Season - Episode
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1 - 1September 11, 1974 Sep 11, 1974
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1 - 2Shattered Feb 19, 1975
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1 - 3Instant Replay Sep 18, 1974
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1 - 4Thirteen Going on Twenty Oct 02, 1974
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1 - 5Thirteen Going on Twenty Oct 02, 1974
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1 - 6Winners and Losers Oct 09, 1974
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1 - 7Three Letter Word Oct 23, 1974
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1 - 8By the Numbers Nov 06, 1974
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1 - 9Echoes Nov 13, 1974
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1 - 10Look the Other Way Nov 20, 1974
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1 - 11Cheers Dec 04, 1974
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1 - 12Merry Gentlemen Dec 25, 1974
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1 - 13Bonus Baby Jan 08, 1975
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1 - 14Those Who Cannot Count, Teach Jan 22, 1975
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1 - 15What's Wrong with Bobby? Jan 29, 1975
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1 - 16Collision Feb 05, 1975
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1 - 17Why Not a Happy Ending? Feb 12, 1975
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1 - 18The Noise of a Quiet Weekend Feb 26, 1975
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1 - 19Requiem for a Son Mar 12, 1975
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1 - 20A Touch of Bribery Apr 03, 1975
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1 - 21One to One Apr 09, 1975
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.