To have a channel like this is a dream come true for the 62 year old child in me lol I love reliving these moments in my life, thanks Dan, you're the best!!

It always seemed that these Saturday morning shows lasted a lot longer than they did. But when you're 5-10 time is definitely different from 40-50 years old. 😂

“Gaaaad, network executives.” That’s a t-shirt Mr.Monroe, too awesome.

I think all the NASA recovery crew should wear ape suits when the next astronauts come back :)

I actually just received this DVD collection as a Christmas gift. I grew up in that 1970s, Mego era, and I loved this show. Thank you so much for this video!

1. "How cool is that?" 2. "Lines are open, you decide." 3. "Guh. Network executives." All the Dan Monroe hits!

Johnny Quest coming soon..... how cool is that?????

Johnny Quest was one of my favorites as well.

Johnny Quest was awesome...I saw the reruns when I was kid...

Ahh the 70’s….great time to be a kid!

I remember watching this when it first aired and thinking the animation reminded me of Marvel Superheroes' style. Not a whole lot of action but enough camera tricks and moving mouths to give it life. Your commentary on that aspect of the series sort of backs that up. It was like the Marvel show, just given an artistic upgrade via Doug Wildey.

My favorite memory of the animated series is an ape driving in his pickup truck and on the radio was that country music hit - “I’m going humanoid over you”.

I loved the ape's franchise, and i remember this cartoon being shown very irregularly on uk TV,btw i did read that the reason that the gorillas had jeeps and trucks was that they were easier to animate than horse's

I was older than the average kid. I was 16 in 1975. I remember the show well. The animation was sub-par because this was during the Dark Ages of American Animation that started were Warner Brothers closed Termite Terrace, their animation studio as a cost-cutting measure. I think this was due to Hanna-Barbera's dominating the market with their cheaper animation. The Apes didn't have airplanes of their own. In fact, the airplane they had, a WWII vintage P-40 Warhawk was found by Ape Archeologists and restored to flying condition with the purpose of capturing humans with a cargo net slung under the plane. I know because this was my favorite episode.

218th I was 10 in 70 ......THE 70'S was my teen years .......Loved that show

Good talk brother ! Can't wait to talk about Jonny Quest! It was such a favorite short lived show of mine as a kid...did you see what became of Johnny on Venture Brothers? Lol. They did him dirty. Race went down ungraceful also.ruined my childhood.

I had the novelizations for this series. Loved em as a kid. This and Star Trek the animated series, original Land of the Lost, and Super Friends were never miss shows every Saturday Morning.

i am just loving everything you are doing. you are bring back so many memories of show and movies that i loved as a young kid. now i did not get to see all of them but i and able to now. again thank you. big lion hugs. until we meet again, i just can wait.

Yeah I still remember in watching that series when I was a young Kid during the 70s Too Man!😉☮️

I love your work. You are a road map for my childhood and dreams. Please keep up the good work. Can't wait for Johnny Quest!!!!!

Man I loved that Planet of the Apes cartoon. So psychedlic it reminded me of Bakshi.

Since you appear to enjoy all things Planet of the Apes, you might want to look up an episode of "Thundarr The Barbarian" "Valley of the Man Apes" which involves mutants patterned after the Movie apes, trying to rebuild the Giant King Kong Robot prop from the 1976 movie to use as a giant conquering robot, because... that's what they do in cartoons. Have fun!

Does anyone remember the comic book seriesKamandi: The Last Boy on Earth which was a direct inspiration (or ripoff depending on your perspective) of the Planet of the Apes. The difference was that in addition to apes many other species also had their own territories and fought among themselves. The main character as a young boy was clearly meant to appeal to the comic book audience of which I was one who loved both Planet and this series in tandem.

I was finishing high school in 1975, and never saw this one. 🙄 Funny how they crammed three astronauts into a glorified Mercury capsule. 😅

I hope the next video is about the animated Star Trek series!!!

This is quickly becoming my favorite channel. I remember watching this series on Saturday morning. My clearest memory was laughing at an ape driving in a pickup truck listening to a song on the radio with the lyrics, "I'm going humanoid over you".

Is the Tarzan 70s Saturday morning cartoon topical? It was pretty good, but not many episodes and they kept reusing cels. But well-drawn and a few good scripts, iirc.

