Logan's Run: The Series. Short, but Sweet. 

The Logan’s Run series also had the same feel as Fantastic Journey. Endlessly wandering around and helping someone else at each town or settlement you came across all the while delaying your own quest.

Ark II! Premiered in 1976, only had 15 episodes, and I saw it when I was a kid as part of the Sat morning line up, sometime in the 80s. It was on right before Hanna-Barbera's Thundarr the Barbarian cartoon, which is still a guilty pleasure of mine.

Never thought as a kid I would end up a runner, but here we are, about to live out this shit for real.

Great review of one of my favourite shows from my childhood. It's amazing how short the run was of this show but I still remember it fondly.

A short-lived show from the early 80s that I loved before it got cancelled was a series called The Adventures of Matthew Starr. He was a teen kid from space who had a mentor character to guide him who was played by Louis Gossett Jr., who was just coming off winning an Oscar for Officer and a Gentleman. It was right in the middle of the V mini series and Greatest American Hero era of time.

I remember a short lived goofy sci-fi series called Quark. It's one of those blink and you missed it shows from the 70's, but it was a fun watch for a kid.

The premise of the Logan's Run TV show is almost exactly the same as the Planet of the Apes TV show. 2 humans and one non-human are fugitives on the run, finding adventure and excitement (sorta) in each new locale they stumble upon every week. Actually it IS exactly the same premise. But I ate it all up because I loved the movies they were based on.

Loved this show, the guns, the outfit, Jessicahhhhmn... Same year, we had The Fantastic Journey starring Galen and Duffy Moon, that guy from here 04:37 the one-seasoner I always thought of whenever Barry Manilow (a work of '70's science fiction all his own;) sang Bermuda Triangle. Logan though was a hit in our house, my mum even named our dog REM, but he died of parvo, or made it to Dog Sanctuary. RIP REM. Love you Mum x

"Do you have memories of a short-lived TV show that you liked, but only you seem to remember?" Yes, "Otherworld", an American science fiction television series that aired for eight episodes from January 26 to March 16, 1985 on CBS. It started with a family visiting one of the Egyptian pyramids, and during a once-every-ten-thousand-year alignment of the planets, they are transported to another world not unlike our own. It was described as "Lost in Space, on Earth".

I'm 49 now and remember Logan's Run :) i loved it but was very young lol. Great memories.

I remember a show called, "The Magician" with Bill Bixby that I know I liked when I was a kid, but have no solid memories of. Kinda like this Logan's Run TV show... which looks like they filmed the outdoor scenes in the same location that The Lone Ranger, Lash LaRue movies and The Dukes of Hazard were filmed.

does anyone remember "the tomorrow people" - not the remake but the original - its one of the first show i remember seeing when i was a kid

Again . . . Outstanding Stan Fine ! 😉👍💫 I was 10 when I first saw this on Aussie TV and yes, I saw the Logan's Run TV series before the movie. I too was confused 😟🙅‍♂️ after I watched the official movie and thought. Wtf . . .🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ I remember my friends, (yes . . . we were sci-fi nerds) and I talking about Logan's Run the next day at school. Then . . . the series just stopped. Thank the good Lord we had Dr Who before dinner to look forward too, and 'ol faithful' the Six Million Dollar Man on Wednesday's at 7 30 pm on Channel 10 in Sydney, Australia. From memory, the Logan's Run TV series was on Channel 7 Network at 7 30 pm on Monday evenings.

Brings back the nostalgia. The seventies had lots of great sci-fi shows.

I loved this series as a child but it is daft. Every episode they are on a quest to find Sanctuary but never stray very far from the City of Domes, and even return to it a couple of times!

I’m old enough to remember waiting for this series and watching the pilot, and the full first time run of the show. You are totally spot on mate! The car and the Android stuck out as the best parts! I remember as a kid a reward for good behavior and pulling up my grades, my Mom would drive us by where this vehicle and the one from “ Damnation alley” where parked side by side! She’d drive really slow my face glued to the window scanning every detail 😂

You are not kidding about the Star Trek connection. I saw the credits at 5:50, and saw none other than DC Fontana. As much as Gene, she was a driving force behind that show.

