Lucas Tanner

1974

7.0

1 Seasons

Drama

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. 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.

Season

Episodes

Ep 1

A Matter of Love

A delicate problem for Lucas - try to cope with a bitter young girl who is falling in love with him.

Ep 2

Instant Replay

Ep 3

Thirteen Going on Twenty

Ep 4

Winners and Losers

Ep 5

A Question of Privacy

Ep 6

Three Letter Word

Ep 7

By the Numbers

Ep 8

Echoes

Ep 9

Look the Other Way

Ep 10

Cheers

Ep 11

Merry Gentlemen

Ep 12

Bonus Baby

Ep 13

Pay the Two Dollars

Ep 14

Those Who Cannot Count, Teach

Ep 15

What's Wrong with Bobby?

Ep 16

Collision

Ep 17

Why Not a Happy Ending?

Ep 18

Shattered

Ep 19

The Noise of a Quiet Weekend

Ep 20

Requiem for a Son

Ep 21

A Touch of Bribery

Ep 22

One to One

Cast

Robbie Rist

Glendon

Rosemary Murphy

Margaret Blumenthal

David Hartman

Lucas Tanner

Kimberly Beck

Terry Klitsner

John Randolph

John Hamilton

Mark Hamill

Craig Stanton