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The Defenders

All Episodes 1961 - 1965

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  • 1961-09-17T00:30:00Z
  • 1h
  • 5d 11h 41m (132 episodes)
  • Reginald Rose
  • United States
  • English
  • Plautus Productions + 1 more, Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
  • 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.

132 episodes

Series Premiere

1961-09-17T00:30:00Z

1x01 Quality of Mercy

Series Premiere

1x01 Quality of Mercy

  • 1961-09-17T00:30:00Z1h

Dr. Bill Conrad's patient, Leona Warner, delivers a baby with Down Syndrome.

1961-09-24T00:30:00Z

1x02 Killer Instinct

1x02 Killer Instinct

  • 1961-09-24T00:30:00Z51m

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.

1961-10-01T00:30:00Z

1x03 Death Across the Counter

1x03 Death Across the Counter

  • 1961-10-01T00:30:00Z1h

1961-10-08T00:30:00Z

1x04 The Riot

1x04 The Riot

  • 1961-10-08T00:30:00Z1h

1961-10-15T00:30:00Z

1x05 The Young Lovers

1x05 The Young Lovers

  • 1961-10-15T00:30:00Z50m

1961-10-22T00:30:00Z

1x06 The Boy Between

1x06 The Boy Between

  • 1961-10-22T00:30:00Z1h

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.

1961-11-05T01:30:00Z

1x08 The Accident

1x08 The Accident

  • 1961-11-05T01:30:00Z1h

1961-11-12T01:30:00Z

1x09 The Trial of Jenny Scott

1x09 The Trial of Jenny Scott

  • 1961-11-12T01:30:00Z1h

1961-11-26T01:30:00Z

1x11 The Treadmill

1x11 The Treadmill

  • 1961-11-26T01:30:00Z1h

1961-12-03T01:30:00Z

1x12 Perjury

1x12 Perjury

  • 1961-12-03T01:30:00Z1h

1961-12-10T01:30:00Z

1x13 The Attack

1x13 The Attack

  • 1961-12-10T01:30:00Z1h

1961-12-17T01:30:00Z

1x14 The Prowler

1x14 The Prowler

  • 1961-12-17T01:30:00Z1h

1961-12-24T01:30:00Z

1x15 Gideon's Follies

1x15 Gideon's Follies

  • 1961-12-24T01:30:00Z1h

1961-12-31T01:30:00Z

1x16 The Best Defense

1x16 The Best Defense

  • 1961-12-31T01:30:00Z1h

1962-01-07T01:30:00Z

1x17 The Bedside Murder

1x17 The Bedside Murder

  • 1962-01-07T01:30:00Z1h

1962-01-21T01:30:00Z

1x18 The Search

1x18 The Search

  • 1962-01-21T01:30:00Z1h

1962-01-28T01:30:00Z

1x19 Storm at Birch Glen

1x19 Storm at Birch Glen

  • 1962-01-28T01:30:00Z1h

1962-02-04T01:30:00Z

1x20 The Point Shaver

1x20 The Point Shaver

  • 1962-02-04T01:30:00Z1h

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.

1962-02-11T01:30:00Z

1x21 The Locked Room

1x21 The Locked Room

  • 1962-02-11T01:30:00Z1h

1962-02-18T01:30:00Z

1x22 The Empty Chute

1x22 The Empty Chute

  • 1962-02-18T01:30:00Z1h

1962-02-25T01:30:00Z

1x23 The Crusader

1x23 The Crusader

  • 1962-02-25T01:30:00Z1h

1962-03-04T01:30:00Z

1x24 The Hickory Indian

1x24 The Hickory Indian

  • 1962-03-04T01:30:00Z1h

1962-03-11T01:30:00Z

1x25 The Iron Man

1x25 The Iron Man

  • 1962-03-11T01:30:00Z1h

1962-03-18T01:30:00Z

1x26 The Tarnished Cross

1x26 The Tarnished Cross

  • 1962-03-18T01:30:00Z1h

1962-04-01T01:30:00Z

1x27 The Last Six Months

1x27 The Last Six Months

  • 1962-04-01T01:30:00Z1h

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.

