On the August 10th Episode We Go “Beneath The Planet of the Apes”

This week: “Beneath from the Planet of the Apes.”

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Of course there would be more sequels after Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, even though it was designed to be the last. In fact, the chief purpose of Escape From The Planet Of The Apes was to make more sequels possible. World ended? Just go back in time before it was ended!

Come back with us to that time when Cornelius and Zira (plus unnamed baby) crash land on 1970s, and then get mistreated. And then turned into beloved celebrities. And then mistreated again.

The calmest evil scientist you’ll ever meet! Boring scientists! The lowest of low budgets! Fashion shows! Cocktail parties! Chimp makeup! Presidential commissions! An implausible gorilla suit! The most convenient space-time warp ever conceived! Plying a pregnant ape with alcohol! It’s all here.

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One response to “On the August 10th Episode We Go “Beneath The Planet of the Apes””

  1. Still with a fiction audiobook, sorry.

    I’ve vague memories of bits of this movie. They were shown on local TV channels on Sundays, but I couldn’t usually work up the will to watch them, even when there was literally nothing else to see on TV, and even when I was at grandma’s apartment bored out of my mind.

    On related matters, I re-read the Psi Corps trilogy at long last. Meh. Book one is how the Corps came about, book two is what Bester did before he showed up on Babylon 5, book three is after the telepath war (which doesn’t even get described) and deals with Garibaldi hunting down Bester.

    Next up, an old classic somehow I never got around to, Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon.

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