The Defenders

The Defenders

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.

Drama

Seasons

1. Quality of Mercy

Air Date: 1961-09-16

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

2. Killer Instinct

Air Date: 1961-09-23

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.

3. Death Across the Counter

Air Date: 1961-09-30

4. The Riot

Air Date: 1961-10-07

5. The Young Lovers

Air Date: 1961-10-14

6. The Boy Between

Air Date: 1961-10-21

7. The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms

Air Date: 1961-10-28

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.

8. The Accident

Air Date: 1961-11-04

9. The Trial of Jenny Scott

Air Date: 1961-11-11

10. The Man with the Concrete Thumb

Air Date: 1961-11-18

11. The Treadmill

Air Date: 1961-11-25

12. Perjury

Air Date: 1961-12-02

13. The Attack

Air Date: 1961-12-09

14. The Prowler

Air Date: 1961-12-16

15. Gideon's Follies

Air Date: 1961-12-23

16. The Best Defense

Air Date: 1961-12-30

17. The Bedside Murder

Air Date: 1962-01-06

18. The Search

Air Date: 1962-01-20

19. Storm at Birch Glen

Air Date: 1962-01-27

20. The Point Shaver

Air Date: 1962-02-03

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.

21. The Locked Room

Air Date: 1962-02-10

22. The Empty Chute

Air Date: 1962-02-17

23. The Crusader

Air Date: 1962-02-24

24. The Hickory Indian

Air Date: 1962-03-03

25. The Iron Man

Air Date: 1962-03-10

26. The Tarnished Cross

Air Date: 1962-03-17

27. The Last Six Months

Air Date: 1962-03-31

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.

28. The Naked Heiress

Air Date: 1962-04-07

Reunion with Death

29. Reunion with Death

Air Date: 1962-04-21

30. The Benefactor

Air Date: 1962-04-28

31. Along Came a Spider

Air Date: 1962-05-05

32. The Broken Barrelhead

Air Date: 1962-05-26

1. The Voices of Death

Air Date: 1962-09-15

Martha Harrow, a young wife and mother, is convicted of first-degree murder. The victim: her husband, an alcoholic and wife beater.

2. Blood Country

Air Date: 1962-09-22

3. The Indelible Silence

Air Date: 1962-09-29

4. The Seven Ghosts of Simon Gray

Air Date: 1962-10-06

5. The Unwanted

Air Date: 1962-10-13

6. Madman (1)

Air Date: 1962-10-20

7. Madman (2)

Air Date: 1962-10-27

8. The Bigamist

Air Date: 1962-11-03

9. The Avenger

Air Date: 1962-11-17

10. The Invisible Badge

Air Date: 1962-11-24

11. The Hidden Jungle

Air Date: 1962-12-01

12. The Savage Infant

Air Date: 1962-12-08

13. The Apostle

Air Date: 1962-12-15

14. Grandma TNT

Air Date: 1962-12-22

15. Don't Take the Stand

Air Date: 1962-12-29

16. Kill or Be Killed

Air Date: 1963-01-05

17. Man Against Himself

Air Date: 1963-01-12

18. The Poisoned Fruit Doctrine

Air Date: 1963-01-19

19. Poltergeist

Air Date: 1963-01-26

20. Ordeal

Air Date: 1963-02-02

21. The Hour Before Doomsday

Air Date: 1963-02-09

22. The Traitor

Air Date: 1963-02-16

23. The Eye of Fear

Air Date: 1963-02-23

24. Metamorphosis

Air Date: 1963-03-02

25. The Last Illusion

Air Date: 1963-03-09

Magician Monte Moran fails in his attempt to escape from a coffin-like box lowered into the river. When his body is finally retrieved, Moran's assistant Ballin claims someone tampered with the equipment.

