I’m 60. I have seen the film. I would not describe it as “classic” in any sense of the word.
Haven’t read the book(s).
Regards,
Shodan
I don’t believe the people who made the movie ever acknowledged this but there were actually two sources for the movie. The official one was the novel. The unofficial one was a 1971 British SF movie titled Glen and Randa.
(Asking genially) Any kind of a cite for that? I’ve never heard it before.
A glance at the synopsis shows a pretty thin connection, similar to many stories of the era and before.
Following up on the Farrah connection, I find it amusing that 1976 was her breakout year in all respects. (I was trying to figure out how I, as an official horny teen, had never seen or heard of her before LR.)
Nearly all TV and minor film appearances before then. Hilariously, she played three different roles on hubby’s Six Million Dollar Man… talk about your generic pretty blonde.
Yeah, I even Googled for the date and still got It wrong. It was 1976. :o
I’ve seen it a number of times. I think calling it a ‘classic’ is a bit of a stretch, but it is a great example of pre-Star Wars 1970’s sci-fi.
Hey, at least her husband was trying to be supportive of her having a career - that is a far from universal sentiment even these days, much less in the 1970’s.
She had a couple of “breakouts” in Myra Breckinridge (1970 IIRC - one of those minor roles you mentioned), but I never saw that flick until years after Farrah was a household name.
Read the book and saw the film on TV in my youth. Hasn’t aged well but certainly influential for its time.
There’s a Logan’s Run dream sequence in the movie Free Enterprise that one of the main characters has the night before his 30th birthday, quite entertaining.
I saw it in the theater when it first came out (I was 13) and had read both books (Logan’s Run and Logan’s World) and watched the show when it ran. Like many who posted here I enjoyed the film and of course, as a young teen I really appreciated Jenny Agutter 
I’m sure for many seeing it for the first time many years after it premiered, it’s easy to poke fun at it, but you gotta remember after 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and before Star Wars (1977) there were very few big budget science fiction films released on the big screen.
I know anyone under 30 may find that hard to understand, but studios generally stayed clear of science fiction. During that nine year span besides Logan’s Run we had Silent Running and the five Planet of the Apes films there wasn’t much else in that genre to see.
Yes, of course.
I read the books. Don’t think I saw the movie or tv show. My parents probably wouldn’t let me stay up or something. Might go look for them now. They sound like the pinnacle of movie making! 
Yeah, that was some nice early Perez artwork.
Of course I found out years later that Marvel had lost the rights to continue the series and like you said, right in the middle of a story!
Logan’s Run was part of the 1977/78 CBS Friday night lineup.
(all times EST)
8:00 PM - The New Adventures of Wonder Woman
9:00 PM - Logan’s Run
10:00 PM - Switch (this was a drama featuring an ex cop and a former con man)
They canceled Logan’s Run in mid season, just 14 episodes, and for awhile replaced it and Switch with movies. Eventually, they replaced that 9 o’clock hour with…
…The Incredible Hulk.
I’ve been in some extended discussions with knowledgeable classic/film sf types (Worldcon panels, etc.) where I successfully advanced the theory that* Logan’s Run was the last (big-budget) sf from the studio cheese factories, and just months later Star Wars* kicked open the gates of the modern sf film era. EVERYTHING changed in that transition.
You’re partially right. Yes, Star Wars did open the door for a TON of science fiction films (films like Battle Beyond the Stars would probably never been green lit and few remember the Buck Rogers TV series premiered in the theaters) but it was Jaws, in 1975 that started the summer block buster season, enabling Star Wars to take advantage of it.
But Jaws wasn’t sf (not more than a smidgen). I meant the drastic sea change between shiny, perfect-future studio imagings and the gritty, realistic, real-people-in-the-future vibe of SW. The 50’s plastic look disappeared from studio sf almost instantly.
The comparison was lampshaded beautifully in Demolition Man twenty years later.
ETA: Certainly a number of factors including the Jaws tentpole contributed to SW’s success. It ran for 13 months in one local theater, and just possibly that would not have happened if not for the financial success of Jaws.
Yes. Haven’t seen it.
Yeah, but if it wasn’t for the phenomenal success of Jaws in the box office, a film that prompted second viewings, Star Wars may have never had it’s opportunity to be a summer blockbuster. Before Jaws films didn’t open on the same date everywhere in the country at the same time. In the summer they’d open a film in a couple cities, see how it does then open in other cities (and for many of them, open in Drive In theaters only).
When studios saw a sic-fi film make a ton at the box office, especially movie goers who kept coming back (which led to more ticket sales) they “discovered” that science fiction had a paying audience.
And the rest, as they say, is history…
That was actually one of the most slyly subversive scenes in the movie. Sure, naked York butt and Agutter. But when he’s dialing the transporter through sex options, one of them is a man who sort of stands there giving him the lookover until Michael York flips to another sextransporter channel in annoyance.
For the era, implying that gay sex might be accepted (even if not by the protagonist) was a bit startling.
Yeah, he clearly considered it for a moment. But, to be honest, he was right to move on to Jennie. And when he didn’t get a yes from her he asked, rather innocently, if she preferred women. Implying that that was common as well.