The Paper Chase - Season 1 - Eps 8: The Seating Chart

Name: Eps 8: The Seating Chart
Released: 1978-11-14
Rating: 3.8

1978-11-14 • ? min • ⭐ 7.556/10

The ""Paper Chase"" meets ""I love Lucy:"" as the weekend approaches, Hart gets a special, paying assignment to index Kingsfield's new book of essays, due Monday â€“ an impossibly difficult deadline. On top of that, Ernie, his employer, asks him to manage the tavern for the weekend while he's away. Meanwhile, Willis Bell, the portly, disorganized member of the study group who's always perceverating about his 200+ page property outline becomes obsessed with his goofy picture on Kingsfield's seating chart. He believes that it's why he always gets called on first in each class and sets about to get his picture changed. When Kingsfield's secretary declines to change it without his approval, Bell arrives on the hair-brained scheme to break into Kingsfield's office and change it. While everything possible is going wrong at Ernie's and the index is still looming large, Hart inexplicably agrees to accompany Bell in this ill-fated mission becoming the Ethyl to Bell's Lucy. Of course, even thoug

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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.