The Defenders
-Season 1
Episodes
1. Quality of Mercy
Sep 16, 1961Dr. Bill Conrad's patient, Leona Warner, delivers a baby with Down Syndrome.
2. Killer Instinct
Sep 23, 1961When mild-mannered Jim McLeery kills an abusive stranger, it seems a clear-cut case of self-defense. But the prosecution reveals that, in his army days, McCleery was trained to kill.
3. Death Across the Counter
Sep 30, 1961No overview available.
4. The Riot
Oct 7, 1961No overview available.
5. The Young Lovers
Oct 14, 1961No overview available.
6. The Boy Between
Oct 21, 1961No overview available.
7. The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms
Oct 28, 1961Frank Gorshin stars as an impressionist accused of murder who claims he's innocent because ""Jimmy Cagney did it""—and breaks into his multiple personality of Cagney on the witness stand as the Prestons are questioning him.
8. The Accident
Nov 4, 1961No overview available.
9. The Trial of Jenny Scott
Nov 11, 1961No overview available.
10. The Man with the Concrete Thumb
Nov 18, 1961No overview available.
11. The Treadmill
Nov 25, 1961No overview available.
12. Perjury
Dec 2, 1961No overview available.
13. The Attack
Dec 9, 1961No overview available.
14. The Prowler
Dec 16, 1961No overview available.
15. Gideon's Follies
Dec 23, 1961No overview available.
16. The Best Defense
Dec 30, 1961No overview available.
17. The Bedside Murder
Jan 6, 1962No overview available.
18. The Search
Jan 20, 1962No overview available.
19. Storm at Birch Glen
Jan 27, 1962No overview available.
20. The Point Shaver
Feb 3, 1962Stacy Phillips, star college basketball player, is accused of taking money from gambler Vince Fargo to fix a game. The Presons, alumni of the college, are hired to defend Phillips before the State's Senate Rackets Committee.
21. The Locked Room
Feb 10, 1962No overview available.
22. The Empty Chute
Feb 17, 1962No overview available.
23. The Crusader
Feb 24, 1962No overview available.
24. The Hickory Indian
Mar 3, 1962No overview available.
25. The Iron Man
Mar 10, 1962No overview available.
26. The Tarnished Cross
Mar 17, 1962No overview available.
27. The Last Six Months
Mar 31, 1962Arthur Hill plays a man with six months to live--he kills his business partner in a fit of rage when the man refuses to help support his family after he has died.
28. The Naked Heiress
Apr 7, 1962No overview available.
29. Reunion with Death
Apr 21, 1962
No overview available.
30. The Benefactor
Apr 28, 1962No overview available.
31. Along Came a Spider
May 5, 1962No overview available.
32. The Broken Barrelhead
May 26, 1962No overview available.