PAPER CHASE,THE S1

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• Release Year: 1978
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Rural Minnesotan James T. Hart (James Stephens) is unprepared for the life of a first-year law student at an Ivy League school. On his first day, in his first class, he elicits the ire of the revered and feared contracts professor Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr. (played by the brilliant John Houseman reprising his Academy Award -winning movie role). But Hart is committed. And smart. And so is The Paper Chase. ; ; In order to keep up with the never-ending workload, Hart joins a study groups for support. Each episode explores the trials and tribulations, the successes and failures, the competition and camaraderie of those students under pressure. ; ; Premiering on CBS in 1978, the show's first season won great critical praise for its dramatic depth and superb acting. It reran of PBS for a couple of years until Showtime picked it up (with much of the original cast) and continued on through graduation.
• Cast: John Houseman; James Stephens; Tom Fitzsimmons; James Keane; Betty Harford; Michael Tucci; Clare Kirkconnell; Robert Ginty; Andra Millian; Francine Tacker; Wortham Krimmer; Penny Johnson; Charles Hallahan; Jonathan Segal; Deka Beaudine; Stanley DeSantis; Steve Levitt; Steven Peterman; Peter Nelson; Lainie Kazan; Jane Kaczmarek; Michael Prince; Carole Goldman; Mark Schubb; Jessica Salem; David Paymer; Diana Douglas; Jack Manning; Sandy Simpson; Priscilla Taylor; Marion Yue; Herb Mendelsohn; Carl Gabriel Yorke; Brock Michaels; Philip Levien; Patricia Perangeli; Karl Ellis; Kenneth F. Graham; Ken Rector; Lionel Douglass; Lisa Pescia; Harvey Lewis; Michael Mitz; Thomas Babson; Justin Lord; Gary Dubin; Jan Arvan; Ann Bronston; Deborah Tilton; Monica MacLean; James Saito; Ellen Brandt; Abraham Gordon; Jon Lovitz; Arthur Adams; David Drucker; Royce Wallace; John Randolph; Tucker Smith; Peter White; Andrea Curtis; K.C. Ligon; Christine Belford; Jordan Clarke; Eduard Franz; June Havoc; Brianne Leary; Leigh McCloskey; Denise Nicholas; Wendy Rastattar; Robert Reed; Judith Chapman; Harry Davis; Michael Durrell; Jayne Meadows; W.K. Stratton; David Ackroyd; Howard Caine; Darleen Carr; Kim Cattrall; Elyssa Davalos; John Devlin; Marilu Henner; Susan Howard; Sherry Hursey; Alan Napier; Don Porter; Glynn Turman; Danuta Wesley; Helen Kleeb; Stephen Parr; Eddie Barth; Paul Burke; David Caruso; Michael Chieffo; Anne Lockhart; Michael Shannon; John Friedrich; Marilyn Jones; Mady Kaplan; Tony Lo Bianco; John Rubinstein; Teresa Baxter; Len Birman; Marshall Colt; Anthony Costello; Peter Fitzsimmons; Michael Goodwin; Jerome Guardino; Pitt Herbert; Allan Miller; Stacey Nelkin; Gerard Prendergast; Boyd Bodwell; Mark Hanks; George Petrie; Alex Courtney; Edward Edwards; Charles Fleischer; Robin Gammell; Ilene Graff; Wendy Kilbourne; Severn Darden; Woody Eney; John Lehne; Allyn Ann McLerie; David Opatoshu; Arthur Rosenberg; Gregory Sierra; Lora Staley; Philip Abbott; Earl Boen; Lewis Charles; Deborah Harmon; Pepe Serna; Debbie Zipp; Zitto Kazann; Ysabel MacCloskey; Byron Morrow; Tony Plana; Geoff Edwards; Anne Marie McEvoy; Charles Robinson; Janine Turner; Alan Feinstein; Cooper Huckabee; Duncan Ross; Lynn Swann; Donald Hotton; Kurt Kreuger; Timothy Patrick Murphy; Elizabeth Raines; Vernon Weddle; Buck Young; B.J. Bartlett; Larry Cedar; Alex Curi; William Dozier; Michael Morrison; John Perryman; Lillian Adams; David Andrews; Carolyne Barry; John Christy Ewing; Bruce Gray; Nancy Morgan; James Karen; Paul Koslo; Daniel Zippi; Redmond Gleeson; Art Lund; John Otrin; Peggy Rea; Christine Dickinson; Phil Iati; Biff McGuire; Bill Story; Betty A. Bridges; Danny Chambers; Frank McCarthy; Alan Shea; Richard Wygant; Dana Elcar; Mike Genovese; Charles Lanyer; Faye Michael Nuell; Martha Scott; Peter Chernisch; Jed Cooper; Pat