Paper Chase

Season 4 - Paper Chase

• Season 4 Episode 5: Graduation (1986) Graduation day: Kingsfield opposes the offering of a faculty position to commencement-speaker Hart; Bell ponders an offer in Idaho.
• Season 4 Episode 4: Honor (1986) Zeiss (Wortham Krimmer) sues the law school when he fails to graduate with honors.
• Season 4 Episode 3: Suppressed Desires (1986) Laura notes her suppressed desires at a wild party and begins to reconsider her decision to be a lawyer.
• Season 4 Episode 2: Mistaken Identity (1986) Franklin Ford sees another side of the law as the victim of mistaken identity and false arrest.
• Season 4 Episode 1: Wounded Hart (1986) Rita Harriman turns to Hart after breaking her engagement and having an article rejected by Kingsfield.

Season 3 - Paper Chase

• Season 3 Episode 12: Security (1985) A once-prominent attorney being denied government medical aid enlists Kingsfield's help to fight the legal system.
• Season 3 Episode 11: Big D (1985) Hart and others encourage Rose to handle her own divorce when she does not like what she hears.
• Season 3 Episode 10: It's Only a Show (1985) Bell, director of the annual law-school 'Follies,' brings down the house with his impression of Kingsfield.
• Season 3 Episode 9: Lasting Impressions (1985) Golden must defend an anti-Semitic drug-company head (William Schallert) in a libel suit; guest Scatman Crothers.
• Season 3 Episode 8: The Source (1985) Kingsfield blocks the printing of an incriminating article when the source refuses to come forward.
• Season 3 Episode 7: Free Advice (1985) First-year student Tom Ford faces charges of practicing law without a license by someone who took his advice.
• Season 3 Episode 6: Decisions (1985) Hart, named president of the law review, tries to establish a new editorial style despite Kingsfield's criticism.
• Season 3 Episode 5: Decisions (1985) Hart is considered for president of the law review; housewife Rose Samuels (Lainie Kazan) begins law school.
• Season 3 Episode 4: Laura's Struggle (1985) A woman law student becomes dependent on drugs trying to cope with academic pressure.
• Season 3 Episode 3: Pressure (1985) Ford defends a strung-out student expelled for striking a professor; Rose goes on her first date in 25 years.
• Season 3 Episode 2: The Day Kingsfield Missed Class (1985) The students learn self-reliance when Kingsfield misses class the day before an exam.
• Season 3 Episode 1: Choice (1985) Ford faces a major crisis when his pregnant girlfriend decides to have an abortion; Rose is afraid to attend a tea.

Season 2 - Paper Chase

• Season 2 Episode 19: Not Prince Hamlet (1984) Hart, Bell, Ford and Kingsfield try to help a man understand why his son committed suicide.
• Season 2 Episode 18: Billy Pierce (1984) Bell and a former pro-football star (Lynn Swann) are suspected of stealing one of Kingsfield's tests.
• Season 2 Episode 17: Judgment Day (1984) A popular young professor's chance of tenure is subject to the academic maxim 'publish or perish.'
• Season 2 Episode 16: War of the Wonks (1984) Lack of equal computer time for law and engineering students leads to a contest between Kingsfield and the computer.
• Season 2 Episode 15: Hart Goes Home (1984) Hart goes home to Minnesota for his sister's wedding and plunges into law studies by long-distance phone.
• Season 2 Episode 14: Burden of Proof (1984) Hart faces a conflict of interests when he represents a robbery suspect who may have mugged Kingsfield.
• Season 2 Episode 13: Tempest in a Pothole (1984) Bell, thrown from his bike by a pothole, wants to sue the city but needs the testimony of sole-witness Kingsfield.
• Season 2 Episode 12: Limits (1984) Ford seeks Kingsfield's help fighting a petition to force the retirement of a professor condemned as senile.
• Season 2 Episode 11: My Dinner With Kingsfield (1984) A fierce snowstorm strands Professor Kingsfield and forces him to seek shelter with Hart.
• Season 2 Episode 10: The Advocates (1984) Hart takes a special course in trial advocacy to hone his skills for a moot-court debate with his rival, Rita.
• Season 2 Episode 9: Mrs. Hart (1984) Connie must choose between marrying Hart or accepting a Rhodes scholarship to study law.
• Season 2 Episode 8: Labor of Love (1984) An abundance of schoolwork jeopardizes new romances for Hart and the president (Michael Tucci) of the law review.
• Season 2 Episode 7: Cinderella (1983) A single mother resuming studies tries to juggle classwork for Kingsfield with caring for her 5-year-old daughter.
• Season 2 Episode 6: Snow (1983) Hart, bullied into using the new law-review computer, loses Kingsfield's footnotes when the power goes out.
• Season 2 Episode 5: Spreading It Thin (1983) Hart proves a popular professor's law-review article is the plagiarized work of an anthropology student.
• Season 2 Episode 4: Commitments (1983) Kingsfield's academic demands disrupt, perhaps on purpose, the continuing romance between Hart and Connie Lehman.
• Season 2 Episode 3: Outline Fever (1983) Bell uses Kingsfield's classroom to auction off Hart's grade-A outline for contract law to first-year students.
• Season 2 Episode 2: Plague of the Locusts (1983) Ford's father, a lawyer with a big firm, recruits students for summer jobs using an ill-gotten list of grade-point averages.
• Season 2 Episode 1: Birthday Party (1983) Hart plans an 80th birthday party for Kingsfield in conjunction with his possible appointment to the Supreme Court.

