Updated: March 30, 2013

When you think of sci-fi stars on American television in the 1960's your thoughts naturally beam up to the Enterprise and the famous crew of "Star Trek," but the cast of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" actually logged more time aboard its ship — the ABC maritime adventure that ran from 1964 to 1968 ended up as the decade's longest-running non-anthology sci-fi show.

The most famous faces of the "Voyage" cast were the late Richard Basehart, in the role of Admiral Harriman Nelson, and David Hedison as Commander Lee Crane. Hedison, now 83, was a reluctant star at first — he had very little interest in getting on board with the show's creator and producer, Irwin Allen, when Allen was putting together the 1961 submarine feature film that would spawn the television series of the same title.