I loved that Planet of the Apes t.v. show when I was a kid. You're right in that it was repetitive. Basically either Burke or Virdon were captured or in trouble or Galen was in trouble and the other two characters had to come to the rescue. Another storyline was some villagers were in trouble and Burke, Virdon and…

There was also a "Waltons" type animated rip off called "These are the Days" that came out around 1974.

Allen, yeah I just mentioned the same thing about 3 hours ago. I guess because it was so well known as a movie series, people actually forget there was a t.v. show as well.

When I was a 6 years old, I loved the "Brady Kids more than "The Brady Bunch". Although in retrospect what was the deal with those Chinese Pandas talking bizarre Chinese gibberish?? That was friggin insane??

I'm surprised the surprisingly good 1975 animated "Planet of the Apes" wasn't included. It an odd twist it was actually better than the 1974 t.v. series.

There was also an odd short lived "Happy Days" spin off called "Blansky's Beauties." It starred Nancy Walker as Howard Cunnigham's cousin Nancy Blansky who was a Vegas choreographer ex-dancer. The odd thing was that the character was introduced in the late 1950's on Happy Days never aged and yet the show takes place…

"It's A Living" had a rather odd history.

Yeah, that part about Martin and his daughter was in the Zicree book. I think Martin also discusses an acting lesson he had around the same time. I think the teacher had two objects something like 9 feet apart and you were supposed to jump from one object to the next. Martin said he couldn't do it and the teacher said…

Agreed, good production values. Even the inside of the ship and the monitor was pretty good for 1963.

Yeah that's a fair point, travel had moved so fast in just a short time. When you think about it people were still going to Europe on a ship that took 5-6 days in the early 50's and then by the early 60's people were taking jets to Europe in 10 hours.

Unreliable Narrator,

B+ seems low for "Death Ship?" That one should at least be an A-.

I think living standards & technology changed so drastically in that post WW2 United States (1946-1963) that I guess writers thought that those advances would continue exponentially into the 1990's. I think there are some TZ future episodes set in 1974 which is just ridiculous.

Jay S. Yeah, great point about the message of not accepting obvious truths. I hadn't thought about that but you're spot on.

"Death Ship" is one of my favorite TZ that unfortunately is not widely known among fans of the series because the 4th season isn't widely known.

I've noticed the subtleties, we just interpret them differently.

Dwarf, I would have replied to you but your post did not allow me to reply.

Yeah, he played the same kind of scary dad in the show "Lost." I was kind of shocked at first at how scary he'd become on screen because I remembered him as kind of a nice guy in "Emergency."

Chill out? It wasn't a criticism, I was responding to point about Nick's dad being a child abuser? He's barely on the show so it's not like we know a lot about the character.

We don't really know that much about Nick's dad because he's only seen briefly in two episodes. There's also a lack of continuity with his character which happens with many characters on this show. We see him in episode 6 and then not again until episode 16. What's odd is that we never meet Nick's mom. You would think…