Planet of the Apes Logo 'The Cure'
(Story Code 'B506')

by Edward J. Lasko
Planet of the Apes Cast

Virdon, Burke and Galen arrive at a human settlement ravaged by an epidemic of malaria. The two astronauts set about showing the villagers how to protect themselves from the mosquitoes that carry the disease, but are interrupted by the arrival of a chimpanzee doctor named Zoran, who dismisses their medical knowledge and places the village under quarantine. Zoran believes that the disease is passed on by physical contact amongst humans, and gives instructions for treatment that Virdon and Burke know will prove ineffective. But when one of the gorillas accompanying the ape doctor falls ill from the illness, Zoran realises that he must listen to Virdon and Burke’s advice after all…

Roddy McDowall (Galen), Ron Harper (Alan Virdon), James Naughton (Pete Burke), Booth Colman (Zaius), Mark Lenard (Urko), Sondra Locke (Amy), David Sheiner (Zoran), Ron Soble (Kava), Biff Elliot (Orang-utan), Albert Cole (Mason), Ron Stein (Nessa), Charles Leland (Dying Man)

Directed by Bernard McEveety
Produced by Stanley Hough
Executive Producer Herbert Hirschman


TX (US): 29th November, 1974

Notes:
*Featuring Alan Virdon, Pete Burke, Galen, Doctor Zaius and General Urko