1962-04-08T01:30:00Z

1x28 The Naked Heiress

1x28 The Naked Heiress

  • 1962-04-08T01:30:00Z1h

1962-04-22T01:30:00Z

1x29 Reunion with Death

1x29 Reunion with Death

  • 1962-04-22T01:30:00Z1h

1962-04-29T01:30:00Z

1x30 The Benefactor

1x30 The Benefactor

  • 1962-04-29T01:30:00Z1h

1962-05-06T00:30:00Z

1x31 Along Came a Spider

1x31 Along Came a Spider

  • 1962-05-06T00:30:00Z1h

1962-05-27T00:30:00Z

1x32 The Broken Barrelhead

1x32 The Broken Barrelhead

  • 1962-05-27T00:30:00Z1h

Season Premiere

1962-09-16T00:30:00Z

2x01 The Voices of Death

Season Premiere

2x01 The Voices of Death

  • 1962-09-16T00:30:00Z1h

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

1962-09-23T00:30:00Z

2x02 Blood Country

2x02 Blood Country

  • 1962-09-23T00:30:00Z1h

1962-09-30T00:30:00Z

2x03 The Indelible Silence

2x03 The Indelible Silence

  • 1962-09-30T00:30:00Z1h

1962-10-14T00:30:00Z

2x05 The Unwanted

2x05 The Unwanted

  • 1962-10-14T00:30:00Z1h

1962-10-21T00:30:00Z

2x06 Madman (1)

2x06 Madman (1)

  • 1962-10-21T00:30:00Z1h

1962-10-28T00:30:00Z

2x07 Madman (2)

2x07 Madman (2)

  • 1962-10-28T00:30:00Z1h

1962-11-04T01:30:00Z

2x08 The Bigamist

2x08 The Bigamist

  • 1962-11-04T01:30:00Z1h

1962-11-18T01:30:00Z

2x09 The Avenger

2x09 The Avenger

  • 1962-11-18T01:30:00Z1h

1962-11-25T01:30:00Z

2x10 The Invisible Badge

2x10 The Invisible Badge

  • 1962-11-25T01:30:00Z1h

1962-12-02T01:30:00Z

2x11 The Hidden Jungle

2x11 The Hidden Jungle

  • 1962-12-02T01:30:00Z1h

1962-12-09T01:30:00Z

2x12 The Savage Infant

2x12 The Savage Infant

  • 1962-12-09T01:30:00Z1h

1962-12-16T01:30:00Z

2x13 The Apostle

2x13 The Apostle

  • 1962-12-16T01:30:00Z1h

1962-12-23T01:30:00Z

2x14 Grandma TNT

2x14 Grandma TNT

  • 1962-12-23T01:30:00Z1h

1962-12-30T01:30:00Z

2x15 Don't Take the Stand

2x15 Don't Take the Stand

  • 1962-12-30T01:30:00Z1h

1963-01-06T01:30:00Z

2x16 Kill or Be Killed

2x16 Kill or Be Killed

  • 1963-01-06T01:30:00Z1h

1963-01-13T01:30:00Z

2x17 Man Against Himself

2x17 Man Against Himself

  • 1963-01-13T01:30:00Z1h

2x18 The Poisoned Fruit Doctrine

  • 1963-01-20T01:30:00Z1h

1963-01-27T01:30:00Z

2x19 Poltergeist

2x19 Poltergeist

  • 1963-01-27T01:30:00Z1h

1963-02-03T01:30:00Z

2x20 Ordeal

2x20 Ordeal

  • 1963-02-03T01:30:00Z1h

1963-02-10T01:30:00Z

2x21 The Hour Before Doomsday

2x21 The Hour Before Doomsday

  • 1963-02-10T01:30:00Z1h

1963-02-17T01:30:00Z

2x22 The Traitor

2x22 The Traitor

  • 1963-02-17T01:30:00Z1h

1963-02-24T01:30:00Z

2x23 The Eye of Fear

2x23 The Eye of Fear

  • 1963-02-24T01:30:00Z1h

1963-03-03T01:30:00Z

2x24 Metamorphosis

2x24 Metamorphosis

  • 1963-03-03T01:30:00Z1h

1963-03-10T01:30:00Z

2x25 The Last Illusion

2x25 The Last Illusion

  • 1963-03-10T01:30:00Z1h

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.

