At the ripe young age of 49, I am finally getting around to watching both these and the Star Trek animated series! My 12 yr old heart and soul thanks the uploaders and TH-cam 😃
I remember watching and loving this show. It wasn't dumbed down like other Saturday morning cartoons. It was pretty serious stuff. Plus I liked how ape society was a lot more technically advanced too. This series was probably more closer to the book.
It was absolutely closer to the book. The reason the original movie wasn't was due to budget constraints. Looking back I think it worked out for the best. Not sure I would have liked it as much if they were driving and flying in a futuristic setting.
Wow...amazed at how sophisticated the storyline is....I loved this show as a kid of the 70's but I hadn't remembered it to be this complex as far as plot and the adult themes throughout.....
Also this came in a time before smartphones and advanced Internet we have today and was in the time when Saigon fell. Plus people were way different then since this could never be done today and they weren't as easily offended and PC as it is now.
One of the more serious saturday morning cartoons, and no stupid Gleeks or any other type of stupid silly animal sidekick to ruin it. I remember that this show had some good episodes,would like to get this on DVD.
There was such an absence of TV sci-fi at this time (1970-77) that top-notch, established writers would agree to pen for whatever was out there, incld. Voyage of the Starlost (Harlan Elison), Land of the Lost (DC Fontana), and the Star Trek animated series (multiple). The drought was broken by Logan's Run, and then erased entirely by the raft of Star Wars-inspired sci-fi that arrived beginning in '78.
I have this Cartoon series on DVD, and the live-action Planet of the Apes TV series on DVD. Like the later Sci-Fi TV series, Firefly, it got yanked off the air before it had any chance of establishing itself.
@@sonnyd.6777 It might be, inadvertently. Doug Wildey did this cartoon also, and I recall in an interview that he thought his work in this series exceeded that of Jonny Quest.
@@jeffgorham8819 Doug Wildey did some interesting concept art for a proposed DOC SAVAGE cartoon - which would have been awesome had the series been given a green light.
Remember every September just before school started they used to have a big promotional hour long show telling all about the new cartoons for Saturday mornings. Growing up in the 70s before electronics, what a great time. Bicycles, skateboards, baseball, cowboys and Indians, hide and seek, need I say more.
I was there, too! I remember most of the Saturday morning kids shows from the time. Sigmund & the Sea Monsters, Wonder Buggy, Far Out Space Nuts, etc. Remember disco being all over the radio with trucking and CB songs, too. My dad's '69 340 Dart that he bought new sitting in the driveway. The couple across the street had a nice orange customized GMC van in their driveway. Had my Star Trek book & record set with the famous poster of Farrah over the head of my bed.
Really was a different time then before smartphones, video games, PC and advanced Internet we have today. Also very turbulent since it was still the Cold War, Saigon falling to Communist NVA and VC force and for those Saturday Morning Cartoons they'll be extinct but will happen years later in the 2000's.
Watching this on April 21, 2021.. loved this show way back when and still do, makes me kinda sad tho because of the memories it brings back of the family that were alive and now almost all gone.
Jefe BAiley yo te entiendo x que esa bajas duelen y mucho El hechar de -alos del alto mando mama y papa yo los extraño mucho y aunhoy me hcdn mucha falta x quelos extraño alos 2 y a todos los que han partido y me acuerdo de muchas cosa que soninborrables es que seme salen las lágrimas cada que me acuerdo yosecomo duele ok
@@joseluisgaribay5171 Dios te bendiga, no los has perdido para siempre. Como sabemos por propia experiencia, el amor nunca muere, por mucho tiempo que pase. Dios es amor y él nos creó a su propia imagen y semejanza para difundir su amor en el mundo. Eso lo hicieron tus padres al traerte a ti al mundo - ser imagen de Dios para ti como tu lo has sido para ellos. El amor que sientes por tus padres apunta hacia la la plentidud de la vida más allá de esta vida. El amor con el que ellos te arroparon ellos continúa, porque ellos viven ahora en Dios. Somos como niños pequeños - no lo entendemos, pero en el fondo de nuestro corazón arde la esperanza que la vida tiene sentido, que estamos aquí por amor a para el amor, y siguiendo el camino del amor nos encontraremos con Dios y con todos nuestros seres queridos. Fe, alegría y esperanza hermano. ¡Cristo vive!
