The Defenders (Season 1)

Quality of Mercy (Episode 1)

Writer: Reginald Rose

Air date: 1961-09-16

Runtime: 60 min

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

Killer Instinct (Episode 2) 7.0

Writer: John Vlahos

Air date: 1961-09-23

Runtime: 51 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 3)

Writer: Reginald Rose

Air date: 1961-09-30

Runtime: 60 min

The Riot (Episode 4)

Writer: Max Ehrlich

Air date: 1961-10-07

Runtime: 60 min

The Young Lovers (Episode 5)

Writer: John Vlahos

Air date: 1961-10-14

Runtime: 50 min

The Boy Between (Episode 6)

Writer: Robert Thom

Air date: 1961-10-21

Runtime: 60 min

The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms (Episode 7)

Writer: Alvin Boretz

Air date: 1961-10-28

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 8)

Writer: Reginald Rose

Air date: 1961-11-04

Runtime: 60 min

The Trial of Jenny Scott (Episode 9)

Writer: Reginald Rose

Air date: 1961-11-11

Runtime: 60 min

The Man with the Concrete Thumb (Episode 10)

Writer: Ernest Kinoy

Air date: 1961-11-18

Runtime: 60 min

The Treadmill (Episode 11)

Writer: Peter Stone

Air date: 1961-11-25

Runtime: 60 min

Perjury (Episode 12) 8.0

Writer: Adrian Spies

Air date: 1961-12-02

Runtime: 60 min

The Attack (Episode 13)

Writer: John W. Bloch

Air date: 1961-12-09

Runtime: 60 min

The Prowler (Episode 14)

Writer: David Shaw

Air date: 1961-12-16

Runtime: 60 min

Gideon's Follies (Episode 15)

Writer: Robert J. Crean

Air date: 1961-12-23

Runtime: 60 min

The Best Defense (Episode 16)

Writer: Ernest Kinoy

Air date: 1961-12-30

Runtime: 60 min

The Bedside Murder (Episode 17)

Writer: Max Ehrlich

Air date: 1962-01-06

Runtime: 60 min

The Search (Episode 18)

Writer: Reginald Rose

Air date: 1962-01-20

Runtime: 60 min

Storm at Birch Glen (Episode 19)

Writer: Jerome Ross

Air date: 1962-01-27

Runtime: 60 min

The Point Shaver (Episode 20)

Writer: Mann Rubin

Air date: 1962-02-03

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 21)

Writer: Ernest Kinoy

Air date: 1962-02-10

Runtime: 60 min

The Empty Chute (Episode 22)

Writer: Max Ehrlich

Air date: 1962-02-17

Runtime: 60 min

The Crusader (Episode 23)

Writer: Jerome Ross

Air date: 1962-02-24

Runtime: 60 min

The Hickory Indian (Episode 24)

Writer: David Karp

Air date: 1962-03-03

Runtime: 60 min

The Iron Man (Episode 25)

Writer: David Davidson

Air date: 1962-03-10

Runtime: 60 min

The Tarnished Cross (Episode 26)

Writer: Reginald Rose

Air date: 1962-03-17

Runtime: 60 min

The Last Six Months (Episode 27) 9.0

Writer: Max Ehrlich

Air date: 1962-03-31

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 28)

Writer: Alvin Boretz

Air date: 1962-04-07

Runtime: 60 min

Reunion with Death (Episode 29)

Writer: David Shaw

Air date: 1962-04-21

Runtime: 60 min

The Benefactor (Episode 30)

Writer: Peter Stone

Air date: 1962-04-28

Runtime: 60 min

Along Came a Spider (Episode 31)

Writer: Peter Stone

Air date: 1962-05-05

Runtime: 60 min

The Broken Barrelhead (Episode 32)

Writer: David Karp

Air date: 1962-05-26

Runtime: 60 min