The Paper Chase - Season 1 Episode 1 The Paper Chase
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
Year: 1986
Genre: Drama
Country: United States of America
Director: James Bridges
Cast: John Houseman, James Stephens, Lainie Kazan, Penny Johnson Jerald, Peter Nelson, Diana Douglas
Crew: Albert Aley (Producer), Robert Lewin (Producer), Robert C. Thompson (Executive Producer)
First Air Date: Sep 09, 1978
Last Air date: May 02, 1986
Season: 4 Season
Episode: 58 Episode
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDb: 7.60/10 by 7.00 users
Popularity: 13.913
Language: English
Keyword : law school, strict teacher
Episode
The Paper Chase
The Man Who Would Be King
A Day in the Life of . . .
Great Expectations
Voices of Silence
Nancy
Da Da
The Seating Chart
Moot Court
Kingsfield's Daughter
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Bell and Love
An Act of Desperation
Losing Streak
The Man in the Chair
A Matter of Anger
The Apprentice
Once More with Feeling
The Clay Footed Idol
The Tables Down at Ernie's
A Case of Detente
Scavenger Hunt