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CBS
Sep 13, 1974

CBS
Sep 13, 1974

Planet of the Apes

Summary Astronauts Alan Virdon and Pete Burke are thrown 1100 years forward in time to 3085 AD to find evolved apes have become the dominant species and humans their apathetic slaves. Feared by the ape authorities, their plight turns the head of a promising young chimpanzee named Galen, who adopts the heretical idea that maybe humans aren't a lo...

CBS
Sep 13, 1974

CBS
Sep 13, 1974

Planet of the Apes

Season 1

Season Premiere: Sep 13, 1974

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Summary Astronauts Alan Virdon and Pete Burke are thrown 1100 years forward in time to 3085 AD to find evolved apes have become the dominant species and humans their apathetic slaves. Feared by the ape authorities, their plight turns the head of a promising young chimpanzee named Galen, who adopts the heretical idea that maybe humans aren't a lo...

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Episode 1 • Sep 13, 1974 • 1 h

Escape from Tomorrow

Two astronauts survive a crash-landing on a planet where intelligent apes rule over humans. The men find that their own intelligence challenges the apes' superiority and puts their lives in danger.

Episode 2 • Sep 20, 1974 • 1 h

Burke and Virdon are faced with having to fight to the death when they are captured, and the Ape Prefect amuses himself by staging gladiator-style fights between the humans in his charge.

Episode 3 • Sep 27, 1974 • 1 h

Episode 4 • Oct 4, 1974 • 1 h

Episode 5 • Oct 11, 1974 • 1 h

Burke and Virdon discover a holographic message from scientists from their own time, which might help them find out what happened to their world, while they are exploring the ruins of Oakland.

Episode 6 • Oct 18, 1974 • 1 h

Tomorrow's Tide

Episode 7 • Oct 25, 1974 • 1 h

Episode 8 • Nov 1, 1974 • 1 h

Episode 9 • Nov 8, 1974 • 1 h

Episode 10 • Nov 15, 1974 • 1 h

The Interrogation

Episode 11 • Nov 22, 1974 • 1 h

Episode 12 • Nov 29, 1974 • 1 h

With the help of an ape doctor, Virdon and Burke race to concoct a cure for a malaria outbreak. They must succeed before Urko implements his own version of a cure: burning down the village with everyone in it.

Episode 13 • Dec 6, 1974 • 1 h

When they are captured by a human community that provides human slaves to the apes, Virdon and Burke's survival is dependent on convincing their captors to rebel against the apes.

Episode 14 • Dec 20, 1974 • 1 h

Up Above the World So High

Unaware that a chimpanzee scientist plans to use a human prisoner's flying machine for her own deadly purpose, Virdon, Burke and Galen help the man, Leuric, to build a hang glider.

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