"RETURN TO THE PLANET OF THE APES" was an NBC Saturday morning cartoon series for the 1975-76 TV season. it was produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and Twentieth Century Fox Television,and the supervising animation producer was Doug Wildey,best known for his creation,"JONNY QUEST" for Hanna-Barbera in 1964-he later did the "Godzilla" cartoon series for Hanna-Barbera in 1978.and the voice of "General Urko" was played by Henry Corden,who did the voice of Fred Flintstone-plus an assorted collection of other voices,including DePatie-Freleng's 1972 cartoon series, "THE BARKLEYS",which many compared to "ALL IN THE FAMILY". but another great cartoon voice that Henry Corden also did,was in "THE HILLBILLIE BEARS" in 1965.
Man I remember being a combination of creeped out, fascinated and excited every time I saw the intro and those reverse crucifixions. That would never fly today!
This is soooo well animated Yes, like any hand animation a LOT of pans and zooms but they do lots of good things like layering fades, you really don't notice all the ways to get around the fact it's ALL hand drawn.
ugh, waaaay too many pans/zooms of static scenes, closeups where only eyes/mouth move, etc. this is barely animation at all honestly. at least filmation did rotoscoped stuff in this era
Love this series. Very unexpected in many ways... I mean how many cartoons start with human effigies tied to crosses? Doug Wildey's art really makes this one shine. BTW... The chronometer reading; "We have traveled 105 years, 8 months, 5 weeks..." Funny stuff. Maybe "9 months, 1 week" would be more accurate?
I had the chance to be a teen in the seventies and I can tell you that movies were good and also the best rock bands and also Disco 💃 ( I was a disco dude lol). Then in my early twenties came the eighties which was awesome too. Then it became crap in the nineties.
It's no surprise that it's been produced both By David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng. The same guys who gave us the Animated Dr. Seuss specials and even the Animated Pink Panther Character.
I won't ask my son (Kelly), but I hope HE missed it TOO! HE was only 5 in "75. I didn't know till TODAY the series starts with crucified apes. Don't think if I looked at the screen I'd have known what I was seeing. AND if he watched the series, I hope he didn't recognize them EITHER! Ewww!
Hey, MegaDude!! How about posting ALL the episodes of this great cartoon?? Not cutting them down into parts, but intact like THIS one??? That would be a totally AWESOME thing to do!!!!
Despite the static animation, this is pretty sophisticated storytelling for '70s Saturday mornings, an era when a lot of stuff was radically dumbed down.
Unlike the movies this did not peak my interest to watch as a kid because no Roddy McDowell or Charlton Heston. But now it would be worth everything to watch now, the animation was great and the soundtrack mimic Jerry Goldsmith music.
Darker than most Saturday toons of that era, only rivaled by certain and specific anime series also in the same period, and that level won't be seen again until BTAS.
@@alexgomez6723 no, you've just been indoc by Scooby and Superfriends. Meanwhile U.K. France, Hungary, The USSR, and Japan were getting out of the kiddie pool for the deeper end.
@@quentinstewart4276 Well, you’re certainly not wrong, but I was talking about the realm of American animation, specifically when it came to TV, cinema faired slightly if only because of Bakshi, but still was lacking in many regards. I am forever grateful for the genuine efforts of Europe, the USSR, and Japan for wanting to do something actually substantial and meaningful with the medium, but unfortunately, for better or worse, likely the latter, America is the standard by what the world believes and behaves like, when it sneezes the rest of the globe catches a cold. For what it’s worth, despite its many shortcomings, I actually found RTTPOFTA to be much more bearable to sit through than almost any other of its contemporaries as it makes somewhat of an effort to respect the intelligence of the audience.
Woooo I forgot about this old school gem. ... Saturday mornings on abc was a beautiful thing. ... being a kid in the 70s I would trade it for nothing. .... Great era! !!! Now all I need is a box of apple Jacks and some P & J....
I've not seen this animated adventure before. It is surprisingly good and I like it. Too bad it was only thirteen episodes. Thanks for sharing this 70s feature.
Oh yes, Depatie-Freleng, they did the Super 6 and The Inspector cartoons back in the 1960s. Peter Boulle wrote the book for the original movie Planet of the Apes in 1968. 23:58.
