"The duty-obsessed, brutal base commander, Captain Dana Holmes (Philip Ober) speaks to Prewitt about his transfer, learning hat it was because of "a personal matter.Leo decided it was time to take a chance and get back home, leaving the ""planet of the Apes"" when the pod beeped with the coordinates of the storm that had brought him there.After weeks of hard riding the Russian border was reached, where he populace hid behind closed shutters - - out of the way of the feared Cossacks, who with reckless fury protected their nobles from even a glance of the enslaved people.Earlier, the fictional, epic-length soap operaNorth and South (1985), with stars Patrick Swayze, Robert Mitchum, Kirstie Alley, Johnny Cash, Gene Kelly, Hal Holbrook - and others, and based on John Jake""s best-selling novels, was the astonishing attempt of a TV mini-series (at over 1200 minutes) to recapture the scope of the ante-bellum period, in its story of two families during he Civil War era -- the Hazard family of Pennsylvania and the Main family of South Carolina.