document_title: 2018–19 FA Cup

question_text: when do the premier league teams enter the fa cup

text: 2018–19 FA Cup

text: Teams[edit]

text:
Round
Clubsremaining
Clubsinvolved
Winners fromprevious round
New entriesthis round
Leagues enteringat this round

First Round Proper
124
80
32
48
EFL League OneEFL League Two

Second Round Proper
84
40
40
none
none

Third Round Proper
64
64
20
44
Premier LeagueEFL Championship

Fourth Round Proper
32
32
32
none
none

Fifth Round Proper
16
16
16
none
none

Quarter-finals
8
8
8
none
none

Semi-finals
4
4
4
none
none

Final
2
2
2
none
none

text: Round and draw dates[edit]

text: The schedule follows[1]

text:
Phase

Round

Draw date

First match date

Qualifying rounds

Extra Preliminary Round

6 July 2018

10 August 2018

Preliminary Round

24 August 2018

First Round Qualifying

28 August 2018

8 September 2018

Second Round Qualifying

10 September 2018

22 September 2018

Third Round Qualifying

24 September 2018

6 October 2018

Fourth Round Qualifying

8 October 2018

20 October 2018

Main tournament

First Round Proper

22 October 2018

10 November 2018

Second Round Proper

??

1 December 2018

Third Round Proper

??

5 January 2019

Fourth Round Proper

??

26 January 2019

Fifth Round Proper

??

16 February 2019

Quarter-finals

??

16 March 2019

Semi-finals

??

6 April 2019

Final

18 May 2019

text: Qualifying rounds[edit]

text: All of the competing teams that are not members of either the Premier League or English Football League will compete in the qualifying rounds to secure one of 32 available places in the First Round Proper. The qualifying competition began with the Extra Preliminary Round on 11 August 2018.[1] The final (fourth) qualifying round was played over the weekend of 20 October 2018.[1]

text: First Round Proper[edit]

text: The First Round draw took place on 22 October and was made by Dennis Wise and Dion Dublin. All 40 First Round Proper ties are scheduled to be played on the weekend of 10 November. 32 teams from the qualifying competition join the 48 teams from League One and League Two to compete in this round.  This round includes three teams from Level 7: Metropolitan Police, Haringey Borough, and Hitchin Town, who are the lowest-ranked teams still in the competition.[2]

text:
9 November 2018 Haringey Borough (7)vAFC Wimbledon (3)showTottenham, London

Stadium: Coles Park

text:
10 November 2018 Maidstone United (5)vMacclesfield Town (4)showMaidstone

Stadium: Gallagher Stadium

text:
10 November 2018 Ebbsfleet United (5)vCheltenham Town (4)showNorthfleet

Stadium: Stonebridge Road

text:
12 November 2018 Hampton & Richmond Borough (6)vOldham Athletic (4)showHampton, London

Stadium: Beveree Stadium

text:
10 November 2018 Swindon Town (4)vYork City (6)showSwindon

Stadium: County Ground

text:
11 November 2018 Mansfield Town (4)vCharlton Athletic (3)showMansfield

Stadium: Field Mill

text:
10 November 2018 Torquay United (6)vWoking (6)showTorquay

Stadium: Plainmoor

text:
10 November 2018 Scunthorpe United (3)vBurton Albion (3)showScunthorpe

Stadium: Glanford Park

text:
11 November 2018 Port Vale (4)vSunderland (3)showBurslem, Stoke-on-Trent

Stadium: Vale Park

text:
10 November 2018 Aldershot Town (5)vBradford City (3)showAldershot

Stadium: Recreation Ground

text:
10 November 2018 Grimsby Town (4)vMilton Keynes Dons (4)showCleethorpes

Stadium: Blundell Park

text:
11 November 2018 Chorley (6)vDoncaster Rovers (3)showChorley

Stadium: Victory Park

text:
11 November 2018 Alfreton Town (6)vFleetwood Town (3)showAlfreton

Stadium: North Street

text:
10 November 2018 Bromley (5)vPeterborough United (3)showBromley, London

Stadium: Hayes Lane

text:
10 November 2018 Southport (6)vBoreham Wood (5)showSouthport

Stadium: Haig Avenue

text:
10 November 2018 Plymouth Argyle (3)vStevenage (4)showPlymouth

Stadium: Home Park

text:
10 November 2018 Chesterfield (5)vBillericay Town (6)showChesterfield

Stadium: Proact Stadium

text:
10 November 2018 Lincoln City (4)vNorthampton Town (4)showLincoln

Stadium: Sincil Bank

text:
11 November 2018 Barnet (5)vBristol Rovers (3)showCanons Park, London

Stadium: The Hive Stadium

text:
10 November 2018 Yeovil Town (4)vStockport County (6)showYeovil

Stadium: Huish Park

text:
10 November 2018 Bury (4)vDover Athletic (5)showBury

Stadium: Gigg Lane

text:
10 November 2018 Gillingham (3)vHartlepool United (5)showGillingham

Stadium: Priestfield Stadium

text:
10 November 2018 Oxford United (3)vForest Green Rovers (4)showOxford

Stadium: Kassam Stadium

text:
10 November 2018 Tranmere Rovers (4)vOxford City (6)showBirkenhead

Stadium: Prenton Park

text:
10 November 2018 Accrington Stanley (3)vColchester United (4)showAccrington

Stadium: Crown Ground

text:
10 November 2018 Barnsley (3)vNotts County (4)showBarnsley

Stadium: Oakwell

text:
11 November 2018 Shrewsbury Town (3)vSalford City (5)showShrewsbury

Stadium: New Meadow

text:
10 November 2018 Metropolitan Police (7)vNewport County (4)showEast Molesey

Stadium: Imber Court

text:
10 November 2018 Walsall (3)vCoventry City (3)showWalsall

Stadium: Bescot Stadium

text:
10 November 2018 Rochdale (3)vGateshead (5)showRochdale

Stadium: Spotland Stadium

text:
11 November 2018 Hitchin Town (7)vSolihull Moors (5)showHitchin

Stadium: Top Field

text:
10 November 2018 Sutton United (5)vSlough Town (6)showSutton, London

Stadium: Gander Green Lane

text:
11 November 2018 Guiseley (6)vCambridge United (4)showGuiseley

Stadium: Nethermoor Park

text:
10 November 2018 Exeter City (4)vBlackpool (3)showExeter

Stadium: St James Park

text:
10 November 2018 Luton Town (3)vWycombe Wanderers (3)showLuton

Stadium: Kenilworth Road

text:
10 November 2018 Morecambe (4)vF.C. Halifax Town (5)showMorecambe

Stadium: Globe Arena

text:
10 November 2018 Crewe Alexandra (4)vCarlisle United (4)showCrewe

Stadium: Gresty Road

text:
10 November 2018 Southend United (3)vCrawley Town (4)showSouthend-on-Sea

Stadium: Roots Hall

text:
10 November 2018 Maidenhead United (5)vPortsmouth (3)showMaidenhead

Stadium: York Road

text:
11 November 2018 Weston-super-Mare (6)vWrexham (5)showWeston-super-Mare

Stadium: Woodspring Stadium

text: Television rights[edit]

text: The following matches were broadcast live on UK television:

text:
Round

BT Sport

BBC

First Round Proper

Maidenhead United v Portsmouth Port Vale v SunderlandHampton and Richmond Borough v Oldham Athletic

Haringey Borough v AFC Wimbledon


document_title: The Frankenstein Chronicles

question_text: how many episodes in the frankenstein chronicles season 2

root

text: The Frankenstein Chronicles

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Sean Bean as Inspector John Marlott, a river police officer
Tom Ward as Sir Robert Peel, the Home Secretary
Richie Campbell as Joseph Nightingale, a Bow Street Runner
Ed Stoppard as Lord Daniel Hervey, an impoverished nobleman and proprietor of a private charity hospital
Vanessa Kirby as Lady Jemima Hervey, an impoverished noblewoman, sister to Lord Hervey
Ryan Sampson as Boz, a journalist from The Morning Chronicle. Boz was also a penname used by the author Charles Dickens
Robbie Gee as Billy Oates, a hardened street-smart criminal
Anna Maxwell Martin as Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein (series 1)
Charlie Creed-Miles as Pritty, a grave robber working for the local surgeons (series 1)
Eloise Smyth as Flora, a homeless child taken by Billy Oates to work as a prostitute (series 1)
Samuel West as Sir William Chester, a renowned surgeon and pioneer of galvanism (series 1)
Mark Bazeley as Gernet Chester, Sir William's cousin, also a surgeon (series 1)
Elliot Cowan as Sir Bentley Warburton, Sir Robert Peel's political rival (series 1)
Kate Dickie as Mrs. Bishop, the matron of a gang of murderers (series 1)
Steven Berkoff as William Blake, author, artist and printmaker (series 1)
Deirdre Mullins as Agnes Marlott, John Marlott's deceased wife (series 1)
Laurence Fox as Frederick Dipple, a socialite with an interest in automata (series 2)
Maeve Dermody as Esther Rose, a seamstress contracted by Dipple to provide clothing for his mechanical creations (series 2)
Victoria Emslie as Automaton, one of Dipple's mechanical creations (series 2)
Lily Lesser as Ada Byron, a brilliant mathematician, and assistant to Dipple in creating his automata (series 2).
Kerrie Hayes as Queenie Pickett, Dipple's housemaid and Nightingale's childhood friend (series 2)

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text: Episodes[edit]

text: Series 1 (2015)[edit]

text:
Episode
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original airdate
Viewers
(millions)[7]

1
"A World Without God"
Benjamin Ross
Benjamin Ross & Barry Langford
11 November 2015 (2015-11-11)
0.358

During an operation to catch a gang of Opium smugglers, detective John Marlott (Sean Bean) uncovers a body on the bank of the river Thames. Upon examination, the corpse is revealed to be an amalgamation of body parts from up to eight children. Home Secretary Robert Peel (Tom Ward) orders Marlott to quietly investigate the matter. Marlott enlists the help of a vagrant boy who claims to have been told of a 'monster' snatching children from the Smithfield market area in the dead of night. Marlott suspects that some of the body parts may belong to local butcher's daughter Alice Evans, who mysteriously disappeared just over a week ago. With the help of Constable Nightingale (Richie Campbell), Marlott identifies a public house where he suspects some of the children may have been held.

2
"Seeing Things"
Benjamin Ross
Benjamin Ross & Barry Langford
18 November 2015 (2015-11-18)
0.278

After his discovery on the banks of the Thames, Inspector Marlott visits the house of artist and printmaker William Blake, who is on his deathbed.

3
"All the Lost Children"
Benjamin Ross
Benjamin Ross & Barry Langford
25 November 2015 (2015-11-25)
0.247

Having escaped the clutches of Billy Oates, Flora throws herself on Marlott's mercy. As the investigation continues, Marlott travels to Kentish Town to interrogate Mary Shelley.

4
"The Fortunes of War"
Benjamin Ross
Benjamin Ross & Mike Walden
2 December 2015 (2015-12-02)
0.269

Marlott and Pritty seek the help of a local vagrant as they attempt to identify the murderous gang working in the tunnels beneath Smithfield market.

