The Paper Chase - Season 1 - Eps 7: Da Da

Name: Eps 7: Da Da
Released: 1978-10-31
Rating: 3.8

1978-10-31 • ? min • ⭐ 7.556/10

This episode focuses on Tom Clayton, the guy with the ""photographic memory"" in the study group. Early in the episode Kingsfield intimidates Tom to the point he is incapable of speaking and freezes up. In an effort to ""start at the very beginning"" and teach him how to talk again, Kingsfield tells him to say ""da da"". In this episode Tom's wife, Karen, announces she's pregnant. Faced with stresses due to his (losing) struggle with law school and the further complication of having a child, Tom goes on a drinking binge and falls behind in Kingsfield's class. In an all-night cram session, where members of the class impersonate Kingsfield, Tom is helped to learn to synthesize the material he so easily memorizes into fully developed ideas and he is able to make a good showing in the actual class the next day.

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About The Paper Chase

Title: The Paper Chase

First Air Date: 1978-09-09

Last Air Date: 1986-05-02

Status: Ended

Rating: 7.556/10 (from 9 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 4

Total Episodes: 58

Network: CBS Showtime

Genres: Drama

Production Companies: Unknown

Synopsis

Critically lauded drama about the life and pressures of a group of students at a prestigious Eastern law school, with a strict and domineering contract-law professor named Charles Kingsfield, who alternately inspires and terrifies the students.