People always like to look back at old SF shows and talk about how in some ways they accurately represented "the future" - well here we see Logan getting a text on his mobile about the next runner.
Gregory Harrison is one man who actually looked much better in middle age, years later in those made for TV movies, than he did here when he was younger. He was gorgeous!
The thing that bugged me about this series was that the sandman, Francis, seemed to have a steady stream of support - sandmen, vehicles, more sandmen etc. All presumably happy to return to the city at some point knowing that their family and loved ones, have had and will continue to have, their lives pointlessly cut short at 30.
There was a sci fi show (Twilight Zone?) where a woman who did past life regression therapy wakes up in a world where everyone knows their past lives. She never could discover any of her past lives, and the authorities apprehended her and ask her to save society by using hypnotherapy to make patients forget their past lives. Knowing that reincarnation was real produced a society where people had the right to commit suicide, and people did it for the slightest dissatisfaction with their current lives.
Thanks for your tribute to the "another Donald Moffat" ! About some cut scenes, there is a very sad lost from the 1951's version of THE THING: the first non humanoid movie alien, made faithfully from the great John Campbell's novella; but the production felt the props was too terrific and all was destroyed according the historian Bob Burns. But I cannot think than anybody would have kept any shot of it,and hope one picture could be found one day in a cellar...
R.I.P Heather Menzies. When I was a kid, she was a grown up. However when she died at 68 I was 52 so the age difference doesn't seem so great now and 68 seems way too young to die.
I love this movie. I love 70's Sci-Fi & practically all things "70's'" (& early 80's), especially vintage electronics. In the 60's/70's a "computer/screen" was so "hi-tech" & futuristic. PCs are common today, so the movie looks dated, as will practically any Sci-Fi movie when viewed 25+ years after it's release. But anyway, I really love the look/feel of Logan's Run. I love the cinematography, the sets, the colors, wardrobe, sound, etc. It's an all time classic. A remake could be cool....
In this the bodies in carousel as you'll see turn to different colors and then fade out of sight.While as you'll see in the next entry here a whole other story.
As a teenager, this sci-fi series, as with a few others, at that time: Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, were part of a 'staple tv diet'. The music was, big and loud, as were a few more programmes screened during the late 70's/early 80's. Definitely a blast from the past.
i was 7 when this was on, i feckin loved it. this and boinic man where the best, set me for interests today, future and stuff. then i saw the film AFTER, mi first woody when agutter kits off, blew mi mind, dont think mi mum knew!!
This was one of my favourite TV programs when I was a kid, probably about 7 or 8. It does look a bit cheesy now but it's 30 years old. We've come a long in that time. The guns they use are still very cool!!
I own this on DVD and the show really isn't that bad. Typical 70's sci-fi fare, but the actors looked like they had fun. Donald Moffat was the break out actor here and he added a lot to the show. He was definitely the "Data" of this series and played his part extremely well. It's the usual chase plots you'd expect, but both Harrison and Menzes were very attractive and had lots of chemistry. The ratings were pretty solid, but the show was preempted so much that it ended up being cancelled too soon. Darn shame, as I would have enjoyed a couple of seasons out of this show.
One minute and seven seconds for the opening theme of a TV show? How times have changed. Most TV series barely get seven seconds for an opening theme today.
This was my favorite show when I was a kid in elementary school. I always liked the shows that got cancelled after one season or less. This show had a lot of problems, but it really doomed itself when it had Logan find sanctuary well before the end of the first season, and then he and his posse just casually move on because they are dissatisfied with what they find there. The search for Sanctuary was the series's raison-de-etre!
Me too. I was upset when all of a sudden there was no "scenes from next week's episode" at the end of the show one week. Next week, there was no Logan. Ever worse, no Jessica! It deserved a full season at least.
Gotta love those futuristic haircuts. And the imaginitive futuristic music - a typical early 1970s Yank TV theme with a "Woo woo woo! Woo woo woo!" thrown in for futuristic good measure...
I loved this show as a kid. It should be released to DVD soon. Since there "rebooting" old shows like "Star Trek" how about Logan's Run. I think that would be great.
When I was a child, it was the only S-F serie on TV in my country. I loved the irreal and a little melancholic mood of the show. And Donald Moffat too, with his character like a very-good natured Spock, rather different of his interpretation in THE THING.
