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Return to the Planet of the Apes

Return to the Planet of the Apes

1975TV Series⏱️ 24mTV-G
AnimationAdventureSci-Fi
6.3
IMDB Rating
2,076 votes

While on a mission, three astronauts in their spaceship get caught in a time vortex. They return to Earth in the year 3979 A.D. and discover that intelligent apes are now the highest form of life.

Director
N/A
Writers
N/A
Stars
Austin Stoker, Philippa Harris, Henry Corden
Release Date
September 6, 1975
Language
English
Country
United States
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🎭 Top Cast

Austin Stoker
Austin Stoker
as Jeff Allen
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Philippa Harris
as Dr. Zira
Henry Corden
Henry Corden
as General Urko
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Richard Blackburn
as Dr. Zaius
👤
Edwin Mills
as Dr. Cornelius
Claudette Nevins
Claudette Nevins
as Nova
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Tom Williams
as Bill Hudson
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Richard Blackburn
as Bill Hudson (later episodes)

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Color
Color
Production
20th Century Fox Television, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (DFE)

🏷️ Keywords

space adventurespace sci fipsychotronic seriesapeyear 3979

🎯 Categories

Space Sci-FiAdventureAnimationSci-Fi

⭐ Featured Review

A semi-loser
by mhorg20182022-11-02
3/10

"Let's talk about the good. Very little. A few interesting ideas, but this takes place in an alternate reality Planet of the Apes. The producers went the cheap route, giving the apes vehicles and human artillery. The color palate was limited, as were characters expressions. I'll add in having them land in a mercury looking space capsule was really cheap. Wouldn't it have been as cheap to draw the Taylor ship from the movies? This really doesn't fit in with the existing timeline at all. As I said, since IMDB won't give a zero rating, but insists on 600 characters, this w..."

💡 Did You Know?

Director Doug Wildey ran up against NBC's "Emulative Clause," which stated that something from an animated series needed to be eliminated if a six year old child could physically emulate what he sees on the cartoon. This meant he could not equip apes with machine guns or knives or clubs or pistols or hand grenades, and that while the apes could wear rifles, they could not use them. Finally, Wildey asked if it would be okay to use Howitzers. The network agreed that they could not think of a way a six year old could operate a Howitzer so Wildey loaded the series with the weapon.

📖 Synopsis

While on a mission, three astronauts in their spaceship get caught in a time vortex. They return to Earth in the year 3979 A.D. and discover that intelligent apes are now the highest form of life.