Sendit.com are running a new Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea competition for UK residents with a bumper Voyage prize including the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Complete DVD box set and Moebius Models kits.

Audrey Dalton will be signing autographs at the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention on Sunday, May 6, 2012.  Audrey starred as Dr. Lydia Parrish in a season two, episode seven Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea titled The Deadliest Game.  This will be Audrey Dalton’s first and only west coast signing appearance.  Audrey will be signing from 12:00 P.M.-2:00 P.M.  Some of the other Television series Audrey has starred in are Boris Karloff’s Thriller, The Wild, Wild West, The Girl From UNCLE, Wagon Train, and Bat Masterson.  Audrey starred in Classic Horror Movies William Castle’s Mr. Sardonicus and The Monster That Challenged the World.  And Audrey starred in the Movie Titanic (with Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, and Robert Wagner), one of the first movies to cover this subject.

Other Guests appearing will be Barbara Leigh (the First Vampirella Warren Magazine Model), Ian Ogilvy (The Saint in The Return of the Saint TV Series, star of Classic Horror Movies Witchfinder General, From Beyond The Grave), Kathryn Leigh Scott and Lara Parker (stars of the original Dark Shadows TV Series), Ann Robinson (star of George Pal’s War of the Worlds, Rocky Jones, Space Ranger TV series), and Georges Jeanty (Artist for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Comic Book).

The May 6, 2012 Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention will be held at the Shrine Auditorium Expo Center, 700 West 32nd Street, in Los Angeles, CA (across from USC College). Admission is $8.00, five years and under are free.  Show Hours: 10:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M. The Dealers Room features over one hundred tables of Comic Books, Toys, Trading Cards, DVDs, and many other Collectibles.  Show Hours are 10:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M.

Check www.comicbookscifi.com for more information.

Prominent Irwin Allen television guest, Warren Stevens, has sadly passed away at the age of 92 (27th March 2012). He guest starred Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants, as well as The Return of Captain Nemo.  Unusually, we’ve struggled to find any obituaries in the mainstream British media.  Here are some tributes in the US press:

The Hollywood Reporter

New York Times Tribute

Washington Times

Variety Tribute

LA Times

 Daily Telegraph Article

BBC Article

Dive to the Mariana Trench: BBC In Pictures

Win a Complete Series DVD box-set of Irwin Allen’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea at the What’s On TV website. The competition closes at 5pm on Wednesday 28 March 2012. This competition is open to UK residents only (Region 2, PAL DVDs).

Win a Complete Series DVD box-set of Irwin Allen’s Land of the Giants at the What’s On TV website. There will also be a second competition later this month for the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Complete DVD set.  This competition is open to UK residents only (Region 2, PAL DVDs).

Some episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea are now available on DVD in French as Voyage au Fond des Mers (released 31st January 2012).  In France, Volume 1 is a 4 disk set containing the first 13 episodes of Season Two.

From the information available, the set sadly does not contain the original English version and there are no French sub-titles.  We don’t know why they’ve chosen to start with the Season Two colour episodes but that may be due to not having a version of Season One dubbed into French.  If anyone can provide further details on the planned French DVD releases, please contact us.

The episodes included in this half Season Two set are:

1. Jonas et la Baleine (Jonah and the Whale)
2. La bombe Vivante (Time Bomb)
3. … et nous Sommes Cinq Survivants (And Five of Us Are Left)
4. Le Robot (The Cyborg)
5. Le Prisonnier de Venise (Escape from Venice)
6. L’Homme au Bras de Fer (The Left-Handed Man)
7. La Soif du Pouvoir (The Deadliest Game)
8. Le Léviathan (Leviathan)
9. Le Pacificateur (The Peacemaker)
10. Les Saboteurs de l’Inconnu (The Silent Saboteurs)
11. Le Facteur X (The X Factor)
12. La Révolte des Machines (The Machines Strike Back)
13. Le Monstre de l’au-delà (The Monster from Outer Space)

The Voyage au Fond des Mers Volume 1 DVD set can be purchased on the French Amazon website:

Revelation Films are putting together a Land of the Giants complete collection DVD set for the UK (PAL, Region 2) with both seasons and a new limited edition set of four collectible art cards. The set is due to be released on Monday 5th March 2012.

Box art is courtesy of Revelation Films

Also in the pipeline for later in the month, 26th March 2012, is a UK complete four season collection box set for Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea featuring a new booklet about the show.