Following up on a recent request from Steven Lindlbauer, the Pavement Pounders discuss the 1967 book Logan’s Run, by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson and its 1976 adaptation to film and 1977 adaptation to television.
Stumbling toward the finish line of Reel Future, the Pavement Pounders discuss Roger Zelazny’s “Damnation Alley” and its 1977 film abomination adaptation.
The movie’s plot makes little sense. We fixed it for you.
Rankings!:
Colin/James/Seth:
Notes:
Galaxy magazine “Damnation Alley”:
https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_v26n01_1967-10_modified/page/n5
This time, the Pavement Pounders discuss the 1944 Fredric Brown short story “Arena”, which was adapted into a Star Trek TOS episode (S1E18), may have inspired the TNG episode “The Last Outpost” (S1E5), and there’s also an Outer Limits episode, “Fun and Games (S1E27).”
Big thanks to Rich O’Donnell for sending us the suggestion!
For the purposes of Rankings, here are the abbreviations:
“Arena” story: TS
TOS episode: TOS
TNG episode: TNG
Outer Limits episode: TOL
Our totally scientific ranking of how close the episodes were to the story:
And now our normal Rankings:
James:
Colin:
Seth:
Rich
And finally, Em Ratings for each:
Notes:
These Are The Voyages books:
http://www.thesearethevoyagesbooks.com/
