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The Defenders (1961 – 1965)

1961 • 4 seasons • Drama • TV-14
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The Defenders — Season 1

32 episodes · Sep 16, 1961

1. Quality of Mercy
Sep 16, 1961 · 60m

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

2. Killer Instinct
Sep 23, 1961 · 51m · 7.0

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.

3. Death Across the Counter
Sep 30, 1961 · 60m
4. The Riot
Oct 7, 1961 · 60m
5. The Young Lovers
Oct 14, 1961 · 50m
6. The Boy Between
Oct 21, 1961 · 60m
7. The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms
Oct 28, 1961 · 60m

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.

8. The Accident
Nov 4, 1961 · 60m
9. The Trial of Jenny Scott
Nov 11, 1961 · 60m
10. The Man with the Concrete Thumb
Nov 18, 1961 · 60m
11. The Treadmill
Nov 25, 1961 · 60m
12. Perjury
Dec 2, 1961 · 60m · 8.0
13. The Attack
Dec 9, 1961 · 60m
14. The Prowler
Dec 16, 1961 · 60m
15. Gideon's Follies
Dec 23, 1961 · 60m
16. The Best Defense
Dec 30, 1961 · 60m
17. The Bedside Murder
Jan 6, 1962 · 60m
18. The Search
Jan 20, 1962 · 60m
19. Storm at Birch Glen
Jan 27, 1962 · 60m
20. The Point Shaver
Feb 3, 1962 · 60m

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.

21. The Locked Room
Feb 10, 1962 · 60m
22. The Empty Chute
Feb 17, 1962 · 60m
23. The Crusader
Feb 24, 1962 · 60m
24. The Hickory Indian
Mar 3, 1962 · 60m
25. The Iron Man
Mar 10, 1962 · 60m
26. The Tarnished Cross
Mar 17, 1962 · 60m
27. The Last Six Months
Mar 31, 1962 · 60m · 9.0

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.

28. The Naked Heiress
Apr 7, 1962 · 60m
29. Reunion with Death
Apr 21, 1962 · 60m
30. The Benefactor
Apr 28, 1962 · 60m
31. Along Came a Spider
May 5, 1962 · 60m
32. The Broken Barrelhead
May 26, 1962 · 60m