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.
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
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