What year was this show supposed to have taken place in?
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Lonixcap — 15 years ago(February 19, 2011 07:07 PM)
I guess the idea was "it's the future". So to jump around the 1970's on a show that made little sense anyway doesn't really matter.
And continuity? Hah! Every time another sub was featured in an episode, the interior always looked like the Seaview. They just used the same set and said what the hell, a sub's a sub, right. -
Scaarge — 14 years ago(December 04, 2011 09:57 PM)
Well, the episode "Hail to the Chief" (episode 16 of the first season) opens with a shot of a secretary writing on a desk diary dated June 24, 1973.
(Incidentally, she writes that the the helicopter on that date will be ready at 10:04. Try not to be late!)
I'm not sure Irwin Allen cared much of a fig for continuity, though -
ewing-23 — 12 years ago(October 12, 2013 02:35 AM)
In the first series it wan't superimposed but often referred to verbally as 1973. The later series had the superimposed numbers, commonly 1978 in the second seriss. I remember after that it went as far as 1981. As a litte boy when first watching it, years like 1981 were miles in the future, or seemed like it!
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hightp — 12 years ago(December 10, 2013 04:40 AM)
As someone previously stated, the years arn't really that important. It was just supposed to convey 'this is the not so distant future'.
You also have to remember that none of the people had DVDs or video's back then so there wasn't anyone constantly viewing past episodes. (Though you'd think the writers would have had a timeline.)
He who fights and runs away, lives to run away again! -
flapdoodle64 — 11 years ago(November 21, 2014 02:13 PM)
The fact that a number of episodes begin with a specific year shown in boldly at the beginning and the fact that they never use the same year and sometimes even seem to jump back in time to earlier years seems to suggest that some of the writers might have been making an inside joke, or maybe just testing to see if IA ever noticed or cared. (Obviously, IA never noticed or cared.)