They surely don't make them like these anymore. It surely has some retro cheese and cliche obviously because of the age it was filmed. However, the series truly captured the spirit of Planet of the apes. All the episodes are worth watching and a real treat for POTA fans. The series has its own twists from the original movie, which is great. Why would you like to watch the same movie again in 14 episodes? Some people just can't stop criticizing everything. I am happy that there is a series like this which exists, and it's a real gold. The effects, makeup and plots are real good. If you want to try, try the series on DVDs available on eBay.

Why, yes. Yes, it was. It ran for a single season in 1974.Was it any good? No. No, it wasn't, judging from its pilot. What we've got here is a poorly scripted, milquetoast rehash of the famous films, which (let's be honest) were themselves high on camp and low on brains.We have little of the charm of the movies, yet all of their cheesiness. A spaceship is not designed through travel time, but still helpfully features an ostentatious "chronometer." Our astronauts never suspect their real location until it is revealed to them — despite the fact that the apes speak modern, Americanized English. Then our square- jawed heroes react minimally to the news that everyone they know or love is dead, along with their civilization. Solving this central mystery is helped by an ancient, plot-convenient textbook, which thoughtfully contains pictures of both human-built machines and apes in cage.Other flaws are more egregious. Roddy McDowall and Booth Coleman both return as apes. Confusingly, however, they do not reprise their film roles — they are actually different ape characters. The humor falls flat. (McDowall's ape is a … nepotist? Or something?) And continuity with the movies is either clumsy or nonexistent.I'd rate this short-lived program at a 3 out of 10 for three things that were neat. One, the ape makeup and costuming is still fun. Two, McDowall is always fun to watch and was a superb actor, even under all that makeup. And, three, this really can scratch your nostalgia itch for popular 1970's science fiction. (Let's dress up and play low- budget make-believe in the Southern California desert, shall we?)

One of the best spectacular television series never created: it is shown among other things how the monkeys value constantly and between them, to the detriment of the human being who must be so possible made feel guilty, humbled, as well as discriminated in the slightest tasks (and who anyway has to make way as possible) more the values are inverted, for the monkey any individualism or heroism of the man is systematically considered as a perversion. This one has moreover only the minimum - when he does not live in tribe. Powerful and nightmarish at the same time.The ape considers a man and even more. The ape refuses any individual real or dynamic action shared with who nevertheless determined the course of the history, unless it is of not much importance or to make as everyone - and for cause it will cause in the end the loss. The ape considers himselef desired, he also thinks that the astronaut is very in love of his ape female and that he will go until the marriage so everything goes well. The man dreams of fabulous about female ape. The ape is hard-working. The ape considers himself rather cunning(malignant) to speak in the name of all its tribe. The ape is just egocentric person and a hyper-narcissist. The primitive art of the ape is the best. The ape passes in the path by daring to look up and down(to measure) the man. The ape spies on the man. The ape watches the man. The ape imitates the man. The ape is only a megalomaniac. The ape believes that the serenity of the rich makes the justice of the society. The ape lives in tribe. The ape is careful. But the man, him, cannot think by himself after all, and even in devil of the limit. Actually, the apes are just more hypocritical, wrapping itself in magnificent ideas and diverse generous philosophies arisen from the nothingness... I just adore finally certain passages more than explicit: how they are afraid of the human being and some more the astronaut, they refuse him among others the soap in its cage(goal), then wonder then that it is dirty!!In the assistance thus of an almighty hierarchy containing henchmen as thinkers, the monkeys are perverts who placed everybody in slavery and it dice the young age, and who do not tolerate either running gag or contradiction in their speech. Because the majority of the human beings are blind otherwise starved both in the point of view and the soul that of the body, why not?More than ever, this mythical work is thus current except its very funny aspects, except that it will be necessary to note that they are gorillas most of the time the closest to the man (and not chimpanzees, in fact nastier and much less cunning, malignant) than we believe after all.)

I was in the 4th grade when this series came out. I bought the "planet of the apes" magazine every month and read it cover to cover... I was very, very much a Planet of the Apes (POTA) fanatic. I remember learning that POTA was coming to TV and was beside myself with joy. It was the greatest TV event of all time as far as I was concerned. But even at that young age, I was only half way through that first episode when I realized that it was really, really bad. The idea that I was going to be able to have POTA on TV...at home!...was amazing to me. I wanted to like it and was willing to forgive all sorts of junk, but I couldn't do it. I watched each episode, but it really felt like work to sit through. It was just bad, bad mid-70's TV that had people in ape suits. I would compare it to a Starsky and Hutch sort of thing, but that was a much better show!