There was a Planet of the Apes magazine in the 70's and the artwork was similar to the animation of the show. I'm so used to Mark Lenard as Urko I forgot that the voice actor that did Fred Flintstone was Urko in the animated series.
"it does borrow some characters seen in the movies" That's because Zaius, Cornelius, Zira, and Nova are all in the book. Urko is from the live-action T.V. series.
As bad as I want them to bring back this series for another season because it has so much potential, I can’t help but wonder how different the animation would look now in 2021.
Best to leave it alone. They would only ruin it. The people of today who try and put out so called entertainment just don't have what it takes like the people back then had.
Really was a different time when this came out since it was also the year Saigon fell, smartphones, advanced computers and Internet hasn't arrived yet and broadcasting standards were a whole lot different than nowadays since this really can't work if this first came in our times.
I’ve been saying for years that Cartoon Network is missing the boat by not developing a Cartoon Network Classic and putting on everything from the fifties to the seventies..
Yes, General Urko is voiced by the same actor who voiced Fred Flintstone--but not the original voice of Alan Reed but his replacement Henry Corden 24:07
Thanks for posting this. It's a pretty weird opening episode for a kid's TV series. It's very slow, with little or no action for much of the show, I can't help thinking that some kids must have got bored with it. Still it's interesting if you're a fan of the movies, books, comics etc.
Having just watched this for the 1st time I have to agree with you - the slow pace killed my interest. This episode is basically just re-telling the 1st film.
Wow , I never knew they made a cartoon show out of Planet of the Apes. I remember the live action TV series being shown endlessly on Saturday Morning TV and later finding out that it was actually based on a series of Movies . This seems a little bit static compared to the cartoon shows of the 1990's; probably not many frames per minute. It seems more comparable to the Star Trek Animated series Back then an hour long TV show was a lot to sit through, but I wish they showed them now on some channel , coz I have a lot more time to kill now I'm grown up. I wish they would show the movies too coz they were very highly regarded in their time
This makes about a dozen astronauts who have crashed on the Planet of the Apes (although 2 did not survive). In the TV series Zaius also mentions an unspecified number of astronauts who arrived 10 years before Virdon and Burke and who were killed. So call it approximately 15. That's more than have walked on the moon.
Wow. I bet you didn't know that an old 60's Mercury space capsule with no engines could break the light speed barrier. Does anyone know why they didn't use the original ship design?
Maybe it had already been accelerated to near light speed with a booster that was discarded? That would be my first thought, if your question was a serious inquiry. But I think it would have been better had they kept a more futuristic vehicle such as was used in the film.
The reason the apes are DRIVING TRUCKS, instead of RIDING HORSES, in the cartoon is because it would take more time and expense to put the apes on horseback!
a lot of banter below about this "not" being a kid's cartoon....But it was. It was on the Saturday morning line up just like Johnny Quest and Star Trek (the cartoon) were ....They were targeted for kids/young teens...All of the sponsors indicated this by pushing products to kids. I was about 12 or 13 at this time, and I loved this show! Also "Korg 70,000 B.C.".
Good upload. 1 relevant historical curiosity about the some of the sound effects used in this 1st episode of the: "R. P. A.". Is that the blaring-horn calling sound: was done by using a Neanderthal age -> modified Woolly-Rhino horn musical instrument. That was found buried in a cave in nowadays Prussia. It's calculated that this blaring-horn was originally made and utilized 15 thousand years ago. One can note how its sounds a bit like the loud call of a Mammoth. Unfortunately, the Europeans did drove the Woolly-Rhino and the Mammoth great beasts into their extinction.
They are just effigies, meant to frighten human interlopers away from ape territory. But they're shown hung upside-down -- and the Romans crucified people whom they REALLY didn't like upside-down. It was considered the very worst way to die.
This was one Saturday morning cartoon that truly had an adult feel.
Got Alex toth art style and definitely motion
Comic still good shit
So did Star Trek the Animated Series (Filmation 1973).
All I need is a bowl of Capt. Crunch, and I’m 10 again. Thanks LOVE THIS!
Cap'n Crunch is 40% sugar
One of the best TV cartoons ever.
Exactly..i enjoy the movies, the TV shows and the Cartoons.