70's and early 80's shows had a cheesy sort of charm to them, that no show will ever be able to recreate. This show was some years before my time, but it looks like it would've been one that I would've enjoyed. - Had my parents let me stay up past Dukes of Hazard or Knight Rider. :-/
I purposely got sacked from boyscouts several consecutive sundays in the late 70ties, early 80ties to watch this in the afternoon in the French dubbed version on Antenne 2, French TV. It was called 'L'age de crystal' (the age of crystal). It took a couple of years - until I saw the movie, before I got to understand what the title meant. I always liked it more than the film. I thought it was a good American adventure series, which, due to bad timing, got cancelled too quickly
I agree, and also, she had Guest Starred on 2 Episodes of the hit abc series S.W.A.T. and that's when she met Robert Urich. and also, Heather is 2 years older than Gregory Harrison and Randy Powell Harrison had also starred in the Final Season of Falcon Crest and Powell appeared on episodes of Dallas including Who Shot JR? Gregory and Randy will be 59 this year and Heather will be 61 this year as well and she is also younger than Farrah Fawcett who starred in the Logan's Run Movie.
I remember this show. It was on CBS. I remember how disappointed I was how different it was than the movie (and the book the movie was based on, which was better than the movie). And that theme song (woo!-woo!-woo!) can make you nuts.
Logan where will you run to? How will you make it when all your running is through? Will there always be love when you are 30 and you have no clue? Where will you run to? Logan will freedom find you? Is this the moment when all your dreams will come true? In this fight to survive, there will be no second chances at all --- you'll rise or fall! And that is why Logan you've got to keep on running! Logan's Run! (Fly, fly, fly!)! Logan's Run! (Fly, fly, fly!) Logan's Run! (Fly, fly, fly!)
Being a fan of the film, I love this series. Film Score Monthly released a soundtrack for the series. A bit of a rarity, but worth seeking out if you're a fan.
Sad News on this Christmas Day 2017 Heather Menzies Urich star of The Sound of Music and Logan's Run: The Series has died of brain cancer according to her son She was 68 years old God Bless You Heather Menzies, R.I.P. Jessica 6 Donald Moffat has outlived Heather Menzies Urich
Yeah, Heather Menzies is really hot on that show. I remembered watching that show when I was a kid. Oh, the memories. I learned some interesting trivia about that show: Heather Menzies was one of the children in the movie 'The Sound of Music'. She is also the widow of actor Robert Urich. Gregory Harrison had a bit part in the original 'Trilogy of Terror'. After 'Logan's Run', he would star in the medical drama 'Trapper John M.D.'.
Strange, I dimly remember there being a tv series in the 1970s after the film but I don't remember these faces or theme music at all. Memory must be going!
@Lupercirculus I use to watch the TV series in reruns on TNT and I LOVED IT and BTW, this was Gregory Harrison before he played Gonzo on Trapper John, M.D. and Heather Menzies before she became Mrs. Robert Urich, plus Randy Powell before he went to on to do Dallas as Alan Beam and he also appeared in the Who Shot J.R.? Cliffhanger
Maybe this wasn`t a great sci-fi program but when I was a kid I used to like it very much, maybe because I always wanted a laser gun like Logans use, but I never got it jeje
@Ikaftl - a detector van? Wow, you Brits sure took the licence thing seriously. I'm not sure how we did it in Oz, but we did away with radio and TV licences in the early seventies. But then, in those days we only had one ABC TV channel and three commercial ones in capital cities, and one of each in regional areas.
God! I loved this show,(Being a fan of the film version and of William F. Nolan's "Logan Trilogy" of books!) and it thorughly pissed me off when CBS cancelled the series! Like "planet of the Ape", the network never really gave it a chance to catch on! But, that's network execs for you! Remember a little show called "Star Trek"?
People always like to look back at old SF shows and talk about how in some ways they accurately represented "the future" - well here we see Logan getting a text on his mobile about the next runner.
I watched this show every week with my mum..great memories.
The opening really does blow your hair back.
Gregory Harrison is one man who actually looked much better in middle age, years later in those made for TV movies, than he did here when he was younger. He was gorgeous!
thank you for posting that video
Many childhood memories ...
A really good serie, I would like to watch it again
The thing that bugged me about this series was that the sandman, Francis, seemed to have a steady stream of support - sandmen, vehicles, more sandmen etc. All presumably happy to return to the city at some point knowing that their family and loved ones, have had and will continue to have, their lives pointlessly cut short at 30.
There was a sci fi show (Twilight Zone?) where a woman who did past life regression therapy wakes up in a world where everyone knows their past lives. She never could discover any of her past lives, and the authorities apprehended her and ask her to save society by using hypnotherapy to make patients forget their past lives. Knowing that reincarnation was real produced a society where people had the right to commit suicide, and people did it for the slightest dissatisfaction with their current lives.
