The Paper Chase
Episode 1 · 1978-09-09
- Drama
Episode overview
James Hart (James Stephens), a farmboy from Minnesota, starts his first year of law school. Being unprepared for his first day of ""Contracts"" he is 'shrouded' by Professor Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr. (John Houseman), pronouncing the hapless Hart as ""dead"" in his class. This means that he will never call on Hart and his part of the class's ""Socratic dialogue will be at an end. Hart finds out that Kingsfield shrouds one student each year and that student remains deceased all year long. Kingsfield is the reason Hart has chosen to come to this school; we are shown a couple of his nightmares now that he is the ""former Mr. Hart"". Another student, Franklin Ford III (Tom FitzSimmons), is organizing a study group and invites Hart to join. The members of the study group decide to have each member do an outline of one of the classes that they can then copy for each member of the group. Hart wants to do the Contracts outline but the others worry that Hart cannot be effective if he is shrouded. In
Season 1 episodes
1. The Paper Chase1978-09-09
2. The Man Who Would Be King1978-09-19
3. A Day in the Life of . . .1978-09-26
4. Great Expectations1978-10-03
5. Voices of Silence1978-10-10
6. Nancy1978-10-17
7. Da Da1978-10-31
8. The Seating Chart1978-11-14
9. Moot Court1978-11-21
10. Kingsfield's Daughter1978-11-28
11. The Sorcerer's Apprentice1978-12-05
12. Bell and Love1978-12-12
13. An Act of Desperation1978-12-19
14. Losing Streak1979-01-19
15. The Man in the Chair1979-02-06
16. A Matter of Anger1979-02-13
17. The Apprentice1979-02-20
18. Once More with Feeling1979-02-27
19. The Clay Footed Idol1979-03-20
20. The Tables Down at Ernie's1979-03-27
21. A Case of Detente1979-04-17
22. Scavenger Hunt1979-04-24