You'll feel just as young watching FLALF MOM.
I was 3 May had a low attention span.
At the ripe young age of 49, I am finally getting around to watching both these and the Star Trek animated series! My 12 yr old heart and soul thanks the uploaders and TH-cam 😃
Amen.
I remember watching and loving this show. It wasn't dumbed down like other Saturday morning cartoons. It was pretty serious stuff. Plus I liked how ape society was a lot more technically advanced too. This series was probably more closer to the book.
It was absolutely closer to the book. The reason the original movie wasn't was due to budget constraints. Looking back I think it worked out for the best. Not sure I would have liked it as much if they were driving and flying in a futuristic setting.
Wow...amazed at how sophisticated the storyline is....I loved this show as a kid of the 70's but I hadn't remembered it to be this complex as far as plot and the adult themes throughout.....
This used to scare me when i was only 6 years old. Great to watch again. Thank you.
I used to watch it when I was 9, now, this innocent cartoon would be rated PG or TV14.
Also this came in a time before smartphones and advanced Internet we have today and was in the time when Saigon fell. Plus people were way different then since this could never be done today and they weren't as easily offended and PC as it is now.
I think these cartoons were too sophisticated for children, just the concept of humans as inferior, mutants ect.
@@kellychuang8373 people were literally protesting Elvis shaking his hips and cartoons being too violent back then lol stfu
Eventhough I was born in the early 80s, this old-school Saturday morning cartoon from the 70s is so fun to watch today in 2022!
in 70's every kid got up at 6am and watched cartoons til
about 11 am and then outside all day. unlike today.
@@elvinposey5251 Same with me when I went to bed at 10pm after watching TGIF so that I can eat breakfast early & watch SMC afterwards. Good times.
One of the more serious saturday morning cartoons, and no stupid Gleeks or any other type of stupid silly animal sidekick to ruin it.
I remember that this show had some good episodes,would like to get this on DVD.
There was such an absence of TV sci-fi at this time (1970-77) that top-notch, established writers would agree to pen for whatever was out there, incld. Voyage of the Starlost (Harlan Elison), Land of the Lost (DC Fontana), and the Star Trek animated series (multiple). The drought was broken by Logan's Run, and then erased entirely by the raft of Star Wars-inspired sci-fi that arrived beginning in '78.
I got the planet of the apes live action and the animated series on Blu-ray and I got the live action series on regular DVD or the TV show
I have this Cartoon series on DVD, and the live-action Planet of the Apes TV series on DVD. Like the later Sci-Fi TV series, Firefly, it got yanked off the air before it had any chance of establishing itself.
Love this series. the drawings, the music, the mood. so atmospheric and eerie. used to wake up at 6:30 am on saturdays to watch it. so many memories.
Yeah, the animation was simple as hell, but this was classic stuff and beats the hell out of today's toons by a long shot!
Yes , today all the animated series have that cartoonish faces unrealistic animation.
Bruh... yeah agree... furthermore, w the violence & eerie music😊😊👍👍
This is so worthy of a second look, for the art direction alone. Very unusual for a Saturday morning toon.
Is that Race Bannon?😸
@@sonnyd.6777 It might be, inadvertently. Doug Wildey did this cartoon also, and I recall in an interview that he thought his work in this series exceeded that of Jonny Quest.
@@jeffgorham8819 Doug Wildey did some interesting concept art for a proposed DOC SAVAGE cartoon - which would have been awesome had the series been given a green light.
yep adult themse in kid packages. super subversive
Is there more of this show never even know there was a cartoon of this i was born in 79
Dammitt already bring back our 70s n 80s cartoons back to television , for crying out loud
it would be so popular
Preach!!
She Ra reboot was better than original
Get your hands off our cartoons, you damn dirty programming executives! 🦍 🐒 🤪😁
70s n 80s were the best tv execs ruined it all
@@Stars-us4gh I think the Bush or Clinton administration ruined them.
I used to watch this on Saturday mornings. AaAaAhhhhhhh, to be 10 again in the summer of 1975. Summer 1976 was just as awesome.
Remember every September just before school started they used to have a big promotional hour long show telling all about the new cartoons for Saturday mornings. Growing up in the 70s before electronics, what a great time. Bicycles, skateboards, baseball, cowboys and Indians, hide and seek, need I say more.
