What Happened To Seaquest DSV (Forgotten Television) 

I loved seaQuest DSV but for me the show ended after the first season. I agree with about all the changes that went on. To me each season felt like a completely different show. If I remember correctly its why Roy Scheider wanted to leave the show. I did buy the first season when it came out and still own my original model of seaQuest. Loved the design of the ship.

I loved this show. I was heartbroken when Johnathan Brandis died irl.

"Nobody remembers the show" *boots up Subnautica and looks at my cyclops named SeaQuest*

great show - wish they rebooted it in to a gritty series like bsg. with todays climate change fear, setting it 50 - 100 years from now and its very believable

RIP seaQuest, Space Above and Beyond and Crusade. Scifi channel lost their minds when they went syfy.

Great video , sea quest was one of my favorite shows growing up , 100% agree biggest issue was the writing and development of characters., well lack of

I think a reboot is possible, simply because its so obscure and mostly forgotten about now. With climate change and ocean degradation in the public consciousness, and with documentary shows like 'Blue Planet' phenomenally popular, now is the time! Also, the popularity of games like Subnautica would help. It could take beats from that, from games like the now-defunct but unrelated 'Blue Planet' RPG, from classics like The Abyss... My feeling would be to include some more out-there sci-fi elements, but in a grittier, low-key fashion, a slow burn mystery. And of course, a big focus on the enivronmental and political themes of seasons 1 & 3.

Seaquest can be watched for free on peacock

It was a good show. But when it brought aliens to the show, it got stupid.

Still kinda miss your pr stuff (although I understand) but I'm enjoying your new stuff. Request: the mostly forgotten but excellent Space Above and Beyond

after Jonathan brandis died everyone started talking about this show again, makes me sad :(

I remember this show. I really liked it. It was interesting. Request: Bruce Campbell - Adventures of Brisco County Jr. and Jack of all Trades.

Loved seaQuest DSV however what really cost the show was a lack of direction and the fact its competitor (Trek) was stronger.

Great video, great job! I remember really liking the first season and the show that came on after it, Earth 2. I remember Earth 2 got cancelled and if I recall Seaquest was up against Lois & Clark, which was a hit out of the gate, and Space: Above and Beyond on Fox during season two. So it was yet another case of too much genre programming on the same night and ultimately none of those shows lasted very long, even Lois & Clark. I’ve rewatched them all and I’ve been surprised how well they all hold up, in their own ways. Except for season two of Seaquest, you’re right on the money about how week that was!😉👍📺🐕

The aliens and paranormal aspects ruined SeaQuest. Even as far back as “Knight of Shadows”, where they introduce ghosts and the afterlife, that took the show in the wrong direction. They had a good a character, Lieutenant Shan, that was introduced in “The Good Death”, and you see in the Season 1 finale they try and get as much out of him as they can, but he’s gone by the start of Season 2. What they frankly should’ve done that even Star Trek never figured out, was taking Lucas, and making a proper character arc about getting the kid ready for adulthood. “Photon Bullet” hints at some of this, but never pursues it. I wanted some of the senior officers and scientific crew to mentor Lucas, give him some direction about getting emancipated by his 17th birthday, helping him set up an apartment so he had a home while on leave, testing for his Top Secret clearances, and pursuing a future as a civilian. Then, when he chooses to go Navy, it causes real tension between the characters, and gives each of the underutilized actors a chance to play up their reactions to things changing around them.

17:01 - 17:10: "I'M LOOKING AT YOU, NETFLIX."

Would like Seaquest DSV The Motion Picture.

7 days! That was a good show for it's time. Back when I was excited of the new UPN network.

"Northern Exposure"....and there was talk about bringing it back. In short, it was my kind of quirky.

What killed Seaquist DSV? Terrible, horrible writing and directing. It was so bad, Roy Scheider did not want to participate any longer, and quit after his two-year contract was up.

Some great episodes of seaquest and loved it as a kid. does not age as well as some other scifi from that era though. Favorite episodes like Lucas getting dropped off with the teenage hackers, terrorist takeover, and the search for the space capsule episodes stick in my head

Loved Seaquest DSV back in the day although when Roy left and they got a new captain for Season 3 it wasn’t as good anymore,

I've been toying around with the idea of series like this since quarantine began, unaware someone had already done it and you've done it BETTER than I could have! You've got a new sub, and I hope you do NBC's 'The Pretender' soon.

