TV Show Details
Air Date:September 16th, 1961
Last Air Date:May 13th, 1965
Network:CBS
Status:Ended
Genres:Drama
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Plautus Productions, CBS
The Defenders (1961-1965)
CBS
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Plot
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.