@@thomasglynn2282 You said it. A great, carefree, innocent time to grow up in.
I was there, too! I remember most of the Saturday morning kids shows from the time. Sigmund & the Sea Monsters, Wonder Buggy, Far Out Space Nuts, etc. Remember disco being all over the radio with trucking and CB songs, too. My dad's '69 340 Dart that he bought new sitting in the driveway. The couple across the street had a nice orange customized GMC van in their driveway. Had my Star Trek book & record set with the famous poster of Farrah over the head of my bed.
Really was a different time then before smartphones, video games, PC and advanced Internet we have today. Also very turbulent since it was still the Cold War, Saigon falling to Communist NVA and VC force and for those Saturday Morning Cartoons they'll be extinct but will happen years later in the 2000's.
@@thomasglynn2282 Things that you don't see kids now doing or are gone bye bye.
Can't believe the quality of this... it's so good!
🦍 May the nameless Ape-God bless you for posting this‼️ 🦍🗿🏛️🏚️🏜️🚀
Watching this on April 21, 2021.. loved this show way back when and still do, makes me kinda sad tho because of the memories it brings back of the family that were alive and now almost all gone.
Same here.
Jefe BAiley yo te entiendo x que esa bajas duelen y mucho
El hechar de -alos del alto mando mama y papa yo los extraño mucho y aunhoy me hcdn mucha falta x quelos extraño alos 2 y a todos los que han partido y me acuerdo de muchas cosa que soninborrables es que seme salen las lágrimas cada que me acuerdo yosecomo duele ok
@@joseluisgaribay5171 Dios te bendiga, no los has perdido para siempre.
Como sabemos por propia experiencia, el amor nunca muere, por mucho tiempo que pase.
Dios es amor y él nos creó a su propia imagen y semejanza para difundir su amor en el mundo. Eso lo hicieron tus padres al traerte a ti al mundo - ser imagen de Dios para ti como tu lo has sido para ellos.
El amor que sientes por tus padres apunta hacia la la plentidud de la vida más allá de esta vida.
El amor con el que ellos te arroparon ellos continúa, porque ellos viven ahora en Dios.
Somos como niños pequeños - no lo entendemos, pero en el fondo de nuestro corazón arde la esperanza que la vida tiene sentido, que estamos aquí por amor a para el amor, y siguiendo el camino del amor nos encontraremos con Dios y con todos nuestros seres queridos.
Fe, alegría y esperanza hermano.
¡Cristo vive!
"RETURN TO THE PLANET OF THE APES" was an NBC Saturday morning cartoon series for the 1975-76 TV season. it was produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
and Twentieth Century Fox Television,and the supervising animation producer was Doug Wildey,best known for his creation,"JONNY QUEST" for Hanna-Barbera in 1964-he later did the "Godzilla" cartoon series for Hanna-Barbera in 1978.and the voice of "General Urko" was played by Henry Corden,who did the voice of Fred Flintstone-plus an assorted
collection of other voices,including DePatie-Freleng's 1972 cartoon series, "THE BARKLEYS",which many compared to "ALL IN THE FAMILY". but another great cartoon voice that Henry Corden also did,was in "THE HILLBILLIE BEARS" in 1965.
THANKS FOR RECAP...otherwise I wouldnt know..... unable to look up stuff for myself.
joe hill ok..thank you for the Wikipedia article
Definitley see the similarity in style to Johnny Quest
Man I remember being a combination of creeped out, fascinated and excited every time I saw the intro and those reverse crucifixions. That would never fly today!
This is soooo well animated
Yes, like any hand animation a LOT of pans and zooms but they do lots of good things like layering fades, you really don't notice all the ways to get around the fact it's ALL hand drawn.
ugh, waaaay too many pans/zooms of static scenes, closeups where only eyes/mouth move, etc. this is barely animation at all honestly. at least filmation did rotoscoped stuff in this era
The animation may be rather static, but the style is crisp and colorful. The quality of the print is also excellent.
Though it was criticized by its poor production , the limited animation style has its charm during the 70s. First time I saw this! Thank u
I really miss Saturday morning cartoons .. awesome.
Love this series. Very unexpected in many ways... I mean how many cartoons start with human effigies tied to crosses?
Doug Wildey's art really makes this one shine.
