Lucas Tanner

Lucas Tanner
David Hartman as Lucas Tanner with a gifted student, Scott Glaser (Alfred Lutter III), in the episode "Thirteen Going on Twenty."
Genre	School drama
Created by	Jerry McNeely
Starring	David Hartman Rosemary Murphy Robbie Rist
Composer	David Shire
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	22 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	David Victor
Producers	Jay Benson Jerry McNeely
Cinematography	Harry L. Wolf
Editors	Tony Martinelli Robert Watts John J. Dumas Edward Haire Richard Bracken
Running time	60 min
Production companies	Groverton Productions R.B. Productions Universal Television
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	September 11, 1974 (1974-09-11) – April 9, 1975 (1975-04-09)

Lucas Tanner is an American drama series aired on NBC during the 1974–75 season. The title character, played by David Hartman, is 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. Episodes often deal with the resistance of traditional teachers to Tanner's unorthodox teaching style.

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.

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.

Episodes

Nº	Title	Directed by	Written by	Air date
0	"Lucas Tanner"	Richard Donner	Jerry McNeely	May 8, 1974 (1974-05-08)
90-minute pilot.
1	"A Matter of Love"	Gordon Hessler	John McGreevey	September 11, 1974 (1974-09-11)
2	"Instant Replay"	Gordon Hessler	Robert Van Scoyk	September 18, 1974 (1974-09-18)
3	"Thirteen Going on Twenty"	Walter Doniger	Jerry McNeely	October 2, 1974 (1974-10-02)
4	"Winners and Losers"	Leo Penn	Eugene Price	October 9, 1974 (1974-10-09)
5	"A Question of Privacy"	Jerry McNeely	Jerry McNeely	October 16, 1974 (1974-10-16)
6	"Three Letter Word"	Walter Doniger	Leonard & Arlene Stadd	October 23, 1974 (1974-10-23)
7	"By the Numbers"	William Asher	Sue Milburn	November 6, 1974 (1974-11-06)
8	"Echoes"	Walter Doniger	Arthur Heinemann	November 13, 1974 (1974-11-13)
9	"Look the Other Way"	Jerry London	S : Gene Thompson S/T : Arthur Heinemann	November 20, 1974 (1974-11-20)
10	"Cheers"	Paul Kransky	William Froug	December 4, 1974 (1974-12-04)
11	"Merry Gentlemen"	Walter Doniger	Robert Van Scoyk	December 25, 1974 (1974-12-25)
12	"Bonus Baby"	Randal Kleiser	Bruce Shelly & David Ketchum	January 8, 1975 (1975-01-08)
13	"Pay the Two Dollars"	Allen Baron	Robert Van Scoyk	January 15, 1975 (1975-01-15)
14	"Those Who Cannot, Teach"	Robert Scheerer	S : Lila Garrett T : Judy Burns & Robert Van Scoyk	January 22, 1975 (1975-01-22)
15	"What's Wrong with Bobbie?"	Walter Doniger	Booker T. Bradshaw & David P. Lewis	January 29, 1975 (1975-01-29)
16	"Collision"	Alexander Singer	T : Robert Van Scoyk S/T : Max Hodge	February 5, 1975 (1975-02-05)
17	"Why Not a Happy Ending?"	Charles S. Dubin	T : Judy Burns S/T : Claire Whitaker	February 12, 1975 (1975-02-12)
18	"Shattered"	Richard Bennett	T : Robert Van Scoyk S/T : Ann Beckett	February 19, 1975 (1975-02-19)
19	"The Noise of a Quiet Weekend"	Leo Penn	S : Joel Clark T : Robert Van Scoyk	February 26, 1975 (1975-02-26)
20	"Requiem for a Son"	Robert Scheerer	David P. Lewis & Booker T. Bradshaw	March 12, 1975 (1975-03-12)
21	"A Touch of Bribery"	Paul Kransky	Eugene Price	April 2, 1975 (1975-04-02)
22	"One to One"	Charles S. Dubin	T : Robert Van Scoyk S/T : Norman Hudis	April 9, 1975 (1975-04-09)

References

• Tim Brooks & Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows (7th ed. 1999), p. 601.

External links

• Lucas Tanner at IMDb