Read my ★★★★ review of John Jay Osborn Jr.'s "The Paper Chase," the '70s coming-of-age story about a first-year Harvard Law School student that eventually inspired an Oscar-winning movie and long-running TV show, read for the first time in 39 years on the occasion of Osborn's recent passing.

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37 years ago today:
The Paper Chase
S4E3: Suppressed Desires

Airdate: 1986-04-25
https://themoviedb.org/tv/14653/season/4/episode/3
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44 years ago today:
The Paper Chase
S1E22: Scavenger Hunt
The main story concerns a ""scavenger hunt"" assignment that Prof. Kingsfield gives the students. They must get at least 70 questions correct out of 100 concerning various aspects of contract law whose answers may be found anywhere in the University. There are no rules and anyone who does not get th...
Airdate: 1979-04-24
https://themoviedb.org/tv/14653/season/1/episode/22
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44 years ago today:
The Paper Chase
S1E21: A Case of Detente
Although this was not the last episode shown, as the production numbers tell, it was the last one produced. I remember that the last episode was about Hart falling in love with a Russian gymnast. John Houseman did not appear as Kingsfield in this episode. I heard that, because the network had caus...
Airdate: 1979-04-17
https://themoviedb.org/tv/14653/season/1/episode/21
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40 years ago today:
The Paper Chase
S2E1: Outline Fever
The second year begins with Hart and Ford moving to an off-campus apartment, while Bell is still at the dorm as the advisor for the 1-L students. Some of the 1-L students hound Hart for his Contracts outline, until Ford and Bell auction it off (against Hart's wishes). Meanwhile, 1-L Connie Lehman sh...
Airdate: 1983-04-15
https://themoviedb.org/tv/14653/season/2/episode/1
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44 years ago today:
The Paper Chase
S1E20: The Tables Down at Ernie's
This episode further develops Kingsfield's character and fleshes-out his past. It begins with the news that Ernie's bar, a favorite campus hangout for generations, will be closed along with the other small businesses on the block. All the buildings will then be razed for parking for a new gym the ...
Airdate: 1979-03-27
https://themoviedb.org/tv/14653/season/1/episode/20
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44 years ago today:
The Paper Chase
S1E19: The Clay Footed Idol
Kingsfield has his students form groups to argue both sides of a case of their choice. When Hart's study group selects a case that the professor lost early in his career, they start to question his ethics after they learn that he did not file what appears to them to be a routine appeal. Even Hart ha...
Airdate: 1979-03-20
https://themoviedb.org/tv/14653/season/1/episode/19
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