Bele Torso If you want to watch this show, go to: moviesonline (dot) mx and search for it. The quality is far from HD, but you will get the entire series. This is a very good TV and is horribly dated. The theme music is like nothing you will hear ever it is that bad. Many of the story lines are average and the acting as well, but this is an intelligent show. It is worth viewing just for John Houseman's performance. It is next to impossible to believe he is not a Harvard contracts law professor. Outside of Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter, Houseman is perfection in every scene. The content is also intelligent even though its presentation (acting, editing) isn't great. If you can get past how dated it looks, you will find many of the topics relevant today and looking back historical. Take S1 Ep 11 titled, The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Again, it is poorly executed by today's standards, but the idea of women as clerks and women's liberation mimics sexism today with the 'Me Too' movement currently happening. This episode was filmed in 1978 and fast-forward 40 years and the same conflicts are present. This show gives a realistic account of how personalities are shaped and formed. It presents the humanity of law school and inhumanity. How tribes are formed and allegiances catered to. You can think of Hilary Clinton or Barrack Obama in law school, seeing the before rather than the after. Of course we witness how technology radically has changed lifestyle. No computers of cell phones, no internet so research was books and libraries. Time was slower yet the stress as great. Check this show out if you can.

bykongmeng This TV series is my favorite golden oldie TV series in my young days. Recently I have bought "the paper chase,TV series season 1 and 2" from Amazon. But, unfortunately, English subtitles or captions has not seen there.. I need the English subtitles for well understanding the contents of paper chase TV show. Please let me know if someone have English subtitles of season 1 and 2... John Houseman's character of the law professor Charles W. Kingsfied was very impressed by me in young days in 1970s. Although scholastic to a degree it also had touches of humor. The show spans generations too. Most can relate better to the real people of the series over the movie.

bpatrick-8 I spent a short time in law school about a year before the CBS version of "The Paper Chase" started. I'm not sure law school is as intimidating today as it was in the '70s, but it was pretty accurate at the time. Still, I would not care to see this show revived in a softer classroom environment, and for one reason: John Houseman. He actually did teach acting at UCLA drama school, and a student once told him he wasn't acting in "The Paper Chase," that that was really his classroom manner. And as for his character, Professor Kingsfield, yes, he can strike fear in his students, but at the same time, when he allows himself a small smile after a particularly good class, you know he's rooting for his students to make it into the legal world. Personally, I think that if there were more Kingsfields at real-world colleges (and even high schools), we wouldn't be talking about a crisis in education in this country.I also want to single out James Stephens, who I thought was a more credible Hart, the Midwestern kid who idolizes Kingsfield, than Timothy Bottoms in the movie; Bottoms seemed to be the last of the hippies. I also liked the fact that the series rarely, if ever, got into the relationship between Hart and Kingsfield's daughter, the subplot of the movie. There are some shows ("Law & Order" was another) where viewers don't care about the characters' personal lives.It's been noted that "The Paper Chase" was slotted against the two hottest shows of the era: "Happy Days" and "Laverne & Shirley." CBS may have been hoping for an alternative audience, much as "The Waltons" achieved against Flip Wilson a few years earlier. Thus, some of the episodes were flashier than "The Paper Chase" should be; the nadir was the one where Hart escorts a visiting Russian gymnast; Houseman refused to appear in that episode.Finally, like the similar "White Shadow," which was on CBS around the same time, these students do graduate! And as Houseman himself might say, they've won Kingsfield's respect the old-fashioned way: they've earned it.

renfield54 This was such a great show it was continued as a SHOWTIME cable series. An improvement on the film of the same name, the continuity was seamless and was done expertly and lovingly. The adventures of Mr. Hart and his co-horts was a pleasure to watch. The small screen version so defined the Paper Chase and Harvard Law School that I find the big screen, Timothy Bottoms, version very unsatisfying and dated.Timothy bottoms is not missed as Mr. Hart, due to the great performance of James Stephens. John Houseman reprising his role of the scholarly, curmudgeon, Professor Kingsfield, provides the link to the original movie that makes the series work. He was exceptional in the role. First feared and hated (by some), he gradually wins you over becoming admired and even loved by those that understand him best (like Hart), providing a near father figure.An intelligent series for the masses, try to see it in chronological order. ENJOY.........