The Defenders

1. Quality of Mercy

Sep 16, 1961 · 60 min

Dr. Bill Conrad's patient, Leona Warner, delivers a baby with Down Syndrome.

2. Killer Instinct

Sep 23, 1961 · 51 min

When 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 kill.

3. Death Across the Counter

Sep 30, 1961 · 60 min

4. The Riot

Oct 7, 1961 · 60 min

5. The Young Lovers

Oct 14, 1961 · 50 min

6. The Boy Between

Oct 21, 1961 · 60 min

7. The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms

Oct 28, 1961 · 60 min

Frank 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 witness stand as the Prestons are questioning him.

8. The Accident

Nov 4, 1961 · 60 min

9. The Trial of Jenny Scott

Nov 11, 1961 · 60 min

10. The Man with the Concrete Thumb

Nov 18, 1961 · 60 min

11. The Treadmill

Nov 25, 1961 · 60 min

12. Perjury

Dec 2, 1961 · 60 min

13. The Attack

Dec 9, 1961 · 60 min

14. The Prowler

Dec 16, 1961 · 60 min

15. Gideon's Follies

Dec 23, 1961 · 60 min

16. The Best Defense

Dec 30, 1961 · 60 min

17. The Bedside Murder

Jan 6, 1962 · 60 min

18. The Search

Jan 20, 1962 · 60 min

19. Storm at Birch Glen

Jan 27, 1962 · 60 min

20. The Point Shaver

Feb 3, 1962 · 60 min

Stacy 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 before the State's Senate Rackets Committee.

21. The Locked Room

Feb 10, 1962 · 60 min

22. The Empty Chute

Feb 17, 1962 · 60 min

23. The Crusader

Feb 24, 1962 · 60 min

24. The Hickory Indian

Mar 3, 1962 · 60 min

25. The Iron Man

Mar 10, 1962 · 60 min

26. The Tarnished Cross

Mar 17, 1962 · 60 min

27. The Last Six Months

Mar 31, 1962 · 60 min

Arthur 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.

28. The Naked Heiress

Apr 7, 1962 · 60 min

29. Reunion with Death

Apr 21, 1962 · 60 min

30. The Benefactor

Apr 28, 1962 · 60 min

31. Along Came a Spider

May 5, 1962 · 60 min

32. The Broken Barrelhead

May 26, 1962 · 60 min

1. The Voices of Death

Sep 15, 1962 · 60 min

Martha Harrow, a young wife and mother, is convicted of first-degree murder. The victim: her husband, an alcoholic and wife beater.

2. Blood Country

Sep 22, 1962 · 60 min

3. The Indelible Silence

Sep 29, 1962 · 60 min

4. The Seven Ghosts of Simon Gray

Oct 6, 1962 · 60 min

5. The Unwanted

Oct 13, 1962 · 60 min

6. Madman (1)

Oct 20, 1962 · 60 min

7. Madman (2)

Oct 27, 1962 · 60 min

8. The Bigamist

Nov 3, 1962 · 60 min

9. The Avenger

Nov 17, 1962 · 60 min

10. The Invisible Badge

Nov 24, 1962 · 60 min

11. The Hidden Jungle

Dec 1, 1962 · 60 min

12. The Savage Infant

Dec 8, 1962 · 60 min

13. The Apostle

Dec 15, 1962 · 60 min

14. Grandma TNT

Dec 22, 1962 · 60 min

15. Don't Take the Stand

Dec 29, 1962 · 60 min

16. Kill or Be Killed

Jan 5, 1963 · 60 min

17. Man Against Himself

Jan 12, 1963 · 60 min

18. The Poisoned Fruit Doctrine

Jan 19, 1963 · 60 min

19. Poltergeist

Jan 26, 1963 · 60 min

20. Ordeal

Feb 2, 1963 · 60 min

21. The Hour Before Doomsday

Feb 9, 1963 · 60 min

22. The Traitor

Feb 16, 1963 · 60 min

23. The Eye of Fear

Feb 23, 1963 · 60 min

24. Metamorphosis

Mar 2, 1963 · 60 min

25. The Last Illusion

Mar 9, 1963 · 60 min

Magician Monte Moran fails in his attempt to escape from a coffin-like box lowered into the river. When his body is finally retrieved, Moran's assistant Ballin claims someone tampered with the equipment.

