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The Defenders

Season 1 Episode 8: The Accident

When a boy is hit by a car and thus becomes in dire need of surgery, his parents refuse to allow it for religious reasons. The Prestons, who are representing the young woman who hit the boy, work desperately to find a judge who will...

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