| The Paper Chase: Season 4 | |||||
| 20th Century Fox Television (1986) | |||||
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| 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 |
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| Producer |
Steve Ecclesine
Ernest A. Losso Lynn Roth |
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| Writer |
John Jay Osborn Jr.
James Bridges Lynne Kelsey B.E. Johnson |
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| Cinematography |
Alfred Taylor
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| Musician |
Stephen Seretan
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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. |
| 60 mins 6/24/1986 1. A Wounded Hart | |
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Harriman's absentee boyfriend dumps her, precipitating a brief fling with Hart, who has trouble recovering. Soloway channels Sir Thomas Moore - or does he?
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| 60 mins 7/1/1986 2. Mistaken Identity | |
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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.
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| 60 mins 7/8/1986 3. Honor | |
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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.
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| 60 mins 7/15/1986 4. Suppressed Desires | |
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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.
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| 8/9/1986 5. Graduation | |
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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.
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