"You heard right. The Series." Uh, we millions whom saw the series *after* seeing the original movie and loving it, along with the comic-book versions, didn't need to "hear" anything, combat-wombat. 🤣 Then again, we also recall Jason of Star Command (r.i.p. Sid Haig)

This wasn't even on the SciFi Channel back in the day and they re-ran the David McCallum INVISIBLE MAN show (and GEMINI MAN) every six months. I finally caught it on TNT back when it was a pretty awesome cable network. It ran in the summer in the middle of the night which is about fair.

I happen to like the pew pew pew.

That "pow pow" sound in the theme music stuck in my mind for decades but I could never remember where it came from. Thank you😊

Those pew pews added over the ending music were a nice touch. Well played :)

Remember watching it as a kid on Sunday afternoons in the UK. Used to love it. Shame it got cancelled so quickly

That theme song took me back, I haven't heard that in 30+ years. I need to go to the carousel.

I think what also hurt 70's SCI-FI tv shows in the ratings was that overall most homes in the 1970s had just one big TV (maybe a 2nd small black and white TV in the garage) so us kids were forced to watch a show like Quincy (because that's what our parents wanted to watch) over shows like Logan's Run

Here's a one season show you probably don't remember: Delta House. Yes, they tried to make an ABC sitcom out of Animal House. As you can guess, it was kind of hard to recapture the movie on network TV. They even got John Vernon, Stephen Furst, James Widdoes, and Bruce McGill to reprise their roles as Dean Wormer, Flounder, Hoover, and D-Day. It's mostly notable for casting Michelle Pfeiffer as a series only character.

I loved that show. I watched every episode when it first aired.

I remember watching "Logan's Run" and it was a little different from the motion picture. I wish it hadn't got cancelled, only lasted 14 weeks on CBS. The reason this was made was because of the huge ratings the movie got from being broadcast on TV. Logan's Run is still one of the coolest sci-fi films or TV shows around.

I liked the David McCallum Invisible Man series but not many people saw it.

Always looked forward to a Saturday tea time when this show would come on. "Man Out Time" is the episode I remember most fondly. Very poignant ending particularly as this show was screened during the Cold War.

I remember when I was a kid my dad used to drive thru Topanga Canyon in Hollywood in the early 80’s and you could see the Logan’s Run cars as well as the Damnation Alley vehicle. The custom car maker had his shop there so he left them on display till the mid 90’s. Those things were not fiber glass they were solid metal. I was too young to know what Logan’s Run was till I got older and watched the movie and was hooked but, couldn’t figure out where the cars were in the movie till years later where I found out they made a tv show and that’s where they appeared in.

Great review. Brings back memories.Two shows that we’re short lived but was Entertaining was The Invaders (David Vincent 60s) and The Night Stalker (74)

I agree the show has held up well, at least the stories have. I remember trying to watch this when I was a kid when it was originally on and it was always preempted and never really got to watch it again until it came om TBS and then finally DVD.

I watched an episode a few weeks ago. I never considered that Logan aways wore his Sandman uniform. Yes. Changing to normal clothes would make sense. Never did I consider that Jessica should wear pants, even on a cold day. Definitely worth a rewatch sometimes when waiting for new episode of another series. "Man our of time" is once of the best episodes.

Awesome as ever. How about Blake’s Seven, Automan, Fantastic Voyage, Star Maidens, Space 1999, The Gemini Man, The Tomorrow People, Buck Rogers, Sapphire and Steel, Terrahawks, Alien Nation, Red Dwarf and of course THHGTTG 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏

I loved Logan’s run the series, I remember making time for it every Saturday here in the U.K. How about Gemini Man with Ben Murphy, another short lived series I couldn’t wait to sit down and watch.

'The gemini man' with his watch that granted him 15 minutes of invisibility

Remember this series from way back when...so glad I now have on DVD!

I absolutely loved this as a kid in the 1970s. So good. I loved the city of domes scenes best. 😊

I watch all these shows Logan's Run, Man from Atlantis, Fantastic Journey, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek (the original series), Buck Rogers, Far Out Space Nuts, Quark (which was a Star Trek Parody), Salvage 1 (which starred Andy Griffith), Doctor Shrinker, Planet Of The Apes (the series), Space: 1999, and even the show Doctor Who which then starred Tom Baker as the fourth doctor at the time!! Oddly enough the only way to watch the Doctor Who show where I live was late at night on Public Broadcast Service channel, which required me to hide myself and the TV under a blanket so my parents didn't know I was awake!! I always loved science fiction and I should also add that I watched every episode of The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman as well!!! And who can forget The Incredible Hulk which was a weekly series also that starred Bill Bixby or the 1975 TV series The Invisible Man?! Of course there was no shortage of other shows to watch as well, like The Dukes Of Hazzard, and Knight Rider also!! But for me anything with a science fiction aspect caught my attention!! And I saw the Star Wars: A New Hope in the theater eight times when it first came out in 1977!! And I was in the theaters for Flash Gordon (1980) when it was released with the sound track done by Queen!!! I even read the books Logan's Run and Battlestar Galactica. And I watched the movies of them as well! A couple of other 1970s movies I still love but you don't hear a lot about are Demon Seed, which is about a "smart home" that takes over control of the owners wife!! And the ORIGINAL movie WestWorld!! Both are cult classics and I feel are "must see movies"!!!

Yes, I just about remember Logan's Run and Planet of the Apes tv series as well as the David McCallum Invisible Man being on TV as a Kid.

Yeah, I watched this show first run as a kid. The lack of an overbearing mushy romance between the leads was just fine with me. I liked the android.

Great video. The movie was terrific and way ahead of its time. I do remember the series, which while ok, felt a bit limp in comparison. But other spin offs based on movies such as "Planet of the Apes" were also of a similar quality. What is really unbelievable is how much science fiction was on TV in the 1970s compared to now - the networks much like the cinemas have lost their way. Surely there must be more to viewing than Superhero movies and reality TV shows.

In the UK in the 70s we got a lot of these shows that had already been cancelled. IIRC Logans Run was aired n the children's tea-time slot on ITV , but The Gemini Man, Fantastic Voyage and David McCullum's Invisible Man. both had prime time evening slots on the BBC. My own favourite from that era that no one I knew remembered was Bill Bixby as the Magician - I only saw this when I was off school as it aired in the weekday afternoons.

I used to watch this series as a child. I loved it

Time Trax, The Tomorrow People (the 90's version), and Bugs; all have a special place in my cold dead heart.

Favorite 80’s tv shows: Automan, Manimal, The Phoenix, and Blue Thunder

A great point regarding..; - "do you have a memory about a sci-fi show from the 80's " ? - Not necessarily a specific scene, but the FEEL of the show ! I can't come up with one right now, but..I saw DAMNATION VALLEY on RU-vid & remembered a scene that scared many nightmares into me back then 😳 😁 ...when they left the LandMaster vehicle & checked out a car...full of Flesh-Eating-Bugs !!

With slight tweaking the theme tune seems to have been used for Stargate.

Land of the giants, ha e great memories of that

Watched as a kid. Always wondered how the hover car could go uphill. Finally built a hovercraft as a mechanical engineering student. Finally learned. Hovercraft can’t really go uphills. This show actually inspired my senior design project.

I remember loving Logan's Run, Oh course I was 7 when it came out. :)

Yep, watched it as a kid, but I was so little I don't remember it anymore. I think I learned the word "android" from this series.

Story editor D. C. Fontana. And now you know why it felt like original Trek.

I seem to remember everything about this show! Great editing BTW! Too funny!

The touches in your intro and outro music really elevate these reviews. As well as the games-journalism-esque interleaving of jokes in-between actual opinion and exposition.

A show that only I seem to remember..? EARTH 2! One season in 1994/95 and sadly gone... There are basically no reviews of it on you tube, which is just amazing, considering the amount of creators and videos about even the smallest, most forgotten stuff... Please, PLEASE do a review of it!..

It would be funny if returning to the dome-city was always an accident. They drive over a hill, and the domes appear. "Oh, not again! You said we were driving in a straight line, Rem!"

