The Defenders
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.
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"The Defenders" TV Intro
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Seasons
1.Quality of Mercy
16-09-196160mDr. Bill Conrad's patient, Leona Warner, delivers a baby with Down Syndrome.
- Ep 2
2.Killer Instinct
7.023-09-196151mWhen 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 kil...
- Ep 3
3.Death Across the Counter
30-09-196160m - Ep 4
4.The Riot
07-10-196160m - Ep 5
5.The Young Lovers
14-10-196150m - Ep 6
6.The Boy Between
21-10-196160m - Ep 7
7.The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms
28-10-196160mFrank 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 witne...
- Ep 8
8.The Accident
04-11-196160m - Ep 9
9.The Trial of Jenny Scott
11-11-196160m - Ep 10
10.The Man with the Concrete Thumb
18-11-196160m - Ep 11
11.The Treadmill
25-11-196160m - Ep 12
12.Perjury
8.002-12-196160m - Ep 13
13.The Attack
09-12-196160m - Ep 14
14.The Prowler
16-12-196160m - Ep 15
15.Gideon's Follies
23-12-196160m - Ep 16
16.The Best Defense
30-12-196160m - Ep 17
17.The Bedside Murder
06-01-196260m - Ep 18
18.The Search
20-01-196260m - Ep 19
19.Storm at Birch Glen
27-01-196260m - Ep 20
20.The Point Shaver
03-02-196260mStacy 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...
- Ep 21
21.The Locked Room
10-02-196260m - Ep 22
22.The Empty Chute
17-02-196260m - Ep 23
23.The Crusader
24-02-196260m - Ep 24
24.The Hickory Indian
03-03-196260m - Ep 25
25.The Iron Man
10-03-196260m - Ep 26
26.The Tarnished Cross
17-03-196260m - Ep 27
27.The Last Six Months
9.031-03-196260mArthur 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.
- Ep 28
28.The Naked Heiress
07-04-196260m 
29.Reunion with Death
21-04-196260m- Ep 30
30.The Benefactor
28-04-196260m - Ep 31
31.Along Came a Spider
05-05-196260m - Ep 32
32.The Broken Barrelhead
26-05-196260m
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