Episodes
| Ep# | Title | Original airdate |
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| 1 | "Escape From Tomorrow" | September 13, 1974 (1974-09-13) |
| This episode tells the story of the astronauts' crash, the rescue and subsequent capture of two of them, and their escape with Galen. There are multiple references in this episode to the original first two Planet of the apes movies. | ||
| 2 | "The Gladiators" | September 20, 1974 (1974-09-20) |
| A human kills Urko’s Lieutenant, Jason. Urko holds Barlow responsible for Jason’s death and transfers him to the remote outpost of Venton. | ||
| 3 | "The Trap" | September 27, 1974 (1974-09-27) |
| Burke and General Urko are forced to work together when they are buried alive underground in an ancient San Francisco subway station during an earthquake. | ||
| 4 | "The Good Seeds" | October 4, 1974 (1974-10-04) |
| Burke, Virdon and Galen go to Polar’s farm. The farm is "four days' hard ride" from Center City. The travelers spend two weeks here so that Galen's leg can mend. While they are there, Virdon, who grew up on a farm, helps Polar improve crop yields, introduces the family to such things as butter, and helps deliver a bull calf Polar's eldest son needs to start his own farm. | ||
| 5 | "The Legacy" | October 11, 1974 (1974-10-11) |
| While exploring a ruined city, Virdon and Burke find a filmed message from scientists of their own time which may help them discover what happened to their civilization. | ||
| 6 | "Tomorrow's Tide" | October 18, 1974 (1974-10-18) |
| When Virdon and Burke are captured in a fishing village, that employs human slave labor, they must prove their worth as fishermen or be sacrificed to the gods of the sea - the sharks. | ||
| 7 | "The Surgeon" | October 25, 1974 (1974-10-25) |
| Virdon is shot by a gorilla patrol. Galen and Burke take him to a medical center outside Center City, where he must undergo an operation involving a blood transfusion, a procedure ape doctors believe to be impossible. | ||
| 8 | "The Deception" | November 1, 1974 (1974-11-01) |
| While Galen and Virdon hunt down a band of murderous ape dragoons, the ape daughter of the dragoons' latest victim falls in love with Burke - unaware that he is human. | ||
| 9 | "The Horse Race" | November 8, 1974 (1974-11-08) |
| In exchange for a condemned human's freedom, Virdon agrees to race a chimpanzee prefect's horse against Urko's - who has never lost a race. | ||
| 10 | "The Interrogation" | November 15, 1974 (1974-11-15) |
| Burke is captured and taken to Central City. Urko goes on an inspection tour of the outer provinces. | ||
| 11 | "The Tyrant" | November 22, 1974 (1974-11-22) |
| The three fugitives risk an encounter with Urko when they attempt to foil the plans of a tyrannical ape who is using bribery to gain total control over a district of human farmers. | ||
| 12 | "The Cure" | November 29, 1974 (1974-11-29) |
| Virdon, Burke and Galen enter the village of Trion. Virdon meets Amy and tells her the friends' secret, to Galen's displeasure. One week later the group leaves the village. Malaria breaks out there shortly afterward. | ||
| 13 | "The Liberator" | Unaired* |
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Burke, Galen and Virdon are captured by a village of semi-autonomous humans who are forced quarterly to furnish five human slaves to their ape overlords to work in the mines. The leader of the town sacrifices unwilling humans to their god in a temple during a cult type ceremony. This temple turns out to be an ancient ruin where a poisonous invisible gas is located (likely phosgene or diphosgene circa WWI Germany). Later, the leader (wearing a highly costumed gas mask) is discovered to be building an arsenal of gas bombs and a distillery to produce poisonous gas ceramic containers. He claims the moral right to use these weapons to rid the world of the ape threat. This controversial episode involved the creation of poisonous gas as a weapon of mass destruction. During the height of the Watergate Scandal, the Vietnam War protests, the Agent Orange controversy, the Yom Kippur War, the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, and the enactment of the War Powers Resolution by US Congress, CBS likely decided not to air this episode during a holiday season overshadowed by such domestic and international conflicts. |
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| 14 | "Up Above the World So High" | December 6, 1974 (1974-12-06) |
| Virdon, Burke and Galen are near the sea. They encounter a human who is experimenting with flight in a hang-glider he has built himself. |
*Though most sources, including the official Fox DVD release, cite "The Liberator" as an unaired episode, it is listed as having aired on December 6, 1974 in Planet of the Apes Revisited by Joe Russo, Larry Landsman and Edward Gross. "Up Above the World So High" is also given a different airdate in this book: December 20, 1974.
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