Planet of the Apes - Highly evolved society of talking apes on the sci-fi adventure PLANET OF THE APES/CBS/1974. When a time-warping spaceship carrying astronauts Alan Virdon (Ron Harper) and Pete Burke (James Naughton) from the year 1988 landed on this futuristic landscape of A.D. 3085, a chimpanzee named Galen befriended and protected the astronauts from enslavement by his fellow creatures who saw "man" as an evil threat to their current world. He later fled with the earthmen after accidentally killing an ape leader who was trying to kill the astronauts. At this point the program became a futuristic version of THE FUGITIVE with a group of angry apes in hot pursuit espousing the sentiments "The only good human is a dead human." Galen (played by Roddy McDowall) spoke the English language and walked upright as did the rest of his simian kind (an atomic holocaust destroyed most of mankind but evolved the apes on planet Earth to a higher form of life). Other monkey character included Urko the ape (Mark Lenard), a military leader and Zaius (Booth Colman), an orangutan politician. The TV series is based on the novel Planet of the  Apes by Pierre Boulle which spawned the motion picture Planet of the Apes (1968) starring Charlton Heston (on which the TV series is based), the sequels Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1969), Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) as well as the animated Saturday morning cartoon RETURN TO THE PLANET OF THE APES/NBC/1975-76 and the remake motion picture Planet of the Apes (2001) starring Mark Wahlberg.