Season 1 - Paper Chase

• Season 1 Episode 22: Scavenger Hunt (1979) Kingsfield's annual scavenger hunt gives the law students three hectic days to research 100 difficult legal questions.
• Season 1 Episode 21: A Case of Detente (1979) A visiting law professor (Pernell Roberts) addresses the delicate matter of Hart's infatuation with a Soviet gymnast.
• Season 1 Episode 20: The Tables Down at Ernie's (1979) Demolition of Ernie's Tavern for campus expansion pits a crusading Hart against Kingsfield, counsel for the building committee.
• Season 1 Episode 19: The Clay Footed Idol (1979) A prominent lawyer (June Havoc) who once clerked for Kingsfield refuses to help remove doubt about his past ethics.
• Season 1 Episode 18: Once More With Feeling (1979) A respected law professor (Robert Reed) grades a test of Elizabeth Logan's, then proposes a way to improve her score.
• Season 1 Episode 17: The Apprentice (1979) Hart researches an appeals case for Kingsfield and catches a crucial precedent missed by a third-year student.
• Season 1 Episode 16: A Matter of Anger (1979) Hart reluctantly agrees to tutor an angry black student (Denise Nicholas) who receives government tuition.
• Season 1 Episode 15: The Man in the Chair (1979) Hart and the others find themselves doing favors for a paraplegic student (Leigh McCloskey) whose mother knows Kingsfield.
• Season 1 Episode 14: Losing Streak (1979) A third-year student (Christine Belford) draws Anderson into an ill-advised poker game with rich members of the law society.
• Season 1 Episode 13: An Act of Desperation (1979) Desperate Jonathan, nervous about midterms, obtains old exam questions and hires a tutor (David Ogden Stiers).
• Season 1 Episode 12: Bell and Love (1978) Hart sends an ex-girlfriend with marital woes to Bell for cheering-up, not expecting shy Willis will fall for her.
• Season 1 Episode 11: Sorcerer's Apprentice (1978) The campus women's rights group adopts Elizabeth Logan's campaign to get a Supreme Court justice to hire female clerks.
• Season 1 Episode 10: Kingsfield's Daughter (1978) Hart becomes romantically involved with a young woman who later tells him she is Professor Kingsfield's daughter.
• Season 1 Episode 9: Moot Court (1978) A simulated courtroom debate pairs Hart with Elizabeth Logan and lackadaisical Bell with a highly disciplined military student.
• Season 1 Episode 8: The Seating Chart (1978) Hart agrees to help paranoid Bell replace his unflattering picture on Professor Kingsfield's seating chart.
• Season 1 Episode 7: Da Da (1978) Kingsfield intimidates a troubled student whose wife (Kim Cattrall), Hart learns, is pregnant.
• Season 1 Episode 6: Nancy (1978) Hart unhappily learns his girlfriend's father served as legal counsel to a gangland figure.
• Season 1 Episode 5: Voices of Silence (1978) Logan takes up the cause of a political activist (David Ackroyd) in solitary confinement.
• Season 1 Episode 4: Great Expectations (1978) Anderson, charged with a crime he did not commit, asks Hart to defend him before the law school's disciplinary board.
• Season 1 Episode 3: A Day in the Life Of ... (1978) A third-year student (Darlene Carr) offers Hart a chance to capitalize on her position as editor of the law review.
• Season 1 Episode 2: The Man Who Would Be King (1978) First-year student Franklin Ford III nearly succumbs to the pressures of his family's legal legacy.
• Season 1 Episode 1: Pilot (1978) A hard-working Midwesterner adjusts to the demanding schedule of a prestigious law school.

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  The Paper Chase

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