Johnny Question has one of the best theme songs!!!

I was just barely 10 years old when the cartoon series aired, but because I was already I dedicated PotA fan, I was thrilled, and never missed an episode! Thank you for the retrospective.

I always wait for the "How cool is that" portion!

I was worried about you. You are always so prompt. Glad to see this in my phone just now. I was having Triple M withdrawal LOL

I was 12 when this came out and I wasn’t interested in it then. Like now, I had a problem with the timeline that Charlton Heston doomed us to with blowing up the planet. They could have tried explaining that only the New York area was blown to bits and not the entire planet, allowing for more stories, just not any of the same apes or characters… but that probably was over anyone’s head. Watching the show many years later, I hated the idea of the apes using vehicles and airplanes. These were the workings of humans which the apes considered beneath them. Ape city had virtually no technology in the first movie, why would they now not only have it, but embrace it? I’m glad this cartoon only had the one season, it would have ruined the movies.

Hey Dan! This might have been said already, but you've struck a nerve with these new videos! I love the positive approach you have to your segments. Utube seems to be filled with so much negativity and your videos just kind of say "Hey everyone, isn't this cool? Let's have some fun and talk about this!" You have a great look, a great voice, and your set is perfect! Don't change a thing! Whatever your doing, keep doing it! Your awesome and your videos are very fun and informative! Keep up the great work!

1975. I was 8, I loved this cartoon.

Hey Dan, speaking of Roddy McDowell, how about a deep-dive into "Tales of the Gold Monkey"? (Ooh, a simian reference, too!)

So glad I found you Dan. Love your enthusiasm and knowledge regarding my favourite shows as a kid. You’re a true gentleman 👍🏻

The Dungeons and Dragons cartoon was another one where they never got home. - I know they did a thing later

Suggestion: Men into Space(1959) TV series

Great video review! HUGE Return fan! I love that cartoon. I remember watching it back in 75 when I was just in the 1st grade. I remember in the 90's when the Sci-Fi channel re-aired the series on Sunday mornings. That was the first time I had watched the show since childhood. Then in 2006 I got the dvd set. Just love it. Watched it a dozen times over, plus 2. ;) Like I said, a huge fan. I make my own custom Mego Apes based on the cartoon. When I start my youtube channel, I will spotlight them and a playset I'm building. Great channel and keep up the good work.

Wow! I had that exact same comic book that you show on 1:55. I had a few POTA comic books that I treasured but my sister thru them out. I remember watching this animated series in the '70s. I don't remember a lot of it tho. I remember the 3 humans walking thru a dessert. I remember an ape driving a truck and a song playing over his radio with the lyrics, 'I'm going humanoid over you'.

As a 1970's kid, this was my first contact with the Apes franchise. Then I discovered the Live Action show and last the movies. I really liked the TV show better. Funny thing is that the apes had jeeps in the animated show while they only had horses in the live action. I guess animating a Jeep is cheaper than a horse, eh?

The live action Planet of the Apes tv series was great. We want a reboot. No CGI. Practical Effects, please.

What happened to the animated “Return to the Planet of the Apes?” It ended up in my DVD collection.

The topic about Guns? ... Ok, but, weren't GUNS used a lot in Johnny Quest?

Ah yes 1975. What a time that was to be a kid. With the live action TV series cancellation in 1974, this Saturday morning cartoon kept the Ape-wagon rolling along. But the 70’s was also all about kids playing outside and so as a result, I missed most of the episodes. Years later as an adult, I purchased the DVD set (Five copies to make up for my pour judgment as a ten year-old), LOL

Well done and I can’t wait for Johnny Quest😊!!!

Dan I also made a little cardboard B9 Robot, you can have that one for FREE .

Its a rare thing anyone talks about this great ape cartoon, I love it.

The lack of animation is a way of keeping the cost down. That was pioneered by Clark Haas with Clutch Cargo and using Syncro-Vox. Others kind of stole the idea and exploited using and reusing animation cells over and over again.

I think the really sad part of POTA is that, each film after the original, was given less and less money, so the sequels got progressively cheaper looking.

