| UPC: |
024543-025221 (DVD) |
| Region Coding: |
Region 1 |
| Production Year: |
1974 |
| Rating: |
NR |
| Running Time: |
644 min. |
| DVD Release: |
11/20/2001 |
| Case Type: |
Keep Case |
| Video Formats: |
Full Frame 1.33:1 |
| Disc Formats: |
Single Sided, Single Layered |
| SRP: |
$49.98 |
Four-Disc Collector's Edition
Based on the enormously popular and successful Planet of the Apes movies, the 1974 TV series has become a true cult classic. Now all 14 episodes (including The Liberator, which never aired during the show's original run) have been compiled and are available to own for the first time.
After their spacecraft travels through a time warp, two astronauts (Ron Harper, James Naughton) from 1981 crash-land back on Earth in the year 3085 - a time when intelligent apes rule and humans have been reduced to servants or pets. Captured by the apes and sentenced to death, they are saved by a curious chimpanzee named Galen (Roddy McDowall). But now all three are on the run, trying to keep one step ahead of the gorilla army led by General Urko (Mark Lenard), who is determined to kill the renegades.
Episodes:
1... Escape From Tomorrow (Don Weis, 1974)
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.
2... The Gladiators (Don McDougall, 1974)
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.
3... The Trap (Arnold Laven, 1974)
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.
4... The Good Seeds (Don Weis, 1974)
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.
5... The Legacy (Bernard McEveety, 1974)
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.
6... Tomorrow's Tide (Don McDougall, 1974)
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.
7... The Surgeon (Arnold Laven, 1974)
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.
8... The Deception (Don McDougall, 1974)
While hunting a band of murderous ape dragoons, Burke becomes the object of the affections of a blind female ape, Fauna, who is unaware that he is human.
9... The Horse Race (Jack Starrett, 1974)
Under Urko's very nose, Virdon manages to run a horse race, winning, as part of the stakes, the life of a blacksmith's young son.
10. The Interrogation (Alf Kjellin, 1974)
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.
11. The Tyrant (Ralph Senensky, 1974)
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.
12. The Cure (Bernard McEveety, 1974)
The astronauts come across a village devastated by malaria, and manage to help the local medical officer, Zoran, to discover a cure.
13. The Liberator (Arnold Laven, 1974)
Galen and the astronauts get captured by a tribe of humans who turn over fellow humans to the gorillas as slaves.
14. Up Above the World So High
(John Meredyth Lucas, 1974)
The Astronauts help a human, Leuric, to make a working hang glider, arousing the unwelcome interest of a lady chimp scientist, Carsia. |
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