In this episode Mark talks about one of his favourite films: the 1968 American science fiction film "Planet of the Apes" directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and written by Michael Wilson and Rod Serling. Loosely based upon the 1963 French novel 'La Planète des Singes' by Pierre Boulle, the premise of the film revolves around an astronaut by the name of George Taylor (played by Charlton Heston) who crash-lands on a seemingly desolate planet in the distant future who comes to discover that the world that he and the only two other surviving crew members of his spacecraft find themselves on is one in which there is a society of evolved and highly-intelligent apes who are the dominant species over that of a primitive and mute human-like race. The film stars Charlton Heston as George Taylor who struggles to survive in a world where humanity have no rights, as he attempts to discover where he is and who it was who gave rise to the "Planet of the Apes" that finds himself on. The film also stars Roddy McDowall as Cornelius, Kim Hunter as Zira, Maurice Evans as Dr. Zaius, James Whitmore as President of the Assembly, and Linda Harrison as Nova. The film was an instant Box Office success which lead to several sequels and remakes to be made, as well as a slew of merchandise that has been successful in firmly cementing the phenomena of the "Planet of the Apes" franchise into the public consciousness.
