Return to the Planet of the Apes - The Complete Animated Series

It was delivered some months ago and I am going to enjoy this for a very long time thanks and it came on time and my experience on here was very good

Being an Ape fan from my childhood, I purchased the ultimate collection when it first came out. I was pleased to go back and watch all the films, the TV series and the animated series. The audio/video quality of the animated series in the Ultimate Collection was really lacking. There was hardly any color palette, other than oranges and browns, and it was botched by tons of dust, scratches, and artifacts. The sound was muddled mono track with pops and hisses. After years of holding out, I finally broke down and took a chance on double dipping on the remastered animated series. I popped in the original from the Ultimate Collection, just so I could have a fresh image by which to compare and contrast. The newer release loads with the same menu design, so no real differences yet. Once I pushed play on episode one, IMMEDIATELY, my mouth fell open as the differences were glaring right before me. Colors and details that were not visible in the Ultimate Collection were now presented to my wondering eyes. I couldn't believe how crisp and clear the images were. I popped in the old one again just to see it, and was dumbfounded at the stark differences between the two version. You can now see every brush stroke and pencil line in the animated cells, Contrast that with the original where everything was blurry and there seemed as if someone had overlaid the whole image with a dark filter. The audio is still mono, but it too has been cleaned up. There are still a few examples of some specks here and there, but this is the absolute best I've ever seen this. Another annoying aspect of the original release was that the whole screen seemed unstable, as it would wiggle and shake. This is especially noticeable in the opening titles. That has been corrected, and now you have a stable image without the annoying jiggling. Fox is truly to be commended for doing such a great job at cleaning up this series that is a fond memory from my childhood. Of course, since we only had a black and white TV at the time, it is truly a treat to see this series in all its colorful glory. If you have the Ultimate Collection, you owe it to yourself to spend a little money and get this newly remastered edition. You won't be sorry.

This series, made by the same people who produced the Star Trek animated series, is nostagic fun. The art and animation are reminiscent of comic book art rather than the style that was popular in that day. If you liked the original Johnny Quest, this is worth a look, as stylistically they have a lot of commonality. The copies are good in this boxed set, there are no extras about the series included. Episodes are presented in the correct chronilogical order, which for some reason had gotten jumbled when they had been originally broadcast.This vision of the a future where Apes are the dominant series and humans considered to be dangerous parasitic animals doesn't have all the bite or horror of the original movie series. I did very much like the world the authors created where the apes have 1960s style technology but still haven't mastered flight and don't stray very far from their capitol city. There are dumb humans and mutants as in the original movies, but the mutants here are less malignant; instead of worshipping a doomsday bomb they are waiting for a female savior to lead them to restatblishing human dominance of earth. It was sad that the series didn't have a longer run as many of the themes were not fully developed, but it does have an ending of sorts that offered hope that peace between human and ape may still be possible. That having been said the series isn't without faults; for instance the human pack escapiing the slavery of the ape world conspicuously lack children--you can't have an ongoing civilizaiton with replacements being born--perhaps the writers were affraid that children would have made the stories too scary for the intended Saturday morning cartoon's intended audience. They don't shy away from certain apes calling for the total genocide of the human race as a whole though. Like the Star Trek animated series though, I think the writers did have in mind the possibility that adults would be watching these too--so they really aren't dumbed down. The animation is slow, and some sequences are too drawn out--but overall the quality of the artwork overall makes up for these shortcomings.With new remakes of the movie series, these are definitely worth a 2nd look whether you grew upu with them or want another spin on a familiar story.

Being a fan of the movies you would see in syndication, you always wanted more. Then we were given the cartoon series. Still one of my favorites to watch.Quality is very good.

Too bad this didn’t run the whole season and longer