James Storm on SciFi

The Planet of the Apes series ep featuring Jim Storm will air tomorrow at 1 p.m. Eastern during SciFi's PotA marathon.  Check your local listings or the SciFi Schedulebot for the time in your area.

From www.tvtome.com:

#6  Tomorrow's Tide  Roscoe Lee Browne (Hurion) Jay Robinson (Bandor) Kathleen Braken (Soma) James Storm (Romar) John McLiam (Gahto) Frank Orsatti (Human) Tony Mordente (Drayman #2)

An ape who runs a fishing business plans to use Virdon and Burke as slaves after he captures them.

18-Oct-1974

Hi Midnite thanks for the info.
          Love Anne

Screen grabs of James Storm in "Tomorrow's Tide"






One word:  Sunscreen

Above, with series stars James Naughton and Ron Harper
Below, Jim is shot by one of the guards


"I, Judah Zachery..."


"Dammit, Jim, I'm an astronaut, not a doctor."
(I made that up. )

Methinks the filming location was
Point Fermin/Whites Point Beach in San Pedro (?)


Above, that's Roddy McDowall, and I swear the gal on
the far right always looked like she took some happy pills!

Awww, a happy ending.

I was glad to see this notice so I could tape the marathon.  I've wanted to see the entire run of this short-lived series for years -- I only saw a few episodes when it originally aired in the 1970s ... I still find the first movie very good and enjoy certain elements of the others, too.

I was surprised when I began replaying my tape that the first episode was written by Sam Wallace!  I'm not sure if he wrote others as well, and don't think his was necessarily the best of the three or four eps I've viewed so far.  I happened to be home when the episode with James Storm aired.  It was fun to see him (Gerard, what on earth ...?), though I didn't think the role allowed him to demonstrate his acting to much effect.

Checking a couple of sources, I see SciFi aired 11 of 14 episodes.  Too bad they couldn't have managed three more to complete the set.

Hi, Vlad,

I'm glad you got to see them!  I was surprised too to see that Art Wallace wrote the first two eps.  I didn't see them all but it seemed there was more humor in the subsequent eps.

I probably should mention that the captures are a little deceiving-- though Storm was on camera frequently his role wasn't very big.

[OT - Law & Order fans will recognize James Naughton; he also played Ally McBeal's dad.]

Midnite, many thanks for posting these beautiful captures!  Looking at them with your witty captions is a lot more fun than watching the actual episode.  As it happens, I no longer have cable, so I missed seeing this.

Roddy MacDowell was such a gifted actor, I found it painful to see him reduced to parading about in a monkey suit delivering tosh.  But it did pay the bills.  Ever see his Sixties Golem film?  It's worth it just for Roddy's inspired scenery chewing.  One I have been trying to track down for years is the Ava Gardner cult film, Tam Lin, which Roddy *directed*.  I've heard it's very arty and interesting.

Of course, back in the Seventies, I could not foresee just how awful television would become a quarter century later.  Compared to the fare on offer now, this stuff looks pretty good. At least it's entertaining.

G.

though Storm was on camera frequently his role wasn't very big.

Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for his hair. 

LOL, Criseyde!

I swear the gal on
the far right always looked like she took some happy pills!

I think I heard somewhere once that James Storm had that happy pills look on his face at a Fest Banquet one year?

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I think I heard somewhere once that James Storm had that happy pills look on his face at a Fest Banquet one year?

ROFL, yes, I remember when he was making the happy face during a Fest banquet in L.A.

I was going to take a photo of him because he looked so happy and, well, he was sitting smack dab in the middle of a Fest event and flaunting the fact that he was SO HAPPY, but my friends at the table talked me out of it. 

Roddy MacDowell was such a gifted actor, I found it painful to see him reduced to parading about in a monkey suit delivering tosh.
....

Compared to the fare on offer now, this stuff looks pretty good. At least it's entertaining.

Not to go too far off into a discussion, but I think there's actually a bit more substance than most people might guess.  I've only watched the first three or four 1-hr. eps so far so I can't assess the series as a whole, but the first few eps effectively dramatize the senseless, irrational hatred that different "groups" have toward each other, with realistic characterizations (especially some of the ape characters).  The novel by Pierre Boulle was also a work of social commentary (I was in junior high when I read it).

When Roddy McDowell died, I was dismayed how so many commentators "explained" who he was by saying he was in "Planet of the Apes."  Somehow that seemed beneath the dignity of a "good" actor.  But as I've watched these eps (and not all that closely really), the personality of the character shines through even the ape mask and costume.  Good actors like McDowell and Maurice Evans, Kim Hunter, are able to convey very distinctive characters through voice and movement ... with lesser actors they'd all probably seem the same.  But it must have been a challenge!

Wonderful to see these again. I have to explain to people now that I'm a semi-amnesiac. There's actually no "semi" about this one--I had no memory of it at all!

G.