Although I’d have much preferred to have had the colourful Gold Key comics which only appeared sporadically in local newsagents, I do remember in the late sixties TV Tornado ran a black & white comic strip during it’s early issues which was later replaced with text stories. And Look - In, the junior TV Times magazine also ran a strip version at the beginning of the seventies.
If I’ve got one criticism of Voyage it was the fact every time something attacked the Seaview sparks would explode from the control panels. I often wondered why Admiral Nelson didn’t have the foresight to fit the odd fuse here and there.
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The strips in 'Look-in' were abridged, serialised versions of two of the Gold Key issues
Incidentally, although the VTTBOTS strip/stories only ran for about (I think) 13 or so issues, strips and stories continued to appear in the annuals, sometimes called (the copyright skirting?) 'Submarine Seaview'.
Incidentally, although the VTTBOTS strip/stories only ran for about (I think) 13 or so issues of 'TV Tornado', strips and stories continued to appear in the annuals, sometimes called (the copyright skirting?) 'Submarine Seaview'.
The wife and I have recently started watching the series. Sharon is actually too young to remember it even from the repeats and barring seeing the odd segment she’s never seen it.
She loves it! Its part of our weekly television viewing. – Although we have found that with all these type of vintage programmes, you have to only watch one a week, I suppose really viewing them as intended.
Sparks exploding from consoles/panels remain a problem into the far future (see Star Trek).
For a short period in the 70's, after-school television began with Voyage, followed by Time Tunnel (I recall the Time-tunnel entrance sometimes having the same sparks/explosions).
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