Planet of the Apes' series made my Sunday mornings so pleasant when I was a teenager in 1978, now I can expose my thoughts over this, The Cure brings the future Clint's wife Sondra Locke, which falling in love by Alan whereas they staying there for a while only, the sorrowful blonde girl Amy due Alan is upon departing, then he tries explains that he wasn't the right man to marry her, in order to soothe her Alan explains that he came from another world which has a family there, the trio left the village, nonetheless a sudden unknown decease spreads on the human denizens, self-called by the Apes as sleeping illness, thus startled the Ape's soldiers report it to Urko who take it the Supreme Council at central city at command of the worldly-wise Zaius, there sharing the Council the Dr. Zoran, that offers himself to save the village with his new technics who he has been developed, conversely the rough Urko requires to burn the whole hamlet in order to quench the focus of illness, even so Zaius demands that Zoran applies his knowledge on this obscure pest, meanwhile Alan, Burke and Galen already aware of the events return to the village, Alan realizes that all symptoms suggesting to be malaria, Zoran arrives there and would implies an unorthodox method customarily used on the mid-ages, Alan explains that the malaria is spread by mosquito bites that the source were stagnant water, the cure come from quinine from an specific tree bark, Zoran is baffled about such scientific understanding by a mere human, the episode tries display the greedy self-motivated and debt of gratitude, where the best of them prevails even among the primitive Apes!!
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First watch: 1978 / How many: 4 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 7.5