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Crew Departure Arrival Landing Fatalities Survivors
75singes2

Professor Antelle
Arthur Levain
Ulysse Mérou
Hector
Concept Art2
2500
71singes2
Between 2800 and 2900
Concept Art3
Successful Landing
Hector
(upon arrival)
81singes4
Ulysse Mérou
Professor Antelle
Arthur Levain
81singes34

Ulysse Mérou
Nova
Sirius
75singes3
Between 2800 and 2900
81singes36
After 3200
81singes37
Successful Landing
None
81singes38
Ulysse Mérou
Nova
Sirius
ANSAcrew1

Lieutenant Thomas Dodge
Colonel George Taylor
Lieutenant Maryann Stewart
Lieutenant John Landon
Liberty 1 ("Icarus")
Firstship
January 14, 1972[1]
Firsttime
November 25, 3978 (or 3955)[2]
Firstcrash
Emergency Landing in lake
Stewart 3
Lieutenant Stewart
Firstsurvivors
Lieutenant Dodge
Lieutenant Landon
Colonel Taylor
Secondcrew

Colonel Donovan Maddox
John Brent
November 1972[3]
Jbrentship3
3955 (or 3979)[2]
Secondcrash2
Crash Landing
Maddox
Colonel Maddox
Secondsurvivorbrent2
John Brent
Thirdcrew

Doctor Cornelius
Doctor Zira
Doctor Milo
Liberty 1 ("Icarus")
Escape scene5
3955[2]
Icarusfloating7
1973[4]
Icarusfloating13
Successful Landing at sea
Thirdmilo
Doctor Milo
(in quarantine)
Thirdsurvivors
Doctor Cornelius
Doctor Zira
Probecrew

Jones
Colonel Alan J. Virdon
Major Peter J. Burke
Probe Six
Sixthship
Before August 19, 1980[5]
Sixthtime
June 14, 3085[6]
Burke and Virdon's ship
Emergency Landing
Jones
Jones
Sixthsurvivors
Major Burke
Colonel Virdon
Human crew led by Trang
After 1970s[7]
About 3085
Trangsship
Successful Landing
None known
Thirty humans led by Trang
Derekship
Derek Zane
1974[8]
Time Machine
3975[9]
Derekcrash
Crash Landing
None
Derek Zane
Derek Zane
Venturer crew

Jeff Allen
Judy Franklin
Commander Bill Hudson
Venturer
Seventhtime1
August 6, 1976
Seventhship
3979
Seventhcrash
Emergency Landing in lake
None
Seventhsurvivors
Jeff Allen
Judy Franklin
Commander Hudson
Seventhcrewbrent

Colonel Ronald Brent
August 6, 2109
Brentship1
Between 3959 and 3964
Seventhbrentship
Crash Landing
None known
Seventhbrent
Colonel Brent
Verina

Verina Bolton
Two colleagues
After 1980
About 3085
Verinaship
Emergency Landing
Two crew-members
Verina Bolton
Unknown
Blue Star
The Gods Of The Stars2

Before August 19, 1980
About 3086[8]
Crash Landing
Unknown
None known
Major Burke
Colonel Virdon
[10]
After 3086
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Vindicators

The Vindicators:
π
Devon
Jo Taylor
MX
Moriah
Scab
1990
About 2140[8]
Vindicatorsship

Successful Landing
None
The Vindicators:
π
Devon
Jo Taylor
MX
Moriah
Scab
Thorne

Sebastian Thorne
Time Machine
Thornemachine

Shortly after 1871[8]
About 2142[8]
Successful Reappearance
None
Sebastian Thorne
Captain James Norvell
August Anne Burrows
Lieutenant Ken Flip
About 1991[8]
About 1992[8]
Crash Landing in river
None
Captain Norvell
Burrows
Lieutenant Flip
Pericles

Pericles
Alpha Pod
Eighthstation3
February 14, 2029[8]
December 5021[8]
Eighthlanding
Successful Landing
Eighthsurvivors5
Pericles
Eighthcrew2

Captain Leo Davidson
Delta Pod
Eighthpod2
February 14, 2029[8]
Eighthtime2
November 5021[8]
Eighthcrash2
Crash Landing in lake
Eighthsurvivor
Captain Davidson
Eighthstationcrew2

