Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 sci-fi film in which a small crew of medical and military personnel are miniaturized inside a submarine to save the life of a scientist. The screenplay was novelized by Isaac Asimov but due to production delays, it preceded the film's release date by six months.
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- The third season Muppet Babies episode "Scooter's Uncommon Cold" borrows the entire plot (with the babies using Baby Animal's toy sub and a microscope to enter Baby Scooter). Footage from the film is used throughout the episode for exterior shots of the babies' sub.
- The plot device of shrinking down to microscopic size and venturing inside a character's body is used again in the Muppet Babies reboot episode "Don't Over Duet," where the characters go inside Piggy's body. However, no footage from the actual film is used in this case.
- John Crichton calls Joe Dante's 1987 film Innerspace a "comic version of Fantastic Voyage" in the Farscape novel Ship of Ghosts.
- In the Farscape comic book issue "The Binds that Tie," Aeryn Sun has become infected with a virus. In order to give her the cure, John Crichton shrinks down into her bloodstream. He exclaims "Donald Pleasence, eat your heart out." Pleasence played Dr. Michaels, one of the team injected into the scientist's body.
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- Raquel Welch played Cora