WTF Happened to SeaQuest DSV? (1993-1996)
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- Опубликовано: 21 фев 2021
- On this episode of Gone But Not Forgotten, we're gonna take you back to the year 1993, when NBC launched one of the priciest, most anticipated shows of the decade - SeaQuest DSV. Executive produced by Steven Spielberg, the show starred none other than Roy Scheider as Captain Nathan Bridger, who takes over the futuristic submarine of the title to roam earth's oceans in the far-out futuristic year of 2018, when the Ocean Floor has been colonized!
Dismissed by many as a Star Trek - The Next Generation clone, SeaQuest nonetheless found a major cult following and was popular enough to run for three seasons, despite being scheduled against Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and a whole bunch of cast changes. Join us as we examine the show's legacy, as well as the tragic story of teen heartthrob co-star Jonathan Brandis, who rose to fame as a member of the cast but struggled in the years following the show's cancellation.
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Stacy Haiduk so I knew of her since Superboy TV series in 1987.
Genetically engineered humans also on Dark Angel and Mutant X. Attack of the killer tomatoes though were genetically engineered tomatoes.
how about Nowhere Man, with Bruce Greenwood? what a classic.
Do Babylon 5.
Forgotten TV show? I would like you to cover the crime series," Crime Story." Another great but short-lived NBC show.
Just realised SeaQuest DSV is actually super-niche to a specific cohort of us 90s kids. I don't recall it getting reruns, or any big HD release or streaming. We happy few who watched it at the time are all who are commenting on this great video. Thanks for treating us.
Saw it rerun on horror channel maybe once but it never returned the way star trek gets rerun a million times
It had the same exact time slot as Lois and Clark The Adventures of Superman. I remember this very well as I wanted to watch both shows back in the day. Sea quest won out, but when it ended I caught up Lois and Clark. I think most kids chose Lois and Clark over it as sci fi shows weren’t widely embraced at the time and were put in the nerd category by many back then. I think Star Wars was the only sci fi property at that time that broke through that nerd barrier in the 90s and that was it.
I was 18 in 1993 in my first year of Uni, and watched the show mostly because there was a utter dearth of science-fiction content where I lived at the time. Most weeks I found it a pretty awful TNG rip-off, but the excellent core cast and the occasional decent story, along with the aforementioned lack of options, kept me watching right through the run, and I was disappointed when it was cancelled.
Not just 90s kids. It’s not a niche as you want to think it is.
@@craigjones7343 yeah not anymore. Streaming services today have given lots of old shows new life.
I was an extra on Seaquest Season 2. Got to meet most of the cast. Jonathan Brandis didn’t come out of his trailer much. Darwin was a puppet which made me sad. We hung out in the Maglev much of the time playing cards. Roy Scheider and Ted Rami were awesome to us extras. I got to stand in for Ed Kerr. Overall an awesome experience I will never forget.
was Brandis gay and or a weird guy?
That's amazing so fortunate!
@Michael Meyer as a kid growing up I watched all of his movies ,except seaquest. Sidekicks was my favorite,just sad he had no answers to life
@Michael Meyer well said. I never pushed my son into Hollywood,we'd go see some sets of music videos (via a friend of mine) but I always encourage my son to stick to academics,sucks that there's parents out here so greedy. Same thing happen to Maucauly Culkin, however he was smart enough to invest some of his earnings when he emancipated from his Dad.
@Michael Meyer it takes 3 days for mail to travel regional in the pacific area of the USA take 5 to 7days to travel west to East. But please do give me more details
Johnathan Brandis was a child actor in a time when the industry thought of them as disposable or instantly replaceable, he needed help, His parents saw he was struggling and tried to get him into therapy but in the end his illness got the better of him.
Child actors are checked and monitored and not overworked because of what happened to him and others in the 80's onwards.
RIP Jonathan Brandis
I did not know he passed on so early... i only realised it years later. Very tragic
I had no idea that got him, too.
He was inspiring as a kid.
😭😭😭😭
Sad that it took ruining lives, but I am glad we are getting better about treating child actors.
Though I suppose someone of judy Garland's situation would have looked to Brandis with envy.
Funny how much of a monster hollywood is.
