Released
Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes
November 20 1980 (almost 44 years ago)Rating
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Human guinea pig?
- Directors: Alf Kjellin, Arnold Laven
- Genres: TV Movie, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller
- Runtime: 1 h 33 m
- Country: United States of America
- Company: 20th Century Fox Television
When fugitive human astronaut Virdon is shot, his chimp companion Galen must charm an old flame into accepting that a book on human surgery is no hoax. Meanwhile, their friend Burke is captured by the ape authorities and is to be brainwashed by a brilliant ape scientist named Wanda. [The fourth of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "The Surgeon" and "The Interrogation"]