The Defenders
The Defenders: Season 1
Season 2

Air Date

September 16, 1961

Episodes

32 episodes

The Defenders

Season 1

Episodes

1. Quality of Mercy

September 16, 1961
60 min

Dr. Bill Conrad's patient, