Planet of the Apes Media: Worst to Best
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- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsRoddy McDowallClaude AkinsNatalie TrundyTen years after a worldwide series of ape revolutions and a brutal nuclear war among humans, Caesar must protect survivors of both species from an insidious human cult and a militant ape faction alike.
- 1975–197624m5.5 (98)TV EpisodeDirectorDoug WildeyStarsRichard BlackburnHenry CordenPhilippa HarrisThe astronauts must save the herd from a flying dinosaur and keep the airplane from the Apes.
- DirectorDoug WildeyStarsAustin StokerPhilippa HarrisHenry CordenThe Underdwellers enlist help from Jeff and Bill to stop a volcano from destroying their dwellings.
- DirectorTim BurtonStarsMark WahlbergHelena Bonham CarterTim RothIn 2029, an Air Force astronaut crash-lands on a mysterious planet where evolved, talking apes dominate a race of primitive humans.
- 1975–197624m5.8 (96)TV EpisodeDirectorDoug WildeyStarsAustin StokerPhilippa HarrisHenry CordenCornelius builds a hot air balloon that makes an unscheduled stop on Ice Mountain.
- DirectorDoug WildeyStarsRichard BlackburnHenry CordenPhilippa HarrisBlue eyes and Jeff must bring get fuel for the plane so Judy can get the needed medication to Nova before she dies and the spreads the infection to others.
- 1975–197624m5.9 (96)TV EpisodeDirectorDoug WildeyStarsAustin StokerPhilippa HarrisHenry CordenGeneral Urko hatches a scheme to declare war on the Underdwellers. Bill, Jeff, and Judy must find a way to stop him.
- DirectorDoug WildeyStarsRichard BlackburnHenry CordenPhilippa HarrisBill and Jeff plan to relocate the humanoids, so they turn to Zira and Cornelius for help.
- DirectorDoug WildeyStarsRichard BlackburnHenry CordenPhilippa HarrisDr. Zaius mounts an expedition to the Forbidden Zone to find the astronauts' spaceship, so Bill and Jeff head there first to destroy it.
- DirectorDoug WildeyStarsRichard BlackburnHenry CordenPhilippa HarrisWhen General Urko discovers a World War II fighter plane, the astronauts make plans to swipe it.
- 1975–197624m6.0 (94)TV EpisodeDirectorDoug WildeyStarsAustin StokerPhilippa HarrisHenry CordenCornelius and Zira take advantage of Urko's demotion to try and attempt to salvage an old hot-air balloon. Little do they know, the dragon is back, so Bill and Cornelius must team up with an ancient ape god to stop it.
- 1975–197624m6.1 (101)TV EpisodeDirectorDoug WildeyStarsRichard BlackburnHenry CordenPhilippa HarrisJeff and Bill discover an entrance to the lair of the Underdwellers, where they discover they've returned to Earth and find a brainwashed Judy in cahoots with the locals.
- 1975–197624m6.1 (109)TV EpisodeDirectorDoug WildeyStarsRichard BlackburnHenry CordenPhilippa HarrisWhen Bill ends up at the laboratory in Ape City, Cornelius and Zira help him escape. Meanwhile Jeff and Nova search for Bill.
- DirectorTed PostStarsJames FranciscusKim HunterMaurice EvansThe sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission searches for the only survivor of the previous expedition. He discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by telepathic humans.
- 1975–197630m6.1 (98)TV EpisodeDirectorDoug WildeyStarsRichard BlackburnHenry CordenPhilippa HarrisThe astronauts lead the humanoids to New Valley and stumble upon fellow astronaut Brent. Meanwhile General Urko tries to find the thief who stole his plane.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsRoddy McDowallDon MurrayRicardo MontalbanIn a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity.
- DirectorDoug WildeyStarsAustin StokerPhilippa HarrisHenry CordenThree astronauts are catapulted into the future. Soon Judy is swallowed by the Earth and Bill and Jeff wind up in the company of primitive humans who are captured by talking apes.
- DirectorDon TaylorStarsRoddy McDowallKim HunterBradford DillmanThe world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a U.S. spacecraft. They become the toast of society, but one man believes them to be a threat to the human race.
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonWhile 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.
- DirectorRalph SenenskyStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonTo foil the plans of a tyrannical gorilla who is trying to overthrow the chimpanzee prefect and gain control over a human farming district, Galen, Virdon and Burke risk an encounter with Urko. Urko and Burke are forced to work together again.
- DirectorJack StarrettStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonVirdon 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.
- DirectorAlf KjellinStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonWhen 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.
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonGalen, Virdon and Burke befriend a chimpanzee named Fauna, the blind daughter of a human friendly ape who was killed by a band of vigilante apes known as the 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 uncle is one of them.
- DirectorBernard McEveetyStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonBurke and Virdon 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 Oakland.
- DirectorBernard McEveetyStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonWith the help of an ape doctor, Virdon and Burke race to concoct a cure for a malaria outbreak. They must succeed before Urko implements his own version of a cure: burning down the village with everyone in it.
- DirectorArnold LavenStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonGalen 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.
- DirectorJohn Meredyth LucasStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonUnaware that a chimpanzee scientist plans to use a human prisoner's flying machine for her own deadly purpose, Virdon, Burke and Galen help the man, Leuric, to build a hang glider.
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonBurke 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.
- DirectorDon WeisStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonTwo astronauts survive a crash-landing on a planet where intelligent apes rule over humans. The men find that their own intelligence challenges the apes' superiority and puts their lives in danger.
- DirectorArnold LavenStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonWhen they are captured by a human community that provides human slaves to the apes, Virdon and Burke's survival is dependent on convincing their captors to rebel against the apes.
- DirectorDon WeisStarsRoddy McDowallRon HarperJames NaughtonWhen 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.
- DirectorMatt ReevesStarsAndy SerkisWoody HarrelsonSteve ZahnAfter the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind.
- DirectorArnold LavenStarsRoddy McDowallJames NaughtonRon HarperWhen 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 Virdon try to figure out a way to help Burke, with the assistance of several gorilla soldiers.
- DirectorMatt ReevesStarsGary OldmanKeri RussellAndy SerkisThe fragile peace between apes and humans is threatened as mistrust and betrayal threaten to plunge both tribes into a war for dominance over the Earth.
- DirectorRupert WyattStarsJames FrancoAndy SerkisFreida PintoA substance designed to help the brain repair itself gives advanced intelligence to a chimpanzee who leads an ape uprising.
- DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsCharlton HestonRoddy McDowallKim HunterAn astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet where highly intelligent non-human ape species are dominant and humans are enslaved.