1980: While approaching Alpha Centari Astronauts Virdon, Burke and Jones encounter a radiation storm and lose control of their spacecraft.
Jones is killed in the crash. Virdon & Burke survive but are quickly captured by Security Chief Urko and are brought to Central City for trial.
Condemned to death by Chief Counselor Zaius, the Astronauts escape with the help of Galen, a sympathetic Chimpanzee.
Virdon & Burke are captured by an ape prefect who holds gladitorial games.
Burke & Urko are buried alive in an ancient subway station in San Francisco.
The Astronauts find a buried vault with 20th century computers. But Zaius afraid of man's knowledge orders Urko to destroy it.
Virdon & Burke cure an outbreak of malaria in an Ape village.
The fate of Galen, Virdon & Burke will not be revealed in any timeline.
Roddy McDowall
James Naughton
Booth Colman
The ship's homing device activated, it lands on Earth more than 1,000 years in the future.
Virdon, Burke & Galen become fugitives from the Apes, hunted by Urko's Gorillas.
The Fugitives help a poor Ape family to farm better.
When Virdon is shot Galen seeks help from his ex-fiancé, offering her a human medical book.
The Fugitives stop a plot to bomb the Ape High Council.
Ron Harper
Mark Lenard
