History Series / LogansRun

** Jessica 6. She was a [[TheChick chick]] of the highest order, but her strong convictions and sheer will to live kept her going, and even convinced Logan, a respected Sandman, to defect.

** Heather Menzies pulls off a minidress and no bra combo with aplomb week in week out. [[http://flashbak.com/logans-run-heather-menzies-rising-skirts-got-dads-watching-a-kids-show-47638/ And as this article indicates]], there was a fair bit of MaleGaze as well. Sent UpToEleven in "Carousel" in which Jessica, as part of a disguise, ends up wearing an outfit that is somehow even skimpier than her usual minidress (closer, in fact, to the type of thing worn by the movie version of Jessica). The final episode of the series, "Stargate", is the only time Jessica's mode of dress is directly referenced (and lampshaded) when Logan cheekily jokes that, if it were to get cold, she'd be the first to know.

* AbsenteeActor: Randy Powell, despite being credited in the opening of every episode, actually only appears in six out of fourteen episodes (and is absent from the final episode "Stargate").

* BerserkButton: See what happens if you try to call Rem a robot. There's a reason; ''robots'' in this setting have a singular task, pre-programmed responses, and no sentience. Rem is sentient, versatile, and capable of using his own judgement on matters.

* PollutedWasteland: After the nuclear war in 2119, the world outside the City of Domes was polluted for almost 200 years. It had returned to normal by 2111 but the Council of Elders kept this from the city's inhabitants.

* StunGuns: Due to the network's restrictions on TV series violence, a "stun" setting was added to the Sandmen's guns. It fired blue stripes instead of the normal bunsen-burner flamegun effect.[[note]] In the original novel, there were two non-lethal settings, stun and a "tangler," which shot a sticky web over the target [[/note]] "The Judas Goat" is a notable aversion, however, as two characters are graphically (if bloodlessly) shot to death by the Sandmen.

* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: In "Man Out of Time", the Soviet Union seemingly still existed in 2119 as a newspaper headline reads "Eastern Bloc Demands Time Travel Controls."

* StableTimeLoop: In "Man Out of Time", David Eakins created the Sanctuary Project in the hope of preserving humanity's knowledge as all signs indicate that a nuclear war is imminent. In December 2118, he uses his TimeMachine to travel forward in time to 2319 in order to determine what caused the war. Eakins intends to return to his own time and use the information that he obtains to prevent it from ever happening. [[spoiler:It turns out that the revelation that time travel was possible led to the outbreak of the war. Having realized that time travel could be used as a weapon, the United States' enemies, including [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp the Eastern Bloc]], launched a preemptive strike to ensure that it would never happen. The US responded in kind.]]

* HumanPopsicle: In "Crypt", Logan, Jessica and Rem discover a 22nd Century cryonics facility. A message recorded by Dr. Mildred Krim in March 2120 reveals that six people - the telekinetic Dexter Kim, the architect David Pera, the doctor Rachel Greenhill, the administrators Frederick Lyman, the roboticist Victoria Mackie and the genius Sylvia Reyna - were placed in suspended animation as they had contracted a plague in the aftermath of the nuclear holocaust. Although Krim and her team were able to find a cure, they did not survive long enough to administer it. As such, the six sleepers remained in suspended animation until they were revived by the Runners in 2319. The cure is contained in two vials, each containing enough for three people. However, as the Runners are about to revive them, an earthquake strikes and one of the vials is broken. [[MoralDilemma It is therefore up to Logan, Jessica and Rem to decide which three deserve the cure based on their skills]]. [[spoiler:The decision is taken out of their hands when Lyman and Mackie are murdered by Sylvia, who is revealed to be a lab technician who altered computer records and assumed the real Sylvia's identity so that she would have a chance to survive. Kim, Pera and Dr. Greenhill decide to return her to suspended animation, which thereby becomes her CryoPrison, and take the cure themselves.]]

* MoralDilemma: In "Man Out of Time", David Eakins travels forward in time to 2319 in order to learn the cause of the impending nuclear war in his own time of December 2118 so that he can prevent it and save seven billion lives in the process. However, if he is successful, the City of Domes and all of the other surviving pockets of humanity in 2319 will cease to exist. Eakins is not troubled by this initially but it starts to bother him after he gets to know Logan, Jessica and Rem, ultimately considering them to be his friends. [[spoiler:When he returns to his own time, he discovers that [[StableTimeLoop it was the United States' enemies learning of the existence of time travel that started the war]].]]

''Logan's Run'' (1977–78) was the result. Only 14 episodes were filmed, and only 12 of those were broadcast on Creator/{{CBS}} before the series was cancelled. The series included a number of differences from the movie; Logan and Jessica were now played by American actors for one[[note]]Heather Menzies, was actually Canadian[[/note]]
while a new character, an emotional android named Rem (Creator/DonaldMoffat), was added.

''Logan's Run'' (1977–78) was the result. Only 14 episodes were filmed, and only 12 of those were broadcast on Creator/{{CBS}} before the series was cancelled. The series included a number of differences from the movie; Logan and Jessica were now played by American actors for one[note]Heather Menzies, was actually Canadian[/note]

''Logan's Run'' (1977–78) was the result. Only 14 episodes were filmed, and only 12 of those were broadcast on Creator/{{CBS}} before the series was cancelled. The series included a number of differences from the movie; Logan and Jessica were now played by American actors for one, while a new character, an emotional android named Rem (Creator/DonaldMoffat), was added.

After the success of the movie ''Film/LogansRun'' in 1976, some bright studio executives decided it would make a wonderful idea for a TV series -- provided the sets, costumes, special effects, and shooting locations for the series weren't too expensive.

''Logan's Run'' (1977-1978) was the result. Only 14 episodes of the series were filmed, and only 12 of those were broadcast on Creator/{{CBS}} before the series was cancelled. The series included a number of differences from the movie; Logan and Jessica were now played by American actors for one, while a new character, an emotional android named Rem (Creator/DonaldMoffat), was added.

''Logan's Run'' (1977-1978) was the result. Only 14 episodes of the series were filmed, and only 12 of those were broadcast on the network before the series was cancelled. The series included a number of differences from the movie; Logan and Jessica were now played by American actors for one, while a new character, an emotional android named Rem (Creator/DonaldMoffat), was added.

* TamerAndChaster: Yes, even with Heather Menzies in a ''barely'' decent skirt. Remember, the original book had orgy houses, a thirteen year old prostitute coming onto the protagonist, LSD from vending machines, and a prison where the inmates reverted to cannibalism. No way in hell ''that'' would fly on network TV today, much less back in 1977.

''Logan's Run'' (1977-1978) was the result. Only 14 episodes of the series were filmed, and only 12 of those were broadcast on the network before the series was cancelled. The series included a number of differences from the movie; Logan and Jessica were now played by American actors for one, while a new character, an emotional android named Rem, was added.

* ShortRunners: The series only lasted 14 episodes.