If SeaQuest ever gets a reboot, I’d say have it set where man is exploring the Galaxy, but the story is focused on an ocean planet with small islands and continents and have colonies being established on land and under the sea and have SeaQuest assigned to said planet. Start the series on Earth with the prototype SeaQuest being launched and doing trial runs with its state of the are tech as well as having the crew doing training only to have it all cut short because of a crisis on the planet that SeaQuest is assigned to.

Lucas....Wesley Crusher done right

The final season was really great. C'mon, Michael Ironside in SeaWar DSV. Ain't nothing like that!

Any show from The NBC Thrillogy block that aired on Saturdays: The Pretender Profiler Dark Skies Sleepwalkers The Others

SeaQuest DSV was amazing. But the numbers wasn't good enough and that's what caused the horribleness, that is season 2. Season 3 picked up things but, it just never got as good as Season 1. Season 2 had such an legendarily bad episode, that forced me to write my only IMDB review. You could even see on every actor, that NO ONE liked that episode. On a side note, in Subnautica, I named my Cyclops the SeaTigur DST, a pun on SeaQuest. DST being Deep Submersible Tigur. I think that, the best way to do a SeaQuest reboot, is to ignore Season 2 completely, start it up from after the events of Season 1 and just go from there, set it some 50 years later, make some of the events from Season 3 canon, and that they've finally finished building a new SeaQuest model, let's look at fan circle, let's for example look at the Atlantis DSV, pay for royalties or whatever it is for that, have regular SeaQuest ships also floating around but with different names like the UEO Barracuda or something. Have peace be tenius. Don't have aliens. Have oceanographers and actual scientists come and talk at the end of each episode again with real science facts. That's my few cents on it.

As a kid, I liked season 2. For me, it was the most memorable season. I feel like season 2 was kinda like Stargate though.

I miss Seaquest.

I full on believe, the reason why Roy Scheider did not stay on, was because in an interview, before "seaQuest DSV" began airing, Mister Scheider said, he would not want to be a part of the show, if it became a fantasy. And it did.

Yeah the introduction of aliens was hoaky. I liked the killer plants episode, That freaked me out. The third season finally found its feet, then they canceled it. Also, it’s Sunday night timeslot was often preempted for other less worthy shows, I remember trying to watch it, but football or some other program was on.

RIP Jonathan Brandis

It seems more than just Beecham didn't approve of the move to Orlando. Stacey Haiduk was invited back as Hitchcock, but she declined for the same reason. As for the reasoning for the retooling in season 2, you nailed it. NBC was fools for trying to attract kids to the show, then burying it at 9pm on Sundays in most markets toward the end. In the San Diego market, they had the nerve to put it on Wednesday nights against Deep Space Nine's 4th season when "sh*t was getting real" with the Klingons. The only time I switched over to SQ2032 was during "Dr. Bashir, I Presume", which was a... I believe the proper expression is "dogwater episode". I taped the rest to watch later. Additional mistakes were using the show "Earth 2" as a lead-in when they buried it on Sunday nights during Season 2. I think at that point it was Sunday at 10 in San Diego lol Amusing fact: a lot of people involved in SeaQuest who are still around got pulled into "The Orville". It wasn't just a "Star Trek love-in". One of the most notable people is composer John Debney, who wrote the original theme for SeaQuest. He wrote the Kaylon theme and battle music among some of the more haunting and disturbing pieces.

Seaquest was the bomb, I loved it so much. I was 9 years old and mesmerized by the concept & all those unique characters. It would take me years to understand certain historical references or concepts like discrimination. The casting was very well done, all those fleshed out personalities were enjoyable and I still feel a connection to them even though I haven't watched any of the episodes in decades.

I do like how refreshing it was during the first season that we didn't see "red shirts" die every episode. And then the second season happened where we couldn't get through an episode without one of the crew dying.

Ever since peacock started few weeks back. I saw all 3 seasons of seaquest and relived my childhood and started to binge.

Loved seeing this! seaQuest was inspired by voyage to the bottom of the sea and I spent 18 months creating it with James Lima and Richard Lewis! There are many reasons why DSV should have worked but it was plagued by politics and bad timing!

I got to visit the set in Orlando in the 90s. It really was a complex set and the water/tanks/tubes were very real. In person with no acting or framing, some of the sets looked cartoonish and fake up close, but the show really sells the parts that aren't CG.

I very much loved season one. The crew was perfect---the doctor, the captain, Lucas (was given a more believable script than Westley). I enjoyed the political intrigue (much better than season 1 of TNG) semi realistic ideas that seemed believable. and more on the true meaning of science fiction. And went way way off the rails in season 2 (with a few good outliers). I kind of stopped watching by 3 though as I didn't care as much for the characters.

