Lucas Tanner

Lucas Tanner is an American drama series that aired on NBC 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.

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
Distributor	NBCUniversal Television Distribution
Release
Original network	NBC
Picture format	Color film, 35 mm
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	September 11, 1974 (1974-09-11) – April 9, 1975 (1975-04-09)

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 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.