I know it's a navy TV show so it's probably all men, but does this show have any episodes with beautiful women in it? I like the 60s shows because a lot of them have beautiful women (I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, Star Trek TOS, Honey West, etc.)in them.
shareIn the first two seasons, there were some beautiful women including Linda Cristal ("City Beneath the Sea"), Yvonne Craig ("Turn Back the Clock"), Jill Ireland ("The Price of Doom"), Gia Scala ("Jonah and the Whale"), Susan Flannery ("The Traitor" and "Time Bomb"), Pilar Seurat ("The Silent Saboteurs") Barbara Bouchet, Judy Lang (both in "The Left-handed Man"), Vitina Marcus ("Turn Back the Clock" and "Return of the Phantom"), and more. Curiously, in the third season, there is only one female guest star - Diane Webber, who played the title role in "The Mermaid". There were none at all in the fourth season. I have read that the lack of women guests in the last two season was due to objections by Irwin Allen himself.
shareDon't forget Zale Perry, who had a mostly non speaking role in The Amphibians. She's the girl amphibian, and is briefly seen in a wetsuit in one scene. She also has a couple sort of quasi underwater ballet bits in that episode. She was a really good swimmer and diver.
shareIf memory serves me right, Susan Flannery was being considered for a recurring role of Admiral Nelson's secretary back at the Institute in Santa Barbara. Flannery played Nelson's secretary in an early year two episode. In the first season she was cast as a secretary to the President of the United States ("Hail to the Chief"), who was really a foreign agent. Then she later played Admiral Nelson's sister who gets abducted by enemy agents. Irwin obviously liked Susan Flannery alot since he also cast her in the Pearl Harbor episode of "Time Tunnel" and was Robert Wagner's love interest in "The Towering Inferno". I think the objection to Flannery's recurring role was more one of Irwin's 'flunkies' or someone at ABC.
shareI couldn't believe this, but I checked the cast, and brimfin is correct (though there was one other female credited with only a voice role in the third season). How did they think they could have NO females at all, even as guest stars?
shareLet's also remember Karen Steele, in the second season episode "Leviathan". I read in a Starlog magazine once that Irwin cut females out of the last season as an economy measure. With females, you need special costumes, more makeup and a hair stylist as opposed to a simple barber--which all cost more.
shareFrançoise Ruggieri is in one, Season 2, ep 3. Lee is making out with her on the beach when he's called away for a mission.
This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.
Irwin probably got Ruggieri to guest in VOYAGE as a 'bonus' for her guest spot on "Lost in Space" playing opposite Don Matheson as a family of mute aliens in the year one episode "The Sky is Falling".
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