26. The Heathen

Air Date: 1963-03-23

27. A Book for Burning

Air Date: 1963-03-30

28. A Taste of Vengeance

Air Date: 1963-04-06

29. The Colossus

Air Date: 1963-04-13

30. Judgment Eve

Air Date: 1963-04-20

31. The Noose

Air Date: 1963-04-27

32. Everybody Else is Dead

Air Date: 1963-05-11

33. The Trial of Twenty-Two

Air Date: 1963-05-18

34. The Brother Killers

Air Date: 1963-05-25

1. The Weeping Baboon

Air Date: 1963-09-28

2. The Empty Heart

Air Date: 1963-10-05

3. The Captive

Air Date: 1963-10-12

4. The Bagman

Air Date: 1963-10-19

5. Conspiracy of Silence

Air Date: 1963-10-26

6. The Cruel Hook

Air Date: 1963-11-02

7. Star-Spangled Ghetto

Air Date: 1963-11-09

8. Loophole

Air Date: 1963-11-16

9. The Seal of Confession

Air Date: 1963-11-30

10. Climate of Evil

Air Date: 1963-12-07

11. The Crowd Pleaser

Air Date: 1963-12-14

12. Old Lady Ironsides

Air Date: 1963-12-21

A high school senior is denied the chance to finish two more months of high school for a diploma, just because she has been found to be pregnant. A little old lady who has befriended the girl, and who had been an active Suffragette, determines to help her: she chains herself to the school entrance. The attending publicity and subsequent sanity hearing for the old lady, force the board to change its ruling.

13. Fugue for Trumpet and Small Boy

Air Date: 1963-12-28

14. Claire Cheval Died in Boston

Air Date: 1963-11-23

15. The Last Day

Air Date: 1964-01-11

16. Blacklist

Air Date: 1964-01-18

Blacklist is an episode of TV program The Defenders.

17. Who'll Dig His Grave?

Air Date: 1964-01-25

18. All the Silent Voices

Air Date: 1964-02-01

Dr. Katherine Tasso opens a clinic and dispenses birth-control information—although she's aware that her actions violate state laws.

19. The Secret

Air Date: 1964-02-08

20. The Pill Man

Air Date: 1964-02-22

21. Drink Like a Lady

Air Date: 1964-02-29

22. Survival

Air Date: 1964-03-14

23. Moment of Truth

Air Date: 1964-03-21

24. The Hidden Fury

Air Date: 1964-03-28

25. Die Laughing

Air Date: 1964-04-11

26. May Day! May Day!

Air Date: 1964-04-18

27. The Thief

Air Date: 1964-04-25

28. Yankee Go Home

Air Date: 1964-05-02

29. The Man Who Saved His Country

Air Date: 1964-05-09

30. Mind Over Murder

Air Date: 1964-05-16

31. The Sixth Alarm

Air Date: 1964-05-23

32. The Fine Line

Air Date: 1964-05-30

33. The Non-Violent

Air Date: 1964-06-06

34. Stowaway

Air Date: 1964-06-13

35. Hollow Triumph

Air Date: 1964-06-20

36. The Uncivil War

Air Date: 1964-06-27

1. The Seven Hundred-Year Old Gang (1)

Air Date: 1964-09-24

2. The Seven Hundred-Year Old Gang (2)

Air Date: 1964-10-01

3. Hero of the People

Air Date: 1964-10-08

4. Go-Between

Air Date: 1964-10-15

5. Conflict of Interests

Air Date: 1964-10-22

6. The Man Who . . .

Air Date: 1964-10-29

7. Turning Point

Air Date: 1964-11-05

8. A Taste of Ashes

Air Date: 1964-11-12

9. Comeback

Air Date: 1964-11-26

10. The Siege

Air Date: 1964-12-03

11. Whitewash

Air Date: 1964-12-10

12. A Voice Loud and Clear

Air Date: 1964-12-17

13. King of the Hill

Air Date: 1964-12-31

14. Whipping Boy

Air Date: 1965-01-07

15. Eyewitness

Air Date: 1965-01-14

16. The Silent Killers

Air Date: 1965-01-21

17. Death on Wheels

Air Date: 1965-01-28

18. The Unwritten Law

Air Date: 1965-02-04

19. The Objector

Air Date: 1965-02-11

20. Fires of the Mind

Air Date: 1965-02-18

After taking LSD, mentally disturbed Robert Kraft commits suicide while experiencing a hallucinatory reaction—and Dr. Byron Saul (Pleasence), who's been treating Kraft with the drug, is charged with manslaughter.

21. No-Knock

Air Date: 1965-02-25

22. The Merry-Go-Round Murder

Air Date: 1965-03-04

23. Nobody Asks What Side You're On . . .

Air Date: 1965-03-11

24. Impeachment

Air Date: 1965-03-18

25. The Sworn Twelve

Air Date: 1965-03-25

26. A Matter of Law and Disorder

Air Date: 1965-04-08

27. Youths and Maidens on an Evening Walk

Air Date: 1965-04-15

28. The Prosecutor

Air Date: 1965-04-29

29. The Bum's Rush

Air Date: 1965-05-06

30. Only a Child

Air Date: 1965-05-13

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Rating

6.2/10

Release Date

1961-09-16

Episodes

132 (4 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

Videos

Production Companies

Plautus Productions

CBS

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