Sir Griffin's Nostalgia: Logan's Run
Back in the day, before it was so popular to turn old TV shows into movies, it was fairly common to have a popular movie turned into a weekly TV series. This rarely worked, but there are some notable exceptions such as M*A*S*H and Alice. But for every one of those there are dozens that littered the TV landscape. The problem was that most of those cinematic features did not really translate well to a television audience. No one was really interested in watching Animal House get watered down to a weekly series called Delta House. Some shows took the film’s original premise, tweaked it a bit, ignored the film’s ending and started over. Such was the case with the 1977 series Logan’s Run. A little background for those who have forgotten: Logan’s Run was a 1976 science fiction film about a dystopian society in the 23 rd century. The people live in a “perfect world of total pleasure” with only one catch. No one is allowe...