Seaquest DSV - Season 1 - Complete [1993] [DVD]

Another good quality product from Music Magpie. I ordered on Monday, DVDs were promised on 14th, arrived on 9th of July. I ordered a few CD's from them last fall and they always delivered very quickly. The quality of all my orders has always been very good.

The 1993 series, remembered with affection and still enjoyable. Set in the (now near) future, seaQuest is the largest, best ever equipped submarine, patrolling the ocean, exploring its wonders and seeking to preserve them - as well as striving to keep peace in a volatile world. Its captain is Nathan Bridger (Roy Scheider, he who despatched that shark in "Jaws"), his crew seemingly selected for looks as well as expertise. Included are Darwin, a talking dolphin (note his answer to the question "Where is the centre of the universe?"), and Lucas, a sixteen year old computer genius - with attitude. (One watches with sadness that actor Jonathan Brandis' life was to prove so short.)Adventures abound and they all entertain. At times cheesy, too keen to labour politically correct stances, to promote eco -friendly schemes? (It is to my shame I would have welcomed the worst villains receiving a fate similar to that of the "Jaws" shark, instead of being locked away - presumably to escape and create mayhem in further episodes.) Yes, such criticisms can perhaps be justified, but the series' heart is in the right place and we do need those constant reminders of the need to conserve the planet's assets. Here is family entertainment at a bargain price. If a birthday is imminent, what an ideal way to please!

I remember this series when it first appeared in 1993. Watching now in 2010, eight years before the series is set is somewhat revelatory. I was hoping there might be a submarine like Seaquest in development! The series is essentially a undersea version of Star Trek, with an evironmental twist. It begins with an extended episode giving some background to the Seaquest and its captain, Nathan Bridger (played by the late Roy Schneider of Jaws fame). All the elements are here, including the teenage whizz-kid Lukas (played by the tragic Jonathan Brandis), a slighly cynical but brilliant executive officer (Don Franklin), an old sea-dog but very likable chief Crocker (the sadly late Royce Applegate. One must not forget Dr Westphalian, played by the elegant Stephanie Beecham, and of course Darwin, the dolphin that can talk! Those who like Clive Cussler will enjoy this, and anyone who enjoys a good adventure will also get something from Seaquest DSV.In this series we have encounters ranging from a haunted sunken ship to a crashed alien spacecraft and lots in between. The program was criticised as being "preachy" but I feel this criticism is quite unfair. The critical importance of the oceans to the Earth was a major theme running though the series, and this is important. There is also a lot a fun to be had along the way! I liked the appearance of the famous oceanographer Bob Ballard at the end of each episode who would explain an aspect of science related to the episode.Overall, I suggest you ignore the critics and watch this brilliant series! It brings back many memories.

After reading some bad reviews I thought I’d buy anyway and I’m glad I did. My discs were not double sided, we’re fairly good quality, didn’t glitch, no missing episodes and I could skip through as I wanted. Great series.

The Seaquest is a huge submarine patrolling the oceans and keeping the peace in the then near future of 2018 as the Earth's population has started underwater colonies and the Seaquest is part of a huge global organization protecting them. Roy Schieder is excellent as Seaquest captain Nathan Bridger with a good cast including Stephanie Beacham as the submarine doctor but despite some good episodes and guest stars like William Shatner hamming it up as a dictator and Charlton Heston it occasionally gets corny with a talking dolphin and teenage boy genius simmilar to Wesley Crusher from Star Trek The Next Generation. Good fun kind of like a Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea for the 90's or an underwater Star Trek exploring the oceans instead of outer space.

SeaQuest was great, taking up the challenge of painting a picture of life in the near future and taking us into the oceans instead of the easy-to-write-for far reaches of space.The future-technology they had was on the borders of being believable, and with the teenage genius, the talking dolphin, comical supplies officer to add some laughs, and Roy Scheider as captain... fantastic! Plotlines range from preventing ecological disasters, hunting renegade subs, unraveling mysteries of ghost-ships, discovering treasures from the deep (from the Great Library of Alexandria to an alien craft buried in bedrock strata millions of years ago). This first series was the best of the three, second series started getting a bit far fetched (and they lost Stephanie Beecham who is great), the third was effectively taking a fresh start.It's taken too long for Universal to release this series on DVD, but at least you can get the whole series at a great price. Buy it!

This series and it's star the 1000 foot long semi organic Super submarine Seaquest was way ahead of it's time during the mid 1990's. The sub was commanded by Captain Nathan Bridger played by Roy Schneider better know for big action movies. The series was set far into the near future of 2018 where mankind had set up whole colonies under the sea. And the UEO Seaquest was set to patrol and help the undersea world from pirates and other nasties. Bridger with his crew set about trying to stop eco disasters with the sub, so much so that Bridger uses Seaquest to stop an undersea volcano at the end of the series thus destroying it. There was also the curious use of a talking Dolphin named 'Darwin' which for me was ridiculous and spoilt the series. I realise that the real Dolphins are inteligent but to have a voiced over one speaking like a dalek is just too much !. All in all this was still a good series but by the end of the second series was looking tired. It's nice to see this on Dvd at last with series 2 coming soon this year , i hope the re-vamped series 3 sees Dvd as well.