seaQuest DSV

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Television series
German title seaQuest DSV, seaQuest 2032 (from season 3)
Original title seaQuest DSV, seaQuest 2032 (from season 3)
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 1993 - 1996
length 45 minutes
Episodes 59 in 3 seasons ( list )
genre Science fiction , submarine movie
idea Rockne S. O'Bannon
music John Debney ,
Russ Landau
First broadcast September 19, 1993 (USA) on NBC
German-language
first broadcast		 January 19, 1994 on RTL
occupation
synchronization

seaQuest DSV is an American science fiction series produced by Steven Spielberg . Between 1993 and 1996, three seasons with 59 episodes were created. At the beginning of the third season, the series was renamed seaQuest 2032 . The individual seasons of the series are very different in terms of content.

The action takes place in the near future (from 2018) on the 300-meter-long high-tech submarine “seaQuest DSV”, which mostly fulfills its missions in all oceans in the service of research and peacekeeping.

action

overview

Humanity has populated the last unexplored region, the ocean . With the seaQuest DSV ( DSV stands for Deep Submergence Vehicle , English for "deep diving vehicle "), a submarine of the "United Earth / Oceans Organization" (UEO for short, as a series counterpart to the UNO ), Captain Nathan Bridger (in Season 3: Captain Oliver Hudson ) with his crew on a long journey.

First season

The consequences are shaped by a thirst for adventure and curiosity. They often pick up on developments in the environment that were already foreseeable during production. This applies in particular to changes in the underwater world that have been triggered by humans. The content ranged from exploring the deep sea to the uprising in an underwater mine to the persecution of eco-terrorists .

Second season

Since the audience ratings for the first season were unsatisfactory, the broadcaster implemented several fundamental changes for the second season: On the one hand, they wanted to make the series more action-heavy and also to rejuvenate the cast in order to appeal to younger viewers. As a result, the somewhat more mature actors Royce D. Applegate and John d'Aquino were sacked, and Stephanie Beacham and Stacy Haiduk decided to leave. The much younger Kathy Evison, Edward Kerr, Rosalind Allen and Michael and Peter deLuise joined them.

In addition, the adventures of the “seaQuest” in the second season should be even more fantastic and thus break away from the previous reference to the present. So finally were aliens , Urweltungeheuer, demons , Atlantis and even ancient Greek gods introduced.

Third season

For the third season, the series concept was changed drastically again due to poor audience ratings. This season is much darker and more cynical than before, and the proportion of action has been increased again. In seaQuest 2032 the boat was sent ten years into the future in order to create a new starting point: The UEO broke; divided the earth into several power blocks. It is now the task of the occupation to protect the interests of the remaining UEO, especially against those of the emerging dictatorial state of Macronesia . This conflicted storyline runs through the entire season.

In the third season, Roy Scheider , who had previously made negative comments about the development of the series, dropped out of production and was only seen in a few guest appearances. Michael Ironside took his place as Captain Oliver Hudson . The regular cast was also reduced: Rosalind Allen and Marco Sanchez were fired, but Elise Neal joined seaQuest in 2032 . Edward Kerr also ended the series work at his own request after a few episodes. After the completion of the 13th episode of this season, the production of the series was unexpectedly discontinued.

backgrounds

  • The series produced by Steven Spielberg as co-executive producer (2nd line producer ) challenged the comparison with the veteran of TV science fiction with the self -image " Star Trek under water, only great". The fact that seaQuest hardly lived up to this wish is shown by the constant restructuring in the concept of the series and ultimately the cancellation after 59 episodes.
  • The music for the opening episode of the second season and the theme music each received an Emmy . seaQuest DSV received a total of four further nominations.
  • At the end of each episode of the first two seasons, knowledge about the oceans is imparted parallel to the credits ; in the first season by the oceanographer and discoverer of the Titanic , Robert Ballard , in the second by one of the actors.
  • With the beginning of the second season, the production moved from Los Angeles to the east coast of Florida , which caused the withdrawal of some actors.
  • The visual effects were developed by "Amblin Imaging" and were groundbreaking for the conditions at the time.

Episode list

synchronization

The synchronization of the series was created at Neue Tonfilm München under the dialogue direction by Gert Günther Hoffmann based on dialogue books by Hoffmann, Klaus Kindler and Pierre Peters-Arnolds .

role actor Voice actor
Captain Nathan Bridger Roy Scheider Gert Günther Hoffmann
Captain Oliver Hudson Michael Ironside Reinhard Glemnitz
Commander Jonathan Ford Don Franklin Udo Wachtveitl
Lukas Wolenczak Jonathan Brandis Hubertus von Lerchenfeld
Lieutenant Timothy O'Neill Ted Raimi Ulrich Frank
Lt. Cmdr. Katherine Hitchcock Stacy Haiduk Gundula Liebisch
Chief Manilow Crocker Royce D. Applegate Hartmut Neugebauer
Dr. Kristin Westphalen Stephanie Beacham Renate Danz
Lieutenant Benjamin War John D'Aquino Christian Tramitz
Chief Miguel Ortiz Marco Sanchez Axel Malzacher
Dr. Wendy Smith Rosalind Allen
Lieutenant James Brody Edward Kerr Crock Krumbiegel
Tony Piccolo Michael DeLuise
Dagwood Peter DeLuise
Navigator Lonnie Henderson Kathy Evison
Lieutenant JJ ​​Fredricks Elise Neal

Guest stars

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Series | seaQuest DSV. Retrieved August 10, 2018 .