26. The Heathen

Mar 23, 1963 · 60 min

27. A Book for Burning

Mar 30, 1963 · 60 min

28. A Taste of Vengeance

Apr 6, 1963 · 60 min

29. The Colossus

Apr 13, 1963 · 60 min

30. Judgment Eve

Apr 20, 1963 · 60 min

31. The Noose

Apr 27, 1963 · 60 min

32. Everybody Else is Dead

May 11, 1963 · 60 min

33. The Trial of Twenty-Two

May 18, 1963 · 60 min

34. The Brother Killers

May 25, 1963 · 60 min

1. The Weeping Baboon

Sep 28, 1963 · 60 min

2. The Empty Heart

Oct 5, 1963 · 60 min

3. The Captive

Oct 12, 1963 · 60 min

4. The Bagman

Oct 19, 1963 · 60 min

5. Conspiracy of Silence

Oct 26, 1963 · 60 min

6. The Cruel Hook

Nov 2, 1963 · 60 min

7. Star-Spangled Ghetto

Nov 9, 1963 · 60 min

8. Loophole

Nov 16, 1963 · 60 min

9. The Seal of Confession

Nov 30, 1963 · 60 min

10. Climate of Evil

Dec 7, 1963 · 60 min

11. The Crowd Pleaser

Dec 14, 1963 · 60 min

12. Old Lady Ironsides

Dec 21, 1963 · 60 min

A high school senior is denied the chance to finish two more months of high school for a diploma, just because she has been found to be pregnant. A little old lady who has befriended the girl, and who had been an active Suffragette, determines to help her: she chains herself to the school entrance. The attending publicity and subsequent sanity hearing for the old lady, force the board to change its ruling.

13. Fugue for Trumpet and Small Boy

Dec 28, 1963 · 60 min

14. Claire Cheval Died in Boston

Nov 23, 1963 · 60 min

15. The Last Day

Jan 11, 1964 · 60 min

16. Blacklist

Jan 18, 1964 · 60 min

Blacklist is an episode of TV program The Defenders.

17. Who'll Dig His Grave?

Jan 25, 1964 · 60 min

18. All the Silent Voices

Feb 1, 1964 · 60 min

Dr. Katherine Tasso opens a clinic and dispenses birth-control information—although she's aware that her actions violate state laws.

19. The Secret

Feb 8, 1964 · 60 min

20. The Pill Man

Feb 22, 1964 · 60 min

21. Drink Like a Lady

Feb 29, 1964 · 60 min

22. Survival

Mar 14, 1964 · 60 min

23. Moment of Truth

Mar 21, 1964 · 60 min

24. The Hidden Fury

Mar 28, 1964 · 60 min

25. Die Laughing

Apr 11, 1964 · 60 min

26. May Day! May Day!

Apr 18, 1964 · 60 min

27. The Thief

Apr 25, 1964 · 60 min

28. Yankee Go Home

May 2, 1964 · 60 min

29. The Man Who Saved His Country

May 9, 1964 · 60 min

30. Mind Over Murder

May 16, 1964 · 60 min

31. The Sixth Alarm

May 23, 1964 · 60 min

32. The Fine Line

May 30, 1964 · 60 min

33. The Non-Violent

Jun 6, 1964 · 60 min

34. Stowaway

Jun 13, 1964 · 60 min

35. Hollow Triumph

Jun 20, 1964 · 60 min

36. The Uncivil War

Jun 27, 1964 · 60 min

30. Only a Child

May 13, 1965 · 60 min