5
"The Frankenstein Murders"
Benjamin Ross
Benjamin Ross & Stacey Gregg
9 December 2015 (2015-12-09)
0.215

Boz publishes his newspaper article, The Frankenstein Murders, which causes a public outcry and infuriates Peel on the eve of the Anatomy Act.

6
"Lost and Found"
Benjamin Ross
Benjamin Ross & Barry Langford
16 December 2015 (2015-12-16)
0.213

Convinced of Daniel Hervey's guilt, Marlott sets about searching the grounds of the hospital, where he finds Alice, who has been held captive by Hervey's faithful servant, Lloris. Although Alice manages to escape, Marlott is captured by Hervey, and when he awakens some hours later, he finds himself covered in blood, with Flora's lifeless body lying on his kitchen table. Despite protesting his innocence, Marlott learns that he is to be sent to the gallows.

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text: Series 2 (2017)[edit]

text:
Episode
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original airdate
Viewers
(millions)

1
"Prodigal Son"
Alex Gabassi
Michael Robert Johnson
1 November 2017 (2017-11-01)[8]
TBA

2
"Not John Marlott"
Alex Gabassi
Paul Tomalin
8 November 2017 (2017-11-08)[9]
TBA

3
"Seeing the Dead"
Alex Gabassi
Noel Farragher and Paul Tomalin
15 November 2017 (2017-11-15)[10]
TBA

4
"Little Boy Lost"
Alex Gabassi
Colin Carberry, Glenn Patterson and Michael Robert Johnson
22 November 2017 (2017-11-22)[11]
TBA

5
"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
Alex Gabassi
Paul Tomalin
29 November 2017 (2017-11-29)[12]
TBA

6
"Bride of Frankenstein"
Alex Gabassi
Michael Robert Johnson
6 December 2017 (2017-12-06)[13]
TBA


document_title: Fetal pole

question_text: when do you normally see a fetal pole

question_tokens: when do you normally see a fetal pole

text: Fetal pole

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text:
The fetal pole is a thickening on the margin of the yolk sac of a fetus during pregnancy.
It is usually identified at 8 weeks with abdominal ultrasound imaging, and 6 weeks with vaginal ultrasound imaging. However it is quite normal for the fetal pole to not be visible until about 9 weeks. The fetal pole may be seen at 2–4 mm crown-rump length (CRL).

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document_title: List of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air characters

question_text: who plays will's mum on fresh prince

question_tokens: who plays will 's mum on fresh prince

text: List of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air characters

text: Character appearances[edit]

text:
Cast

Character Played

Seasons

1

2

3

4

5

6

Main characters

Willard "Will" Smith

William "Will" Smith

Main

James Avery

Philip Banks

Main

Janet Hubert-Whitten

Vivian Banks

Main

Daphne Maxwell Reid

Main

Alfonso Ribeiro

Carlton Banks

Main

Karyn Parsons

Hilary Banks

Main

Tatyana M. Ali

Ashley Banks

Main

Joseph Marcell

Geoffrey Butler

Main

Ross Bagley

Nicholas "Nicky" Banks

Main

Recurring characters

DJ Jazzy Jeff

Jazz

Recurring

Vernee Watson-Johnson

Viola "Vy" Smith

Recurring

Michael Weiner

Kellogg Lieberbaum

Recurring

Lisa Fuller

Toni

Recurring

Jenifer Lewis

Helen Smith

Recurring

Charlayne Woodard

Janice Smith

Recurring

Perry Moore

Tyriq "Ty" Johnson

Recurring

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Trevor Collins-Newsworthy

Recurring

Tyra Banks

Jacqueline "Jackie" Ames

Recurring

Nia Long

Beullah "Lisa" Wilkes

Recurring

text: Main characters[edit]

text: Will Smith[edit]

text:
Nickname by Geoffrey: "Master William"
Nickname by Jazz and others friends: "Prince" or "Will-man"

text: Born on July 3, 1973.

text: Philip Banks[edit]

text:
Nickname by Will: "Uncle Phil"
Nickname by Parents: "Zeke"
Nickname by Carlton: "Big Guy"
Nickname by Geoffrey: "Sir”
Nickname by Ashley and Hilary: "Daddy"
Nickname by Vivian: "Philip"
Nickname by Ernest: "Moose"

text: Philip Banks (played by James Avery) was born on May 20, 1946 in North Carolina. Philip was raised on a farm in Yamacraw, North Carolina, where he was referred to by his parents, Hattie and Joe Banks, as "Zeke". At age 16 he moved to Baltimore.

text: In the 1960s, he became an activist for the civil rights movement. He was present at the riots in Selma in 1965 and Watts Riots, and, in the pilot episode, he also mentions he heard Malcolm X speak, and that he had read every word that he wrote. In 1963, he was awarded a scholarship to study at Princeton University, after which he went to Harvard Law School. In 1975, Philip was put on the board of the NAACP and was later awarded the Urban Spirit Award for his work in promoting civil rights. He is a conservative but runs as a Democrat against his old mentor Carl Robertson in the elections. At first glance, Will had come to Bel Air with an attitude that because he came from West Philadelphia that he was hardened against anything and was dismissive of Phil and his family as too soft, until he is sternly rebuked by Phil, who reveals his past in seeing the turmoil that happened before Will was born and that it has been his hard work that has earned him a manor in Bel-Air. Philip was also shown to have admired Ronald Reagan, namely because during the series run Reagan had retired from the presidency and moved into the same neighborhood as Philip's. Reagan was said to have declined party invitations until he appears at a traditional Christmas party of the Banks; shown to be a friend of Hilary's.

text: At the beginning of the series, Philip is a senior partner with the firm of Firth, Wynn and Meyer (which Will humorously compares to Earth, Wind & Fire in the pilot episode). In the third season, he is appointed to the judiciary; he becomes a judge after his ex-mentor, Judge Carl Robertson, who beat Philip by a landslide in the elections, dies suddenly, and the governor appoints Philip to the position. Philip later considers making a deeper foray into politics, but decides against it when his wife disapproves. In the episode "To Thine Own Self Be Blue...And Gold," it is revealed that Phil is a member of the fictional fraternity Pi Nu. After meeting and dating his future wife Vivian, he proposed to her while on live television during an episode of Soul Train. He claims to have been a lifelong fan of classical music in the episode "Bang the Drum, Ashley", though Vivian rebuffs that "When we met, you were into James Brown!", which Philip rebuts by stating it is possible to like both classical music and James Brown.

text: Philip is a somewhat strict and gruff, but he does have a softer side, as he is a loving and caring family man, as well as being an upstanding citizen. Nonetheless, his anger can get him into trouble at times, especially when he feels his image is being besmirched. Additionally, Philip can be financially greedy; he pays his butler Geoffrey a salary so low that Geoffrey quits after Philip gives him a mediocre additional annual raise, and only returns when Philip apologizes for taking him for granted and agrees to increase his salary, benefits and to hire more help during formal functions. In the series finale, when Geoffrey retires, Phil rewards him with both a large cash bonus and an expensive first class plane ticket to London, England. Similarly, while he always spoils Hilary, Philip refuses to increase the allowances of his children, although in later seasons he begins to tire of spending his hard-earned money on spoiling Hilary and becomes more gruff with Hilary to pay her own way in the world. A recurring gag is about Philip's children being afraid of his punishments because, while his anger is understandable, he can be incredibly sadistic and sociopathic in his punishments. For example, in season three's "The Best Laid Plans", in which Will tries to trick a girl he is dating (who does not believe in premarital sex) into marrying him in order to go all the way with her, Philip became severely disappointed and upset, and promises to impose the cruelest punishment that he could find (which he manages to do three years after the incident, when he read about medieval tortures and with a malicious smile in his face).

text: Despite being a miser, Philip is a very caring and loving husband and father. He makes sure that he does what is best for all his children, including Will. Despite being related to Will only by marriage (and though he sometimes grumbles about Will being a goof-off), he very much cares for him as his own son. Throughout the series, Philip has been there for his children in their time of need, which rubs off on his nephew as Will comes to see Philip as a genuine father-figure (as opposed to his true father, who left him and his mother when Will was a young child). When Will is eager to bond with his biological father Lou after he suddenly re-enters Will's life, Philip warns Will to be wary of Lou and comforts him when Lou is unable to rekindle their relationship.

text: Philip goes out of his way to make sure all of his children, including Will, make something of themselves. He also fights fiercely to protect his family: When Will and Carlton are arrested for "stealing a car" as they are driving it for his law firm partner, Philip threatens to tie the police station up in "so much litigation that [their] grandchildren are going to need lawyers". He is overprotective of Ashley and has trouble with her growing up into a young woman. A common occasion for humor on the show is Philip's portly shape and big appetite. Will commonly makes cracks about his girth, as do Geoffrey, Jazz and Vivian, and at times, even Carlton (though he is usually skittish and quick to apologize). Unfortunately, Philip's appetite has given him trouble and even caused him to suffer a heart attack in season four's "Home is Where the Heart Attack Is". Philip also reveals himself to be an amazingly adept pool player in the episode "Banks Shot", showing his skill by out-hustling the pool shark who hustled Will at the pool hall. He has a personal cue stick, that he has named "Lucille".

text: In the episode "Lucky Charm," it is said by Vivian that Philip's birthday is in January. But this causes a continuity error because in part one of the two-part series finale, Philip's birthday is celebrated, but the finale takes place in late May.

text: Vivian Banks[edit]

text:
Nickname by Will: "Aunt Viv"
Nickname by Her children: "Mom" or "Mommy"
Nickname by Geoffrey: "Mrs. Banks" or "Madam"
Maiden Name: Smith

text: Prof. Vivian Banks (née Smith), PhD, born on October 21, 1951, was portrayed by Janet Hubert-Whitten during the first three seasons and by Daphne Maxwell Reid for the last three. She is the mother of Nicky, Ashley, Carlton and Hillary Banks; the aunt of Will Smith and the wife of Phillip Banks. She has been a retired Doctor then earned her PhD at UCLA since 1971, and in one early episode takes a temporary job as a teacher for a unit in Black History at Bel-Air Academy, the upscale preparatory high school attended by Will and Carlton, and later by Ashley. She has one older sister, Vy (Will's mother), and two younger sisters, Helen and Janice.

text: Vivian's personality and role in the show changes over the run of the series. During the Janet Hubert-Whitten years, she is a no-nonsense, vocally talented, forthright, and career-minded woman who plays a part in the show equal to her husband Philip. It is revealed in the season one episode "Love at First Fight", that Vivian dropped out of high school as a teenager and worked menial jobs, before attending night school in order to get her high school diploma and enter college to work toward her PhD.

