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The Defenders

4 seasons · 1961 · Ended

★★★★★3.1

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.

Episodes

Quality of Mercy

S01 · E01 Quality of MercySeptember 16, 1961

S01 · E02 Killer InstinctSeptember 23, 1961

S01 · E03 Death Across the CounterSeptember 30, 1961

S01 · E04 The RiotOctober 7, 1961

S01 · E05 The Young LoversOctober 14, 1961

S01 · E06 The Boy BetweenOctober 21, 1961

S01 · E07 The Hundred Lives of Harry SimmsOctober 28, 1961

S01 · E08 The AccidentNovember 4, 1961

S01 · E09 The Trial of Jenny ScottNovember 11, 1961

S01 · E10 The Man with the Concrete ThumbNovember 18, 1961

S01 · E11 The TreadmillNovember 25, 1961

S01 · E12 PerjuryDecember 2, 1961

S01 · E13 The AttackDecember 9, 1961

S01 · E14 The ProwlerDecember 16, 1961

S01 · E15 Gideon's FolliesDecember 23, 1961

S01 · E16 The Best DefenseDecember 30, 1961

S01 · E17 The Bedside MurderJanuary 6, 1962

S01 · E18 The SearchJanuary 20, 1962

S01 · E19 Storm at Birch GlenJanuary 27, 1962

S01 · E20 The Point ShaverFebruary 3, 1962

Cast

E.G. Marshall

E.G. MarshallLawrence Preston

Robert Reed

Robert ReedKenneth Preston