1963-03-24T01:30:00Z

2x26 The Heathen

2x26 The Heathen

  • 1963-03-24T01:30:00Z1h

1963-03-31T01:30:00Z

2x27 A Book for Burning

2x27 A Book for Burning

  • 1963-03-31T01:30:00Z1h

1963-04-07T01:30:00Z

2x28 A Taste of Vengeance

2x28 A Taste of Vengeance

  • 1963-04-07T01:30:00Z1h

1963-04-14T01:30:00Z

2x29 The Colossus

2x29 The Colossus

  • 1963-04-14T01:30:00Z1h

1963-04-21T01:30:00Z

2x30 Judgment Eve

2x30 Judgment Eve

  • 1963-04-21T01:30:00Z1h

1963-04-28T01:30:00Z

2x31 The Noose

2x31 The Noose

  • 1963-04-28T01:30:00Z1h

1963-05-12T00:30:00Z

2x32 Everybody Else is Dead

2x32 Everybody Else is Dead

  • 1963-05-12T00:30:00Z1h

1963-05-19T00:30:00Z

2x33 The Trial of Twenty-Two

2x33 The Trial of Twenty-Two

  • 1963-05-19T00:30:00Z1h

1963-05-26T00:30:00Z

2x34 The Brother Killers

2x34 The Brother Killers

  • 1963-05-26T00:30:00Z1h

Season Premiere

1963-09-29T00:30:00Z

3x01 The Weeping Baboon

Season Premiere

3x01 The Weeping Baboon

  • 1963-09-29T00:30:00Z1h

1963-10-06T00:30:00Z

3x02 The Empty Heart

3x02 The Empty Heart

  • 1963-10-06T00:30:00Z1h

1963-10-13T00:30:00Z

3x03 The Captive

3x03 The Captive

  • 1963-10-13T00:30:00Z1h

1963-10-20T00:30:00Z

3x04 The Bagman

3x04 The Bagman

  • 1963-10-20T00:30:00Z1h

1963-10-27T00:30:00Z

3x05 Conspiracy of Silence

3x05 Conspiracy of Silence

  • 1963-10-27T00:30:00Z1h

1963-11-03T01:30:00Z

3x06 The Cruel Hook

3x06 The Cruel Hook

  • 1963-11-03T01:30:00Z1h

1963-11-10T01:30:00Z

3x07 Star-Spangled Ghetto

3x07 Star-Spangled Ghetto

  • 1963-11-10T01:30:00Z1h

1963-11-17T01:30:00Z

3x08 Loophole

3x08 Loophole

  • 1963-11-17T01:30:00Z1h

1963-12-01T01:30:00Z

3x09 The Seal of Confession

3x09 The Seal of Confession

  • 1963-12-01T01:30:00Z1h

1963-12-08T01:30:00Z

3x10 Climate of Evil

3x10 Climate of Evil

  • 1963-12-08T01:30:00Z1h

1963-12-15T01:30:00Z

3x11 The Crowd Pleaser

3x11 The Crowd Pleaser

  • 1963-12-15T01:30:00Z1h

1963-12-22T01:30:00Z

3x12 Old Lady Ironsides

3x12 Old Lady Ironsides

  • 1963-12-22T01:30:00Z1h

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.

3x14 Claire Cheval Died in Boston

  • 1963-11-24T01:30:00Z1h

1964-01-12T01:30:00Z

3x15 The Last Day

3x15 The Last Day

  • 1964-01-12T01:30:00Z1h

1964-01-19T01:30:00Z

3x16 Blacklist

3x16 Blacklist

  • 1964-01-19T01:30:00Z1h

Blacklist is an episode of TV program The Defenders.

1964-01-26T01:30:00Z

3x17 Who'll Dig His Grave?

3x17 Who'll Dig His Grave?

  • 1964-01-26T01:30:00Z1h

1964-02-02T01:30:00Z

3x18 All the Silent Voices

3x18 All the Silent Voices

  • 1964-02-02T01:30:00Z1h

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

1964-02-09T01:30:00Z

3x19 The Secret

3x19 The Secret

  • 1964-02-09T01:30:00Z1h

1964-02-23T01:30:00Z

3x20 The Pill Man

3x20 The Pill Man

  • 1964-02-23T01:30:00Z1h

1964-03-01T01:30:00Z

3x21 Drink Like a Lady

3x21 Drink Like a Lady

  • 1964-03-01T01:30:00Z1h

1964-03-15T01:30:00Z

3x22 Survival

3x22 Survival

  • 1964-03-15T01:30:00Z1h

1964-03-22T01:30:00Z

3x23 Moment of Truth

3x23 Moment of Truth

  • 1964-03-22T01:30:00Z1h

1964-03-29T01:30:00Z

3x24 The Hidden Fury

3x24 The Hidden Fury

  • 1964-03-29T01:30:00Z1h

1964-04-12T01:30:00Z

3x25 Die Laughing

3x25 Die Laughing

  • 1964-04-12T01:30:00Z1h

1964-04-19T01:30:00Z

3x26 May Day! May Day!

3x26 May Day! May Day!

