History Series / PlanetOfTheApes

* BreadAndCircuses: In "The Gladiators", Prefect Barlow uses the gladiator games to keep the village quiet.

* DittoAliens: In "The Good Seeds", a gorilla officer comments that all humans look alike.

** In "The Legacy", Galen, Virdon and Burke discover the ruins of UsefulNotes/{{Oakland}}.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Dragoons, a group of masked apes killing humans.

* {{Joisey}}: In the pilot, Burke mentions he grew up in Jersey City, NJ, while he mentions it again in "The Surgeon".

In 1974, a short-lived series was released based off of the ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' franchise. It ran for 14 episodes before being cancelled.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Averted. Many apes are shown to be quite humane in their attitude and, even if there are bigots and supremacists, there are also decent individuals, hard-working commoners, and even a few subtle human rights supporters. Even the gorillas, despite being an obvious target to scapegoat for this, get some notable exemptions to the "militaristic brute" depictions; Police Chief Perdix in "The Deception" comes down with an iron hand on a bunch of murderous anti-human activitists once he finds them. In "The Cure", one of Urko's soldiers, Kava, saves a human village from being destroyed (foiling Urko's plans in the process) after Virdon sneaks a malaria cure to him whilst he's dying.
* ApocalypticLog: "The Legacy."

* AsYouKnow: Lampshaded in the episode ''The Trap'':

--> '''Gorilla soldier:''' Urko, I'm sure he'll be back as soon as he has searched the city. It would be a good place for the fugitives to hide.

* BreadAndCircuses: Prefect Barlow uses the gladiator games to keep the village quiet.

* DownerEnding: At the end of "The Deception," the Dragoons have been dismantled and their leader taken away for trial. [[spoiler:However, it seems clear that nobody else will be prosecuted, even though all of them are accessories to the murder of at least one human. Fauna goes on living with her uncle, who admits that he covered up the murder of his brother Lucian. And, unusually for this series, Fauna isn't cured of her prejudice against humans at the end. Though Virdon inspired her to be more open-minded.]]

* FantasticCasteSystem: [[{{Lampshade}} Lampshaded]] in "The Tyrant." Gorillas do army and police work; chimpanzees are doctors and bureaucrats; and the orangutans control upper-level slots in government, education, and religion.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Tolar]] in "The Gladiators."

* MeaningfulName: Galen, who is genuinely intrigued by human history and technological accomplishments, is named after one of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen great scientists of antiquity]]. He passes himself off as a scientist in "The Gladiators."

* MonkeysOnATypewriter: Comic inversion in "The Gladiators." Prefect Barlow suggests that if you give "fifty humans" enough paint, they'll ultimately manage to create the apes' own great works of art.

* PetTheDog: Prefect Barlow's behavior at the end of both "The Gladiators" and "The Race."

* WhatTheHellHero: In "The Cure," instead of being deferential to Virdon as usual, Galen sharply dresses him down twice: first for opening up to a village girl about their real origins, then for having a guilt complex about a possible plague epidemic.

* GilliganCut: Galen, refusing to learn how to fly a makeshift glider, declares, "I put my foot down!" Cut to Galen putting his foot down as he learns to fly a makeshift glider.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Urko apparently hates corruption amongst his officers, as mentioned in "The Tyrant", but at the same time he's willing to force prefects into betting on blatantly unfair horse races and then cheating to win ("The Race"), while it's implied in "The Tyrant" that he cheated during exams in training academy -- unlike his friend Aboro, though, he was never caught.

* StockFootage: The gorilla signalmen are the most obvious example. Footage of Ape City from ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'' and ''Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes'' is used to represent Central City in several episodes.

* StockFootage: The gorilla signalmen are the most obvious example.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Averted. Many apes are shown to be quite humane in their attitude and, even if there are bigots and supremacists, there are also decent individuals, hard-working commoners, and even a few subtle human rights supporters. Even the gorillas, despite being an obvious target to scapegoat for this, get some notable exemptions to the "militaristic brute" depictions; Police Chief Perdix in "Deception" comes down with an iron hand on a bunch of murderous anti-human activitists once he finds them. In "The Cure", one of Urko's soldiers, Kava, saves a human village from being destroyed (foiling Urko's plans in the process) after Virdon sneaks a malaria cure to him whilst he's dying.

