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.

Creators and Cast

Creators

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Reginald Rose

Creator

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E.G. Marshall

Lawrence Preston

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Robert Reed

Kenneth Preston

Episodes

Season 1

32 episodes

S1 E1 · Quality of Mercy

1961-09-16

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

S1 E2 · Killer Instinct

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.

S1 E3 · Death Across the Counter

1961-09-30

No summary.

S1 E4 · The Riot

1961-10-07

No summary.

S1 E5 · The Young Lovers

1961-10-14

No summary.

S1 E6 · The Boy Between

1961-10-21

No summary.

S1 E7 · The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms

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.

S1 E8 · The Accident

1961-11-04

No summary.

S1 E9 · The Trial of Jenny Scott

1961-11-11

No summary.

S1 E10 · The Man with the Concrete Thumb

1961-11-18

No summary.

S1 E11 · The Treadmill

1961-11-25

No summary.

S1 E12 · Perjury

1961-12-02

No summary.

S1 E13 · The Attack

1961-12-09

No summary.

S1 E14 · The Prowler

1961-12-16

No summary.

S1 E15 · Gideon's Follies

1961-12-23

No summary.

S1 E16 · The Best Defense

1961-12-30

No summary.

S1 E17 · The Bedside Murder

1962-01-06

No summary.

S1 E18 · The Search

1962-01-20

No summary.

S1 E19 · Storm at Birch Glen

1962-01-27

No summary.

S1 E20 · The Point Shaver

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.

S1 E21 · The Locked Room

1962-02-10

No summary.

S1 E22 · The Empty Chute

1962-02-17

No summary.

S1 E23 · The Crusader

1962-02-24

No summary.

S1 E24 · The Hickory Indian

1962-03-03

No summary.

S1 E25 · The Iron Man

1962-03-10

No summary.

S1 E26 · The Tarnished Cross

1962-03-17

No summary.

S1 E27 · The Last Six Months

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.

S1 E28 · The Naked Heiress

1962-04-07

No summary.

S1 E29 · Reunion with Death

1962-04-21

No summary.

S1 E30 · The Benefactor

1962-04-28

No summary.

S1 E31 · Along Came a Spider

1962-05-05

No summary.

S1 E32 · The Broken Barrelhead

1962-05-26

No summary.

Season 2

34 episodes

S2 E1 · The Voices of Death

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.

S2 E2 · Blood Country

1962-09-22

No summary.

S2 E3 · The Indelible Silence

1962-09-29

No summary.

S2 E4 · The Seven Ghosts of Simon Gray

1962-10-06

No summary.

S2 E5 · The Unwanted

1962-10-13

No summary.

S2 E6 · Madman (1)

1962-10-20

No summary.

S2 E7 · Madman (2)

1962-10-27

No summary.

S2 E8 · The Bigamist

1962-11-03

No summary.

S2 E9 · The Avenger

1962-11-17

No summary.

S2 E10 · The Invisible Badge

1962-11-24

No summary.

S2 E11 · The Hidden Jungle

1962-12-01

No summary.

S2 E12 · The Savage Infant

1962-12-08

No summary.

S2 E13 · The Apostle

1962-12-15

No summary.

S2 E14 · Grandma TNT

1962-12-22

No summary.

S2 E15 · Don't Take the Stand

1962-12-29

No summary.

S2 E16 · Kill or Be Killed

1963-01-05

No summary.

S2 E17 · Man Against Himself

1963-01-12

No summary.

S2 E18 · The Poisoned Fruit Doctrine

1963-01-19

No summary.

S2 E19 · Poltergeist

1963-01-26

No summary.

S2 E20 · Ordeal

1963-02-02

No summary.

S2 E21 · The Hour Before Doomsday

1963-02-09

No summary.

S2 E22 · The Traitor

1963-02-16

No summary.

S2 E23 · The Eye of Fear

1963-02-23

No summary.

S2 E24 · Metamorphosis

1963-03-02

No summary.

S2 E25 · The Last Illusion

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.

S2 E26 · The Heathen

1963-03-23

No summary.

S2 E27 · A Book for Burning

1963-03-30

No summary.

S2 E28 · A Taste of Vengeance

1963-04-06

No summary.

S2 E29 · The Colossus

1963-04-13

No summary.

S2 E30 · Judgment Eve

1963-04-20

No summary.

S2 E31 · The Noose

1963-04-27

No summary.

S2 E32 · Everybody Else is Dead

1963-05-11

No summary.

S2 E33 · The Trial of Twenty-Two

1963-05-18

No summary.

S2 E34 · The Brother Killers

1963-05-25

No summary.

