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The Paper Chase: Season 4

The Paper Chase

The Paper Chase: Season 4

20th Century Fox Television (1986)
DVD
826663180114
TV Series | Drama
USA | English | Color | 05:00

This listing comprises not only the original CBS show, but also the Showtime additional seasons: The Paper Chase: Second Year, The Paper Chase: Third Year, and The Paper Chase: Graduation Year Based on the movie, written by John Osborne, The Paper Chase is a classroom drama about students in a law school (based on Harvard Law School). The two main characters are a stern but fair Contract Law professor, Charles W. Kingsfield, and a student who idolizes him, James Hart. The Paper Chase was voted the best new drama of 1978.
Although the critics raved it didn't get the "numbers" that CBS wanted and it was cancelled after its first season. Five years later Showtime picked it up and made 3 new seasons of episodes from 1983-1986.


Episodes View details

1 A Wounded Hart 60 min | Jun 24, 1986

Harriman's absentee boyfriend dumps her, precipitating a brief fling with Hart, who has trouble recovering. Soloway channels Sir Thomas Moore - or does he?

2 Mistaken Identity 60 min | Jul 01, 1986

Ford becomes the victim of identify theft and is arrested by police and jailed. Although friends Hart, Golden, and even Kingsfield rescue him, his brush with reality leaves his presumption of the rectitude of the legal system badly shaken.

3 Honor 60 min | Jul 08, 1986

Potential honors graduates agonize over their final class standing. The job Zeiss wants depends on his graduating with honors. Mrs. Nottingham gets sued. Everyone learns to settle, some with Kingsfield's nudging.

4 Suppressed Desires 60 min | Jul 15, 1986

A party themed "Supressed Desries" is being thrown, wherein the students get to as something they wish they could be other than a lawyer. When there's an art competition. Kiernan decides to enter but it clashes with her studies.

5 Graduation | Aug 09, 1986

As Hart and the other 3Ls graduate, Hart learns what others think of him: friend Ford, Professor Tyler, and Kingsfield, who has final lessons to teach Hart. Hart sums up his relationship with Kingsfield in his commencement address.

Cast View all

Penny Johnson Vivian Conway
James Keane Willis Bell
Lainie Kazan Rose Samuels
Peter Nelson Tom Ford
John Houseman Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.
Michael Tucci Gerald Golden
Diana Douglas Professor Tyler
James Stephens James T. Hart
Steve Levitt Stotz
Wortham Krimmer Martin Zeiss
Andra Millian Laura Kiernan
Betty Harford Mrs. Nottingham
Tom Fitzsimmons Franklin Ford III
Clare Kirkconnell Rita Harriman
Michael Prince Dean Perry
Steven Peterman Soloway
Patrick Warburton
Robert Knepper Howard
David Paymer Myslesky
Tony Burton
Mike Pniewski Police Officer
Christian Clemenson
Russ Fega
George Coe
Steve Vinovich

Edition details

Nr Discs 1
Screen Ratios Fullscreen (4:3)
Edition Release Date Jan 23, 2018
Regions Region 1