Back to the Planet of the Apes

Back to the Planet of the Apes

Release Date:  //
Country of Release:  USA
Length:  92 minutes
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Medium:  Video
Genre:  ADV SF THR
Release Message:  Three twentieth century astronauts travel through a time warp and crash on Earth in 3085 A.D. Two survivors, Alan Virdon and Pete Burke (James Naughton), find that they have returned to an Earth where their loved ones are long dead.
Description:  This is not an original made-for-TV movie, but two episodes of the 1974 TV series "Planet of the Apes" edited together. ("Escape From Tomorrow" and "The Trap") Three twentieth century astronauts travel through a time warp and crash on Earth in 3085 A.D.. One of the astronauts is killed in the impact, and the two survivors, Alan Virdon and Pete Burke, find that they have returned to an Earth where their loved ones are long dead, where technological civilization has fallen, and where humanity is subjugated by intelligent, talking simians who live in jungle cities and preside over pastoral hinterlands. The two astronauts are captured by horse-riding gorillas (the ape army) and taken before an orangutan tribunal. They are deemed a threat to ape security and sentenced to death. The two condemned men are visited in their cell by a curious chimpanzee named Galen, who is fascinated by their accounts of an advanced human civilization centuries past. After Galen accidentally kills a gorilla and is charged with murder, Virdon, Burke, and Galen all escape the ape city and are fugitives hunted by a determined gorilla named Urko. Virdon manages to salvage... Also: ¥ Back to the Planet of the Apes ("Escape from Tomorrow" & "The Trap")[8] ¥ Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes ("Gladiators" & "Legacy") ¥ Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes ("Horse Race" & "The Tyrant") ¥ Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes ("The Surgeon" & "The Interrogation") ¥ Farewell to the Planet of the Apes ("Tomorrow's Tide" & "Up Above The World So High")