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The Defenders

Season 1 Episode 17: The Bedside Murder

After agreeing to leave a large sum of money to her doctor, a wealthy woman dies. Did the doctor murder her to get the inheritance?

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 The Quality of Mercy

1. The Quality of Mercy

Aired: Sep 16, 1961

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

Episode 2 Killer Instinct

2. Killer Instinct

Aired: Sep 23, 1961

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

Episode 4 The Riot

4. The Riot

Aired: Oct 7, 1961

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

Episode 5 The Young Lovers

5. The Young Lovers

Aired: Oct 14, 1961

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

Episode 6 The Boy Between

6. The Boy Between

Aired: Oct 21, 1961

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

Episode 8 The Accident

8. The Accident

Aired: Nov 4, 1961

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

Episode 11 The Treadmill

11. The Treadmill

Aired: Nov 25, 1961

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

Episode 12 Perjury

12. Perjury

Aired: Dec 2, 1961

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

Episode 13 The Attack

13. The Attack

Aired: Dec 9, 1961

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

Episode 14 The Prowler

14. The Prowler

Aired: Dec 16, 1961

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

Episode 15 Gideon's Follies

15. Gideon's Follies

Aired: Dec 23, 1961

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

Episode 16 The Best Defense

16. The Best Defense

Aired: Dec 30, 1961

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

Episode 17 The Bedside Murder

17. The Bedside Murder

Aired: Jan 6, 1962

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

Episode 18 The Search

18. The Search

Aired: Jan 20, 1962

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

Episode 19 Storm at Birch Glen

19. Storm at Birch Glen

Aired: Jan 27, 1962

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

Episode 21 The Locked Room

21. The Locked Room

Aired: Feb 10, 1962

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

Episode 22 The Empty Chute

22. The Empty Chute

Aired: Feb 17, 1962

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

Episode 23 The Crusader

23. The Crusader

Aired: Feb 24, 1962

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

Episode 24 The Hickory Indian

24. The Hickory Indian

Aired: Mar 3, 1962

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

Episode 25 The Iron Man

25. The Iron Man

Aired: Mar 10, 1962

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

Episode 26 The Tarnished Cross

26. The Tarnished Cross

Aired: Mar 17, 1962

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

Episode 27 The Last Six Months

27. The Last Six Months

Aired: Mar 31, 1962

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

Episode 28 The Naked Heiress

28. The Naked Heiress

Aired: Apr 7, 1962

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

Episode 29 Reunion with Death

29. Reunion with Death

Aired: Apr 21, 1962

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

Episode 30 The Benefactor

30. The Benefactor

Aired: Apr 28, 1962

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

Episode 31 Along Came a Spider

31. Along Came a Spider

Aired: May 5, 1962

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

Info about The Defenders

Seasons: 4

Current Status: Ended

Network: CBS

Genres:Drama, Crime