Episodes cast for
"Planet of the Apes" (1974)

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Season: 1 | unknown
Year: 1974 | 1981 | unknown

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Escape from Tomorrow

13 September 1974
A human-male named Farrow finds a crashed spaceship, goes inside, and discovers three astronauts -- one dead, two unconscious. He carries the two unconscious ones to his cave and, after they revive, shows them an old book with a photo of New York City in the year 2503. Shocked, the astronauts figure that while they left Earth in the year 1980, they've somehow come back to Earth more than a thousand years later, and that apes now rule the planet! Farrow is killed defending the astronauts who are captured by apes, tried, and thrown into a cell. They escape in company with a sympathetic chimp named Galen and begin a series of adventures.

	Roddy McDowall	...	Galen
	Ron Harper	...	Alan Virdon
	James Naughton	...	Pete Burke
	Royal Dano	...	Farrow
	Woodrow Parfrey	...	Veska
	Mark Lenard	...	Urko
	Booth Colman	...	Zaius
	Biff Elliot	...	Ullman
	Bobby Porter	...	Arno
	Jerome Thor	...	Proto
	William Beckley	...	Grundig
	Alvin Hammer	...	Man
	Ron Stein	...	Turvo (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 2: The Gladiators

20 September 1974
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.

	Roddy McDowall	...	Galen
	Ron Harper	...	Alan Virdon
	James Naughton	...	Pete Burke
	William Smith	...	Tolar
	John Hoyt	...	Prefect Barlow
	Marc Singer	...	Dalton
	Mark Lenard	...	Urko
	Pat Renella	...	Jason
	Andy Albin	...	Man
	Eddie Fontaine	...	Gorilla Sergeant
	Nick Dimitri	...	A Gorilla
	Ron Stein	...	First Gorilla
	Jimmy Stader	...	Second Gorilla (as Jim Stader)

Season 1, Episode 3: The Trap

27 September 1974
When they are buried alive, underground, in an ancient San Francisco subway station during an earthquake, Burke and General Urko are forced to work together. Above ground, Galen and Verdon try to figure out a way to help Burke, with the assistance of several gorilla soldiers.

	Roddy McDowall	...	Galen
	Ron Harper	...	Alan Virdon
	James Naughton	...	Pete Burke
	Norman Alden	...	Zako (as Norm Alden)
	John Milford	...	Miller
	Mark Lenard	...	Urko
	Cindy Eilbacher	...	Lisa Miller
	Mary LeClair	...	Jick Miller (as Mickey LeClair)
	Wallace Earl	...	Mary Miller
	Gail Bonney	...	Old Woman
	Eldon Burke	...	Olam (uncredited)
	Ron Stein	...	Mema (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 4: The Good Seeds

4 October 1974
When Galen hurts his leg and can't travel, Virdon and Burke seek refuge in a farm till their friend recovers. The farm is operated by a gruff but decent ape named Polar, his wife Zantes, and their three children: older son Anto, younger son Remus, and daughter Jillia. Polar puts to work the two strangers who teach him about contour farming, windmill building, seed selection, etc. Polar soon accepts these changes but Anto resents the strangers, fearing they will hex a cow about to give birth. (Until the cow delivers a bull calf, Anto can't start a farm of his own.) When Virdon helps deliver not one but two bull calves, Anto is won over and names the calves Virdon and Burke.

	Roddy McDowall	...	Galen
	Ron Harper	...	Alan Virdon
	James Naughton	...	Pete Burke
	Geoffrey Deuel	...	Anto
	Lonny Chapman	...	Polar
	Jacqueline Scott	...	Zantes
	Mark Lenard	...	Urko
	Bobby Porter	...	Remus
	Eileen Dietz	...	Jillia (as Eileen Dietz Elber)
	John Garwood	...	Police Gorilla
	Dennis Cross	...	Gorilla Officer
	Michael Carr	...	Patrol Rider
	Fred Lerner	...	Police Gorilla

Season 1, Episode 5: The Legacy

11 October 1974
Burke and Verdon 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 a city.

	Roddy McDowall	...	Galen (as Roddy McDowell)
	Ron Harper	...	Alan Virdon
	James Naughton	...	Pete Burke
	Zina Bethune	...	Arn
	Jackie Earle Haley	...	Kraik
	Robert Phillips	...	Gorilla Captain
	Mark Lenard	...	Urko
	Booth Colman	...	Zaius
	Jon Lormer	...	Scientist
	Wayne Foster	...	Gorilla Sergeant
	Victor Kilian	...	Human
	Nick Dimitri	...	Gorilla (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 6: Tomorrow's Tide

18 October 1974
While walking on an ocean beach with Galen, Virdon and Burke see a condemned man lashed to a raft in the water. They rescue him and carry him to a nearby cave but then an ape-on-patrol captures the two astronauts and takes them to his boss, Hurton. Hurton administers a fishing operation and he presses Virdon and Burke into service as fishermen after they pass a test by swimming under a sheet of flames. Trouble arises when Hurton's superior, Bandor, comes on an inspection tour, but the astronauts save the day by demonstrating how a net can catch more fish than spears. They credit this innovation to the once-condemned man, Gahto, who's then re-united with his daughter, Soma.

