Standard Time (EST) is five hours behi ...
; however, the series was frequently preempted in the second season in favor of
NBC Sports
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coverage. During the third season, NBC moved the show to Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. ET; ''seaQuest'' continued to face frequent preemptions in favor of sports coverage and other television specials. Several of the show's producers, including Carleton Eastlake, believe these preemptions led to the show's cancellation.
After cancellation, the series aired on the
Sci-Fi Channel in the United States,
Horror Channel in the UK,
Space: The Imagination Station in Canada and
Network Ten
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in
Australia
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.
Production
In October 1992, it was announced
NBC had given a 22-episode order to ''Sea Quest'' which was co-created by
Rockne S. O'Bannon and
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg ( ; born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest film directors of all time and is ...
.
The budget for the first season was estimated to be around $30 million with
Universal Television
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's televisions ambitions for the series being to serve as part of a larger
multimedia franchise Spielberg had been friends with
Roy Scheider
Roy Richard Scheider (; November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor and amateur boxer who achieved fame with his leading and supporting roles in celebrated films from the 1970s through to the mid-1980s. He was nominated for t ...
since he starred in ''
Jaws'' and was instrumental in getting him as the lead in the series with Scheider saying of the experience "“It’s the best part offered me this year. If it gets to be half as good as it reads — it will be wonderful. It’s time for a show like this on TV.
During development, the original title for the series was ''Deep Space'', though this was changed after the announcement of ''
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''.
Roy Scheider's character was based on
John C. Lilly and Bob Ballard, who was also the technical advisor for the series in the first season. Lilly was a pioneer researcher into the nature of consciousness using as his principal tools the isolation tank, dolphin communication and psychedelic drugs, sometimes in combination. He was a prominent member of the Californian counterculture of scientists, mystics and thinkers that arose in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Albert Hofmann,
Gregory Bateson,
Ram Dass,
Timothy Leary,
Werner Erhard, and
Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman (; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of t ...
were all frequent visitors to his home. The character's name,
Nathan Hale Bridger, was in homage to
Nathan Hale.
When producers began developing new characters for the second season, they named Lieutenant Brody after Police Chief Martin Brody, Roy Scheider's character in the first two ''
Jaws'' films. Ralph Willcox and Karen Fraction, who both became recurring guest stars in the third season, had previously appeared as different characters in the second. Despite the numerous cast changes, Jonathan Brandis appeared in every episode of the series, Don Franklin in all but one episode ("And Everything Nice"), and Ted Raimi in all but two episodes ("Nothing But The Truth" and "The Siamese Dream").
Several of the cast's family members were brought in to play characters, as well. Brenda King, Roy Scheider's wife, portrayed Carol Bridger; Todd Allen, Rosalind Allen's husband, portrayed Clay Marshall in "The Siamese Dream"; Michael and Peter DeLuise's father, veteran actor
Dom DeLuise, portrayed Nick Piccolo in "
Vapors". Several cast members also dabbled on the creative side of the show, as both Ted Raimi and Jonathan Brandis penned episodes during the second season. (Brandis wrote the aforementioned "The Siamese Dream" and Raimi, "
Lostland".) Conversely, Robert Engels, one of the show's executive producers (and writer of two episodes, "
Greed For a Pirate's Dream" and "
Hide and Seek") during the first season, portrayed the recurring character
Malcolm Lansdowne.
While in production, ''seaQuest DSV'' won and was nominated for a number of awards.
John Debney won the 1994
Emmy
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for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Main Title Theme Music" for his composition of the ''seaQuest DSV'' theme song and in 2000, it was named the 48th best theme song of all time by
TV Guide
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In mass communication, digital media is any media (communication), communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, vi ...
.
Don Davis also won an Emmy in 1995 for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Series" (Dramatic Underscore) for his score for the second season premiere, "Daggers".
Russ Mitchell Landau was also nominated for his work on the third season premiere, "Brave New World", in 1996. Kenneth D. Zunder was nominated for the Emmy award for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Cinematography for a Series" for the episode "Such Great Patience". Jonathan Brandis won the 1994 Young Artist Award for "Best Youth Actor Leading Role in a Television Series" for his portrayal of Lucas Wolenczak and the series was nominated for a 1994
ASC Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Movies of the Week/Pilots" as well as the
Saturn Award for "Best Genre Television Series" in 1995.
A ''seaQuest DSV'' feature film was in pre-production stages, however, it never materialized.
