My name is Jo, and I run a small non-profit called Cancer Gets Lost that hosts charity auctions featuring rare & signed pop culture collectibles, donating 100% of all auction proceeds to a different cancer charity every year –
Javier Grillo-Marxuach is a good friend of mine. He was one of the seaQuest writers back in the day, and kindly donated many items for CGL to auction off, given that CGL is not on Facebook, I really appreciate you offering to share photos and details on the fan page for when the time comes!
For a myriad of reasons, unfortunately CGL is not able to ship internationally this year. So hopefully if fans abroad want to bid in the auction, they have a friend or family member in the US that would be willing to hold on to items for them. I realize that it limits the reach of the auction, but it is out of my hands, and luckily we have raised many thousands for cancer charities regardless.
Details:
Cancer Gets Lost 2026 Online Charity Auction
April 25 – May 2
Open to those with US shipping addresses
Featuring rare and signed pop culture collectibles
100% of ALL auction proceeds are being donated the Breast Cancer Research Foundation
About CGL:
Cancer Gets Lost is a 501c3-sponsored organization (via a fiscal sponsorship from FJC: A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds) that raises money for various cancer charities via online and live auctions of rare and autographed pop culture collectibles. CGL designates a different cancer charity to receive 100% of all auction proceeds every year! CGL’s auctions include items from 25-50 different TV shows and films, as well as music and more! All auction items are kindly donated by fans, actors, producers, writers, crew, etc. Thus far, CGL has raised and then donated over $500,000 to a wide variety of cancer charities!
I fund and run CGL myself, and manage all aspects unsalaried, as a full time volunteer. This is a true labor of love that sparks great joy, as it is a tremendous honor to be able to make an impactful difference for cancer survivors and their families –
Exclusive Preview of the seaQuest lot;
“The 60’s were a time of exploration and adventure in Television, and that’s exactly where Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea took us. Each week revealed something that Jacques Cousteau couldn’t…and that was that undersea myth and legend was real! Or so we thought…
And although cars were my thing, the Seaview Submarine was a kind of car that could take all your friends and then some! I worked on a show called seaQuest many years ago, (way after Voyage,) but it never recaptured the essence of like we’d seen it before. Once again Hollywood…we want something fresh.
My favourite thing was to wear the shirt of the show while I was watching. And with 5 kids in our family, Voyage was a hit each week, the sea became an adventurous and sometimes frightening playground. We lived in Palos Verdes at the time (by the sea) and it was everything I could do to get down to the water and let my mind wonder. I’ve included a couple of concepts I did from seaQuest here…”
ML
Nestled in amongst the pages of the STARBURST TV Sci-Fi special #24 is this short piece from Joe Nazarro in the company of Lieutenant Ben Krieg himself, John D’Aquino. While D’Aquino himself comes across as very diplomatic and courteous in this interview, those ‘Questies who follow the site and have read the numerous accounts of both actors and Producers alike in previous posts will be able to fill between the lines of the history the fan-favourite actor alludes to.
Sadly it would seem D’Aquino, as a self-professed long-time pal of original Producer Tommy Thompson was somewhat doomed from the outset, despite promises to maintain impartiality between his friend and star Roy Scheider during their well-publicised feud.
While an updated, in-depth discussion with D’Aquino about exactly what happened all these years ago would be fascinating (and something I would love to do here on the site!) it would seem that the actors career did indeed get a great boost from his appearance on the show, and anyone in doubt of his popularity should remind themselves of arguably his finest hour as a guest star in season 3’s ‘In The Company Of Ice & Profit’ where the Ben Krieg character is redeemed in bittersweet circumstances no fan could predict…
ML
Welcome, Questie’s one and all to the year 2026!! As time marches mercilessly on, its strange to think that out beloved show is getting ever closer to becoming a period piece. Remember when the future was exciting and something to look forward to? That was the message of the show and many more like it, but somehow the future is not what it was. Indeed, one could be forgiven for thinking our civilisation has already peaked and we’re now living in some sort of post-pandemic dystopia…
Anyhooooo – despite the apparent inactivity here at the VAULT HQ, I am, as ever, very busy behind the scenes. Last year I finished up two site pages long in the making, a profile of our beloved show creator Philip Segal, and a fitting tribute to the screen legend that was star Roy Scheider. Currently I’m working on a fond salute to makeup artist Louis Lazarra, I have a new pile of CapeQuest Newsletters to scan and add to the Fanzines page, and if you didn’t already catch my interview with the lovely girls from the UEO TAVERN PODCAST, shame on you, but go here to listen up:) I’m also in the early stages of making a video about the various SQ models that have been made available over the years, culminating in a review of the monster 1:300 scale by Nautilus Drydocks.
I also want to say the biggest thank you to Frank Oftring, now the official artist for the headers for the site, and whose tenacity and dedication not only produce wonderful images but videos with such clarity they suck you straight back into the opulence of New Cape Quest as if it actually existed…
But for now, normal coverage resumes with another one of our friend Bill Warren’s vintage interviews for Starlog Magazine, this time with fan favourite Marco Sanchez (apparently during the filming of season one’s ‘The Good Death’) Similar chats with both Stacey Haiduk and Jon D’ Aquino are to follow, stay tuned…
ML