* {{Expy}}: Galen (Cornelius).

* [[MalevolentMaskedMen Malevolent Masked Apes]]: The Dragoons in "Deception".

** Perdix, the local police chief and a gorilla, in "Deception".

[[Creator/RubySpears Joe Ruby and Ken Spears]] were brought in by then-{{CBS}} head Fred Silverman to serve as story consultants, due to the allure of the premise to children.

--> '''Gorilla soldier:''' Urko, I'm sure he'll be back as soon as he has searched the city. It would be a good place for the fugutives to hide.

* AlternateUniverse: To the rest of the original film continuity. At best one can consider it an alternative sequel to the original 1970 film, but even then there's some ContinuitySnarl.

** Leander, the chimpanzee chief of staff of the Central City hospital in "The Surgeon". While not the biggest fan of humans, he puts medicine first, which is all that matters in the end.

* MightyWhitey: Invoked in that, as time-travellers from before whatever apocalypse left apes in charge of the Earth, Virdon and Pete have knowledge that the apes lack thanks to the SchizoTech. This is actually a key part of three episodes. Firstly, "The Good Seeds", where they provide several bits of advanced agricultural lore to the ape tenant farmers currently hosting them (how to use a rope to more easily lift hay into a loft, the importance of ploughing around hills to prevent erosion, how to improve future crops by using the biggest corn seed, how to make a rail fence, building a windmill for aided irrigation). In "The Surgeon" Burke teaches two chimpanzee surgeons how to cross-type blood for transfusions. Then in "Tomorrow's Tide", they invent fishing nets for a fishing colony dependent upon spear-fishing. Finally, "The Cure" revolves around their efforts to combat an outbreak of malaria-carrying mosquitoes in a remote village.

* MightyWhitey: Invoked in that, as time-travellers from before whatever apocalypse left apes in charge of the Earth, Virdon and Pete have knowledge that the apes lack thanks to the SchizoTech. This is actually a key part of three episodes. Firstly, "The Good Seeds", where they provide several bits of advanced agricultural lore to the ape tenant farmers currently hosting them (how to use a rope to more easily lift hay into a loft, the importance of ploughing around hills to prevent erosion, how to improve future crops by using the biggest corn seed, how to make a rail fence, building a windmill for aided irrigation). Then in "Tomorrow's Tide", they invent fishing nets for a fishing colony dependent upon spear-fishing. Finally, "The Cure" revolves around their efforts to combat an outbreak of malaria-carrying mosquitoes in a remote village.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The paternalistic Prefect Barlow.

* PlotHole: The first episode has a dog chasing a man up a tree, while in ''Conquest Of The Planet of the Apes'', it was stated that all dogs and cats were wiped out by a disease from space which necessitated the humans turning apes into a slave race. Though according to ''Escape'', the plague wiped out a few cats and dogs while the rest of the species had to be put down to prevent an outbreak. In either case, it's possible a few of them survived.

* ShoutOut: In the pilot, Burke and Virdon find a book showing a picture of New York City that was taken in A.D. 2500. 2500 was the year the astronauts in the novel first started their journey, and the film took place in New York.

* [[MalevolentMaskedMen Malevolent Masked Apes]]: "Deception".

* [[MalevolentMaskedMen Malevolent Masked]] [[strike:[[MalevolentMaskedMen Men]]]] [[MalevolentMaskedMen Apes]]: "Deception".

* PlotHole: The first episode has a dog chasing a man up a tree, while in ''Conquest Of The Planet of the Apes'', it was stated that all dogs and cats were wiped out by a disease from space which necessitated the humans turning apes into a slave race.

** YMMV on that; [[spoiler: Sestus admits outright that his prejudices were wrong and Fauna doesn't seem to hate humans any more so much as be dumbstruck that she could have fallen for a human.]]