Friday, February 15, 2013

The Ape Douglas Show!

As a kid, I would stop in my tracks at the first sign of anything ape related on TV.
I lucked out one day when my mother called me into the living room to look at the show she was watching.
There on the tube,was an Orangutan interviewing an older gentleman about the make-up from the Planet of the Apes. I listened for a while, and discovered that the simian interviewer was Mike Douglas himself !
This was one of many TV appearances the denizens of the monkey planet made during the 70's.

The smiling gentleman to the left of Mike Douglas is master Make-up artist Dan Striepeke.
Striepeke and John Chambers received a special Oscar for their work on Planet of the Apes.
This episode of the Mike Douglas Show originally aired on 9/17/1974.
The world was a wonderful place for monkeys back then!

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  4. Did you know that they brought a few chimps onto the set that day during taping and when the chimps saw the actors in makeup they went beserk. They escaped their handlers and ransacked the studio and went into the next studio which was the local newsroom and ransacked it as well. I believe someone may have even been injured.

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