I can barely remember the TV series. Thanks for putting this on TH-cam.
Gracias por colgar esta intro! La fuga de Logan!!! Ja! Ja! Era muy pequeño entonces pero me encantaba la serie!
I wanted that gun SO BADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD when I was a kid
Pew pew pew! Pew pew pew!
What is with all that annoying beeping?
That is catchy, I used to hum that theme in school and the teacher was told me shut up!!
That's the one thing remember about this theme song.
Thanks for your tribute to the "another Donald Moffat" ! About some cut scenes, there is a very sad lost from the 1951's version of THE THING: the first non humanoid movie alien, made faithfully from the great John Campbell's novella; but the production felt the props was too terrific and all was destroyed according the historian Bob Burns. But I cannot think than anybody would have kept any shot of it,and hope one picture could be found one day in a cellar...
R.I.P Heather Menzies. When I was a kid, she was a grown up. However when she died at 68 I was 52 so the age difference doesn't seem so great now and 68 seems way too young to die.
must have been a great weekly tune in, couldn't let those great sets go to waste
I was so bummed when it was cancelled. Great show, I was in the 9th grade when it was on.
Wow!.....i could actually find this on youtube!
I remember watching this series and being in love with logan in the 70s.
Good memories.
I luved this as a kid. The special effects don't look the same now with our CGI and so on. 5* Blessings +++ The Saint +++
I love this movie. I love 70's Sci-Fi & practically all things "70's'" (& early 80's), especially vintage electronics. In the 60's/70's a "computer/screen" was so "hi-tech" & futuristic. PCs are common today, so the movie looks dated, as will practically any Sci-Fi movie when viewed 25+ years after it's release. But anyway, I really love the look/feel of Logan's Run. I love the cinematography, the sets, the colors, wardrobe, sound, etc. It's an all time classic. A remake could be cool....
Thanks for posting. I liked the movie as a kid growing up in the 70s but I did not know that there was a TV show that came along. Now I know..
In this the bodies in carousel as you'll see turn to different colors and then fade out of sight.While as you'll see in the next entry here a whole other story.
Yes, we did get this in England. I remember watching it, though I can't remember which channel it was on.
every young guy wanted jessica
M Spinelli, Some of us wanted Logan.
M Spinelli you mean every young dick
So sad that she died last December (2017) RIP Heather Menzies
GarthanSaal444 Jenny Agutter, she was so hawt, even hit her boobs out in that movie. both actresses awesome but agree, JG was sexy as all hell.
Another sat morning show when I was a kid thankyou
One of the best shows when I was young...I was FASCINATED by their laser guns, thought it was the top of sci-fi !!!
Orchestral + electronica music on a primetime TV show. Wow!
As a teenager, this sci-fi series, as with a few others, at that time: Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, were part of a 'staple tv diet'. The music was, big and loud, as were a few more programmes screened during the late 70's/early 80's. Definitely a blast from the past.
I loved the tv series of logans run, even got every episode on dvd :-)
i loved the guns!! the sound they made and how the blast came out of the sides of the barrel super cool
This use to be one of my favourite programmes when I was a kid.
I was nine when this show aired. Loved it. I don't think it lasted a dozen episodes.
@aagranata I love this show, thanks for the news about the dvd release.
i was 7 when this was on, i feckin loved it. this and boinic man where the best, set me for interests today, future and stuff. then i saw the film AFTER, mi first woody when agutter kits off, blew mi mind, dont think mi mum knew!!
This was one of my favourite TV programs when I was a kid, probably about 7 or 8. It does look a bit cheesy now but it's 30 years old. We've come a long in that time. The guns they use are still very cool!!
That is good news about the dvd coming out, I've had them all in dvd for about 10 years but it will be great to have the originals.
I own this on DVD and the show really isn't that bad. Typical 70's sci-fi fare, but the actors looked like they had fun. Donald Moffat was the break out actor here and he added a lot to the show. He was definitely the "Data" of this series and played his part extremely well. It's the usual chase plots you'd expect, but both Harrison and Menzes were very attractive and had lots of chemistry. The ratings were pretty solid, but the show was preempted so much that it ended up being cancelled too soon. Darn shame, as I would have enjoyed a couple of seasons out of this show.
Donald Moffet's "Rem" will always be my favorite android. I loved his fatherly demeanor and sense of humor.