text: After Reid took the part in 1993 and baby Nicky was added to the cast, she was reimagined as a homemaker who showed reluctance toward ambitious career moves, such as Philip's political aspirations. The Reid-played Vivian showed a less fiery demeanor than how Whitten portrayed the role. She also supported her children in whatever they wanted, even if it was wrong. An example of this permissive behavior was when she let Hilary make the decision for herself to pose naked in a Playboy pictorial in the season four episode "Fresh Prince After Dark", as well as letting Hilary get abruptly married to her news anchor boyfriend Trevor in "Where There's a Will, There's a Way," and having a seance for Trevor in the episode "Hex and the Single Guy." It seems that Janet Hubert-Whitten's Vivian would have disapproved such attitudes; however, in the episode It's a Wonderful Lie, she's at Philip's side when he severely reprimands Ashley for lying to them and having snuck off to go to a fraternity party, where she'd been caught by Will in a locked bedroom making out with a college linebacker.

text: There has been references in the series about Janet Hubert-Whitten's replacement by Daphne Maxwell Reed as Vivian. In an occasional running gag within the series, whenever a member of the family goes through old family photos, Will would occasionally comment who the mannish-looking person is in the photo, to which it is then revealed that the person in question is the Whitten-played Vivian. In a later interview, costume designer Carlo Tang commented that Smith and other cast members would jokingly refer to Hubert-Whitten's Vivian as Marcus, a fictional bodybuilder. The change between the two is the object of two humorous quotes from Jazz in which he breaks the fourth wall. One of them is in the fourth-season premiere, when he remarks: "You know, Mrs. Banks, ever since you had that baby, there's something different about you"; after this, Will stares uneasily into the camera. The other is in the fifth-season premiere when he sees the suddenly grown Nicky and asks: "So, who's playing the wife this year?".

text: Carlton Banks[edit]

text:
Nicknames by Will: "C", or "Boogaloo Shrimp" (also "Stumpy," "Squidget", "Snigglet" or basically any name pertaining to Carlton's short stature)
Nickname by Geoffrey: "Master Carlton"
Nickname by Jazz: "C-Note" (in the episode "72 Hours")

text: Carlton Banks (played by Alfonso Ribeiro), born August 4, 1974, is Vivian and Philip's eldest son and Will's pedantic maternal cousin.

text: Carlton is a quintessential preppy. Like many of his social class, Carlton aspires to attend an Ivy League university; in earlier seasons, he states he aims to get into Yale University, but later fixes a determined focus on Princeton University, his father Philip's alma mater.

text: Like his father Phillip, Carlton is a firmly conservative Republican and this often puts him at odds with Will. Although Carlton and Will often exchange insults, and Will normally refers to Carlton as a disgrace, Carlton obviously cares about Will, referring to him in the 2nd-season episode 'Vying for Attention' as "the brother I've always wanted". At first it appears there is an antagonistic relationship between Will and Carlton, but in later seasons Will significantly warms to Carlton, ultimately accepting Carlton and the other cousins as the siblings he never had. On one occasion in the season three episode "Just Say Yo", Carlton is considerate enough to cover for Will when he is admitted to the hospital after having taken speed tablets from inside Will's locker, but allows his parents to think that Will saved him. He attributes this to "still being high at the time" when asked by Will why he covered for him. This spurs Will to tearfully confess the truth to the family; although Carlton did ingest speed, Will bore responsibility as he had accepted the pills from a school friend, storing them in his locker, then absentmindedly said to Carlton he had a bottle of Vitamin E in his locker.

text: Carlton drives a silver Mercedes-Benz E-Class from the early 1990s, which is seen in a few episodes. Carlton also was a bit of a servant to sister Ashley when she hit it big on the singing charts. He held doors open for her and fanned Ashley while she tanned. His role model is talk show host Bryant Gumbel and his favorite singer is Tom Jones. His favorite actor is William Shatner, whom he annoys by making lame Star Trek references. Carlton also idolizes Macaulay Culkin, whom he once dressed up as for Halloween (Although, he looked more like Simon Phoenix, Wesley Snipes' Character from Demolition Man.) He is also a big fan of The Jeffersons and Beverly Hills, 90210, the latter of which he is confident enough to admit to others; this is unlike Will, who scoffs at the show in front of friends but confesses to Carlton that he is a secret 90210 fan as well.

text: Carlton is similar to Family Ties character Alex P. Keaton in many respects: he dresses in a preppy style, has conservative political leanings, is obsessed with college and his future career, is fairly short, and does not enjoy the popular music of most people his age (Besides Tom Jones, Carlton also likes Michael Bolton, Barry Manilow, Rod Stewart, and Neil Diamond.) Carlton is often called upon to do a comic, usually improvised dance routine to Tom Jones' "It's Not Unusual" (which was inspired by a dance performed by Courteney Cox in the music video for Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark").[1] In earlier seasons, he makes frequent references to his virginity (twice referencing that he plans on losing it at some point), and also plans to attend Princeton University. In later seasons, these arcs are both resolved: Carlton does indeed lose his virginity to a woman who is married to the Dean of Princeton, but is not initially admitted to Princeton; instead he first attends the University of Los Angeles, where he briefly manages ULA's student store, the Peacock Stop.

text: As seen in the episodes "You Bet Your Life" and "Viva Lost Wages", Carlton also seems to have a gambling problem and loses all of his money in any situation where gambling is involved and constantly imagines the gambling tables and slot machines talking to him, but seems fully aware that he is subject to compulsive gambling, and this limits his exposure to gaming. He usually declares that gambling is "evil" right before he goes all in and loses his and others' money. One exception to this was where he participated in a casino night in the season two episode "Something for Nothing", but that was done for charitable reasons and not for real money. In season five's "Bullets Over Bel-Air", Will tries to protect Carlton when they get robbed after using an automated teller machine, Will gets shot, taking a bullet for Carlton and is sent to the hospital (eventually recovering from his injuries); Carlton acquires a firearm later in the episode, as the event heightens his awareness of the need for self-defense, but later disposes of the handgun upon Will's insistence.

text: One running joke in the show involves Carlton repeatedly being slapped in the back of the head by various characters, usually in response to comments that are ridiculously self-centered (in later seasons, for example, he would often make humorous comments about gaining his father's inheritance) or due to portraying ignorance of lives other than his own. Often Will would ask to hold what Carlton is holding and once receiving it he would slap Carlton across the head with the object (e.g. a folder containing Will's testament written by Carlton, in "Ill Will"). Carlton's height is frequently made fun of, especially by Will, who, in the episode "Grumpy Young Men", jokes that Carlton is the average height for a woman.

text: He is sometimes portrayed as being extremely naïve. An example is when, in the episode Mistaken Identity, he and Will are arrested after police officers falsely believe that they stole a Mercedes-Benz belonging to Philip's law firm partner, who requested Will and Carlton drive the vehicle to Palm Springs as a favor. At the end, Carlton insists that the policemen were only doing their job, not really accepting the fact that he and Will were victims of racial profiling. However, he seems to wonder if they were wrong, as when he asks his father if he (Phil) were a policeman if he would pull over someone who was driving too slow, for which Phil answers: "I asked myself the same thing the first time I was stopped"; after that, Carlton seems in deep thought over the situation. Although he was portrayed early on as a snobby rich kid, Carlton evolved after having his view challenged when arrested for "stealing a car" and when Will is shot, Carlton is angered that the shooter will probably not face justice for harming Will.

text: He is also seen to get extremely jealous almost anytime something great happens to Will. Examples would be when, in the Season One episode "Courting Disaster" Will joins the school basketball with Carlton already on it. Will becomes the star of the team and Carlton becomes jealous and the competition between the two starts. Carlton decides to steal the ball from Will and take the game winning shot.

text: In the sixth and final season, Carlton finally gains transfer admission to Princeton University however, due to his fear of not living up to Philip's achievements, Carlton decides not to attend Princeton and briefly becomes interested in pursuing a career in bowling. However, he gets over his fear and leaves for the east coast in the series finale.

text: Hilary Banks[edit]

text:
Nickname by Will: "Hil"
Nickname by Geoffrey: "Miss Hilary"

text: Hilary Violet Banks (played by Karyn Parsons), born May 12, 1969 (although said to be August 18th in "Love Hurts"), is Will's attractive, but dull-witted, eldest cousin, known for her notable lack of intelligence, pretentious attitude, spoiled brat behaviour, and constant dependence on Geoffrey.

text: In earlier seasons, Hilary's snobbishness is emphasized, as well as her shallow trendy environmental activism. During this time, she often claimed to hobnob with celebrities and loved being mistaken by people for Whitney Houston. Later on, Hilary is written as a self-centered airhead; she looks down on Will's upbringing and is obsessed with shopping and money (this is shown early in the series; her first line of the show is "Dad, I need $300!," which she intended to spend on a hat). However, despite her apparent shallow personality, she has a strong sense of integrity and shows obvious affection to her family members; Will gets along with her better than Carlton does, though Will is at times bewildered by Hilary's lapses of intelligence. Hilary is portrayed as a stereotypical valley girl and speaks with some strong valspeak habits, in spite of her disdain for the San Fernando Valley (as evidenced in two season three episodes: in "Asses to Ashes", when talking about what heaven and hell might be like, she describes hell to be "like, the Valley"; in "Robbing the Banks", when Will lets it slip to Hilary, Carlton and Ashley that Luther, whom Philip was coaxed into hiring to help around the house while Vivian and Geoffrey were each on vacation, spent time "in the pen", Hilary responds "The pen, please tell me that's slang for the Valley"). Hilary is pursued by Jazz and reluctantly goes on a date with him in Season 1 episode "Working it Out" in order to keep her job. The night ends with Hilary giving Jazz a kiss on the cheek.

text: During the series, Hilary attends and drops out of UCLA, after which she begins a long streak of varying luck that eventually lands her a nationally syndicated daytime talk show titled Hilary. It starts when she becomes a weather reporter at a local television station, where she meets and falls in love with the station's lead news anchor Trevor Collins (Brian Stokes Mitchell). However, Trevor dies in a bungee jumping accident while proposing marriage in the episode "Where There's a Will, There's a Way", part of an ill-conceived live televised event that Hilary and the rest of the Banks family watch at home on the living room television. At the conclusion of the series, Hilary's talk show moves to New York City, as does most of the rest of the Banks family.

text: Hilary's hair styles have changed as the series progressed; early in the series it was brown and bushy, it then became longer and curly with blonde highlights, but later it was black, straight, and shoulder-length. Hilary appeared in 145 episodes of the series.

text: Ashley Banks[edit]

text:
Nickname by Will: "Ash"
Nickname by Geoffrey: "Miss Ashley"

text: Ashley Banks (played by Tatyana Ali) is Will's younger cousin, born on August 26, 1979. Ashley was Vivian's baby girl, and always loved being with her mom. Phillip was always trying to control Ashley's life so she did not become anything like regular teenage girls. Will's devil-may-care approach to life proved to be an exciting alternative, which makes her generally more sympathetic and understanding towards him than other members of the Banks family; with that being, Ashley looked up to Will as a big brother and spent much time following him in her younger days. In fact, Will states in the episode "Will Gets A Job" that if he had a choice to be any of Phillip's kids it would be Ashley.