Despite being scripted in at least one episode, Captain Bridger never refers to Dagwood by name. The closest he ever got was calling him "Dag" in the episodes "
Special Delivery" and "The Siamese Dream".
Despite popular belief, Darwin was not a real dolphin but rather an
animatronic animal designed and created by
Walt Conti, who had created other similar effects for films such as ''
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home'', ''
The Abyss'' and ''
Free Willy.'' Alien creature effects were designed and created by
Tony Gardner's
Alterian, Inc.
Home media
In 2005, Universal announced that the first season of ''seaQuest DSV'' would be released on
Region 1 DVD along with a week-long marathon of the show on the
Sci Fi Channel. The DVD release included never before seen deleted scenes on selected episodes. The second season was released in 2008 in region 1. As opposed to the first season, the second season was released on eight single-sided discs and does not contain any extra features such as deleted scenes. The third season was not released on DVD in region 1 but was released in
Region 4 in 2011.
On December 12, 2015, the Australian DVD label
ViaVision, through its distributor
Madman Distribution, released season 1 on
Blu-ray
Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released worldwide on June 20, 2006, capable of storing several hours of high-defin ...
in full
1080p
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High definition. Although presented in 1080p, the program is presented
Pillarboxed to maintain the original
4:3 aspect ratio. Season 2 was released on Blu-ray on March 2, 2016.
On April 15, 2020, selected episodes were made available on the early preview of the streaming service
Peacock
Peafowl is a common name for two bird species of the genus '' Pavo'' and one species of the closely related genus '' Afropavo'' within the tribe Pavonini of the family Phasianidae (the pheasants and their allies). Male peafowl are referred t ...
,available to
Xfinity subscribers with qualifying devices.
On May 6, 2019 Mediumrare Entertainment released the complete series on DVD in Region 2 however two episodes are missing, 'Dagger Redux' and 'The Siamese Dream' instead two episodes from the previous disc are overlapped in their place. Despite this, the correct episode titles are listed in the DVD menu.
Mill Creek Entertainment announced the complete series of SeaQuest DSV on Blu-ray was released on July 19, 2022.
Merchandise
*A short series of novels based on the characters and concepts depicted on ''seaQuest DSV'' were available during the first season of the show. They were:
**''seaQuest DSV: The Novel'' (a novelization of the
pilot episode) by
Diane Duane and
Peter Norwood. Published October 1993.
**''seaQuest DSV: Fire Below'' by Matthew J. Costello. Published January 1994.
**''seaQuest DSV: The Ancient'' by David Bischoff. Published March 1994.
*Nemesis Comics published one issue of a ''seaQuest DSV'' comic book in March 1994. It contained a 23-page original story titled ''Deep Faith'', blueprints for the Renegade submarine and for the seaQuest bridge, and two one-page "Logbook" character bios for Captain Bridger and Dr. Westphalen. The cover for the planned second issue was included on the final page of Issue #1, but it was ultimately never published.
*
A video game was released for the
Super NES,
Game Boy, and
Genesis consoles in 1994.
*A series of
action figures
An action figure is a poseable character (arts), character model figure made most commonly of plastic, and often based upon characters from a film, comic book, military, video game, television program, or sport; fictional or historical. These fig ...
designed by
Playmates Toys
Playmates Toys Limited is a Hong Kong toy company. The company was founded in Hong Kong in 1966 by Sam Chan Tai-ho as Playmates Industrial, manufacturing dolls for other companies. In 1975, Playmates began marketing its own line of preschool to ...
were released in 1993. Captain Bridger, Commander Ford, Lucas Wolenczak, Lt. Commander Hitchcock, Lieutenant O'Neill, Chief Crocker, Darwin, Dr. Rubin Zellar, and The Regulator were released as part of wave one. Additional characters such as Dr. Westphalen, Chief Ortiz, and Lieutenant Krieg and a Darwin with sound effects were planned as part of wave two, but they were never released. Additionally, prototypes of the ''seaQuest'', the Delta 4 Pirate sub, the ''Stinger'', a seaLaunch, and a Deep Sea Mini Pickup, all with electronic lights and sounds, are known to exist but were not released.
*A series of
trading cards
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produced by
SkyBox were released in 1993, depicting characters, scenes, and episodes from the first season. It consisted of 100 standard trading cards, plus four foil chase cards and two promotional cards.
*Various models were produced by
Monogram, including the ''seaQuest'', a Deep Sea Mini Pickup, ''The Stinger'', and Darwin (actually a remolded
Flipper) were released.
