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In the tradition of the season three Werewolf episodes comes Captain Crane turning into a Man-Beast. As expected, Crane makes trouble on the Seaview and it is up to the often missing Admiral Nelson to cure the Captain.

This episode is loved by many as the script is rather clever and there are many female Voyage/Sea fans who love to see David Hedision do anything in Voyage...even turn into a Man-Beast. Then again, there are just as many Richard Basehart fans (like me) and this episode is the start of a bothering trend that sometimes happened in the last few episodes of Voyage: Basehart is often missing!

Basehart sometimes went missing in the last seven episodes and when he was present he never really said or did anything of interest. I don't wish to scare Basehart fans away from the last seven shows, he still does a bit in coming episodes like Edge Of Doom and No Way Back, but some viewers should be warned that THE STAR of the series, and the guy who gets top billing every week, almost seems like a co-star in some of the last few episodes.

Werewolves featured in two episodes of Season 3, written by Donn Mullally and William Welch respectively, and here is another one from the latter, only this time its Crane who gets to snarl and go hairy, not Nelson. Strictly speaking, this is not a sequel to the earlier werewolf stories. The word 'werewolf' isn't mentioned once. With Nelson absent, Crane descends into a deep trench in the diving bell which has been equipped with an artificial atmosphere created by 'Braddock' ( Lawrence Montaigne ). The test seems to be a success. Until Crane notices hair appearing on the backs of his hands...

Hedison was used to putting on weird make-up; he had been 'The Fly' in the famous 1958 movie. Here Dan Striepeke ( who worked on 'Planet Of The Apes' ) gives him shaggy hair, a snout with flared nostrils, and fangs. He looks okay, but how much better would it have been if the director had chosen to keep him creeping about in the shadows, leaping out and attacking passing crewmen, rather than have him dashing about brightly-lit corridors. A bit more imaginative lighting and this could have been a scary episode.

Nelson is absent from the first half, but reappears midway and sorts the problem out. The scene where Crane returns to normal at the end is excellent. Rather oddly, Braddock is normal when he dies, but then turns back into the man-beast. Its the usually the other way round in films/T.V. shows of this kind! Anyway, this is a good episode.

As a fan of Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, I must say that MAN BEAST is without doubt the best "monster" type show without being silly or fake. 1st, the episode was cleverly written to include the character of the Doctor posing as a cripple, conveying the appearance of conducting a landmark experiment, when in fact he is not wheel chair bound at all and using Captain Crane as a guinea pig to find a cure for the beast that he to is infected with. But I also feel that credit must go to the well designed makeup for David Hedison, making clever use of the old school fright wig and applied makeup, rather than a bulky and hokey head piece like in Werewolf, where you can see the actor himself and not some stunt double. The makeup coupled with Hedison's "operatic" movements, as he also performs in The Fly during the destruction of the lab, and his out cries of pain during the transformation sequences creates a very scary hour for the viewer. Leith Stevens musical score and "beast" cues adds to the eeriness by using only piano and string instruments vs. the more melodic and bombastic scores heard in the first three seasons. This may be the reason why this episode is a favorite of David Hedisons.