Reginald Rose
Director
The Defenders (1961)
Season 1
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.
Released Sept. 17, 1961
Episode 60 min
15+
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Production Companies: Plautus Productions, CBS
Network: CBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Quality of Mercy
Dr. Bill Conrad's patient, Leona Warner, delivers a baby with Down Syndrome.
Sept. 16, 1961, midnight
7.0
S1E2 - 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.
Sept. 23, 1961, midnight
S1E3 - Death Across the Counter
Sept. 30, 1961, midnight
S1E4 - The Riot
Oct. 7, 1961, midnight
S1E5 - The Young Lovers
Oct. 14, 1961, midnight
S1E6 - The Boy Between
Oct. 21, 1961, midnight
S1E7 - 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.
Oct. 28, 1961, midnight
S1E8 - The Accident
Nov. 4, 1961, midnight
S1E9 - The Trial of Jenny Scott
Nov. 11, 1961, midnight
S1E10 - The Man with the Concrete Thumb
Nov. 18, 1961, midnight
S1E11 - The Treadmill
Nov. 25, 1961, midnight
8.0
S1E12 - Perjury
Dec. 2, 1961, midnight
S1E13 - The Attack
Dec. 9, 1961, midnight
S1E14 - The Prowler
Dec. 16, 1961, midnight
S1E15 - Gideon's Follies
Dec. 23, 1961, midnight
S1E16 - The Best Defense
Dec. 30, 1961, midnight
S1E17 - The Bedside Murder
Jan. 6, 1962, midnight
S1E18 - The Search
Jan. 20, 1962, midnight
S1E19 - Storm at Birch Glen
Jan. 27, 1962, midnight
S1E20 - 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.
Feb. 3, 1962, midnight
S1E21 - The Locked Room
Feb. 10, 1962, midnight
S1E22 - The Empty Chute
Feb. 17, 1962, midnight
S1E23 - The Crusader
Feb. 24, 1962, midnight
S1E24 - The Hickory Indian
March 3, 1962, midnight
S1E25 - The Iron Man
March 10, 1962, midnight
S1E26 - The Tarnished Cross
March 17, 1962, midnight
9.0
S1E27 - 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.
March 31, 1962, midnight
S1E28 - The Naked Heiress
April 7, 1962, midnight
S1E29 - Reunion with Death
April 21, 1962, midnight
S1E30 - The Benefactor
April 28, 1962, midnight
S1E31 - Along Came a Spider
May 5, 1962, midnight
S1E32 - The Broken Barrelhead
May 26, 1962, midnight
Network: CBS
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 60 min.
Released: Sept. 17, 1961
Last Air Date: May 13, 1965, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
Common sense age: 15+
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