The Seating Chart

The Paper Chase Season 1 Episode 8

Overview:
The ""Paper Chase"" meets ""I love Lucy:"" as the weekend approaches, Hart gets a special, paying assignment to index Kingsfield's new book of essays, due Monday – an impossibly difficult deadline. On top of that, Ernie, his employer, asks him to manage the tavern for the weekend while he's away. Meanwhile, Willis Bell, the portly, disorganized member of the study group who's always perceverating about his 200+ page property outline becomes obsessed with his goofy picture on Kingsfield's seating chart. He believes that it's why he always gets called on first in each class and sets about to get his picture changed. When Kingsfield's secretary declines to change it without his approval, Bell arrives on the hair-brained scheme to break into Kingsfield's office and change it. While everything possible is going wrong at Ernie's and the index is still looming large, Hart inexplicably agrees to accompany Bell in this ill-fated mission becoming the Ethyl to Bell's Lucy. Of course, even thoug

Genre : Drama

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

Release Date : 1978-11-14

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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