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Release year: 1975

Storyline

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.

Top credits

Cast

Austin Stoker — Jeff Allen
Philippa Harris — Dr. Zira
Henry Corden — General Urko
Richard Blackburn — Dr. Zaius

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Did you know

• Director Doug Wildey ran up against National Broadcasting Company (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.

• Austin Stoker (Jeff Allen) previously played MacDonald in Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973).

• Henry Corden, who did the voiceover in the opening credits and voiced General Urko, was the second voice of Fred Flintstone. He took over when the original actor, Alan Reed, died in 1977.