Diagonaldi Very well executed

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

grendelkhan Logan's Run follows in the time-honored Hollywood attempt to translate film success into a TV franchise. It didn't quite pan out that way, though not for lack of trying. I remember it hitting the airwaves; but, it was on a network we couldn't tune in well (this was the Stone Age of 3 networks, no cable, and only the wealthy techies had video recording), I missed it. Now, thanks to a surprising commercial DVD release, I had a chance to catch up on this buried treasure.The pilot replays the basic thread of the movie, using footage from the film, with new opticals for the flameouts on Carousel. We are introduced to Logan and Francis, our Sandmen on the hunt. Logan chases down a runner but fails to shoot when Jessica cries out to him. From this point, things start to diverge from the movie plot. Logan joins Jessica on the run, while Francis is dispatched by a newly revealed council of elders (which seems like a hard thing to conceal). Logan and Jessica find a living world outside their domed city and quickly discover other people. This is where the plot starts getting stretched, as they don't seem to have travelled very far from the city, so why has no one encountered these people before? They eventually find a solar vehicle and meet an android named REM. They continue on their journey to find Sanctuary, with Francis in hot pursuit.Gregory Harrison, Heather Menzies, and Randy Powell are fine as the three central characters, though not quite in the same league as their movie counterparts. Donald Moffat steals every scene as REM, our series Spock; which brings up a troubling point. The series seems to mine a lot of Star Trek plots, with people split into good and evil sides, alien prisons of the mind, and fantasy made reality. It's not too surprising, as the story editor is DC Fontana. Heck, even the melody of the theme sounds like Star Trek (apart from the annoying synthesizer "shrieks"). However, Star Trek borrowed more than a few plots themselves and the comparisons are mostly surface gloss. There are plot holes, like how other Sandmen join Francis on the hunt, yet no one else seems affected by what they see outside their domed city. Francis has a vested interest and is a fanatic, but they rest don't seem to share these characteristics. It would seem that the social order in the city would start getting very shaky (which a later episode kind of treads upon). Unfortunately, the series was cut short before this idea could theoretically be explored.So, on the positive side you have decent scripts and better than average acting (for a 70s genre series), plus decent, if lower budget effects. On the down side, it gets a bit repetitive, without an end in mind. It's not Star Trek, but that series has its hit and miss moments, too. It's a pleasant little series, with greater emphasis on ideas than action, compared to today's fare. It'll feed your brain more than a lot of today's TV. Definitely worth a rental for the average viewer, and worth buying for the genre fan. You can also see some early work by Michael Biehn, Kim Cattrell, and Melody Anderson (Flash Gordon). Give it a try.

Blueghost The one thing this show had going for it was that it predated the Star Wars craze that wracked TV and movies alike. Similarly it was missing a certain something to make it a complete TV rendition of the feature film.The foibles with this show are sundry, but more technical than truly artistic. The props and sets were tweaked and manipulated about as far as the budget would take them to create an imaginary dystopic future, complete with gun wielding bandits and robots gone haywire.Shot on a shoe string budget the shots and stories look like they were cranked out in record time. Ditto with some of the plots. But the actual stories, however oddly executed, seemed to have a real heart to them. Which is all the more shameful, for had this series just waited perhaps another eight months, then the powers that brought it into being could've drawn some very good lessons from Star Wars, and infuse some real production values into a series coasting off the diminishing wave of its feature film predecessor. Instead we have a TV translation of a major motion picture, that, like a lot of TV series based off of major theatrical releases, really doesn't hold up to well. And this is from a man who saw the 1980s revamp of Buck Rogers, and liked it.TV's "Logan's Run" is what it is; an attempt to bring some G-rated adventure from source material is firmly in R-territory. As such the anti-debauchery message is lost, and we have a sort of fugitive sci-fi theme running amok on the screen. I purchased and DL'd the season premier from Amazon, and the only real height I could take away from this effort was Donald Moffat's thesping. Otherwise I'm sorry to say the series hasn't aged too well.Still, it's light hearted adventure that actually does entertain, though does become a bit pondersome at segments. I enjoyed it, and perhaps that's all that really matters.If you've got a hankering for retro-TV, then scope out the nearly forgotten "Logan's Run" TV series.

shaneyfex 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++++++++++++

hernebay Does anyone else remember this series, which was something of a cult among my circle of teenage friends in London, England, in the late 70s? I can see from the IMDb entry that it only ran to 14 episodes, so I imagine the plug was pulled on it pretty quickly. (This often seems to be the case with shows that are too good.) I've no idea how it would hold up now, since it has never, to my knowledge, been repeated on British TV, but I have fond memories of this series. My friends and I thought that Heather Menzies was very pretty, but we were especially impressed by the android, Rem. If "Lost In Space" and "Land Of The Giants" were my preferred viewing in the late 60s, "Planet Of The Apes" and "Logan's Run" (in their TV-series manifestations) were my shows of choice in the late 70s.