Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Lucas Tanner' from 1970-1982:
- David Hartman as Lucas Tanner (1974-1975)
- Rosemary Murphy as Margaret Blumenthal (1974-1975)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Lucas Tanner':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: John McGreevey D: Gordon Hessler
With Bruce Kimmel (Mark), Lee Purcell (Linda Blyden), Brett Hadley (Mr. Wardlow), Julie Adams (Mrs. Walker), Tamar Cooper (Miss Plotkin). David Hartman stars in the title role as a sports figure turned high school teacher whose classroom innovations antagonize both the faculty and townspeople. In the first episode, complications arise for Lucas Tanner when an attractive female student professes her love for him.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Robert Van Scoyk D: Gordon Hessler
With John Elerick (Carl Damien), Don Drysdale (Himself), Maury Wills (Himself), Joe Kapp (Himself), Marlyn Mason (Marine), Dan Barrows (Fred Shoop), Ron Kolman (Neil Bracken), Melissa Greene (Kathy). A woman sports magazine photographer comes to St. Louis on assignment to do a photo layout of Tanner in his new post as teacher.
Season 1, episode 3
W: Jerry McNeely D: Walter Doniger
With Alfred Lutter (Scott Glaser), Pamela Hensley (Dee Wiggins), Robbie Rist (Glendon Farrell), Don Eitner (Doug Glaser), Carol Lawson (Ann Glaser), Janice Lynde (Vicki), Linda Purl (Diane), Nicholas Hammond (Andy). Tanner resorts to unique measures to help a gifted student resolve the problems of acceptance.
Season 1, episode 4
W: Eugene Price D: Leo Penn
With Andrew Parks (Cecil Garfield), Richard Jaeckel (Coach Scoley), Dirk Blocker (Jordan Adair), Lenka Peterson (Grace Garfield), Wayne Heffley (Pete Hardy), Lonny Chapman (Joe Garfield), Joan Pringle (Barbara Seeley). When an apparently "clumsy" student quits school, a concerned Lucas Tanner ruffles feathers among parents and faculty members in a determined effort to learn the reason.
Season 1, episode 5
D: Jerry McNeely
With Ramon Bieri (Craig Wilson), Sian Barbara Allen (Donna), Stacy Keach Sr. (George), Nora Marlowe (Louise), Victor Izay (Leonard Halper), Donald Mantooth (Paul Newton), Rick Lenz (Chuck Lindstrom), Jane Alice Brandon (Sarah McKee). Two teachers fear for their jobs after the school board learns that they are unmarried, but living together.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Leonard Stadd, Arlene Stadd D: Walter Doniger
With Ben Wilson (Ted Randolph), Jack Collins (Edward Trask), Kathleen Hughes (Clare Jay), Jim Bradford (Doug Raynor), Nancy Malone (Mrs. Howell), Kathleen Quinlan (Joyce Howell), Michael Baseleon (Tim Howell), Tom Troupe (Mike Sweet), Cissy Wellman (Angela). Tanner faces a major confrontation with parents and the school board when one of his classroom assignments prompts the need for a frank discussion of sex.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Sue Milburn D: William Asher
With Butch Patrick (Bill), Bettye Ackerman (Frances Shaw), Chris Beaumont (Steve Innes), Alan Fudge (Jim Ely), Janet Margolin (Zeta Alexander). Lucas befriends substitute teacher Zita Alexander, whose frustration over not being a permanent member of the faculty causes her to consider leaving the teaching profession.
Season 1, episode 8
D: Walter Doniger
With Dixie Marquis (Miss Phillips), Kasey Rogers (Miss Cooper), Dimitra Arliss (Mr. Hailey), John Doucette (Dr. Littman), June Dayton (Grace Bader), Melissa Greene (Cathy). Lucas has his hands full instructing at school while taking care of the little boy next door, whose mother was rushed to the hospital.
Season 1, episode 9
D: Jerry London
With Patsy Garrett (Clerk), Dirk Blocker (Jordan Adair), Mel Stewart (Mr. Browder), Michael Conrad (Mr. Farnsworth), Jack Kelly (Ted Lefferts), Lynn Carlin (Ann Lefferts), Ayn Ruymen (Kathy Farnsworth), Ric Carrott (Rod Baylor). A girl runs away from home and leads a rather precarious life, only to return to school and face her fellow classmates.
Season 1, episode 10
D: Paul Krasny
With Sidney Clute (Ed Carter), Marla Pennington (Jane Benson), Tom Middleton (Lloyd Ackerman), Lloyd Battista (Dr. Medlow), Michael Fox (Dr. Wells), Ben Cooper (Ben Steward), Louise Latham (Mrs. Gibbons), Pat Hingle (Jack Gibbons), Sam Bottoms (Ron Gibbons). A student has a drinking problem and a built-in resentment towards all offers of advice.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Robert Van Scoyk D: Walter Doniger
With Barry Sullivan (Thomas Keyes), Dee Wallace (Waitress), Kelly Lockwood (Joan), Paul Napier (Dr. Margolis), Janice Pennington (Lottie Garland), Anne Schedeen (Carolyn). An accidental meeting between Tanner and his ex-father-in-law close to the day of the sad anniversary of the death of Tanner's wife and son succeeds in making the gloomy holidays even worse.
