Return to the Planet of the Apes Logo 'Flames of Doom'


by Larry Spiegel
Return to the Planet of the Apes

On August 6th, 1976, the NASA spacecraft Venturer enters a time warp and crashes in a lagoon on an unknown planet. Shocked to learn that they are now in the year 3979 A.D., the three crewmembers, Bill Hudson, Jeff Carter and Judy Franklin, manage to escape the ship before it sinks. Exploring their surroundings, they encounter electrical storms, high-velocity winds, tremors, and walls of flame – then the ground opens and swallows Judy. Bill and Jeff are forced to continue on without their friend, and soon meet a group of primitive humans, including a girl named Nova, who wears the United States I.D. dog tags of Ronald Brent - an astronaut born in the year 2079, over a century after Bill, Jeff and Judy set off on their mission; they are further astonished to learn that the planet they are on is in fact the Earth – a world now ruled by apes…

Richard Blackburn (Bill Hudson / Doctor Zaius), Henry Corden (General Urko), Phillippa Harris (Zira), Edwin Mills (Cornelius), Claudette Nevins (Judy Franklin / Nova), Austin Stoker (Jeff Carter)

Directed by Doug Wildey
Produced by David DePatie and Friz Freleng
Associate Producer Doug Wildey
A DePatie-Freleng Enterprises production

TX (US): 6th September, 1975

Notes:
*Introducing Bill Hudson, Jeff Carter, Judy Franklin, Zira and Cormelius, and featuring Doctor Zaius and General Urko