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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I am very happy to have this collection and I am thankful to 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment for publishing it. This is great series, but weather you'll like it or not depends on personal taste...
I could never comprehend why they cancelled it after only 14 episodes made, but I do not know anything about it's scheduling, a posible reason of killing the series. It doesn't appear cheeper than the movies, and has much more positivity in the atmosphere, often giving hope to the audience. Roddy Mc Dowall developed Galen's character and ape behaviour beatifully.
Technically, transfer looks great and the sound is good, considering the time of the origin and rating the series had. You can't compare the quality of this collection to "Carlton's" remastering of "Thunderbirds" or "Captain Scarlet" but neither the popularity of the series, so I am, again, very happy to own it, and would recommend buying it.
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Summary: Finally I can own these Episodes
Review: For years, I had thought I'd seen all five of the Planet of the Apes movies. As I got older, I realized I had only seen the first three of the theatrical features, and the rest were two-hour packages of the episodes in this set. I always enjoyed those "movies", sometimes even more than the original movies.When I saw ALL of the shows were released on DVD, it had to be mine. Not only does it bring back childhood nostalgia for the Apes (we did have the Planet of the Apes game), but I got to enjoy seeing one of the best TV series produced. It is a shame that the heavy costs of producing the show lead to the cancellation, but it makes these 14 episodes all the more treasured because there are so few.
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Summary: Simply Brilliant!
Review: At the close of the century, this series remains one of the finest shows ever produced for television. It's academic appeal, combined with it's superior scriptwriting, easily resulted in a classic work of art. Although action packed, the screenwriters always assumed that the audience had a high degree of intelligence. Typically, this show was cancelled after only 13 episodes. A sad comment on our society, who allowed FULL HOUSE to run over 12 years.
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Summary: Wow - Has it been almost 30 Years ??????
Review: I purchased this DVD set as more of a nostalgia piece than anything else. I was 13 years old when the series first aired on CBS (?), and even at that age I knew the show was pretty wretched. Two bland lead human characters, a derivative 70's "adventure melodrama of the week" outline, poor scripting, etc..... I gave up on it after only the first couple of episodes. But it wasn't until I had an appendix attack on one Friday evening in 1974 at a friend's house that the show was forever burned into my memory. As I awaited for the ambulance to arrive, the TV was on and the latest episode of POTA came on. As I laid there in pain and fear, I could not help but laugh at the image on the TV. Our two human heroes were being menaced in the ocean by a very fake shark fin. That thought is always associated with my recollections of that day --- a day where I ended up in the emergency room and went straight into operation. I lived, of course, and now the long obscure POTA series lives again on DVD. The episode with the shark was #6 and the new Fox DVD set even indicates that it originally aired on Oct. 18, 1974 ....it's great to know the date of that eventful evening, bringing it all back to me over 25 years later (oh my). However, having now viewed 8 of the 14 episodes on the beautifully packaged DVD set (what an amazing 4-disc keepcase!), I have a better appreciation of the series overall. Ya, it still falls into that 70's TV adventure formula, and ya, the 2 leads are as bland as can be (no fault of the actors), but it does grow on you if you stick with it. The first couple of episodes are pretty wretched, but out of the 8 I've watched so far, a few of them are actually pretty good...and I'm anxious to watch the rest. So I bought it as nostalgia, but it's surprisingly much more than just that. Some of the bad scripting just makes it more fun in that innocent 70's TV way. And after that bloated godawful Tim Burton remake, this TV series looks like GOLD in comparison. So go in with an open mind, laugh at the studio sets, cringe at the silly dialog or ridiculous plot developments....and just have a good time! Of course, this series would never have seen a homevideo release if not for the recent remake, so if that awful piece of celluloid accomplished anything, it was that it opened the floodgates for this great set. Now, if only MGM would remake "Logan's Run" so we can get that short-lived TV series (another one I gave up on after 2 or 3 episodes) on DVD --- that would be the end all. It's a long-shot, but Anything can happen...
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Summary: planet of the apes
Review: a must have collection of any ' Apes 'collector ! screenwriters featured here like Art Wallace ( star trek , dark shadows ) S. Bar-David and directors John Meredyth Lucas. Bernard McEveety and Ralph Senensky(TREK tos)-- classics from the 70's! CHANGING THE FACE OF TELEVISION INDEED !
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Summary: Definitely gets my vote of a good release, I'm buy'n it!
Review: I got lucky, the first Ape film I actually saw, on my local network TV station, was the original PoA's with Heston. I was 12. And I then saw Beneath and on(excluding Escape my network didn't show it for some reason). Also, the first time I saw this Ron Harper/James Naughton series was when it was shown on my local netwark as five movies with quite a bit of stuff cut out(that's an understatement!). I then saw it about a year or two ago on sci-fi and saw episodes I didn't even know existed! Wow! What a treat! Those added episodes brought more believability to the show, and the Ape Epoch.
I recorded the first episode on a VCR, but the picture quality was terrible because the unit was faulty. I definitely want this set. And have already pre-ordered!!!
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Summary: At Last
Review: I have waited a long time for this series to be released. I grew up with the original movies, and used to watch the 5 edited t.v. movies of the series that used to be shown. Then when the Sci-fi channel showed all 14 episodes, I had a whole new outlook on the complete series. I think that the t.v. series has better characters, and helps broaden the planet of the apes universe. General Urko makes the whole series worth watching. I will now feel complete owning the whole planet of the apes movies on dvd.
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Summary: finally
Review: i grew up on these shows and have searched for years for a shot at seeing just 1 episode but now im getting all of them on dvd no less .I cant tell you how happy i am .ihope you enjoy them as much as i will it was a great show.
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Summary: Highly under rated series gets a new life
Review: I was shocked to see this title announced, especially from Fox. I have nothing against Fox, but their focus has been the release of their high profile television programs on DVD. Of course, the unanticipated success of the EVOLUTION set and the release of a theatrical "reimagining" may have helped some smart executive take a shot at this series. The plot of the series is basically the same as the first APES film. A ship crashes and two astronauts have to survive on a planet dominated by talking apes. Roddy McDowall stars a Galen, a sympathetic chimpanze who helps them. Mark Leonard (from STAR TREK) plays a gorilla who is out to stop the humans. The Fox Movie Channel has played some cut up episodes of this show as movies. The picture quality was terrible. However, I'm sure Fox has cleaned these episodes for the DVD release (and the BEHIND THE PLANET OF THE APES documentary would indicate that there are some excellent film sources out there.). While the show was a bit repetitive (a problem with most adventure series), it was a fairly serious science fiction television series with a focus on the characters. The humans could talk on the show, so it bears a small similarity to the 2001 film. Sadly, the show was cancelled after 13 episodes. Even the original Star Trek really didn't get rolling until the second half of the first season.
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Summary: AT LAST !!!!!!! it's here in all its glory
Review: Well bravo to Fox once again for releasing something that the public want. I remember growing up to this series and had to wait for repeats on TV so i could tape it and watch it over and over again. Not only is it available for the first time in it's entirity but it's available on DVD, you can't get any better than that. Buy this collection today or regret it forever.
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