Just watched something most interesting - the guy with the screening room gave me a DVD that had my episode of Lucas Tanner on it. I don't think I've seen it since either the day we shot it or the day it aired - the show lasted only a season (if that) and has never to my knowledge been in reruns. This was taken from a 16mm print. Other than knowing I did the episode and the one anecdote I shared in my book about wanting to wear glasses and director Gordon Hessler's response, I remembered absolutely nothing about it. The first surprise was seeing us on location on a trail near a lake somewhere - have no idea where and have no memory of it at all, which is unusual since I never got to go on location anywhere. I also can't remember where we actually shot the school scenes - maybe Marshall High maybe somewhere in the Valley. Alan Abelew (George in Nudie Musical) was a regular, and the guest star was beautiful Lee Purcell. My pal Trish Soodik was also a semi-regular - she died a couple of years ago. And I knew I'd worked with Kimberly Clark before and now I know where, since she was in it, too. I had more to do than I remembered and the glasses were a good touch, I think. The show was reasonably well written but could not be done today as it was then - about a teacher whose student is in love with him. The best thing about the show, though, was David Shire's music - I'll have to tell him that he actually wrote music to something I acted in - he'll get a kick out of it. David Hartman was Lucas Tanner and he's very good if a little weird at times. I think he found his calling soon after this show with Good Morning America or whatever show he was on.