	Roddy McDowall	...	Galen
	Ron Harper	...	Alan Virdon
	James Naughton	...	Pete Burke
	Roscoe Lee Browne	...	Hurton
	Jay Robinson	...	Bandor
	John McLiam	...	Gahto
	Jim Storm	...	Romar
	Kathleen Bracken	...	Soma
	Larry Ellis	...	Drayman #2
	Frank Orsatti	...	Human (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 7: The Surgeon

25 October 1974
Galen risks his freedom, and life by contacting his old sweetheart, Kira, when Virdon is seriously injured. Kira is now a talented, and forward thinking, surgeon; and Galen shares with her a forbidden book on human anatomy, that he and Burke stole from Dr. Zaius' home, with her.

	Roddy McDowall	...	Galen
	Ron Harper	...	Alan Virdon
	James Naughton	...	Pete Burke
	Jacqueline Scott	...	Kira
	Michael Strong	...	Travin
	Martin E. Brooks	...	Leander (as Martin Brooks)
	Mark Lenard	...	Urko
	Booth Colman	...	Zaius
	Jamie Smith-Jackson	...	Girl (as Jamie Smith Jackson)
	David Naughton	...	Dr. Stole
	Raymond Mayo	...	Human
	Diana Hale	...	Brigid
	Phil Montgomery	...	Jordo
	Ron Stein	...	Haman (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 8: The Deception

1 November 1974
Galen, Verdon and Burke befriend, Fauna, the blind ape daughter of a human friendly ape who was killed by a murderous band of vigilante apes, calling themselves 'dragoons.' Unaware that Burke is human, Fauna falls in love with him, as Galen and Virdon hunt down the 'dragoons', only to discover that fauna's own uncle is one of them.

	Roddy McDowall	...	Galen (as Roddy McDowell)
	Ron Harper	...	Alan Virdon
	James Naughton	...	Pete Burke
	Jane Actman	...	Fauna
	Pat Renella	...	Zon
	John Milford	...	Sestus
	Hal Baylor	...	Jacko
	Baynes Barron	...	Perdix
	Eldon Burke	...	Chilot (uncredited)
	Tom McDonough	...	Macor (uncredited)
	Ron Stein	...	Krona (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 9: The Horse Race

8 November 1974
Virdon agrees to race a chimpanzee Prefect's horse against Urkos best horse, in exchange for a condemned boy's freedom. Urko has never lost a race, but of course, as Virdon finds out, Urko doesn't play fair. Despite Urko's treachery and cheating, Virdon prevails in the end.

	Roddy McDowall	...	Galen (as Roddy McDowell)
	Ron Harper	...	Alan Virdon
	James Naughton	...	Pete Burke
	Morgan Woodward	...	Martin
	John Hoyt	...	Barlow
	Richard Devon	...	Zandar
	Mark Lenard	...	Urko
	Henry Levin	...	Prefect
	Russ Marin	...	Damon
	Meegan King	...	Gregor
	Wesley Fuller	...	Kagan (uncredited)
	Joe Tornatore	...	Zilo (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 10: The Interrogation

15 November 1974
When Burke is captured by Urko's soldiers, he is forced to face two equally horrifying options: he can either be killed, outright, by Urko or he can be used in a brainwashing experiment, being performed by a prominent ape doctor, using a forbidden (human) text on the subject. The scene in which Urko describes what he believes brainwashing is, is hilarious.

	Roddy McDowall	...	Galen (as Roddy McDowell)
	Ron Harper	...	Alan Virdon
	James Naughton	...	Pete Burke
	Beverly Garland	...	Wanda
	Anne Seymour	...	Ann
	Norman Burton	...	Yalu (as Normann Burton)
	Mark Lenard	...	Urko
	Booth Colman	...	Zaius
	Harry Townes	...	Dr. Malthus
	Lee Delano	...	Officer Gorilla
	Wayne Foster	...	Lieutenant Gorilla
	Lynn Benisch	...	Susan (as Lynn Benesch)
	Eldon Burke	...	Peasant Gorilla (uncredited)
	Ron Stein	...	Gorilla Leader (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 11: The Tyrant

22 November 1974
In an attempt to foil the plans of a tyrannical gorilla lieutenant, who is using bribery to replace the chimpanzee Prefect, and gain complete control over a human farming district; Galen, Virdon and Burke risk an encounter with Urke, forcing Urko and Burke to work together, once again (previously in The Trap - Air date: 9/27/74).

