About this season
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.
Episodes (32)
1. Quality of Mercy
Aired 16 September 1961 • 60 min
Dr. Bill Conrad's patient, Leona Warner, delivers a baby with Down Syndrome.
2. Killer Instinct
7.0Aired 23 September 1961 • 51 min
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.
3. Death Across the Counter
Aired 30 September 1961 • 60 min
4. The Riot
Aired 7 October 1961 • 60 min
5. The Young Lovers
Aired 14 October 1961 • 50 min
6. The Boy Between
Aired 21 October 1961 • 60 min
7. The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms
Aired 28 October 1961 • 60 min
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.
8. The Accident
Aired 4 November 1961 • 60 min
9. The Trial of Jenny Scott
Aired 11 November 1961 • 60 min
10. The Man with the Concrete Thumb
Aired 18 November 1961 • 60 min
11. The Treadmill
Aired 25 November 1961 • 60 min
12. Perjury
8.0Aired 2 December 1961 • 60 min
13. The Attack
Aired 9 December 1961 • 60 min
14. The Prowler
Aired 16 December 1961 • 60 min
15. Gideon's Follies
Aired 23 December 1961 • 60 min
16. The Best Defense
Aired 30 December 1961 • 60 min
17. The Bedside Murder
Aired 6 January 1962 • 60 min
18. The Search
Aired 20 January 1962 • 60 min
19. Storm at Birch Glen
Aired 27 January 1962 • 60 min
20. The Point Shaver
Aired 3 February 1962 • 60 min
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.
21. The Locked Room
Aired 10 February 1962 • 60 min
22. The Empty Chute
Aired 17 February 1962 • 60 min
23. The Crusader
Aired 24 February 1962 • 60 min
24. The Hickory Indian
Aired 3 March 1962 • 60 min
25. The Iron Man
Aired 10 March 1962 • 60 min
26. The Tarnished Cross
Aired 17 March 1962 • 60 min
27. The Last Six Months
9.0Aired 31 March 1962 • 60 min
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.
28. The Naked Heiress
Aired 7 April 1962 • 60 min
29. Reunion with Death
Aired 21 April 1962 • 60 min
30. The Benefactor
Aired 28 April 1962 • 60 min
31. Along Came a Spider
Aired 5 May 1962 • 60 min
32. The Broken Barrelhead
Aired 26 May 1962 • 60 min