Season 3

E1. The Invasion of Kevin Ireland

Sep 26, 1971 · 60m

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

E2. The Strange Secret of Yermo Hill

Oct 17, 1971 · 60m

A serviceman is found intoxicated in the apartment of a young woman who appears to have been strangled to death. The young man remembers nothing about how she died, but there appears to be no possible way for anyone else to have gotten out of the apartment. Brian locates an acquaintance of hers who brags that he can provide an answer, but refuses to tell him any more.

E3. Hall of Justice

Oct 31, 1971 · 60m

Follows the lawyers through four separate cases: one involving rape, one involving euthanasia, and two involving drug offenses.

E4. In Defense of Ellen McKay

Nov 14, 1971 · 60m

Brian finds himself falling for his client, a woman changed with the murder of her husband.

E5. By Reason of Insanity

Nov 28, 1971 · 60m

Young Miles Parker, years after being kidnapped as a child, vows revenge on the man he believes is guilty. He is arrested after holding the man hostage, leading his lawyers to plead his obsession is a form of insanity.

E6. Justice Is a Sometime Thing

Dec 12, 1971 · 60m

The team agrees to defend for free an innocent Latino youth who is being pressured to accept a plea deal but they must find his companion and like witness to the crime who is an undocumented girl who has fled back to Mexico.

E7. The Letter of the Law

Dec 26, 1971 · 60m

The attorneys are shocked when one of their mentors, a highly respected attorney and legal scholar now terminally ill, summons them to his home, along with six other people whom he once successfully defended in murder trials. He announces that one of the six was actually guilty of the crime, though he doesn't say which one, and that he intends to make that person pay now for their crime.

E8. The Long Morning After (1)

Jan 9, 1972 · 60m

Officially, the deaths of two women have been termed an accident and a suicide. Neil turns sleuth to prove the deaths were a double murder.

E9. The Long Morning After (2)

Jan 16, 1972 · 60m

Neil's investigation of two women's deaths seem to involve a retired general. A wealthy new wife and the man's estranged daughter may provide the answer but a hit man's arrival changes everything.

E10. In Sudden Darkness

Jan 30, 1972 · 60m

Lauren Hazelwood claims she murdered her father but can not remember doing it. Nicholls and Darrell take the case.

E11. Lisa, I Hardly Knew You

Feb 13, 1972 · 60m

Neil Darrell is to marry Lisa Lambert, former girlfriend of Neil's old college roommate Lennie Harmon. Lisa apparently commits suicide on their wedding day by a drug overdose.