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词条 The Paper Chase (TV series)
释义

  1. Plot overview

     Season 1  Season 2  Season 3  Season 4 

  2. Cast

  3. Production

     Development  Theme music  Opening narrative 

  4. Episodes

  5. Reception

     Awards 

  6. Home media

  7. Broadcast

     Syndication  International broadcast 

  8. References

  9. External links

{{Infobox television
| show_name = The Paper Chase
| image = The Paper Chase.png
| caption = Title screen
| genre = Drama
| based_on = The Paper Chase by John Jay Osborn, Jr.
| developer = James Bridges
| starring = (See article)
| theme_music_composer =
| opentheme =
| endtheme =
| composer = 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 = United States
| language = English
| num_seasons = 4
| num_episodes = 59
| list_episodes = List of The Paper Chase episodes
| executive_producer = Lynn Roth
Robert C. Thompson
| producer = Albert Aley
Robert Lewin
Ernest A. Losso
| editor = Axel Hubert Sr.
Rod Stephens
| location =
| cinematography = Gene A. Talvin
| camera =
| runtime = 60 minutes
| company = 20th Century Fox Television
| channel = CBS (season 1)
Showtime (seasons 2-4)
| picture_format =
| audio_format =
| first_run =
| first_aired = {{Start date|1978|9|9}} - {{End date|1979|4|24}}
{{Start date|1983|4|15}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1986|8|9}}
| status =
| related =
| website =
}}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 adaptation. It follows the lives of law student James T. Hart and his classmates at an unnamed law school, modeled on Harvard Law School but filmed on the University of Southern California campus (featuring its Bovard Administration Building, Doheny Library and Von KleinSmid Center) and in Stages 2 and 4 at 20th Century Fox Studios in Los Angeles.[1]

Plot overview

Season 1

James T. Hart is a law student from rural Minnesota who enters the intensely competitive environment of a prestigious law school 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 immense 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. Brooks drops out after he voluntarily confesses to cheating.

Hart works part-time at Ernie's Tavern to help pay his way through school. In the pilot, a waitress (Marilu Henner) shows him the ropes.

There was a four-year hiatus between the end of the first season and the start of the second.

Season 2

Hart survives the first year with flying colors and joins the staff of Law Review (an honor reserved for the top students), under the leadership of Gerald Golden. He becomes romantically involved with first-year law student Connie Lehman, only to lose her when she wins a Rhodes Scholarship and goes to Oxford University. Later, he repeatedly clashes with Law Review rival Rita Harriman, though he admits to Ford that he is perversely attracted to her.

Season 3

Hart is now the president of Law Review. The new students include Ford's younger brother Tom and former housewife Rose Samuels. The Ford brothers have to come to terms with their sibling rivalry. Rose deals with a surprise divorce and being so much older than her classmates.

Season 4

This season consists of only six episodes, including a two-part finale. In the two-hour finale, Hart has to decide between taking a federal court clerkship or a position in a private firm after graduation. His decision is further complicated when he is invited to apply for a newly vacant faculty position at the school, an option opposed by Kingsfield, who believes he lacks the necessary experience. Hart, the top student in the graduating class, gives the commencement speech, bringing the series to a close.

Cast

Ordered by number of credited episodes; only actors with eight or more episodes are listed.

CharacterActorNotesSeasons
James T. Hart James Stephens1–4
Professor Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr.John HousemanHouseman appeared in all but one of the episodes, the exception being "A Case of Détente".1–4
Franklin Ford IIITom FitzsimmonsHart's closest friend in law school and a member of his study group1–4
Willis BellJames KeaneA member of Hart's study group1–4
Mrs. NottinghamBetty HarfordKingsfield's longtime secretary1–4
Gerald GoldenMichael TucciThe top student in the class ahead of Hart's, president of Law Review2–4
Vivian ConwayPenny JohnsonAn African-American law student2–4
Rita HarrimanClare KirkconnellA law student and Hart's fiercest competitor2–4
Laura KiernanAndra MillianA law student2–4
Thomas Craig AndersonRobert GintyA member of Hart's study group1
Elizabeth LoganFrancine TackerA member of Hart's study group1
Martin ZeissWortham KrimmerA law student. Krimmer actually became a lawyer after his acting career ended.2–4
Tom FordPeter NelsonA law student and Franklin Ford's younger brother3–4
Rose SamuelsLainie KazanAn older law student3–4
Professor TylerDiana DouglasA law professor, former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission3–4
ErnieCharles HallahanProprietor of Ernie's Tavern1
Jonathan BrooksJonathan SegalA struggling member of Hart's study group1
Asheley BrooksDeka BeaudineJonathan Brooks' wife1
GagarianStanley DeSantisA law student1
StotzSteve LevittA law student2–4
SolowaySteven PetermanA nerdy law student2–4
Dean PerryMichael PrinceDean of the law school2–4
Connie LehmanJane KaczmarekA law student and Hart's love interest2

Production

Development

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.

Theme music

In the first year, the theme song was "The First Years", written by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox, and performed by Seals and Crofts. In the pilot, the opening used an instrumental version, and the ending used a different vocal version. Starting in the second year, a classical instrumental piece replaced it.

Opening narrative

In the first year, the program opens with Professor Kingsfield, in class, saying, "The study of law is something new and unfamiliar to most of you—unlike any other schooling you have ever known before." After the theme song, he continues: "You teach yourselves the law but I train your minds. You come in here with a skull full of mush, and, if you survive, you leave thinking like a lawyer."

Episodes

{{main article|List of The Paper Chase episodes}}
Season Episodes Network Premiere Finale DVD
release date
1 22 CBS September 9, 1978 April 24, 1979 April 7, 2009
2 19Showtime April 15, 1983 August 21, 1984 December 15, 2009
3 12 May 11, 1985 September 10, 1985 September 26, 2017
4 6 June 28, 1986 August 9, 1986 January 23, 2018

Reception

Awards

CableACE Award:

  • 1985: Best Dramatic Series
  • 1987: Best Dramatic Series

Home media

Shout! Factory has released the four seasons on DVD in Region 1.[2]
DVD nameEp#Release date
Season One22 April 7, 2009
Season Two19 December 15, 2009
Season Three12 September 26, 2017
Season Four6 January 23, 2018

Broadcast

Syndication

In the late 1980s, The Family Channel rebroadcast the entire series in a late-night time slot, at midnight Eastern Time. The series was later seen in the early 1990s on A&E, and in the early 2000s on GoodLife Television.

International broadcast

The series aired in the UK on BBC Two and in Colombia.

References

1. ^[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077058/locations The Paper Chase (1978-1986): Filming Locations, Internet Movie Database]
2. ^The Paper Chase - 'Season 4: The Final Season' is on the Docket for DVD Coming from Shout! Factory in late January {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007115831/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Paper-Chase-Season-4/23716 |date=2017-10-07 }}

External links

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  • {{IMDb title|0077058|The Paper Chase}}
  • {{tv.com show|the-paper-chase|The Paper Chase}}
    • {{tv.com episodes|the-paper-chase|2450|The Paper Chase}}
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