The Defenders

The Defenders

1961
★★★☆☆ 5.9/10
📺 4 Seasons
🎬 132 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 60 min/episode
Drama
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.

Seasons

Season 1
1961 • 32 Episodes
Dr. Bill Conrad's patient, Leona Warner, delivers a baby with Down Syndrome.
Season 2
1962 • 34 Episodes
Martha Harrow, a young wife and mother, is convicted of first-degree murder. The victim: her husband, an alcoholic and wife beater.
Season 3
1963 • 36 Episodes
Season 4
1964 • 30 Episodes

Crew

Writer
Robert Thom, Reginald Rose
Producer
Bob Markell, Herbert Brodkin

Network

CBS

Production

Plautus Productions, CBS

Keywords

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