I still blame Accutane for his chemical depression.
mistywolf: Very informative and nicely said. I remember him helping one of the 'Never Ending Story' sequels to succeed even without all of the original characters.
I absolutely adored seaQuest. It was the reason I decided, when I was 6, that I wanted to be a marine biologist. Which is exactly what I became.
Jonathan Brandis was my favourite and Ted Raimi was my sisters favourite.
Good old Jockser.
Wow🤷🏿♂️👏🏾👍🏿🍻
Jonathan Brandis was my favorite as well.
What did you think of Sea Hunt, Flipper (both versions) and Voyage to the bottom of the sea?
Sunday night was Seaquest night in my home.
I worked on that show. My first gig as a CG Artist.
Thank you, you did a great job! 😊
@@ctkairos Believe me, I enjoyed every moment and loved working at Amblin Imaging. Right at the beginning of it all. So many stories.
Awesome always great to see comments from folks behind the scenes
One of the best series of my childhood.
@@volkhen0 It seemed like such a big show at the time, however now if it comes up most people have no idea what show I'm speaking of. Either way, it was important to me and I loved doing the motion graphics on the show and hanging out at the Derby with Ted Raimi. Ahhh things that don't happen in Montreal.😏
This series was literally life changing for me. I started a company with the sole purpose of building manned underwater habitats and credit SeaQuest during my high school years for spurring my creativity.
That's so awesome!
You're a modern day Jacques Cousteau!
@@pieterboelen2862 haha I wouldn't go that far! Just a guy with a vision and a dream and trying to make it come true.
@@BTraxler Close enough for me! Very, very cool. I hope you have every success! Gotta love our oceans. 🐬
@@pieterboelen2862 thank you!
man, i loved this show when I was a kid.
Me too!! Every friday a would watch this instead of going out, my friends thought there was something wrong with me...
You and me both buddy, so sad when it didn't come back this along with Surface a many years later are the two shows I wish had been able to run its full gambit.
Totally 👍
Who doesnt i thought that in 21st century the thing will become real 👍🏽😉
Same
The dolphin wasn't real. Everything I knew was a lie.
there is not truth
...my childhood is retroactively ruined.
Do not despair. Without hope you have nothing.
That stupid orca in Free Willy was totally real dude.
At least that puts them being smarter than humans in dispute, always remember this show whenever I hear that.
I hate this video
One day I'll be mature enough to deal with this harsh reality... one day
“The far future of 2018!” Gotta love when we pass a year that’s depicted as the future in film/TV and we have nothing remotely close to what they show.
Yeah, we're still dealing with flat-earthers and communists lol. Humanity has not progressed very far in all those years.
Yes, it was so great to look up at the night sky on September 14, 1999 and see that the moon was still there!
"Nothing remotely close"? 🤨 James Cameron went to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 2012. We have cell-phones and drones and fancy nuclear submarines and CRISPR. I assume by we don't have what they show, you mean the aliens, and Perseverance just got to Mars last week, so it might not be long…
@@user-vn7ce5ig1z Where's my flying Delorean?
@@user-vn7ce5ig1z Yeah really, the big difference is just that if we were running low on resources in real-life, we wouldn't be wasting them to build cities under the ocean. It's about as sensible as the characters in the Mad Max world blowing through their gasoline like it's in limitless supply. (I suppose that's an analogue to us doing the exact same thing)
I was so shocked to learn the dolphin was not even real! It has got to be one of the best looking prop
same I knew it had to be at some points, but figured a lot of the time it was a real dolphin... truly amazed
Thank you for ruining my childhood kiddo
Almost as convincing as the whales in The Voyage Home.
I only learned about sea quest today. And I thought the dolphin was real. Whoever did the effects deserves fame and wealth. It’s and incredible puppet.
@@laguerita289 Do you realize that in some movies/cartoons Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were actually ... TORTOISES?
What I also loved about the show were the extras at the end of the episodes. Explaining certain topics in regards of the ocean, world or wildlife.
I thought the show was more like "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Next Generation."
I use you watch that God damn show too!!!🤦🏻♂️🤣
I see what you did there
Love it...
You're not wrong.
