Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Sara' from 1970-1982:
- Brenda Vaccaro as Sara Yarnell (1976)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Sara':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
With Jerry Hardin (Frank Dixon), Bill McKinney (Tom Sellers), Michael LeClair (Art), Sylvia Soares (Claranet), Patricia Ganem (Hannah). Debut of a series about a 19th-century frontier teacher who refuses to conform to the schoolmarm image. In the first episode, the people of the town vent their pent-up rage against the Indians on a 10-year-old half-breed who wants to attend Sara's school.
Season 1, episode 2
With Jerry Hardin (Frank Dixon), Michael LeClair (Art), Robert Mandan (Clarkson), Lance Kerwin (Derek), Stephen Manley (Jimmy Higgins). A bright and well-educated student from the East must choose between loyalty to his unreasonable father or fitting in among Sara's other students. Sara hopes the boy will kindle in them a new spark of learning.
Season 1, episode 3
With Harry Townes (Doc Vaughn), Mary Carver (Miss Halstead), Richard Dysart (Noonan), Joseph V. Perry (Foreman), Jean Rasey (Kathleen). A serious epidemic strikes Independence and the daughter of a former doctor is the only one who can diagnose and treat the ill.
Season 1, episode 4
With Inga Swenson (Henrietta), Jeffrey Jones, Don Collier (Karl). When she tries to attract two farm boys to her school, Sara finds herself more worried about their mother.
Season 1, episode 5
With Kim Richards (Maude), Hunter von Leer (Dennis), Ron Soble (Bell), Art Burns (Cockburn), Richard Stanley (Harvey). A youth living with his harsh uncle steals a horse to run away, and Sara is alone in her campaign to save him from the gallows.
Season 1, episode 6
With Henry Darrow (Angelo), Kevin Hagen (Griffus), Joe De Santis (Vittori), Raymond Singer. When an expert dynamiter comes to town to blast open a new vein of a silver mine, he threatens to sweep Sara off her feet as well.
Season 1, episode 7
With Sam Groom (Harrington), Robert Donner (Stevens), Christian Grey, Raymond Singer. When a visitor comes to town and tries to romance Sara, she's startled to learn she's "off limits".
Season 1, episode 8
With Melinda Dillon (Lily Henchard), John Carter (Henchard), Frank Marth (Loomis), John Harkins (Washburn), Megan Sullivan (Cassie Henchard), Portia Nelson (Mrs. Doyle). A woman declared mad on the word of her husband returns after three years in an asylum to be reunited with her daughter.
Season 1, episode 9
With Ford Rainey (Jake Willis), Tom Skerritt (Newt Johnson), Shannon Terhune (Jenny), Gaye Nelson (Beth Willis), Nora Eckstein (Emma). Sara is dismayed when one of her favorite students, a bright 13-year-old girl, announces her impending marriage to a young ranch hand.
Season 1, episode 10
With Victor French (Achille), Richard Yniguez (Puma), Larry Ward (Joe). Sara is kidnapped by an old trapper and fears the worst.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Katharyn Powers
With Peter Donat (Alan Yarnell), Ted Gehring (Bill Parkes), Vicki Schreck (Ruth), Albert Henderson (Samuel Higgins), Kathy Ritzke (Ellen). Sara's brother wants her to move back East to care for the children of his gravely ill wife.
Season 1, episode 12
With Kristy McNichol. An old prospector dies and leaves half of his gold mine to Sara -- and all of his feisty 14-year-old granddaughter. (Last show of the series.)