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6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (7 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
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Based upon the novel by John Jay Osborn, Jr
Disc 1. Pilot / written by James Bridges ; directed by Joseph Hardy -- The man who would be king / written by John Jay Osborn, Jr. ; directed by Gwen Arner -- A day in the life of ... / written by John Jay Osborn, Jr. ; directed by Philip Leacock -- Great expectations / written by Ellison Carroll ; directed by Harvey Laidman
Follows the experiences of a first-year law student from rural Minnesota and his idol, a brilliant but demanding professor
Disc 2. Voices of silence / written by Stephen Kandel ; directed by Alex March -- Nancy / written by T.S. Cook ; directed by William Hale -- Da Da / written by Gordon Hoban ; directed by Philip Leacock -- The seating chart / written by James Bridges ; directed by Robert C. Thompon
Developed for television by James Bridges
Disc 3. Moot court / written by John Jay Osborn Jr. ; directed by Seymour Robbie -- Kingsfield's daughter / written by Gordon Hoban ; directed by Alex March -- The sorcerer's apprentice / written by John Jay Osborn Jr., Leigh Curran ; directed by Larry Elikann -- Bell's in love / written by Richard Kramer ; directed by Peter Levin
John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, Robert Ginty, James Keane, Jonathan Segal, Francine Tacker, Deka Beaudine
Disc 4. An act of desperation / written by James Menzies ; directed by Carl Kugel -- Losing streak / written by Shimon Wincelberg ; directed by Alex March -- The man in the chair / teleplay by Jerome Ross ; story by Jerome Ross and A. Martin Zweiback ; directed by Robert C. Thompson -- A matter of anger / written by Marvin Kupfer, Albert Aley ; directed by Seymour Robbie
Originally produced for television between 1978-1979 and broadcast as individual episodes
Disc 5. The apprentice / written by William Carlisle Hopkins ; directed by Kenneth Gilbert III -- Once more with feeling / teleplay by William Froug and A.L. Christopher ; story by William Froug ; directed by Marvin Kupfer -- The clay footed idol / written by David P. Harmon ; directed by Larry Elikann
DVD; region 1, NTSC
Disc 6. The tables down at Ernie's / screenplay by Worley Thorne ; story by Warley Thorne, Jack Bender, Max Eisenberg ; directed by Philip Leacock -- A case of detente / teleplay by David P. Harmon ; story by David P. Harmon and Daniel Benton ; directed by Robert C. Thompson -- Scavenger hunt / written by John Jay Osborn Jr. ; directed by Jack Bender
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