Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With John Jay Osborn Jr.

1. L.A. Law (1986–1994)

TV-PG | 46 min | Drama

The lives and work of the staff of a major Los Angeles law firm.

Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry, Alan Rachins, Michael Tucker

Votes: 6,457

2. Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.

Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Ron McLarty, Richard Jaeckel

Votes: 3,266

3. The Paper Chase (1973)

PG | 113 min | Comedy, Drama

A first-year law student at Harvard Law School struggles with balancing his coursework and a woman, unaware that she has a connection that affects their relationship.

Director: James Bridges | Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman, Graham Beckel

Votes: 8,685 | Gross: $1.85M

4. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)

60 min | Drama

The trials of a group of law students under the tutelage of a strict professor.

Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 1,080

5. The River Why (2010)

PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Romance

A young man abandons his family for a solitary life of fly-fishing. His goal was to find his own way in the fishing world and thereby find himself and love.

Director: Matthew Leutwyler | Stars: Zach Gilford, Amber Heard, William Hurt, Dallas Roberts

Votes: 3,921

6. The Associates (1979–1980)

30 min | Comedy

The working lives of three neophyte lawyers.

Stars: Wilfrid Hyde-White, Martin Short, Alley Mills, Joe Regalbuto

Votes: 95

7. The Associates (1979–1980)
Episode: A Date with Johnny (1980)

23 min | Comedy

Johnny goes on a date with a married co-worker.

Director: Tony Mordente | Stars: Wilfrid Hyde-White, Martin Short, Alley Mills, Joe Regalbuto

8. The Associates (1979–1980)
Episode: Danko's a Daddy (1980)

23 min | Comedy

Danko decides to sue for regular visitation when the mother of his child restricts how often Johnny can see his offspring.

Director: James Burrows | Stars: Wilfrid Hyde-White, Martin Short, Alley Mills, Joe Regalbuto

9. The Associates (1979–1980)
Episode: The Deadly Serve (1979)

23 min | Comedy

Eliot accidentally kills a partner in a game of squash.

Director: Tony Mordente | Stars: Wilfrid Hyde-White, Martin Short, Alley Mills, Joe Regalbuto

10. The Associates (1979–1980)
Episode: Eliot's Revenge (1980)

23 min | Comedy

Eliot Streeter is handed a case where a newspaper reporter has printed information that the Department of Defense. It looks like he would win the case in a walk, except for a huge problem: ... See full summary »

Director: James Burrows | Stars: Wilfrid Hyde-White, Martin Short, Alley Mills, Joe Regalbuto

Votes: 12

11. The Associates (1979–1980)
Episode: Is Romance Dead? (1979)

23 min | Comedy

Tucker uses tips from a book on romance to try and impress Sara.

Director: Tony Mordente | Stars: Wilfrid Hyde-White, Martin Short, Alley Mills, Joe Regalbuto

Votes: 10

12. The Associates (1979–1980)
Episode: Mr. Marshall's Love Affair (1979)

23 min | Comedy

The associates are curious when a lady from Mr. Marshall's distant past turns up in the office. But she's not the type they're expecting.

Director: Tony Mordente | Stars: Wilfrid Hyde-White, Martin Short, Alley Mills, Joe Regalbuto

13. The Associates (1979–1980)
Episode: The Censors (1980)

23 min | Comedy

Tucker defends a network censor being sued by a producer.

Director: Tony Mordente | Stars: Wilfrid Hyde-White, Martin Short, Alley Mills, Joe Regalbuto

Votes: 14

14. The Associates (1979–1980)
Episode: The First Day (1979)

30 min | Comedy

The associates learn the ropes on their first day while the founder of the firm considers taking on a new partner.

Director: James Burrows | Stars: Wilfrid Hyde-White, Martin Short, Alley Mills, Joe Regalbuto

Votes: 15

15. The Associates (1979–1980)
Episode: The Out of Town Trip (1980)

23 min | Comedy

The associates defend the head of a tire company accused of misusing funds, while Leslie quits the firm thinking it represents criminals.

Director: Tom Trbovich | Stars: Wilfrid Hyde-White, Martin Short, Alley Mills, Joe Regalbuto

Votes: 9

16. The Associates (1979–1980)
Episode: The Party (1980)

23 min | Comedy

Leslie falls for a teacher who despises conservative lawyers.

Director: James Burrows | Stars: Wilfrid Hyde-White, Martin Short, Alley Mills, Joe Regalbuto

17. The Associates (1979–1980)
Episode: Tucker's Co-Op (1980)

23 min | Comedy

Tucker moves into the apartment below Marshall, who shows up unexpectedly.

