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Pow · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2025 8:19 pm Post subject:

FALL Preview article on the LR series in TV Guide.

If you've been wondering what life is going to be like in the year 2319, this science-fiction series is here to tell you its not going to be any bed of roses.

An atomic holocaust has destroyed most of the world leaving small pockets of civilization scattered here and there.

Logan (Gregory Harrison) has broken out of one of those pockets, the Domed City. The law there decrees that everyone there must die at 30, but Logan's philosophy can be summed up in four words: better fled than dead.

So he's on the run, accompanied by two other fugitives --- Jessica (Heather Menzies), a 2319-model damsel in distress; and Rem (Donald Moffat), the latest thing in computerized androids.

A hovercraft whisks them into contact with all sorts of strange and menacing beings, and keeps them one jump ahead of Francis (Randy Powell), who has been assigned to hunt them down and terminate them, an ambition he shares with ABC and NBC.

Debut: September 16, 1977.

Pow · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2025 8:30 pm Post subject:

I remember being quite impressed with the visual effects on LR for ray and energy beams of all kinds.

I read somewhere (Starlog?), that it was achieved by manipulating video imagery. Whatever that means?

It was done by the Ron Hayes Visual Effects company and was a new technique at that time. Up to then, TV shows like Star Trek employed an animation technique for such things. Trouble being that they looked like Saturday morning cartoon shows with their phaser beams. LR really broke brand new ground with their visuals.

mach7 · Mission Specialist Joined: 23 Apr 2015 Posts: 420

I also was very hopeful when this came out. Unfortunately it underwhelmed me, along with most other viewers in 1977.

While not "The Starlost" Bad, it disappointed.

A few years ago I downloaded all 14 episodes and managed
to watch about 3 or 4.

The funny thing is I can't really remember any of the stories,
I just remember I didn't like it.

mach7 · Mission Specialist Joined: 23 Apr 2015 Posts: 420

Interestingly I just read that D.C. Fontana was the story editor for the show and David Gerrold and Harlen Ellison wrote episodes.

What really surprised me was William Nolan, co writer of the original novel wrote the pilot with Saul David and Leonard Katzman.

With people of that caliber involved it should have been much better.