BTW... The chronometer reading; "We have traveled 105 years, 8 months, 5 weeks..." Funny stuff. Maybe "9 months, 1 week" would be more accurate?
I love this animation.
Great musical score. The 70's were great.
Agreed!
I had the chance to be a teen in the seventies and I can tell you that movies were good and also the best rock bands and also Disco 💃 ( I was a disco dude lol). Then in my early twenties came the eighties which was awesome too. Then it became crap in the nineties.
Yes they were.
Greatest franchise that ever existed in my opinion
The second movie was weak af though, u gotta admit. Id rank it the lowest of the 5 movies.
I am a fan of this movie franchise and the toon series as well.
I loved this as a kid and love watching it now. The backgrounds are amazing.
glider208 the music sounds good
glider208 what about Brent where is he
If General Urko sounds familiar, it's because the voice actor also played Fred Flintstone.
Correct. Henry Corden, the second Fred, who took over after the death of Alan Reed.
Also, Jeff is voiced by the actual actor in the movie
Interesting this cartoon is almost 50 years old and looks like it was done back in the 90s
I remember this from my childhood. Man I don’t remember it being so grown up!
Such a brilliant cartoon series I Love watching it, a true classic from 1975
It's no surprise that it's been produced both By David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng. The same guys who gave us the Animated Dr. Seuss specials and even the Animated Pink Panther Character.
Oh, thanks so much for uploading! I love this series.
who can forget this on SAT morning
Thank you so much! And thank you for not making this for kids only so that I can save it into a Saturday Morning cartoon playlist! The memories!!!
One of my favorite Saturday morning cartoons as a kid. It only lasted one season!😥
I missed this series as a kid somehow. That is one awesomely spooky opening.
I won't ask my son (Kelly), but I hope HE missed it TOO! HE was only 5 in "75. I didn't know till TODAY the series starts with crucified apes. Don't think if I looked at the screen I'd have known what I was seeing. AND if he watched the series, I hope he didn't recognize them EITHER! Ewww!
Only 13 epsiodes..1 season. It was easy to miss. Dropped due to extremely low ratings.
I soooo remember this back in the seventies...this was tv on Saturday mornings
I use to watch this on Saturday morning.
Hey, MegaDude!! How about posting ALL the episodes of this great cartoon?? Not cutting them down into parts, but intact like THIS one??? That would be a totally AWESOME thing to do!!!!
This is so well done. The scripts and artwork especially.
Despite the static animation, this is pretty sophisticated storytelling for '70s Saturday mornings, an era when a lot of stuff was radically dumbed down.
Now this, is a cartoon that I would like to see brought back!
Unlike the movies this did not peak my interest to watch as a kid because no Roddy McDowell or Charlton Heston. But now it would be worth everything to watch now, the animation was great and the soundtrack mimic Jerry Goldsmith music.
Love the art. Really well executed. I hope I can find this on DVD
"self clock" Aug 6 1976...I turned 5 that day.
Hey what's it like being 50 cuz I'm 30 and scared
Whoa, (not-yet) Fred Flintstone as the General?
LOL BARNEY !!!!
All I can picture when I hear the General is the fruity pebbles commercial lol 😂
In the live-action TV series, He was played by Mark Lenard ( Ambassador Sarek from "Star Trek:TOS)
Yabba Dabba Doo, kill all the humans, too.
Thts why I started looking through comments to see if my suspicions were correct Fred Flinstone
Mel blanc aka twiki
The blonde male character looks just like an older version of Johnny Quest.
Mike Titus Pikardski now that's funny ... LOL ....
+Mike Titus Pikardski There is a reason for that. The director is Doug Wildey, the creator of Jonny Quest.
He also seems to have the same voice actor as Barry ( the CYBORG ) from the ARCHER series.....
Action Johnny from The
Venture Bros.
Darker than most Saturday toons of that era, only rivaled by certain and specific anime series also in the same period, and that level won't be seen again until BTAS.
Too bad it’s nearly as shitty as practically everything else from that time.
@@alexgomez6723 no, you've just been indoc by Scooby and Superfriends. Meanwhile U.K. France, Hungary, The USSR, and Japan were getting out of the kiddie pool for the deeper end.