text: Possibly because of Will's influence towards Ashley, she often acts rebelliously as she gets older, for which her father becomes very angry at Will. One of these moments is in the episode Father Knows Best, which reveals that she dropped out of her private school and enrolled in secret at a public high school and was planning to hide this from her parents as long as possible; though after a failed plot in which Will posed as Ashley's father when she is asked to attend a parent-teacher conference, Will eventually convinces Ashley to come clean. She also spends less time with Will and sometimes gets upset with him when he becomes overprotective like Philip to the point of showing a great deal of annoyance and contempt. She believed that she was old enough to make her own decisions when it comes to boys which neither Will nor Uncle Phil enjoyed hearing or believed. Phillip never enjoyed having Ashley grow up.

text: Ashley's age is inconsistent in the first season. She is said to be nine in a few early episodes of the season. In the episode "Deck the Halls," Will says that she is 10. But in the episode "Just Infatuation," Ashley celebrates her 12th birthday. Starting with the second season, she is 13, she turns 14 in the middle of the third season, 15 at the end of the fourth season, she is 16 by the end of season five and 17 by the end of season six.

text: Ashley matures very much in the series; she becomes a one-hit wonder with a hit song called "Make Up Your Mind" in the season five premiere "What's Will Got to Do With It?"/"The Client", however her career quickly fizzles out when her album doesn't sell because as the agent Philip hired to replace Will mentioned "kids got sick of her [song]", when it gets too much exposure.[2] Beginning in the episode "Breaking Up is Hard to Do", she also strives to become a fashion model after being discovered by the president of a modeling agency at her job at a mall food court corn dog stand.

text: In the series finale, Ashley decides to attend a performing arts school in New York City. As Hilary is also moving to New York when it is announced that her talk show is relocating there, the two sisters decide to live together; they become extremely excited about the whole idea, much to the annoyance of Phillip, who does not want to lose his daughters. In the episode "The Baby Comes Out", where her brother Nicky is born, Ashley mentions she knew how to drive since she was 12 years old. She is very musically talented as shown that she plays violin and the drums, and she can sing. Ashley appeared in 144 episodes of the series.

text: Nicky Banks[edit]

text: Nickname by Will: "Little man"

text: Nicholas Andrew Michael Shawn Nathan Wanyá Banks (played first by Gregory Wheeler in Twas the Night Before Christening and then by Ross Bagley for the final two seasons) is born to Philip and Vivian on February 22, 1993, toward the end of the third season. Except for one episode, when Carlton professionally calls him "Nicholas", every member of the family calls him by his nickname, Nicky.

text: The character was primarily used as a plot device, often adding motivation for other characters, comic relief, or an emotional punch to the show's storyline. In the fifth season, Nicky grows from a newborn infant to a preschooler, which is common in television series and soap operas. In the fifth-season premiere "What's Will Got to Do With It", the first episode to feature this change, Jazz expresses amazement while Will just stares uneasily into the camera.

text: Four of his middle names are taken from the names of the members of the R&B group Boyz II Men; he was middle-named this way after they performed at his christening in the season four episode "'Twas the Night Before Christening"; however in the season three episode "The Baby Comes Out", Philip addresses Nicky's full name, with a middle name already given, as "Nicholas Andrew Banks".

text: Geoffrey Barbara Butler[edit]

text: Nickname by Will: "G", "Chicken George" (Season 3, Episode 20) - "The Baby Comes Out"

text: Geoffrey Barbara Butler (played by Joseph Marcell), born in London on November 18, 1947, serves as the Banks family's cynical butler. Geoffrey is the first character that appears on screen in the pilot episode The Fresh Prince Project. He is seen going to answer the door to Will, who mistakes him for Philip.

text: In addition to four years at Oxford University and a long career working for British aristocrats, Geoffrey was an Olympic runner several years before being hired by the Banks family (as revealed in the episode "It's Better to Have Loved and Lost It..." from the fourth season, when Geoffrey shows the Banks family a videotape of a documentary called Shame of a Nation), but fled his home country in shame after being exposed for cheating while participating in the men's marathon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, winning the Gold Medal only because he had taken a cab ride to the stadium parking lot (shortly after receiving his medal, Queen Elizabeth II, who apparently presented the medals, got word of Geoffrey's cheating, pushing aside the bronze medalist to hit Geoffrey with her purse and rip the medal off his neck: Geoffrey then ran from the stadium in shame.) In the 1970s, he was a butler for the band Led Zeppelin. In the early 1980s, Geoffrey was sparring butler for Chuck Norris. In the episode Nice Lady, he reveals having practiced Greco-Roman wrestling in his youth.

text: Geoffrey's character changes over the series: in early episodes, he is very dutiful and gentlemanly, whereas he becomes very cynical in later episodes. Joseph Marcell explains that he began by playing Geoffrey as stereotypically English but then felt that the American audience was not accustomed to seeing Black Englishmen.[3] Geoffrey's favorite television program (as revealed in the pilot episode) is Masterpiece Theatre, which he routinely watches when he goes off duty at 9 pm

text: Geoffrey always refers to Will as "Master William" (except once in part two of the series finale "I, Done", at Will's request) and the other Banks children as "Master Carlton", "Miss Hilary", "Miss Ashley", and "Master Nicky". Known for his sarcasm, he is the voice of caustic humor on the show, often commenting on Philip's weight, his own low pay, his lack of a social or romantic life, the overall laziness of the family, or Will's goofiness. However, Geoffrey did seem to impress women by having the confidence to be himself, such as when he was set up on a blind date with a Black English woman (played by Naomi Campbell).

text: In early episodes, he has an interest in classical music and is often hinted at as leading a vibrant private life. Although a stickler for tradition, he incorrectly tells Will it is proper to refer to a butler by his first name, although this is possibly because his surname and job title are the same.[4] He considers himself to be part of the English working-class, despite speaking the Queen's English, having been to Oxford and, in one episode, being wary of a relationship with a rich woman.

text: He becomes the godfather of Nicky Banks in the fourth-season episode "Twas the Night Before Christening", after Vivian tires of the bickering amongst her sisters Vy and Helen and noted that no one has been more devoted to her youngest son than Geoffrey has. Midway into the sixth season, Geoffrey discovers he has a son he never knew about, named Frederick, born to a former lover. During the same episode, it is also revealed that his middle name is "Barbara", which he explains is a "family name". In the series finale "I, Done", Geoffrey leaves to be with his son in London; however, in the fourth-season episode "'Twas the Night Before Christening", a sequence set in 1998 (two years after the ending of the series) portrays him as still being the Banks family's butler.

text: There are two running gags centered around Geoffrey. One is that he is often compared to or confused with Benson, from the series with the same name. The other, which is more common is that whenever the doorbell rings, everyone continues with what they were previously doing, or look to Geoffrey, prompting Geoffrey to say "oh, please, will you let me get it this time?" or some variation, in a sarcastic tone. Niles, from The Nanny is very similar to him, as they are both British butlers, both went to Oxford, and both have the same sarcastic personality. Geoffrey appeared in 143 episodes of the series.

text: Jazz[edit]

text:
Nickname by Will: "Jazz, man" (also "J", Jazzy Jazzerzon, The Jazzmeister, JazzZ, Jazzertron 3000 and Jazzeroonie)
Nickname by Geoffrey: "Mr. Jazz"

text: Jazz was portrayed by Will Smith's musical partner Jeffrey A. Townes, popularly known as DJ Jazzy Jeff. Jazz was born on May 20, 1971 and is Will's ill-mannered and dim-witted best friend who lives in the inner-city community of Compton, California. He has had a long-standing crush on Hilary Banks, and almost every time his advances are rejected. Jazz eventually marries a prison inmate named Jewel who had appeared on an episode of COPS, in which she bites the arm of a police officer (this is not shown, although the officer is heard calling for police backup because of it). In the season four episode "Mother's Day", Jewel reveals that she and Jazz are expecting a baby though no other mention of their child is ever made after that point. Jazz divorces her shortly afterward, realizing he knows nothing about her, finding out that she cheated on him with several men and that her real name is not even Jewel (it is Hortense). Jazz is almost completely tactless, and succeeds in insulting or irritating Philip almost every time they are together. He knows how to play the drums very well, and once gave Ashley a lesson in the episode his character is introduced "Bang the Drum, Ashley". Jazz wears sunglasses in nearly every episode he is seen. While in an early episode of season one, Jazz wears regular glasses for the entire episode instead of his trademark sunglasses, the show's writers had initially intended for the character to be blind.[5] This is evidenced throughout early episodes, as Jazz is rarely looking directly at other characters. However, by the second season, in the episode "Cased Up", Hilary asks her boyfriend (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) to take off his glasses; thinking she was speaking to him, Jazz charmingly removes his glasses, revealing his eyes.

text: In a running gag throughout the series, Jazz usually ends up being literally thrown, or, as it was referred to the first time, drop kicked out of the house. This is usually done by Philip, although sometimes Hilary, Geoffrey, Vivian, and even Will (the only character other than Philip to do it more than once) throw him out. Whenever Jazz is thrown out of the house, he is usually wearing the same clothes; it was decided to use the same clip of Jazz being thrown out the front door as often as possible rather than returning to the exterior location each time (the reuse of the clip is evidenced by the sudden noise of a sprinkler whenever Jazz is thrown out). Will was once on the receiving end of this punishment after making egregious changes to Philip's political campaign tape in "A Night at the Oprah", and in similar jokes was thrown out of a nightclub by a bouncer while trying to dance with Geoffrey's blind date in "Kiss My Butler", and out of Jay Leno's studio in "Will's Up the Dirt Road," after trying to hog the show after apologizing to Leno. In one instance, in the third-season premiere "How I Spent My Summer Vacation", Will was even thrown out of Jazz's apartment by Jazz himself after he tried to guilt Jazz into letting him stay over after a fight with his relatives despite Jazz mentioning he already had company over. In this same episode, it is briefly mentioned by Geoffrey that Philip did also throw Will out of the house onto the front lawn when he was leaving the house, but was never shown. During the 1993 Halloween episode "Hex and the Single Guy", Jazz got revenge by throwing Philip out instead, as the main plot to the story was that misfortune-plagued the Banks family following a so-called "hex" from a con psychic communicator. This was later shown to be in a dream Will was having, though when he woke up, the dream appeared to be a premonition, and it was implied that the whole ordeal may truly happen indeed. There was also an instance (Season 2, in the episode "Cased Up") where Jazz was standing outside of the house, taunting Philip because he was already standing outside; as a result, Philip throws him inside the house. In another episode, Jazz was thrown out in the backyard along with a cardboard cutout of Bill Cosby that he was lugging around.   There was a time when Vivian threw Jazz out through the back door for saying that he would bring a stripper to Will's birthday party. In another episode Jazz gets a pillow for the Banks' newborn baby until Will finds a tag saying "Wendy Beth" on the back meaning that Jazz had stolen the pillow. Jazz then thinks "it's the thought that counts" only ending up with Will throwing Jazz out through the backdoor with the pillow. At the beginning of the episode "Cased Up," a nighttime version of the shot is used, with crickets as a sound effect (though the actual video of Jazz getting thrown out is simply darkened for effect).

text: It was show that Jazz enjoys being thrown out sometimes. In one episode, after Jazz and Will made up over a fight, Jazz asked Will to throw him out "like the good ol' times." In another episode, to taunt a guy for trying to walk to his car, Jazz purposely insulted Phil just so he can throw him out.

