 A meeting with American television companies (ABC, Métromédia, NBC) created the series "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau", with the character of the commander in the red bonnet inherited from standard diving dress intended to give the films a "personalized adventure" style.This documentary television series ran for ten years from 1966 to 1976.A second documentary series, "The Cousteau Odyssey", ran from 1977 to 1982 on public television stations.