@@quentinstewart4276 Well, you’re certainly not wrong, but I was talking about the realm of American animation, specifically when it came to TV, cinema faired slightly if only because of Bakshi, but still was lacking in many regards. I am forever grateful for the genuine efforts of Europe, the USSR, and Japan for wanting to do something actually substantial and meaningful with the medium, but unfortunately, for better or worse, likely the latter, America is the standard by what the world believes and behaves like, when it sneezes the rest of the globe catches a cold.
For what it’s worth, despite its many shortcomings, I actually found RTTPOFTA to be much more bearable to sit through than almost any other of its contemporaries as it makes somewhat of an effort to respect the intelligence of the audience.
Doug Wildey. Fantastic work on a Depathie-Freleng budget. His use of black colour to give depth is outstanding.
Love the music and sound effects on these episodes.
760jjsole I agree. A lot of seventies shows had great themes .
This cartoon intro was scary as hell, I remember watching it as a kid and it scared the crap out of me, damn!!!!
This was state of the art ,these shows space ghost, Jonny quest and the like were the best. Fond childhood memories
In my opinion Jonny Quest was one of the three best cartoons ever made.
DEFINITELY a GOOD FLASHBACK!
Woooo I forgot about this old school gem. ... Saturday mornings on abc was a beautiful thing. ... being a kid in the 70s I would trade it for nothing. .... Great era! !!! Now all I need is a box of apple Jacks and some P & J....
I've not seen this animated adventure before. It is surprisingly good and I like it. Too bad it was only thirteen episodes. Thanks for sharing this 70s feature.
The “DANGER” gauge was a nice touch
Sad this type of animation didn’t catch on or the mature stories. Many kids cartoons are pretty dumbed down, sanitized and repetitive.
Some shows just weren't appreciated by the people who made them. This deserved more than a single season!
I liked this show more than the Flintstones.
Beautiful backgrounds and matte paintings. The scenario seems solid and the voice talent is good as well.
Oh yes, Depatie-Freleng, they did the Super 6 and The Inspector cartoons back in the 1960s. Peter Boulle wrote the book for the original movie Planet of the Apes in 1968. 23:58.
Depatie-Freleng were also involved in the show The Rat Patrol from 1966-1968.
I like the artwork and color that was used back then
Saturday at noon is when I watched it back then.
howard johnson Yeah, me too, Howard. I'm originally from the east coast, Georgia to be exact.
Oh yeah, I remember this one. One of the best.
Man I miss those days I would give up my left kidney to hop in a time machine and go back dam!!
can watch a lot of the older saturday morning cartoons on daily motion website without any annoying additional screen crap
I thought this was so cool when I was a kid!
There was a Planet of the Apes magazine in the 70's and the artwork was similar to the animation of the show. I'm so used to Mark Lenard as Urko I forgot that the voice actor that did Fred Flintstone was Urko in the animated series.
"it does borrow some characters seen in the movies"
That's because Zaius, Cornelius, Zira, and Nova are all in the book. Urko is from the live-action T.V. series.
As bad as I want them to bring back this series for another season because it has so much potential, I can’t help but wonder how different the animation would look now in 2021.
Well yea, there would be actual animation lol.
Best to leave it alone. They would only ruin it. The people of today who try and put out so called entertainment just don't have what it takes like the people back then had.
There'd be hip hop gorillas and a 'bangin' soundtrack 🙄
It would suck ass. They’ve ruined everything.
Loved this and all things “Ape” as a child. But funny how basically still photos with moving lips was so cool.
best cartoon ever made
well I love it but the best? I think Jonny Quest got it beat.
I just finished watching all 13 ep and damm I just stayed thirsty for more..sadly I guess there's no more
Ape General Zurko voice actor is Alan Reed who was Fred Flintstone in 1960s.
Henry Corden.
Damn , I forgot how amazing animation was in this
The simple animation didn't matter....the stories were good.
it's all hand animation, at best rotoscoping. no computer anything, just pen ink and transparencies.
Really was a different time when this came out since it was also the year Saigon fell, smartphones, advanced computers and Internet hasn't arrived yet and broadcasting standards were a whole lot different than nowadays since this really can't work if this first came in our times.
I’ve been saying for years that Cartoon Network is missing the boat by not developing a Cartoon Network Classic and putting on everything from the fifties to the seventies..
