Lucas Tanner
Lucas Tanner is an American drama series that aired on NBC 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 Memorial High School in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. He changed professions following the death of his wife and child.[1] Episodes often deal with the resistance of traditional teachers to Tanner's unorthodox teaching style.
Lucas Tanner
School drama
Jerry McNeely
David Shire
United States
English
1
22 (list of episodes)
David Victor
- Jay Benson
- Jerry McNeely
Harry L. Wolf
- Tony Martinelli
- Robert Watts
- John J. Dumas
- Edward Haire
- Richard Bracken
60 min
- Groverton Productions
- R.B. Productions
- Universal Television
September 11, 1974 –
April 9, 1975
Regular co-stars included Rosemary Murphy, Kimberly Beck, John Randolph, 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.[2]
This series was Hartman's last work as an actor. In November 1975, he began as co-host of ABC's Good Morning America. To date, he has not returned to acting.