The Bold Ones: The Lawyers

The Invasion of Kevin Ireland (3x1)

Air date: Sep 26, 1971

This episode was a warning about credit reports and the impact they have on your life. The episode begins with a man, Kevin Ireland, breaking into an office building and vandalizing and smashing computers and other machinery with a bat. He is finally arrested, and thus begins the story of how he got to this point in his life: Kevin Ireland is happily married with a beautiful wife, a good job and a good life. He and his wife want to take out a loan and he applies for one. Unfortunately, the credit report the bank receives says he is not a good credit risk. Over the course of the episode, Ireland finds out that his credit report is filled with inaccuracies, and that his credit rating is based on falsehoods. He sues to have items removed from the report, and it becomes a personal war for him to manage to do exactly that. I believe this episode, which was widely viewed, actually had a hand in getting laws passed to facilitate the removal of inaccuracies on credit reports, as well as i