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Overview

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.

  1. Jerry McNeely

    Creator

Series Cast

  1. Mark Hamill as Craig Stanton

    Mark Hamill

    Craig Stanton

    22 Episodes

  2. Robbie Rist as Glendon

    Robbie Rist

    Glendon

    21 Episodes

  3. Rosemary Murphy as Margaret Blumenthal

    Rosemary Murphy

    Margaret Blumenthal

    21 Episodes

  4. David Hartman as Lucas Tanner

    David Hartman

    Lucas Tanner

    21 Episodes

  5. Kimberly Beck as Terry Klitsner

    Kimberly Beck

    Terry Klitsner

    21 Episodes

  6. John Randolph as John Hamilton

    John Randolph

    John Hamilton

    21 Episodes

  7. Eddie Quillan as

    Eddie Quillan

    3 Episodes

  8. Kathleen Quinlan as

    Kathleen Quinlan

    1 Episode

  9. Bettye Ackerman as

    Bettye Ackerman

    1 Episode

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Last Season

Season 1

1974 • 21 Episodes

Season 1 of Lucas Tanner premiered on September 11, 1974.

One to One

(1x21, April 9, 1975) Season Finale

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Status Ended

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Type Scripted

Original Language English

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