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 (36)
1. The Weeping Baboon
Aired 28 September 1963 • 60 min
2. The Empty Heart
Aired 5 October 1963 • 60 min
3. The Captive
Aired 12 October 1963 • 60 min
4. The Bagman
Aired 19 October 1963 • 60 min
5. Conspiracy of Silence
Aired 26 October 1963 • 60 min
6. The Cruel Hook
Aired 2 November 1963 • 60 min
7. Star-Spangled Ghetto
Aired 9 November 1963 • 60 min
8. Loophole
Aired 16 November 1963 • 60 min
9. The Seal of Confession
Aired 30 November 1963 • 60 min
10. Climate of Evil
Aired 7 December 1963 • 60 min
11. The Crowd Pleaser
Aired 14 December 1963 • 60 min
12. Old Lady Ironsides
Aired 21 December 1963 • 60 min
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.
13. Fugue for Trumpet and Small Boy
Aired 28 December 1963 • 60 min
14. Claire Cheval Died in Boston
Aired 23 November 1963 • 60 min
15. The Last Day
Aired 11 January 1964 • 60 min
16. Blacklist
Aired 18 January 1964 • 60 min
Blacklist is an episode of TV program The Defenders.
17. Who'll Dig His Grave?
Aired 25 January 1964 • 60 min
18. All the Silent Voices
Aired 1 February 1964 • 60 min
Dr. Katherine Tasso opens a clinic and dispenses birth-control information—although she's aware that her actions violate state laws.
19. The Secret
Aired 8 February 1964 • 60 min
20. The Pill Man
Aired 22 February 1964 • 60 min
21. Drink Like a Lady
Aired 29 February 1964 • 60 min
22. Survival
Aired 14 March 1964 • 60 min
23. Moment of Truth
Aired 21 March 1964 • 60 min
24. The Hidden Fury
Aired 28 March 1964 • 60 min
25. Die Laughing
Aired 11 April 1964 • 60 min
26. May Day! May Day!
Aired 18 April 1964 • 60 min
27. The Thief
Aired 25 April 1964 • 60 min
28. Yankee Go Home
Aired 2 May 1964 • 60 min
29. The Man Who Saved His Country
Aired 9 May 1964 • 60 min
30. Mind Over Murder
Aired 16 May 1964 • 60 min
31. The Sixth Alarm
Aired 23 May 1964 • 60 min
32. The Fine Line
Aired 30 May 1964 • 60 min
33. The Non-Violent
Aired 6 June 1964 • 60 min
34. Stowaway
Aired 13 June 1964 • 60 min
35. Hollow Triumph
Aired 20 June 1964 • 60 min
36. The Uncivil War
Aired 27 June 1964 • 60 min