The Paper Chase

The Paper Chase (1978)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Creator: James Bridges
  • First Air Date: 1978-09-09
  • Last Air Date: 1986-05-02
  • Total Seasons: 4
  • Total Episodes: 58
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 60 min.
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Network: CBS, Showtime
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Summary

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.

  • Keywords: law school, strict teacher
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    The Paper Chase Seasons

    Season 1

    First Air Date: 1978-09-09
    22 Episodes

    Season 2

    First Air Date: 1983-04-15
    19 Episodes

    Season 3

    First Air Date: 1985-05-11
    12 Episodes

    Season 4

    First Air Date: 1986-02-01
    5 Episodes

    The Paper Chase Episodes

    Title Air Date Duration
    Season 1Episode 1The Paper Chase60 min
    Season 1Episode 2The Man Who Would Be King60 min
    Season 1Episode 3A Day in the Life of . . .60 min
    Season 1Episode 4Great Expectations60 min
    Season 1Episode 5Voices of Silence60 min
    Season 1Episode 6Nancy60 min
    Season 1Episode 7Da Da60 min
    Season 1Episode 8The Seating Chart60 min
    Season 1Episode 9Moot Court60 min
    Season 1Episode 10Kingsfield's Daughter60 min
    Season 1Episode 11The Sorcerer's Apprentice60 min
    Season 1Episode 12Bell and Love60 min
    Season 1Episode 13An Act of Desperation60 min
    Season 1Episode 14Losing Streak60 min
    Season 1Episode 15The Man in the Chair60 min
    Season 1Episode 16A Matter of Anger60 min
    Season 1Episode 17The Apprentice60 min
    Season 1Episode 18Once More with Feeling60 min
    Season 1Episode 19The Clay Footed Idol60 min
    Season 1Episode 20The Tables Down at Ernie's60 min
    Season 1Episode 21A Case of Detente60 min
    Season 1Episode 22Scavenger Hunt60 min
    Season 2Episode 1Outline Fever60 min
    Season 2Episode 2Birthday Party60 min
    Season 2Episode 3Spreading It Thin60 min
    Season 2Episode 4Cinderella60 min
    Season 2Episode 5Commitments60 min
    Season 2Episode 6Plague of Locusts60 min
    Season 2Episode 7Snow60 min
    Season 2Episode 8Mrs. Hart60 min
    Season 2Episode 9Tempest in a Pothole60 min
    Season 2Episode 10Labor of Love60 min
    Season 2Episode 11Burden of Proof60 min
    Season 2Episode 12War of the Wonks (aka Machine)60 min
    Season 2Episode 13Limits60 min
    Season 2Episode 14Hart Goes Home60 min
    Season 2Episode 15Judgment Day (aka Tenure)60 min
    Season 2Episode 16My Dinner with Kingsfield60 min
    Season 2Episode 17The Advocates60 min
    Season 2Episode 18Not Prince Hamlet (aka Rashomon)60 min
    Season 2Episode 19Billy Pierce60 min
    Season 3Episode 1The Choice60 min
    Season 3Episode 2The Source60 min
    Season 3Episode 3Pressure60 min
    Season 3Episode 4Laura's Struggle60 min
    Season 3Episode 5Free Advice60 min
    Season 3Episode 6Decisions (2)60 min
    Season 3Episode 7Decisions (1)60 min
    Season 3Episode 8The Day Kingsfield Missed Class60 min
    Season 3Episode 9Lasting Impressions60 min
    Season 3Episode 10It's Only a Show60 min
    Season 3Episode 11The Big D60 min
    Season 3Episode 12Security60 min
    Season 4Episode 1A Wounded Hart60 min
    Season 4Episode 2Mistaken Identity60 min
    Season 4Episode 3Suppressed Desires60 min
    Season 4Episode 4Honor60 min
    Season 4Episode 5Graduation60 min
    • John Houseman

      as Charles Kingsfield
    • James Stephens

      as James T. Hart
    • Lainie Kazan

      as Rose Samuels
    • Penny Johnson Jerald

      as Vivian Conway
    • Peter Nelson

      as Tom Ford
    • Diana Douglas

      as Prof. Tyler
    • Michael Tucci

      as Gerald Golden
    • Betty Harford

      as Mrs Nottingham
    • James Keane

      as Willis Bell
    • Tom Fitzsimmons

      as Franklin Ford III
    • Andra Millian

      as Laura Kiernan
    • Clare Kirkconnell

      as Rita Harriman
    • Robert Krimmer

      as Martin Zeiss
    Production Robert Lewin Producer
    Production Robert C. Thompson Executive Producer
    Production Albert Aley Producer

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