Season 3

36 episodes

S3 E1 · The Weeping Baboon

1963-09-28

No summary.

S3 E2 · The Empty Heart

1963-10-05

No summary.

S3 E3 · The Captive

1963-10-12

No summary.

S3 E4 · The Bagman

1963-10-19

No summary.

S3 E5 · Conspiracy of Silence

1963-10-26

No summary.

S3 E6 · The Cruel Hook

1963-11-02

No summary.

S3 E7 · Star-Spangled Ghetto

1963-11-09

No summary.

S3 E8 · Loophole

1963-11-16

No summary.

S3 E9 · The Seal of Confession

1963-11-30

No summary.

S3 E10 · Climate of Evil

1963-12-07

No summary.

S3 E11 · The Crowd Pleaser

1963-12-14

No summary.

S3 E12 · Old Lady Ironsides

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.

S3 E13 · Fugue for Trumpet and Small Boy

1963-12-28

No summary.

S3 E14 · Claire Cheval Died in Boston

1963-11-23

No summary.

S3 E15 · The Last Day

1964-01-11

No summary.

S3 E16 · Blacklist

1964-01-18

Blacklist is an episode of TV program The Defenders.

S3 E17 · Who'll Dig His Grave?

1964-01-25

No summary.

S3 E18 · All the Silent Voices

1964-02-01

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

S3 E19 · The Secret

1964-02-08

No summary.

S3 E20 · The Pill Man

1964-02-22

No summary.

S3 E21 · Drink Like a Lady

1964-02-29

No summary.

S3 E22 · Survival

1964-03-14

No summary.

S3 E23 · Moment of Truth

1964-03-21

No summary.

S3 E24 · The Hidden Fury

1964-03-28

No summary.

S3 E25 · Die Laughing

1964-04-11

No summary.

S3 E26 · May Day! May Day!

1964-04-18

No summary.

S3 E27 · The Thief

1964-04-25

No summary.

S3 E28 · Yankee Go Home

1964-05-02

No summary.

S3 E29 · The Man Who Saved His Country

1964-05-09

No summary.

S3 E30 · Mind Over Murder

1964-05-16

No summary.

S3 E31 · The Sixth Alarm

1964-05-23

No summary.

S3 E32 · The Fine Line

1964-05-30

No summary.

S3 E33 · The Non-Violent

1964-06-06

No summary.

S3 E34 · Stowaway

1964-06-13

No summary.

S3 E35 · Hollow Triumph

1964-06-20

No summary.

S3 E36 · The Uncivil War

1964-06-27

No summary.

Season 4

30 episodes

S4 E1 · The Seven Hundred-Year Old Gang (1)

1964-09-24

No summary.

S4 E2 · The Seven Hundred-Year Old Gang (2)

1964-10-01

No summary.

S4 E3 · Hero of the People

1964-10-08

No summary.

S4 E4 · Go-Between

1964-10-15

No summary.

S4 E5 · Conflict of Interests

1964-10-22

No summary.

S4 E6 · The Man Who . . .

1964-10-29

No summary.

S4 E7 · Turning Point

1964-11-05

No summary.

S4 E8 · A Taste of Ashes

1964-11-12

No summary.

S4 E9 · Comeback

1964-11-26

No summary.

S4 E10 · The Siege

1964-12-03

No summary.

S4 E11 · Whitewash

1964-12-10

No summary.

S4 E12 · A Voice Loud and Clear

1964-12-17

No summary.

S4 E13 · King of the Hill

1964-12-31

No summary.

S4 E14 · Whipping Boy

1965-01-07

No summary.

S4 E15 · Eyewitness

1965-01-14

No summary.

S4 E16 · The Silent Killers

1965-01-21

No summary.

S4 E17 · Death on Wheels

1965-01-28

No summary.

S4 E18 · The Unwritten Law

1965-02-04

No summary.

S4 E19 · The Objector

1965-02-11

No summary.

S4 E20 · Fires of the Mind

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.

S4 E21 · No-Knock

1965-02-25

No summary.

S4 E22 · The Merry-Go-Round Murder

1965-03-04

No summary.

S4 E23 · Nobody Asks What Side You're On . . .

1965-03-11

No summary.

S4 E24 · Impeachment

1965-03-18

No summary.

S4 E25 · The Sworn Twelve

1965-03-25

No summary.

S4 E26 · A Matter of Law and Disorder

1965-04-08

No summary.

S4 E27 · Youths and Maidens on an Evening Walk

1965-04-15

No summary.

S4 E28 · The Prosecutor

1965-04-29

No summary.

S4 E29 · The Bum's Rush

1965-05-06

No summary.

S4 E30 · Only a Child

1965-05-13

No summary.