Corley; Kathy Garrick; Lillah McCarthy; Albert Sanders; David Hunt Stafford; Kay Cummings; Sándor Naszódy; Gregory Braendel; Eunice Christopher; Susan Friedman; Barbara Lindsay; Mary Betten; Dee Croxton; Jane Hallaren; Alex Henteloff; J.A. Preston; Ray Underwood; John Walcutt; Nina Wilcox; Tanya Boyd; Jane Daly; Herb Davis; Hettie Lynne Hurtes; Robert Karvelas; Wayne Long; Tonyo Meléndez; John Miranda; Charles Seaverns; Virginia Baker; Linda McClure; William Prince; Sterling Swanson; Monica Tenner; J.P. Bumstead; Kay Dingle; Ty Henderson; William Martel; Allison Argo; Raleigh Bond; Timothy Busfield; Steve Fifield; Roy Firestone; Bill Morey; Meg Wyllie; Frank Corsentino; Bill Deiz; Read Morgan; Ken Olin; Ron Stein; Doug McGrath; Burr Smidt; Raymond Fitzpatrick; Tom McDonald; Tony Perez; Carol Potter; Adrian Ricard; Mario Roccuzzo; Lisa Sloan; Vivian Brown; David Cadiente; Jill Lent; Nelson Olmsted; Larry Charles White; Susan Tanner; Leslie Vallen; Kristine Greco; Kerry McGrath; Lee Kessler; Hap Lawrence; Eric Server; William Sterchi; Kenneth White; Ralph Buckley; Mark Gavin; Lark Geib; Daniel Adam Goodman; Robert Snively; Pernell Roberts; Joby Baker; Mae Marmy; Armin Shimerman; Brent Spiner; Russell Arms; Marc Cavell; Louise Foley; Tracy Morgan; Toby Richardson; David Darrell; Francine Schiffres; Susanne Severeid; Harry Caesar; Paul Laurence; Paul Linke; Barry Brooks; Harold Wayne Jones; Chip McAllister; Michael O'Dwyer; Jerold Pearson; Julie Philips; Patricia Davis; Kenneth O'Brien; Stanley Bennett Clay; Herbert K. Graham; Larry Mitchell; David Ogden Stiers; Jeffrey Wolf; Antony Carbone; Channing Clarkson; Jean Foster; John Hood; Don Pedro Colley; George Marshall Ruge; Adele Yoshioka; Robert Dominick Jones; Michael Alaimo; Erich Anderson; William Bogert; Walter Brooke; Dorothy Butts; Stuart Charno; Scatman Crothers; David Dangler; Ted Demers; Herb Edelman; Matthew Faison; Cliff Gorman; John Herzfeld; Nicholas Hormann; Linda Hoy; John Ingle; Dennis Kerwin; Norman Lloyd; John McCann; Mary McCusker; Greg Norberg; Larry Poindexter; Joel Polis; Peggy Pope; Nicholas Pryor; Patsy Rahn; Amy Resnick; Stanley Ralph Ross; William Schallert; Bill Shick; Kurtwood Smith; Timothy Stack; Philip Sterling; Robert Symonds; Sydney Walsh; Maggie Wheeler; Michael Alldredge; Meg Bennett; Theodore Bikel; Dori Brenner; Terry Burns; Tony Burton; Rebeccah Bush; Gerald Castillo; Christian Clemenson; George Coe; Sid Conrad; David Eisner; Russ Fega; Dan Frischman; John Furey; Robert Gallo; Doris Hess; Peter Hobbs; Stephen James; Todd Jeffries; Claude Earl Jones; Robert Knepper; Matt Landers; Joel Lawrence; Mary McKuen; Tawny Moyer; Renee Orin; Virginia Peters; Mike Pniewski; Mary-Robin Redd; Robin Pearson Rose; William Utay; Steve Vinovich; Patrick Warburton; Melissa Weber; Kate Williamson; Arthur Tovey; Deborah Ludwig Davis; William Winckler; Jack Bender; Ralph Senensky; Corey Allen; Philip Leacock; Alex March; Lynn Roth; Larry Elikann; Seymour Robbie; Nick Havinga; Joseph Pevney; Gwen Arner; William Hale; Joseph Hardy; Carl Kugel; Harvey S. Laidman; Peter Levin; Kenneth Gilbert; Marvin Kupfer; Mark Cullingham; Arthur Allan Seidelman; Georg Stanford Brown; Alf Kjellin; Sharron Miller; Gilbert Moses; James Bridges; John Jay Osborn Jr.; Max Eisenberg; Joe S. Landon; Lee Kalcheim; Paul L. Ehrmann; Marshall Goldberg; Gordon Hoban; David P. Harmon; Judy Merl; Paul Eric Myers; Stephen Schneck; Ellison Carroll; T.S. Cook; Leigh Curran; Stephen Kandel; Richard Kramer; James Menzies; Albert Aley; Daniel Benton; A.L. Christopher; William Froug; William Hopkins; Jerome Ross; Worley Thorne; Shimon Wincelberg; A. Martin Zweiback; David Strang; Peter L. Dixon; Robert Lewin; Susan Miller; Irv Pearlberg; Mann Rubin; Marley Sims; Bruce Franklin Singer; Eric Cohen; B.E. Johnson; Lynne Kelsey
• Director: Jack Bender
• Runtime: 18:00
• Company: Shout Factory, 20th Century Fox
• Media Format: Series