September 9, 1978
James Hart (James Stephens), a farmboy from Minnesota, starts his first year of law school. Being unprepared for his first day of ...Read more
September 19, 1978
Anderson pushes Hart to run for the first-year slot on the Law School Council. Elsewhere, Ford's father and sister come for a visi...Read more
September 26, 1978
Hart asks Kingsfield to answer a question before he thoroughly researched the case himself. As a penalty, Kingsfield gives Hart ad...Read more
October 3, 1978
The study group plans a weekend getaway picnic to blow off steam, but Professor Kingsfield assigns a lot of work at the last minut...Read more
October 10, 1978
As part of Prof. Rolf's prison internship program for first year students, Logan is assigned to help in a hearing of a political a...Read more
October 17, 1978
Hart has a girlfriend with whom he is very close and share's his deep love of the law. Together they uncover a ""secret"" reposito...Read more
October 31, 1978
This episode focuses on Tom Clayton, the guy with the ""photographic memory"" in the study group. Early in the episode Kingsfield...Read more
November 14, 1978
The ""Paper Chase"" meets ""I love Lucy:"" as the weekend approaches, Hart gets a special, paying assignment to index Kingsfield's...Read more
November 21, 1978
This is one of the standout episodes written by the John Jay Osborn, Jr., the author of the original book and screenplay for the 1...Read more
November 28, 1978
Hart falls for a woman who turns out to be Kingsfield's daughter - Susan Fields.
December 5, 1978
This episode features Elizabeth Logan. Supreme Court Justice Reynolds pays a visit to campus to commemorate a milestone anniversar...Read more
December 12, 1978
A female friend from Hart's hometown comes to visit Hart while trying to sort out her struggling marriage. As usual, Hart is swamp...Read more
December 19, 1978
A struggling Jonathan is so desperate to pass Kingsfield's midterm, he hires someone to steal a copy of the test. He tricks the re...Read more
January 19, 1979
Anderson, who has been making a small killing at poker amonst his friends, sees a lovely 3L (3rd year law student), Chris Carlyle ...Read more
February 6, 1979
A new student, Paul Chandler, joins the class mid semester. He is wheelchair bound yet athletic and handsome. The study group we...Read more
February 13, 1979
A black woman has an inferiority complex because she was accepted to law school through the Affirmative Action program. At Kingsfi...Read more
February 20, 1979
Kingsfield hires Hart to help his assistant on an important appellate case, an unprecedented distinction for a first year student....Read more
February 27, 1979
When Logan spurns a respected law professor who makes improper advances toward her, she is surprised to see the result is a low gr...Read more
March 20, 1979
Kingsfield has his students form groups to argue both sides of a case of their choice. When Hart's study group selects a case that...Read more
March 27, 1979
This episode further develops Kingsfield's character and fleshes-out his past. It begins with the news that Ernie's bar, a favori...Read more
April 17, 1979
Although this was not the last episode shown, as the production numbers tell, it was the last one produced. I remember that the ...Read more
April 24, 1979
The main story concerns a ""scavenger hunt"" assignment that Prof. Kingsfield gives the students. They must get at least 70 questi...Read more