text: Jazz's last appearance was in the first part of the series finale "I, Done", in which he gave Philip his grandmother's teeth as a gift for Philip's 50th birthday, because Jazz thought Philip was getting old. Thus, Philip was once again angry and threw Jazz out of the house (it is actually mentioned that Philip broke his previous record in tossing him). After the house had been sold in the second part of the episode and Will had found an apartment, Philip was the only person to mention Jazz when asking when he was coming by to help Will pack, to which Will responded, "As soon as you leave." Philip was not surprised, but he did want to wish Jazz luck in the future.

text: Recurring characters[edit]

text: Vy Smith-Wilkes[edit]

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Nickname by Will: "Mom"
Nickname by Carlton, Ashley, Nicky & Hilary: "Aunt Vy"
Nickname by Geoffrey: "Mrs. Smith"

text: Viola "Vy" Smith-Wilkes, portrayed by Vernee Watson-Johnson, is Vivian's oldest sister and Will's loving mother. She is a stern, no-nonsense disciplinarian who is not afraid to challenge anyone who gets in her way. It was her idea that Will should go to Bel Air to get a good education and avoid a life of violence in their West Philadelphia neighborhood. Vy works as a supervisor at the post office. It was due to this she opposed the decision when Janice decides to marry Frank, a white man. Though by their next encounter she is more accepting. Vy eventually decides to marry Lisa Wilkes' father after Will and Lisa call off their second wedding attempt. However, it is unknown whether or not they married, since in Vy's next appearance, Mr. Wilkes is not seen or mentioned. Her maiden name and married name were previously the same, as Will's father was named Lou Smith.

text: Kellogg Lieberbaum[edit]

text: Nickname by Will: "Cornflake"

text: Kellogg Lieberbaum (played by Michael Weiner) was a classmate and friend of Will and Carlton at Bel-Air Academy. Most of his appearances were in the first season, but he makes two appearances in the second season as well. As a pun on Kellogg's Corn Flakes, he is nicknamed "Cornflake" by Will. Much of the humor of his character comes from the dissonance of an unassuming Jewish preppie using such phrases as "She is one fly sister" and "Power to the people – say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud!"

text: Toni[edit]

text: Toni (portrayed by Lisa Fuller) is Hilary's friend who only appeared in Season 1. She appears to be a dumb blonde. Her first appearance was in "Clubba Hubba" and her last was in "It Had to Be You". Her other appearances were "Def Poet's Society" and "Knowledge is Power".

text: Helen Smith[edit]

text: Helen Smith, portrayed by Jenifer Lewis, is Vivian's loud-mouthed younger sister. She has frequent marriage difficulties with her husband Lester (Felton Perry), whom she finally divorces after he cheats on her with "a cute little home wrecker", leaving him with custody over their delinquent son Bobby (Ahmad Stoner).

text: Janice Smith[edit]

text: Nickname by Will: "Aunt J"

text: Janice Smith, played by Charlayne Woodard, is the youngest of the Smith sisters, flighty according to Vivian, and married to a white man named Frank (portrayed by Diedrich Bader in Season 2, Robert Torti in one episode in Season 3), a marriage older sister Vy initially objects to. She also appears in the series with a baby son.

text: Tyriq Johnson[edit]

text: Nickname by Will: "Ty"

text: Tyriq Johnson, portrayed by Perry Moore, is one of Will's close friends in Bel-Air, who appears frequently in season 2. He is described in the episode "Eyes on the Prize" (wherein he and Jazz compete against Will and Carlton on a televised game show) as "Bel-Air's oldest tenth grader," a lover of frozen pizza, and a fan of Laverne and Shirley reruns.

text: Trevor Collins-Newsworthy[edit]

text: Trevor (portrayed by Brian Stokes Mitchell) was Hilary's news anchor fiancé back in 1992 and co-worker at the television station. Trevor often gave himself compliments. Also, he always left the air and the Banks' mansion by saying, "Goodnight and Godspeed." He was originally referred to as "Trevor Collins", but later episodes established his surname as "Newsworthy." He eventually proposes to Hilary, but she insists that he officially proposes on live television later that day. Trevor then proposes to her on television while bungee jumping, and dies during the stunt when something goes wrong with the jump and he hits the ground. Hilary mourns his death by bringing back what she presumes to be Trevor's ashes in an urn, but later learns that Trevor was not cremated, and that she grabbed a stranger's urn. His death continues to haunt Hilary for the next few episodes and his memory, unlike almost everything else (including Trevor's very name), never leaves her mind.

text: Jackie Ames[edit]

text: Jacqueline "Jackie" Ames, portrayed by Tyra Banks, was introduced in "Where There's A Will, There's a Way (Part 1)" in season four. At first, Carlton believed that Jackie was "the girl of his dreams" after she told off some people who were making fun of his peacock costume (Carlton participated in football games as ULA's mascot, the peacock). Later that night, at a party, Will discovers that this girl Carlton was talking about was Jackie, a girl he had known but did not keep in touch with back in Philly. She is initially upset that he did not attempt to contact her but eventually forgives him. As manager of The Peacock Stop, Jackie is the object of Will's affection and frequent come-ons but continually spurns his advances, deeming him too immature. The two were old childhood friends from Philadelphia but she feels Will has not grown up since those days. There are certain innuendos indicating she still has feelings for Will. Jackie seems to warm more to Carlton, arguably because she sees him as more mature and stable than Will, although she is not as keen on dancing to Bobby Vinton as is Carlton. However, Jackie cuts all ties to Will for good when Will challenges a jock to a drinking game while at the jock's birthday party. After being rebuffed by both Will and the football player when she tries to stop them, she has Carlton drive her home and is never seen again.

text: Lisa Wilkes[edit]

text: Beullah "Lisa" Wilkes , portrayed by Nia Long, was introduced in the fifth-season episode, "Will's Misery," as the girlfriend who tames Will into forsaking his womanizing ways. The two fall deeply in love and are engaged to be married, going so far as the ceremonies twice but never actually tie the knot. The first time, they elope to Las Vegas and try a Shaft-themed wedding but walk out on the ceremony after being interrupted so many times and realizing they were not ready. The second time they try to get married, Will starts feeling some doubts, especially when he notices that, like Jazz, he also knows very little about Lisa, culminating in him asking if Lisa is her real first name, upon which she reveals it's actually Beulah. Will manages to overcome these doubts but Lisa reveals that she is also having doubts and the two decide not to marry. She is never seen again. The night before the wedding, a rivalry flared up between Will's mother and Lisa's father. In order to help them work out their differences before their wedding, Lisa and Will send them to a restaurant to get to know each other and work things out. However, the plan backfires when they get along too well and Will catches them in bed together. Ultimately the two end up getting married at the same ceremony, resulting in Will and Lisa becoming step-siblings.

text: Guest stars[edit]

text: Judge Carl Robertson[edit]

text:
Judge Carl Robertson was played by Sherman Hemsley. This man was a cunning lawyer and a one-time mentor to Phil. Judge Robertson visits a few times during the show and is known for being odd and mischievous. He also appears to have become greatly absent-minded but makes up for this with his boundless charisma. Philip begins to question the competence of his mentor and runs against him in the race for Superior Court judge and loses, largely due to Robertson's outrageous smear campaign against Phil. However, at the victory party where he is confronted by Will, Judge Robertson suffers a fatal heart attack, although it appeared that he suddenly died at the "voice" of Will who inadvertently told him to drop dead. The incident leaves Will guilt-ridden but at the funeral it's shown that quite a few people who knew the judge are quite happy to see him gone. They revealed that he was quite promiscuous and corrupt, for he wrongly convicted innocent people that he prosecuted and most of them attended just to make sure he was dead, actually applauding Will for his act. The Governor then appoints Phillip to take Judge Robertson's seat. Though Robertson dies in the third season, Hemsley played his other character George Jefferson from The Jeffersons in the series later. Hemsley as Jefferson appeared in the Season five episode
"Will is from Mars", where he is with his wife (Isabel Sanford as Louise Jefferson) at counseling with Will and Lisa. George Jefferson also appears in "I Done, Part 2", having bought the Banks' mansion.

text: Hattie Banks[edit]

text: Nicknames by Will: "Granny" or "DJ Granny"

text: Hattie Banks, played by Virginia Capers, is Philip's mother, having appeared in six episodes over the series' run. She forms a close affinity with Will (to the point where he sees her as his own grandmother) and even falls for some of his pranks, much to Philip's irritation. She embarrasses Philip by telling stories of his humble origins and refers to him by his childhood name "Zeke."

text: Joe Banks[edit]

text: Nickname by Will: "Grandpa"

text: Joseph "Joe" Banks, played by Gilbert Lewis, was Philip's father, having appeared in only one episode, "Not With My Pig, You Don't". His death sometime later (offscreen) left Phillip and Hattie feeling lost.

text: Lou Smith[edit]

text: Lou Smith (played by Ben Vereen) was a one-time character, appearing only in the episode "Papa's Got a Brand New Excuse." He is Will's father, and a trucker. Lou abandoned his family (Will and Viola "Vy" Smith) when Will was 3 years-old, and explains his motives for leaving by saying he wasn't ready for fatherhood, that he "started feeling trapped" and that he was scared.

text: Lou drops in unannounced at the Peacock café where Will and Carlton work. Will invites Lou to the Banks' residence but when he arrives, the family gives him the cold shoulder, especially Philip, who goes as far as to even skip dinner, shocking Geoffery (with the exception of Carlton and Hilary, who are excited to see their long lost Uncle and Ashley who's meeting him for the first time since her infancy). Will and his father go to a carnival where Lou explains to him his motives for leaving and asks for Will's forgiveness, telling Will he's a changed man and is ready to make up for his "selfish and cowardly" mistake to him. Will agrees, and calls him "Dad" for the first time after playing basketball. When they return to the house, Lou announces that Will is joining him for the summer on a nationwide trip in Lou's truck. Philip objects to this. Lou tries to convince Philip, but Philip subtly disses Lou by telling him to stay out of their "family discussion." After Lou leaves the mansion to go to the pool house, Will and Philip get into a heated argument; Will calls out Philip for dissing Lou, causing Philip to finally blow up; he knows that Lou has not had a change of heart, noticing his behavior shows no sign of guilt or acknowledgment of his past actions. Will believes not everybody is perfect and asks why he won't give him a chance; Philip responds that he's not seeing Will for his sake, but for his own selfish intentions. Vivian tries to ease the conflict, but Will officially announces he's going on the trip anyway. Philip once again objects, but Will hollers he doesn't care, as he isn't his biological father. Shocked and hurt by Will's words, Philip begins wondering if he's a good father. The next day, Philip is still contemplating, believing that with Lou back in Will's life, Will no longer appreciates what Philip has done for him over the years. Expressing his concerns to Vivian, he eventually goes on to accuse Will of being selfish for wanting to be with Lou again, despite playing a larger role in his life. Vivian turns it around on Philip as he was the selfish one by not letting Will reconnect with Lou. As Will packs up, the two of them make amends; Will appreciates everything Philip had done for him over the years, but he still needs this trip. Although Philip meant what he said, he admits to stepping out of line, and wishes him the best. As Philip leaves, Will reminds him that he's only going to be gone for the summer.

