The Defenders(1961)

series - first aired/released 1961-09-16 - audience 6.3

Drama

Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, Alex March, Boris Sagal, Buzz Kulik, Charles S. Dubin, Daniel Petrie, David Greene, David Pressman, Denis Sanders, Don Richardson, Elliot Silverstein, Fielder Cook, Franklin J. Schaffner, Gerald Mayer, Jack Smight, James Sheldon, John Brahm, John Newland, Lamont Johnson, Leonard Horn, Michael Powell, Paul Bogart, Paul Stanley, Paul Stewart, Paul Sylbert, Philip Leacock, Ralph Nelson, Robert Butler, Robert Stevens, Sam Wanamaker, Shepard Traube, Sidney Katz, Stuart Rosenberg, Sydney Pollack, Ted Post, Tom Gries, Vincent J. Donehue, William Ball

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.