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The Ape-Woman

by John Charles Beecham
Given the intriguing title, we hoped the title character of this early novelette would be a time traveling ape from from future, but alas, such was not meant to be. Instead, the narrator’s partner on a rubber plantation adopts an orphaned Bornean ape and brings her up as human.
— Michael Main
In pursuance of this theory he strove sedulously to teach the ape to distinguish colors, to recognize and fashion geometrical patterns, and to do many of the clever things with blocks and tinted paper that four and five year olds do in the kindergartens. Each new accomplishment he claimed as a triumph and a further vidication of his theory. I had my doubts, although I was willing to concede that Claybourne was a good animal-trainer.
“The Ape-Woman” by John Charles Beecham, in Argosy All-Story Weekly, 30 October 1920.

The Collapse of Homo Sapiens

by P. Anderson Graham
The narrator longs to see history develop over centuries, so when an immensely evolved Being offers to take him into the future, he agrees and is taken to a dystopian world of 2120 A.D. when mankind is on the verge of extinction.
— Michael Main
After wading through years of fruitless research and encountering failures enough to make the heart sick, I accidentally got into communication with an intelligence whose home was no single sphere but the universe, one to whom human time was nought, as were also human fears, joys, sorrows and emotions. The fortunes of mankind meant no more to him that thosee of a tribe of insects, one year swarming over the earth, the next swept out of existence.

He would not let me address him in the language intercession. “I am like you,” he said, “but of a different sphere and a different power. I am not immortal; nothing is immortal. Neither the Earth, the Sun, nor the God who made them. Everything is passing away, or rather, dissolving, to be re-fashioned into other forms.”

The Collapse of Homo Sapiens by P. Anderson Graham (G. P. Putman’s Sons, 1923).

Planet of the Apes

by Michael WIlson and Rod Serling, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Planet of the Apes by Michael WIlson and Rod Serling, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner (at movie theaters, USA, 8 February 1968).

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

by Paul Dehn, directed by Ted Post
Beneath the Planet of the Apes by Paul Dehn, directed by Ted Post (at movie theaters, Italy, 23 April 1970).

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

by Paul Dehn, directed by Don Taylor
Among the original Apes movies, only this one had true time travel; the others involved only relativistic time dilation, which (as even Dr. Milo knows) is technically not time travel. But in this one, Milo, Cornelius, and Zira are blown back to the time of the original astronauts (given the violence of the explosion, we’re going to call it a time rift) and are persecuted in a 70s made-for-TV manner.
— Michael Main
Given the power to alter the future, have we the right to use it?
Escape from the Planet of the Apes by Paul Dehn, directed by Don Taylor (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 26 May 1971).

Time of the Apes

by 阿部桂一, directed by 奥中惇夫 and 深沢清澄
This syndicated TV film was cobbled together from English-dubbed episodes of the Japanese TV series, 猿の軍団 :: Saru no gundan. It tells the story of Miss Catherine and two kids who are accidently frozen and wake up on an Earth ruled by apes. Inspired by (but not part of) the more widely known Earth-ruled-by-apes series, and I suppose not really time travel either because it’s merely cryogenic sleep.
— Michael Main
Uncle Charlie and Miss Catherine are engaged in important experiments at the lab, so don’t disturb their work.
Time of the Apes by 阿部桂一, directed by 奥中惇夫 and 深沢清澄 (King Features Entertainment, TV syndication, USA, 1987).

Planet of the Apes VI

Planet of the Apes

by William Broyles, Jr., Lawrence Konner, and Mark Rosenthal, directed by Tim Burton
I found two redeeming features in this melodramatic complete remake of the first Planet of the Apes film: Helena Bonham Carter and a time-travel twist at the end that was beyond my understanding.
— Michael Main
In this temple as in the hearts of the apes for whom he saved the planet the memory of General Thade is enshrined forever
Planet of the Apes by William Broyles, Jr., Lawrence Konner, and Mark Rosenthal, directed by Tim Burton (premiered at an unknown movie theater, New York City, 23 July 2001).

