History Series / LogansRun

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots:
** Rem is an android who looks, moves, and acts identically to a human -- even to the extent of becoming sexually aroused by a female android in one episode. (He expressed said arousal by having sparks involuntarily pop out of his shoulder.) Despite his claims to not having any, he shows genuine emotion constantly.

* {{Expy}}: Rem is a very human-like android, capable of expressing emotion, and even experiencing a form of arousal. Not unlike the android character in the earlier TV movie ''Film/TheQuestorTapes'', which had been written by Creator/GeneRoddenberry as a TV series pilot. The {{Novelization}} of the TV movie was written by D.C. Fontana - who was the script editor on ''Logan's Run''. A decade later, the same concept behind Questor and Rem was revived as Data on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.

** 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).

** 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.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Rem is an android who looks, moves, and acts identically to a human -- even to the extent of becoming sexually aroused by a female android in one episode. (He expressed said arousal by having sparks involuntarily pop out of his shoulder.)

* {{Fanservice}}: 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.
* HitmanWithAHeart: By comparison to his sociopathic literary counterpart and the JerkWithAHeartOfGold played by Michael York, Harrison's Logan was a pleasant and well-mannered guy who happened to have a job killing those trying to escape state-ordered death. Also, unlike his movie and book counterparts, he was already having his doubts. He also expresses genuine regret at the lives he had taken, and in one episode it was confirmed that he shot shot to miss when pursuing runners.

* 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]]

* YouAreNumber6: Logan 5, Jessica 6, Francis 7, etc. for all the citizens of the city of Domes.

* BadassPacifist: 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 a respected Sandman to defect.

''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.

* BloodlessCarnage: The movie showed the victims of Carousel exploding in midair. In the TV series, they just turned into purple crystals and disappeared. (This was likely due to the same network mandate against depictions of violence that led to the Stun setting on the Sandmen's guns.)

* DefectorFromDecadence: Logan and Jessica both.

* CrapsackWorld: The overall background

* HitmanWithAHeart: By comparison to his sociopathic literary counterpart and the JerkWithAHeartOfGold played by Michael York, Harrison's Logan was a pleasant and well-mannered guy who happened to have a job killing those trying to escape state-ordered death. Also, unlike his movie and book counterparts, he was already having his doubts.
* HumanAliens: Implied thn subverted in "The Collectors" and "The Stargate". The antagonists LOOK like human beings but in both cases are revealed to be wearing or using disguises and/or body suits.

* LaResistance: Jessica was an active member of it back in the Domed City.

* 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.

* {{Fanservice}}: Heather Menzies pulls off a minidress and no bra combo with aplomb week in week out.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy:
** Played with in "Half Life" -- Jessica 6 isn't brainwashed, her two Jungian halves were divided and one of them is her brutal bestial half.
** Much later, near the end of the series, Logan loses his memory of the past year and is convinced that he is still a loyal runner-killing Sandman.

* SanDimasTime: In "Man out of time" the people in 2118 and the people in 2320 have the same 22 hour time limit on them.
* ScavengerWorld: Due to the post apocalyptic setting many of the pockets of humanity have to get by living i nthe scraps of the leftovers of the dregs of a once very advanced world.

* StableTimeLoop: In the episode "Man out of Time" (written by David Gerrold under the Nom de Plume "Noah Ward"), a man comes from the past and finds out what the future is like, then returns to his own time to try and prevent the nuclear war. But he ends up ''causing'' the war by introducing time-travel technology to the past.
* SternChase: Logan and Jessica are pursued by Francis 7 and his gang of Sandmen, who are determined to bring them back and wipe their memories. Francis 7 is doing this because, if he succeeds, he might just get a seat on the CouncilOfElders who really runs the City of Domes, and thus be allowed to live past 30.

''Logan's Run'' (1977-1978) was the result. Only 14 episodes of the series were filmed, and only 12 of those were broadcast before the series was cancelled.

'''''Logan's Run''''' (1977-1978) was the result. Only 14 episodes of the series were filmed, and only 12 of those were broadcast before the series was cancelled.

!!''Logan's Run'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AdventureTowns: Pretty much the run of the mill for most episodes

* AlienInvasion: Two of them are threatened, one in "The Collectors" and one in "The Stargate. In both cases it takes some doing to thwart the witch averts EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion quite handily.
* BadassPacifist: 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 a respected Sandman to defect.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Played with in "Half Life" - Jessica 6 isn't brainwashed, her two Jungian halves were divided and one of them is her brutal beastial half. Also much later, near the end of the series, Logan loses his memory of the past year and is convinced that he is still a loyal runner-killing Sandman.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The City of Domes, the community in "Half Life" and the android 'mountain city' in the pilot.
* DarkSecret: Everyone in the City of Domes believes they will be reincarnated if they end their lives at 30 in Carousel, and that knowing who your mother and father were would be weird. But the sordid truth is, Carousel just kills them, and normal childbearing is forbidden so as to strictly control the birth rate. As one of the secret Elders explained, no one works and everyone consumes, so they have to get rid of them before they get old enough to wear down and become an even bigger drain on the city's resources.
* EnemyMine: Logan 5 and Frances 7 have to join forces and cooperate against an insane survivalist and his equaly crazy wife.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: If the heroes ever find the really REAL Runners' sancuary the show is over so...

