The Defenders (series)
- User score: 6.2
- Production country: US
- Creator: Reginald Rose
- Production companies: Plautus Productions, CBS
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 9/16/1961
- Release date of last episode: 5/13/1965
- Series status: Ended
- Seasons count: 4 ( List of episodes )
- Episodes count: 132
- Run time: 60 min.
Series description
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.