I really liked the first season of SeaQuest. Problem is, that the studio made it into a completely different story in the second season, and yet another different story in the third season. the only thing they had in common was the title "SeaQuest" and the idea of undersea adventures. They had a good thing going in the first season, but quickly proceeded to destroy it. Which was entirely typical of how most TV studios operated in that time period. If you saw a show that was great in it's first season, you could bet that it would be either cancelled, or completely different in the it's second season, with different actors and a different story. The studios did this same thing with with umpteen new shows, especially shows that had a sci-fi or fantasy background. I remember it getting so bad that most people would not watch new tv shows just for that reason. SeaQuest was a victim of bad handling in just about everything. And it's a dammed shame as the first season had a lot going for it and a huge potential. Chalk it up with studio executives who could not recognize a good thing when they saw it.
You would think with Spielberg being a producer that he could get anything he wanted. But instead, like you said, seems like the show got bullied by whatever network exec was in charge that month.
Yeah those super soldiers came out of know where, and trying to shoe their conspiracy into a submarine plot was a bit of a stretch.
Netflix has learned well
Yeah, I'm not sure at what point it turned, but as I recall by the time Micheal Ironside was running the ship, it had been reduced to basically Star Trek underwater, doing schlocky and cliche sci-fi tropes instead of interesting stories. I mean, FFS, towards the end they had aliens, time travel, and the literal god Poseidon.
@@LabTech41I get how that was jarring but at the same time even that could work.
Hollywood did Brandis dirty he could have been a leading man like Di caprio.
@Michael Meyer From what I understand Brandis's mental state had a lot to do with being raped repeatedly by Brian Singer. That was the deal those boys and their parents made, be raped by Singer and become superstars. It is fucking tragic.
@@Cyril29a wait fr?
@@haileymorgan2771 I don't know what you are asking.
@Michael Meyer that sounds like a load. Everyone knows the latter quote, but the former doesn't even make sense. leo and jonathan don't have a single photo together and haim wasn't even the same generation. They all knew eachother, but were in different clicks.
May I add its very vicious to call his evidently sweet parents "greedy and vicious" just because of his lousy fate.
Don't blame "Hollywood". Brandis was just a cog in machine. A fan base like his disappears just as quick as it comes, in favour of the next flavour of the month. And if you're not a big draw anymore, why cast him as a lead?
That's not to say it's an easy transition. It might have been a good career move to focus more on off-camera work.
I loved Ted Rami's character. He was smart enough to not be "The Professor" and solve all the problems, he wasn't a pretty face or muscle man, and he was perfectly human. My favorite was the episode "Bad Water" with a French tourist sub firm and missing where O'Neill's attempting to contact the French sub in French turns to Bridger and starts to answer to Bridger in French, realizes from the look he gets "Wrong language" and then restarts in English. Perfect role-model for a teenage boy.
I'm so happy to see this. I still watch this on DVD on occasion, and Jonathan Brandis was my first crush. I was devastated when he died.
I loved watching this show in the 90's.
Now, many of my younger friends, nieces, and nephews don't even believe me that such a show existed :-)
Something something Superman: The New Adventures of Lois and Clark
Jonathan Brandis, gone but not forgotten.
He has such potential, so sad he Killed himself, had he just waited and tried a few more casting calls, I think he would have had a few good leading roles.
I'm just jealous, it's not like things have been getting any better since 2003
Knowing how Hollywood is, there is probably more to his death than what we are told.
@@spirittammykexactlyyyyyyy
I really thought the first season was more influenced by Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, rather than Star Trek. And you are right, Michael Ironside brought a breath of fresh air to the series. Too bad it didn't work.
respect to you for tossing in the suicide prevention number
I remember SeaQuest DSV. I watched it as a kid. SeaQuest DSV was Star Trek but set underwater. Jonathan Brandis was one of my favourite actors and I was shocked when I read in a magazine that he committed suicide in 2003. He was a good young actor and he could had gone on to do bigger and better roles. I met Ted Raimi in 2016. I talked to him about working with Lucy Lawless in Xena: Warrior Princess and he said it was horrible. I was 9 when SeaQuest DSV first aired in 1993 and I was 34 in 2018 which the series took place. SeaQuest DSV was one of the best sci-fi shows of the 1990s and we'll never have a show like SeaQuest DSV again. Rest in Peace Roy Schneider (1932 - 2008) Jonathan Brandis (1976 - 2003) and Royce D. Applegate (1939 - 2003).
