THE PAPER CHASE SEASON 1 EPISODE 9 Moot Court

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

I watched this series when it aired 8-10PM Saturdays on CBS. I didn't see the superior movie until years later.

[@fredericklmeade2947]

Tom Fitzsimmons was certainly one hot puppy!! 😋

[@fredericklmeade2947]

Courts do indeed “say.” Using “say” is perfectly appropriate. In Latin _dictum_ is a noun for “something said.” Golly is simply too informal, but “say” is fine.

[@aprils376]

S 1 E 9 ~ "Moot Court" ~ Nov 21, 1978 A simulated courtroom debate pairs Hart with Elizabeth Logan, and lackadaisical Bell with a highly disciplined military student.

[@gheller2261]

In this episode, the Bell storyline was poorly written as far as Bell was concerned. Even if he didn't want to be a trial lawyer, any law student knows that winning at moot court is good resume fodder. And, in this case he has a teammate and had to know he might draw someone who wanted to do well. He's grumpy and angry but there's no motivation behind it.

[@aprils376]

@@gheller2261 I agree

[@fredericklmeade2947]

Military school graduate (with a bachelor’s in engineering) with a rank of lieutenant in the U.S. Army, not a student.

[@sammysouth8372]

I didn’t go to law school I went to medical school at Michigan State. We rarely if ever called each other by our last names. I don’t get it

[@gheller2261]

Just TV silliness. I went to law school and students of course did not call each other by their last names.

[@fredericklmeade2947]

This was the 70s and I know for a fact that undergrads at Swarthmore, a school often ranked higher than Harvard’s college, did call each other by their last names up through at least the late 1960s.

[@jamessatter7418]

Logan was the best character on the show. The series went down in later seasons, after she left.

[@gheller2261]

Interesting, I thought she was awful. Nothing likable about her. I prefer the female characters they created when Showtime brought the series back in 1983.

[@fredericklmeade2947]

@@gheller2261, good characters aren’t likable; they’re interesting, provocative, compelling, etc., but likability, despite the popular wisdom of network executives, has little to do with a good character. Some of the best shows I’ve seen didn’t have a single character I “liked.”

[@fredericklmeade2947]

She didn’t leave. The show was canceled by CBS then picked up by A&E *a number of years later.* The actor simply wasn’t considered appropriate for casting, or she was not available or was uninterested to return to reprise the role.

[@gheller2261]

What a stupid reaction to being accosted on the street. "You're kidding" with a smile?

[@fredericklmeade2947]

It may be stupid, but it can happen.