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The Defenders Season 1

September. 16,1961

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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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The Defenders Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 32 - The Broken Barrelhead

First Aired: May. 26,1962

Episode 31 - Along Came a Spider

First Aired: May. 05,1962

Episode 30 - The Benefactor

First Aired: April. 28,1962

Episode 29 - Reunion with Death

First Aired: April. 21,1962

Episode 28 - The Naked Heiress

First Aired: April. 07,1962

Episode 27 - The Last Six Months

First Aired: March. 31,1962

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.

Episode 26 - The Tarnished Cross

First Aired: March. 17,1962

Episode 25 - The Iron Man

First Aired: March. 10,1962

Episode 24 - The Hickory Indian

First Aired: March. 03,1962

Episode 23 - The Crusader

First Aired: February. 24,1962

Episode 22 - The Empty Chute

First Aired: February. 17,1962

Episode 21 - The Locked Room

First Aired: February. 10,1962

Episode 20 - The Point Shaver

First Aired: February. 03,1962

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.

Episode 19 - Storm at Birch Glen

First Aired: January. 27,1962

Episode 18 - The Search

First Aired: January. 20,1962

Episode 17 - The Bedside Murder

First Aired: January. 06,1962

Episode 16 - The Best Defense

First Aired: December. 30,1961

Episode 15 - Gideon's Follies

First Aired: December. 23,1961

Episode 14 - The Prowler

First Aired: December. 16,1961

Episode 13 - The Attack

First Aired: December. 09,1961

Episode 12 - Perjury

First Aired: December. 02,1961

Episode 11 - The Treadmill

First Aired: November. 25,1961

Episode 10 - The Man with the Concrete Thumb

First Aired: November. 18,1961

Episode 9 - The Trial of Jenny Scott

First Aired: November. 11,1961

Episode 8 - The Accident

First Aired: November. 04,1961

Episode 7 - The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms

First Aired: October. 28,1961

Frank Gorshin stars as an impressionist accused of murder who claims he's innocent because ""Jimmy Cagney did it""â€”and breaks into his multiple personality of Cagney on the witness stand as the Prestons are questioning him.

Episode 6 - The Boy Between

First Aired: October. 21,1961

Episode 5 - Young Lovers

First Aired: October. 14,1961

Episode 4 - The Riot

First Aired: October. 07,1961

Episode 3 - Death Across the Counter

First Aired: September. 30,1961

Episode 2 - Killer Instinct

First Aired: September. 23,1961

Episode 1 - Quality of Mercy

First Aired: September. 16,1961