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The Defenders(1961–1965)

September 16, 19614 Seasons · 132 Episodes

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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.

Created by Reginald Rose

Network CBS

Seasons

Where to Watch

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Season 4

30 Episodes

1964

E01

The Seven Hundred-Year Old Gang (1)

9/24/1964·60m

E02

The Seven Hundred-Year Old Gang (2)

10/1/1964·60m

E03

Hero of the People

10/8/1964·60m

E04

Go-Between

10/15/1964·60m

E05

Conflict of Interests

10/22/1964·60m

E06

The Man Who . . .

10/29/1964·60m

E07

Turning Point

11/5/1964·60m

E08

A Taste of Ashes

11/12/1964·60m

E09

Comeback

11/26/1964·60m

E10

The Siege

12/3/1964·60m

E11

Whitewash

12/10/1964·60m

E12

A Voice Loud and Clear

12/17/1964·60m

E13

King of the Hill

12/31/1964·60m

E14

Whipping Boy

1/7/1965·60m

E15

Eyewitness

1/14/1965·60m

E16

The Silent Killers

1/21/1965·60m

E17

Death on Wheels

1/28/1965·60m

E18

The Unwritten Law

2/4/1965·60m

E19

The Objector

2/11/1965·60m

E20

Fires of the Mind

2/18/1965·60m

After taking LSD, mentally disturbed Robert Kraft commits suicide while experiencing a hallucinatory reactionâ€”and Dr. Byron Saul (Pleasence), who's been treating Kraft with the drug, is charged with manslaughter.

E21

No-Knock

2/25/1965·60m

E22

The Merry-Go-Round Murder

3/4/1965·60m

E23

Nobody Asks What Side You're On . . .

3/11/1965·60m

E24

Impeachment

3/18/1965·60m

E25

The Sworn Twelve

3/25/1965·60m

E26

A Matter of Law and Disorder

4/8/1965·60m

E27

Youths and Maidens on an Evening Walk

4/15/1965·60m

E28

The Prosecutor

4/29/1965·60m

E29

The Bum's Rush

5/6/1965·60m

E30

Only a Child

5/13/1965·60m

Cast

E.G. Marshall

Lawrence Preston

Robert Reed

Kenneth Preston

Season 1 poster

Season 1

32 Episodes

1961

Quality of Mercy

E01

Quality of Mercy

9/16/1961·60m

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

E02

Killer Instinct

9/23/1961·51m

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.

Season 2

34 Episodes

1962

E01

The Voices of Death

9/15/1962·60m

Martha Harrow, a young wife and mother, is convicted of first-degree murder. The victim: her husband, an alcoholic and wife beater.

E03

Death Across the Counter

9/30/1961·60m

E04

The Riot

10/7/1961·60m

E05

The Young Lovers

10/14/1961·50m

E06

The Boy Between

10/21/1961·60m

E07

The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms

10/28/1961·60m

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.

E08

The Accident

11/4/1961·60m

E09

The Trial of Jenny Scott

11/11/1961·60m

E10

The Man with the Concrete Thumb

11/18/1961·60m

E11

The Treadmill

11/25/1961·60m

E12

Perjury

12/2/1961·60m

E13

The Attack

12/9/1961·60m

E14

The Prowler

12/16/1961·60m

E15

Gideon's Follies

12/23/1961·60m

E16

The Best Defense

12/30/1961·60m

E17

The Bedside Murder

1/6/1962·60m

E18

The Search

1/20/1962·60m

E19

Storm at Birch Glen

1/27/1962·60m

E20

The Point Shaver

2/3/1962·60m

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.

E21

The Locked Room

2/10/1962·60m

E22

The Empty Chute

2/17/1962·60m

E23

The Crusader

2/24/1962·60m

E24

The Hickory Indian

3/3/1962·60m

E25

The Iron Man

3/10/1962·60m

E26

The Tarnished Cross

3/17/1962·60m

E27

The Last Six Months

3/31/1962·60m

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.

