Back to the Planet of the Apes

Back to the Planet of the Apes

1980
★★★☆☆ 5.5/10
⏱️ 92 minutes
📅 Released
🌐 EN
ActionThrillerAdventureScience FictionTV Movie
Astronauts Pete Burke and Allan Virdon crash on Earth in the far future and are captured by the apes. The men befriend a chimp named Galen who helps them to escape. In the hopes of finding a way to get back to their own time, the astronauts search for a computer in an earthquake-threatened city, with which they will be able to access their flight records. [The first of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Escape from Tomorrow" and "The Trap"]

Crew

Director
Don Weis, Arnold Laven
Writer
Edward J. Lakso, Art Wallace
Producer
Herbert Hirschman, Stanley Hough

Production

20th Century Fox Television

Keywords

post-apocalyptic future