
The Paper Chase
Critically lauded drama about the life and pressures of a group of students at a prestigious Eastern law school, with a strict and domineering contract-law professor named Charles Kingsfield, who alternately inspires and terrifies the students.
The Paper Chase
Critically lauded drama about the life and pressures of a group of students at a prestigious Eastern law school, with a strict and domineering contract-law professor named Charles Kingsfield, who alternately inspires and terrifies the students.
The Paper Chase
Critically lauded drama about the life and pressures of a group of students at a prestigious Eastern law school, with a strict and domineering contract-law professor named Charles Kingsfield, who alternately inspires and terrifies the students.

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Episode 1: The Paper Chase
James Hart (James Stephens), a farmboy from Minnesota, starts his first year of law school. Being un...
Episode 2: The Man Who Would Be King
Anderson pushes Hart to run for the first-year slot on the Law School Council. Elsewhere, Ford's fat...
Episode 3: A Day in the Life of . . .
Hart asks Kingsfield to answer a question before he thoroughly researched the case himself. As a pen...
Episode 4: Great Expectations
The study group plans a weekend getaway picnic to blow off steam, but Professor Kingsfield assigns a...
Episode 5: Voices of Silence
As part of Prof. Rolf's prison internship program for first year students, Logan is assigned to help...
Episode 6: Nancy
Hart has a girlfriend with whom he is very close and share's his deep love of the law. Together they...
Episode 7: Da Da
This episode focuses on Tom Clayton, the guy with the ""photographic memory"" in the study group. E...
Episode 8: The Seating Chart
The ""Paper Chase"" meets ""I love Lucy:"" as the weekend approaches, Hart gets a special, paying as...
Episode 9: Moot Court
This is one of the standout episodes written by the John Jay Osborn, Jr., the author of the original...
Episode 10: Kingsfield's Daughter
Hart falls for a woman who turns out to be Kingsfield's daughter - Susan Fields.
Episode 11: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
This episode features Elizabeth Logan. Supreme Court Justice Reynolds pays a visit to campus to comm...
Episode 12: Bell and Love
A female friend from Hart's hometown comes to visit Hart while trying to sort out her struggling mar...
Episode 13: An Act of Desperation
A struggling Jonathan is so desperate to pass Kingsfield's midterm, he hires someone to steal a copy...
Episode 14: Losing Streak
Anderson, who has been making a small killing at poker amonst his friends, sees a lovely 3L (3rd yea...
Episode 15: The Man in the Chair
A new student, Paul Chandler, joins the class mid semester. He is wheelchair bound yet athletic and...
Episode 16: A Matter of Anger
A black woman has an inferiority complex because she was accepted to law school through the Affirmat...
Episode 17: The Apprentice
Kingsfield hires Hart to help his assistant on an important appellate case, an unprecedented distinc...
Episode 18: Once More with Feeling
When Logan spurns a respected law professor who makes improper advances toward her, she is surprised...
Episode 19: The Clay Footed Idol
Kingsfield has his students form groups to argue both sides of a case of their choice. When Hart's s...
Episode 20: The Tables Down at Ernie's
This episode further develops Kingsfield's character and fleshes-out his past. It begins with the n...
Episode 21: A Case of Detente
Although this was not the last episode shown, as the production numbers tell, it was the last one pr...
Episode 22: Scavenger Hunt
The main story concerns a ""scavenger hunt"" assignment that Prof. Kingsfield gives the students. Th...
Episode 1: Outline Fever
The second year begins with Hart and Ford moving to an off-campus apartment, while Bell is still at...
Episode 2: Birthday Party
Kingsfield's friend and former student, now the Attorney General of the United States, asks him if h...
Episode 3: Spreading It Thin
Hart has a feeling that a popular law professor has plagiarized an article for Law Review, and tries...
Episode 4: Cinderella
Connie attempts to help a returning student, now a single mother with no child care, and recruits Ha...
Episode 5: Commitments
Hart fails to appreciate Connie's heavy workload and turns to another woman for comfort. Bell attemp...
Episode 6: Plague of Locusts
Hart has a tough choice when multiple firms offer him internships, while Bell is anxious because all...
Episode 7: Snow
As usual, the Law Review is behind schedule, but this time Golden is sidelined with pneumonia. Secon...
Episode 8: Mrs. Hart
Hart is given a run of the Review for the night when Golden meets a woman who is demanding of his ti...
Episode 9: Tempest in a Pothole
Hart's girlfriend receives a scholarship offer in England. Hart tries to presuade her to stay with...
Episode 10: Labor of Love
Hart and Harriman compete to represent the school in the national moot court competition. First-year...
Episode 11: Burden of Proof
Bell sues the city for damages and lost wages when he rides over a pothole and breaks his arm. Kings...
Episode 12: War of the Wonks (a.k.a.) Machine
A minor incident between Golden and an engineering student about a parking space causes hostilities...
Episode 13: Limits
Ford reaches out to Kingsfield for help when his fellow students seek to force a teacher they suspec...
Episode 14: Hart Goes Home
Working in the public defender's office, Hart has to defend the perpetrator who assaulted and robbed...
Episode 15: Judgement Day
The students fear they will lose a popular professor when he becomes eligible for tenure but lacks s...
Episode 16: My Dinner With Kingsfield
A snowstorm strands Kingsfield, forcing him to spend the evening with Hart while Ford and Bell get t...
Episode 17: The Advocates
Hart and Harriman compete to represent the school in the national moot court competition. First-year...
Episode 18: Not Prince Hamlet
A grieving father struggles to understand why his son committed suicide.
Episode 19: Billy Pierce
Stressed-out first-year students prepare for Kingsfield's final. When the final exam is stolen, Bell...
Episode 1: Decisions (1)
Episode 2: Decisions (2)
Episode 3: Free Advice
Episode 4: Laura's Struggle
Episode 5: Pressure
Tom Ford defends a student who assaulted a teacher. Rose goes on a date.
Episode 6: The Big D
Episode 7: The Day Kingsfield Missed Class
Episode 8: The Source
Episode 9: The Choice
Episode 10: It's Only a Show
Episode 11: Security
Episode 12: Lasting Impressions
Episode 1: A Wounded Hart
Episode 2: Mistaken Identity
Episode 3: Suppressed Desires
Episode 4: Honor
Episode 5: Graduation
The episode which brings it together. We learn of the future plans of the characters. Enjoyed Ford...
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