It was during the late 1980's through 2009, that I met and knew the co-author of the novel, and that's George Clayton Johnson (during Comic-Con International).

After I bought the complete series of the original Planet of the Apes, I remember scenes that weren't in the movies. Finally I looked into it and discovered the tv series. A good friend of mine was in the same boat, and I bought her the tv series as a present. So yea, there are more of us who remember scenes "from movies" that aren't in the movies. Thanks for this series!

Memorable/forgotten TV series - ‘Planet of The Apes’. They say you shouldn’t meet your heroes, my variation is ‘You shouldn’t eventually buy the DVD of a series you have fond memories of from your youth’! Broadcast in 1974 in the UK, when I was in my late teens, I was fascinated by this series and watched it avidly, particularly those episodes showing the ‘lost’ pre-Ape’ world. Sadly, this series was the first time we experienced the ‘series cancelled’ phenomenon and it was cruelly disappointing. Still, at least I had all those fond memories. Then, some 30+ years later, I bought the DVD - let’s just say, it hasn’t aged well. Always liked Ron Harper though, from his role in ‘Garrison’s Gorillas’, but that’s another story (and TV series).

The Lost Saucer comes to mind.

I remember "Afterlife" and "The Charmings" from the 80's. I really remember a super-short lived show from the 60's called "Convoy" with John Larch and John Gavin. I remember just one episode where the crew is trying to disarm a U-boat torpedo that got lodged in the ship's hull without going off. "Logans Run" is now on Tubi.

My KidVid nobody remembers is Great Barrier Reef. Since the show never once referenced Australia in dialogue, I grew up thinking it was an imaginary setting! By the way, I watched the Logan's Run TV show. One of my fan fics was a crossover between the TV show characters & setting, with the world & Logan & Jess from the book. I was fascinated by imagining crossovers, in those days. Another crossover story I recall writing: the Cylons from Galactica 1980 meeting the Hardy Boys from their TV show.

I watched the entire run about a year ago. I was alive when it was out in syndication but I barely remembered it. It was after Star Wars that I saw the original Logan's Run, and it captivated me. Anyway, like Land of the Lost there are some good concepts that are ruined by an infinitesimal production budget. As you rightly say, in the 70s and early 80s, the execs were not willing to accept the profit margins they were getting from science fiction shows, instead opting for sitcoms where people wore "modern" clothing, and the sets were only a couple of rooms in a house. Battlestar Galactica suffered because of this. I agree with you about REM. He was, surprisingly, one of the best things about the show. There were a couple episodes that were really good, but too many that were filler, unfortunately, but all-in-all, i agree with you review.

Totally disagree with the majority of the critics in this video. I much prefer the series to the movie, even if the movie is more faithful to the novels. The actors in the show have much more charisma than those in the movie and Rem is an excellent additional character who brings an enormous amount. I love the storytelling of the series, there was a lot of potential. One of the most unfortunate things is that they did not have the resources to show the crystals in the palm of the city's inhabitants. The producers should have given this excellent series a chance, which is probably not perfect like any other creation. Just let the best SF writers and scriptwriters of the time bring the series to at least one season more that would have brought a good ending. And the music of the opening is one of the best music series which exists, it is unforgettable.

Thanks for this video (and the memories) - that episode where the male character tries to find out why World War III happens (so he can prevent it), using a time travel machine, only to find out that it was his time travel that caused the war, is a classic - one that I could not get off my mind since I saw it when I was a young boy until now...

Some short-lived series I remember as a kid: "Misfits of Science", "Mr. Merlin," and "Tucker's Witch". I also liked "The Master" starring Lee van Cleef as a ninja, which got turned into a couple of movies shown on MST3K.

I bought the Planet of the apes T.V. series box set, and was disappointed that it wasn't as good as i remember. I've wanted to get the Logans run and Buck Rogers T.V. series but worried that they would also not be as good as i remember. Perhaps nostalgia should just be left as a vague memory.

Loved this series, it had so much potential.

Nice that you mentioned TimeTrax. A really good series that's been all but forgotten.

Old man here...Never saw this series, but what a cavalcade of working actors! Thanks for the upload!

