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The Defenders
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Writer: Reginald Rose, Robert Thom
Producer: Bob Markell
Top Cast
Seasons
Season 1 (1961)
No overview available.
32 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Quality of Mercy
1961-09-16Dr. Bill Conrad's patient, Leona Warner, delivers a baby with Down Syndrome.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 2: Killer Instinct
1961-09-23When 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.
Runtime: 51 minEpisode 3: Death Across the Counter
1961-09-30Episode 4: The Riot
1961-10-07Episode 5: The Young Lovers
1961-10-14Episode 6: The Boy Between
1961-10-21Episode 7: The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms
1961-10-28Frank 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.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 8: The Accident
1961-11-04Episode 9: The Trial of Jenny Scott
1961-11-11Episode 10: The Man with the Concrete Thumb
1961-11-18Episode 11: The Treadmill
1961-11-25Episode 12: Perjury
1961-12-02Episode 13: The Attack
1961-12-09Episode 14: The Prowler
1961-12-16Episode 15: Gideon's Follies
1961-12-23Episode 16: The Best Defense
1961-12-30Episode 17: The Bedside Murder
1962-01-06Episode 18: The Search
1962-01-20Episode 19: Storm at Birch Glen
1962-01-27Episode 20: The Point Shaver
1962-02-03Stacy 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.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 21: The Locked Room
1962-02-10Episode 22: The Empty Chute
1962-02-17Episode 23: The Crusader
1962-02-24Episode 24: The Hickory Indian
1962-03-03Episode 25: The Iron Man
1962-03-10Episode 26: The Tarnished Cross
1962-03-17Episode 27: The Last Six Months
1962-03-31Arthur 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.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 28: The Naked Heiress
1962-04-07Episode 29: Reunion with Death
1962-04-21Episode 30: The Benefactor
1962-04-28Episode 31: Along Came a Spider
1962-05-05Episode 32: The Broken Barrelhead
1962-05-26Season 2 (1962)
No overview available.
34 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: The Voices of Death
1962-09-15Martha Harrow, a young wife and mother, is convicted of first-degree murder. The victim: her husband, an alcoholic and wife beater.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 2: Blood Country
1962-09-22Episode 3: The Indelible Silence
1962-09-29Episode 4: The Seven Ghosts of Simon Gray
1962-10-06Episode 5: The Unwanted
1962-10-13Episode 6: Madman (1)
1962-10-20Episode 7: Madman (2)
1962-10-27Episode 8: The Bigamist
1962-11-03Episode 9: The Avenger
1962-11-17Episode 10: The Invisible Badge
1962-11-24Episode 11: The Hidden Jungle
1962-12-01Episode 12: The Savage Infant
1962-12-08Episode 13: The Apostle
1962-12-15Episode 14: Grandma TNT
1962-12-22Episode 15: Don't Take the Stand
1962-12-29Episode 16: Kill or Be Killed
1963-01-05Episode 17: Man Against Himself
1963-01-12Episode 18: The Poisoned Fruit Doctrine
1963-01-19Episode 19: Poltergeist
1963-01-26Episode 20: Ordeal
1963-02-02Episode 21: The Hour Before Doomsday
1963-02-09Episode 22: The Traitor
1963-02-16Episode 23: The Eye of Fear
1963-02-23Episode 24: Metamorphosis
1963-03-02Episode 25: The Last Illusion
1963-03-09Magician Monte Moran fails in his attempt to escape from a coffin-like box lowered into the river. When his body is finally retrieved, Moran's assistant Ballin claims someone tampered with the equipment.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 26: The Heathen
1963-03-23Episode 27: A Book for Burning
1963-03-30Episode 28: A Taste of Vengeance
1963-04-06Episode 29: The Colossus
1963-04-13Episode 30: Judgment Eve
1963-04-20Episode 31: The Noose
1963-04-27Episode 32: Everybody Else is Dead
1963-05-11Episode 33: The Trial of Twenty-Two
1963-05-18Episode 34: The Brother Killers
1963-05-25Season 3 (1963)
No overview available.
36 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: The Weeping Baboon
1963-09-28Episode 2: The Empty Heart
1963-10-05Episode 3: The Captive
1963-10-12Episode 4: The Bagman
1963-10-19Episode 5: Conspiracy of Silence
1963-10-26Episode 6: The Cruel Hook
1963-11-02Episode 7: Star-Spangled Ghetto
1963-11-09Episode 8: Loophole
1963-11-16Episode 9: The Seal of Confession
1963-11-30Episode 10: Climate of Evil
1963-12-07Episode 11: The Crowd Pleaser
1963-12-14Episode 12: Old Lady Ironsides
1963-12-21A high school senior is denied the chance to finish two more months of high school for a diploma, just because she has been found to be pregnant. A little old lady who has befriended the girl, and who had been an active Suffragette, determines to help her: she chains herself to the school entrance. The attending publicity and subsequent sanity hearing for the old lady, force the board to change its ruling.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 13: Fugue for Trumpet and Small Boy
1963-12-28Episode 14: Claire Cheval Died in Boston
1963-11-23Episode 15: The Last Day
1964-01-11Episode 16: Blacklist
1964-01-18Blacklist is an episode of TV program The Defenders.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 17: Who'll Dig His Grave?
1964-01-25Episode 18: All the Silent Voices
1964-02-01Dr. Katherine Tasso opens a clinic and dispenses birth-control information—although she's aware that her actions violate state laws.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 19: The Secret
1964-02-08Episode 20: The Pill Man
1964-02-22Episode 21: Drink Like a Lady
1964-02-29Episode 22: Survival
1964-03-14Episode 23: Moment of Truth
1964-03-21Episode 24: The Hidden Fury
1964-03-28Episode 25: Die Laughing
1964-04-11Episode 26: May Day! May Day!
1964-04-18Episode 27: The Thief
1964-04-25Episode 28: Yankee Go Home
1964-05-02Episode 29: The Man Who Saved His Country
1964-05-09Episode 30: Mind Over Murder
1964-05-16Episode 31: The Sixth Alarm
1964-05-23Episode 32: The Fine Line
1964-05-30Episode 33: The Non-Violent
1964-06-06Episode 34: Stowaway
1964-06-13Episode 35: Hollow Triumph
1964-06-20Episode 36: The Uncivil War
1964-06-27Season 4 (1964)
No overview available.
30 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: The Seven Hundred-Year Old Gang (1)
1964-09-24Episode 2: The Seven Hundred-Year Old Gang (2)
1964-10-01Episode 3: Hero of the People
1964-10-08Episode 4: Go-Between
1964-10-15Episode 5: Conflict of Interests
1964-10-22Episode 6: The Man Who . . .
1964-10-29Episode 7: Turning Point
1964-11-05Episode 8: A Taste of Ashes
1964-11-12Episode 9: Comeback
1964-11-26Episode 10: The Siege
1964-12-03Episode 11: Whitewash
1964-12-10Episode 12: A Voice Loud and Clear
1964-12-17Episode 13: King of the Hill
1964-12-31Episode 14: Whipping Boy
1965-01-07Episode 15: Eyewitness
1965-01-14Episode 16: The Silent Killers
1965-01-21Episode 17: Death on Wheels
1965-01-28Episode 18: The Unwritten Law
1965-02-04Episode 19: The Objector
1965-02-11Episode 20: Fires of the Mind
1965-02-18After taking LSD, mentally disturbed Robert Kraft commits suicide while experiencing a hallucinatory reaction—and Dr. Byron Saul (Pleasence), who's been treating Kraft with the drug, is charged with manslaughter.
Runtime: 60 min
