The Defenders

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  • CBS
  • Crime Drama Suspense

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1x1
The Quality of Mercy
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The legal and moral implications of mercy killing are examined as the Prestons defend a doctor charged with killing a Mongoloid baby.
1x2
Killer Instinct
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A wartime hero who had been trained to act like a "destructive animal," kills a man with a judo blow. At his trial the vital question is "did he kill because he could not control the killer instinct?"
1x3
Death Across the Counter
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The tortured world of a dope addict is explored in this story of a young man convinced he's guilty of murder - although he has no recollection of the crime.
1x4
The Riot
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Preston (E.G. Marshall) undertakes a delicate and dangerous task: acting as intermediary for the investigators of a prison riot.
1x5
The Young Lovers
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A destitute young couple take a desperate gamble to provide for themselves and their baby.
1x6
The Boy Between
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The Prestons become embroiled in a bitter custody battle when they are retained by Belle Remington (Norma Crane), who insists her son never be allowed to see his father.
1x7
The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms
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Impersonator Harry Simms is accused of killing his fiancée, and he asks Ken to defend him. But Ken is baffled by Harry's plea: he says he couldn't have murdered the girl - because Humphrey Bogart did it.
1x8
The Accident
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A woman is charged with criminal negligence when she hits a child while driving home from a party.
1x9
The Trial of Jenny Scott
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Unhappily married Jenny Scott (Mary Fickett) is the prime suspect when her husband is murdered.
1x10
The Man with the Concrete Thumb
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Picketing to save a park, Joan Miller (Joan Hackett) is charged with second-degree assault when a brick thrown by one of the demonstrators injures an adversary.
1x11
The Treadmill
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Released from a mental hospital, Victor Fergusson (Edward Binns) is forced to stand trial for a murder he committed 25 years before.
1x12
Perjury
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Charged with perjury, a witness says he lied because Preston asked him to.
1x13
The Attack
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The impact of public opinion on a trial is examined in this story of a policeman who kills the alleged molester of his young daughter.
1x14
The Prowler
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Dwight Harkavy (Kent Smith) goes on trial for shooting a prowler - who was his wife's first husband.
1x15
Gideon's Follies
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Preston investigates the death of a millionaire playboy - murdered before he could divide his estate among his current spouse and five ex-wives.
1x16
The Best Defense
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The Prestons come to the aid of a racketeer charged with the gangland murder of a small-time hoodlum.
1x17
The Bedside Murder
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The Prestons defend a doctor accused of murdering a wealthy patient who promised to leave him a large sum in her will.
1x18
The Search
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An old homicide case is reopened when James Mitchell (James Congdon) confesses to a murder for which another man was executed six years earlier.
1x19
Storm at Birch Glen
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The Prestons encounter fear and hostility at a reform school when they are retained by a supervisor charged with murdering one of the inmates.
1x20
The Point Shaver
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Stacy 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.
1x21
The Locked Room
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The Prestons defend an heiress on trial for the death of a woman reputed to have been having an affair with her husband, who is the only witness to the incident. The focus is on the .. show full overview
1x22
The Empty Chute
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The Army suspects foul play when a paratrooper's chute fails to open and he falls to his death.
1x23
The Crusader
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Ken launches a personal investigation when a model prisoner - jailed for crimes he insists he never committed - is refused parole.
1x24
The Hickory Indian
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The defendant: Louis Astor (George Voskovec), who's charged with stealing money from his son's firm.
1x25
The Iron Man
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The Prestons give a campus fascist leader a lesson in democracy when he's arrested after his henchmen beat up a heckler.
1x26
The Tarnished Cross
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The Prestons become defense counselors in a kangaroo court set up by a group of teenagers bent on trying an alleged murderer.
1x27
The Last Six Months
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Arthur 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.
1x28
The Naked Heiress
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Edna Holley (Glenda Farrell) invites trouble when she blackmails a professor who's interested in her daughter, a strip-tease artist.
1x29
Reunion with Death
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A group of Air Force veterans set up a kangaroo court to try one of their number for treason.
1x30
The Benefactor
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A controversial episode dealing with the trial of an accused abortionist.
1x31
Along Came a Spider
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The Prestons defend an ex-vaudevillian accused of murdering his son-in-law. The only witness: the dead man's daughter.
1x32
The Broken Barrelhead
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Defending a youth charged with vehicular homicide, the Prestons are hampered by the boy's overbearing father (Harold J. Stone) - who isn't above bribing jurors.

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