"Planet of the Apes" - 13 Week Theatre
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- SUPPORT 13 WEEK THEATRE ON PATREON. / 13week
Pab looks at the ill-fated 1974 attempt to bring the film franchise to television.
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Another factor that may have contributed to its cancellation is how the first episode/premise seems like such a knockoff of the first movie. The fact that they've wanted us to see ANOTHER rocket crush into Earth's future (the third one at least in the franchise) was just bananas, if you pardon my pun.
I still have the bubble gum cards. The human pair resemble Starsky and Hutch.
Actually, Ron Harper had brown hair as well but had to dye it blonde.
I still have mine, too. Shows you how the network and licensees were all in, betting on the show's success. Those cards were on the shelves longer than the show was on the air.
I remember one card always made us laugh, bc was titled "The Thrill Of The Hunt!", but the accompanying image was a gorilla putting a stick of gum in his mouth. A "wtf moment" from our youth. 😄
And after Starsky and Hutch, Luke and Bo Duke!
This show was up against Sanford and Son and Chico and the Man, the 2nd and 3rd highest-rated shows of the entire 1974-75 season and the only non-CBS shows to make Top Ten that year. Cue Vince McMahon's "No Chance in Hell" theme because that's exactly what the Planet of the Apes show had.
Agreed. Absolutely daft timeslot.
ABC launched the drama Kodiak against Sanford and Son the same time Planet of The Apes aired, and that too died a death. (Kodiak had just replaced The Brady Bunch).
Could have been worse. CBS planned to air it on Tuesday nights at first (which would have pitted it against Happy Days, which had debuted), but had a change of heart.
@Andrew Barton You're right. Adam-12 was a longtime hit for NBC on Tuesday nights at 8pm. Happy Days (with A LOT of help from Good Times) pretty much knocked it off the air two years later.
total genius putting a scifi show up against the top rated comedy shows
it was almost like cbs wanted the show to fail
"scifi doesnt sell on tv" self fulfilling prophecy
once cable and streaming came to be, this was proven to be a fallacy
ABC placed the Linda Thorson episodes of The Avengers (if you can call that sci fi) against Rowan and Martin's Laugh In, then the No.1 show on TV.
The Avengers practically collapsed against it and ABC canned the show. Unfortunately when ABC pulled out, the British production company pulled the plug too as the American backing had practically kept the show alive.
@B.D. ROSE Edutainment The show WOULD HAVE been against Happy Days had it came on Tuesday nights like it was originally planned.
Anyone who says this show sucked has just never seen it. This show was classic sci-fi and it holds up at least as well as the OG Star Trek. The problem was it was a corporate show and the network interfered and ruined it. Plus (as others have mentioned) it was scheduled against the best shows on TV at the time. But the plots were engaging and they tackled a lot of social and political issues in the same way, again, as the og Trek and similar productions of the time. Right before he died, Roddy McDowell said in an interview that the cancelation of this show was his biggest regret, professionally. "There were so many stories left to tell." and he was right.
Executive interference is always a hindrance to shows. The best Sci-fi show IMO in hisotry is year one of Space:1999, and the reason it was so good is it was made with NO network interference, all 24 episodes completed before they even tried to sell it.
Thanks for airing this during family hour
Our pleasure!
Love to know what those Rod Serling scripts were like!
me too. i wonder if they are in his library
Rod Serling also wrote the original screenplay to the first film. It was scrapped as well - the only part they kept of his script was the ending. Interesting that they came back to him for the TV series and the same thing happened!
There's a graphic novel called "Planet of the Apes Visionaries" that illustrates Serling's script.
Now it's going to be weird watching this episode knowing it's based on a movie from 1968, the same year I was born and sadly realizing two celebrities born that same year just passed recently. RIP Lisa Marie Presley and Adam Rich 🙏🙏. My fellow 68 brethrens. 😥😢 The best year of the 60s!
Adam rich died!? Wtf, missed that! I'm also a 68 baby!
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I like Ernie Anderson's narration of the CBS promo.
If the video was made after ABC's owned and operated bought the repacked episodes as tv movies it wouldn't surprise me that the "Voice of ABC" would do the narration. Too bad he couldn't slip in "The Loooooove Boat" I always LOVED the way he said it, lol!
It seems like from what the video indicated, the CBS promo was an upfront presentation film and it would have been more than likely an original voice over on that as Ernie Anderson had served as announcer on Tim Conway 1970 variety show and replaced Lyle Waggoner as announcer on the Carol Burnett Show on CBS all before he became the voice of ABC. Ernie Anderson also was the voiceover announcer on the Eunice TV Special that aired in 1982 on CBS, several years after he became the voice of ABC.
@Vicleg10 Come to think of it Danny Dark, the "Voice of NBC", did promo work for CBS in the late 70s. You can hear him doing The Dukesof Hazzard promo on the Turnabout review for 13 Week Theater.
I remember watching the re-edited "movies" on TBS in the '80s. However I didn't realize they were just episodes of a TV series spliced together, I thought they were actual cinematic movies. Thus I was surprised to learn years later that there was no film named "Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes" in the official five-film series.
There were a lot of "TV movies that were just spliced episodes from shows that only lasted a season or less. Check out "Riding with Death" here on RUclips.
@@Laceykat66 Pab recently mentioned that Turnabout was one.
@@Laceykat66 also done with episodes of the old short-lived CBS Spider-Man tv series. PS - "Riding With Death", one of the greatest MST3K episodes ever! :D
"Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes..."
