Episode List: |
Episode Name | Disc | Disc Order | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | Reaction | IMDB | Personal Rating |
Escape from Tomorrow | 1 | 1 | Don Weis | Art Wallace | After passing through a time warp, astronauts Virdon and Burke crash land back on Earth in the year 3085 and find apes are now the dominant species | A fair beginning to the series that sets up the premise nicely | 7.1 | 7 |
The Gladiators | 1 | 2 | Don McDougall | Art Wallace | Burke and Virdon find themselves fighting to the death when they're captured by an ape Prefect who holds gladiator-style fights between humans. | It's interesting to see Marc Singer so young, but the story itself gets a little heavy handed at times. | 6.9 | 6 |
The Trap | 1 | 3 | Arnold Laven | Edward J. Lakso | Burke and General Urko are forced to work together when they are buried alive underground in an ancient San Francisco subway during an earthquake. | The name isn't particularly apt, and this one is a whole lot of talking. | 7.3 | 6 |
The Good Seeds | 1 | 4 | Don Weis | Robert W. Lenski | When Galen is injured, the three friends take refuge with a peasant ape family whose son believes the humans have put a curse on their most precious possession - a cow. | It's satisfying to see our heroes able to show their knowledge and win over even enemies. | 6.8 | 8 |
The Legacy | 2 | 1 | Bernard McEveety | Robert Hamner | While exploring a ruined city, Virdon and Burke find a filmed message from scientists of their own time which may help them discover what happened to their civilization. | A fair episode that is strong on character drama. | 6.9 | 7 |
Tomorrow's Tide | 2 | 2 | Don McDougall | Robert W. Lenski | When Burke and Virdon are captured in a fishing village that employs human slave labor, they must prove their worth as fishermen or be sacrificed to the gods of the sea - sharks. | An okay episode. Nothing particularly stands out for me though. | 6.2 | 6 |
The Surgeon | 2 | 3 | Arnold Laven | Barry Oringer | When Virdon is gravely wounded, Galen risks contacting his old sweetheart Kira, who is now a surgeon, and sharing a forbidden book on human anatomy with her. | It's nice when we can find apes willing to help, even if they don't fully understand why our heroes band together in the first place. | 6.7 | 7 |
The Deception | 2 | 4 | Don McDougall | Anthony Lawrence Joe Ruby Ken Spears | While Galen and Virdon hunt down a band of murderous ape dragoons, the ape daughter of a recently killed ape falls in love with Burke - unaware that he is human. | The story gets a little heavy handed, and I'm sure it was a bit more pointed at the time the episode came out, but it's still well done. | 6.6 | 8 |
The Horse Race | 3 | 1 | Jack Starrett | Booker Bradshaw David P. Lewis | In exchange for a condemned human's freedom, Virdon agrees to race a chimpanzee Prefect's horse against Urko - who has never lost a race. | Yet again, we find that our beloved Virdon just happens to be the best in the world at another feat. | 6.2 | 8 |
The Interrogation | 3 | 2 | Alf Kjellin | Richard Collins | Burke faces two equally horrifying options when he is captured by Urko's soldiers: either be killed by Urko or be used in a brainwashing experiment by a prominent ape doctor. | I have to question how effective these brainwashing techniques would actually be, but so be it. | 7.0 | 7 |
Episode Name | Disc | Disc Order | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | Reaction | IMDB | Personal Rating |
The Tyrant | 3 | 3 | Ralph Senensky | Walter Black | The three fugitives risk an encounter with Urko when they attempt to foil the plans of a tyrannical ape who is using bribery to gain total control over a district of human farmers. | This one has a bit of a "Burn Notice" feel to it. | 6.4 | 7 |
The Cure | 3 | 4 | Bernard McEveety | Edward J. Lakso | Working with an ape doctor to save villagers stricken with malaria, Buke and Virdon race to concoct a cure before Urko uses his own cure - burning down the entire village. | Wow! Our two astronauts have exactly the right esoteric knowledge to fix the world yet again. | 6.7 | 8 |
The Liberator | 4 | 1 | Arnold Laven | Howard Dimsdale | When Virdon and Burke are captured by a tribe of humans who turn fellow humans over to apes as slaves, their only hope is to convince their captors to rebel against the apes. | 20th century knowledge wins again! | 7.1 | 8 |
Up Above the World So High | 4 | 2 | John Meredyth Lucas | Arthur Browne Jr. Shimon Wincelberg | Burke and Virdon help an imprisoned man build a hang glider for the chimp scientist who spared his life, unaware she plans to use the flying machine for her own deadly purpose. | A bit of an odd episode to end on. Granted, it's not like they had intended for this to be the end, but still ... | 7.1 | 7 |