I attempted to contact film critic Katie Walsh, but was unable to find a working e-mail on her LinkedIn, personal Katie Walsh Writes, or Tribune Content pages, so I thought this might work...
Hi, Katie:
Just curious, but why didn't you list the venues the two TV series (live action and animated) are available on in your current article "Start Your 'Planet of the Apes' journey with this guide" which appeared in recent Sunday newspapers (but isn't, as yet, available on-line from any of your sources)?
You did list the venues for the feature films, but not the TV series!
Do you believe them to be "lesser" elements of the Apes Multiverse compared to the feature films?
Please consider that the animated series was helmed by Doug Wildey, who created the classic Johnny Quest animated TV series, and deliberately followed the Pierre Boule novel's premise of the apes possessing technology contemporary to Earth's, while utilizing characters and plot elements from the (only) first two movies!
You did list the venues for the feature films, but not the TV series!
Do you believe them to be "lesser" elements of the Apes Multiverse compared to the feature films?
Please consider that the animated series was helmed by Doug Wildey, who created the classic Johnny Quest animated TV series, and deliberately followed the Pierre Boule novel's premise of the apes possessing technology contemporary to Earth's, while utilizing characters and plot elements from the (only) first two movies!
Even though restrained by the non-violence rules instituted by the networks for Saturday morning cartoons in the early 1970s, he still managed to produce a quality show at least equal to the live-action TV series and the final feature of the original run...Battle for the Planet of the Apes!
Return to the Planet of the Apes and the 1974 live action TV series (which also suffered from network restrictions on primetime family-hour programming) are available to rent/buy on Amazon.
Return to the Planet of the Apes and the 1974 live action TV series (which also suffered from network restrictions on primetime family-hour programming) are available to rent/buy on Amazon.
Plus, both are available on DVD/Blu-Ray, either as standalone sets (Return to the Planet of the Apes and Planet of the Apes 1974)or part of a now-HTF box set of the original five movies and both TV series!
BTW, you can read a graphic novel of the original Boule novel (not the first movie), on my website!
Hope to hear from you,
Hope to hear from you,
B