Fantastic Voyage. (Okay, my little 5-year-old self was SO in love with Valerian!)

There was a 70's cop show called "Dog and Cat", starring a young Kim Basinger. The theme tune is on RU-vid but sadly no episodes.

Okay here's a shout out to the 70's and a sci-fi one hit wonder. Who remembers The Starlost? It originally had Harlan Ellison as the idea man behind it but he became so incensed with the way producers were taking the show that he wanted his name removed from the credits. As I recall they wouldn't let him off the hook and I remember the show vividly. 2 seasons I think. Loved it. Can still quote the opening credit's narration.

I thought I was the only one who remembered "Automan" but you've already covered that! Personally, I liked the 2002 one series wonder "John Doe" (with pre-Prison Break Dominic Purcell), the man who knew everything except his own past.

I remember seeing it as a kid and I kind of like liked it. It was sort of screwy but build a half an hour every day or an hour can't really remember how long It ran!

I love this show. Not as good as the movie but still quite entertaining. It would have been nice to see Logan, Jessica and REM run for a few more seasons and finally find "Sanctuary". Perhaps it would have been a better idea though if they had made a movie sequel based on William F Nolan's direct book sequel Logan's World. Anyway, I occasionally watch my DVD set to relive old memories of the show.

Had vague memories of seeing this as a kid, and finally found it streaming last year. It's fun, but I get why it never became a bigger hit. Rem is great, I like the car and Jessica and Logan had a nice, low-key romantic vibe. There's a chunk of episodes in the middle that are pretty solid, but towards the end, you can feel it running out of steam. One of the better 'endless quest' shows.

Love this. Brings back some of my (very) misspent youth. I hope there are assessments of MAN FROM ATLANTIS and the PLANET OF THE APES TV series, but, if I might recommend (and if you can find them, which makes them sound like the A-Team, I know), I remember a one-season series entitled THE PHOENIX with Judson Scott and THE WIZARD with David Rappaport and Doug Barr. And, since you looked at WONDER WOMAN, THE INCREDIBLE HULK.

“Otherworld”, anyone remember that one? A family get transported to anOtherworld while touring one of the pyramids of Egypt. They are on the run on an oppressive planet, while trying to find a way home back to earth.

Loved your review. Brings back fond memories. How about reviewing "The Fantastic Journey", "Man from Atlantis," or "Beauty and the Beast" (Ron Perlman/Linda Hamilton)?

Short-lived show I remember that NO ONE ever does is called "The Sword of Justice". It ran on NBC for one season in 1978 about a guy that was unfairly sent to prison and learned skills to become a vigilante. I must have been 11 when it aired and I loved it!

Omg! You mentioned Time Trax with Dale Midkiff. I love and remember Capt. Power and the Soldiers of the Future

The android looks like Recorder 451 from the Iron Man comics.

Living in the UK in the 1970s meant seeing US cult TV shows only after they'd already been cancelled (or, if you prefer, canceled). Still, this eventually trained me to watch the first seasons of Lost and Heroes, and declare, "That was great... I have absolutely no intention of investing in the rest of it."

Not Si Fi but anyone remember the 90s Bandit TV movies and TV show? It was on the Action Pack with Hercules with Kevin Sorbo. The Bandit was played by Brian Bloom or one of the Bloom Bros. And his Snowman was the guy who is played Holly Combs husband on Charmed. The Car in this wasn’t a Trans Am, but a black Dodge Stealth or Mitsubishi 3000 GT.

I loved the show called the Phoenix. It was on for a very very brief time but made a deep impression upon me

Another series I liked was called “Search,” with Burgess Meredith, and I believe it was originally titled “Probe” in the pilot. There seems to be very little about it on RU-vid.

PEW PEW PEW!

