Pilot. The Paper Chase  

First aired: 9/9/1978    Production Code: X-910

James Hart has no idea what he is about to step into, as he enters the class room of the brilliant and tyrannical Professor Kingsfield during his first day of law school.

2. The Man Who Would Be King  

First aired: 9/19/1978    Production Code: T-704

Hart tries his best to impress Kingsfield, but instead, works himself into exhaustion to accomplish it.

3. A Day In The Life Of . . .  

First aired: 9/26/1978    Production Code: T-702

In an effort to find fresh young talent for his law firm, Franklin's father and sister make a trip to the college, causing turmoil and chaos everywhere they go.

4. Great Expectations  

First aired: 10/3/1978    Production Code: T-701

Anderson faces expulsion from law school when falsely accused of breaking into the school dispensary after a wild dorm party.

5. Voices Of Silence  

First aired: 10/10/1978    Production Code: T-705

While taking part in a prison internship help program, Logan helps an imprisoned political activist, and gets fooled by the prisoner he represents.

6. Nancy  

First aired: 10/17/1978    Production Code: T-703

While dating a girl who appears to be the perfect match, Hart finds out that she is the daughter of a mobster after her father is brutally murdered.

7. Da Da  

First aired: 10/31/1978    Production Code: T-707

A student's shaky marriage along with Kingfield's heavy handed academic style are staggering to a young man and leads to him going on a drinking binge.

8. The Seating Chart  

First aired: 11/14/1978    Production Code: T-706

Bell feels that his unflattering seating chart picture is the reason that he gets singled out in every class, and plots to change it with or without permission.

9. Moot Court  

First aired: 11/21/1978    Production Code: T-709

Raymond Livingston is a disciplined black student, who unfortunately gets coupled with the trouble maker Bell, as they go up against Hart and Logan in the school's annual moot court contest.

10. Kingsfield's Daughter  

First aired: 11/28/1978    Production Code: T-711

Hart has fallen for a beautiful young woman who is also highly knowledgeable about contractual law...and about young male students.

11. The Sorcerer's Apprentice  

First aired: 12/5/1978    Production Code: T-708

Elizabeth Logan has started a campaign to force a justice of the Supreme court to employee female clerks and the on campus womens rights organization has jumped on the cause.

12. Bell And Love  

First aired: 12/12/1978    Production Code: T-710

One of Hart's old girlfriends has left her husband and shows up on his doorstep. He asks Bell to help take care of her and Bell quickly falls in love with Jenny. Meanwhile, Hart gets embroiled in a challenge from Kingsfield to his study group, where the answer seems clearcut but never is.

13. An Act Of Desperation  

First aired: 12/19/1978    Production Code: T-712

Jonathan is desperate to do well on a Kingsfield mid-term and hires someone to steal him a copy of the test. He tricks the rest of his study group into believing that it is an old Kingsfield exam making them accessories to his cheating.

14. Losing Streak  

First aired: 1/19/1979    Production Code: T-714

Anderson develops a gambling problem which not only interferes with his studies and his class work, but also puts his friends in the position of having to help him out, in class and financially.

15. The Man In The Chair  

First aired: 2/6/1979    Production Code: T-715

A wheelchair-bound student joins the study group, goes after Logan, and tries to win a scholarship that Hart is trying to get.

16. A Matter Of Anger  

First aired: 2/13/1979    Production Code: T-716

A black woman full of anger is feeling the increased pressure to perform, having been accepted to the law school through the government program Affirmative Action. Hart reluctantly takes on the job of the woman's tutor.

17. The Apprentice  

First aired: 2/20/1979    Production Code: T-717

While doing research of an appellate case for Kingsfield, Hart uncovers an important legal precedent that was overlooked by a senior student.

18. Once More With Feeling  

First aired: 2/27/1979    Production Code: T-718

When Elizabeth Logan spurns a respected law professor who makes improper advances toward her, she is surprised to see the result is a low class grade.

19. The Clay Footed Idol  

First aired: 3/20/1979    Production Code: T-719

His students find reason to question Professor Kingsfield's ethics while investigating a case he lost after a prominent attorney who once clerked for Kingsfield refuses to help remove doubt about his past methods.

20. The Tables Down At Ernie's  

First aired: 3/27/1979    Production Code: T-713

It looks like Ernie's Tavern is headed for demolition, unless Hart can gather enough support legally to keep that from happening.

21. A Case Of Detente  

First aired: 4/17/1979    Production Code: T-721

Hart falls in love with a Russian gymnastic performer, who is visiting the United States. A law professor who is visiting the school tries to address this sticky situation, which is a violation of the strict rules set down by the Soviet government.

22. Scavenger Hunt  

First aired: 4/24/1979    Production Code: T-720

The annual scavenger hunt has started, with Kingsfield giving his law classes only three days to research 100 of the most difficult legal questions and present a response.