#pota 1974

[matsui-sinclair]

hello fellow ape-heads today i bring you a humble offering of all the episodes of the short-lived 1974 planet of the apes tv show all on a google drive for free :)

the series is about two astronauts, peter and alan, who accidentally travel forward in time to the 3080s (about 900ish years before the first movie) and befriend a friendly ape named galen (played by roddy mcdowall). the episodes follow the three of them as they travel across future california, running from the gorilla cop urko as he chases them down for upsetting the natural order of ape society.

all these episodes are already up on archive.org but i don't know about anyone else but that website is sooo slow for me so i just went and downloaded all the episodes. but then my laptop didn't have enough space so i moved them to a hard drive and it got tedious for me to reconnect it every time i wanted to rewatch an episode, so i just thought for ease of access i'd upload them to a google drive, and i figured other people would probably be interested in watching so here you go!!

i first heard about this show because the youtube channel ape nation is currently going through each of the episodes so if you want you can watch along with his weekly reviews!

i absolutely love this show so much and i never see anyone talk about it on here so hopefully this means people can watch it and i won't be alone in my appreciation for it anymore 😭😭

so go forth and enjoy the glory of the 1974 pota tv show!!

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Planet of the Apes Addar model kits (1974) - Completed models by Mike Rutherford and Dave Ballard at Hunter’s Planet of the Apes Archives

[damnflirtyape]

me and my 20 ao3 tabs of fanfics about my favorite characters

[all-action-all-picture]

1974 ad for the Planet of the Apes black and white magazine from Marvel.

[thehauntedrocket]

Vintage Magazine - Movie Monsters #01

Art by Greg Theakston

Atlas/Seaboard (Dec1974)

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Vintage Comic - Planet Of The Apes #08 (Dec14th1974) (Marvel UK)

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PLANET OF THE APES THE TV SERIES (1974) Episode 13 The Liberator

Ron Stein as gorilla guard

[xtoomanytimelinesx]

I’ve been thinking about horror movies a lot recently so I’m gonna assign my muses a favorite scary movie!

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Pota loves scary movies and this one checks a lot of boxes for him; a sympathetic villian, it’s a slasher movie, and memorable kills to name a few

Us

16 isn’t a fan of the gore and nudity that comes with most horror movies so he is very picky with them, this one has a decent bit of gore but the atmosphere makes it a favorite fore him as well as the unsettling story being told.

Scream (1996)

A slasher drama? Count them in! No.t 16 is in it to watch fiends turn on each other and fear everyone they know.

The Descent

She likes monster movies and she appreciates the all-woman cast, those and the plot make it a great movie to her.

Child’s Play (1988)

There isn’t really much to say here, he just loves campy horror movies and a foulmouthed doll possessed by a serial killer is Kurn’s pick.

Saw (2004)

Bad people being punished through pain and suffering all while the actual severity of what they have done is being judged by a single man. Muller likes the concept of the game and that some of it’s player’s objectively don’t deserve it, also the complexity of the traps.

The Belko Experiment

There is something so interesting to him about how quickly humans will turn on each other, especially when everyone’s life is at stake. Perfect 16 also finds it fascinating how humans will preform such strange experiments on others.

The Taking of Deborah Logan

21 likes it because it blends an actual condition with supernatural elements, it isn’t demonizing the illness but instead creating a scenario to make a more conventionally frighting narrative.

The Mist

He also just likes monster movies but this implements characteristics of cosmic horror, he finds the cast interesting and the ending to be a really good emotional twist.

[yugovina]

The modernist architecture of Skopje

[matsui-sinclair]

this is sooo nothing but in relation to my tags on that post about sexism in pota where i brought up the 1974 tv show and was like 'there's an episode where galen's dad accepts his gay son!!' i rewatched the episode and idk what tf i was thinking bc that is Not the metaphor. it's so clearly about racism, interracial relationships and segregation (like the series (and the franchise) has always put front and center) and genuinely idk how i could've missed that. galen's dad is mad that his son, who he thinks is a fine upstanding citizen and otherwise completely loves him, is willingly friends with humans & thinks that they have no place interacting with him. i think i must've watched it like right after i found out roddy mcdowall was gay so that was on the mind but you have to be looking right past the Obvious Allegory to even get to that point

[michaelcarroll]

Off to see War for the Planet of the Apes tonight, so I thought that today I'd delve into the archives for this little beauty...