text: After a while, Vivian and Philip are still waiting for Lou to return, being an hour late. Philip begins to suspect him running off again. Although Lou eventually shows up, he tells them he has found a "big" new job in Maine that can't afford enough space in his truck for Will. Philip then offers to buy a plane ticket to fly Will to Maine to meet up with him and continue their trip from there, but Lou refuses the offer, saying this Maine job might lead to more job opportunities for him. Vivian expresses concern for Will's reaction, which Lou requests that they tell for him instead. Finally provoked, Philip requests Vivian to leave the room, but not before she tells Lou to stay out of Will's life if he leaves again. An irate Philip bluntly reminds him of his responsibility to Will; that Will isn't some come-and-go object that he can use whenever he feels and that Lou is supposed to be there for Will, not the other way around. Lou reacts defensively; that he didn't want this job opportunity to happen and uses his same excuse on Philip as to why he left Will to begin with. However, Philip tells him to stop because fatherhood scared him too but he never let that cause him to leave his family and explains that being there for his family is what a man does. However, an annoyed Lou still refuses to listen, admitting Philip to being a better man than himself. Will then walks in before Lou can duck out again. Lou tells Will that he can't take him along because of his job. He promises that the trip is only going to be "put on hold for just a couple weeks" and promises to "call him next week to iron out the details". Knowing he's just trying to weasel out easy and is never going to do any of those things, Will realizes that Philip was right. When Lou says goodbye to Will, Will closes the bridge by addressing him as "Lou" instead of "Dad." In a state of awkwardness, Lou leaves. Will is in denial about any feelings of hurt and betrayal, claiming he doesn't need him. He starts by talking about he's managed to go through life without him but then starts turning into angry rants about how he's going to successfully finish life without him, before breaking down in tears, asking Philip why Lou doesn't want to be there for him. Having seen his father abandon him a second time, Will finally realizes that Philip is the closest thing to a father that he has.

text: Although Lou never reappeared after this, Will was so hurt by the incident that he developed a deep resentment towards his father whenever he was mentioned. It is unknown if Lou ever reappeared after this, but if he did, he was most likely angrily thrown out by the Banks for his previous actions. In a later episode, during a heated argument with Carlton, Carlton insulted Will by comparing him to his father. Shaking with anger, he calmly but clearly stated, "I am nothing like my father." In an earlier episode before Lou's appearance, when Phil suffers a heart attack and Carlton is in denial, Will confronts Carlton to go visit Phil in the hospital. Will wins the argument using reverse psychology by reminding Carlton he has a father who is always there for his children when Will asks Carlton "Do you know where my father is"? When Carlton answers in the negative, Will rebuts "Neither do I". In the finale episode, Will states that Uncle Phil is the only father he ever had and Philip says, "You are my son, end of story."

text: Other guest stars[edit]

text:
Mark Burch
Antonio Fargas
Michael Clarke Duncan
Marc Thompson
John Amos
Vivica A. Fox
Cree Summer
Phil LaMarr
Bernie Kopell
Pat Morita
Kadeem Hardison
Queen Latifah*
Jasmine Guy
Glenn Shadix
Richard Roundtree*
Bo Jackson
Doctor Dré
Quincy Jones
Heavy D
Whoopi Goldberg
Tony Longo
Chris Rock
D.L. Hughley
Sherrié Austin
John Witherspoon
Don Cheadle
Vanessa Williams
Malcolm-Jamal Warner*
Milton Berle
Evander Holyfield
Tom Lister, Jr.
Nancy Cartwright
Miguel A. Núñez, Jr.
Brandon Quintin Adams*
Darryl Sivad*
Robert Costanzo
Jaleel White
Garcelle Beauvais*
Jim Meskimen*
Nicole Bilderback
Morgan Nagler
Tom Devanney
Conrad Bain
Tisha Campbell-Martin
Adrienne-Joi Johnson
Daryl "Chill" Mitchell
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Bell Biv DeVoe
Boyz II Men
Ben Vereen
Don Yesso
Kim Fields
Tyra Banks
Raven-Symoné
Zachery Ty Bryan
Robin Givens
Brad Garrett
Isiah Thomas
Olivia Brown
Nia Long
Jenifer Lewis
Donald Trump
Dick Clark
Susan Powter
Regis Philbin
Robert Guillaume
Sherman Hemsley
Isabel Sanford
Marla Gibbs
Tevin Campbell
Victoria Rowell
Oprah Winfrey
Branford Marsalis
Bree Walker
Reno Wilson
Hill Harper
Pam Grier
Tempestt Bledsoe
Phil Morris
Monica Allison
Craig Kirkwood
Tatiana Thumbtzen
Leeza Gibbons
Lark Voorhies
Riddick Bowe
Isaac Hayes
William Shatner
Anna Maria Horsford
Tom Jones
Joan Van Ark
B.B. King
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Genesis P-Orridge
Ken Griffey, Jr.
Hugh Hefner
Naomi Campbell
Wayne Newton
Bob Eubanks
Jay Leno
Stacey Dash
Al B. Sure!
Gary Coleman
Tim Russ
Allen Payne
Kathy Griffin
Robert Hooks
Milo Ventimiglia
Dante Basco
Karen Malina White
Elise Neal
Don Cornelius
Keith Hamilton Cobb
Leann Hunley
Arthel Neville
Ajai Sanders
Tamala Jones
Kathie Lee Gifford
Stephen Lang (Uncredited)
Naya Rivera
Michole Briana White
Bumper Robinson


document_title: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)

question_text: who played chip on voyage to the bottom of the sea

text: Show history[edit]

text: Pilot episode[edit]

text: The pilot episode "Eleven Days to Zero" was filmed in color but shown in black-and-white. It introduces the audience to the futuristic nuclear submarine S.S.R.N. Seaview and the lead members of her crew, including the designer and builder of the submarine Admiral Harriman Nelson (Richard Basehart), and Commander Lee Crane (David Hedison), who becomes the Seaview's captain after the murder of her original commanding officer. The submarine is based at the Nelson Institute of Marine Research (NIMR) in Santa Barbara, California, and is often moored some 500 feet below NIMR in a secret underground submarine pen carved out of solid rock. The Seaview is officially for undersea marine research and visits many exotic locations in the Seven Seas, but its secret mission is to defend the planet from all world and extraterrestrial threats[1] in the then-future of the 1970s.

text: Season One[edit]

text: The first season of 32 episodes began with Admiral Nelson and the crew of the Seaview fighting against a foreign government to prevent a world-threatening earthquake, and continuing with a foreign government destroying American submarines with new technologies in The Fear Makers and The Enemies. The season also had several ocean peril stories in which the Seaview crew spent the episode dealing with the normal perils of the sea. Two examples are "Submarine Sunk Here" and "The Ghost of Moby Dick".[2] The season introduced the diving bell and a mini-submarine, as well as the first alien story (Don Brinkley's; 'The Sky is Falling') and the first sea monsters. The season ended with the Seaview crew fighting a foreign government to save a defense weapon.

text: In the first season, the gritty, atmospheric, and intense series featured story lines devoted to Cold War themes, as well as excursions into near-future speculative fiction. Many episodes involved espionage and sci-fi elements. While aliens and sea monsters, not to mention dinosaurs, did become the subject of episodes, the primary villains were hostile foreign governments. While fantastic, the scripts had a semblance of reality.

text: During the course of the first season Admiral Nelson was promoted from Three Star to a Four Star Admiral, and it was established that while essentially a marine research vessel SSRN Seaview was also part of the U.S. nuclear armed fleet (most notably defined in William Read Woodfield's episode; Doomsday).

text: The first season opening credits depicted Seaview rising towards the surface, and the closing credits played out over a still of the Seaview's spectacular arctic surface, as featured at the start of the 1961 film.

text: Season Two[edit]

text: The second season began with a trip inside a whale, a trip inside a volcano, and a few Cold War intrigue and nuclear war-themed episodes, and saw several brushes with world disaster. The season ended with a ghost story, one of the show's few sequels.

text: Due to ABC's demands for a somewhat "lighter" tone to the series,[citation needed] the second season saw an increase in monster-of-the-week type plots, yet there were still some episodes that harkened back to the tone of the first season. The second season also saw a change from black-and-white to color. The beginning of the second season saw the permanent replacement of Chief "Curly" Jones with Chief Francis Ethelbert Sharkey, due to the death of Henry Kulky, who portrayed Chief Jones.

text: The most important change in the series occurred during this season when a notably redesigned Seaview interior was introduced, along with the Flying Sub, a yellow, two-man mini-submarine with passenger capacity, armed with a laser gun. It could leave the ocean and function as an airplane. The Flying Sub was referred to by the initials FS-1. The futuristic craft greatly increased the Seaview crew's travel options. The Flying Sub was launched from a bay with automatic doors added in the lower part of the bow section of Seaview that was apparently built between Seasons One and Two (though stock color footage from the 1961 film that was used in Season Two occasionally showed a Seaview minus this addition, despite it being present in later color footage included in the same episodes). The Seaview's private observation deck from the first season was never seen again. The ship's eight smaller observation windows became four large windows giving the sub a sleeker, more futuristic look. The control room was made larger and more open-plan showing the bow windows beyond the control room area (previously this was both closed off by a bulkhead and doorway and on another level in the black-and-white first season), while a memorable large rectangular panel screen of flickering lights was moved across the control room, and access to the Flying Sub via a sealed hatch stairway at the bow section was added. The Seaview also now had a powerful laser beam in its bow light. The small mini-sub ridden by two men from the first season was retained and occasionally still used in the color episodes. The ship's enlisted men were also given more colorful uniforms (red or light blue jumpsuits) and white Keds Champion sneakers, evidently to take advantage of the changeover from black-and-white to color. The officers and petty officers, however, retained their khaki works from the first season. The traditional sailor uniforms worn in the first season were only seen in stock footage from the first season and on characters who were newly filmed to match up with that footage. All these changes occurred between seasons. The Flying Sub was showcased in the show's closing credits for the entire season, while the initial opening was a color version of the first season sequence, though this was soon replaced by a new color sequence of Seaview descending beneath the surface.

text: The Flying Sub also made an appearance in the 1971 Irwin Allen film, City Beneath the Sea (1971 film), as did the Seaview itself during the evacuation scene.

text: A second-season episode, "The Sky's On Fire", was a remake of the basic storyline of Irwin Allen's 1961 film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea utilizing considerable film color footage, though several film sequences were removed and had been featured in other first-season episodes such as 'The Village of Guilt' (the giant octopus) and 'Submarine Sunk Here' (the derelict minefield)

text: A few later season two episodes were filmed without Richard Basehart, who was hospitalized for a bleeding ulcer. He filmed the scenes in the Flying Sub for "The Monster's Web" before hospitalization, requiring a stand in and other characters taking over his lines. He was missing entirely from the next two episodes. These episodes didn't feature his character at all, while in one story "The Menfish" Gary Merrill guested as Admiral Park, a colleague of Nelson's who substituted for him. Basehart returned for "Return of the Phantom," the final episode of the season.

