The Defenders

1961· 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.

1961-09-16

Episodes

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Key Crew

WriterReginald Rose

ProducerBob Markell

Full cast & crew (2 cast · 5 crew)

Details

First aired1961-09-16

StatusEnded

StudiosPlautus Productions · CBS

LanguagesEnglish

Rating6.3/10 · 11 votes

Original languageen

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