The Defenders (1961)
Synopsis
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.
First Air Date: 1961-09-16
Last Air Date: 1965-05-13
Number of Seasons: 4
Number of Episodes: 132
Created By: Reginald Rose
Networks: CBS
Top Cast
- E.G. Marshall as Lawrence Preston
- Robert Reed as Kenneth Preston
- Polly Rowles as Helen Donaldson
- Ossie Davis as District Attorney Daniel Jackson
- J.D. Cannon as District Attorney
- Murray Hamilton as District Attorney
- Frank Overton as D.A. Bill Bryan
- Joan Hackett as Joan Miller
- William Shatner as Charles Terranova
- Simon Oakland as District Attorney
Seasons
Season 1 (1961)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Quality of Mercy
Dr. Bill Conrad's patient, Leona Warner, delivers a baby with Down Syndrome.
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Ep. 2: Killer Instinct
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.
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Ep. 3: Death Across the Counter
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Ep. 4: The Riot
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Ep. 5: The Young Lovers
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Ep. 6: The Boy Between
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Ep. 7: The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms
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.
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Ep. 8: The Accident
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Ep. 9: The Trial of Jenny Scott
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Ep. 10: The Man with the Concrete Thumb
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Ep. 11: The Treadmill
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Ep. 12: Perjury
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Ep. 13: The Attack
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Ep. 14: The Prowler
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Ep. 15: Gideon's Follies
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Ep. 16: The Best Defense
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Ep. 17: The Bedside Murder
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Ep. 18: The Search
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Ep. 19: Storm at Birch Glen
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Ep. 20: The Point Shaver
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.
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Ep. 21: The Locked Room
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Ep. 22: The Empty Chute
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Ep. 23: The Crusader
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Ep. 24: The Hickory Indian
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Ep. 25: The Iron Man
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Ep. 26: The Tarnished Cross
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Ep. 27: The Last Six Months
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.
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Ep. 28: The Naked Heiress
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Ep. 29: Reunion with Death
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Ep. 30: The Benefactor
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Ep. 31: Along Came a Spider
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Ep. 32: The Broken Barrelhead
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