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Lucas Tanner (1974)

Lucas Tanner poster
Genre
drama television series
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 22 episodes
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A former baseball player and sportswriter becomes an English teacher at a suburban high school after losing his wife and child. He clashes with traditional teachers because of his unconventional methods. The series was filmed partly on location, giving it a distinctive real-world feel.

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What happens

Lucas Tanner is an American drama series aired on NBC during the 1974–75 season. The title character, played by David Hartman, is a former baseball player and sportswriter who becomes an English teacher at the fictional Harry S Truman Memorial High School in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. He changed professions following the death of his wife and child. Episodes often deal with the resistance of traditional teachers to Tanner's unorthodox teaching style. Regular co-stars included Rosemary Murphy, Kimberly Beck, John Randolph, and ten-year-old Robbie Rist. Unusually, the show was actually filmed on location in Webster Groves to a significant degree, though John Marshall High School in Los Angeles served as the setting for the fictional Truman Memorial High School. However, the location filming gave Lucas Tanner 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 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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