In their November 1981 issue, NATIONAL LAMPOON featured an article in their "Television" issue: "Pilots! Television's Orphans" {by Jefferson Springbok}, in which they imagined the worst pilots ever made that never got on the air. One of them was........
*"PLANET OF THE APES COMEDY HOUR"*
*After the failure of the "PLANET OF THE APES" science-fiction series in 1974, the network remained convinced that humans made up to look like gorillas could make it in prime-time. A comedy/ variety format was created for the stars of the ill-fated series, Roddy MacDowall and Booth Colman. They performed in sketches with resident zanies the Ace Trucking Company and comic Freeman King. The guests on the first episode were Tony Orlando and Dawn and Paul Lynde. After the pilot was viewed, it was felt that the program's appeal was indeed limited and that Booth and Roddy lacked the chemistry of a successful male/female team, despite their considerable skills at mimicking ape behavior.*
Even though this was purely fictional, this is EXACTLY what Fred Silverman might have done had he really wanted another variation of the series, using "SONNY & CHER"'s producers and writers and some of their former cast.
03:07 This shows they've landed in the original time line. Not the one created by Cornelius and zira going back and giving birth to Caesar.
Going back to the well seems a common problem for both Hollywood and the Television industry.
Good job as usual.
Sorry, there's profit to be had.
I loved the show, but I had never seen any of the movies at that time and I was a big sci-fi fan at the time. I even learned to imitate Roddy McDowell's ape walk and would do it around the school just for a laugh.
The Episode “ The Liberator” was broadcast in the original run here in Canada on the Hamilton Station CHCH Channel 11 . The series aired an hour earlier than the U.S. Broadcast on Fridays.
great job, thank u Pab!!!
"A strange continent known as Earth." Great writing, there.
Have you considered doing "Fantastic Journey" and "Otherworld"?
Each film got a smaller budget than the one before it. By the time of the TV series people had grown tired of the Apes movies.
Friday/Saturday nights are often noted as being the worst night of the week for a series, and I understand why. However, those were the best nights of the week for TV if you were a little kid, bc you didn't yet have a night life, and you could stay up a little later. I was 7 years old when this show was on, and I watched every week. I didn't care about the similarities to the films - we wanted to watch apes! I'd imagine many other kids did, too. I guess there weren't enough of those kids to help the overall ratings, though.
It did make toy collecting a little confusing, as we ended up with a Cornelius action figure and a Galen figure that looked exactly alike, and the same thing with Ursus/Urko. Oh well, loved those Mego figures and playsets anyway!
One problem I had with the show is that it felt pedestrian compared to the mind-blowing movies. I didn’t like that humans were a sentient lower class rather as opposed to the non-speaking animals they were in the first films.
There had to be some sort of interplay between humans and apes if the show was to have any dimension at all. The series would have nowhere to go if the apes were the only ones with dialogue.
Planet of the Apes amidst demands for family friendly entertainment. I dunno, I bet a POA sitcom could work. Kind of like Last of the Summer Wine.
I was watching this show during its original run and the Liberator aired.
great Mego line based on the show
Thank you!
Escape From The Planet of The Apes was my first of the ape movies in the theatres and I totally was up to speed with the story, at ten years old. Those CBS premieres of the first & second were my catch-up.
Please take a look at the short-lived Logan's Run tv series.
When TNT showed reruns in the 1990s they used an awesome tag line: "Life's really over when you're thirtysomething."
an entire doc can be done on what fox did to planet of the apes....all because the suits had no respect for scifi/fantasy fans
that changed with star wars....then reverted back when tom rothman took over
i have another suggestion for 13 week theater
the uk adaptation of married with children that they called married for life
The PBS style logo is great!
The series was very successful when it was shown in the UK not long after its US debut.
I liked this show, I didn't get to see it's original run, but, I did see the the movies they made the episodes into the made for tv movies, some people will remember how the networks use to basically have no network programming during the Democratic and Republican National Convention weeks, in 1984, in my area we had 2 independent stations and one of them showed each movie each night during the week of one of the conventions, good times, I became a big fan of the ape movies about ten years ago and wanted to explore deeper, got the dvds of this show and the animated show as well, brought back memoires of 84 watching this show again and found that it holds up, the animated show is really good too, it reminds me of Star Trek : The Animated Series, how it was animated, but has serious themes drama, I definitely recommend both
Imagine being so dedicated a furry as to hire a team to spend 3 hours putting makeup on you ever convention.
It was opposite Sanford and Son when that show was number one.
Sanford and Son was Number 2. All in the Family was Number 1 that year.
I meant for the night, not overall.@@Quartzquiz333
It was rerun a lot.
Every episode was THE SAME! Humans escape, apes chase and chase, catch and escape. The animated series from 1975 was the same, except was glacially paced.
If you squint your eyes, the two leads become Starsky and Hutch…
The T.V Sreies Sucked As Did The Cartoon Series And I Never Liked The Reboot Movies In 2011 , The TV Series Only Lasted 3 Months And The Cartoon Series A little Over Two Months ! The Mark Walberg Ending Was Scary
The planet of the apes movies were WAY MUCH BETTER
The cartoons a year later were also better.
you neglected to mention one thing: THE SHOW SUCKED!!!!
Hardly.
And the cartoon was even worse
I must have seen this in syndication in the 70s, I certainly remember the cartoon and the toys! The movies were on all the time on weekends as a kid. Maybe adults of the time didn't get it but the racial metaphors did not go over my head! Like Star Trek a lot of the 1960s humanist, anti war, anti racist, lets build a better world themes set into our narrative as GenX.