Wednesday 10 March 2021

The Horse Race (1974) Part 9

The final chapter.









































Roddy McDowall as Galen
Ron Harper as Virdon
James Naughton as Burke
Mark Lenard as Urko
John Hoyt as Barlow
Morgan Woodward as Martin
Richard Devon as Zandar
Henry Levin as the Prefect
Russ Marin as Damon
Meegan King as Gregor
Wesley Fuller as Kagan
Joe Tornatore as Zilo
Peter Ireland as Moro
Adriana Shaw as the nurse
Tom McDonough as the official
Eldon Burke as the chimp jockey
Stephen Whittaker as the handler
Bill Harrison as the tumbler


Notes:

(edited from IMDb)

The Horse Race, together with The Legacy, was novelized as Planet of the Apes #3: Journey Into Terror by George Alec Effinger, and published by Award Books.

John Hoyt reprises his role of Barlow from The Gladiators. In the novelizations, The Horse Race appeared before The Gladiators, so a different ape character was featured as the Prefect in The Gladiators.

Meegan King, who plays Gregor, is the son of actor Wright King, who played Dr Galen in Planet Of the Apes (1968).

This episode formed the first half of the third TV movie Treachery And Greed On The Planet Of The Apes (paired with The Tyrant), originally broadcast in 1981.

The ninth episode to be broadcast (8th November in the USA, 8th December in the UK), this was the eleventh episode filmed, chronologically, according to the Production Code. 

The so-called "scorpion" placed on the gorilla soldier's shoulder is actually a Jerusalem cricket outfitted with a prosthesis to simulate a tail, presumably to prevent the actor from actually being stung.



poster by Dave Ballard

coming soon: The Interrogation


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