Lucan: The Series

 Some Rare Behind the Scenes Promotional Media for LUCAN. The ABC Friday Night TV Movie. The Premiere Broadcast was on May 22, 1977, the re-broadcast aired on August 5, 1977.  

Below is a review of  LUCAN'S  premiere episode for the Williamsport Area Community College Newspaper  Spotlight.  In the late 70s and early 80s, Television and the "Big Three" networks – ABC, CBS, NBC – received many complaints from worried parents, Television watchdog and research groups, and some religious organizations about the amount of violent content on their prime-time shows. By the time Lucan premiered, changes were just starting to be made. This reviewer feels ABC may have overcompensated so much that instead of merely toning down the action, they "turned it off."  Lucan became more of a pacifist after the Pilot, though he wasn't afraid to fight back when he was put on the defense. Even if Lucan had a more aggressive personality, he needed to keep his cool. The University had Lucan under strict watch and followed by a Bounty hunter at all times. On the plus side, at least they found Kevin Brophy's performance convincing. 

"Lucan's Theme" was arranged by composer Fred Karlin and used in the Pilot Movie. The music was sentimental and melancholy, representing how Lucan was all alone in the world. He'd lost the closest man to a father in death and wanted to find his real parents and the answers to why he was abandoned. When the fugitive concepts were added, the next ten episodes featured more pulse-pounding action-oriented "chase" music by composer JJ Johnson. 1st Main Title 2nd Main Title

“In 1967 a group of hunters ventured into the remote part of Northern Minnesota. They came back with a strange story. Where there are no roads, the human-animal is rarely seen, and other forms of life may flourish undisturbed. From the outside, these dense forests look lifeless, but inside there are Elk and Caribou, Black Bear, and Bobcat, It is also the last refuge in America of Canis Lupis … the Grey Wolf. The Hunters who penetrated deep into this lush wilderness claimed to have seen a creature living there, which at first, they didn’t identify. It turned out to be a 10-year-old human, a boy. Deserted by his parents at an early age, he somehow survived, adapted to the environment. How? We may never know. He hunted like a wolf. He ate, and slept, and even howled like a wolf. An expedition captured the wild boy and brought him to a University Research Center in California. There, 10 years ago, he began his immense journey. It is the journey man himself has made. From the forest to civi

Lucan was apparently unpreviewed by the TV Guide critics, so it wasn't given a proper review when it premiered on ABC, May 22nd, 1977.