Director: Charlotte Brown | Stars: Wilfrid Hyde-White, Martin Short, Alley Mills, Joe Regalbuto

18. The Associates (1979–1980)
Episode: Tucker's Courtroom Coup (1979)

23 min | Comedy

Marshall asks Eliot to defend a client whose ex-lover is suing him.

Director: Tony Mordente | Stars: Wilfrid Hyde-White, Martin Short, Alley Mills, Joe Regalbuto

19. L.A. Law (1986–1994)
Episode: December Bribe (1987)

TV-PG | 48 min | Drama

While McKenzie is dealing with Judge Morris Hood facing bribery charges, he's asked by another senior partner from a national firm in New York, named Marshal Taft & Associates, to merge ... See full summary »

Director: Janet Greek | Stars: Harry Hamlin, Susan Dey, Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry

Votes: 47

20. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Great Expectations (1978)

60 min | Drama

The study group plans a weekend getaway picnic to blow off steam, but Professor Kingsfield assigns a lot of work at the last minute, causing the group to drop the getaway and just have an ... See full summary »

Director: Harvey S. Laidman | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, Robert Ginty

Votes: 30

21. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Burden of Proof (1984)

60 min | Drama

Hart is assigned to work in the public defender's office. Kingsfield is mugged one night by a pick-pocket named "Joe Bob". Guess who Hart's client is?

Director: Corey Allen | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 14

22. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Cinderella (1983)

60 min | Drama

A female 1-L student struggles to keep up in class while raising a small child alone. Her attempts to persuade the University to establish a day care center appear fruitless. Meanwhile, ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 16

23. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Da Da (1978)

60 min | Drama

Hart tries to help struggling student Tom Clayton, whose troubles only increase when he learns that his wife Karen is expecting their first child. Hart employs some humorous techniques to snap Clayton out of his academic stupor.

Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, Robert Ginty

Votes: 23

24. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Hart Goes Home (1984)

60 min | Drama

Hart goes home to Minnesota for his sister Vicky's wedding, even though he has extra work due to Kingsfield. Since Golden has assigned Harriman to cover for Hart, Hart spends a lot of time ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Bender | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 15

25. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Moot Court (1978)

60 min | Drama

The students pair off (via random draw) for 'Moot Court', a courtroom-like competition. Hart lucks out, as his partner is close friend and fellow study group member Logan. Bell is not so ... See full summary »

Director: Seymour Robbie | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, Robert Ginty

Votes: 28

26. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Once More with Feeling (1979)

60 min | Drama

A professor likes to give the female students some extra 'tutoring'. Logan is offended by his advances, and attempts to do something about it, which proves to be futile without witnesses.

Director: Marvin Kupfer | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, Robert Ginty

Votes: 24

27. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Plague of Locusts (1983)

60 min | Drama

The annual influx of law firm recruiters invades the campus, and Ford's father seems to be leading the charge. Ford Senior's tactics cause Junior to re-evaluate his opinion of his father, ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 18

28. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Scavenger Hunt (1979)

60 min | Drama

Professor Kingsfield unleashes his first-year students in the campus-wide annual scavenger hunt. In an effort to find the answers to more questions than any other study group, everyone is ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Bender | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, Robert Ginty

Votes: 21

29. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Suppressed Desires (1986)

60 min | Drama

A party themed "Supressed Desries" is being thrown, wherein the students get to as something they wish they could be other than a lawyer. When there's an art competition. Kiernan decides to enter but it clashes with her studies.

Director: Lynn Roth | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 13

30. Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988)
Episode: Substantial Justice (1988)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Spenser is hired by a theatre producer to help prove her innocence in a murder charge when even her lawyer believes her to be guilty. Meanwhile, the man Hawk is hired to protect is murdered, in what may be related cases.

Director: David Whorf | Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Barbara Stock, Ron McLarty

Votes: 33

31. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Birthday Party (1983)

60 min | Drama

Hart and the others want to do something special to mark Professor Kingsfield's 80th birthday, against the advice of Mrs. Nottingham and Kinsgfield himself. Meanwhile, why is the U.S. Attorney General paying a midnight visit to Kingsfield?