* HumanAliens: Implied thn subverted in "The Collectors" and "The Stargate". The antagonists LOOK like human beings but in both cases are revealed to to be wearing or using disguises and or body suits.

* LostInTheMaize: In "The Innocent" The gang discover Lisa a psychokinetic young girl with nearly godlike powers and, when people threaten her or do things that make her unhappy she dispaches them to a dark barren negaspace to be rid of them. The good news is that if she wishes, she can bring them back.

* RagnarokProofing: There are an awful lot of buildings, houses, computers and other bits and bobs that are in suprisongly good shape for having been in the middle of nowhere for over two centires.
* RecycledTheSeries: Saul David and MGM studios had no dreams of a TV series when they were filming the movie.

* SchizoTech: In the pilot we see mooks on horseback wielding ray guns and in many episodes afterward we see this mix of futuristic weapons and darned nar medieval technology due to the world AfterTheEnd being a ScavengerWorld.
* StableTimeLoop: In the episode "Man out of Time" (written by David Gerrold under the Nom de Plume "Noah Ward"), a man comes from the past and finds out what the future is like, the returns to his own time to try and prevent the nuclear war, but he ends up ''causing'' the war by introducing time travel technology to the past.

* TheCakeIsALie: See DarkSecret above

* YouAreNumber6: Logan 5, Jessica 6, Francis 7 et cenetera for all the citizens of the city of Domes.

* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: A bored, CrazySurvivalist husband and wife made a habit of killing Runners that passed by their estate, and have the keys mounted as trophies.

* SentToTheCornfield: In "The Innocen" Lisa the psycokinetic woman-child sends people who make her unhappy to an empy dark negaspace to get rid of them.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Played with in "Half Life" - Jessica 6 isn't brainwashed, her two Jungian halves were divided and one of them is her brutal beastial half.

* AWolfInSheep'sClothing: Joseph 8 in "The Judas Goat."

* TheMole: Joseph 8 in "The Judas Goat."

* StableTimeLoop: In the episode "Man out of Time" (written by Creator/JMichaelStraczynski), a man comes from the past and finds out what the future is like, the returns to his own time to try and prevent the nuclear war, but he ends up ''causing'' the war by introducing time travel technology to the past.

* * WorthyOpponent: Francis 7 was Logan 5's best friend and now pursues him to bring him back alive to the city of Domes. Despite this Francis has measures he won't stoop to and is willing to co-operate when both their survival is at stake.

* WolfInSheepsClothing: Joseph 8 in "The Judas Goat."
* WorthyOpponent: Francis 7 was Logan 5's best friend and now pursues him to bring him back alive to the city of Domes. Despite this Francis has measures he won't stoop to and is willing to co-operate when both their survival is at stake.

* CargoCult: In the episode "Man out of time" the trie living in the ruins of David Deakis' Archive stronghold worship the buildings, forms and artifacts and do not even know how to READ!
* CoolCar: Or at least, as cool as could be managed on a shoestring TV budget. Logan and Jessica find a hovercraft hidden away in the U.S. Capitol building soon after they escape from the City of Domes.

* SternChase: Logan and Jessica are pursued by Francis 7 and his gang of Sandmen, who are determined to bring them back and wipe their memories. Francis 7 is doing this because, if he succeeds, he might just get a seat on the CounciloOfElders who really runs the City of Domes, and thus be allowed to live past 30.

* SternChase: Logan and Jessica are pursued by Francis 7 and his gang of Sandmen, who are determined to bring them back and wipe their memories. Francis 7 is doing this because, if he succeeds, he might just get a seat on the Council of Elders who really runs the City of Domes, and thus be allowed to live past 30.

* EnemyMine: Logan 6 and Frances 7 have to join forces and cooperate against an insane survivalist and his equaly crazy wife.

* CrapsaccarineWorld: The City of Domes, the community in "Half Life" and the android 'mountain city' in the pilot.

* DefectorFromDecadence: Logan and Jessica both.

* LowCulture,HighTech: Seen quite often with medieval cultures and or tribal cultures using ray guns, force fields, et cetera et cetera.