Sorry to hear his experiences on Xena were so awful! I loved him on that show!
@@MegaMagicdog I don't know why he'd go and say that for.
You should do a video about, "SPACE: Above and Beyond". Was a pretty decent show that came out around same time frame as this show, if memory serves me correctly.
Came out just after X Files. It had the same writers and as a reward for the success of X Files they got their own original show.
I loved this and was heartbroken that it only got 1 season. It was one of the best things on TV at the time.
Probably my favourite sci-fi show of that era.
@@lukeholman7574 Mine too- fortunately, I have it on DVD.
Probably my favorite thing was in the first episode when the Wild Cards were in Basic- and who was their Drill Instructor?? None other than R. Lee Ermey himself!!!
Yeah not having a second season after the season finally of Space above and beyond was so disappointing
Yeah, I remember this one. It's quite dark space sci-fi. Sure, we have the likes of BSG, Discovery, Killjoys, The Expanse, etc now. But back then? SPACE: Above and Beyond was quite a memorable show for me. Too bad only one season lasted and the cliffhanger ending remains left unfulfilled.
I was today years old when I learned that Darwin was a puppet. I even have his "autograph" 😭
But seriously, LOVED this show as a kid. And, yes, I was a fan of Brandis but I stayed for the story and characters. Inspired my imagination and I truly hope (in this time of 'reboots') that we do end up with something new.
Losing Johnathan Brandis was a terrible loss. A beautiful soul, It's hard to believe he took his own life. Tragic. Hollywood and child stardom do not mix, movie history is lased with the bodies of former child stars who reached their potential long before their time. He had so much to be proud of and had a wonderful legacy. He was directed by Spielberg, Ang Lee and acted alongside Harvey Keitel as well as appearing in the classic "IT". If only someone could have told him how he had everything to live for.
The expression isn't "no matter how bad things may seem this too shall pass", it's just "this too shall pass" because it's not only about comfort in times of adversity. Most people forget the other half of it. It's also meant for good times, to remind you to not take them for granted because they won't last (also just a reminder in general that life won't last and so make the most of it). It's very versatile.
They did. The arrogant f#ck dismissed them all with a wave of the hand, as only he knew how worthless he was. I'm glad he's gone. One more brick in the wall of hubris that is Hollyweird.
When you reach a sadness like that… I’m not sure being told that your work is something to continue to live for. It might of just made him more miserable. Plus on a lighter side of things, ladybugs and never ending story two alone are good reasons to kil yourself.
It's such a tragedy about Johnathan Brandis. He was such a bright shinning star with so much talent. He had the potential to live up to great things. It's really sad his light was dimmed way too soon and everyone was shorted from his talent he could have given. Loved him as an actor he reminded me of my childhood best friend.
He dated Fresh Prince star Tatiyana Ali also he was doing a movie that was suppose to be his comeback since his career dimmed but the scenes were cut & that was the end for him. It was years before I found out he took his own life.
Never thought he had much talent myself.
Really? I thought everything he was in sucked. He was my least favorite character in this show.
jesus could you ride his junk any more
He was a classic example of an actor not willing to except his 15 minutes of fame was over.
Thank you so much for that Stacy Haiduk gag. Really appreciated her during my teens.
Didn't we all!!
Beautiful!!!
Back in the day I remember the show being referred to as "Voyage to the Bottom of the Ratings"
Ouch!
Dayum! I need some ointment for that burn.
I'd forgotten about Sea Quest. I watched this as a kid. You know what 90s show would be good for this series, Early Edition about the guy who gets tomorrow's newspaper every day and who has to save the day. I think a cat was involved. He owned a bar.
I had forgotten about that show!!
Holy.
i was waiting for this!
first sliders, now seaquest. my childhoof afternoon is complete.
thanks!
HUUUUGE fan of Seaquest, deserves an updated retelling!!!
You don’t want a reimagining so bad it ruins the original
It's a shame about Brandis. If he had hung in there, you got to think he would've at least had a career renaissance like Wil Wheaton or Alfonso Ribiero did once the nostalgia kicked in.
If Social Media, (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) had existed he might not have felt as hopeless.
