44 Facts You Didn't Know About Planet of the Apes

For those commenting about this, yes I sourced most of this information from the documentary Behind the Planet of the Apes which I sourced in my description. I highly recommend it but incase anyone wants the 15minute version,I made this. Also took me a lot of work to source the photos myself and put this together….like way too long. Just a fan of the series and saw there weren’t any other accessible videos like this on YouTube.

I'm 48, been reliving my childhood by bing watching all 5 films, documentaries and the TV series. I'm ashamed to admit that you got me on #20 that Roddy wasn't in it. Roddy & Kim had such great charisma; it makes me a bit sad they are gone. Missed but nvr forgotten. If you are keen on 80's horror I highly suggest watching Fright Night 1 & 2. Roddy Mcdowall's performance is humorously fantastic as to be expected.

The first one I saw was Beneath in the theatre when it came out, aged 10 or so. It scared the bejesus out of me. I looked away when the mutants revealed their radiation burned faces, and noticed my dad was sleeping…in a matinee! Later I saw the first one on TV and it’s definitely the better film, but Beneath has a special place for me…and I still look away when they reveal. And I love that crazy organ and choir music!

I love Planet of Apes movies. They have been my favourite films ever since I first saw them. Closely followed by Logan's run. Thanks for the helpful facts regarding this excellent film series.

What's incredible is that this was one of the first science fiction blockbuster franchise movies, with Star Wars right behind it.

RIP Roddy McDowell, the soft-spoken & underrated legend 👏🏻 (Fright Night's Peter Vincent - Vampire Hunter🧛🏻‍♂️🦇, Black Hole's V.I.N.cent🌀, Planet of the Apes Cornelius [& Galen]🦍🦍, Batman's Bookworm📚 [&Batman TAS's Mad Hatter🎩!], The Invaders Lloyd Lindstrom👽🛸, Buck Rogers Govoner Soroyan🚀& Hell House's Ben Fischer🏚️)... my fav roles of his... 👏🏻👍🏻🙂

Fact 45. Charleston Heston is way better actor than Marky Mark Wahlberg. Lol

Not many people remember that Rod Serling of Twilight Zone Fame, wrote the screenplay for the first movie. There are many Twilight Zone-like elements in that film. The ape reveal in the cornfield (like the bandage removal scene in "Eye of the Beholder". And the Statue of Liberty twist at the end. That movie is like an extended Twilight Zone episode.

I was 11 years old when the first Planet of the Apes came out and from that time on I would "Go ape" as the ad campaigns of the day would say. I recently convinced a co-worker who had only seen the more recent CGI reboots that the originals were much more fun and just great entertainment. He became just as obsessed after seeing them. I really enjoyed your video and knowing that these wonderful movies that were such a huge part of my childhood can still be discovered and appreciated by younger generations. Good job. You get a cookie. Or a banana if you prefer. Unless you "loathe bananas!"

The best franchise of movies ever. They were magical back in the day when originally released and on the big screen in glorious technicolor. The last in the series looked more like a telemovie with the low budget, but that was the charm and i used to think they kept that theme for the TV series from about 1974. Great days, i was obsessed with it as a kid.

Yes they are amazing. They were made well before my time. I'm 37. But I did grow up watching them. I've always been a huge fan, and always will be. GO APE....

Scarled Pale, can't believe you were skeptical on these movies. I grew up in 70's as a little kid and saw all of these. Facinating concepts.

They did a fantastic job on the makeup to have started in 1968...Bravo

I was a child in the 70s and saw these movies about 100 times and I would watch them all 100 more!

These were the movies of my childhood and always loved seeing them over and over again.

One of the best sci fi films ever

I grew up in the 70's with these films...I loved them...my son was 10 years old in 2002, and I showed them all to him...he liked them, but they were just OK...when I showed my daughter the five films in 2009 when she was 9, she was hooked...we then watched the TV show version, the animated version, The Tim Burton version, then the three reboot series in theater... and my daughter loved ALL of them...and she still gets angry if you call them monkeys..."They are apes" she replies....BTW...she believes that Dr. Zaius is actually the hero of the first movie...hmmm...she might be right...

Fact 46, a family friend’s first name is “Nova”. Her mother loved the movie naming her daughter after…. Nova!

I adore this series of films. Probably the best 'franchise' series there has ever been.

I remember having a planet of the apes Halloween costume.