The Flash, Season 1

written and directed by multiple people
Time travel is implied right from the first episode of the CW’s rendition of The Flash where a newspaper from the future is seen in the closing scene. The rest of the first season builds a fine time-travel arc that includes a nefarious time traveler from the far future, a classic grandfather paradox with a twist (sadly not examined), a do-over day for the Flash (which Harrison Wells calls “temporal reversion”), and a final episode that sees the Flash travel back to his childhood (as well as a hint that Rip Hunter himself will soon appear on the CW scene).
— Michael Main
Wells: Yes, it’s possible, but problematic. Assuming you could create the conditions necessary to take that journey, that journey would then be fraught with potential pitfalls: the Novikov Principle of Self-Consistency, for example.

Joe: Wait—the what, now?

Barry: If you travel back in time to change something, then you end up being the causal factor of that event.

Cisco: Like . . . Terminator.

Joe: Ah!

Wells: Or is time plastic? Is it mutable, whereby any changes in the continuum could create an alternate timeline?

Cisco: Back to the Future.

Joe: Ah, saw that one, too.

The Flash, season 1 written and directed by multiple people (The CW, USA, 7 October 2014) to 19 May 2015).

The Flash, Season 2

by multiple writers and directors
After Barry aborts his mission to the past in Season 1 in order to prevent his own present from being erased, he finds that his travel has caused even bigger problems! Yep, a rift has been a-opened to a parallel world with an alternate Flash and an evil speedster and—it would seem—more time travelin’ and another attempt to save his mom and dad!
— Michael Main
No, that’s not how it works. In our timeline, Barry’s mother’s already dead, and her death is a fixed point. And nothing can change that.
The Flash, season 2 by multiple writers and directors (The CW, USA, 6 October 2015) to 24 May 2016).

The Umbrella Academy, Season 1

by multiple writers and directors
Of the 43 children born 1 October 1989 with no gestation period, the eccentric and sometimes cruel billionaire Reginald Hargreeves brought up seven of them and turned them into the super-powered group called the Umbrella Academy when they developed powers. Nearly thirty years later, after Hargreeves dies, the five surviving members of the group gather at their family home. Oh, and: Number Six died some time ago and only Number Four can see him; Number Five disappeared about seventeen years ago, but he’s back (and in his 13-year-old body) after living 45 years in a post-apocalyptic future that’s scheduled to start in eight days.
— Michael Main
As far as I could tell, I was the last person left alive. I never figured out what killed the human race. I did find something else: the date it happens. . . . The world ends in eight days, and I have no idea how to stop it.
The Umbrella Academy, Season 1 by multiple writers and directors, 10 episodes (Netflix, USA, 15 February 2019).

The Umbrella Academy, Season 2

by multiple writers and directors
Five’s plan for the Umbrella siblings to escape the apocalypse by going into the past ends up scattering them throughout different years of Dallas in the 1960s. They manage okay on their own until shortly after 11/22/63, when secondary effects from changes to the timeline cause a nuclear holocaust that can be averted only by recently arrived Five jumping back to 11/15/63 to exert his unique charm into getting the gang to work together.
— Michael Main
Hazel to Five: If you want to live, come with me.”
The Umbrella Academy, Season 2 by multiple writers and directors, ten episodes (Netflix, USA, 31 July 2020).

The Umbrella Academy, Season 3

After stopping the JFK-induced apocalypse in Season 2, the six Umbrella siblings return to 2019 where they no longer exist and their still-living father has founded The Sparrow Academy in their stead.
— Michael Main
Well, someone killed our mothers, so we shouldn’t exist, but clearly we do exist, and the universe can’t handle it, which is a problem.
The Umbrella Academy, Season 3 (Netflix, 22 June 2022).
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