Had he survived and were alive in 2021, his career might have gotten a 2nd Wing with the reboot craze and all the 90's nostalgia + fan conventions + Comic Con stuff currently going on.
He was hoping for a comeback with the film, "Hart's War". There were a LOT of big names in that film and it could have made the difference. His role was largely deleted from the film and he felt like that was his last chance. Of course, ever since he died there have been rumors it wasn't suicide.
I loved the first season very much. I loved the little interesting science bits that were explained after the episodes and I loved that it was grounded in science. Jonathan Brandis was also my very first crush :-). I think what alienated a lot of people, myself included, was the loss of most of the crew after season 1. I saw only a few episodes of season 2 before calling it quits.
It's such a shame this show got screwed around as much as it did. This show was huge for prime time viewing.
And yeah, Stacey Haiduk was hot as all hell. Those eyes, among her other assets, were amazing.
Plus I'm glad you addressed Michael Ironside by his full appropriate title. His character felt like a ring in for a leaving cast member (which it was) but he gave something different and damn was he good. He's earned some mad respect.
I had the biggest crush on Jonathan Brandis growing up 💕💕
Same!
I remember the day I heard Jonathan was gone 😞😭🥺
This made me nostalgic. Love that Ted Raimi is getting the love he deserves. I was pleasantly surprised you introduced him as the third most important character of the series. Now it makes me want to rewatch it!
Amazon has a complete series of it
When I was a teenager, I used to love watching this show, along with Sliders. It certainly was a different time, 20 something years ago. Those were pretty good shows back then along with Firefly and Dark Angel. Kind of miss those shows. That's funny, I just seen him wearing that Marlins t-shirt and they had just won the World Series. Now I remember why I liked it so much because I live in Florida and we used to go to a lot of Marlins baseball games back then, when they played in Joe Robbie Stadium where the Miami dolphins play, now it's called Hard Rock Stadium and the Marlins have their own stadium now. Ahh memories....
Iconic. All the characters, the look and feel, the fact it made 12-year-old me get over that it wasn't set in space. I'm sure video games today use shows like this as a base on which to think up RPG stories and situations.
Subnautica IMMEDIATELY comes to mind.
A sad fact, Jonathan Brandis was supposed to have this big comeback in some movie, in which he put all his work and hopes on to revive his career, only for the movie's deleted scenes to be exactly the ones he was on. I believe that could be what really drove him over the edge. Rest in peace.
Hart's War. You are right.
You missed a cast member of the first season. Bob Ballard. At the end of the episodes, he would appear and explain the real world science used in the episodes. SeaQuest had one and a half more seasons than Earth 2 which had premiered the same night (and which a lot of people thought was just as good) as SeaQuest. Earth 2 just didn't have Spielberg backing it up.
Now you have to do Earth 2
Oh Jonathan Brandis 😞 How I loved you so
"SHUT UP, WESLEY"
😅😅😅
I think if Seaquest was ever to be rebooted, mixture style of season 1 and 3 would be great. That war and ocean realism with maybe some underwater secret sci-fi element thrown in. I loved the last episode, it felt like start of something new. Loved what they did with Tim O’Neil and Kimura would be great addition to the crew. She already had great backstory, what a wasted potential. Just when the show seemed to be heading somewhere good it got cancelled. 😔😢
this would be a good Reboot . Most are just mutilations . But No actor could do Bridger like Roy Schneider .
I like this idea
Also I think all three seasons had themes that would work the problem was you just can't get them to mesh together. By the sounds of it they just needed to pick one and stick with it. However if they were to redo it today you no dog on well and get too involved into modern politics and things like that it wouldn't be the show that it was
@@aleximalmgren5301as much as I did come to lake Ironside I really do think that's what's really threw off that season was him it was not Roy Schneider
As someone that had an extremely small part in the show, I think it could easily be recreated today. That one man shark sub, I've seen a company makes those for real now. At the time I was impressed by the level of detail of the props dept. My part was being in the company contracted to do all the embroidery for the last half of season 2 on. Every patch, every uniform. It was a blast trying to figure out what was going to happen every time there was a new crew member name or faction logo. Costuming gave us some of what they knew but given that they didn't know everything and the scattered plot lines, we seldom had a clue. The work was always a rush job, but it was fun wile it lasted. Oh and personality I was always partial to Lt. Henderson (Kathy Evison).
