The Defenders

The Defenders

Ended First aired 16/Sep/1961 United States English 4 season(s) 132 episode(s)
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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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Season 4 · Season 4
30 episode(s) · Air date: 24/Sep/1964
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S4E20
Fires of the Mind
Air date: 18/Feb/1965 · Time: 20:30 · Runtime: 60 min
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After taking LSD, mentally disturbed Robert Kraft commits suicide while experiencing a hallucinatory reaction—and Dr. Byron Saul (Pleasence), who's been treating Kraft with the drug, is charged with manslaughter.

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

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Season 3 · Season 3
36 episode(s) · Air date: 28/Sep/1963
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S3E18
All the Silent Voices
Air date: 01/Feb/1964 · Time: 20:30 · Runtime: 60 min
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Dr. Katherine Tasso opens a clinic and dispenses birth-control information—although she's aware that her actions violate state laws.

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

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S3E12
Old Lady Ironsides
Air date: 21/Dec/1963 · Time: 20:30 · Runtime: 60 min
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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.

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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.

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Season 2 · Season 2
34 episode(s) · Air date: 15/Sep/1962
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S2E25
The Last Illusion
Air date: 09/Mar/1963 · Time: 20:30 · Runtime: 60 min
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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.

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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.

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S2E1
The Voices of Death
Air date: 15/Sep/1962 · Time: 20:30 · Runtime: 60 min
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Martha Harrow, a young wife and mother, is convicted of first-degree murder. The victim: her husband, an alcoholic and wife beater.

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

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Season 1 · Season 1
32 episode(s) · Air date: 16/Sep/1961
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S1E27
The Last Six Months
Air date: 31/Mar/1962 · Time: 20:30 · Runtime: 60 min
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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.

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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.

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S1E20
The Point Shaver
Air date: 03/Feb/1962 · Time: 20:30 · Runtime: 60 min
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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.

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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.

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S1E7
The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms
Air date: 28/Oct/1961 · Time: 20:30 · Runtime: 60 min
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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.

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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.

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S1E2
Killer Instinct
Air date: 23/Sep/1961 · Time: 20:30 · Runtime: 51 min
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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.

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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.

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E.G. Marshall
E.G. Marshall
Lawrence Preston
Robert Reed
Robert Reed
Kenneth Preston
Loring Smith
Loring Smith
Commissioner Frank Conn
Barnard Hughes
Barnard Hughes
Lester Swann
Leslie Nielsen
Leslie Nielsen
Bob Garrison
Jack Klugman
Jack Klugman
Joe Larch
Robert Gerringer
Robert Gerringer
D.A. Louis Fontana
Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman
Stanley McGuirk
Michael Higgins
Michael Higgins
Dr. Fowler
Conrad Bain
Conrad Bain
District Attorney Monahan
Jean Stapleton
Jean Stapleton
Mrs. Larsen
Peter von Zerneck
Peter von Zerneck
Dr. Gerhardt
Charlotte Rae
Charlotte Rae
Mrs. Abeles
Ricardo Montalban
Ricardo Montalban
'Spanish John' Espejo
Richard Bright
Richard Bright
Phil Macy
Ward Costello
Ward Costello
Tom Aufderheidie
Barbara Harris
Barbara Harris
Margit Wolsung
John Alexander
John Alexander
Judd Forrest

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Mary Merrill
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Morris Hartzband
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Alexander Mackendrick
Alexander Mackendrick
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Boris Sagal
Boris Sagal
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Buzz Kulik
Buzz Kulik
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Charles S. Dubin
Charles S. Dubin
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Daniel Petrie
Daniel Petrie
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David Greene
David Greene
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David Pressman
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Denis Sanders
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Don Richardson
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