My older Brother took me to the movies. I remember that a tattoo of a red life crystal was given away.
I soon picked up the book. Imagine my surprise when it was totally different then the movie!! I also had the 7 issue Marvel Comics series. I was quite disappointed that it didn't last too long. I picked up both book sequels in paperback. I even started to purchase the other Logan comics but stopped after issue #3. I have rented the DVD several times with my 11 year old son. He loved it. I look forward to a re-make and any more Logan books that may appear. I owe a big thank you to my Brother. One more thing...that was the 1st movie i ever saw with Jenny Agutter. Didn't see her again until American Werewolf In London. She was still a hottie!!!

Hi Chris,

Thanks for posting and welcome to the Circuit.

I first saw "Logan's Run" at our local downtown movie theater back in the summer of 1976 with one of my best friends from middle school. We were both 11. This theater was one of those big single movie houses that every small town had back then - complete with balcony.

"Logan's Run" broke up the monotony of seeing the typical 'Disney' fare that was available at the time (sub-par family films like "Herbie the Love Bug Rides Again", the original "Freaky Friday", "Escape to Witch Mountain", "No Deposit, No Return", etc.)

The films of the summer of 1976 were the ones that I always will remember as being the films that broke me out of the 'children's' movie mode - and I started enjoying REAL motion pictures!

Some of the other films I remember going to see this year and enjoyed were:

"King Kong" remake with Jessica Lange - (PG nudity ruled!)
"Midway"
"APE" - a really horrible Japanese 3-D movie that was still great in it's own way to an 11-year-old kid
"The Bad News Bears" - I still love this movie!
and
"Rocky"

But it was (and still is) "Logan's Run" that is my favorite from that time!

This feels weird but this is how my first time was.it was 3/14/94 a Saturday 7p.m., the eve of my father's 40th birthday.While he and my parents were rushing to make everything perfect(like they always do)for his big party,I decied to wacht a little T.V. So I turned the T.V. on and it was on tnt and the annoucer said that a movie was coming on.It was Logan's Run,but I was 8 and all I knew was that a movie was coming on and could care less about anything else.Then the movie started when the opening title came "In the 23rd centry" I was hooked.I sat in my frontroom awe struck and couln't move for the whole 2 hours and been a fan ever since.

I saw this movie for the first time on Cinemax several years ago. For a 70's film, it holds up pretty well, I think.

I agree. Jenny Agutter is indeed beautiful :)

I saw the movie for the first time at Showcase Cinemas on Bardstown Road in my new home of Louisville, Kentucky. This was back in July of 1976, with the Bi-Centennial running high. I was four years old at the time, and I was amazed at what I saw on the huge Cinema screen. My mother was a little bit shocked at some of the nudity in the film. I later caught the film on CBS in September of 1977.
Then, around Spring of 1983, I managed to catch the film two more times on two local independent television stations. Finally, in Summer of 1986, I found a copy of it on VHS, at the local video store. I even watched it again in 1996. When I finally turned 30, or as they say in the film, my life clock turned black, my wife bought me a copy of the film on DVD. To this day, Logan's Run is my favorite movie of all time. And to this day, I still get odd stares when I tell people that. They wonder why Star Wars, Superman - The Movie, or even Blade Runner are not my favorite films. Go figure.

I've posted this answer before, so please forgive me for repeating myself. ;)
My cousin and I loved to go to the movies. We tried to see at least one a week. Anyway, I was 11 y.o. and we went to the Sameric Theater at 1908 Chestnut in Philadelphia. It was a grand old theater with balconies, sitting rooms and a HUGE screen -which was revealed when red, velvet curtains parted.
We saw the film on July 3, 1976 and Philadelphia was very quiet. Everyone was getting ready for the BiCentennnial celebration the next day.
After that I bought the book (quite shocking to a naive 11 y.o. girl) and also bought the soundtrack album.

I too was 11 years old in 1976.

On June 12th, 1976 I attended a Star Trek convention at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts. About the only non-Star Trek item shown on the big screen that day was the “Advanced Preview of Selected Scenes” trailer for Logan's Run. Now this con didn't have much to offer, so the Logan's Run trailer was repeated every couple of hours. I saw it at least twice that day. That along with the LR advance movie posters in the dealers room, was my first exposure to the world of Logan's Run.

About a month later I along with 4 friends saw the full film at one of the Century movie theaters (in 70mm with 6-track stereo) in San Jose. I really loved the film despite being aware (even then) of some of its flaws. I was also hooked on the Marvel comic and was very let down when issue #8 never came out.

That September, my English teacher announced that we had to read a book (of our own choosing) for a book report. One of my friends brought me his copy of LR and insisted that I read it for my class. I was really shocked and confused by how different the book was from the film. I missed the City of Domes, but was thrilled with the “adult” content in the book.

I was really disappointed with the TV series and only ever bothered watching two or three episodes past the pilot.

