
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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Air Date: 1978-09-09
James Hart (James Stephens), a farmboy from Minnesota, starts his first year of law school. Being unprepared for his ...
Air Date: 1978-09-19
Anderson pushes Hart to run for the first-year slot on the Law School Council. Elsewhere, Ford's father and sister co...
Air Date: 1978-09-26
Hart asks Kingsfield to answer a question before he thoroughly researched the case himself. As a penalty, Kingsfield ...
Air Date: 1978-10-03
The study group plans a weekend getaway picnic to blow off steam, but Professor Kingsfield assigns a lot of work at t...
Air Date: 1978-10-10
As part of Prof. Rolf's prison internship program for first year students, Logan is assigned to help in a hearing of ...
Air Date: 1978-10-17
Hart has a girlfriend with whom he is very close and share's his deep love of the law. Together they uncover a ""secr...
Air Date: 1978-10-31
This episode focuses on Tom Clayton, the guy with the ""photographic memory"" in the study group. Early in the episo...
Air Date: 1978-11-14
The ""Paper Chase"" meets ""I love Lucy:"" as the weekend approaches, Hart gets a special, paying assignment to index...
Air Date: 1978-11-21
This is one of the standout episodes written by the John Jay Osborn, Jr., the author of the original book and screenp...
Air Date: 1978-11-28
Hart falls for a woman who turns out to be Kingsfield's daughter - Susan Fields.
Air Date: 1978-12-05
This episode features Elizabeth Logan. Supreme Court Justice Reynolds pays a visit to campus to commemorate a milesto...
Air Date: 1978-12-12
A female friend from Hart's hometown comes to visit Hart while trying to sort out her struggling marriage. As usual, ...
Air Date: 1978-12-19
A struggling Jonathan is so desperate to pass Kingsfield's midterm, he hires someone to steal a copy of the test. He ...
Air Date: 1979-01-19
Anderson, who has been making a small killing at poker amonst his friends, sees a lovely 3L (3rd year law student), C...
Air Date: 1979-02-06
A new student, Paul Chandler, joins the class mid semester. He is wheelchair bound yet athletic and handsome. The s...
Air Date: 1979-02-13
A black woman has an inferiority complex because she was accepted to law school through the Affirmative Action progra...
Air Date: 1979-02-20
Kingsfield hires Hart to help his assistant on an important appellate case, an unprecedented distinction for a first ...
Air Date: 1979-02-27
When Logan spurns a respected law professor who makes improper advances toward her, she is surprised to see the resul...
Air Date: 1979-03-20
Kingsfield has his students form groups to argue both sides of a case of their choice. When Hart's study group select...
Air Date: 1979-03-27
This episode further develops Kingsfield's character and fleshes-out his past. It begins with the news that Ernie's ...
Air Date: 1979-04-17
Although this was not the last episode shown, as the production numbers tell, it was the last one produced. I remem...
Air Date: 1979-04-24
The main story concerns a ""scavenger hunt"" assignment that Prof. Kingsfield gives the students. They must get at le...