Lucas Tanner

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show_name = Lucas Tanner


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genre = School drama
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starring = David Hartman
Rosemary Murphy
Robbie Rist
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country = U.S.
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num_seasons = 1
num_episodes = 22
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network = NBC
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first_aired = September 11, 1974
last_aired = August 20, 1975
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imdb_id = 0071008
tv_com_id = 4380

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. 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.

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.

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*imdb name|id=0071008|name=Lucas Tanner