The first season was real solid but it went up against Lois and Clark the new adventures of Superman and at that point a comic book being on tv was just awesome The talking dolphin and the underwater version of Wesley crusher didn’t help but I liked the first season I think by season 3 they had aliens or some such

I can see this show taking place in the Star Trek universe. This would obviously be before World War 3 but leading up to it.

I think I read that Roy Scheider wasn’t involved for more of season 3 because he didn’t like how the show went from Science to Sci-Fi. He attempted to leave early but his contract required at least the two seasons and a part of the third.

Have you ever done a video on Threshold? it had an interesting story, amazing cast and seemed to get bounced around the time slot that me and my friends only ever found it by accident. The early cancel and rushed ending was a bit weak but the show had potential.

I absolutely HATED michael ironside in seaquest, what was kid/family friendly became terrible to watch, I look back at season 1 and 2 as an adventure program, the third season was war on war, just bleak as fcuk!

I had the hugest crush on Jonathan Brandis 🥰🥰🥰 and my inner pre-teen died a little when I found out he had killed himself. 😔😔😔

Nice encapsulation of the show's history. I would love to read a tell-all of behind the scenes on this show (come on, Franklin or Raimi!) or an oral history with as many interviews with the surviving cast and crew as possible. To this day, I wonder if Ortiz really died on Hyperion or if they would've brought back the actor as a guest star in a one-off to give him closure. I need help.

There were a bunch of sci-fi shows around that time that tried to incorporate X-Files-like storylines. Space Above and Beyond and Earth-2 are the first that come to mind. Amazing premises ruined by the need to have a big conspiracy or out of place aliens. Seaquest got a bit of both. Plus the belief that ratings for season 1 were low because of the slow pace/ecological focussed stories. Season 2's focus shift is why Roy Scheider left the show. I would love a reboot, not a sequel, but a ground-up remake. Maybe shorter, self-contained seasons with an overarching plot. That original first season was kind of meandering. Give it more focus and character and it could run for years.

No one was removed. Most of the ones removed didn't want to move to Florida.

Mark Hamill AND William Shatner. If Star Wars can break bread with Star Trek, anything is possible.

Its a shame that two great Spielberg TV endeavors have largely been forgotten. This show is one of them and had a far less complete run. The second REALLY deserves a follow up: Steven Spielberg's "Taken". Not THAT Taken, the one that ran as a multi generational epic miniseries about Alien abductions and two families on somewhat opposing sides. It was the very young Dakota Fanning's first major role. I won't spoil the ending, but I will say that she is the perfect age now for the dearly desired follow up.

Would you gladly accept Ulysses 31?

One of my all time favorite 90’s shows.

Nice Stargate Atlantis Bluray

Show went off the rails after season 1

It was cool for a while but in season 2 it got pretty idiotic.

Another show I really liked! Your comments are right on the money!, look forward to seeing more of your reviews. And Kent McCord, ...LOL...oh boy, I could never again see him as anything after that Galactica 1980 disaster.

You asked for suggestions for obscure shows from the past. How about "Otherworld" it only lasted for 8 episodes, but I would love to have your take on it if you are familiar with it. I loved the episodes. I always wondered if it was cancelled due to the time slot. It was on Saturday night at a time when VCRs were too expensive for most people to own. I can imagine that on a Saturday night many people were not home to watch it.

Same thing happened to "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"

This has been my favorite show since I was a lil kid. I finally got it on Bluray, thanks for this amazing retrospective!

I'm still upset because they cancelled _Dark Matter_ after three seasons.

Really liked this show, feel like I want to rewatch it now! A show that you can do if you havent done it already is: space: above and beyond! Cool premise yet another show that kind of cancelled without a resolution, but still worth the watch :)

I loved this series.

Great 1st season, good 2nd season, meh 3rd season.

I can totally picture the 8 yo version of you excited about the dolphin character 😂

Season 3 was so bad it completely derailed the show.

Earth 2 1 season, features Tim Curry

"Future, Earth is run down, sci-fi submarines, etc." The only series that comes to mind that has made something out of this setup that is worth watching, interesting, exciting and consistent from beginning to end is "Blue Submarine No. 6". This miniseries, however, is not from Western culture, but anime.

Hugh Jackman has apparently agreed to play Captain Nathan Bridger in the tv series reboot. That's really cool casting imo.

SEAQUEST is probably why I love ocean-related movies and TV all the time. Beautifully done series that unfortunately had communication issues throughout its history.

