Lucas Tanner

Lucas Tanner
Genre	School drama
Starring	David Hartman Rosemary Murphy Robbie Rist
Country of origin	USA
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	22
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	September 11, 1974 – August 20, 1975

Lucas Tanner was 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 became a teacher at the fictional Harry S. Truman High School in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Shows often dealt 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.

This series was David 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.

References

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