Paper Moon

Genre: Comedy

Premiere: 1973

Network: ABC

IMDB Rating: 8.1/10

Sessons: 1

Full Episodes: 13

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Full Show Summary

Adapted from the novel, "Addie Pray" (1971) by Joe David Brown, PAPER MOON is the story of Moses Pray and Addie Loggins. With scenery reminiscent of "The Grapes of Wrath," the film is set in the depression-era Midwestern region of the United States. As the movie opens, we see a small group of mourners clustered at a graveside. Among the mourners is Addie, the dead woman's small daughter. Moses Pray -- ostensibly of the "Kansas Bible Company" -- approaches the group, as the service concludes, and two of the elderly women remark that the child bears some resemblance to him and asks if he might be related. "If ever a child needed kin, it's now," one lady says. With no knowledge of who her father is, Addie's only haven is her Aunt's home in St. Joseph, Missouri. Having identified himself as a "traveling man spreading the Lord's gospel in these troubled times," "Mose" is prevailed upon to deliver the helpless child to her Aunt since he's going that way, anyway. Addie, wise beyond her years, soon discovers that Mose is little more than a scam artist traveling from town to town delivering unordered Bibles and charging exorbitant prices to recently widowed women whom he identifies through the obituary columns of local papers. Soon, Addie and Mose become a team, traveling from town to town, making money in every dishonest way imaginable, and looking for the ultimate score. The colorful characters they meet along the way make the film all the more interesting. Paramount among these is "Miss Trixie Delight," an exotic dancer who Mose rescues from a traveling carnival and her minion, Imogene. The film is peppered with "regional" dialog. Perhaps one of the most memorable lines of the movie is uttered when Mose is forced to wrestle a backwoodsman in order to trade his new car for the hillbilly's battered old truck. "Make him say calf-rope, Leroy!" one of the observers calls out.

Last Episode, 19 December 1974: Season 1, Episode 13: Day Off

Episode Guide
Cast

Date Aired	Paper Moon Episodes
Season 1
12 September 1974	Season 1, Episode 1: Settling
19 September 1974	Season 1, Episode 2: Second Prize
26 September 1974	Season 1, Episode 3: Imposter
03 October 1974	Season 1, Episode 4: Manly Arts
10 October 1974	Season 1, Episode 5: Birthday
17 October 1974	Season 1, Episode 6: Long Division
24 October 1974	Season 1, Episode 7: Gimme That Old Time Relation
31 October 1974	Season 1, Episode 8: Harvest
07 November 1974	Season 1, Episode 9: Bonnie And Clyde
21 November 1974	Season 1, Episode 10: Visions of Las Vegas
28 November 1974	Season 1, Episode 11: Who is M.P. Sellers
12 December 1974	Season 1, Episode 12: Green Goods
19 December 1974	Season 1, Episode 13: Day Off