

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…
Drama • Series • 1961 • 4 seasons
Starring: E.G. Marshall, Robert Reed
Created by: Reginald Rose

S1 E1 - Quality of Mercy
Dr. Bill Conrad's patient, Leona Warner, delivers a baby with Down Syndrome.
Sep 16, 1961 • 1h
S1 E2 - 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.
Sep 23, 1961 • 51m
S1 E3 - Death Across the Counter
Sep 30, 1961 • 1h
S1 E4 - The Riot
Oct 7, 1961 • 1h
S1 E5 - The Young Lovers
Oct 14, 1961 • 50m
S1 E6 - The Boy Between
Oct 21, 1961 • 1h
S1 E7 - 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 • 1h
S1 E8 - The Accident
Nov 4, 1961 • 1h
S1 E9 - The Trial of Jenny Scott
Nov 11, 1961 • 1h
S1 E10 - The Man with the Concrete Thumb
Nov 18, 1961 • 1h
S1 E11 - The Treadmill
Nov 25, 1961 • 1h
S1 E12 - Perjury
Dec 2, 1961 • 1h
S1 E13 - The Attack
Dec 9, 1961 • 1h
S1 E14 - The Prowler
Dec 16, 1961 • 1h
S1 E15 - Gideon's Follies
Dec 23, 1961 • 1h
S1 E16 - The Best Defense
Dec 30, 1961 • 1h
S1 E17 - The Bedside Murder
Jan 6, 1962 • 1h
S1 E18 - The Search
Jan 20, 1962 • 1h
S1 E19 - Storm at Birch Glen
Jan 27, 1962 • 1h
S1 E20 - 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 • 1h
S1 E21 - The Locked Room
Feb 10, 1962 • 1h
S1 E22 - The Empty Chute
Feb 17, 1962 • 1h
S1 E23 - The Crusader
Feb 24, 1962 • 1h
S1 E24 - The Hickory Indian
Mar 3, 1962 • 1h
S1 E25 - The Iron Man
Mar 10, 1962 • 1h
S1 E26 - The Tarnished Cross
Mar 17, 1962 • 1h
S1 E27 - 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.
Mar 31, 1962 • 1h
S1 E28 - The Naked Heiress
Apr 7, 1962 • 1h

S1 E29 - Reunion with Death
Apr 21, 1962 • 1h
S1 E30 - The Benefactor
Apr 28, 1962 • 1h
S1 E31 - Along Came a Spider
May 5, 1962 • 1h
S1 E32 - The Broken Barrelhead
May 26, 1962 • 1h
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.
Drama • TV Series • 1961