The Defenders
- TV Show
- 1961-09-16
- EN
- Ended
- 1h 0m
- Drama
Production
Plautus Productions, CBS
Storyline
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.