Lucas Tanner
| Lucas Tanner | |
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 David Hartman as Lucas Tanner with a gifted student, Scott Glaser (Alfred Lutter III), in the episode "Thirteen Going on Twenty." | |
| Genre | School drama |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 22 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | David Victor |
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| Cinematography | Harry L. Wolf |
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| Running time | 60 min |
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| Distributor | NBCUniversal Television Distribution |
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| Original network | NBC |
| Picture format | Color film, 35 mm |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | September 11, 1974 – April 9, 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 as co-host of ABC's Good Morning America.
Episodes
| Nº | Title | Air date |
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| 0 | "Lucas Tanner" | May 8, 1974 |
| 90-minute pilot. | ||
| 1 | "A Matter of Love" | September 11, 1974 |
| 2 | "Instant Replay" | September 18, 1974 |
| 3 | "Thirteen Going on Twenty" | October 2, 1974 |
| 4 | "Winners and Losers" | October 9, 1974 |
| 5 | "A Question of Privacy" | October 16, 1974 |
| 6 | "Three Letter Word" | October 23, 1974 |
| 7 | "By the Numbers" | November 6, 1974 |
| 8 | "Echoes" | November 13, 1974 |
| 9 | "Look the Other Way" | November 20, 1974 |
| 10 | "Cheers" | December 4, 1974 |
| 11 | "Merry Gentlemen" | December 25, 1974 |
| 12 | "Bonus Baby" | January 8, 1975 |
| 13 | "Pay the Two Dollars" | January 15, 1975 |
| 14 | "Those Who Cannot, Teach" | January 22, 1975 |
| 15 | "What's Wrong with Bobbie?" | January 29, 1975 |
| 16 | "Collision" | February 5, 1975 |
| 17 | "Why Not a Happy Ending?" | February 12, 1975 |
| 18 | "Shattered" | February 19, 1975 |
| 19 | "The Noise of a Quiet Weekend" | February 26, 1975 |
| 20 | "Requiem for a Son" | March 12, 1975 |
| 21 | "A Touch of Bribery" | April 2, 1975 |
| 22 | "One to One" | April 9, 1975 |
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 on IMDb
- Lucas Tanner at TV.com