Planet of the Apes Television Series 1974

1974 television adventure series based on the hugely successful film of the same name. Thrust more than a thousand years into the future when their spacecraft passes through a time warp, astronauts Alan Virdon and Peter Burke find the world has been turned upside down--apes are the rulers--technology nearly non-existent--man is not more than a pet or work horse.

Regular Cast
Roddy McDowall .......... Galen
Ron Harper .................... Alan Virdon
James Naughton ............. Pete Burke
Booth Colman ................ Zaius
Mark Lenard .................. Urko

Episode #1: Escape from Tomorrow Original Airdate: 13 Sep 1974 Director: Don Weis

Passing through a time warp, astronauts Virdon and Burke land back on earth in an unimaginable future. Captured by gorillas, they find an ally in the chimp Galen, who is fascinated by their origin. He helps them escape back to their spaceship where Virdon retrieves a magnetic memory disc that might help them return to the past, and the three become fugtives.

Guest Stars
Farrow.........................Royal Deno
Aron.............................Bobby Porter
Veska..........................Woodrow Parfrey
Ullman.........................Biff Elliot
Proto...........................Jerome Thor
Grundig.......................William Beckley

The loss of the precious magnetic disc causes Burke and Virdon to become involved with gladiators, the burly Tolar and his son Dalton. The astronauts are captured in a village of humans ruled by an ape. Believing that men are violent natured, the simian encourages them to participate in grisly sports similar to those of Ancient Rome.

Guest Stars
Barlow...........................John Hoyt
Dalton............................Marc Singer
Tolar..............................William Smith
Jason.............................Pat Renella
Gorilla Sergeant...........Eddie Fontaine

Burke and his arch enemy, the gorilla soldier Urko, must work together to survive when an earthquake traps them in the ancient ruins of a subway station in Old San Francisco. Virdon and Galen get the ape soldiers to cooperate in a rescue. Meanwhile in a tunnel, Urkp goes ape when he sees an old zoo poster showing caged apes being fed peanuts.

Guest Stars
Zako..........................Norman Alden
Miller.........................John Milford
Olam.........................Eldon Burke
Mema.......................Ron Stein
Lisa Miller................Cindy Eilbacher
Mary Miller...............Wallace Earl
Jick Miller.................Mickey Leclair

When GAlen is wounded, Galen and the astronauts seek shelter at the farm of a peasant ape whose son believes that the humans have put a curse on their one precious possession--a cow, which goes into a difficult labor to give birth to twins. While they win their hosts over by teaching them valuable lessons about farming and saving the cow.

Guest Stars
Anto........................Geoffry Deuel
Polar.......................Lonny Chapman
Remus....................Bobby Porter
Zantes...................Jacqueline Scott
Jillia.......................Eileen Ditz Elber
Gorilla officer........Dennis Cross

In a ruined city, the astronauts find a filmed message from scientists of their own era. If they can elude gorilla pursuers long enough to repair the ancient projector, the film will tell them why their world was destroyed. They are aided in part by a young woman, Arn, and a street urchin, Kraik.

Guest Stars
Arn.............................Zina Bethune
Kraik..........................Jackie Earle Haley
Gorilla Captain..........Robert Phillips
Gorilla Sergeant........Wayne Foster
Scientist.....................Jon Lormer

When the astronauts are captured by the chimp head in a fishing village employing human slave labor, they must prove their worth as fishermen or be sacrificed to the gods of the sea.

Guest Stars
Hurton........................Roscoe Lee Browne
Bandor......................Jay Robinson
Soma.........................Kathleen Bracken
Romar.......................Jim Storm
Gahto........................John McLaim

After Virdon is shot and seriously injured in an escape from gorilla soldiers, Galen enlists the reluctant aid of a chimpanzee surgeon Kira, who was once his sweetheart.

Guest Stars
Kira............................Jacqueline Scott
Leander.....................Martin Brooks
Haman.......................Ron Stein
Jordan........................Phil Montgomery
Girl.............................Jamie Smith Jackson
Travin.........................Michael Strong

While hunting a band of murderous ape dragoons, Burke becomes teh object of the affections of a blind female ape, Fauna, who is unaware that he is human.

Guest Stars
Fauna........................Jane Actman
Sestus.......................John Milford
Perdix........................Baynes Barron
Zon.............................Pat Renella
Chilot.........................Eldon Burke

Under Urko's very nose, Virdon manages to run a horse race, winnning, as part of the stakes, the life of a blacksmith's young son.

