Which dramatic TV series was canceled after one year by a broadcast network and revived by a cable network?

The CBS television network aired a series in the 1978–1979 season called The Paper Chase. This series was an American television drama series based on the 1970 novel by John Jay Osborn, Junior. The book and TV series focus on the lives of law student James T. Hart and his classmates at Harvard Law School. As law students, they deal with impossible workloads, cutthroat competition, and the rigorous demands of their hard-ass contracts professor, C. W. Kingsfield, Jr.

In the series, John Houseman plays the role of Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. and James Stephens plays law student, James T. Hart. The series was cancelled after one year; PBS subsequently repeated showing all of the episodes. In 1983, pay-cable network Showtime brought back the show with both Houseman and Stephens. Other members of the original television cast were also included. At the end of the fourth season, Hart finally graduates from law school.

While the show aired, it dealt with affirmative action, academic dishonesty, sexual harassment, gambling addiction, and other issues seen in society. This was done by bouncing them off the blank-slate chief protagonist: a gawky, overeager farm boy, James T. Hart.

In the late 1980s, The Family Channel rebroadcast the entire series in a late night time slot (midnight Eastern Time). The series was later seen in the early 1990s on A&E, and in the early 2000s on GoodLife Television.