Buy The Paper Chase: Season One DVD
Posted by hgoise on December 22, 2010
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Fans of Classic TV shows should rejoice with the release of The Paper Fling on DVD.
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Based on an unforgettable 1973 movie, the series focused on the lives of students struggling through law school at a prestigious university.
The series lasted only one season on CBS with 22 episodes, from 1978 to 1979, and this boxed site from Bawl!Factory collects those episodes, which revolves around the students’ first year of ‘trial’ and tribulatios.
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PBS reran the series then the cable channel Showtime revived the series in 1983, where it lasted for three more seasons.
The series centered around student James T. Hart, a core cast of fellow-students, and one truly dominant force of nature in the execute of a legendary law professor, Charles W. Kingsfield Jr., played beyond iconic perfection by the amazing John Houseman.
Houseman had starred as Kingsfield in the movie version, then unbelievably reprised the role on the slight hide to the delight of his fans. Sadly, Houseman died a year after the Showtime incarnation of the series ended.
Hart, played by James Stephens in the series, and by Timothy Bottoms in the movie, is a hard-working student from Minnesota whose background ill prepares him for the rough and plunge of law school.
Hart is utterly petrified and fascinated by Kingsfield, who challenges his students so vigorously that he has become a story in his believe time, and his classes are both loathed and cherished.
The professor, the undisputed authority on contract law, becomes an unwilling and unknowing mentor to Hart, who decides he will do anything he can to meet and exceed the expectations of the master legal-eagle. By the time the series ends on Showtime, Hart graduates.
While the series explores the relationship between Hart and his co-students who get a examine group, it is Houseman’s Kingsfield that inhabits every wobble of the exhibit, even when he is not on shroud – a lasting testimony to the actor’s skill.
Stephens and Bottoms have devoted fan bases who argue one actor’s portrayal is the quintessential Hart. For me, Stephens brings a sensitivity and likeability that Bottoms does not. Of course, Stephens had many episodes to imbue the character with his style.
In the series, Hart’s best friend, Franklin Ford III, is played by Tom Fitzsimmons, while actors Willis Bell, James Keane, and Betty Harford, (Kingsfield’s secretary) round out the core cast in the first season, which aired on CBS.
The joy of the prove was the broad scripts which managed to combine humor, tension and fantastic stress caused by constant, rigorous peep, with friendship and deeper, philosophical issues brought up by the proper topics they were learning. In short, it was one of the best cancelled TV series EVER!
This boxed station includes the 22 episodes from the CBS season: The Paper Plug Pilot; Gigantic Expectations; The Man Who Would Be King; A Day in the Life of…; Voices of Silence; Nancy; Da Da; The Seating Chart; Moot Court; Kingsfield’s Daughter; The Sorcerer’s Apprentice; Bell and Love; An Act of Desperation; Losing Streak; The Man in the Chair; A Matter of Honor; The Apprentice; Once More With Feeling; The Clay Footed Idol; The Tables Down at Ernie’s; A Case of Détente; and Scavenger Hunt.
As others have written, “The Paper Trot” is one of the best, most compelling dramas ever made for television. A notable darling when it first aired, it was really too knowing and did not win a broad enough audience on CBS. However, it was so pleasant that it objective would not die quietly. After gaining more kudos in reruns on PBS, Showtime brought it assist several years later luring support the key players from the first season to continue in “The Paper Scurry – The Second Year” and “The Paper Spin – The Third Year.” Showtime finished its urge with a final six episodes called “The Paper Inch – The Graduation Year” which was actually a continuation of the third year. It maintained an astonishing level of excellence from the first season through its Showtime years.
Based on the fresh by John Jay Osborn Jr. The Paper Slump and the motion narrate of the book The Paper Slip, the television series far surpasses the quality of its predecessors. It reminds me in some ways of “M*A*S*H,” the series, which was far and away better than its unique book and movie. Unfortunately, unlike “M*A*S*H,” once Showtime finished “The Paper Sail” more than 20 years ago, it has been rarely seen since. It is so well written, so well acted, so compelling and dramatic, that it deserves a chance to gain a unique audience on DVD.
If you watched it in its day and liked it, please assume a copy and exhibit the distributor (Bawl Factory) that there is a market for the rest of the series. Even if you did not look it when it first aired, but you bask in vivid, thought-provoking drama, give it a try and spread the word. You don’t have to be a lawyer or law student to identify with the characters and the daily events in which they obtain themselves. It’s a anecdote and television series for all of us.
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