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The Defenders

The Defenders

1961 - 1965

Quality of Mercy

16th September 1961
Episode 1
Dr. Bill Conrad's patient, Leona Warner, delivers a baby with Down Syndrome.

Killer Instinct

23rd September 1961
Episode 2
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.

Death Across the Counter

30th September 1961
Episode 3
No overview available.

The Riot

7th October 1961
Episode 4
No overview available.

The Young Lovers

14th October 1961
Episode 5
No overview available.

The Boy Between

21st October 1961
Episode 6
No overview available.

The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms

28th October 1961
Episode 7
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.

The Accident

4th November 1961
Episode 8
No overview available.

The Trial of Jenny Scott

11th November 1961
Episode 9
No overview available.

The Man with the Concrete Thumb

18th November 1961
Episode 10
No overview available.

The Treadmill

25th November 1961
Episode 11
No overview available.

Perjury

2nd December 1961
Episode 12
No overview available.

The Attack

9th December 1961
Episode 13
No overview available.

The Prowler

16th December 1961
Episode 14
No overview available.

Gideon's Follies

23rd December 1961
Episode 15
No overview available.

The Best Defense

30th December 1961
Episode 16
No overview available.

The Bedside Murder

6th January 1962
Episode 17
No overview available.

The Search

20th January 1962
Episode 18
No overview available.

Storm at Birch Glen

27th January 1962
Episode 19
No overview available.

The Point Shaver

3rd February 1962
Episode 20
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.

The Locked Room

10th February 1962
Episode 21
No overview available.

The Empty Chute

17th February 1962
Episode 22
No overview available.

The Crusader

24th February 1962
Episode 23
No overview available.

The Hickory Indian

3rd March 1962
Episode 24
No overview available.

The Iron Man

10th March 1962
Episode 25
No overview available.

The Tarnished Cross

17th March 1962
Episode 26
No overview available.

The Last Six Months

31st March 1962
Episode 27
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.

The Naked Heiress

7th April 1962
Episode 28
No overview available.

Reunion with Death

21st April 1962
Episode 29
No overview available.

The Benefactor

28th April 1962
Episode 30
No overview available.

Along Came a Spider

5th May 1962
Episode 31
No overview available.

The Broken Barrelhead

26th May 1962
Episode 32
No overview available.
Top Cast
Writer
Reginald Rose
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.

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