If you want to watch this show, go to: moviesonline (dot) mx and search for it. The quality is far from HD, but you will get the entire series. This is a very good TV and is horribly dated. The theme music is like nothing you will hear ever it is that bad. Many of the story lines are average and the acting as well, but this is an intelligent show. It is worth viewing just for John Houseman's performance. It is next to impossible to believe he is not a Harvard contracts law professor. Outside of Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter, Houseman is perfection in every scene. The content is also intelligent even though its presentation (acting, editing) isn't great. If you can get past how dated it looks, you will find many of the topics relevant today and looking back historical. Take S1 Ep 11 titled, The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Again, it is poorly executed by today's standards, but the idea of women as clerks and women's liberation mimics sexism today with the 'Me Too' movement currently happening. This episode was filmed in 1978 and fast-forward 40 years and the same conflicts are present. This show gives a realistic account of how personalities are shaped and formed. It presents the humanity of law school and inhumanity. How tribes are formed and allegiances catered to. You can think of Hilary Clinton or Barrack Obama in law school, seeing the before rather than the after. Of course we witness how technology radically has changed lifestyle. No computers of cell phones, no internet so research was books and libraries. Time was slower yet the stress as great. Check this show out if you can.
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