I LOVED that cartoon when I was a kid! The music... ! The animation. The stories! Man... talk about ''atmospheric''. (I wouldn't have said ''atmospheric'' back then when I was 11. I would have said something it about scaring the (beep!) out of me!!!) Cool!

60 now, used to love watching this as a kid Saturday mornings. On a black and white TV.

Yo, Dan. I watched this show as a kid when it was new, and I didn't like it. The animation was crude even by Saturday morning cartoon standards. The story also seemed substandard compared to the movies. But the thing that bothered me the most was that the monkeys had modern 20th-century Tech, airplanes, automobiles, Etc. However, in retrospect, when you look at the original book "Monkey Planet," the simian society portrayed by Boulle was exactly like the cartoon. This means this show was closer to the novel than the movies ever were. (☉‿☉✿)

Absolutely loved this cartoon when I was in 5th grade.

It didnt stop having merchandise in the 70s. Adventure Comics had a whole bunch of mini series and a full series from the late 80s into the mid 90s. They even crossed over with Alien Nation.

As a mere strapping youth of 15,i remember this cartoon and watched it regularly. GREAT memories...& a great episode as always 😮😊

I rewatched this like 3 times a couple years ago. The thing I remember most is that there was not a single milisecond of humor, not once.

I LOVED this cartoon when I was a kid! Though I was confused how it tied into either the movies or the tv show. However, I did dig that they had many modern conveniences. And I remember fondly watching an ape farmer drive his truck down the road while listening to someone sing "I'm going human over you!" on the radio.

I was (and still am) a total Return to the Planet of the Apes superfan!

The cartoon more closely related to my sense of the cinematography and ideas of the movies more than the TV show did. It just seemed like an extension of the movie franchises than the sappy , melodramatic TV show did. Even though I ❤ the TV show. 😂🐵🐒🙊🙈🙉

Hey Dan can you investigate The Night Gallery series???

I remember watching this. Remember a scene in a pickup truck with the song on the radio playing "I'm going humanoid over you". Was about 7 years old, haha. Good times.

Dan Monroe makes these episodes as if he dove into my brain and based them solely on everything I love. Thank you sir!

Oh, by the way, I wish I never threw out my planet of the apes treehouse

Hi Dan, Loving the channel. Hits the sweet spot between length - just right - and being engaging without coming across like a Wiki-dump. Here in the UK we had quite a few of the same shows, but rarely in the correct order or indeed their entirety (The Monkees being a prime example. Or should that be primate example?😂) Anyhow, keep up the great hit rate. Can I just put Carnival of Souls out there? That's got to be on your radar, right?

I was not a fan of this show when I was a kid, but am really interested in checking it out again as an adult. Thank you again for the videos!

I used to love the previews they would do of all the new saturday morning shows.

This show debuted the very same week I turned four years old, and I have a few fuzzy memories of watching it and thinking it was the most exciting thing I had ever seen. I can also remember seeing the playsets for sale at the toy store and staring at the big wide boxes in absolute awe. A handful of the things that appealed to you as a very young child can stick with you forever!

God I haven't seen that since it was originally shown on Saturday mornings When I was a wee lad The marvel comic was great they had some good storylines and great artwork Love Jonny quest looking forward to your video on that classic

As a six-year-old Apes Kid in 1975, I was SO pumped for the new Saturday morning show. And then I started watching it; I was *so* bored halfway through the first episode; I desperately wanted to go outside and play but I felt that would somehow be betraying my Apes bona fides. And once I saw the apes driving jeeps and using telephones, Cornelius and Zira in the same timeline as Urko, “Nova” and “Brent” interacting with the new astronauts…even as a six-year-old I knew it was a piece of garbage. I appreciate it more today (and today we could easily excuse it as being an “alternate timeline”), but when you annoy and alienate a six-year-old primed and ready to go on this show, you know you’ve completely missed the mark.

I remember watching part of one episode. All I remember was they were driving around in a 2 1/2 ton truck. Sliding on a muddy road.

Johnny Quest was awesomely

One of the most enjoyable, KZfaq channels out there always glad to see when a new video drops

Another blast from the past!Thanks for this documentary about this classic cartoon!!!

