PLANET OF THE APES

 
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1974
13th SEPTEMBER 1974
20th CENTURT FOX TELEVISION
STAN HOUGH

 
BACKGROUND

Bringing the Ape franchise to the small screen must have seemed a good idea at the time but 
like most good thoughts, it doesn't always translate into a fleshed reality. 

With the same premise as in the movies, Astronauts Virdon amd Burke are thrust a thousand 
years into the future where they encounter a world ruled by Apes and the human population are 
no more than slaves.

Although a typical action aeries, it did try and capture some of the films themes,it did little to
expand the myth and lasted a mere fourteen episodes.

 
CAST
ALAN VIRDON RON HARPER
PETE BURKE JAMES NAUGHTON
GALEN  RODDY McDOWELL
DR ZAIUS BOOTH COLEMAN
GENERAL URKO MARK LENARD
 

 
EPISODE GUIDE
SEASON 1

Escape From Tomorrow 
The Gladiators 
The Trap 
The Good Seeds 
The Legacy 
Tomorrow's Tide 
The Surgeon 
The Deception 
The Horse Race 
The Interrogation 
The Tyrant 
The Cure 
The Liberator 
Up Above the World So High 
MOVIES (SERIES BASED ON)

PLANET OF THE APES 
BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES 
ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES 
CONQUEST FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES 
BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES 

 
TRIVIA FAX

Roddy McDowell is the only actor to make the transition from the movies to the TV show. 

Mark Lenard who plays Urko, is perhaps better known as Ambassador Sarek in the Star Trek series.

Episodes were edited together as the TV movies Back to the Planet of the Apes, The
Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes, Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes,
Farewell to the Planet of the Apes and most bizzarly Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of
the Apes.

Director Tim Burton (Batman, Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow) unleashed his 'reimagined' Planet of
the Apes movie in 2001...even great directors are allowed an off-day!