I loved the aliens

This a show that needs rebooted or a movie. Season two of dsv was like season 3 of enterprise. Its what killed the show. But never the less best episode of season 2 was the crocodile one. Too bad it was left with the possibility of a sequel but never got it. Just like the end of season 3. So many unanswered questions and plots. Season 1 is and always will be the best

It was a great show, i think that it balanced alot of good things, i also think it was ahead of it time for a show to be honest. I love it, especially when they brought in ironside as the new captain. Another thing, it explored something that no show has ever done, we know nothing about our oceans, yet we know more about space than we do our oceans, just the fact that there was underwater nation states and the conflicts and tech and environmental issues and so on, again i think it was ahead of its time.I think they could bring it back, if they did like a nextgen, not a reboot, that is so you know predictable and a waste of what came before, it is why i say they should do a firefly nextgeneration just like they did with TNG.

I wish this show could be continued somewhen, because I strongly refuse to watch incomplete things. What if I finish this series and all it gave me are cliffhangers and questions?

So much to say about this show! Seasons 1 and 3 were good, and 2 had SOME redeeming moments, but there was soooooo many things left unanswered that I would love to see even "made for TV" movies to answer. Like, where is Bridger's son who he thought was dead but obviously isn't? Fortunately there was a MASSIVE online community that had created tons of fan-fic carrying on these story lines. etc. Heck, SeaQuest was so influential to me that I have created a company and we are working on building underwater habitats. I regularly go back and watch episodes from this show, (the pilot, the Stinger, etc.). The CGI has not aged well, but this is still one of my favorite TV series to have ever existed.

SEAQUEST Season 1 was the best. Just like most 2rd season science fiction shows Space:1999, Buck Rogers in the 25 th century all have a lot of changes. Hey How About a review of Space:1999 and Buck Rogers

You are half right, what happens is season 1 is excellent and fun, very well made. Season 2 sucked so badly and 3 was the nail in the coffin. 3 absolutely was trash imo and garbage I'm so glad they cancelled it. But the beginning of the end was The dagwood stuff, it just didn't fit with season 1 and basically ruined the show.

Had a big stacey haiduk crush growing up!

how bout "Land of the lost" (the 90s series)? anyway, quality content, thanks!

This is a great commentary on the show; I usually don't subscribe from 1 video but I like your style and am genuinely considering it

Loved the show initially. I started losing interest when it tried to compete with/ emulate Star Trek too closely. Ok, from the start we have a Captain, a Doctor, and, instead of Spock, we have, err, a character that, err, picks up languages quickly, or something. Maybe we can introduce a character with some sort of esp or mind (meld) reading abilities, and a Wesley/Wallacheck genius kid to draw the younger audience in. True, most of these characters were in from the start, and did a pretty good job of selling the show, but the show 'lost it' in the episode where the entire submarine was picked up by 'the Flying Saucer People ' (ref Simpson's - look it up peoples), taken to .... to help in the war against.... bad guys? No wonder the next episode I saw starts with 'we are back on Earth, a few years later, and no real memories of what happened'. I suspect that someone high up in production came to his/her senses and stopped the space stories fast. Well, here we are, in a submarine, inside a space ship, flying to distant planets, where no man, or woman, has gone before .... It started as a great series, despite the Star Trek similarities. Unfortunately it kinda lost the plot.

I need to see the show as a whole but I remember actually making an effort to tune into Season 2 so it obviously did something right for me. I did like the characters that season. Ted Raimi was always my favourite.

Enjoyed this review. As a non Seaquest DSV viewer, I got a clear picture of the stories and behind the scenes drama from what rangereview had to say.

I was just a kid when this aired and I remember loving the first season, tuning into the second season anticipating more of the same, being utterly perplexed and just giving up. Now I know why. This is the first video I've watched from your channel and it won't be the last, great work. Another show I remember from my youth that definitely falls into the category of forgotten television is Renegade with Lorenzo Lamas. Motorcycles and bounty hunters, what more could you want?!

Loved this show when I was a kid. Cool idea, great cast, would love to see something like this but modern. Underwater adventure I mean.

I'd like to request an episode on Surface, a really interesting sci-fi series that got canceled on a cliffhanger at the end of only one season.

We used to call these problems 'Irwin Allen Syndrom', a series that started out as good, well thought out sci-fi with an emphasis on science..then ends up with rubber-suited monsters and singing space valkyries as seasons and time goes on..it just happened a lot faster with Seaquest..

Dose any 1 remember Babylon 5 or Mortal Kombat conquest?

The thing about this show is that, well, it shows that Spielberg _needed_ minders much like how Lucas needed minders. Someone to keep him _grounded_ and it really shows in the 2nd season. Season 3 was working its way into being good but, well, too little, too late.

