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Writer:
Jim Byrnes (writer)
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Release Date:
13 September 1974 (USA) more
Plot:
Two astronauts and a sympathetic chimp friend are fugitives in a future Earth dominated by a civilization of humanoid apes. full summary
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User Comments:
This series was not as good as the films,but is still worth watching. more (28 total)

Cast

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Roddy McDowall ... Galen (14 episodes, 1974)

Ron Harper ... Alan Virdon (14 episodes, 1974)
James Naughton ... Pete Burke (14 episodes, 1974)
Mark Lenard ... Urko (11 episodes, 1974)
Ron Stein ... First Gorilla / ... (11 episodes, 1974-1981)
Booth Colman ... Zaius (6 episodes, 1974)
Eldon Burke ... Chilot / ... (5 episodes, 1974)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
UK:47 min | USA:60 min (14 episodes)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Photophone Sound Recording)

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Trivia:
While the movie originally set primarily in what used to be New York City, the television show is set in a futuristic California after a nuclear war. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: In many of the interior close-up shots, the actors' own teeth are visible behind the teeth of their ape masks. more
Quotes:
Pete Burke: [coming around after crash landing on Earth] It's like a hangover without the pleasure of booze. more
Movie Connections:
Spoofed in Play-Mate of the Apes (2002) (V) more

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6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
This series was not as good as the films,but is still worth watching., 29 May 2000
Author: Angelis from Newcastle, Australia

The television series of The Planet Of The Apes is not as good as the films, but is still worth a watch.It lacks the originality of the films. The series is set 893 years before the original film and it seems that in this time humans can talk, this means that over the next 893 years humans lose the power of speech and become more wild. One thing i did notice, though, is that dogs are alive...Now this is impossible considering the movie fact that dogs(along with cats) died out, thus opening up the way for apes to become pets, and eventually servants, and soon became intelligent like humans.This series of Planet Of The Apes was released on video in two limited edition box sets in Australia. I now own all five films and all thirteen episodes on video.I am now eagerly awaiting the release of Return To The Planet Of The Apes (the animated series) on video. I am also looking for the Behind The Scenes Video about the films.

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