Director: Jack Bender | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 19

32. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Nancy (1978)

60 min | Drama

Hart's girlfriend and fellow law student Nancy Burch has a secret - her father is an attorney who's mixed up with the mob. Events that follow cause her and Hart to be the subject of guilt ... See full summary »

Director: William Hale | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, Robert Ginty

Votes: 25

33. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: A Day in the Life of... (1978)

60 min | Drama

Hart asks Kingsfield to answer a question before he thoroughly researched the case himself. As a penalty, Kingsfield gives Hart additional research that is due the following morning. Hart ... See full summary »

Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, Robert Ginty

Votes: 30

34. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Kingsfield's Daughter (1978)

60 min | Drama

Hart falls for a woman who turns out to be Kingsfield's daughter - Susan Fields.

Director: Alex March | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, Robert Ginty

Votes: 23

35. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: The Man Who Would Be King (1978)

60 min | Drama

Anderson pushes Hart to run for the first-year slot on the Law School Council. Elsewhere, Ford's father and sister come for a visit. Ford's father is an alumnus of the school, and his very ... See full summary »

Director: Gwen Arner | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, Robert Ginty

Votes: 26

36. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Billy Pierce (1984)

60 min | Drama

Lynn Swann guest stars as an ex-NFL player who's now a 1-L student. (The secondary opening credits are accompanied by highlights of Pittsburgh Steelers games of the 1970s.) Pierce struggles... See full summary »

Director: Corey Allen | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 12

37. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Free Advice (1985)

60 min | Drama

A guy whom Hart and Ford know shows up looking for them. They're not there but Tom is. He tells Tom that he's having problems with his landlord. Tom suggests that he not pay the rent. Later... See full summary »

Director: Gilbert Moses | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 13

38. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: It's Only a Show (1985)

60 min | Drama

Bell directs a law school themed show put on by the law students. Kingsfield attends a law convention in Los Angeles.

Director: Lynn Roth | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 15

39. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Judgement Day (1984)

60 min | Drama

Four professors are up for 2 tenured positions, with various faculty members each jockeying for "their man". Professor Peterson is young, hip, and well-liked by the 3-L students (including ... See full summary »

Director: Nick Havinga | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 14

40. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Lasting Impressions (1985)

60 min | Drama

Golden is working on his first case at a law firm. It involves a pharmaceutical manufacturer who's suing a TV news show that aired a story that claims one of his products is defective. But ... See full summary »

Director: John Herzfeld | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 15

41. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Laura's Struggle (1985)

60 min | Drama

Laura is having trouble adjusting to the added time commitments of Law Review while keeping up with her regular courses. All her friends are disturbed by the changes in her personality but ... See full summary »

Director: Sharron Miller | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 17

42. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Limits (1984)

60 min | Drama

A distinguished and popular professor of trial law is afflicted with "senility." No one has noticed this except his students, perhaps because his symptoms are worse under the pressure of a ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Bender | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 18

43. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Pressure (1985)

60 min | Drama

Pressure causes first year student Williamson to get in serious trouble. Tom Ford defends Williamson before a committee chaired by Kingsfield. Rose dates Soloway's father.

Director: Alf Kjellin | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 13

44. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: The Big D (1985)

60 min | Drama

Rose husband's files for divorce. And she has to face him when he appears to be unfair with the settlement.

Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 13

45. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: The Day Kingsfield Missed Class (1985)

60 min | Drama

For the first time in 40 years, Kingsfield doesn't show up for work or class - all day. Everyone is flabbergasted, then worried. Nottingham has kittens. However, there is a logical explanation: remember, Kingsfield is always teaching.

Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 18

46. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: War of the Wonks (1984)

60 min | Drama

The Law Review and the Wonks (computer science students) are battling over computer time. Someone gets the bright idea to challenge the computer to prepare a case note faster than a law ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 15

47. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: A Wounded Hart (1986)

60 min | Drama

Harriman's absentee boyfriend dumps her, precipitating a brief fling with Hart, who has trouble recovering. Soloway channels Sir Thomas Moore - or does he?

Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 14

48. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Decisions: Part 1 (1985)

60 min | Drama

Although part of "The Third Year" this episode takes as Hart's second year of law school winds down. Golden is interviewing for a clerkship at the Supreme Court but I struggling to get on ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 14

49. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Decisions: Part 2 (1985)

60 min | Drama

At the start of the third year, Hart assumes Presidency of Law Review and proposes a controversial approach to the first issue. He also struggles with leadership issues. His problems are ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 14

50. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
Episode: Graduation (1986)

Drama

As Hart and the other 3Ls graduate, Hart learns what others think of him: friend Ford, Professor Tyler, and Kingsfield, who has final lessons to teach Hart. Hart sums up his relationship with Kingsfield in his commencement address.

Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane

Votes: 18