Can you imagine crybabies they would have a stroke and demand they were all canceled
planet of apes tv series ran 1974-75 half a season before cancelled ran friday nights......Ape craziness ran 7 yesrs 1968-75
The people that make decisions about shows to cancel or keep don't know anything
Thank you so much for this
Yes, General Urko is voiced by the same actor who voiced Fred Flintstone--but not the original voice of Alan Reed but his replacement Henry Corden 24:07
Thanks for posting this. It's a pretty weird opening episode for a kid's TV series. It's very slow, with little or no action for much of the show, I can't help thinking that some kids must have got bored with it. Still it's interesting if you're a fan of the movies, books, comics etc.
Vavazelus moron
Having just watched this for the 1st time I have to agree with you - the slow pace killed my interest. This episode is basically just re-telling the 1st film.
We children back then had much longer attention spans. Remember, we had to use our imaginations when we played not computers
enjoyed watching this as a kid
Wow , I never knew they made a cartoon show out of Planet of the Apes. I remember the live action TV series being shown endlessly on Saturday Morning TV and later finding out that it was actually based on a series of Movies . This seems a little bit static compared to the cartoon shows of the 1990's; probably not many frames per minute. It seems more comparable to the Star Trek Animated series Back then an hour long TV show was a lot to sit through, but I wish they showed them now on some channel , coz I have a lot more time to kill now I'm grown up. I wish they would show the movies too coz they were very highly regarded in their time
This makes about a dozen astronauts who have crashed on the Planet of the Apes (although 2 did not survive). In the TV series Zaius also mentions an unspecified number of astronauts who arrived 10 years before Virdon and Burke and who were killed. So call it approximately 15.
That's more than have walked on the moon.
QuorkEx and......
QuorkEx but remember 500 humans have left earth so far in our human history
You can probably find this on Boomerang TV. They play a lot of 60's, 70's, and 80's cartoons.
Wow. I bet you didn't know that an old 60's Mercury space capsule with no engines could break the light speed barrier. Does anyone know why they didn't use the original ship design?
It's not the original ship is why.
Maybe it had already been accelerated to near light speed with a booster that was discarded? That would be my first thought, if your question was a serious inquiry. But I think it would have been better had they kept a more futuristic vehicle such as was used in the film.
Really deep for a 70's cartoon for children.
The reason the apes are DRIVING TRUCKS, instead of RIDING HORSES, in the cartoon is because it would take more time and expense to put the apes on horseback!
a lot of banter below about this "not" being a kid's cartoon....But it was. It was on the Saturday morning line up just like Johnny Quest and Star Trek (the cartoon) were ....They were targeted for kids/young teens...All of the sponsors indicated this by pushing products to kids. I was about 12 or 13 at this time, and I loved this show! Also "Korg 70,000 B.C.".
Jonny Quest originally aired at night. It was for a mixed audience of adults and teens, and the stories reflect that.
@@roberthaworth8991 yes, that is true...But by the 1970s, Johnny Quest had been moved into the children’s Saturday morning line up.
General Urko (at 2:37) sounds like was voiced by Alan Reed who also voiced Fred Flintsone.
Did I hear Fred Flintstone advocating the extinction of human kind?
Memories of my childhood
Should have been given a second season to see where they could take this show
"The Mod Squad" in outer space hahaha
Good upload. 1 relevant historical curiosity about the some of the sound effects used in this 1st episode of the: "R. P. A.". Is that the blaring-horn calling sound: was done by using a Neanderthal age -> modified Woolly-Rhino horn musical instrument. That was found buried in a cave in nowadays Prussia. It's calculated that this blaring-horn was originally made and utilized 15 thousand years ago. One can note how its sounds a bit like the loud call of a Mammoth. Unfortunately, the Europeans did drove the Woolly-Rhino and the Mammoth great beasts into their extinction.
Holy shit how long have they been fucking walking !?
incredible thank -you !!!
Famous for setting the bar for showing as little motion as possible in a cartoon series.
I noticed the first shot showing crucified victims is very heavy for sat morning cartoon.....
They are just effigies, meant to frighten human interlopers away from ape territory. But they're shown hung upside-down -- and the Romans crucified people whom they REALLY didn't like upside-down. It was considered the very worst way to die.