Logan's Run

I didn't watch the Logan's Run tv series during it's original run, I actually watched it after I saw the 'Logan's Run' movie (feature film) on the TNT Network (USA): One of Ted Turner's networks. Luckily I taped them on HiFi-VHS SP tape speed and cherish them. I was aired on TNT less than five years ago but I bet never again. I remember hearing about the tv series it being cancelled due to too much Violence according to the 70's censors. I think Gregory Harrison and Heather Menzies was a great pair and the show was great. The beautiful Melody Anderson was in a episode(Manimal tv series star). REM was a great character and a cool idea. One of Heather Menzies relatives was in the classic 'Things to Come' movie. --- Great tv series: A++++++++++++

Good Lord! Another poster had a go at this series and he was bombarded with nine "not useful" votes. Should I be careful what I say here? When this series appeared it was gold. Every cast member, every costume, every turn in the story was gold. Logan's Run was hot stuff to my 12 year old eyes...even on my black and white television set!

Then, in Australia at least, the series vanished from the face of the earth for decades.

Last year, I finally found it again on YouTube and discovered that time has not been good to Logan's Run. It looks too low budget and, since 1977 or 1978, I have seen a few "manhunt" television shows/movies and Logan's Run does not measure up to the others. If you enjoyed this series in 1977, just keep the memories, don't track down the series in this century...you might not like what you get!

The film had a long list of problems. The book was complicated and episodic and the film left out most of it. There were also obvious problems like how could two sheltered city kids survive in the wilderness.

The series is far better written than the film. Better acted. The Film's actors overacted. While the series is obviously cheaply made, it does reuse some clips from the film as well as sets from Planet of the Apes and Lost in Space.

The series has time to flesh out its characters, where you didn't even have time to know them in the film. They resolve some of the inconsistencies from the film. Each of them carry food pills, entire meals in pill form. The only obvious logical problems are the men never grow beards and the women have perfectly blowdried 70s hairstyles.

It's certainly far better than dumbed down attempts at sci fi like the 6 Million Dollar Man. A shame it didn't last longer.

I saw "Logan's run" (the movie) yesterday and it reminds me of this TV series I used to watch a long time ago.The movie which I saw in a movie theater drastically wandered from the novel:for instance the part of sandman Francis would amaze people who only know the movies and the TV series.

The TV episodes kept only Jessica,Logan and Francis and added REM ,a robot (but a human one ,not the nasty robot who freezes the fugitives).It roughly followed the pattern of "the fugitive" of the sixties ,although Francis did not appear in all the episodes.My favorite one was based on "the most dangerous game" and featured German actor Horst Buchholz as the hunter,Jessica and Logan being the preys.Unlike the movie,neither Jessica nor Logan showed love feelings and when REM hinted at it ,the heroine simply answered: "He's only a friend" .

Correct me if I'm wrong ,but the last episode was not really an "end " :they probably intended to make more episodes.They did not,and it was too bad.

This could have been one of the finest science fiction show's of the seventies if it had been allowed to stay on longer and allowed the characters to develop. Gregory Harrison was perfect as Logan and Heather Menzies was great as Jessica. Also, Donald Moffat was great as the android Rem. Too bad this show was bounced around all over the schedule. I would have loved to have seen them encounter all sorts of societies in the post-apocalyptic world of this show.