I remember there used to be these Monday-Friday daily movie showcases on local television back home in Missouri where they would have a movie theme each week: movies relating to animals, musicals, Godzilla movies, James Bond movies, and so on. I remember one week being a Planet of the Apes marathon with each of the sequels on the next consecutive day. Great fun.

I've lately been wanting to watch the entire series again just from a nostaligic perspective. I finally got around to renting "Planet of the Apes" last night. It was not a great movie, and included the awful Charlton Heston who is probably one of the worst big-name actors of all time, but the movie was an interesting look into 60's era science fiction and their oh-so-not-subtle concepts of domination, religious indoctrination and so-called heresy, race relations, nuclear fears, and injustice. Again, fun.