Major Frank Santos
Major Maria Cooper
Commander Karl Vasich
Specialist Hansen
Lt Colonel Grace Alexander
Molly Benavides
Almost 400 Oberon crewmembers
ape cargo
Oberon
Eighthstation2
Before February 2029
February 14, 2029[8]
Eighthstationcrash
Crash Landing
Nearly half the crew
Eighthsurvivors
Commander Vasich
Lt Colonel Alexander
Molly Benavides
David
About 200 Oberon crewmembers
numerous apes
Eighthsurvivor

Leo Davidson
Alpha Pod
Eighthflight
December 5021[8]
Before 2155 (possibly 2029)
Eighthcrash4
Crash Landing
Eighthsurvivor2
Leo Davidson
Ulysses
Sophie
Romulus
Martinez
Cassiopeia
December 4, 2125[11]
Ninethtime
October 18, 3889
Ninethcrash
Emergency Landing
Ninethmartinez
Martinez
Ninethcrew
Romulus
Sophie
Ulysses
Gbaben2

Ben
Ben's crew
[12]
Before July 14, 1973[12]
About 3979 (or 3955)[12]
Gbacrash
Crash Landing
Ben's crew[12]
Gbapes10
Ben




The TV series and the animated series of Planet of the Apes both ended in a similar fashion. In the TV series, human inventor Leuric and chimpanzee Galen piloted a primitive hang-glider along the coast, escaping from apes who gave them up for dead. In the last episode of the animated series, astronaut Bill Hudson and chimpanzee scientist Dr. Cornelius fly a primitive hot-air balloon back to New Valley with a book which Cornelius will use to prove that intelligent man existed before intelligent ape.[13]


Galen glides with Leuric Bill sets off with Cornelius


References[]

  1. Taylor remarks on 14 July 1972 that it is exactly six months - Ship Time - since his ship launched from Cape Kennedy.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 The first film clearly shows 3978 as the Earth Time as the ship submerges. However, the year 3955 is given in the second movie by Brent, and in the third movie Zira says that the Earth will be destroyed in 3955. By the fifth movie, when Caesar visits the archives to hear recordings of his parents, we find that the date that Zira states is somewhat garbled, and so Caesar wrongly assumes '3950' as the year for the arrival of Taylor's and Maddox's flights and the destruction of the Earth. The most obvious explanation is that Paul Dehn simply didn't check the facts before writing the script.
  3. The month indicated in a timeline published in Marvel Comics' Planet of the Apes Magazine #11.
  4. Taylor's crew departed in January 1972, followed by Brent's some time shortly after. The three apes arrived in Taylor's ship which, according to the President, was "one of two that disappeared over two years ago", making it at least 1974. However, in the fifth movie, MacDonald finds the archive tapes of Cornelius and Zira, which are dated 1973. The fourth movie is specifically set in 1991, but is "twenty years" after Ceasar was born.
  5. This is the date their ship hits an electrical storm and sends them through time.
  6. The intro to each episode gave the arrival date as June 14, but the ship clock was stuck on March 21 in episode 1.
  7. Virdon and Burke guess that Trang's ship is one that was developed by NASA in the 1970s.
  8. 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 8.12 Timeline of the Planet of the Apes: The Definitive Chronology by Rich Handley
  9. Marvel Comics' Planet of the Apes adaptation was based on Michael Wilson's shooting script, in which the clock indicating Earth Time read 3975 when Taylor awoke. Marvel presumably intended Zane to arrive in the same year as Taylor. The date on screen was 3978.
  10. The short film clips recorded in 1981 to accompany the re-edited TV movies featured an aged Galen, who revealed: "Virdon and Burke? Oh, well, they found their computer in another city and disappeared into space just as suddenly as they'd arrived." Whether they actually made it back to their own time, a different period in time, or even survived the journey is unknown. Presumably their testimony would have had some influence on human attitudes had they returned to pre-revolutionary Earth.
  11. The date that the crew entered hibernation.
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 The introduction to the Planet of the Apes GameBoy is based on the introduction to the first movie, with only slight modifications. Ben's 'Ship Time' clock reads July 14, 1973 rather than July 14, 1972 (perhaps indicating that Ben's mission was launched exactly one year after Taylor's). He refers to his crew, and at least one other crew-member can be seen while he is talking. They are not mentioned again, presumably having died in the crash. Ben has been sent to rescue Taylor (and his crew?), and finds evidence left behind by Taylor. While Ben doesn't find Taylor, he does find his ship intact (?) in the mutant city and escapes the planet in it.
  13. FAQ Page at The Last Flight of the Icarus
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