	Roddy McDowall	...	Galen
	Ron Harper	...	Alan Virdon
	James Naughton	...	Pete Burke
	Percy Rodrigues	...	Aboro
	Michael Conrad	...	Janor
	Joseph Ruskin	...	Daku
	James Daughton	...	Mikal
	Mark Lenard	...	Urko
	Klair Bybee	...	Sam
	Arlen Stuart	...	Gola
	Gary Combs	...	Gorilla Driver (uncredited)
	Ron Stein	...	Gorilla Guard (uncredited)
	Tom Troupe	...	Augustus (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 12: The Cure

29 November 1974
Virdon and Burke race to concoct a cure, to save villagers stricken with malaria, with the aid of an ape doctor. They must do this before Urko implements his own version of a cure, by burning down the entire village with everyone in it.

	Roddy McDowall	...	Galen
	Ron Harper	...	Alan Virdon
	James Naughton	...	Pete Burke
	Sondra Locke	...	Amy
	David Sheiner	...	Zoran
	Ron Soble	...	Kava
	George Wallace	...	Talbert
	Mark Lenard	...	Urko
	Booth Colman	...	Zaius
	Biff Elliot	...	Orangutan
	Albert Cole	...	Mason
	Ron Stein	...	Neesa
	Charles Leland	...	Dying Man
	Eldon Burke	...	Inta (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 13: The Liberator

1974
Virdon and Burke's only hope for survival is to convince, with Galen's help, their human captors to rebel against the apes, with whom this tribe of humans turns their fellow humans over to as slaves. This episode was not aired during the series original run.

	Roddy McDowall	...	Galen
	Ron Harper	...	Alan Virdon
	James Naughton	...	Pete Burke
	John Ireland	...	Brun
	Ben Andrews	...	Miro
	Jennifer Ashley	...	Talia
	Peter G. Skinner	...	Clim
	Mark Bailey	...	Villager
	Ron Stein	...	First Gorilla Guard
	Tom McDonough	...	Second Gorilla Guard

Season 1, Episode 14: Up Above the World So High

6 December 1974
Unaware that a chimpanzee scientist plans to use the flying machine of an imprisoned man, whose life she spared, for her own deadly purpose; Virdon, Burke and Galen help the man to build a hang glider. This was the final episode of the series.

	Roddy McDowall	...	Galen
	Ron Harper	...	Alan Virdon
	James Naughton	...	Pete Burke
	Joanna Barnes	...	Carsia
	Frank Aletter	...	Leuric
	Martin E. Brooks	...	Konag
	Mark Lenard	...	Urko
	Booth Colman	...	Zaius
	William Beckley	...	Council Orang
	Ron Stein	...	Gorilla Guard
	Eldon Burke	...	Trooper
	Glenn R. Wilder	...	Human Driver (as Glenn Wilder)

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Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes

1981
A television movie made from two segments of the cult TV Series "Planet of the Apes", "The Gladiators", directed by Don McDougall and "The Legacy", directed by Stanley Hough.

	Roddy McDowall	...	Galen (archive footage)
	Ron Harper	...	Alan Virdon (archive footage)
	James Naughton	...	Pete Burke (archive footage)
	Andy Albin	...	Man (archive footage)
	Zina Bethune	...	Arn (archive footage)
	Booth Colman	...	Counselor Zaius (archive footage)
	Nick Dimitri	...	Gorilla (archive footage)
	Eddie Fontaine	...	Gorilla Sergeant (archive footage)
	Wayne Foster	...	Gorilla sergeant (archive footage)
	Jackie Earle Haley	...	Kraik (archive footage)
	John Hoyt	...	Prefect Barlow (archive footage)
	Victor Kilian	...	Human (archive footage)
	Mark Lenard	...	General Urko (archive footage)
	Jon Lormer	...	Scientist (archive footage)
	Robert Phillips	...	Gorilla captain (archive footage)
	Marc Singer	...	Dalton (archive footage)
	William Smith	...	Tolar (archive footage)
	Jimmy Stader	...	Second Gorilla
	Ron Stein	...	First Gorilla

Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes

1981
A television movie made from two segments of the TV Series "Planet of the Apes", "The Surgeon" and "The Interrogation".

Return to the Planet of the Apes

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Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes

1981
A television movie made from two segments of the TV Series "Planet of the Apes", "The Horse Race" and "The Tyrant".