  • 1964-04-19T01:30:00Z1h

1964-04-26T01:30:00Z

3x27 The Thief

3x27 The Thief

  • 1964-04-26T01:30:00Z1h

1964-05-03T00:30:00Z

3x28 Yankee Go Home

3x28 Yankee Go Home

  • 1964-05-03T00:30:00Z1h

1964-05-17T00:30:00Z

3x30 Mind Over Murder

3x30 Mind Over Murder

  • 1964-05-17T00:30:00Z1h

1964-05-24T00:30:00Z

3x31 The Sixth Alarm

3x31 The Sixth Alarm

  • 1964-05-24T00:30:00Z1h

1964-05-31T00:30:00Z

3x32 The Fine Line

3x32 The Fine Line

  • 1964-05-31T00:30:00Z1h

1964-06-07T00:30:00Z

3x33 The Non-Violent

3x33 The Non-Violent

  • 1964-06-07T00:30:00Z1h

1964-06-14T00:30:00Z

3x34 Stowaway

3x34 Stowaway

  • 1964-06-14T00:30:00Z1h

1964-06-21T00:30:00Z

3x35 Hollow Triumph

3x35 Hollow Triumph

  • 1964-06-21T00:30:00Z1h

1964-06-28T00:30:00Z

3x36 The Uncivil War

3x36 The Uncivil War

  • 1964-06-28T00:30:00Z1h

Season Premiere

1964-09-25T00:30:00Z

4x01 The Seven Hundred-Year Old Gang (1)

Season Premiere

4x01 The Seven Hundred-Year Old Gang (1)

  • 1964-09-25T00:30:00Z1h

1964-10-09T00:30:00Z

4x03 Hero of the People

4x03 Hero of the People

  • 1964-10-09T00:30:00Z1h

1964-10-16T00:30:00Z

4x04 Go-Between

4x04 Go-Between

  • 1964-10-16T00:30:00Z1h

1964-10-23T00:30:00Z

4x05 Conflict of Interests

4x05 Conflict of Interests

  • 1964-10-23T00:30:00Z1h

1964-10-30T01:30:00Z

4x06 The Man Who . . .

4x06 The Man Who . . .

  • 1964-10-30T01:30:00Z1h

1964-11-06T01:30:00Z

4x07 Turning Point

4x07 Turning Point

  • 1964-11-06T01:30:00Z1h

1964-11-13T01:30:00Z

4x08 A Taste of Ashes

4x08 A Taste of Ashes

  • 1964-11-13T01:30:00Z1h

1964-11-27T01:30:00Z

4x09 Comeback

4x09 Comeback

  • 1964-11-27T01:30:00Z1h

1964-12-04T01:30:00Z

4x10 The Siege

4x10 The Siege

  • 1964-12-04T01:30:00Z1h

1964-12-11T01:30:00Z

4x11 Whitewash

4x11 Whitewash

  • 1964-12-11T01:30:00Z1h

1964-12-18T01:30:00Z

4x12 A Voice Loud and Clear

4x12 A Voice Loud and Clear

  • 1964-12-18T01:30:00Z1h

1965-01-01T01:30:00Z

4x13 King of the Hill

4x13 King of the Hill

  • 1965-01-01T01:30:00Z1h

1965-01-08T01:30:00Z

4x14 Whipping Boy

4x14 Whipping Boy

  • 1965-01-08T01:30:00Z1h

1965-01-15T01:30:00Z

4x15 Eyewitness

4x15 Eyewitness

  • 1965-01-15T01:30:00Z1h

1965-01-22T01:30:00Z

4x16 The Silent Killers

4x16 The Silent Killers

  • 1965-01-22T01:30:00Z1h

1965-01-29T01:30:00Z

4x17 Death on Wheels

4x17 Death on Wheels

  • 1965-01-29T01:30:00Z1h

1965-02-05T01:30:00Z

4x18 The Unwritten Law

4x18 The Unwritten Law

  • 1965-02-05T01:30:00Z1h

1965-02-12T01:30:00Z

4x19 The Objector

4x19 The Objector

  • 1965-02-12T01:30:00Z1h

1965-02-19T01:30:00Z

4x20 Fires of the Mind

4x20 Fires of the Mind

  • 1965-02-19T01:30:00Z1h

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.

1965-02-26T01:30:00Z

4x21 No-Knock

4x21 No-Knock

  • 1965-02-26T01:30:00Z1h

1965-03-05T01:30:00Z

4x22 The Merry-Go-Round Murder

4x22 The Merry-Go-Round Murder

  • 1965-03-05T01:30:00Z1h

1965-03-19T01:30:00Z

4x24 Impeachment

4x24 Impeachment

  • 1965-03-19T01:30:00Z1h

1965-03-26T01:30:00Z

4x25 The Sworn Twelve

4x25 The Sworn Twelve

  • 1965-03-26T01:30:00Z1h

4x26 A Matter of Law and Disorder

  • 1965-04-09T01:30:00Z1h

1965-04-30T00:30:00Z

4x28 The Prosecutor

4x28 The Prosecutor

  • 1965-04-30T00:30:00Z1h

1965-05-07T00:30:00Z

4x29 The Bum's Rush

4x29 The Bum's Rush

  • 1965-05-07T00:30:00Z1h

1965-05-14T00:30:00Z

4x30 Only a Child

4x30 Only a Child

  • 1965-05-14T00:30:00Z1h

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