Personally I like Seaquest 2032 both Michael Ironside and one of the villains played by Michael York a great Shakespearean actor.

I always thought that the sub on this show resembled the sub from VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.. .anyone e agree?

I heard the actor who played Bridger was displeased with the way the show went in season 2 and the whole aliens and space thing when the show was suppose to be centered on ocean oriented things or whatever you want to call it

seaQuest was my favorite show as a kid. I wanted to be Dr. Westphalen so badly. When she didn’t come back in season two, I was devastated. I still rewatch the first season (the only good season really).

What about thunder in paradise with hulk hogan 👍🏽👍🏽😉😉

Some might make the comparison with Irwin Allen era produced series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea with campy stories where Seaquest is the then current day reboot of that series. I think could have a reboot of Seaquest like Battlestar Galactica got a reboot. If done right, sans writers strike, then can have an excellent series.

Season 2 was my favorite, liked the aliens and atlantis etc. Last season was boring for me.

If the aliens had the ability to come all the way to earth and transport the seaQuest and crew, they could have defeated their enemies.

I'll never forget gathering around tthe tv with the fam to watch this show.

SeaQuest to me, though I loved the show when it first came out, was an updated version of the the Irwin Allen Sci-fi classic and my all time favorite show, "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", starring Richard Basehart (Admiral Nelson) and David Hedison (Captain Crane). This was truly the first underwater adventure show that was like the Star Trek of underwater.The men of the Seaview encountered aliens, werewolves, the Abominable Snowman, the Mummy, killer robots, mad scientists, crazy immortals, killer Amphibians, Mermaids, time travelers, fought off all kinds of monsters and saved the word from alien and monstrous invasions numerous times, as well as from threats from enemy countries. Corny as all out doors now, the show was hugely popular back in the 60's (show ran from 64 - 68). What made the show click back then? Irwin Allens obsession with having each episode going at breakneck speed, with non-stop action and the sci fi culture back then was really into it. It is a shame that SeaQuest could not survive even as long as Voyage did.My hopes were high when SeaQuest came out, but the character changes from season to season was a killer to me for the show. I am hoping someone in Hollywood gets a vision for an underwater show like SeaQuest or Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea again. I say, try a revamped and updated Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Not sure if that will happen though.

Heeeeeeeeeeeere we go... > Rockne S. O'Bannon quit following the pilot "To Be Or Not To Be." He was opposed to Spielberg changing things in the series. The ship's doctor was originally a man who lost an arm and "grew" a new one from plant fibers. The drawback was he had to remain on the boat with it's controlled atmosphere or his arm would deteriorate. O'Bannon's name remained as a contractual obligation. > Halfway through season one, the network was bitching and moaning about the scripts and the episodes being too family-friendly with too many educational beats. So Universal brought in Patrick Hasburgh, who produced FOX' 21 Jump Street. Hasburgh started the more sci-fi bent toward the end of season one. He also brought in some 21 cronies. Peter DeLuise was in "Whalesong" as a crewman on Johnathan Banks' sub that was sinking whaling ships. Dustin Nguyen was in the last four episodes of the season. > Hasburgh destroyed the seaQuest DSV intending to introduce a new, smaller boat in the second season. That turned out to be impractical considering all the software for the VFX that was already in place. So Hasburgh settled on changing the bridge so all the consoles faced the center and Bridger's console. He felt that the first season's bridge lacked intimacy and interaction among the characters. >Stace Haiduk was asked back, but she declined, not wanting to be part of what she called "the wet t-shirt seaQuest." BTW, she married Mr. Duckface (Bradford Tatum) from "Nothing But The Truth." >Roy Scheider was unhappy with the second season; he didn't like Hasburgh's new "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea" direction. He agreed to return for season three, but only as a recurring character and only up to a maximum of 10 episodes. > seaQuest was about to be dumped following season two, but a pilot for a new action series called Rolling Thunder ended up disappointing network executives. (Too bad, it featured Yvette Nipar from Robocop The Series.) So the network talked to Hasburgh and he re-tooled the series yet again. By now, the only time slot available was Wednesdays at 8e/7p. It debuted in that time slot with "Blindsided," a "lost" episode. (Actually a leftover that was preempted by the NBA basketball playoffs the previous May.) But it was too late, the audience left and didn't return to sample the retooled series. 10 episodes aired in the Wednesday timeslot before the series was pulled. The last three episodes were shown on the West Coast as filler the following spring and summer after sporting events.