text: Season Three[edit]

text: The third season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ran simultaneously with two other Allen-produced television series: the second season of Lost in Space and the premiere (and only) season of The Time Tunnel.

text: The third season began with Dick Tufeld of Lost in Space playing an evil disembodied brain from outer space. The season continued with a werewolf story that is one of the few episodes to inspire a sequel. In one episode, the Seaview's officers and crew encountered Nazis who believed World War II was still ongoing. The third season only had two espionage stories and one ocean peril story that were reminiscent of the first season. One of those three stories was about a hostile foreign government trying to steal a strange new mineral with the aid of a brainwashed Admiral Nelson. This espionage story was the end of the third season.

text: The final two seasons continued the shift towards paranormal storylines that were popular in the late 1960s.[1] Mummies, werewolves, talking puppets, and an evil leprechaun all walked the corridors of the Seaview. There were also fossil men, flame men, frost men, lobster men, and shadow men. The opening credits were largely identical to the revised season two, but the initial season two yellow lettering credits that were first altered to white, (and then back to yellow on the later revised sequence) were now depicted in a golden/yellowish lettering, and closing credits were set over a green-backed painting of Seaview underwater.

text: Though many female characters appeared in Seasons One and Two, in Season Three only two appeared at all, an unseen woman's voice (Sue England) over the intercom in "The Death Watch" and the title character in "The Mermaid" (Diane Webber), who did not speak.[3]

text: Fourth and final season[edit]

text: The fourth and final season of Voyage began with Victor Jory playing a five century old alchemist while the Seaview is threatened by buffeting underwater currents created by a volcano on the verge of a major eruption. After a few episodes there were revamped opening credits depicting action sequences and the stars' pictures in color set on a sonar board design. The closing credits picture remained unchanged from season three. Near the end of the fourth season, there were three unrelated stories of extraterrestrial invasion in three weeks. One episode had an unknown master of disguise infiltrating and wreaking havoc aboard the Seaview. Another episode has Nelson, Morton and Sharkey actually "gaslight" Crane! There were two time travel stories in two weeks, which both featured the enigmatic but dangerous Mister Pem. The second of the two had the Seaview going back in time to the American Revolution. The episode (and series) ended with the Seaview returning to the present. The final scene of the show has Nelson and Crane sitting in the seldom used easy chairs on the port side of the observation nose discussing how fast time goes by. With this the Seaview is seen sailing into television history.

text: Not a single actress appeared in any episode during the entire fourth season, even as a voice or non-speaking role.[4]

text: In March 1968 it was announced that Voyage would not be back for a fifth season.[5]

text: Music[edit]

text: The series' main theme, "The Seaview Theme", was written by Paul Sawtell. A new darker, more serious theme composed by Jerry Goldsmith was introduced at the beginning of the second-season episode "Jonah and the Whale", but this was quickly replaced by the original version. A version of the Goldsmith suite re-orchestrated by Nelson Riddle was heard as incidental music in the episode "Escape From Venice", and the original Goldsmith suite was used as incidental music throughout the rest of the series. The series' main composer, supervisor and conductor was Lionel Newman, who for the second season composed a serious sounding score for when the episode credits (episode title/guests/writer/director) were shown just after the theme song, which would be used by many episodes (starting with "The Left Handed Man") thru the second and into the early third season. Other guest composers included Lennie Hayton, Hugo Friedhofer, Star Trek: The Original Series composer Alexander Courage, Morton Stevens, Leith Stevens (no relation) who wrote the music to nine episodes, and Sawtell, who worked on the show for a while in the first season.

text: GNP Crescendo issued a soundtrack album in 1997 as part of its series tying into the documentary The Fantasy Worlds Of Irwin Allen, featuring Sawtell's theme from the series and his score for the pilot episode "Eleven Days To Zero" (tracks 2–6) and Goldsmith's work for "Jonah and the Whale."

text:
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Main Title (:29)
Murderous Pursuit (2:54)
Ocean Floor Search/Squid Fight (5:34)
Solid Ice (1:48)
Lost/Job Well Done (3:35)
End Title (The Seaview Theme) (:40)
Jonah and the Whale (Main Title) (:30)
A Whale of a Whale/Thar She Blows/A Whale of a Time/The Second Dive (4:23)
A Meal Fit for a Whale/Crash Dive/Sub Narcotics (4:18)
Collision Course I/Collision Course II/Diving Party/Going Down (4:44)
Home Free Part I/Home Free Part II (3:58)
Jonah and the Whale (End Credit) (:50)

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text: Cast[edit]

text:
Richard Basehart as Admiral Harriman Nelson
David Hedison as Commander Lee Crane
Bob Dowdell as Lieutenant Commander Chip Morton
Derrik Lewis as Lieutenant Commander O'Brien (pilot episode, 1st-2nd seasons)
Henry Kulky as Chief "Curly" Jones (1st season)
Terry Becker as Chief Petty Officer Francis Ethelbert Sharkey (2nd–4th seasons)
Del Monroe as Kowalski
Arch Whiting as Sparks
Paul Trinka as Patterson
Brent Davis as Peters (crew member – 1 episode)
Lew Gallo as Kruger (crew member – 1 episode)
Ralph Garrett as Somers (crew member – 1 episode)
Allan Hunt as Stuart "Stu" Riley (2nd Season)
Richard Bull as the Doctor
Wayne Heffley as Seaview Doctor (2nd Season 1965–1966, 3 episodes)
Paul Carr as Casey Clark (1st season, recurring afterwards only in stock footage scenes)

text: Scott McFadden, Ray Didsbury, Marco Lopez, and Ron Stein provided additional crewman in non-speaking roles often requiring stunt work.

text: Episode list[edit]

text: Note: Two different episodes (28 and 73) are both titled "The Creature".

text: Season One (1964–1965)[edit]

text:
Ep #
Title
Airdate

01
"Eleven Days to Zero" (Guest Starring Eddie Albert)
September 14, 1964

02
"The City Beneath the Sea"(Guest Starring Hurd Hatfield, Linda Cristal)
September 21, 1964

03
"The Fear Makers" (Guest Starring Lloyd Bochner, And Special Guest Star Edgar Bergen)
September 28, 1964

04
"The Mist of Silence" (Guest Starring Rita Gam, Alejandro Rey)
October 5, 1964

05
"The Price of Doom" (Guest Starring David Opatoshu, John Milford and Jill Ireland). Screenplay by Harlan Ellison (under his Cordwainer Bird alias, credited as "Cord Wainer Bird")
October 12, 1964

06
"The Sky Is Falling" (Guest Starring Charles McGraw)
October 19, 1964

07
"Turn Back the Clock" (Guest Starring Nick Adams, Yvonne Craig)
October 26, 1964

08
"The Village of Guilt" (Guest Starring Richard Carlson, Anna-Lisa)
November 2, 1964

09
"Hot Line" (Guest Starring Everett Sloane, And Special Guest Star: Michael Ansara)
November 9, 1964

10
"Submarine Sunk Here"
November 16, 1964

11
"The Magnus Beam"
November 23, 1964

12
"No Way Out"
November 30, 1964

13
"The Blizzard Makers"
December 7, 1964

14
"The Ghost of Moby Dick" Guest stars June Lockhart, Edward Binns
December 14, 1964

15
"Long Live the King" guest star Carroll O'Connor
December 21, 1964

16
"Hail to the Chief"
December 28, 1964

17
"The Last Battle" (Co-starring John Van Dreelen, Joe De Santis, Rudy Solari). Establishes that the series takes place in an alternate timeline when Admiral Nelson states that the Third Reich lasted for 19 years (as opposed to 12 years in the real world)
January 4, 1965

18
"Mutiny" (Guest starring Harold J. Stone)
January 11, 1965

19
"Doomsday" (Co-starring Donald Harron, Paul Carr)
January 18, 1965

20
"The Invaders" (Guest starring Robert Duvall, credited as "Robert Duval")
January 25, 1965

21
"The Indestructible Man" (Co-starring Michael Constantine)
February 1, 1965

22
"The Buccaneer" (Co-starring Barry Atwater)
February 8, 1965

23
"The Human Computer"
February 15, 1965

24
"The Saboteur" (Guest stars Bert Freed, Warren Stevens, featuring James Brolin)
February 22, 1965

25
"Cradle of the Deep"
March 1, 1965

26
"The Amphibians"
March 8, 1965

27
"The Exile" Guest star Edward Asner, co-starring David Sheiner
March 15, 1965

28
"The Creature" Guest star Leslie Nielsen
March 22, 1965

29
"The Enemies" (Guest star Henry Silva, co-starring Malachi Throne)
March 29, 1965

30
"Secret of the Loch" (Guest star Torin Thatcher, co-starring Hedley Mattingly, George Mitchell and John McLiam)
April 5, 1965

31
"The Condemned" (Guest star J. D. Cannon, co-starring Arthur Franz, Alvy Moore)
April 12, 1965

32
"The Traitor"
April 19, 1965

text: Season Two (1965–1966)[edit]

text:
Ep #
Title
Airdate

33/ 01
"Jonah and the Whale" (Guest starring Gia Scala)
September 19, 1965

34/02
"Time Bomb"
September 26, 1965

35/03
"And Five of Us Are Left " (Guest Star Phillip Pine, co-starring Robert Doyle, Teru Shimada)
October 3, 1965

36/04
"The Cyborg" With special guest star Victor Buono co-starring Brooke Bundy
October 17, 1965

37/05
"Escape From Venice"
October 24, 1965

38/06
"The Left-Handed Man"
October 31, 1965

39/07
"The Deadliest Game" (Guest starring Lloyd Bochner. Co-starring, Audrey Dalton, Robert Cornthwaite and Robert F. Simon)
November 7, 1965

40/08
"Leviathan"
November 14, 1965

41/09
"The Peacemaker" (Guest starring John Cassavetes, co-starring Whit Bissell, Irene Tsu, Dale Ishimoto)
November 21, 1965

42/10
"The Silent Saboteurs" (Guest starring Pilar Seurat, co-starring George Takei, Bert Freed)
November 28, 1965

43/11
"The X Factor"
December 5, 1965

44/12
"The Machines Strike Back"
December 12, 1965

45/13
"The Monster From Outer Space"
December 19, 1965

46/14
"Terror On Dinosaur Island"
December 26, 1965

47/15
"Killers of the Deep"
January 2, 1966

48/16
"Deadly Creature Below!" (Guest star Nehemiah Persoff, co-starring Paul Comi)
January 9, 1966

49/17
"The Phantom Strikes"
January 16, 1966

50/18
"The Sky's On Fire" (Guest Star David J. Stewart, Co-starring Robert H. Harris, Frank Marth)
January 23, 1966

