The Defenders

5.9

1961•1h

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.

Production

Trailers & Videos

"The Defenders" TV Intro

Seasons

32 Episodes • Premiered 1961

1. Quality of Mercy

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

2. Killer Instinct

7.0

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

4. The Riot

5. The Young Lovers

6. The Boy Between

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""â€”and breaks into his multiple personality of Cagney on the witness stand as the Prestons are questioning him.

8. The Accident

9. The Trial of Jenny Scott

10. The Man with the Concrete Thumb

11. The Treadmill

12. Perjury

8.0

13. The Attack

14. The Prowler

15. Gideon's Follies

16. The Best Defense

17. The Bedside Murder

18. The Search

19. Storm at Birch Glen

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.

21. The Locked Room

22. The Empty Chute

23. The Crusader

24. The Hickory Indian

25. The Iron Man

26. The Tarnished Cross

27. The Last Six Months

9.0

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.