6:20 It's been 25 years since I last watched seaquest, and I still remember the plot twist with the poop "gems"...
This was one of my absolute favorite shows back in the day. It would be awesome to see a revamped version of the show back on tv
When I was a kid it was a voyage to the bottom of the Sea. There had been nothing like it until seaQuest.... I always loved the deep Sea adventure genre.
Me too.
Went from grudgingly watching it wishing it was set in space, despite not being a Trek or Wars kid, and realising I love the ocean more actually. (Correct name spelling btw)
I loved this show! Dagwood was definitely my favorite character. This would be a good show to make a comeback, even if just for a mini-series.
Brody: "Won't that change history?"
Nathon: "Oh, a lesson in not changing history from Mr. 'I'm My Own Grandpa!"
I did do the nasty in the pasty
Thank you for this recap. It did well to cover the show’s high, low, and tragic points.
This was yet another of those series I loved, even with all the screwing around the network did. Yes, Krieg's glowing "gems" episode still makes me laugh today....and always rethink picking up glow in the dark items. In the end, the rotating cast I thought worked, being a military crew.
I don't remember that episode, but hilarious that you can just figure out what it is with ease
@@athrunzala6919 I remember the amazement of the idea of glowing rocks and the obsession of everyone wanting one...only to learn that that "treasure" turns to...well...we know what it turns to/always was now LOL. Its always stuck in my brain!
@@kjpierson1152 i just rewatched the hole series a few weeks ago, i neve saw it as a comparison to Star Trek hahaha but now that he mentioned it :D There are a lot of similarities :D but still love it, i stumbled over this channel and made Abo now :D And that is one of my favorite episodes hihi, For me the whole series ws completely fine, i must admit i loved all of it except a few episodes, i can't recount exactly but can't be more than 5 i didn't like :D
It was a shame what happened to Brandis but much of what lead to his death was more from Hollywood politics than dealing with dropping out of the limelight. He was cast in a film, "Hart's War" which he believed to be his chance for a comeback. Unfortunately, because of background dealings from TPTB, his role was largely cut out of the film and any opportunities dried up from there.
I remember as a teen watching the last episode of season 2 and I hated it because of how SeaQuest ship got taken out so easily. In my country, they never aired season 3, so I didn't know it existed until a couple decades later. I still have not gotten around to watching it. I would have to watch over the first 2 seasons first.
I remember when Syfy's big draw when first becoming a cable network was they would air the reruns of SeaQuest. In fact, it was a birthday gift from my dad that he paid the subscription plan that we get Syfy along with premium movies. That was definitely one of my happiest memories
You mean Sci-Fi. When the network reinvented itself from the top down and called itself Syfy in 2009 it lost a lot of what made it so great. There were some gems of programming in the early 2010s (the Eureka-WH13 universe) but all of that is gone now. The channel prides itself now with its harry potter marathons and nonstop horror movies from September thru December
One of the best Star Trek shows made.
Sea quest was my show!! I had such a big crush on Brandon...(loved him since Never Ending Story) I was super sad when I heard he passed away. It did go down and I think I stopped watching
In 93 I was a freshman in high school. It wasn't cool to talk about Sea Quest. Everyone was obsessed with Beavis and Butthead and The Real World. The mid 90s was a weird time for a lot of things. Well depending on where you grew up I guess.
SeaQuest, Earth 2 and Star Trek TNG - my childchood trifecta... Oh the 90s, what a wonderful time for SF...
About six months ago I remembered this show and tried to remind my parents of it (we watched it every week) and they had no idea what I was talking about. So I began to look it up and could find nothing. I thought I must have merged two shows together or something like that since I was quite young. Today I decided to try looking it up again and found it immediately. Very strange!
Love the call for people in distress to seek help - great video - loved this series - even Series 3. :)
Michael Fucking Ironside. That's exactly how it's pronounced.
Sam Fisher gets his own hightech-submarine? How dare they cancel this after 13 episodes?
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This was a show that could have been so much more but could not go a season without executive meddling.
