The Defenders

The Defenders

1961
6.2
4 Seasons
Drama

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.

Season

Episodes

Ep 1

Quality of Mercy

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

Ep 2

Killer Instinct

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.

Ep 3

Death Across the Counter

Ep 4

The Riot

Ep 5

The Young Lovers

Ep 6

The Boy Between

Ep 7

The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms

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.

Ep 8

The Accident

Ep 9

The Trial of Jenny Scott

Ep 10

The Man with the Concrete Thumb

Ep 11

The Treadmill

Ep 12

Perjury

Ep 13

The Attack

Ep 14

The Prowler

Ep 15

Gideon's Follies

Ep 16

The Best Defense

Ep 17

The Bedside Murder

Ep 18

The Search

Ep 19

Storm at Birch Glen

Ep 20

The Point Shaver

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.

Ep 21

The Locked Room

Ep 22

The Empty Chute

Ep 23

The Crusader

Ep 24

The Hickory Indian

Ep 25

The Iron Man

Ep 26

The Tarnished Cross

Ep 27

The Last Six Months

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.

Ep 28

The Naked Heiress

Episode 29
Ep 29

Reunion with Death

Ep 30

The Benefactor

Ep 31

Along Came a Spider

Ep 32

The Broken Barrelhead

Cast

E.G. Marshall

E.G. Marshall

Lawrence Preston

Robert Reed

Robert Reed

Kenneth Preston