A dynamic father-son duo of lawyers tackle a diverse range of cases, frequently addressing pressing social and moral issues.
The show follows a recent law school graduate who joins his father, a seasoned lawyer, to take on complex and sensitive cases that tackle socially relevant issues.
Aired: Sep 16, 1961The Prestons defend a doctor accused of the "mercy-killing" of an infant with...
Aired: Sep 23, 1961When mild-mannered Jim McLeery kills an abusive stranger, it seems a clear-cu...
Aired: Sep 30, 1961The Prestons defend a man charged with murdering a storekeeper during a robbe...
Aired: Oct 7, 1961Inmates riot at a prison cell block, taking four hostages and threatening to ...
Aired: Oct 14, 1961A teenage boy is charged with abandoning his baby whom he left on a doctor's ...
Aired: Oct 21, 1961The Prestons are hired by a stage actress who wants full custody of her son, ...
7. The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms
Aired: Oct 28, 1961An impressionist is charged with killing his fiancee, but his inability to st...
Aired: Nov 4, 1961When a boy is hit by a car and thus becomes in dire need of surgery, his pare...
Aired: Nov 11, 1961The Prestons defend a woman accused of the murder of her husband. The main wi...
10. The Man with the Concrete Thumb
Aired: Nov 18, 1961Ken Preston defends his girlfriend, social worker Joan Miller, after protests...
Aired: Nov 25, 1961A man who has spent 25 years as a patient in a mental home is released - only...
Aired: Dec 2, 1961When a defense witness is caught out in a lie on the stand, he insists that L...
Aired: Dec 9, 1961The Prestons defend a policeman who killed the teenage boy that attacked his ...
Aired: Dec 16, 1961Dwight Harkavy has killed a prowler on his property - the ex-husband of his y...
Aired: Dec 23, 1961Rich Mr. Gideon has recently married for the sixth time, and has invited all ...
Aired: Dec 30, 1961As a favor to an old friend, a disbarred alcoholic attorney trying to get a n...
Aired: Jan 6, 1962After agreeing to leave a large sum of money to her doctor, a wealthy woman d...
Aired: Jan 20, 1962A man confesses to a murder for which someone else has already been executed-...
Aired: Jan 27, 1962A young inmate at a reform school is found beaten, and his cottage "duke" ord...
Aired: Feb 3, 1962The Prestons defend a sports star accused of fixing a game.
Aired: Feb 10, 1962The emphasis is on a jury as it deliberates the fate of a woman accused of ki...
Aired: Feb 17, 1962An army sergeant is charged with murdering a fellow officer by cutting the li...
Aired: Feb 24, 1962Convinced the original trial was rushed, Kenneth decides to reopen the case o...
Aired: Mar 3, 1962Lawrence Preston finds himself opposed in court by his old law teacher, the f...
Aired: Mar 10, 1962A college law professor asks the Prestons to defend a campus fascist leader a...
Aired: Mar 17, 1962Lawrence Preston finds himself trying to save a man from the "justice" of a k...
Aired: Mar 31, 1962Kenneth decides to defend a dying man who strangled his business partner afte...
Aired: Apr 7, 1962A woman finagles a drunken college professor into leaving his entire estate t...
Aired: Apr 21, 1962Lawrence is called to a luncheon with six Korean War Air Force veterans, oste...
Aired: Apr 28, 1962The Prestons defend a doctor arrested by the police for performing illegal ab...
Aired: May 5, 1962The Prestons defend a retired vaudevillian who is accused of murdering his so...
Aired: May 26, 1962The problems the Prestons are having in defending young Peter Crewe are made ...
Main Cast
"The Defenders" TV Intro
