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9. THE DECEPTION

Guest Cast: John Milford, Jane Actman, Baynes Barron, Pat Renella
Written by Anthony Lawrence; Directed by Don McDougall

Fauna’s father has been murdered by humans; in retaliation, hooded apes known as the Dragoons begin killing humans at random despite the disapproval of the local garrison gorilla commander. Virdon, Burke and Galen decide to help stop the Dragoons, and they approach Fauna to see if she can help identify the humans who killed her father. They quickly discover that Fauna is blind, and she vehemently hates humans, so they purposely lead her to believe that Virdon and Burke are apes as well. Galen infiltrates the Dragoon to locate their leader and, despite his successful initiation into the Dragoons, he learns from Fauna that she has fallen in love with Burke. Even thought it hurts Fauna badly, Burke tells her that there is no future for them and he must leave. They lead the garrison commander to the Dragoons, but Fauna wanders to the coast and falls into the water. Burke and Virdon rescue her, but she realizes that Burke is a human and she immediately hates him despite the fact that he risked his life to save her. During this confrontation, the truth surfaces about the death of her father; he was not killed by humans but was befriending them to the dismay of his friends. He was killed accidentally by the Dragoons’ leader, an ape.

8. THE SURGEON

Guest Cast: Jacqueline Scott, Martin E. Brooks, Michael Strong
Written by Barry Oringer; Directed by Arnold Laven

Gorillas have found the fugitives in the woods and fire on them, wounding Virdon. They escape to a cave, but the only help for Virdon is an ape hospital just outside Central City. Luckily, Galen was once engaged to a surgeon there, Dr. Kira, and he knows her to be a compassionate, ethical medical professional. She agrees, grudgingly, to help them and Galen arrives, disguised as a provincial doctor, with Virdon and Burke as his assistants. As Virdon’s condition deteriorates, Dr. Kira can not find any surgical references for surgery. But Galen knows of a book on human anatomy, written by a human, in Zaius’ home. Galen and Burke steal the book, setting off suspicion in Urko’s mind. Despite the book, which Kira isn’t entirely sure is truthful, she is reluctant to operate because Virdon will certainly suffer massive blood loss and their experiments with blood transfer in the past were unsuccessful. Burke explains that past failures were probably due to incompatibility, and they test the local humans. Unfortunately, Virdon’s blood type is rare enough that only one human is a possible match - a young woman who has been declared a non-person by her family because her blood "killed" her brother. Burke convinces her to help them and surgery begins. Despite some problems, surgery is successful; just as they finish, Urko arrives but he is convinced to search elsewhere to avoid "the plague."

10. THE HORSE RACE

Guest Cast: John Hoyt, Henry Levin, Wesley Fuller, Richard Devon, Morgan Woodward
Written by David P. Lewid and Booker Bradshaw; Directed by Jack Starrett

Galen, Virdon and Burke have taken refuge with a human blacksmith and his son; they hide in the barn when gorillas bring Urko’s racing horse to be shod. Galen is stung by a tiger scorpion and will die without the antidote. Even though riding is a death sentence for a human, the son uses Urko’s horse to ride to the clinic; he returns in time with the antidote, but he was seen and shot at by gorillas who come and take him away to make an example of him. It turns out that the local prefect is an old friend of Galen’s, a sympathetic chimpanzee who would much rather return to his pleasant home territory. Unfortunately he can not help them because of the upcoming, mandatory race against Urko’s horse that places everything he owns at risk, and the son will be executed after the race as part of the festivities. He makes a deal with the fugitives - if Virdon breaks his race horse, rides in the race and wins, he will make a case for clemency for the blacksmith’s son. Virdon agrees, hoping to keep his identity secret from Urko, and the prefect receives permission for a human to ride in the race. Although Urko thinks the idea is absurd, he orders his troopers to fix the track with booby traps to ensure that the human will lose. Despite those obstacles, Virdon wins the race, they free the blacksmith’s son, and disappear into the countryside. The prefect has won the race and keeps his promise, taking the blacksmith and his son with him back to his home.

11. THE INTERROGATION

Guest Cast: Beverly Garland, Ann Seymour, Normann Burton
Written by Richard Collins; Directed by Alf Kjellin

Burke is captured by the apes and returned to Central City. The timing is ideal; a chimpanzee scientist has discovered a new interrogation technique, brainwashing, in an ancient book and is consulting with Zaius who wants to use Burke in an experiment to test the effectiveness of this process and gain information that might assist apes in the future. Although Urko disagrees with this needless complication, Burke is taken to a secret location and the scientist, Wanda, begins brainwashing measures. Planning to rescue Burke, Virdon and Galen return to the city, successfully avoiding ape measures to capture them, and take refuge with Galen’s parents. They break into the prison, but Burke is not there. Exhausted from lack of sleep, hungry and thirsty, Burke still resists the first level of brainwashing, so Wanda steps up her efforts, which he also resists, breaking down in "name, rank and serial number" mode. Frustrated and faced with failure, Wanda turns Burke over to Urko. Virdon and Galen have discovered Burke’s secret location, but they arrive just as Burke is being transferred to a hospital. They assume correctly that Urko plans to perform a brain operation on Burke that will make him docile if he does not die in the process. Faced with impossible odds, they must rescue him, and it is Galen’s mother, Ann, who offers them the best plan. Using her cart and influence as the wife of a Council member, Ann smuggles Galen and Virdon into the hospital, and they escape with Burke only moments before the operation begins.

