Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys is an American science fiction comedy animated television series.

During the monkey-manned spaceflights of the 1960s, one rocket veered off course, sending a chimp named Charles off into the outer reaches of space.

After many years, Charles' craft was discovered by the most intelligent race in the universe; a running gag involves them being so advanced their name is unpronounceable, the characters mistake references to them as empty pauses.

Charles was given enhanced intelligence, weapons, and futuristic technology, along with a charge to protect the universe from the evil Lord Nebula.

The group cruised the stars in their ship, the Primate Avenger, battling Nebula and his cyborg monkey henchman, Rhesus 2, and searching for the ever-elusive bananas.

The crew answers a distress call from the NC-17 galaxy, where they find a derelict ship and split up to search it.

The crew then returns to their own ship, since they didn't find anyone alive, and also because Splitzy started a core meltdown.

The ship is warped to a planet in another galaxy, where they are attacked by a missile (labeled "USA") and several unmanned planes.

After blowing up the planes, they search the planet further, finding that it looks like Earth but is covered entirely with jungle, and meet an intelligent monkey named Lilith.

Lilith identifies herself as the caretaker of the planet, and tells them that an alien race recently visited, got rid of all poverty and pollution, and made all species intelligent.

Rhesus 2 explains that the planet isn't Earth, but his former homeworld Terrestria; long ago, its human scientists sent him into space, but his pod escaped orbit and was beamed on board by Lord Nebula, who made him intelligent.

To this end, Rhesus 2 enslaved his homeworld; he attaches some of his brains to the crew, mind-controlling them so that they cannot escape, and adds them to the slave force.

The crew catches a coded message from Nasa, but the Monkeys couldn't translate it because the decoder was destroyed in the second episode.

Back at the arena, Whenever he's put with a match with someone, Gor convinces them that fighting is wrong and talks them out of the ring.

Unbeknownst to them, he has modified the replacement to generate a megalomaniacal dictator whose "Holo Boon horde" seizes the ship.

In a parody of Noir films, Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys must navigate the treacherous twists and turns of the denizens of Maltese 1 in order to recover the stolen Orbitron, which has revealed it contains the formula for GLOPP, before a local crimeboss can sell it to Lord Nebula.

To add to their problems, Splitzy unintentionally switches the minds of Simian and Shao Lin, resulting in them occupying each other's body.

While the crew argues about whether or not they should try to return to Earth when the Universe is still in jeopardy Gor wishes he had a friend to share his interests.

Splitzy has created a small android orangutan as an experiment and decides to use Gor's simple mind as a basis for its thought patterns.

They travel to Cyber 1, an android planet, for parts to build their replacements although Shao Lin remains skeptical.

In light of Isaac's sacrifice and sense of duty, the Captain decides that the fight to save the universe is their responsibility and that they must continue on until it is completed.

(Epoch Ink Animation/Toon-Us-In Animation) Executive Producers (Rob Hudnut, Gorden Bressack, Gary Hartle) Producer (Joe Pearson) Directors (Brad Rader, David Schwartz, Joe Pearson, John Fox) Art Director (Joe Pearson) Design (Brad Coombs, Harry Warner, Gregg Davidson, Sung Woo Hong, Mike Smith, Mac Spada and Young Yoon Gi) Storyboard (John Fox, Vincent Edwards, Jennifer Graves, Dave Chylstek, Dave Simmons, Mike Hedrick, Adam Van Wyk, Tom Nelson, David Bullock, Lyndon Ruddy, Mike Docherty, Young Yoon Gi, Robert Souza, Keith Tucker, Chuck Droost) Directors: Brad Rader and David Schwartz Designers: Brad Coombs, Harry Warner, Gregg Davidson, Sung Woo Hong, Mike Smith, Mac Spada and Young Yoon Gi Storyboard artists: John Fox, Vincent Edwards, Jennifer Graves, Dave Chylstek, Dave Simmons, Mike Hedrick, Adam Van Wyk, Tom Nelson, David Bullock, Lyndon Ruddy, Mike Docherty, Young Yoon Gi, Robert Souza, Keith Tucker, Chuck Droost and Graham Morris (animation timing).

In 1996, Mattel released a collection of action figures based on Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys.

Designed by Bluebird Toys of the UK, the line included 9 basic figures and 4 large vehicles or accessories.

[3] The figures, armed with several accessories, were unusually packaged so that the consumer could rotate them inside the card bubble as though they were floating in space.