Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

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.

copper1963 The best episode from the most underrated television series from the 1970's, the aptly titled, "Man out of Time" entry, sings a story that can only be described as wonderfully compelling. Science Fiction doesn't have to be dumbed down for the masses. "Logan's Run" (in my opinion) never did that. This teleplay proves it. A man from the past drops in for a visit with Logan, Jessica and Rem. He's coy at first. Evasive. He tells the trio--who wonder where the heck he came from--that he's traveled here in this matter scrambling thingamajig, from somewhere in the western provinces or something. After a few greetings, and a visit from a patrol of Sandmen, they come to a consensus that they will search for "Sanctuary" together. Pool resources. An elderly fellow soon arrives and escorts them to the village HE calls "Sanctuary," a seemingly popular destination for (time) travelers. The people of this enclave are friendly but scientifically backward. They worship at a temple the man from the past use to work in when it was a science lab. He grouses about "Project: Sanctuary" being a failure. The others are bemused and perplexed at his assertions. He knows he will soon have to leave and return home to the past. He's on a strict timetable. When he does return home to his time with the new found knowledge of what is to come, will that be the catalyst he needs to stop the hostilities from occurring in his time? But will that also negate the births of Logan and Jessica, and the design and production of Rem? Tune in and see for yourselves. It's a gasser of a tale. "Logan's Run," the series, deserves a DVD release.

dbdumonteil 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.

michael_mckenna Back in the 1970s, almost every good movie wound up as a TV series, often with less than satisfactory results. However, LOGAN'S RUN, like MASH, was not only better on TV, but aired by CBS as well. Too bad CBS didn't give LOGAN'S RUN a chance to become the hit series that it deserved to be.Like the movie, our heroes managed to escape their Utopian city in pursuit of "sanctuary". As a movie, there is one chance before the credits roll. As a TV series, the potential to explore all kinds of strange civilians that evolved after the Holicaust which destroyed all civilization as we know it.My favorite episode involved Logan and Jessica having discovered the remains of an advanced civilization that had been abandoned with no evidence of violence or sickness. It was as if everyone had simply packed up and gone away.Puzzled by this, Logan and Jessica investigate and discover some archives and a time machine.Seeing this as an opportunity to change history and prevent the holocaust from happening, Logan goes back into time to present day Washington DC, where he reads the newspapers about US/Soviet talks disintegrating and the threat of a nuclear war becoming more and more of a possibility.So Logan, in his futuristic costume, barges into the US Senate, warning them to resume talks and search for a lasting peace, or else! The elected officials actually believe him and take his advice, thanking him for the warning and Logan is treated as a hero.Patting himself on the back for a job well done, he goes back to his time, expecting to see a better world. But nothing has changed.Puzzled, he asks Jessica why the world is unchanged. She directs him to the archives and he sees himself in the news.Next, he sees that the Soviet Union demands that the US hand over its time machine.The US replies that it has no time machine.The Soviets accuse the US of lying and backs its demands with a nuclear strike.The US denies having a time machine.The Soviets react with a nuclear strike.Jessica then tells Logan, "You caused the holocaust!" The memory of this episode, after over 26 years, still gives me a chill.Too bad this series doesn't see the light as a DVD release.