The Defenders

1. The Quality of Mercy

The Prestons defend a doctor accused of the "mercy-killing" of an infant with...

2. Killer Instinct

When mild-mannered Jim McLeery kills an abusive stranger, it seems a clear-cu...

3. Death Across the Counter

The Prestons defend a man charged with murdering a storekeeper during a robbe...

4. The Riot

Inmates riot at a prison cell block, taking four hostages and threatening to ...

5. The Young Lovers

A teenage boy is charged with abandoning his baby whom he left on a doctor's ...

6. The Boy Between

The Prestons are hired by a stage actress who wants full custody of her son, ...

7. The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms

An impressionist is charged with killing his fiancee, but his inability to st...

8. The Accident

When a boy is hit by a car and thus becomes in dire need of surgery, his pare...

9. The Trial of Jenny Scott

The Prestons defend a woman accused of the murder of her husband. The main wi...

10. The Man with the Concrete Thumb

Ken Preston defends his girlfriend, social worker Joan Miller, after protests...

11. The Treadmill

A man who has spent 25 years as a patient in a mental home is released - only...

12. Perjury

When a defense witness is caught out in a lie on the stand, he insists that L...

13. The Attack

The Prestons defend a policeman who killed the teenage boy that attacked his ...

14. The Prowler

Dwight Harkavy has killed a prowler on his property - the ex-husband of his y...

15. Gideon's Follies

Rich Mr. Gideon has recently married for the sixth time, and has invited all ...

16. The Best Defense

As a favor to an old friend, a disbarred alcoholic attorney trying to get a n...

17. The Bedside Murder

After agreeing to leave a large sum of money to her doctor, a wealthy woman d...

18. The Search

A man confesses to a murder for which someone else has already been executed-...

19. Storm at Birch Glen

A young inmate at a reform school is found beaten, and his cottage "duke" ord...

20. The Point Shaver

The Prestons defend a sports star accused of fixing a game.

21. The Locked Room

The emphasis is on a jury as it deliberates the fate of a woman accused of ki...

22. The Empty Chute

An army sergeant is charged with murdering a fellow officer by cutting the li...

23. The Crusader

Convinced the original trial was rushed, Kenneth decides to reopen the case o...

24. The Hickory Indian

Lawrence Preston finds himself opposed in court by his old law teacher, the f...

25. The Iron Man

A college law professor asks the Prestons to defend a campus fascist leader a...

26. The Tarnished Cross

Lawrence Preston finds himself trying to save a man from the "justice" of a k...

27. The Last Six Months

Kenneth decides to defend a dying man who strangled his business partner afte...

28. The Naked Heiress

A woman finagles a drunken college professor into leaving his entire estate t...

29. Reunion with Death

Lawrence is called to a luncheon with six Korean War Air Force veterans, oste...

30. The Benefactor

The Prestons defend a doctor arrested by the police for performing illegal ab...

31. Along Came a Spider

The Prestons defend a retired vaudevillian who is accused of murdering his so...