If not for Jonathan Brandis i never wouldve had the gall to fight back at school against some really creatively mean kids, im 32 now. and because of the movie Sidekicks where he starred with Chuck Norris, i actually got the bullying to stop. great story overshadowed by the obvious thing that its just like the karate kid, but in my opinion much better and more believable. RIP Jonathan Brandis, thanks for showing me its better to not make it easy for a bully, because he at his core is no better than you.
Home teaching needs evolve
@@jussikankinen9409 that depends on the teachers, too many variables in that
Loved the show as a kid, but found the second season rather alienating; the third season even moreso.
Yep, I remember this. I lovwd watching this as a kid.
My best friend and I called this show Lucas DSV because Brandis was so central to it.
RIP J. Brandis. You were a child-acting role model back in those days.
I still remember this show frequently being pitched to German audiences back then through the Hollywood Reporter and i always felt Roy Scheider was perfect as the captain of that ship. He even got the german dubbing voice of William Shatner that Shatner had during the course of Star Trek TOS, most of the movies (except Star Trek II and III) as well as TJ Hooker until his german voice Actor Gerd Günther Hoffmann died in 1997 at the age of 68. So yeah, Roy Scheider really felt a lot like Captain Kirk but underwater, in the german dub of Seaquest DSV. And i loved seeing Jonathan Brandis too whom i first saw a few years earlier in "The Never Ending Story II" and really liked him a lot.
Dude! As someone who watched Flipper reruns on Nickelodean, I had no idea that was a puppet. Mind blown. Even with the mistakes, wow.
Great review of one of the favorite shows of my youth. When this was airing I remember people talking about it being derivative but as a young Trek fan I was just like 'cool: Star Trek but in a new setting, that's fine by me!' As I was watching this it occurred to me how many scenes from this are still fresh in my memory:
* The episode where they travel in time to witness Bay of Pigs gone wrong
* The episode where they encounter a pre-Voyager Tim Russ(!) where he mentions Apple beating Microsoft (in like 93/94, something that even as an Apple fan at the time seemed completely ludicrous and yet...)
* The S3 establishing shot where you see SQ in the cornfield (great visual)
I also can't help but to enjoy how:
* In Yesterday's Enterprise a ship from the past is brought to the future, altering the universe to make it more militarized. It's then returned, *preventing* the Federation from being on the brink of war
* SeaQuest had a timeskip where it *not* being present *caused* the world to be on the brink of war
** In this new, more martial universe, Michael Ironside is the captain. Ironside would go on to be in the movie adaptation of Starship Troopers, a depiction of a fully militarized universe.
So in a way S3 of SeaQuest is like the 'bad end' of Yesterday's Enterprise.
Just so happen to be wearing my SeaQuest hat today.
Brandis managed to not be annoying. Unlike a certain TNG kid.
Sidekicks . Thats it. Sidekicks. What a flick.
I was looking up dead celebs from 90s and found this among many other other things that have reminded that Man life is short. I can’t believe so much time has passed.
I loved this show so much. Re-watched it a bunch when it came to streaming. Had the model, video game was all in.
Me too.
I watched the whole series on SCI-FI Channel reruns, and I bought some of the action figures from Shop-ko. We didn't have a Walmart yet.
There was a video game???
@@SanguineDarkfire Yeah for SNES and Sega Genesis
Dude, I just started rewatching the show after I was looking through old NBC commercials. I love the first two seasons. Now if Babylon 5 can come back to tv, so can this show.
Babylon 5 is an upcoming reboot of the original series in development for broadcast on The CW. Series creator J. Michael Straczynski is writing the pilot and will return as showrunner and executive producer, with Warner Bros. as the producing studio. It was announced on September 27, 2021 and is described by The CW as follows:
In a from-the-ground-up reboot of the original series, John Sheridan, an Earthforce officer with a mysterious background, is assigned to Babylon 5, a five-mile-long space station in neutral space, a port of call for travelers, smugglers, corporate explorers and alien diplomats at a time of uneasy peace and the constant threat of war. His arrival triggers a destiny beyond anything he could have imagined, as an exploratory Earth company accidentally triggers a conflict with a civilization a million years ahead of us, putting Sheridan and the rest of the B5 crew in the line of fire as the last, best hope for the survival of the human race.
@@knerduno5942 wonder who's gonna play Sheridan.
And it's interesting that their going with Sheridan from the start instead of Sinclaire.
