15:05 "The Cure" (TV Series) 3085HT

Here we have Sondra Locke, in her pre-Clint Eastwood days. She's looking very very thin.

Here's IMDB's synopsis. I can do no better:

"Virdon and Burke race to concoct a cure, to save villagers stricken with malaria, with the aid of an ape doctor. They must do this before Urko implements his own version of a cure, by burning down the entire village with everyone in it."

Told in flashback. Actually uses the ripply screen effect later popularized (ridiculed) by Wayne's World.

PotA TV show rule: 1. Astronaut explains something logically. 2a. Orangutan says it's heresy. or 2b. Gorilla says it's treason. Go ahead, tell me I'm wrong.