Da Da

The Paper Chase Season 1 Episode 7

Overview:
This episode focuses on Tom Clayton, the guy with the ""photographic memory"" in the study group. Early in the episode Kingsfield intimidates Tom to the point he is incapable of speaking and freezes up. In an effort to ""start at the very beginning"" and teach him how to talk again, Kingsfield tells him to say ""da da"". In this episode Tom's wife, Karen, announces she's pregnant. Faced with stresses due to his (losing) struggle with law school and the further complication of having a child, Tom goes on a drinking binge and falls behind in Kingsfield's class. In an all-night cram session, where members of the class impersonate Kingsfield, Tom is helped to learn to synthesize the material he so easily memorizes into fully developed ideas and he is able to make a good showing in the actual class the next day.

Genre : Drama

Actors : John Houseman, James Stephens, Charles Hallahan, Stanley DeSantis, Robert Ginty, Betty Harford, Francine Tacker, James Keane

Release Date : 1978-10-31

Duration : 60 menit

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Other Episodes (Season 1)

The Paper Chase
1. The Paper Chase
The Man Who Would Be King
2. The Man Who Would Be King
A Day in the Life of . . .
3. A Day in the Life of . . .
Great Expectations
4. Great Expectations
Voices of Silence
5. Voices of Silence
Nancy
6. Nancy
Da Da
7. Da Da
The Seating Chart
8. The Seating Chart
Moot Court
9. Moot Court
Kingsfield's Daughter
10. Kingsfield's Daughter
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
11. The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Bell and Love
12. Bell and Love
An Act of Desperation
13. An Act of Desperation
Losing Streak
14. Losing Streak
The Man in the Chair
15. The Man in the Chair
A Matter of Anger
16. A Matter of Anger
The Apprentice
17. The Apprentice
Once More with Feeling
18. Once More with Feeling
The Clay Footed Idol
19. The Clay Footed Idol
The Tables Down at Ernie's
20. The Tables Down at Ernie's
A Case of Detente
21. A Case of Detente
Scavenger Hunt
22. Scavenger Hunt


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