ALIEN PLANET The fantastic adventures of astronauts Alan Virdon and Pete Burke, accidentally time-warped 1000 years into the future—to the Planet of the Apes... Of Zaius, head of the Council of Apes, who forbids any knowledge of mankind's long dead civilization.... Of Urko, gorilla leader, who hates all humans and vows death to those who claim superiority.... Of peace-loving Galen, who could forgive Zaius' fear of knowledge—but not his hatred of humans nor his vengeance upon the two men who carry the secrets of the past. Contains the novellizations of the episodes "The Cure" and "The Good Seeds".

"Savages, they're nothing but savages!" "They must be caught and punished!" "They must be taught their place!" "They must be obliterated like the plague!" So began the reign of terror. Humans, already enslaved, were now to be exterminated. The Dragoons, a band of vicious apes, swore to drive the humans from their land, burn their huts, murder their children, and imprison the last sorry survivors in the Forbidden Zone. Only Galen, Virdon and Burke stood between the doomed humans and their terrible fate. Only they could expose the Dragoons and their dangerous secret. Only they could keep the apes from destroying an entire race and every remnant of their dead civilization. But in this desert of brutality, small flames of reason and kindness still flickered. An ape doctor and a frightened blind female become the unwitting aides of human salvation.... Contains the novellizations of the episodes "The Surgeon" based on the teleplay by Barry Oringer, and, "The Deception" based on the teleplay by Anthony Lawrence and Joe Ruby and Ken Spears.

"'The tyrant,' based on the teleplay by Walter Black. 'The gladiators,' based on the teleplay by Art Wallace. Based on characters from 'Planet of the apes.'"