1974
TV-PG
47m

Summary Two astronauts and a sympathetic chimp friend are fugitives in a future Earth dominated by a civilization of humanoid apes. View more details

1974
TV-PG
47m

Planet of the Apes

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Roddy McDowall James Naughton Mark Lenard Ron Harper

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Genres : Thriller Adventure Sci-Fi

Release date : Sep 12, 1974

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official Facebook

Language : English

Filming locations : 20th Century Fox Ranch, Malibu Creek State Park - 1925 Las Virgenes Road, Calabasas, California, USA

Production companies : 20th Century Fox Television

Summary Two astronauts and a sympathetic chimp friend are fugitives in a future Earth dominated by a civilization of humanoid apes. View more details

Details

Genres : Thriller Adventure Sci-Fi

Release date : Sep 12, 1974

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official Facebook

Language : English

Filming locations : 20th Century Fox Ranch, Malibu Creek State Park - 1925 Las Virgenes Road, Calabasas, California, USA

Production companies : 20th Century Fox Television

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Roddy McDowall in Planet of the Apes (1974)

Bobby Porter in Planet of the Apes (1974)

William Smith in Planet of the Apes (1974)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 12, 1974

Escape from Tomorrow

Two astronauts survive a crash-landing on a planet where intelligent apes rule over humans. The men find that their own intelligence challenges the apes' superiority and puts their lives in danger.

Episode 2 • Sep 19, 1974

The Gladiators

Burke and Virdon are faced with having to fight to the death when they are captured, and the Ape Prefect amuses himself by staging gladiator-style fights between the humans in his charge.

Episode 3 • Sep 26, 1974

The Trap

When they are buried alive, underground, in an ancient San Francisco subway station during an earthquake, Burke and General Urko are forced to work together. Above ground, Galen and Virdon try to figure out a way to help Burke, with the assistance of several gorilla soldiers.

Episode 4 • Oct 03, 1974

The Good Seeds

When Galen hurts his leg and can't travel, Virdon and Burke seek refuge in a farm till their friend recovers. The farm is operated by a gruff but decent ape named Polar, his wife Zantes, and their three children: older son Anto, younger son Remus, and daughter Jillia. Polar puts to work the two strangers who teach him about contour farming, windmill building, seed selection, etc. Polar soon accepts these changes but Anto resents the strangers, fearing they will hex a cow about to give birth. (Until the cow delivers a bull calf, Anto can't start a farm of his own.) When Virdon helps deliver not one but two bull calves, Anto is won over and names the calves Virdon and Burke.

Episode 5 • Oct 10, 1974

The Legacy

Burke and Virdon discover a holographic message from scientists from their own time, which might help them find out what happened to their world, while they are exploring the ruins of Oakland.

Episode 6 • Oct 17, 1974

Tomorrow's Tide

While walking on an ocean beach with Galen, Virdon and Burke see a condemned man lashed to a raft in the water. They rescue him and carry him to a nearby cave but then an ape-on-patrol captures the two astronauts and takes them to his boss, Hurton. Hurton administers a fishing operation and he presses Virdon and Burke into service as fishermen after they pass a test by swimming under a sheet of flames. Trouble arises when Hurton's superior, Bandor, comes on an inspection tour, but the astronauts save the day by demonstrating how a net can catch more fish than spears. They credit this innovation to the once-condemned man, Gahto, who's then re-united with his daughter, Soma.

Episode 7 • Oct 24, 1974

The Surgeon

Galen risks his freedom, and life by contacting his old sweetheart, Kira, when Virdon is seriously injured. Kira is now a talented, and forward thinking, surgeon; and Galen shares with her a forbidden book on human anatomy, that he and Burke stole from Dr. Zaius' home, with her.

Episode 8 • Oct 31, 1974

The Deception

Galen, Virdon and Burke befriend a chimpanzee named Fauna, the blind daughter of a human friendly ape who was killed by a band of vigilante apes known as the Dragoons. Unaware that Burke is human, Fauna falls in love with him, as Galen and Virdon hunt down the Dragoons, only to discover that Fauna's uncle is one of them.

Episode 9 • Nov 07, 1974

The Horse Race

Virdon agrees to race a chimpanzee Prefect's horse against Urkos best horse, in exchange for a condemned boy's freedom. Urko has never lost a race, but of course, as Virdon finds out, Urko doesn't play fair. Despite Urko's treachery and cheating, Virdon prevails in the end.

Episode 10 • Nov 14, 1974

The Interrogation

When Burke is captured by Urko's soldiers, he is forced to face two equally horrifying options: he can either be killed, outright, by Urko; or he can be used in a brainwashing experiment, being performed by a prominent ape doctor, using a forbidden (human) text on the subject.

Episode 11 • Nov 21, 1974

The Tyrant

To foil the plans of a tyrannical gorilla who is trying to overthrow the chimpanzee prefect and gain control over a human farming district, Galen, Virdon and Burke risk an encounter with Urko. Urko and Burke are forced to work together again.

Episode 12 • Nov 28, 1974

The Cure

With the help of an ape doctor, Virdon and Burke race to concoct a cure for a malaria outbreak. They must succeed before Urko implements his own version of a cure: burning down the village with everyone in it.

Episode 13 • Dec 05, 1974

The Liberator

When they are captured by a human community that provides human slaves to the apes, Virdon and Burke's survival is dependent on convincing their captors to rebel against the apes.

Episode 14 • Dec 19, 1974

Up Above the World So High

Unaware that a chimpanzee scientist plans to use a human prisoner's flying machine for her own deadly purpose, Virdon, Burke and Galen help the man, Leuric, to build a hang glider.

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