E28

The Naked Heiress

4/7/1962·60m

Reunion with Death

E29

Reunion with Death

4/21/1962·60m

E30

The Benefactor

4/28/1962·60m

E31

Along Came a Spider

5/5/1962·60m

E32

The Broken Barrelhead

5/26/1962·60m

E02

Blood Country

9/22/1962·60m

E03

The Indelible Silence

9/29/1962·60m

E04

The Seven Ghosts of Simon Gray

10/6/1962·60m

E05

The Unwanted

10/13/1962·60m

E06

Madman (1)

10/20/1962·60m

E07

Madman (2)

10/27/1962·60m

E08

The Bigamist

11/3/1962·60m

E09

The Avenger

11/17/1962·60m

E10

The Invisible Badge

11/24/1962·60m

E11

The Hidden Jungle

12/1/1962·60m

E12

The Savage Infant

12/8/1962·60m

E13

The Apostle

12/15/1962·60m

E14

Grandma TNT

12/22/1962·60m

E15

Don't Take the Stand

12/29/1962·60m

E16

Kill or Be Killed

1/5/1963·60m

E17

Man Against Himself

1/12/1963·60m

E18

The Poisoned Fruit Doctrine

1/19/1963·60m

E19

Poltergeist

1/26/1963·60m

E20

Ordeal

2/2/1963·60m

E21

The Hour Before Doomsday

2/9/1963·60m

E22

The Traitor

2/16/1963·60m

E23

The Eye of Fear

2/23/1963·60m

E24

Metamorphosis

3/2/1963·60m

E25

The Last Illusion

3/9/1963·60m

Magician Monte Moran fails in his attempt to escape from a coffin-like box lowered into the river. When his body is finally retrieved, Moran's assistant Ballin claims someone tampered with the equipment.

E26

The Heathen

3/23/1963·60m

E27

A Book for Burning

3/30/1963·60m

E28

A Taste of Vengeance

4/6/1963·60m

E29

The Colossus

4/13/1963·60m

E30

Judgment Eve

4/20/1963·60m

E31

The Noose

4/27/1963·60m

E32

Everybody Else is Dead

5/11/1963·60m

E33

The Trial of Twenty-Two

5/18/1963·60m

E34

The Brother Killers

5/25/1963·60m

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Season 3

36 Episodes

1963

E01

The Weeping Baboon

9/28/1963·60m

E02

The Empty Heart

10/5/1963·60m

E03

The Captive

10/12/1963·60m

E04

The Bagman

10/19/1963·60m

E05

Conspiracy of Silence

10/26/1963·60m

E06

The Cruel Hook

11/2/1963·60m

E07

Star-Spangled Ghetto

11/9/1963·60m

E08

Loophole

11/16/1963·60m

E09

The Seal of Confession

11/30/1963·60m

E10

Climate of Evil

12/7/1963·60m

E11

The Crowd Pleaser

12/14/1963·60m

E12

Old Lady Ironsides

12/21/1963·60m

A high school senior is denied the chance to finish two more months of high school for a diploma, just because she has been found to be pregnant. A little old lady who has befriended the girl, and who had been an active Suffragette, determines to help her: she chains herself to the school entrance. The attending publicity and subsequent sanity hearing for the old lady, force the board to change its ruling.

E13

Fugue for Trumpet and Small Boy

12/28/1963·60m

E14

Claire Cheval Died in Boston

11/23/1963·60m

E15

The Last Day

1/11/1964·60m

E16

Blacklist

1/18/1964·60m

Blacklist is an episode of TV program The Defenders.

E17

Who'll Dig His Grave?

1/25/1964·60m

E18

All the Silent Voices

2/1/1964·60m

Dr. Katherine Tasso opens a clinic and dispenses birth-control informationâ€”although she's aware that her actions violate state laws.

E19

The Secret

2/8/1964·60m

E20

The Pill Man

2/22/1964·60m

E21

Drink Like a Lady

2/29/1964·60m

E22

Survival

3/14/1964·60m

E23

Moment of Truth

3/21/1964·60m

E24

The Hidden Fury

3/28/1964·60m

E25

Die Laughing

4/11/1964·60m

E26

May Day! May Day!

4/18/1964·60m

E27

The Thief

4/25/1964·60m

E28

Yankee Go Home

5/2/1964·60m

E29

The Man Who Saved His Country

5/9/1964·60m

E30

Mind Over Murder

5/16/1964·60m

E31

The Sixth Alarm

5/23/1964·60m

E32

The Fine Line

5/30/1964·60m

E33

The Non-Violent

6/6/1964·60m

E34

Stowaway

6/13/1964·60m

E35

Hollow Triumph

6/20/1964·60m

E36

The Uncivil War

6/27/1964·60m