Whether by chance or design (probably a little of both), Marvel Comics launched their UK reprint of their adaptation of the first Planet of the Apes movie in October 1974, only a couple of weeks after the Planet of the Apes TV show started airing in the UK.

The first Planet of the Apes movie (co-written by Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone) is a classic. It's based on the novel La Planète des Singes by Pierre Boulle but deviates quite a lot plot-wise. In the book, the apes have a much more technologically advanced civilisation: in the movie they have guns, but no electricity. Their world is all ropes and dust and hand-carved wooden benches. (Even the ape plasterers lack the skill to properly render a wall. Tch!)

Yes, the science is a tad ropey and the Shocking Revelation at the end is signposted all the way through*, but it's got that absolutely iconic first shot of the apes on horseback, plus that Shocking Revelation itself is still moving after all these years - I didn't know about that twist when I saw the movie as an eight-year-old: it blew me away!

Subsequent POTA movies suffered from a steady drop in quality, and the series was cancelled after the fifth in 1973. The TV show only ran for for fourteen episodes.  

However, Marvel UK's POTA comic was a huge hit. That first issue featured only the POTA strip (25 pages, uncredited but written by Doug Moench with art by George Tuska, John Romita and Mike Eposito) and an article on the movie apes' make-up, but subsequent issues featured fewer Apes pages, but added other reprint strips: #2 featured Warrior of Mars (adapted from Edwin L. Arnold's novel Lt. Gulliver Jones) and Ka-Zar (Marvel's take on the "white man raised in the jungle" character).

The reduced page-count for the Apes strip meant that its source material, the twenty-nine issues of the Marvel's American POTA title, could be stretched out into many more issues, but even that was in danger of running out so Marvel's Killraven title (an unofficial sort-of sequel to H.Q. Wells' The War of the Worlds) was adapted to fit by renaming the character "Apeslayer" and replacing the martians with apes. Yes, that really happened.

After two years (123 issues) POTA was merged with The Mighty World of Marvel to become The Mighty World of Marvel featuring TheIncredible Hulk and Planet of the Apes, which is surely a contender for the most awkward comic-book title ever.

The Planet of the Apes franchise subsequently sparked an animated TV show, more comics from an assortment of publishers, a Tim Burton "reimagining" that didn't star Johnny Depp and yet still managed to be disappointing, and - in 2011 - the first of the "reboot" series of movies, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which is one of my favourite movies of the past decade. Its first sequel, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, is perhaps not quite as good, but it's still great fun. Advance word on the new one is very positive, so I am optimistic!

------- * Spoilers!

As far as I recall, in the book the apes don't speak any known human languages. In the movies, the apes speak English. That alone should have been a pretty strong clue to Taylor (Charlton Heston's character) that the planet has been Earth all along, but somehow he misses that (possibly because he was distracted by rifles the apes were carrying).

In the book, it's always cloudy at night: this is given as an explanation as to why the protagonist doesn't see the moon and go "Oh, this planet's moon looks identical to Earth's moon, therefore this is Earth." Clever get-out, that... Except, of course, Monsieur Boulle didn't twig that the moon is visible during the day just as often as it's visible at night.

Inside the front cover of POTA #1: Stan Lee personally introduces the comic for us!

The back cover of Planet of The Apes #1... Dracula Lives lasted a not-too-bad eighty-eight issues before POTA absorbed it. (An aside: Marvel's Dracula character was, at times, the "good guy" in his comics, which in my opinion makes Dracula the first ever superhero created by an Irish person. Others may disagree, and I wouldn't put it past them.)

[damnflirtyape]

Watching all the deleted scenes from KoTPoTA and having just watched the 1974 PoTA series, I almost wish we could have had a full TV series of Kingdom's world with glimpses into everything, and stories from POVs from everyone? I want so desperately to explore this world, 300 years into the future. I wanted to see so much more of what happened, how Proximus came to be who he is and build his empire, to see more from the Eagle Clan's perspectives. The world is so rich and beautiful and harrowing and I crave so much more of it.

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Vintage Comic - Planet Of The Apes #010 (Dec28th1974) (Marvel UK)

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Vintage Comic - Planet Der Affen #07 (1974) (German)

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PLANET OF THE APES THE TV SERIES (1974) Episode 5 The Legacy

Mark Lenard as Urko

Booth Colman as Zaius

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PLANET OF THE APES THE TV SERIES (1974) Episode 10 The Interrogation

Mark Lenard as Urko