Planet of the Apes Encyclopedia: The Legacy (reprinted from Ape Chronicles #40 by Terry Hoknes) * 1: TV Show Opening Credits (same for all TV episodes) Astronauts Virdon and Burke are in their space craft as their ship is thrown into the future. The scene transposes to the future world of Apes with footage of the astronauts on the run from gorillas with a shot of Galen. Earth time and Ship time match dates at August 19th 1980. The latest date shown for the earth time clock is June 14th 3085. Credits read: Roddy McDowall, Ron Harper, James Naughton * 2: Galen, Virdon and Burke are wandering through the hills and take a stop to talk about how Galen’s life has changed since they started traveling together as renegades and how they are now being hunted by General Urko. They stop for a qu