13. THE LIBERATOR

Guest Cast: John Ireland, Ben Andrews, Peter Skinner, Jennifer Ashley
Written by Howard Dimsdale; Directed by Arnold Laven

Mounted gorilla troopers arrive in a human village and prepare to take custody of several humans. During the exchange, one man bursts free and runs into the forest, chased by troopers who have been ordered to hunt him down. While running, the human, Clim, is helped by Virdon, Burke and Galen, so the troopers return to the village empty-handed. Another human has been chosen to go with the apes in his place, and when the gorillas leave, the head man orders several of the young hunters to locate and retrieve their escaped fellow. Clim tells the fugitives that the gorillas were hunting him for sport and they must return with him to his village where there will be feasting in their honor. But when Clim’s fellow villagers find them, the men virtually ignore Galen and take Virdon and Burke prisoner,. Despite Galen’s protest, the young man in charge, Miro, insists that he is within the law, and he orders Clim imprisoned as well and taken to "the temple." Galen learns that he must address the leader of the village, Brun, and follows Miro and the men to the temple where Brun is waiting for the captured Clim. A solemn, respectful gathering of humans has collected outside the temple when they arrive. Clim is tied to a cart. A figure emerges from the temple, covered by a mask and pushes the cart into the temple. Still in full view of the villagers, the figure (Brun) prays over Clim and after a few moments, although no one has touched him, Clim dies. Galen finds Virdon and Burke imprisoned in a cage just outside the village; he tells them what he witnessed, but all agree that the priority is to get Brun to release them to Galen. When Galen interviews Brun, the human leader tells him that gorillas used to raid the village for slaves to work in the mines. To avoid the resulting devastation, they struck a deal where five humans are provided to the apes twice each summer month. Hunters in the village seek out meadow people and other aliens to fill this quota; any deficiency is filled by villagers chosen at random through a lot system. Since Galen does not have property papers for "his" humans, Virdon and Burke can be used to fulfill this obligation. Although Burke tries to seduce the young woman who brings them food, it is quickly apparent that she is in love with Miro, Burn’s son. Miro returns from a hunt with only one human; his woman has been chosen by lot to fill the vacancy and Brun will not make an exception. After Miro is badly cut by one of the captives and Virdon saves his life, Miro agrees to release them if they take his woman with them. They agree and, with Galen, hide in the temple. They discover that Brun has been making and storing poisonous gas that he intends to use on the apes to free his people. Galen, upset by this idea, damages the processor causing an explosion that kills Brun. Now that he is the leader, Miro decides to fight the apes rather than submit to enforced enslavement of his people.

14. UP ABOVE THE WORLD SO HIGH

Guest Cast: Frank Aletter, Martin E. Brooks, Joanna Barnes, Ron Stein
Written by Arthur Browne, Jr.; Directed by John Meredyth Lucas

Galen sees a flying reptile which Virdon and Burke explain is a glider flown by a human. They watch as the glider crashes, then go to help the human, rescuing him just as troopers arrive. The remains of the glider are then taken to Central City where a female chimpanzee scientist, Carsia, convinces Zaius that she should learn all she can from this human about flight. When she arrives in the local coastal village, gorillas imprison the human, interrupting the building of a new glider with Virdon and Burke’s help. Carsia gives the human materials to build a new flying machine. To help the human, Galen poses as a sympathetic scientist and quickly becomes involved with Carsia. Aware that the craft Lurik is building won’t fly, Galen "accidentally" destroys the glider he is building, then offers the services of his own servants so that Virdon and Burke can smuggle in a working glider. After all the materials are delivered, Virdon and Burke find fragmentation bombs; Galen learns that Carsia plans to use the glider to drop bombs on the High Council so that chimpanzees can assume power. To sabotage this plan, Galen, Virdon and Burke try to rescue Lurik, but Lurik is injured and Galen caught. The next day, Galen manages to talk himself into taking the test flight of the glider with Lurik, crashing into the sea. Certain they are dead and believing the flight a failure, Carsia calls an end to the experiment, but Virdon and Burke have fished the downed pilots out of the water and they all sail off in a home-made raft.

12. THE TYRANT

Guest Cast: Percy Rodrigues, Joseph Ruskin, Michael Conrad, Gary Combs
Written by William Black; Directed by Ralph Senensky

The local gorilla District Chief Aboro, has been collecting far more than the required grain tax from local humans and selling the excess in secret for gold which is used to buy political favors in Central City. Virdon, Burke, and Galen are hiding in the barn when gorillas arrive at Janor’s farm. After troopers take the last of Janor’s grain, the three fugitives decide to steal it back. Against everyone’s judgment, Janor’s nephew joins them as they hijack the grain wagon and hide it in a cave. Unfortunately, the nephew has been recognized, and when gorillas return to the farm they burn it, wound Janor and kill the nephew. When Virdon, Galen and Burke learn of this they decide to expose Aboro with the help of the local prefect who also happens to be Galen’s cousin. However, Aboro has just used his gold to buy the prefect’s position, so Galen poses as Octavio, Zaius’ crippled assistant, in a plan to betray Aboro to Urko, who is visiting his old friend. The plan quickly deteriorates as Aboro elects to assassinate Urko using a human. In an effort to avoid this, Galen goes to Urko and tries to convince him that Aboro is a traitor. Although he does not believe, Urko does allow Burke to pose as the assassin. The plan backfires, and Virdon rescues Galen and Burke while Urko arrests Aboro for conduct unbecoming of an ape.