City of the Apes Series Page

The television series lasted only fourteen episodes due to the cost of the makeup for the apes. At its time it was the most expensive series to make. This was an excellant series, but a lot of people don't realize that it is suppost to be seperate from the movie. That is why you see some time period flaws when you compair the series to the movies. It ran from Sept 13th to Dec 6th 1974.

Main Cast

  • Booth Colman...............Dr. Zaius
  • Ron Harper.................Virdon
  • Mark Lenard................General Urko
  • James Naughton.............Burke

    Episode #1: "Escape from Tomarrow"

    Airdate: September 13th 1974

    Guest Cast

  • William Beckley............Grundig
  • Royal Deno.................Farrow
  • Biff Elliot................Ullman
  • Woodrow Parfrey............Veska
  • Bobby Porter...............Aron
  • Jerome Thor................Proto

    Two astronauts, after crashing their spaceship into Earth's future, become chased from the new rullers of Earth...apes.

    Episode #2: "The Gladiators"

    Airdate: September 20th 1974

    Guest Cast

  • Eddie Fontaine.............Gorilla Sargent
  • John Hoyt..................Barlow
  • Mark Lenard................Urko
  • Pat Renella................Jason
  • Marc Singer................Dalton
  • William Smith..............Tolar

    Burke and Virdon are captured and put into a villiage of ape-controlled humans. They are made to participate in harsh sports as in Ancient Rome because of the belief that man is a violent animial.

    Episode #3: "The Trap"

    Airdate: September 27th 1974

    Guest Cast

  • Norman Alden...............Zako
  • Eldon Burke................Olam
  • Wallice Earl...............Mary Miller
  • Cindy Eilbacher............Lisa Miller
  • Mickey Leclair.............Jick Miller
  • John Milford...............Miller
  • Ron Stein..................Mema

    After and earthquake, Burke and Urko, arch enemies, must work together to escape from the ancient ruins of a subway station.

    Episode #4: "The Good Seeds"

    Airdate: October 4th 1974

    Guest Cast

  • Lonny Chapman..............Polar
  • Geoffry Deuel..............Anto
  • Bobby Porter...............Remus
  • Jacqueline Scott...........Zantes

    Burke, Virdon, and Galen hide with a peasant ape family. The son believes that they put a curs on their precious cow

    Episode #5: "The Legacy"

    Airdate: October 11th 1974

    Guest Cast

  • Zina Bethune...............Arn
  • Wayne Foster...............Gorilla Sargent
  • Jackie Earle Haley.........Kraik
  • Robert Phillips............Gorilla Captain

    Burke and Virdon find an "ancient" message from their own era, in a ruined city. With gorillas closing in, they try to view the film which explains why the world was destroyed.

    Episode #6: "Tomarrow's Tide"

    Airdate: October 18th 1974

    Guest Cast

  • Kathleen Bracken...........Soma
  • Roscoe Lee Browne..........Hurton
  • John McLaim................Gahto
  • Jay Robinson...............Bandor
  • Jim Storm..................Romar

    Being captured in a slave driven fishing village, Burke and Virdon must show that they are expert fishermen or be killed as a sacrifice to the sea gods.

    Episode #7: "The Surgeon"

    Airdate: October 25th 1974

    Guest Cast

  • Martin Brooks..............Leander
  • Jamie Smith Jackson........Girl
  • Jacqueline Scott...........Kira
  • Michael Strong.............Travin

    After Verdon gets shot by a gorilla soldier, Galen contacts a surgeon who happens to be an old flame of his, to reluctantly help.

    Episode #8: "The Deception"

    Airdate: November 1st 1974

    Guest Cast

  • Jane Actman................Fauna
  • Baynes Barron..............Perdix
  • Eldon Burke................Chilot
  • Tom McDonough..............Macor
  • John Milford...............Sestus
  • Pat Renella................Zon

    Wile hunting a band or murderous apes, a blind chimpanzee falls in love with Burke, whom she does not know is human.

    Episode #9: "The Horse Race"

    Airdate: November 8th 1974

    Guest Cast

  • John Hoyt..................Barlow
  • Meegn King.................Greger
  • Morgan Woodward............Martin

    Virdon must ride in a horse match race against Urko in order to spare a condemned human's freedom.

    Episode #10: "The Interrogation"

    Airdate: November 15th 1974

    Guest Cast

  • Eldon Burke................Peasant
  • Normann Burton.............Yalu
  • Lynn Denesch...............Nora
  • Beverly Garland............Wanda
  • Anne Seymour...............Ann
  • Harry Townes...............Dr. Malthus

    Burke gets captured by simian pursuers. Zaius tries an experimental brainwashing experiment on him while Urko is trying to get Zaius to let him kill Burke.

    Episode #11: "The Tyrant"

    Airdate: November 22nd 1974

    Guest Cast

  • Gary Combs.................Gorilla Driver
  • Michael Conrad.............Janor
  • James Daughton.............Mikal
  • Percy Rodrigues............Aboro
  • Joseph Ruskin..............Daku
  • Ron Stein..................Gorilla Guard
  • Arlen Stewart..............Gola
  • Tom Troupe.................Augustus

    Burke, Virdon, and Galen try to foil the plans of Aboro, a tyrannical ape, who uses bribery to gain control over a district of farmers.

    Episode #12: "The Cure"

    Airdate: November 29th 1974

    Guest Cast

  • Eldon Burke................Inta
  • Albert Cole................Mason
  • Sondra Locke...............Amy
  • David Sheiner..............Zoran
  • Ron Soble..................Kava
  • Ron Stein..................Nessa
  • George Wallace.............Talbert

    When malaria spreads through a village of humans, Burke and Virdon need to convice a chimpanzee doctor that they know how to fight the disease.

    Episode #13: "The Liberator"

    Airdate: ? origionally aired in the U.K.

    Guest Cast

  • Ben Andrews................Miro
  • Jennifer Ashley............Talia
  • John Ireland...............Brun
  • Peter G. Skinner...........Clim
  • Ron Stein..................Gorilla Soldier

    Burke and Virdon are captured by humans who give their own to gorillias for slavery.

    Episode #14: "Up Above the World so High"

    Airdate: December 6 1974

    Guest Cast

  • Frank Aletter..............Leuric
  • Joanna Barnes..............Carsia
  • William Beckley............Council Orangatang
  • Martin Brooks..............Konag
  • Glen Wide..................Human Driver

    Burke, Verdon, and Galen help a human who is determined to lear how to fly.

    TV Series Movies

    The following movies were two episodes edited together.

  • Back to the Planet of the Apes.......(episodes 1 and 3)
  • Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes.......(episodes 2 and 5)
  • Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes.......(episodes 9 and 11)
  • Life, Liberty, and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes.......(episodes 7 and 10)
  • Farewell to the Planet of the Apes.......(episodes 6 and 14)

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