The Paper Chase (TV series)
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | John Jay Osborn, Jr. |
| Starring | (See article) |
| Composer(s) | Stephen Seretan (1.0, 1.1, 1.5, 1.7, 1.8, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18, 1.19) Charles Fox (1.2, 1.3) Thomas Newman (1.20, 1.21) Richard Shores (1.4, 1.6, 1.7, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 59 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Lynn Roth Robert C. Thompson |
| Producer(s) | Albert Aley Robert Lewin Ernest A. Losso |
| Cinematography | Gene A. Talvin |
| Editor(s) | Axel Hubert Sr. Rod Stephens |
| Running time | 47-48 min. |
| Production company(s) | 20th Century Fox Television |
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| Original network |
CBS (season 1) Showtime (seasons 2-4) |
| Original release | September 9, 1978 - April 24, 1979 April 15, 1983 – August 9, 1986 |
The Paper Chase is an American drama television series based on a 1970 novel by John Jay Osborn, Jr., as well as a 1973 film based on the novel. It follows the lives of law student James T. Hart and his classmates at Harvard Law School.
The CBS television network aired the series in the 1978–1979 season. John Houseman reprised his movie role, and James Stephens played Hart. It was cancelled after one year; PBS subsequently rebroadcast all of the episodes. In 1983, pay-cable network Showtime brought back the show with both Houseman and Stephens, as well as some other members of the original television cast. At the end of the fourth season, Hart finally graduates from law school.
James T. Hart is a law student from rural Minnesota who enters the intensely competitive environment of Harvard Law School. He has chosen Harvard specifically to study with Professor Charles W. Kingsfield, the world's leading authority on contract law. Kingsfield inspires both awe and fear in his students in his unremitting determination to prepare them for the practice of law.
To cope with the heavy workload, Hart joins a study group organized by Franklin Ford III. Ford is under intense pressure to succeed. His family has produced an unbroken string of outstanding lawyers going back generations, culminating in his demanding father, the senior partner in a very prestigious Wall Street law firm. The study group includes smooth woman-chaser Thomas Craig Anderson, slob Willis Bell, idealistic activist Elizabeth Logan, and struggling Jonathan Brooks, who is married to Asheley. Of these students, Brooks left Harvard Law School after he was caught cheating.
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