Sometime around 1978 the film made the rounds on cable movie channels and my brother and I watched it repeatedly (probably close to 10 times). I never saw the film again until the special edition laserdisc came out in 1997. That laserdisc really brought me back to LR and I have been obsessed with the film (especially all aspects of its production) ever since.

I stumbled across 'Logans Run' while watching Family Guy. Brian is casually talking about a dream he had and then without a split second to anticipate anything SPLIT , I see Brian running away from two guys (who I later find out are sandmen) and he points at the dog from charlie brown and says "well what about him, he's gotta be atleast Thirty", so I searched it up and downloaded it.

-the end

I was 14 & a subscriber to the magazine FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND, which ran an article some time in Spring 1976 about upcoming Summer sci-fi/fantasy/<a style='text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double;' href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=31&k=horror%20films" onmouseover="window.status='horror films'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">horror films</a>. As I recall it, their LR coverage included a full-page close-up photo of Box, who looked pretty darn cool to me (and so it begins).

Saw the movie the week it opened, with my friend John Scott (who went on to portray Logan in my 1977 fan-film/LR-prequel "BOX" -- see the "BOX: THE MOVIE" section of this website) at a theater in north-subruban Milwaukee (I believe it was the Mill Road). I remember that someone at the theater had painted onto one of the theater lobby's glass walls a rather lovely, nearly-life-size diorama of Logan & Jess trudging through Outside, w/ the Domes rising up in the background. (We Milwaukeeans generally have a lot of time on our hands.) Wish I'd taken a picture of it!

If I may quote, at this point, from my Foreword to a book that every William F. Nolan fan should own, his astounding 2005 "greatest hits" anthology SHIPS IN THE NIGHT:

"Like many 'tweeners' (born in the early '60s, between the Baby Boom and Generation X), I first encountered Bill's work indirectly, through the 1976 film adaptation of his novel, LOGAN'S RUN. At fourteen, I was entranced by the movie's depiction of a flashy, flesh-laden future society; I remember musing that if I could spend my life hanging out in a space-age shopping center, zipping about in mazecars and casually bedding eager young lovelies, I would MIND dying at thirty. How devoted a Loganite was I? I saw the film six times the summer it was released and, later, watched and audio-taped each episode of the short-lived TV series (this was pre-VCR). For my fifteenth birthday, I took three friends to Milwaukee's Northridge Court where, toy flameguns in hand, we tracked and chased each other up and down the escalators and all across the mall (I 'terminated' two Runners wit ha single blast outside Spencer gifts). And when MGM failed to announce a follow-up film, I grabbed my trusty Minolta regular-8 and shot a sequel and two prequels of my own. . ."

In the Foreword, I go on to detail how a broken leg kept me largely immobile during the Summer of '77, which led me to write THE LOGAN'S RUN REFERANCE [sic] BOOK, which led me into correspondence with Nolan, which led me -- 25 years later -- to meet and befriend him, which apparently is leading us now into collaboration on an sf novel.

LOGAN'S RUN is certainly not the BEST movie I've seen -- far from it. And yet, I'd have to say it remains my favorite, for reasons I suspect most people reading this can well understand (Jenny, to name but ONE reason!). And I still thoroughly enjoy it every time I see it. :popcorn:

Ohhhhh...yeah! Wow, Paul you are the real deal. There is mention of your publication on this page at the City of Domes site.
Ah, but if only we had spell check back in those days. :D

Hey Paul, do you still have these reference books available?

I first saw Logan's Run when I was 5, in 1976, in Toronto. At that age the biggest impression imprinted on to me was the overall sense of loneliness, which I still feel to this day whenever I see the ruins of Washington DC scene. (Beneath the Planet of the Apes has this affect on me as well; the subway scene) I enjoyed the TV series as well, but mostly for the neat-o vehicles. Logan's Run is 1 of 2 movies I can watch ad-nausem, that and 1966's 'The Party' with Peter Sellers.

I lived far away from movie theaters, so I did not see it until it was first shown on TV. What really caught my attention, was that their computers were lying to them, and that anyone who fought the system was terminated. The hero was part of the system, but questioned it. (kinda like 1984).
I could not tell if he was truly running, or still on his mission to destroy Sanctuary until they get past Box. It was not just SciFi, it was a story about a man discovering everything was wrong about what he had believed his whole life, leading a woman to discover that her beliefs were also completely wrong. What an amazing concept that everyone was clueless to reality. Even the computer thought the runners who escaped found Sanctuary, and therfore was clueless about Box, and the real fate of the runners.

In 1976 I was 5 too, but unfortunately Logan's Run was not released in the spanish cinemas. The first science fiction movie that I remember to see was Star Wars.

I'm the same age. Watching Star Wars for the first time at that age left a lasting impression, didn't it? Between that and LR I was destined to be a Sci-Fi fan for the rest of my life. :lightsaber:

Lasting impression indeed, but in my case the impression of Superman was greater.

I was only 9 when "Logans Run" first came to theaters,but I remember when it came out because my sister got to go with a friend of hers. I collected the comic books that came out right after that and that was my first real exposure to "Logans Run".
That was a fantastic film. Great actors and a great story