Lucas Tanner
| Lucas Tanner | |
|---|---|
 David Hartman as Lucas Tanner with a gifted student (Scott Glaser), 1974. | |
| Genre | School drama |
| Starring |
David Hartman Rosemary Murphy Robbie Rist |
| Country of origin | U.S. |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
| Distributor | NBCUniversal Television Distribution |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | September 11, 1974 – August 20, 1975 |
Lucas Tanner is an NBC television drama that aired during the 1974-75 season. The title character, played by David Hartman, was a former baseball player and sportswriter who becomes an English teacher at the fictional Harry S Truman High School in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Episodes often deal with the resistance of traditional teachers to Tanner's unorthodox teaching style.
Regular co-stars included Rosemary Murphy, Kimberly Beck, and ten-year-old Robbie Rist. Unusually, the show was actually filmed in Webster Groves, rather than on a Hollywood backlot. That gave it a somewhat unusual "look" for a prime-time TV series.
A 90-minute pilot film of the series aired on NBC the week of May 4, 1974; the pilot also starred Kathleen Quinlan and Joe Garagiola.[1]
This series was Hartman's last television series as an actor—in November 1975, he began a long-running stint as co-host of ABC's Good Morning America.
References
- Tim Brooks & Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows (7th ed. 1999), p. 601.