"Planet of the Apes" (1974) TV series

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Writer:

Jim Byrnes (writer)

Seasons:

1 | unknown

Release Date:

13 September 1974 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Astronaut | Ape | Future | Fugitive | Orangutan

Cast

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)

Runtime:

UK:47 min | USA:60 min (14 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Photophone Sound Recording)

Certification:

UK:PG | New Zealand:PG | Argentina:13 | Australia:G | Australia:PG | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

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

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

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.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: In many of the interior close-up shots, the actors' own teeth are visible behind the teeth of their ape masks.

Quotes:

Pete Burke: [coming around after crash landing on Earth] It's like a hangover without the pleasure of booze.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Play-Mate of the Apes (2002) (V)

This series was not as good as the films,but is still worth watching.

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.