APe-fU!

how to tackle an ape

“I spent a lot of time running at guys dressed in monkey suits, leaping up in the air and kicking them with my feet and then falling on the ground,” recalls Naughton. Indeed, that Burke and Virdon were astronauts with an incongruous knowledge of martial arts technique made some suspicious that the show was attempting, like so many others of the time, to cash in on the David Carradine Kung Fu series. Both actors, however, deny the claim. explains Harper, “A human couldn’t wrestle a gorilla and win. We had to do something trickier.”