𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗕𝗦 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟱𝟬 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗔𝗴𝗼 𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗜𝗜 is an American live-action science fiction television series, aimed at children, that aired on CBS from September 11 to December 18, 1976. Ark II had a racially mixed cast starring Terry Lester as Ark II's commander, Jonah, Jean Marie Hon as Ruth, José Flores as Samuel, and a chimpanzee named Moochie (owned and trained by Darrell Keener) responding to the name of Adam and voiced by Lou Scheimer. The show's premise was inspired by the story of Noah's Ark, and the characters were given names taken from the Hebrew Bible. It was set in a post-apocalyptic 25th century (specifically, 2476, the show having debuted in 1976), after Earth's civilizations had been decimated by the effects of waste, pollution, and warfare, falling back to a civilization comparable to the Dark Ages. #ClassicTV #SaturdayMorningCartoons #ArkII #1976