The Defenders

• 1961 –1965
• •
• Ended

• Drama

★ 6.3 TMDB Rating · 11 votes

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.

Created by

Reginald Rose

Seasons

4

Episodes

132

Episode length

~1h

First aired

Sep 16, 1961

Networks

CBS

Original language

English

Origin

United States