The Defenders (1961)
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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Episode 1 - Quality of Mercy
Release Date: 1961-09-16Dr. Bill Conrad's patient, Leona Warner, delivers a baby with Down Syndrome.
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Episode 2 - Killer Instinct
Release Date: 1961-09-23When 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.
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Episode 3 - Death Across the Counter
Release Date: 1961-09-30 -
Episode 4 - The Riot
Release Date: 1961-10-07 -
Episode 5 - The Young Lovers
Release Date: 1961-10-14 -
Episode 6 - The Boy Between
Release Date: 1961-10-21 -
Episode 7 - The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms
Release Date: 1961-10-28Frank 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.
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Episode 8 - The Accident
Release Date: 1961-11-04 -
Episode 9 - The Trial of Jenny Scott
Release Date: 1961-11-11 -
Episode 10 - The Man with the Concrete Thumb
Release Date: 1961-11-18 -
Episode 11 - The Treadmill
Release Date: 1961-11-25 -
Episode 12 - Perjury
Release Date: 1961-12-02 -
Episode 13 - The Attack
Release Date: 1961-12-09 -
Episode 14 - The Prowler
Release Date: 1961-12-16 -
Episode 15 - Gideon's Follies
Release Date: 1961-12-23 -
Episode 16 - The Best Defense
Release Date: 1961-12-30 -
Episode 17 - The Bedside Murder
Release Date: 1962-01-06 -
Episode 18 - The Search
Release Date: 1962-01-20 -
Episode 19 - Storm at Birch Glen
Release Date: 1962-01-27 -
Episode 20 - The Point Shaver
Release Date: 1962-02-03Stacy 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.
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Episode 21 - The Locked Room
Release Date: 1962-02-10 -
Episode 22 - The Empty Chute
Release Date: 1962-02-17 -
Episode 23 - The Crusader
Release Date: 1962-02-24 -
Episode 24 - The Hickory Indian
Release Date: 1962-03-03 -
Episode 25 - The Iron Man
Release Date: 1962-03-10 -
Episode 26 - The Tarnished Cross
Release Date: 1962-03-17 -
Episode 27 - The Last Six Months
Release Date: 1962-03-31Arthur 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.
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Episode 28 - The Naked Heiress
Release Date: 1962-04-07 -
Episode 29 - Reunion with Death
Release Date: 1962-04-21 -
Episode 30 - The Benefactor
Release Date: 1962-04-28 -
Episode 31 - Along Came a Spider
Release Date: 1962-05-05 -
Episode 32 - The Broken Barrelhead
Release Date: 1962-05-26