51/19
"Graveyard of Fear" (Guest starring Robert Loggia)
January 30, 1966

52/20
"The Shape of Doom" (Guest star Kevin Hagen)
February 6, 1966

53/21
"Dead Man's Doubloons" (Guest star Albert Salmi)
February 13, 1966

54/22
"The Death Ship"
February 20, 1966

55/23
"The Monster's Web" (Guest star Mark Richman)
February 27, 1966

56/24
"The Menfish" (Guest star Gary Merrill, special guest star John Dehner)
March 6, 1966

57/25
"The Mechanical Man" (Guest star James Darren, special guest star Arthur O'Connell)
March 13, 1966

58/26
"The Return of the Phantom"
March 20, 1966

text: Season Three (1966–1967)[edit]

text:
Ep #
Title
Airdate

59/01
"Monster From the Inferno"
September 18, 1966

60/02
"Werewolf"
September 25, 1966

61/03
"The Day The World Ended"
October 2, 1966

62/04
"Night of Terror"
October 9, 1966

63/05
"The Terrible Toys"
October 16, 1966

64/06
"Day of Evil"
October 23, 1966

65/07
"Deadly Waters"
October 30, 1966

66/08
"Thing From Inner Space"
November 6, 1966

67/09
"The Death Watch"
November 13, 1966

68/10
"Deadly Invasion"
November 20, 1966

69/11
"The Haunted Submarine"
November 27, 1966

70/12
"The Plant Man"
December 4, 1966

71/13
"The Lost Bomb"
December 11, 1966

72/14
"The Brand of the Beast"
December 18, 1966

73/15
"The Creature" (a.k.a. The Creature Returns)
January 1, 1967

74/16
"Death From The Past"
January 8, 1967

75/17
"The Heat Monster"
January 15, 1967

76/18
"The Fossil Men"
January 22, 1967

77/19
"The Mermaid" Guest star Diane Webber
January 29, 1967

78/20
"The Mummy"
February 5, 1967

79/21
"The Shadowman"
February 12, 1967

80/22
"No Escape From Death"
February 19, 1967

81/23
"Doomsday Island"
February 26, 1967

82/24
"The Wax Men" Guest star Michael Dunn
March 5, 1967

83/25
"Deadly Cloud"
March 12, 1967

84/26
"Destroy Seaview!"
March 19, 1967

text: Season Four (1967–1968)[edit]

text:
Ep #
Title
Airdate

085/01
"Fires of Death" (Guest Starring Victor Jory)
September 17, 1967

086/02
"The Deadly Dolls" (Guest Starring Vincent Price)
October 1, 1967

087/03
"Cave of the Dead" (Guest Starring Warren Stevens)
October 8, 1967

088/04
"Journey With Fear"
October 15, 1967

089/05
"Sealed Orders"
October 22, 1967

090/06
"Man of Many Faces"
October 29, 1967

091/07
"Fatal Cargo"(Guest Starring Woodrow Parfrey)
November 5, 1967

092/08
"Time Lock" (Guest Starring John Crawford)
November 12, 1967

093/09
"Rescue" (Guest Starring Don Dubbins)
November 19, 1967

094/10
"Terror"
November 26, 1967

095/11
"A Time To Die" (Guest Starring Henry Jones)
December 3, 1967

096/12
"Blow Up"
December 10, 1967

097/13
"The Deadly Amphibians" (Guest Starring Don Matheson)
December 17, 1967

098/14
"The Return of Blackbeard" (Guest Starring Malachi Throne)
December 31, 1967

099/15
"The Terrible Leprechaun" (Guest Starring Walter Burke)
January 7, 1968

100/16
"The Lobster Man" (Guest Starring Victor Lundin)
January 21, 1968

101/17
"Nightmare" (Guest Starring Paul Mantee)
January 28, 1968

102/18
"The Abominable Snowman"
February 4, 1968

103/19
"Secret of the Deep" (Guest Starring Peter Mark Richman)
February 11, 1968

104/20
"Man-Beast" (Guest Starring Lawrence Montaigne)
February 18, 1968

105/21
"Savage Jungle" (Guest Starring Perry López)
February 25, 1968

106/22
"Flaming Ice"
March 3, 1968

107/23
"Attack!"
March 10, 1968

108/24
"The Edge of Doom"
March 17, 1968

109/25
"The Death Clock"
March 24, 1968

110/26
"No Way Back"
March 31, 1968

text: Other media[edit]

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A paperback novel, City Under the Sea, authored by Paul W. Fairman, was published in 1965, to tie into the series. It had a different storyline than the episode of the same name. The book should also not be confused with the later Irwin Allen film of nearly the same name, which was about the attempts of the world's first under-sea city to prevent the earth from being hit by a rogue asteroid. It is not about "A wealthy family attempting to move the Earth's oceans to another planet for resettlement" as has occasionally been stated.[7]
Western Publishing published a comic book based on the series. Western's comic company, Gold Key Comics put out a series that ran 16 issues from 1964 to 1970. Most covers were painted, and most had a photo of either Richard Basehart or David Hedison on them. The first issue of the Gold Key comic was a story called "The Last Survivor". The story brought back Dr. Gamma, the villain from the pilot episode, "Eleven Days to Zero". Gold Key's story was the only sequel to the pilot episode. Hermes Press reprinted the entire run in 2 hardback volumes; the first was released in 2009.
In 1966, World Distributors, a British publishing company in Manchester, published a hardback book called the Annual. The British-made book used the series characters in all new stories. The book contained a reprint of a story from Gold Key Comics. Both books were mostly prose stories with some illustrations.
Aurora Plastics Corporation released a plastic model kit of Seaview as well as the Flying Sub during the original run of the series. From 1975 - 1977, Aurora reissued both kits; the Seaview (kit #253) was modified with a sea floor base (originally created for the Dick Tracy Space Coupe kit #819) and sub surface details, while The Flying Sub (kit #254) was remodeled in a different base color. The 1975 - 1977 kits—part of Aurora's reissue of 5 of their 11 TV & movie-related science-fiction kits, also included instruction sheets with a detailed history of the TV series or movie plot.
Both kits were recently re-released by Polar Lights. The Flying Sub model sold more than the Seaview model.[citation needed]
Other collectables from the show include a board game with illustrations based on the pilot episode, as well as a boxed card game with a painting of the divers' battle with the giant octopus, both from Milton Bradley, and a school lunch box with thermos from Aladdin with depictions of Admiral Nelson and Captain Crane trying to save the Flying Sub from an evil looking octopus. There was also a Sawyers View-Master slide reel based on the episode "Deadly Creature Below."
In 1964, a 66-card set of black-and-white trading cards was released by Donruss. Selling for 5 cents a pack, the set consisted of stills from the first season. Today, a set in mint condition can sell for several hundred dollars.

text: Popular culture[edit]

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The popularity of the TV show inspired Mad Magazine (March, 1966) to spoof the show, their version being called Voyage to See What's on the Bottom, featuring a submarine called the Seapew and a flying sub called Son of Seapew.
Australian TV show Fast Forward sent-up the series as Voyage to the Bottom of the Harbour.
Stock footage of Seaview was used in the Wonder Woman episode "The Bermuda Triangle Crisis."
An often referenced running joke is that in many episodes of the series, characters lurch to camera movements on the visibly static set, to give the illusion that Seaview had sustained impact. This was an old movie trick, and was commonly used by other television shows of the period, including Star Trek, but none did it so frequently, nor with such relish as Voyage.[8] Hence, the technique is still commonly known as "Seaview Rock and Roll."
British television sitcom Red Dwarf frequently utilized parodies of this gimmick, including an extended outtake of the cast lurching from side to side of the Starbug set at the insistence of Craig Charles.
On the SciFi Channel's 1995 documentary tribute to Irwin Allen, The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen, series co-star June Lockhart recalled this technique being used also on Lost In Space, where the cast also knew it as "the rock-and-roll".
The Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb has an episode with a pun on the title called Voyage to the Bottom of Buford.

text: DVD releases[edit]

text: 20th Century Fox has released all 4 seasons on DVD in Region 1 in two volume sets.

text: In Region 2, Revelation Films has released the entire series on DVD in the UK in four complete season sets.[9][10][11][12] On March 26, 2012, they released Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: The Complete Collection, a 31-disc set featuring all 110 episodes of the series as well as bonus features.[13]

text: In Region 4, Madman Entertainment released the first two seasons on DVD in Australia on August 20, 2014.[14][15]

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DVD Name
Ep #
Release Date
Additional Information

Season 1 Vol. 1
16
February 21, 2006

Unaired Color Pilot
Behind the scenes home movie from Irwin Allen
Promotional Reel featuring Irwin Allen from 1964
Still Gallery

Season 1 Vol. 2
16
July 11, 2006

Still Gallery (22 images)
Blooper Reel
David Hedison Interviews

Season 2 Vol. 1
13
October 24, 2006

Special Effects Footage (22:04)
Concept Art Gallery (5 stills)
Episodic Photo Gallery (35 stills)
Publicity Photo Gallery (8 stills)

Season 2 Vol. 2
13
February 20, 2007

David Hedison Interview
Still Gallery

Season 3 Vol. 1
13
June 19, 2007

Still Galleries
David Hedison Interviews
Visitors on Set
Letters from Fans
"The Rock and Roll"
David Hedison 1966 Interview (audio only)

Season 3 Vol. 2
13
October 23, 2007

Episodic Photo Gallery
Publicity Photos
TV Merchandise
David Hedison Interviews
Richard Basehart 1966 Interview (audio only)

Season 4 Vol. 1
13
March 31, 2009

Eleven Days to Zero (re-cut unaired pilot)
David Hedison Interviews:

Years 1–4
Irwin's Goal
Irwin's Office
Work Hours
Voice-overs

Still Gallery

Season 4 Vol. 2
13
January 11, 2011

Original Unaired Pilot
Broadcast Pilot with Vintage Commercials
Still Gallery

text: Notes[edit]

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^ Jump up to: a b King, Susan (2011-01-30). "'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea': David Hedison looks back on periscope days". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-01-30.
Jump up ^ Richard Basehart also starred in Moby Dick (1956 film), directed by John Huston.
Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057798/epcast#season-3
Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057798/epcast#season-4
Jump up ^ "TV Winter Season Getting Shorter". The Robesonian. Lumberton, N.C. March 11, 1968. p. 9.
Jump up ^ "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea". TV.com. CBS Interactive.
Jump up ^ manzp (25 January 1971). "City Beneath the Sea (TV Movie 1971)". IMDb.
Jump up ^ Season 3 Vol 1 DVD extra feature "The Rock and Roll"
Jump up ^ "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea — The Complete Series One DVD 1964: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Robert Dowdell, Dell Monroe: Film & TV". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
Jump up ^ "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea — The Complete Second Series DVD 1961: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Irwin Allen: Film & TV". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
Jump up ^ "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea — The Complete Series Three DVD 1964: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Irwin Allen: Film & TV". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
Jump up ^ "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea — The Complete Series Four DVD 1964: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Irwin Allen: Film & TV". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
Jump up ^ "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea The Complete Collection DVD 1964: Amazon.co.uk: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Irwin Allen: Film & TV". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
Jump up ^ "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Season 1". Madman Entertainment.
Jump up ^ "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Season 2". Madman Entertainment.