In a world where there are chimpanzees instead of humans, Lancelot Link was one of the top agents of A.P.E. (Agency to Prevent Evil), an secret organization that protected the world from evil wrongdoers. Link's partner was Marta Hairi and his supervisor was Commander Darwin. A.P.E.'s evil counterpart was C.H.U.M.P. (Criminal Headquarters for Underworld Master Plan), an evil organization bent on world conquest. Baron Von Butcher was the evil leader of C.H.U.M.P. and was assisted by other evil apes including Creto, Wang Fu, the Duchess, Ali Assa Seen, and Dr. Strangemind. Most episodes consisted of Lancelot and Marta Hairi fighting the evil members of C.H.U.M.P..

Besides the main story, the chimps also appeared in musical segments of the show as the psychedelic Evolution Revolution (they even released an album).

Like Get Smart, Lancelot Link was a parody of the various spy movies and series that were popular in the mid-sixties through early seventies. The main difference between the two is that Get Smart used humans for all of the characters, while Lancelot Link used trained chimpanzees. Besides providing various evil voices on this show, Bernie Kopell also played Conrad Siegfried on Get Smart and went on to play Dr. Bricker on the Love Boat.

During the first season, the show was an hour long and featured Warner Brothers' cartoons. For the second season, the show was cut back to a half hour and only featured the Lancelot Link segments.

Amazon is offering single episodes of the show for downloading through their Unbox program:

On June 13, 2006, 13 episodes of the series were released on a 2 volume DVD set. Order a copy through Amazon.

Multimedia:

The Evolution Revolution	Theme in Spanish

Opening theme (Real Video)

Closing theme (Real Video)

The Evolution Revolution perform (Real Video)

The entire Evolution Revolution album at TV Party(Real Video)

Images/Screen Captures:

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Lancelot Link	Mata Hairi	Commander Darwin	C.H.U.M.P.	The Baron	Dragon Lady
Creto	Ali Assa Seen	Duchess	Dr. Strangemind	Wang Fu	Lancelot & Mata

Links:

Lancelot Link and the Evolution Revolution at TV Party

I Created Lancelot Link at TV Party

Lancelot Link at the IMDB

Lancelot Link at the Jump the Shark

Availability:

On June 13, 2006, a 2 DVD set of 13 Lancelot Link episodes was released. Order it through Amazon.

Previously, six volumes of the show have been released on DVD and VHS. Each one contains two half hour episodes.

Buy the episodes through Amazon:

DVD

VHS

Unlike most of the non-Krofft series, Lancelot Link has had a healthy life in syndication and cable, with runs on both Nick at Nite and TV Land, as part of the ill-fated Super Retrovision Saturdaze line up.

For more information on how to find episodes of this, or other Saturday morning series, go here.

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