SeaQuest DSV
Mankind has colonized the last unexplored region on Earth; the ocean.
SeaQuest DSV was created by Rockne S. O'Bannon and originally aired on NBC between 1993 and 1996. In its final season, it was renamed seaQuest 2032.
Set in the near future, SeaQuest originally mixed high drama with realistic scientific fiction. It starred Roy Scheider as Nathan Bridger, captain of a high-tech submarine seaQuest DSV 4600, Jonathan Brandis as Lucas Wolenczak, a teenaged computer genius, and Stephanie Beacham as Kristin Westphalen, the chief medical officer and head of the SeaQuest science department. Steven Spielberg expressed interest in the project and served as one of the show's executive producers during the first two seasons.
Filming of the first season was marked by producer disputes, changes at the helm (off-screen), and even an earthquake! The show was sufficiently popular to last two and a half seasons, though it was abruptly cancelled in the middle of the third.
Roy Scheider narrated the voiceover during each first season's episodes' opening credits:
"The 21st century: mankind has colonized the last unexplored region on Earth; the ocean. As captain of the SeaQuest and its crew, we are its guardians. For beneath the surface lies the future."
Cast
* Roy Scheider as Captain Nathan Hale Bridger (seasons 1-2, 3x01, 3x07, 3x09)
* Jonathan Brandis as Lucas Wolenczak
* Stephanie Beacham as Dr. Kristin Westphalen (season 1)
* Stacy Haiduk as Lt. Commander Katherine Hitchcock (season 1)
* Don Franklin as Commander Jonathan Ford
* John D'Aquino as Lieutenant Benjamin Krieg (season 1, 3x02)
* Royce D. Applegate as Chief Manilow Crocker (season 1)
* Ted Raimi as Lieutenant Tim O'Neill
* Marco Sanchez as Sensor Chief Miguel Ortiz (seasons 1-2)
* Rosalind Allen as Dr. Wendy Smith (season 2)
* Kathy Evison as Lieutenant Lenore Ellen "Lonnie" Henderson (seasons 2-3)
* Edward Kerr as Lieutenant James Brody (seasons 2-3)
* Peter DeLuise as Dagwood (seasons 2-3)
* Michael DeLuise as Seaman Anthony Piccolo (seasons 2-3)
* Michael Ironside as Captain Oliver Hudson (season 3)
* Elise Neal as Lieutenant J.J. Fredericks (season 3)
* Frank Welker as voice of Darwin
* Bob Ballard as himself, marine trivia during credits (season 1)