The film and camera used to make this series were the kind that both produced dull results. Series star Ron Harper later commented that he himself found his own show to be dull. What were viewers expected to think?
Among the series high points was that the ape makeup was usually successfully utilized by the regulars and guests alike who played simians. Also, the two actors playing astronauts were very rock solid in their parts. A good deal of action permeated each ep as well. So even if one was not too cerebral or of too much cerebral entertainment a mind you could enjoy the whole thing from a rock'em-sock'em perspective.
Another problem it had was that the astronauts never encounter an anti-slavery group in all the time we see them. Odd seeing how half the thinking beings are enslaved. This was rather unbelievable. But hey wasn't the whole show?
Roddy McDowall played Galen here and he was a real misfit of a character. Given McDowall's real life childhood that was probably easy to play.
Among the series high points was that the ape makeup was usually successfully utilized by the regulars and guests alike who played simians. Also, the two actors playing astronauts were very rock solid in their parts. A good deal of action permeated each ep as well. So even if one was not too cerebral or of too much cerebral entertainment a mind you could enjoy the whole thing from a rock'em-sock'em perspective.
Another problem it had was that the astronauts never encounter an anti-slavery group in all the time we see them. Odd seeing how half the thinking beings are enslaved. This was rather unbelievable. But hey wasn't the whole show?
Roddy McDowall played Galen here and he was a real misfit of a character. Given McDowall's real life childhood that was probably easy to play.