Sealab 2020

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Sealab 2020 is an animated adventure series produced by Hanna-Barbera for NBC in 1972. It concerns the crew of an underwater laboratory. These scientists, led by Dr. Williams and Captain Murphy, study the undersea environment and help out many sea creatures in need.

Only 13 episodes were produced. Cartoon Network later redubbed the series as Sealab 2021 for its Adult Swim block. The Sealab location also appeared in the Jellystone! season two episode "The Floodgates of Love". Captain Murphy, Ed and Hal also appeared in the episode. There is also a reference to Sealab 2021 as the episode ends with the Sealab exploding similar to how most episodes of Sealab 2021 end.

Sealab 2020 was released on DVD by Warner Home Video on 22 May 2012.

Voice cast

• Josh Albee as Bobby Murphy
• William Callaway as Lieutenant Sparks
• Jerry Dexter as Hal
• Ann Jillian as Gail Adams
• Ron Pinkard as Ed Thomas
• Olga James as Mrs. Thomas
• Pamelyn Ferdin as Sally
• Ross Martin as Paul Williams
• John Stephenson as Captain Mike Murphy, Quincy Jones
• Gary Shapiro as Jamie

Episodes

1. Deep Threat
2. Green Fever
3. The Singing Whale
4. Lost
5. The Shark Lover
6. Backfire
7. The Basking Shark
8. Where Dangers Are Many
9. The Deepest Dive
10. The Challenge
11. Collision of the Aquarius
12. The Arctic Story
13. The Capture

Trivia

• Sealab 2020 was the first Saturday-morning cartoon to seriously focus on the environment. This was apropos to the political climate in the United States at the time, dealing with the effects of pollution and (at the time unconfirmed) excesses of greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere. Other Hanna-Barbera shows would mirror this same theme, including Yogi's Gang, SuperFriends, and Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
• This was Ross Martin's first voice acting job for Hanna-Barbera. He previously became well known to television audiences as Artemus Gordon from The Wild Wild West, which aired on CBS from 1965 to 1969. He would later make contributions to Josie and the Pussy Cats in Outer Space, SuperFriends, The Robonic Stooges, and other Hanna-Barbera productions until his death in 1981.
• Many of the actors on the show, including Pinkard, came from the popular NBC show Emergency!, which aired its first season earlier that year.
• New scores were composed by Hoyt Curtin to correspond to the more aquatic tone of the show, although much of Ted Nichols' earlier underscore was recycled to fill in the more action-driven scenes.
• There were three real Sealabs established by the United States Navy in the 1960s. This project ended before the end of the decade.

External links

• Sealab 2020 at the Big Cartoon Database