Paper Chase Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Paper Chase: Season 4 (1986)

• Season 4 Episode 5: Graduation

  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

  Zeiss (Wortham Krimmer) sues the law school when he fails to graduate with honors.

• Season 4 Episode 3: Suppressed Desires

  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

  Franklin Ford sees another side of the law as the victim of mistaken identity and false arrest.

• Season 4 Episode 1: Wounded Hart

  Rita Harriman turns to Hart after breaking her engagement and having an article rejected by Kingsfield.

Paper Chase: Season 3 (1985)

• Season 3 Episode 12: Security

  A once-prominent attorney being denied government medical aid enlists Kingsfield's help to fight the legal system.

• Season 3 Episode 11: Big D

  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

  Bell, director of the annual law-school 'Follies,' brings down the house with his impression of Kingsfield.

• Season 3 Episode 9: Lasting Impressions

  Golden must defend an anti-Semitic drug-company head (William Schallert) in a libel suit; guest Scatman Crothers.

• Season 3 Episode 8: The Source

  Kingsfield blocks the printing of an incriminating article when the source refuses to come forward.

• Season 3 Episode 7: Free Advice

  First-year student Tom Ford faces charges of practicing law without a license by someone who took his advice.

• Season 3 Episode 6: Decisions

  Hart, named president of the law review, tries to establish a new editorial style despite Kingsfield's criticism.

• Season 3 Episode 5: Decisions

  Hart is considered for president of the law review; housewife Rose Samuels (Lainie Kazan) begins law school.

• Season 3 Episode 4: Laura's Struggle

  A woman law student becomes dependent on drugs trying to cope with academic pressure.

• Season 3 Episode 3: Pressure

  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

  The students learn self-reliance when Kingsfield misses class the day before an exam.

• Season 3 Episode 1: Choice

  Ford faces a major crisis when his pregnant girlfriend decides to have an abortion; Rose is afraid to attend a tea.

Paper Chase: Season 2 (1983 - 1984)

• Season 2 Episode 19: Not Prince Hamlet

  Hart, Bell, Ford and Kingsfield try to help a man understand why his son committed suicide.

• Season 2 Episode 18: Billy Pierce

  Bell and a former pro-football star (Lynn Swann) are suspected of stealing one of Kingsfield's tests.

• Season 2 Episode 17: Judgment Day

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  A fierce snowstorm strands Professor Kingsfield and forces him to seek shelter with Hart.

• Season 2 Episode 10: The Advocates

  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

  Connie must choose between marrying Hart or accepting a Rhodes scholarship to study law.

• Season 2 Episode 8: Labor of Love

  An abundance of schoolwork jeopardizes new romances for Hart and the president (Michael Tucci) of the law review.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Cinderella

  A single mother resuming studies tries to juggle classwork for Kingsfield with caring for her 5-year-old daughter.

• Season 2 Episode 6: Snow

  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

  Hart proves a popular professor's law-review article is the plagiarized work of an anthropology student.

• Season 2 Episode 4: Commitments

  Kingsfield's academic demands disrupt, perhaps on purpose, the continuing romance between Hart and Connie Lehman.

• Season 2 Episode 3: Outline Fever

  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

  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

  Hart plans an 80th birthday party for Kingsfield in conjunction with his possible appointment to the Supreme Court.

Paper Chase: Season 1 (1978 - 1979)

• Season 1 Episode 22: Scavenger Hunt

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  Hart reluctantly agrees to tutor an angry black student (Denise Nicholas) who receives government tuition.

• Season 1 Episode 15: The Man in the Chair

  Hart and the others find themselves doing favors for a paraplegic student (Leigh McCloskey) whose mother knows Kingsfield.

• Season 1 Episode 14: Losing Streak

  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

  Desperate Jonathan, nervous about midterms, obtains old exam questions and hires a tutor (David Ogden Stiers).

• Season 1 Episode 12: Bell and Love

  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

  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

  Hart becomes romantically involved with a young woman who later tells him she is Professor Kingsfield's daughter.

• Season 1 Episode 9: Moot Court

  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

  Hart agrees to help paranoid Bell replace his unflattering picture on Professor Kingsfield's seating chart.

• Season 1 Episode 7: Da Da

  Kingsfield intimidates a troubled student whose wife (Kim Cattrall), Hart learns, is pregnant.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Nancy

  Hart unhappily learns his girlfriend's father served as legal counsel to a gangland figure.

• Season 1 Episode 5: Voices of Silence

  Logan takes up the cause of a political activist (David Ackroyd) in solitary confinement.

• Season 1 Episode 4: Great Expectations

  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 ...

  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

  First-year student Franklin Ford III nearly succumbs to the pressures of his family's legal legacy.

• Season 1 Episode 1: Pilot

  A hard-working Midwesterner adjusts to the demanding schedule of a prestigious law school.