The Defenders

Sep 16, 1961 (en) Drama [60] Min
  • First Air Date
    Sep 16, 1961
  • Production
    Plautus Productions, CBS
  • Rotten tomato
    62%
  • Original title
    The Defenders
  • Release
    Sep 16, 1961
  • en
    -

Overview

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.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Bob Markell

    Producer

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Casts

  1. E.G. Marshall

    Lawrence Preston

  2. Robert Reed

    Kenneth Preston

Full Casts & Crew

Casts : 2 / Crews : 5

Season 1 ( 1961-09-16)

Quality of Mercy

Episode: 1

Killer Instinct

Episode: 2

Death Across the Counter

Episode: 3

The Riot

Episode: 4

The Young Lovers

Episode: 5

The Boy Between

Episode: 6

The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms

Episode: 7

The Accident

Episode: 8

The Trial of Jenny Scott

Episode: 9

The Man with the Concrete Thumb

Episode: 10

The Treadmill

Episode: 11

Perjury

Episode: 12

The Attack

Episode: 13

The Prowler

Episode: 14

Gideon's Follies

Episode: 15

The Best Defense

Episode: 16

The Bedside Murder

Episode: 17

The Search

Episode: 18

Storm at Birch Glen

Episode: 19

The Point Shaver

Episode: 20

The Locked Room

Episode: 21

The Empty Chute

Episode: 22

The Crusader

Episode: 23

The Hickory Indian

Episode: 24

The Iron Man

Episode: 25

The Tarnished Cross

Episode: 26

The Last Six Months

Episode: 27

The Naked Heiress

Episode: 28

Reunion with Death

Episode: 29

The Benefactor

Episode: 30

Along Came a Spider

Episode: 31

The Broken Barrelhead

Episode: 32

Season 2 ( 1962-09-15)

The Voices of Death

Episode: 1

Blood Country

Episode: 2

The Indelible Silence

Episode: 3

The Seven Ghosts of Simon Gray

Episode: 4

The Unwanted

Episode: 5

Madman (1)

Episode: 6

Madman (2)

Episode: 7

The Bigamist

Episode: 8

The Avenger

Episode: 9

The Invisible Badge

Episode: 10

The Hidden Jungle

Episode: 11

The Savage Infant

Episode: 12

The Apostle

Episode: 13

Grandma TNT

Episode: 14

Don't Take the Stand

Episode: 15

Kill or Be Killed

Episode: 16

Man Against Himself

Episode: 17

The Poisoned Fruit Doctrine

Episode: 18

Poltergeist

Episode: 19

Ordeal

Episode: 20

The Hour Before Doomsday

Episode: 21

The Traitor

Episode: 22

The Eye of Fear

Episode: 23

Metamorphosis

Episode: 24

The Last Illusion

Episode: 25

The Heathen

Episode: 26

A Book for Burning

Episode: 27

A Taste of Vengeance

Episode: 28

The Colossus

Episode: 29

Judgment Eve

Episode: 30

The Noose

Episode: 31

Everybody Else is Dead

Episode: 32

The Trial of Twenty-Two

Episode: 33

The Brother Killers

Episode: 34

Season 3 ( 1963-09-28)

The Weeping Baboon

Episode: 1

The Empty Heart

Episode: 2

The Captive

Episode: 3

The Bagman

Episode: 4

Conspiracy of Silence

Episode: 5

The Cruel Hook

Episode: 6

Star-Spangled Ghetto

Episode: 7

Loophole

Episode: 8

The Seal of Confession

Episode: 9

Climate of Evil

Episode: 10

The Crowd Pleaser

Episode: 11

Old Lady Ironsides

Episode: 12

Fugue for Trumpet and Small Boy

Episode: 13

Claire Cheval Died in Boston

Episode: 14

The Last Day

Episode: 15

Blacklist

Episode: 16

Who'll Dig His Grave?

Episode: 17

All the Silent Voices

Episode: 18

The Secret

Episode: 19

The Pill Man

Episode: 20

Drink Like a Lady

Episode: 21

Survival

Episode: 22

Moment of Truth

Episode: 23

The Hidden Fury

Episode: 24

Die Laughing

Episode: 25

May Day! May Day!

Episode: 26

The Thief

Episode: 27

Yankee Go Home

Episode: 28

The Man Who Saved His Country

Episode: 29

Mind Over Murder

Episode: 30

The Sixth Alarm

Episode: 31

The Fine Line

Episode: 32

The Non-Violent

Episode: 33

Stowaway

Episode: 34

Hollow Triumph

Episode: 35

The Uncivil War

Episode: 36

Season 4 ( 1964-09-24)

The Seven Hundred-Year Old Gang (1)

Episode: 1

The Seven Hundred-Year Old Gang (2)

Episode: 2

Hero of the People

Episode: 3

Go-Between

Episode: 4

Conflict of Interests

Episode: 5

The Man Who . . .

Episode: 6

Turning Point

Episode: 7

A Taste of Ashes

Episode: 8

Comeback

Episode: 9

The Siege

Episode: 10

Whitewash

Episode: 11

A Voice Loud and Clear

Episode: 12

King of the Hill

Episode: 13

Whipping Boy

Episode: 14

Eyewitness

Episode: 15

The Silent Killers

Episode: 16

Death on Wheels

Episode: 17

The Unwritten Law

Episode: 18

The Objector

Episode: 19

Fires of the Mind

Episode: 20

No-Knock

Episode: 21

The Merry-Go-Round Murder

Episode: 22

Nobody Asks What Side You're On . . .

Episode: 23

Impeachment

Episode: 24

The Sworn Twelve

Episode: 25

A Matter of Law and Disorder

Episode: 26

Youths and Maidens on an Evening Walk

Episode: 27

The Prosecutor

Episode: 28

The Bum's Rush

Episode: 29

Only a Child

Episode: 30
Sep 16, 1961 (en)
Drama
[60] Min
  • First Air Date Sep 16, 1961
  • Production
    Plautus Productions, CBS
  • Rotten tomato 62%
Original Title The Defenders
en

Overview

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.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Bob Markell

    Producer