Wow! Too bad this isn't on DVD. I loved this when I was 10. It'd be great to see again.
Wow. I remember recording just the audio from the tv back when it first aired. Awesome.
One minute and seven seconds for the opening theme of a TV show? How times have changed. Most TV series barely get seven seconds for an opening theme today.
This was my favorite show when I was a kid in elementary school. I always liked the shows that got cancelled after one season or less. This show had a lot of problems, but it really doomed itself when it had Logan find sanctuary well before the end of the first season, and then he and his posse just casually move on because they are dissatisfied with what they find there. The search for Sanctuary was the series's raison-de-etre!
Me too. I was upset when all of a sudden there was no "scenes from next week's episode" at the end of the show one week. Next week, there was no Logan. Ever worse, no Jessica! It deserved a full season at least.
I quit basketball in 6th grade to watch this. I have no regrets.
Gotta love those futuristic haircuts.
And the imaginitive futuristic music - a typical early 1970s Yank TV theme with a "Woo woo woo! Woo woo woo!" thrown in for futuristic good measure...
my favourite 70 ties show
wow this brings back some memories
The "space title sequence" is also shown in an episode of Buck Rogers in 1980. The episode was Olympiad. It would make a cool screensaver.
Those Sandman uniforms looked so cool...
I miss this tv show....
Me too.
The DVD is just Amazon clickaway.
I loved this show as a kid. It should be released to DVD soon. Since there "rebooting" old shows like "Star Trek" how about Logan's Run. I think that would be great.
I say the 1970s is one of the best decades for music composed for Sci-Fi T.V. and Films.
GRAND RESPECT POUR CETTE SERIE
I saw the show reruns of Logan's Run only last year on the Sci-fi Ch. It was really good.
When I was a child, it was the only S-F serie on TV in my country. I loved the irreal and a little melancholic mood of the show. And Donald Moffat too, with his character like a very-good natured Spock, rather different of his interpretation in THE THING.
70's and early 80's shows had a cheesy sort of charm to them, that no show will ever be able to recreate. This show was some years before my time, but it looks like it would've been one that I would've enjoyed. - Had my parents let me stay up past Dukes of Hazard or Knight Rider. :-/
I purposely got sacked from boyscouts several consecutive sundays in the late 70ties, early 80ties to watch this in the afternoon in the French dubbed version on Antenne 2, French TV. It was called 'L'age de crystal' (the age of crystal).
It took a couple of years - until I saw the movie, before I got to understand what the title meant.
I always liked it more than the film. I thought it was a good American adventure series, which, due to bad timing, got cancelled too quickly
oh my God !!,, thise took me back to my chilhood !!!
I agree, and also, she had Guest Starred on 2 Episodes of the hit abc series S.W.A.T. and that's when she met Robert Urich.
and also, Heather is 2 years older than Gregory Harrison and Randy Powell
Harrison had also starred in the Final Season of Falcon Crest and Powell appeared on episodes of Dallas including Who Shot JR?
Gregory and Randy will be 59 this year and Heather will be 61 this year as well and she is also younger than Farrah Fawcett who starred in the Logan's Run Movie.
I remember this show. It was on CBS. I remember how disappointed I was how different it was than the movie (and the book the movie was based on, which was better than the movie). And that theme song (woo!-woo!-woo!) can make you nuts.
The movie was fantastic. The TV series ... totally forgettable. In fact, I HAD forgotten about it until I literally stumbled across this TH-cam clip.
This effect is produced by aiming a video
camera at a monitor with letters on the
screen and zooming in, then color it.
@aagranata Is that when the movie comes out? I heard last year the movie was scheduled for 2012.
Como me molaba esta serie de pequeñito, flipaba con ella y con sus pistolitas laser... de chispas.
Heather Menzie played Louisa one of the Von Trapp children in the movie 'Sound Of Music'.
And one episode starred Angela Cartwright so there is symmetry.
Logan where will you run to? How will you make it when all your running is through? Will there always be love when you are 30 and you have no clue? Where will you run to? Logan will freedom find you? Is this the moment when all your dreams will come true? In this fight to survive, there will be no second chances at all --- you'll rise or fall! And that is why Logan you've got to keep on running! Logan's Run! (Fly, fly, fly!)! Logan's Run! (Fly, fly, fly!) Logan's Run! (Fly, fly, fly!)
