Three former “Doctor Odyssey” crew members are suing Disney and 20th Television for alleged sexual harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination and negligent hiring.
Caroline Mack, Alicia Haverland and Ava Steinbrenner filed a lawsuit Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court detailing their alleged experience working on the props crew of the ABC medical drama.
In the court docs obtained by The Post, the plaintiffs claimed their supervisor, assistant prop master Tyler Patton, subjected them to “an unchecked campaign of sexual harassment.”
The trio alleged that Tyler — who reported to his wife, prop master Tammie Patton — constantly harassed the plaintiffs with “sexual jokes, innuendoes, comments, sexual gestures and images, and unwanted touching.”
The court docs claimed that in July 2024, Tyler texted the prop department group message a link appearing to reference a news story about Joe Biden dropping out of the presidential race. But according to the plaintiffs, the link sent them to an image of a naked male.
In another alleged incident, he asked aloud to other employees why “no one had broke her yet,” in reference to one of the plaintiffs, according to court docs.
Tyler, according to the crew members cited in the lawsuit, “engaged in much of his sexually harassing conduct in the presence of management,” including his wife, who “took no action to stop him.”
During one confrontation, Tyler allegedly told other employees, “If I wasn’t f—ing the boss, I’d be fired,” the lawsuit claims.
The plaintiffs eventually complained about Tyler’s behavior and he was fired, the court docs state. However, the lawsuit alleges that Don Bracken, described as “a friend of the Pattons,” was hired as Tyler’s replacement and demoted the crew members to “demeaning” tasks.
Mack, Haverland and Steinbrenner were later fired alongside the rest of the entire props department except for Bracken, and Disney “then almost immediately hired a whole new set of employees,” they alleged.
In the lawsuit, the crew members claimed they’ve been “blacklisted” by Disney “in retaliation for bringing forward their good-faith complaints.”
The plaintiffs said they “have suffered and will continue to suffer pain and suffering, extreme and severe mental anguish and emotional distress, as well as economic damages including the loss of past and future earnings and benefits.”
The former crew members are requesting a jury trial. They didn’t specify the damages they are seeking.
The Post has reached out to Disney for comment. The Pattons could not be reached for comment.
“Doctor Odyssey,” which premiered in September, stars Joshua Jackson as a physician working on board a luxury cruise ship. The cast also includes Phillipa Soo, Sean Teale and Don Johnson.
ABC has yet to renew the series for Season 2.
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