*Various pieces of clothing, including T-shirts, baseball caps, and embroidered patches of the ''seaQuest'' and UEO logos (replicas of the ones used on the show) were released.
*A non-fictional large format book was released in the UK during the first season, titled ''seaQuest DSV: The Official Publication of the Series''. It contained comprehensive interviews and production information, artwork, and design histories, as well as a production report of the episode "Hide and Seek". (Published October 1994. )
Other merchandise made available included a shot glass in cobalt blue with gold logo, key chains and pins, a book cover, 'magic rocks' sets, journal, and a set of bookmarks.
Soundtrack album
John Debney composed the original theme music and scored the pilot and season one shows, with
Don Davis working on season two. When the series was revamped as ''SeaQuest 2032'' in the final season,
Russ Landau composed a new theme and scored all the episodes. In 1995,
Varèse Sarabande released an album of Debney's music from the show, featuring the series main and end title themes and selections from "To Be or Not to Be" (tracks 2-8), "Knight of Shadows" (tracks 9 and 10) and "Such Great Patience" (tracks 11-13). In 2020, the label released a 2-CD expansion, with music from "To Be or Not to Be" on disc 1. Disc 2 contained music from the season one episodes “Brothers And Sisters” (tracks 1-7), “Knight Of Shadows” (8-11), “The Regulator” (12-14), “The Good Death” (15-23), “Such Great Patience” (24-31) and “The Devil's Window” (track 32).
1995 album
# Main Title (1:03)
# Preparing for Battle (2:51)
# Bridger's Dream (:52)
# Uncharted Waters (2:06)
# First Engagement (3:18)
# Darwin Speaks (:58)
# Dangerous Adversary (1:34)
# To Adventures Bold (1:31)
# Waltz With the Dead (2:48)
# The Forgiving/Resurrection (4:53)
# The Discovery (2:15)
# Lucas Meets the Alien (2:30)
# Solemn Oath (2:26)
# End Credits (:37)
2020 Deluxe Edition
''CD 1'': "To Be or Not to Be"
# SeaQuest Opening Credits (3:29)
# SeaQuest Arrives (4:01)
# Military Welcome (:37)
# To The Island (1:30)
# Come See Her (1:38)
# seaQuest (3:32)
# Playon To SeaQuest (:37)
# Hitchcock Retreats (1:50)
# Darwin Speaks (:59)
# Stark Prepares (1:02)
# Act In To SeaQuest (:46)
# Transition (:34)
# Attack Formation (2:48)
# At The Precipice / Into The Rift (7:48)
# Stark Plots (:42)
# Damage Assessment (:52)
# Hyper-Probe (2:05)
# Impending Battle / Play On (1:51)
# Bridger Returns (2:42)
# Battle Stations (2:50)
# Caught (1:21)
# To The Bottom Of The Sea / A Tag To Bonnie The Bad Girl (6:57)
# To The Ocean (4:15)
# SeaQuest: End Credits (:57)
# SeaQuest Opening (alternate version with Choir mixed down) (1:45)
# SeaQuest (alternate version) (1:36)
''CD 2'': Season One Highlights
# SeaQuest Series Promo (2:33)
# Of Treasures In The Deep (1:14)
# The Discovery (1:41)
# Mind Meld #2 (1:23)
# Big Tension (3:38)
# Exploring The Depot (1:30)
# Saying Goodbye (2:40)
# Into The Ghost Ship (1:43)
# The Possession Of Kristini (2:47)
# Lukas Confronts Captain (3:14)
# The Forgiving (4:51)
# Vern Leaves (2:09)
# Monkey Fish (1:42)
# Inside Us All (:56)
# Attacked (1:12)
# Cynthia (1:20)
# Drug Store (1:38)
# Narrow Escape (1:57)
# The Plan (1:41)
# Close Call (3:31)
# The Escape (4:21)
# Darwin Save Malik (1:03)
# Cheo Checkmate (1:08)
# Discovery (2:14)
# Of Gods And Astronauts (2:28)
# Encounter (1:44)
# Wolf In The Fold (1:37)
# Intruder (4:28)
# Communication (2:29)
# Understanding/Possible Pickup (4:31)
# Invitation Extended (2:26)
# SeaQuest: End Credits (:35)
See also
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List of underwater science fiction works
References
External links
"seaQuest DSV" at spacecast.comCanadian science-fiction channel's show page
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