The Seating Chart
Episode 8 · 1978-11-14
- Drama
Episode overview
The ""Paper Chase"" meets ""I love Lucy:"" as the weekend approaches, Hart gets a special, paying assignment to index Kingsfield's new book of essays, due Monday – an impossibly difficult deadline. On top of that, Ernie, his employer, asks him to manage the tavern for the weekend while he's away. Meanwhile, Willis Bell, the portly, disorganized member of the study group who's always perceverating about his 200+ page property outline becomes obsessed with his goofy picture on Kingsfield's seating chart. He believes that it's why he always gets called on first in each class and sets about to get his picture changed. When Kingsfield's secretary declines to change it without his approval, Bell arrives on the hair-brained scheme to break into Kingsfield's office and change it. While everything possible is going wrong at Ernie's and the index is still looming large, Hart inexplicably agrees to accompany Bell in this ill-fated mission becoming the Ethyl to Bell's Lucy. Of course, even thoug
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
