
The Defenders
1961 • 132 ep
6.3
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Creator:
Reginald Rose
Writers:
Robert Thom
•Reginald Rose
•David Karp
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.
Cast

E.G. Marshall
Lawrence Preston

Robert Reed
Kenneth Preston

Polly Rowles
Helen Donaldson

Ossie Davis
Assistant District Attorney

J.D. Cannon
Assistant District Attorney Ashley

Frank Overton
Richard Holmes

Murray Hamilton
District Attorney

Joan Hackett
Joan Miller

William Shatner
Assistant District Attorney Earl Rhodes

Simon Oakland
District Attorney

Michael Strong
Dr. Sobranie

Edward Binns
Victor Fergusson