Ha ha, did you make that up? brilliant
Being a fan of the film, I love this series. Film Score Monthly released a soundtrack for the series. A bit of a rarity, but worth seeking out if you're a fan.
i think they wore out the "pow pow" machine when making this theme, it truly is rooted in the 1970's :)
Sad News on this Christmas Day 2017
Heather Menzies Urich star of The Sound of Music and Logan's Run: The Series has died of brain cancer according to her son
She was 68 years old
God Bless You Heather Menzies, R.I.P. Jessica 6
Donald Moffat has outlived Heather Menzies Urich
Yeah, Heather Menzies is really hot on that show. I remembered watching that show when I was a kid. Oh, the memories.
I learned some interesting trivia about that show:
Heather Menzies was one of the children in the movie 'The Sound of Music'. She is also the widow of actor Robert Urich.
Gregory Harrison had a bit part in the original 'Trilogy of Terror'. After 'Logan's Run', he would star in the medical drama 'Trapper John M.D.'.
great show!
loved this show, heather was in the sound of music!
who as a kid didn't sing along to the 'pow pow pow' bit of the music when watching this? i know i did!
pew pew pew... pew pew pew............ I have that sound on my piano... I can make it go up and down like this too.... :-)
Used to love this show x
the footage from 0:55 has them meeting some weird and wonderful alien species, but it's in none of the episodes.. what was the origin/context?
I just hope the new movie does the original and the series justice.
@hobokenplayboy - IIRC, wasn't it Logan 5, Jessica 6 and Francis 7?
Strange, I dimly remember there being a tv series in the 1970s after the film but I don't remember these faces or theme music at all. Memory must be going!
They should reimagine this show. I love the stunt cats in the movie.
another rare case where the TV show was better than the movie. I believe this was on Fridays on NBC.
it was cbs against the rockford files
R.I.P. Heather Menzies.
how did she die?
I didn't know Logan's Run had a TV series. I was aorund when the movie came out. What the hell!??!!? I guess it's time for me to renew...
It was my first sci fi serie -
Remember the teachers kicking my ass as a kid when I said I wanted to be a Sandman when I grew up! Sheesh!
Love the theme!
That chick reminds me of Patty Hearst, though!
I too just placed a pre-order for Logans Run...
@Lupercirculus I use to watch the TV series in reruns on TNT and I LOVED IT
and BTW, this was Gregory Harrison before he played Gonzo on Trapper John, M.D. and Heather Menzies before she became Mrs. Robert Urich, plus Randy Powell before he went to on to do Dallas as Alan Beam and he also appeared in the Who Shot J.R.? Cliffhanger
Maybe this wasn`t a great sci-fi program but when I was a kid I used to like it very much, maybe because I always wanted a laser gun like Logans use, but I never got it jeje
Where is the 1977/1978 televisions series off logan runs completely full series &uncut made for televisions
When is this coming on dvd? TNT aired it in the late 90's.
This was a good sci-fi TV series! CBS was NUTS for cancelling it just as they are for cancelling Jericho now!!
It's like if someone tried to mash two keys on a keyboard over a 50s "in the future..." song.
@Ikaftl - a detector van? Wow, you Brits sure took the licence thing seriously. I'm not sure how we did it in Oz, but we did away with radio and TV licences in the early seventies. But then, in those days we only had one ABC TV channel and three commercial ones in capital cities, and one of each in regional areas.
i watched this show years ago but cant remember
it having an ending
A few years ago, I found/downloaded a few episodes off of stagevu, (& also Space 1999 & Man from Atlantis) but they are gone now.
Somone brought a fully working one into a convention back in the late 1980's. I believe that it used magnesium pellets like the original.
eye was 12 when i watched this on tv...it was good back then...becuse there wer t much choice back then .....
I hope this series is released on DVD.
That purple intro is straight from Space Odyssey. Bugger it, i'm off to ebooks to see if i can read Clarke's book.
Where can we find episodes ???
@thekroton Yes. Michael York did portray LOGAN 6 in the 1976 theatrical motion picture. Greg Harrison portrays LOGAN 6 in this TV series.
Why was this canceled? This show looks like it had infinite potential. Well, at least until the characters hit 30.
A happy Carousel to you all!
Wow, I ddin't know there was a series based on the movie.
God! I loved this show,(Being a fan of the film version and of William F. Nolan's "Logan Trilogy" of books!) and it thorughly pissed me off when CBS cancelled the series!
Like "planet of the Ape", the network never really gave it a chance to catch on! But, that's network execs for you!
Remember a little show called "Star Trek"?
I remember this. Unlike movie, TV series took horrible criticism except rosenthal's theme music. it is a good theme music.