Apes of Time and Space

[scarfman]

In 1974 there was a Planet of the Apes tv series. At the time there was a Planet of the Apes fan magazine out of Marvel, much like for twenty-five years or more there's been Doctor Who Magazine out of Marvel's British house. This was where I first became familiar with such names as wrote Batman in the 80s as Marv Wolfman and Doug Moench (whose name I imagine, or did when I read Planet of the Apes, is pronounced "monk"). The Marvel Planet of the Apes magazine is only the first place I ever saw try to create a chronology that both the tv series and the movie series fit into. (Nowadays they also try to fit the animated Saturday Planet of the Apes, but I never saw that.)

Anyway, I watched and liked the Planet of the Apes tv series even if it was just The Fugitive under makeup that made you lose ten pounds in a day. And every chronology I see for it places it in 3085, because that's what the astronauts' ship chronometer says after the ship crashes. Now, everyone admits that the astronauts say, "And that's just when it stopped working". But no one seems to put any stock in the chronometer graphic that runs during the main credits.

I distinctly recall that in the main credits there's a realtime graphic and a relative time graphic. The relative time graphic comes to a stop on a date much later than 3085, I want to say some eight hundred tears later. That's the date I've always been sure the tv series is set. I used to remember what date that was, and since I've forgotten I once websearched and found it and forgotten it again. Today I websearched and couldn't find it.

Does anyone else remember that date? Does anyone have the DVD?

Comments

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

See what you can make of this. It's a bit hard to see.

[scarfman]

Thanks! You're teh 4w3som3.

It is a bit difficult to see. I'm not sure, but I'm beginning to pretty much think that the reason I always thought the last visible date on the Earth time meter was in the 3800s is because, in that font, the 8s and 0s look alike. Maybe 3085 is as much as we know after all.

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

The 8 and 0 look alike, and there's a bit where the ship dives towards Earth and it looks like the numbers are scrolling, but afterwards it still says the same as what it said before.

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

Also, an ad for Mego action figures! (And I finally have my pronunciation of that company's name corrected.)

[drake57.livejournal.com]

I still have copies of the Planet of the Apes magazine.
And isn't his name pronounced "Meench"?

[scarfman]

I've never heard Moench pronounced.

[dave-iii.livejournal.com]

I'd be willing to bet none of the chronologies actually say: "3085: The year the clock stopped working". But it'd be funny if one did. ^_^