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.
The Defenders (Season 1)
Quality of Mercy 0.0
Air date: 1961-09-16
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Dr. Bill Conrad's patient, Leona Warner, delivers a baby with Down Syndrome.
Killer Instinct 7.0
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 0.0
Air date: 1961-09-30
Runtime: 60 min
The Riot 0.0
Air date: 1961-10-07
Runtime: 60 min
The Young Lovers 0.0
Air date: 1961-10-14
Runtime: 50 min
The Boy Between 0.0
Air date: 1961-10-21
Runtime: 60 min
The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms 0.0
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 0.0
Air date: 1961-11-04
Runtime: 60 min
The Trial of Jenny Scott 0.0
Air date: 1961-11-11
Runtime: 60 min
The Man with the Concrete Thumb 0.0
Air date: 1961-11-18
Runtime: 60 min
The Treadmill 0.0
Air date: 1961-11-25
Runtime: 60 min
Perjury 8.0
Air date: 1961-12-02
Runtime: 60 min
The Attack 0.0
Air date: 1961-12-09
Runtime: 60 min
The Prowler 0.0
Air date: 1961-12-16
Runtime: 60 min
Gideon's Follies 0.0
Air date: 1961-12-23
Runtime: 60 min
The Best Defense 0.0
Air date: 1961-12-30
Runtime: 60 min
The Bedside Murder 0.0
Air date: 1962-01-06
Runtime: 60 min
The Search 0.0
Air date: 1962-01-20
Runtime: 60 min
Storm at Birch Glen 0.0
Air date: 1962-01-27
Runtime: 60 min
The Point Shaver 0.0
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 0.0
Air date: 1962-02-10
Runtime: 60 min
The Empty Chute 0.0
Air date: 1962-02-17
Runtime: 60 min
The Crusader 0.0
Air date: 1962-02-24
Runtime: 60 min
The Hickory Indian 0.0
Air date: 1962-03-03
Runtime: 60 min
The Iron Man 0.0
Air date: 1962-03-10
Runtime: 60 min
The Tarnished Cross 0.0
Air date: 1962-03-17
Runtime: 60 min
The Last Six Months 9.0
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 0.0
Air date: 1962-04-07
Runtime: 60 min
Reunion with Death 0.0
Air date: 1962-04-21
Runtime: 60 min
The Benefactor 0.0
Air date: 1962-04-28
Runtime: 60 min
Along Came a Spider 0.0
Air date: 1962-05-05
Runtime: 60 min
The Broken Barrelhead 0.0
Air date: 1962-05-26
Runtime: 60 min
Seasons
Episodes 32
Episodes 34
Episodes 36
Episodes 30