@@GBRyker61 Henry Cavill?
I remember SeaQuest DSV being shown here in the UK in the 90s. I liked it. I remember the late Yaphet Koto making a cameo as well.
I was so sad when I heard Jonathan died, may his soul be resting peacefully. 😢😢
I have been thinking about this show recently.. It was brilliant.. It had legs and could have gone much further.. It's a damn shame and sorry to hear about the loss of Mr Brandis..
Ironside totally carried the third season. That's so funny that he said that he based the character off of his own father -- I didn't come from a great home, so when I was depressed as a kid and lacked motivation to do something I didn't care about, like school assignments, etc., I would legit imagine Capt. Hudson ordering me to do it.
I didn't know this was on dvd, thanks for the heads up!
This was one of my favorite shows. Season 1 was my favorite. I even rewatched it again recently on Peacock
You provide good info i would never know without them that this show exists. I do not know much about Hollywood shows, especially about the old ones, my birth is around 2000, so I do not witness these long testimonial shows.
legit shocked it wasn't a real dolphin
Good on you with the mental health call dude, glad you took that one serious, love the channel.
I loved this show as a child! Oh I miss those days.
Great video! Thanks buddy.
The show is similar to the Irwin Allen's tv show of the 1960s called Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea. That is more of a military part which blended in with sci-fi into it. Then, when they took that idea, they decided to look to add Star Trek:The Next Generation as well for the non-military people. So, the show was more of the those two shows. Then, later seasons, they added time travel which is more of The Time Tunnel and not Doctor Who. The Time Tunnle was another Irwin Allen's creations. There was also a hint of Lost In Space which was another Irwin Allen's creation. This show had more of ideas from irwin Allen than anything else.
I remember watching all of this as a kid. Ive never felt the need to go back although I've still got good memories of it. I remember loving the darker tone and time jump of s3
I watched this all the time when it was being broadcast. Sadly, I was in university at the time and couldn’t watch as it was being broadcast, but I did record the episodes.
I am also a big fan of Ms. Haiduk. I barely remember watching the original Superboy show with her in it. But I definitely watched the old Kindred: the Embraced where I fell in love with those eyes. Last I saw of her (and I saw EVERYTHING) was in True Blood.
Right on about the sports and specials. Our family would try to videotape episodes on Sunday nights because we were busy that night, and many times later we'd discover that instead of Seaquest, the VCR recorded overtime of some sportsball game and then stopped exactly 1 hour later at the wrong time. I bet a show like this would do well on streaming these days, even with such drastic changes in cast and tone each season. (Season 2 was my favorite, btw, even though you are correct a couple of those characters were dullsville)
You do realize that "You Know Who" is now 52 years old. I mean, don't get me wrong, she looks good for her age, but still... she was in her 20s when she played on Seaquest.
😳I really did think it was a real dolphin, 😳🤯you brought back so many good flashbacks of my childhood 🙏🏽
What an under rated show. I used to sit and build lego while watching it back in the day. I just started a rewatch of it.
What I great video you have talent And thanks because I can going back in time to remember this great show
What a great episode! Makes me sad to hear about the suicide, it's got to be very hard to deal with game, and then the lack of it.
Not really, there are countless celebrities, including child-actors whose careers tank and they lose the limelight and don't kill themselves. People like Brandis are the tiny exception, not the rule.
@@user-vn7ce5ig1z maybe they don’t kill themselves (some of them do) but countless numbers turn to drugs or crime and then end up dying eventually, or living behind dumpsters. I could name about 20 right now but I won’t. It does something to the mind to have all that fame, money, adoration as a child and then left cold as an adult. I saw it happen to a few friends and they are not with us anymore. RIP Jonathan 💔😞
I got all 3 season on Blu-ray from Germany ( I’m In the UK ).
I remember when this was on tv back in the early 90s. Loved it.
Thank you for the retrospective on this. I have somewhat forgotten about the show over the years. The first season was actually quite solid.
The point about it being frequently pre-empted by sports and specials was actually a really big deal. I remember trying to get into it and it never being on when I remembered to tune in. I eventually came back in the second season, saw the reboot dynamics, and decided to stay away.
I was a young teenager when this T.V series came out so I religiously watched it 1 of my favourite show