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 (34)
1. The Voices of Death
Aired 15 September 1962 • 60 min
Martha Harrow, a young wife and mother, is convicted of first-degree murder. The victim: her husband, an alcoholic and wife beater.
2. Blood Country
Aired 22 September 1962 • 60 min
3. The Indelible Silence
Aired 29 September 1962 • 60 min
4. The Seven Ghosts of Simon Gray
Aired 6 October 1962 • 60 min
5. The Unwanted
Aired 13 October 1962 • 60 min
6. Madman (1)
Aired 20 October 1962 • 60 min
7. Madman (2)
Aired 27 October 1962 • 60 min
8. The Bigamist
Aired 3 November 1962 • 60 min
9. The Avenger
Aired 17 November 1962 • 60 min
10. The Invisible Badge
Aired 24 November 1962 • 60 min
11. The Hidden Jungle
Aired 1 December 1962 • 60 min
12. The Savage Infant
Aired 8 December 1962 • 60 min
13. The Apostle
Aired 15 December 1962 • 60 min
14. Grandma TNT
Aired 22 December 1962 • 60 min
15. Don't Take the Stand
Aired 29 December 1962 • 60 min
16. Kill or Be Killed
Aired 5 January 1963 • 60 min
17. Man Against Himself
Aired 12 January 1963 • 60 min
18. The Poisoned Fruit Doctrine
Aired 19 January 1963 • 60 min
19. Poltergeist
Aired 26 January 1963 • 60 min
20. Ordeal
Aired 2 February 1963 • 60 min
21. The Hour Before Doomsday
Aired 9 February 1963 • 60 min
22. The Traitor
Aired 16 February 1963 • 60 min
23. The Eye of Fear
Aired 23 February 1963 • 60 min
24. Metamorphosis
Aired 2 March 1963 • 60 min
25. The Last Illusion
Aired 9 March 1963 • 60 min
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.
26. The Heathen
Aired 23 March 1963 • 60 min
27. A Book for Burning
Aired 30 March 1963 • 60 min
28. A Taste of Vengeance
Aired 6 April 1963 • 60 min
29. The Colossus
Aired 13 April 1963 • 60 min
30. Judgment Eve
Aired 20 April 1963 • 60 min
31. The Noose
Aired 27 April 1963 • 60 min
32. Everybody Else is Dead
Aired 11 May 1963 • 60 min
33. The Trial of Twenty-Two
Aired 18 May 1963 • 60 min
34. The Brother Killers
Aired 25 May 1963 • 60 min