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The Defenders

1h

Drama

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.

Production Companies

Plautus Productions

CBS

Episodes

Cast

Season 1

Quality of Mercy

1. Quality of Mercy

1h

16th Sep 1961

Dr. Bill Conrad's patient, Leona Warner, delivers a baby with Down Syndrome.

Killer Instinct

2. Killer Instinct

51min

23rd Sep 1961

When mild-mannered Jim McLeery kills an abusive stranger, it seems a clear-cut case of self-defense. But the prosecution reveals that, in his army days, McCleery was trained to kill.

Death Across the Counter

3. Death Across the Counter

1h

30th Sep 1961

The Riot

4. The Riot

1h

7th Oct 1961

The Young Lovers

5. The Young Lovers

50min

14th Oct 1961

The Boy Between

6. The Boy Between

1h

21st Oct 1961

The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms

7. The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms

1h

28th Oct 1961

Frank Gorshin stars as an impressionist accused of murder who claims he's innocent because ""Jimmy Cagney did it""—and breaks into his multiple personality of Cagney on the witness stand as the Prestons are questioning him.

The Accident

8. The Accident

1h

4th Nov 1961

The Trial of Jenny Scott

9. The Trial of Jenny Scott

1h

11th Nov 1961

The Man with the Concrete Thumb

10. The Man with the Concrete Thumb

1h

18th Nov 1961

The Treadmill

11. The Treadmill

1h

25th Nov 1961

Perjury

12. Perjury

1h

2nd Dec 1961

The Attack

13. The Attack

1h

9th Dec 1961

The Prowler

14. The Prowler

1h

16th Dec 1961

Gideon's Follies

15. Gideon's Follies

1h

23rd Dec 1961

The Best Defense

16. The Best Defense

1h

30th Dec 1961

The Bedside Murder

17. The Bedside Murder

1h

6th Jan 1962

The Search

18. The Search

1h

20th Jan 1962

Storm at Birch Glen

19. Storm at Birch Glen

1h

27th Jan 1962

The Point Shaver

20. The Point Shaver

1h

3rd Feb 1962

Stacy Phillips, star college basketball player, is accused of taking money from gambler Vince Fargo to fix a game. The Presons, alumni of the college, are hired to defend Phillips before the State's Senate Rackets Committee.

The Locked Room

21. The Locked Room

1h

10th Feb 1962

The Empty Chute

22. The Empty Chute

1h

17th Feb 1962

The Crusader

23. The Crusader

1h

24th Feb 1962

The Hickory Indian

24. The Hickory Indian

1h

3rd Mar 1962

The Iron Man

25. The Iron Man

1h

10th Mar 1962

The Tarnished Cross

26. The Tarnished Cross

1h

17th Mar 1962

The Last Six Months

27. The Last Six Months

1h

31st Mar 1962

Arthur Hill plays a man with six months to live--he kills his business partner in a fit of rage when the man refuses to help support his family after he has died.

The Naked Heiress

28. The Naked Heiress

1h

7th Apr 1962

Reunion with Death

29. Reunion with Death

1h

21st Apr 1962

The Benefactor

30. The Benefactor

1h

28th Apr 1962

Along Came a Spider

31. Along Came a Spider

1h

5th May 1962

The Broken Barrelhead

32. The Broken Barrelhead

1h

26th May 1962

First air date

16th Sep 1961

Last air date

13th May 1965

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks