Series

The Defenders

1961 · 4 seasons · 132 episodes · Ended · CBS

Drama

TMDB 6.3 · 11 votes

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.

Episodes

Cast

E.G. Marshall
Lawrence Preston
Robert Reed
Kenneth Preston
Polly Rowles
Helen Donaldson
Ossie Davis
Nixie, District Attorney Daniel Jackson, District Attorney, Assistant District Attorney, Officer Bond
J.D. Cannon
District Attorney, D.A. Al Ashley, District Attorney Manetto, Assistant District Attorney Ashley
Frank Overton
William Bryan, Malcolm Page, District Attorney, Richard Holmes, D.A. Bill Bryan
Murray Hamilton
Miles Morgan, Tark Bennett, D.A. Sid Morgan, District Attorney, Bryan Phelps
Joan Hackett
Joan Miller
William Shatner
Jim McCleery, Charles Terranova, Cliff Sellers, Gil Rawson, Assistant District Attorney Earl Rhodes
Simon Oakland
Assistant District Attorney Murphy, District Attorney Gardella, , District Attorney
Michael Strong
Dr. Sobranie, Sgt. Jesse Cobb
Edward Binns
District Attorney Wolf, Victor Fergusson