Planet of the Apes

(Planet of the Apes)

 Season 1

14 Episodes

Episodes from the first season

1 - ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW

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Original title : Escape from Tomorrow
First Aired : 13.09.1974 (USA)
Director : Don Weis
Writing credits : Art Wallace
Cast : Royal Deno (Farrow), Bobby Porter (Aron), Woodrow Parfrey (Veska), Biff Elliot (Ullman), Jerome Thor (Proto), William Beckley (Grundig)


The Story : 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

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Original title : The Gladiators
First Aired : 20.09.1974 (USA)
Director : Don McDougall
Writing credits : Art Wallace
Cast : John Hoyt (Barlow), Marc Singer (Dalton), William Smith (Tolar), Pat Renella (Jason), Eddie Fontaine (Gorilla Sergeant)


The Story : 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

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Original title : The Trap
First Aired : 27.09.1974 (USA)
Director : Arnold Laven
Writing credits : Edward J. Lakso
Cast : Norman Alden (Zako), John Milford (Miller), Eldon Burke (Olam), Ron Stein (Mema), Cindy Eilbacher (Lisa Miller), Wallace Earl (Mary Miller), Mickey Leclair (Jick Miller)


The Story : 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

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Original title : The Good Seeds
First Aired : 04.10.1974 (USA)
Director : Don Weis
Writing credits : Robert W. Lenski
Cast : Geoffry Deuel (Anto), Lonny Chapman (Polar), Bobby Porter (Remus), Jacqueline Scott (Zantes), Eileen Ditz Elber (Jillia), Dennis Cross (Gorilla officer)


The Story : 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

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Original title : The Legacy
First Aired : 11.10.1974 (USA)
Director : Bernard McEveety
Writing credits : Robert Hamner
Cast : Zina Bethune (Arn), Jackie Earle Haley (Kraik), Robert Phillips (Gorilla Captain), Wayne Foster (Gorilla Sergeant), Jon Lormer (Scientist)


The Story : 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

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Original title : Tomorrow's Tide
First Aired : 18.10.1974 (USA)
Director : Don McDougall
Writing credits : Robert W. Lenski
Cast : Roscoe Lee Browne (Hurton), Jay Robinson (Bandor), Kathleen Bracken (Soma), Jim Storm (Romar), John McLaim (Gahto)


The Story : 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

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Original title : The Surgeon
First Aired : 25.10.1974 (USA)
Director : Arnold Laven
Writing credits : Barry Oringer
Cast : Jacqueline Scott (Kira), Martin Brooks (Leander), Ron Stein (Haman), Phil Montgomery (Jordan), Jamie Smith Jackson (Girl), Michael Strong (Travin)


The Story : 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

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Original title : The Deception
First Aired : 01.11.1974 (USA)
Director : Don McDougall
Writing credits : Anthony Lawrence, Ken Spears & Joe Ruby From a Story by Anthony Lawrence
Cast : Jane Actman (Fauna), John Milford (Sestus), Baynes Barron (Perdix), Pat Renella (Zon), Eldon Burke (Chilot)


The Story : 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.

9 - THE HORSE RACE

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Original title : The Horse Race
First Aired : 08.11.1974 (USA)
Director : Jack Starrett
Writing credits : David P. Lewis & Booker Bradshaw
Cast : John Hoyt (Barlow), Henry Levin (Prefect), Wesley Fuller (Kagan), Richard Devon (Zandar), Meegan King (Greger), Morgan Woodward (Martin), Joseph Tornatore (Zilo), Guest stars : Barlow (John Hoyt), Greger (Meegan King), Martin (Morgan Woodward)


The Story : 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.

10 - THE INTERROGATION

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Original title : The Interrogation
First Aired : 15.11.1974 (USA)
Director : Alf Kjellin
Writing credits : Richard Collins
Cast : Anne Seymour (Ann), Beverly Garland (Wanda), Normann Burton (Yalu), Harry Townes (Dr.Malthus), Eldon Burke (Peasant), Lynn Benesch (Susan), Ron Stein (Gorilla leader)


The Story : 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

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Original title : The Tyrant
First Aired : 22.11.1974 (USA)
Director : Ralph Senensky
Writing credits : Walter Black
Cast : Percy Rodrigues (Aboro), Joseph Ruskin (Dako), Michael Conrad (Janor), Tom Troupe (Augustus), James Daughton (Mikal)


The Story : 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

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Original title : The Cure
First Aired : 29.11.1974 (USA)
Director : Bernard McEveety
Writing credits : Edward J. Lakso
Cast : David Sheiner (Zoran), Sondra Locke (Amy), Eldon Burke (Inta), Ron Soble (Kava), George Wallace (Talbert), Albert Cole (Mason), Ron Stein (Nessa)


The Story : 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

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Original title : The Liberator
First Aired : 06.12.1974 (USA)
Director : Arnold Laven
Writing credits : Howard Dimsdale
Cast : John Ireland (Brun), Ben Andrews (Miro), Peter G. Skinner (Clim), Jennifer Ashley (Talia), Ron Stein (Gorilla Guard), Mark Bailey (Villager)


The Story : GAllen 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

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Original title : Up Above The World So High
First Aired : 20.12.1974 (USA)
Director : John Meredyth Lucas
Writing credits : S Bar-David & Arthur Browne Jr. From a Story by Bar-David
Cast : Joanna Barnes (Carsia), Frank Aletter (Leuric), Martin Brooks (Konag), Ron Stein (Gorilla Guard), Eldon Burke (Trooper)


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