Guest Cast
Barlow..........................John Hoyt
Prefect..........................Henry Levin
Kagan...........................Wesley Fuller
Zandar..........................Richard Devon
Greger..........................Meegan King
Martin...........................Morgan Woodward
Zilo...............................Joseph Tornatore

Captured by simian pursuers, Burke faces two equally menacing possibilities: The gorilla Urko wants to kill him, and the orangutan ruler Zaius wants to use him in a brain washing experiment. Galen and Virdon work out a rescue plan with the help of Galen's parents, Ann and Yalu.

Guest Stars
Ann...........................Anne Seymour
Wanda.....................Beverly Garland
Yalu..........................Normann Burton
Dr.Malthus...............Harry Townes
Peasant...................Eldon Burke
Susan.......................Lynn Benesch
Gorilla leader...........Ron Stein

The fugitives are trying to foil the plans of a tyrannical ape, who is using bribery to gain total control over a district of human farmers. The trio help remove Aboro from office, even though they have to risk an encounter with Urko to do it.

Guest Stars
Aboro.......................Percy Rodrigues
Dako.......................Joseph Ruskin
Janor.......................Michael Conrad
Augustus.................Tom Troupe
Mikal.......................James Daughton

Episode #12: The Cure Original Airdate: 29 Nov 1974 Director:Bernard McEveety

The astronauts come across a village devastated by malaria and manage to help the local medical officer, Zoran, to discover a cure.

Guest Stars
Zoran.......................David Sheiner
Amy.........................Sondra Locke
Inta...........................Eldon Burke
Kava........................Ron Soble
Talbert....................George Wallace
Mason....................Albert Cole
Nessa.....................Ron Stein

Episode #13: The Liberator Original Airdate: n/a Director by Arnold Laven

GAllen and the astronauts get captured by a tribe of humans who turn over fellow humans to the gorillas as slaves.

Guest Stars
Brun............................John Ireland
Miro............................Ben Andrews
Clim............................Peter G. Skinner
Talia...........................Jennifer Ashley
Gorilla Guard.............Ron Stein
Villager.......................Mark Bailey

The Astronauts help a human, leuric, to make a working hang glider, arousing the unwelcome interest of a lady chimp scientist, Carsia.

Guest Stars
Carsia......................Joanna Barnes
Leuric.......................Frank Aletter
Konag......................Martin Brooks
Gorilla Guard...........Ron Stein
Trooper....................Eldon Burke

Back to the Planet of the Apes
Episode 1: Escape from Tomorrow
Episode 3: The Trap

Forgotton City of the Planet of the Apes
Episode 2: The Gladiators
Episode 5: The Legacy

Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes
Episode 9: The Horse Race
Episode 11: The Tyrant

Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes
Episode 7: The Surgeon
Episode 10: The Interrogation

Farewell to the Planet of the Apes
Episode 6: Tomorrow's Tide
Episode 14: Up Above the World So High

Escape From the Planet of the Apes
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Natalie Trundy, William Windom, Ricardo Montalban, Sal Mineo, Bradford Dillman, Eric Braeden
Producer: Arthur P. Jacobs Director: Don Taylor Rating: PG13 Run Time: 98 minutes

This third installment in the "Planet of the Apes" series finds Cornelius and Zira in modern-day Los Angeles. They have traveled back in time, but soon find that they have enemies in the past as well as the present.

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Starring: Hari Rhodes, Roddy McDowall, Lou Wagner, David Chow, Natalie Trundy, John Randolph, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban, Severn Darden
Producer: Arthur P. Jacobs Director: J. Lee Thompson Rating: PG13 Run Time: 88 minutes

An intelligent ape from the far future leads an Army of monkey servants in a revolt against their human masters. The fourth film in the Planet of the Apes series.

Battle for the Planet of the Apes
Starring: Claude Akins, Roddy McDowall, Natalie Trundy, Paul Williams, John Huston, Severn Darden, Lew Ayres, Lewis Ayer
Producer: Arthur P. Jacobs Director: J. Lee ThompsonRating: PG13 Run Time: 86 minutes

The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series.Set in the year 2670, the superior race of apes live above ground, coexisting peacefully with a community of conquered human mutants who reside beneath the earth. Footage from the previous installments is effective in providing background information as flashbacks in an attempt to bring the series to a logical finish. A later television series attempted to rekindle original plotlines with newer ones.

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