The Defenders
TV show

The Defenders

6.3Ended32 episodes

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.

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Seasons

Episodes

Quality of Mercy
S1 E1
Quality of Mercy
Sep 16, 1961

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

S1 E2
Killer Instinct
Sep 23, 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.

S1 E3
Death Across the Counter
Sep 30, 1961

S1 E4
The Riot
Oct 7, 1961

S1 E5
The Young Lovers
Oct 14, 1961

S1 E6
The Boy Between
Oct 21, 1961

S1 E7
The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms
Oct 28, 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.

S1 E8
The Accident
Nov 4, 1961

S1 E9
The Trial of Jenny Scott
Nov 11, 1961

S1 E10
The Man with the Concrete Thumb
Nov 18, 1961

S1 E11
The Treadmill
Nov 25, 1961

S1 E12
Perjury
Dec 2, 1961

S1 E13
The Attack
Dec 9, 1961

S1 E14
The Prowler
Dec 16, 1961

S1 E15
Gideon's Follies
Dec 23, 1961

S1 E16
The Best Defense
Dec 30, 1961

S1 E17
The Bedside Murder
Jan 6, 1962

S1 E18
The Search
Jan 20, 1962

S1 E19
Storm at Birch Glen
Jan 27, 1962

S1 E20
The Point Shaver
Feb 3, 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.

S1 E21
The Locked Room
Feb 10, 1962

S1 E22
The Empty Chute
Feb 17, 1962

S1 E23
The Crusader
Feb 24, 1962

S1 E24
The Hickory Indian
Mar 3, 1962

S1 E25
The Iron Man
Mar 10, 1962

S1 E26
The Tarnished Cross
Mar 17, 1962

S1 E27
The Last Six Months
Mar 31, 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.

S1 E28
The Naked Heiress
Apr 7, 1962

Reunion with Death
S1 E29
Reunion with Death
Apr 21, 1962

S1 E30
The Benefactor
Apr 28, 1962

S1 E31
Along Came a Spider
May 5, 1962

S1 E32
The Broken Barrelhead
May 26, 1962

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