Season 1, episode 12
W: Bruce Shelly, David Ketchum D: Randal Kleiser
With Tom Selleck (Bud Moore), Jacqueline Scott (Ardis Leversee), Victoria Vetri (Connie), Lara Parker (Dr. Bruner), Craig Littler (Ted Gilardi), Lou Gossett Jr. (Bobby Koball), Gavan O'Herlihy (Steve Leversee). Tanner has to advise a promising athlete about whether to leave school and accept a lucrative offer from a major league scout.
Season 1, episode 13
W: Robert Van Scoyk D: Allen Baron
With Larry Hagman (Officer Morgan), Warren Kemmerling (Lt. Keeley), Vicky Huxtable (Nancy Hooper), John Dewey Carter (Prosecutor), Larry Wilcox (Chuck Grainger), Claude Johnson (Officer Bolkey), Hoke Howell (Reporter), Eddie Quillan (Mr. Krebbs), Liam Dunn (Judge). Lucas takes on added responsibility as student adviser and he lands behind bars.
Season 1, episode 14
D: Robert Scheerer
With Charles Martin Smith (Rod Jernigan), Herschel Bernardi (Bert Nevins), Sharon Gless (Miss Reynolds), Marge Redmond (Mrs. Nevins), Maidie Norman (Ellen Russell), Amzie Strickland (Mrs. Jernigan), Ned Wertimer (Mr. Jernigan), Ted Gehring (Wallace). A difference of opinion between a student and his art instructor erupts into alleged classroom violence.
Season 1, episode 15
D: Walter Doniger
With Ty Henderson (Bobbie Williams), Greg Morris (Spence Williams), Tom Middleton (Lloyd Ackerman), Ta-Tanisha (Jean), Marcus Smith (Officer). Lucas offers to help a black youth whose desire to attend Truman High is discouraged by his older brother, who insists the youth stay in their own neighborhood.
Season 1, episode 16
D: Alexander Singer
With Tyne Daly (Jenny Milo), Kim Hunter (Bess Reiter), Milton Selzer (Howard Sohrbeck), Allison McKay (Sue Clemmer), Patti Cohoon (Kay Hailey), Fred Holliday (Art Clemmer). When the parents of four young children are killed in an auto accident, Lucas fights to keep the establishment from splitting up the children.
Season 1, episode 17
D: Charles S. Dubin
With Barry Livingston (Randy Atkins), Diane Baker (Jessica Atkins), Michael Callan (Joe Atkins), William Christopher (Jack), Linda Dano (Leslie). A mother, doomed by cancer, faces the decision of turning her schoolboy son over to the care of her estranged husband.
Season 1, episode 18
D: Richard Benedict
With William Windom (Ed Michaelson), Samantha Eggar (Angela Bowman), Marian Collier (Dorothy Michaelson), John David Carson (Tom Michaelson), Eddie Quillan (Mr. Krebbs). A woman teacher's emotional stability is threatened when she has an affair with one of her students.
Season 1, episode 19
D: Leo Penn
With Barbara Rhoades (Franny), Michael Lerner (Artie), Betty White (Lydia Merrick), Norman Fell (Abe Lydecker), Jaye P. Morgan (Judy Farrell), Jamie Farr (Officer), Nicholas Colasanto (Mel), Danny Goldman (Frankie), Billy Sands (Bellhop), Henry Brown (Phil), Lenore Kasdorf (Ann Callahan), Elisabeth Brooks (Gretchen). Tanner goes to New York City for a convention and takes Glendon with him to stay at his grandmother's, but the boy wanders off and the search begins.
Season 1, episode 20
D: Robert Scheerer
With Leslie Nielsen (Jack Stanton), Mark Hamill (Craig Stanton), Scott Colomby (Blackie Mason), Stuart Nisbet (Mr. Thompson), Garry Walberg (Prosecutor), Eric Olson (Stephen Stanton), Susan Brown (Miriam Stanton), Hoke Howell (Reporter), Chick Vennera (Roach). A demanding father's lack of communication with his son builds, and he doesn't realize it until it's too late.
Season 1, episode 21
D: Paul Krasny
With Ned Beatty (Harold Ogden), Woodrow Parfrey (Joe Angeles), Byron Morrow (Wilson Putnam), Eddie Firestone (Les Patterson), Regis Cordic (Chairman), Booth Colman (Jerry Trevin), Paul Mantee (Dean Rogers), Michael O'Keefe (Brad Patterson). Truman High and Lucas face a lawsuit when he elects to defend two students who uncover questionable dealings of a local businessman.
Season 1, episode 22
D: Charles S. Dubin
With Andrew Duggan (Greg Warden), Mitch Vogel (Danny Warden), Jose Feliciano (Himself), Joan Prather (Connie Tracy), Eddie Quillan (Mr. Krebbs), Susan Sennett (Melissa Morgan), Jason Wingreen (Fred Tracy), Frank Farmer (Larry Morgan), Janice Carroll (Alice Tracy), Claire Brennen (Gail Morgan), Ji-Tu Cumbuka (Bouncer). Tanner gets into trouble with a father when he tries to help the man's son pursue a musical career. (Last show of the series.)