Season 1 (1978)

The Paper Chase
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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

The Man Who Would Be King
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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

A Day in the Life of . . .
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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

Great Expectations
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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

Voices of Silence
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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

Nancy
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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

Da Da
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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

The Seating Chart
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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

Moot Court
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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

Kingsfield's Daughter
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November 28, 1978

Hart falls for a woman who turns out to be Kingsfield's daughter - Susan Fields.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice
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December 5, 1978

This episode features Elizabeth Logan. Supreme Court Justice Reynolds pays a visit to campus to commemorate a milestone anniversar...Read more

Bell and Love
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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

An Act of Desperation
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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

Losing Streak
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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

The Man in the Chair
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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

A Matter of Anger
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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

The Apprentice
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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

Once More with Feeling
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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

The Clay Footed Idol
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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

The Tables Down at Ernie's
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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

A Case of Detente
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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

Scavenger Hunt
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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