This episode of the TV show, Discovery ‘66, dates to the year 1966. Discovery (in several incarnations) was an innovative historical, cultural and educational documentary TV series for children that aired from 1962-1971 on ABC. It was originally hosted by Frank Buxton on aired on weekdays, but for most of the Sixties it could be found on Saturday afternoons or Sunday mornings. This episode “The World Beneath the Sea” opens with host Bill Owen (who succeeded Buxton in 1966) holding a spiny lobster. The camera pans to the ocean and shows a coral reef beneath. Main title :30. Animated introduction: 40. Discovery ’66. The award-winning program for young people 1:00. Bill Owen kneels beside the sea 1:35. Owen picks up a spiny lobster 1:48. Large black fish swim under the sea 2:15. Owen sits by the sea and talks to the camera 2:40. Tropical fish flit about the coral 3:00. A shark is shown swimming continuously 3:10. The spiny fins of a lionfish 3:20. A green moray and spotted moray eel breath 3:30. The film shows the moray eel; the green and spotted species of the eel. Black Angel fish and yellow tailed snappers hunt their way across the coral reef 4:10. A puffer fish (burr fish) swims in front of the camera 4:30. The Queen Angelfish and the spot fin butterfly fish 4:38. The stingray is camouflaged on top and bottom of its body 5:05. The Seahorse and its mate cling to a branch 5:10. A jaw fish makes a burrow 5:25. The angler fish dangles its lure and snaps up a fish 5:50. A sawfish swims on the bottom of the ocean. We also see the one of the smallest things in the sea; plankton 6:15. The great blue whale 6:17. Drawings of creatures from the deepest parts of the ocean 6:30. Bill Owen speaks to the camera 6:42. The Discovery team boards an oceanography boat 7:40. Bill Owen holds a starfish 7:50. Dr. Robert Stevenson from the Miami Institute of Marine Science joins Bill Owen on deck 8:14. A shark in a net is tagged for return to the sea 8:50. The shark is returned to the sea with its tag 9:20. Dr. Stevenson demonstrates a gravity core 9:40. The gravity core is dropped over the side of the ship 9:50. The mud samples collected by the gravity core are inspected on the ship 10:10. Dr. Stevenson now demonstrates a Niskin bottle, used to take water samples at various depths 10:22. The drift bottle is presented by Dr. Stevenson 11:50. The episode takes time to discuss plankton 13:00. Bill Owen snags a hefty bunch of seaweed with a net. The seaweed is called sargassum weed 13;06. Many creatures live in the sargassum weed. They spill out over the deck 13:50. Fishing nets haul in thousands of fish 14:04. Long drift nets are laid out in the ocean in a circle 14:14. Bill Owen speaks to the camera 14:40. Bill Owen holds up the shell of a Paper Nautilus on a dock 15:20. The Argonaut octopus lives inside the Nautilus shell 15:23. The tiny Nautilus swims in the lab tank 15:30. Dr Warren J. Wisby and other scientists at the Institute have made great strides in shark behavior. A lemon shark is placed inside a plastic tube for an experiment 15:53. We see a large close-up of the shark’s eye I 16:15. The lemon shark gasps for breath in the tube 16:38. Dr. Stevenson joins Bob in the lab 16:45. Dr. Stevenson explains to Bob Owen how different instruments are used for different maritime experiments 17:45. Divers swim on the seafloor in the Bahamas 18:08. Dr. Stevenson talks about how noisy the ocean can be 18:23. A squirrel fish looks at the camera and ducks into his cove 18:40. Scientists work on the deck of the boat adjusting instruments and emptying nets 19:44. Oceanographers drop instruments into the sea 19:50. Bill Owen talks to the camera 20:14. The previews from next week’s episode are about submarines and porpoises 20:25. Bill Owen says goodbye to the camera – until next time 20:40. Discovery ’66. Executive producer, Jules Power. Produced by Daniel Wilson. Written by Ronald Liss. The movie closes with fish swimming in the background 21:16. Produced in cooperation with National Education Association. A Jules Power production. “

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