As I had read in a scholastic or some sort of kidlike news magazine it said that science fiction is hard to carry off into a Weekly TV Series.This also told how not even an android could save them but maybe because there wasn't one in The Movie.But while in The Movie logan is sent to out by the computers' voices to find Sanctuary and destroy and Francis only thinks Jessica alone changed him. Also only to find out there's no Sanctuary .While on The TV Show The Secret Society of Elders on Council and of whom are behind The Computers Voices have sent Francis out to bring back Logan and Jessica for saying there's Sanctuary when there isn't with Francis being awarded upon returning them to sit on Council with the Elders. Logan gets a hit with a dart giving him partial Amnesia so that he willingly returns to the Domed City with Francis. When Jessica returns to rescue Logan and gets to see her best friend of who's African American and of which we don't see any of them in the Movie.She's happy to see jessica again after she never thought that she would then Jessica explained to her how she'd need her help to get Logan to leave with her again. Jessica finds a video message to her aka of Geraldine 4 telling how he remembers everything now Francis is going to take him to the council where he'll tell everything and after doing so with the help of a man dressed in red putting something up Francis' nose then he faints with a # of girls screaming and then he gets up saying I'm alright Logan and Jessica then run away together Francis follows then Logan tells him stop there and takes away his gun and sensors saying "Sorry Francis."he then said "I'll bet. "Then he says "You'll never admit it will you? "He then said we've been through this before Sanctuary doesn't exist outside."He then said "No but life does that'll be all for now. Then when another Sandman comes Francis grabs his sensor to try to track Logan and Jessica down. Then Rem, Logan, and Jessica leave the city without it exploding like it did at the end of the Movie and only for it to go a little further 3 episodes more that won't be seen until the 1990-91 rerun time and beyond on TNT of which later plays The Movie on TNT's Monster Vision But back to the TV show it's seen in an episode that upon being given a chance to eliminate Francis instead Logan chose to have him held back long enough for them to escape because though in agreement with what Jessica said that he did hunt them but it's still because of him that they're still alive. Later on in The 14th and final episode to follow Logan and Jessica finally find love.But please do watch and enjoy these for yourselves whether on RU-vid, VHS, or DVD. The Logan's Run remake of which was originally for release in 2005 has been postponed indefinitely and may so thusly it may never come out at all.

The tv series I remembered, for years, that no one else seemed to, was the British kids show, Here Come the Double Deckers, which was shown on NBC Saturday mornings, in the early 70s. I had visions of it for years, with a scene of people entering a secret clubhouse via a drawbridge-style door in a fence, and something about a London Double Decker Bus. I thought they were two different things, until I came across a mention of the show, in a book about the Harlemn Globetrotters, which mention the Globetrotter's cartoon was broadcast opposite it. By this point, the internet was a thing and IMDB existed and I looked up the show and there were some pictures and a link to fan site, which confirmed I didn't dream the whole thing and that it was one show (the clubhouse was the bus, a derelict in a junkyard, which was behind the fence with the drawbridge door). Jane Seymour even appeared in an episode and Pter Firth, who played one of the kids, later played the political officer murdered on the Red October, by Sean Connery, in the film adaptation of The Hunt For Red October, as well as a regular on the tv series Spooks (MI-5, in the US).

People get lost and never found alive just miles from home but in the future they always find you no matter how far you go and no matter how well you hide.

My favourite "short lived sci-fi series that few others seem to remember" is The Gemini Man. Loosely based on "The Invisible Man", it only ran 11 episodes + pilot.

I cant believe this channel knows all these forgotten gems!

There was British SF series called Saffire and Steel, about pandimentional agents who assigned to correct timeline. David McCallum and Joanna Lumley (of Absolutely Fabulous series in 1980s) were the Stars. The series only had about 10 episodes. But some of concepts were interesting. A being who could manipulate time through photographs; A story set in Train station dealing with Soliders from WWI; group of futuristic researchers study Earth's past culture sealed inside capsules which appear to be present day condominiums. And an industrialist who recreate 1930s mansion for Special party with friends, which somehow causes shift in timeline when a business associate from the past creates a virus which destroyed Earth population..

Wait, so what *was* that kissing scene? Seems passionate enough to me...

I loved this series and when I saw the film it was based on was really disappointed in the film......until I discovered that Jenny Agutter was every teenage boy of the late 70's and 80's wet dream.

Awesome 👍 I was a wee lad when that show was out LOL

The Fantastic Journey! One of the most interesting and potential filled of the half - one season scifi 1970s wonders!