E.G. Marshall
Lawrence Preston
TV SERIES
The Defenders
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.
Top cast
Robert Reed
Kenneth Preston
Creative team
Robert Thom (Writer) • Reginald Rose (Writer)
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Episodes
32 Episodes
011. Quality of Mercy
Dr. Bill Conrad's patient, Leona Warner, delivers a baby with Down Syndrome.
022. Killer Instinct
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.
033. Death Across the Counter
No episode synopsis is available.
044. The Riot
No episode synopsis is available.
055. The Young Lovers
No episode synopsis is available.
066. The Boy Between
No episode synopsis is available.
077. The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms
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.
088. The Accident
No episode synopsis is available.
099. The Trial of Jenny Scott
No episode synopsis is available.
1010. The Man with the Concrete Thumb
No episode synopsis is available.
1111. The Treadmill
No episode synopsis is available.
1212. Perjury
No episode synopsis is available.
1313. The Attack
No episode synopsis is available.
1414. The Prowler
No episode synopsis is available.
1515. Gideon's Follies
No episode synopsis is available.
1616. The Best Defense
No episode synopsis is available.
1717. The Bedside Murder
No episode synopsis is available.
1818. The Search
No episode synopsis is available.
1919. Storm at Birch Glen
No episode synopsis is available.
2020. The Point Shaver
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.
2121. The Locked Room
No episode synopsis is available.
2222. The Empty Chute
No episode synopsis is available.
2323. The Crusader
No episode synopsis is available.
2424. The Hickory Indian
No episode synopsis is available.
2525. The Iron Man
No episode synopsis is available.
2626. The Tarnished Cross
No episode synopsis is available.
2727. The Last Six Months
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.
2828. The Naked Heiress
No episode synopsis is available.
2929. Reunion with Death
No episode synopsis is available.
3030. The Benefactor
No episode synopsis is available.
3131. Along Came a Spider
No episode synopsis is available.
3232. The Broken Barrelhead
No episode synopsis is available.