True story. My dad had HBo ofr over a decade, Showtime on and off, Cinemax briefly. A year os so after he died, one night i stayed up all night, was tired and burned out but not sleepy the next morning, had the Tv on. The Jason Alexander movie "Dunston Checks In" came on and so I watched it. it was relatively enjoyable in my exhausted and lowered discretion state. however, once it was over I realized "Oh my ghod, I just watched a monkey movie" and immediately made the phone call to cancel my HBO. That's why I've never seen SexAndTheCity or The Sopranos or any of their other post-Larry Sanders/Arliss originals.

Could you say this was rethought out as Emeny Mine?

Now that a couple of talkbackers have mentioned it, this movie does remind me of "Enemy Mine." All I remember about that one was the annoying way Louis Gosset Jr. spoke.

I actually got bit by a monkey once. How many of you can say that and not also be lying? Hah! I thought so!

I'm not sure if it was mentioned in the history of how Adam West got cast or if someone involved in this movie made an apperance in Batman (beyond West of course), but I remember hearing about it and desperatly wanting to see it

I saw it later on I believe TNT (as I too remember Star Trek:TNG followed by goofy Sci-Fi) but might have been Sci-Fi channel or even like WGN or WPIX (for some reason my little town in Kansas carried these channels out of NYC and Chiago BEFORE they were "superstations", had local news and everything) in fact I do think it was probably on WPIX that I saw this, anyways, fun movie

as an aside, I've been wondering about a good DVD release of Santa Claus vs. the Martians