Gargoyles movie would be an interesting show. Big impact memory for me

DFE was well known for using distinct art style to help cover over their lowest of the low budget animation. It was the 70's and animation budgets had cratered. They are most famous for The Pink Panther Cartoons. In the 1980's they would become Marvel Productions. And give us such classics as Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, GI Joe a Real American Hero and of course Transformers.

I saw one episode while on vacation as a 5-year old kid (it didn't play in my rural area) and for years thought I'd dreamed it until I discovered the show years late.

Looking forward to the video on Jonny Quest.

this show is amazing the story was well written and layered "Ooosa Ooosa"

You said Johnny Quest , I pressed subscribe.

Dear dan I have the original sets of cards, LOST IN SPACE and PLANET OF THE APES, if your interested in them I will sell them to you. PS. I also printed out smaller ones of Lost In Space too. Trading cards.

DePatie-Freleng. Y'know? Freleng? As in Friz Freleng? One of the greatest Warner Bros. cartoon directors. The same company that produced Pink Panther. As for the executives, my good guess is that they were responding to pressure groups of the time. That's why many of the 70s' cartoons were bland and always had a moral lesson. Filmation was huge on this. Your channel must be the most professional I have ever watched. I don't know if you're scripted but I appreciate you cutting to the chase of information. Many is the time when I watch other channels and wait 3 to 5 minutes as they hem & haw and speak off the top of their heads before they get to the reason I am watching. I find most my favorite channels are somewhat polished but yours is the best...and your voice is very pleasing.

So, the first cartoon episode finds Nova, wearing Brent's dog tags, and she sheds a tear when asked where Brent is. And she speaks, without guttural grunting. So, that puts the show AFTER Taylor and Brent, but somehow BEFORE Taylor blows everything up... And, the ship said "NASA", with a variation of the NASA "meatball"... My head hurts now... ;-P

Jeff Allen and Race Banning to me always looked like the same guy.

09:15, that animation technique (whose name escapes me) is a cost and time saving measure. Recycling and reusing is Really cost effective. I always thought it was genius myself. Don't really see it anymore these days.

Even if Doug Wilding had watched Escape/Conquest/Battle, I don't see how he would have drawn from them for this cartoon. The attraction for us kids was APES! Talking apes! Gun-toting apes! I can't imagine that they'd want to have the cartoon go back to the 1970s, where Cornelius and Zira were the only apes on the show. They had enough trouble holding their interest as it was. PS - Great review, thanks!

Love this cartoon have it on dvd like little movies still a great watch...

The books contain a date with Judy which should have been episode 14

How did I miss this? I was 9 years old, a sci-fi addict since birth, and Saturday morning cartoons was my thing.

Great video!!, I got the DVD and just last week I was revisiting the series… so cool, the “animation” is very static, but I agree, I gives the series a particular look!

Hard to cover in under14 minutes, but what you did cover was excellent. I agree, the primary flaw in the series was stuff like “the Apa Lisa”.

The show I would like to see Dan do a review on is one he has never ever mentioned. I would love to know more about "Blake7" by Terry Nation. It was an incredible SciFi show for it's time. When a group of Political Prisoners are being transported by the Space Federation to a Penal colony the prison ship stumbles onto a super advanced civilizations lost Warship. A ship that is been abandoned yet still controlled by an advanced AI that is suffering a memory problem due a hit it took during it's last battle. It's not very receptive to the Prison Guards that try to board it, so some prisoners are sent in as guinea pigs to help the guards map out the deadly onboard security system. Blake a prisoner manages to get past the security system and in the process assumes command of one of the most powerful Warships in the Galaxy.

I loved Johnny Quest. It was awesome!

Thanks Dan ,always love your content ,,these were great times when we were kids ,wish could go back to then.

I absolutely love this channel Dan and your voice is absolutely incredible. Keep up the great work looking forward to whatever you post. Your fan, Mike

I remember this series fondly. That was an amazing dive! Thank you!

As kid who really loved his Saturday morning shows, I can't believe this series got by me. Probably because CBS. But it was a few years before I started watching the movies.

I seem to remember the show being on earlier. I was 7 and was on a kids bowling league that I had to go to immediately after it was over. I probably would have dropped out if I had to miss it! I actually enjoy the animation

I still remember the upside-down crosses at the beginning of each episode.

Dan, you just keep hitting them out of the park brother. Kudos tot eh intro animations.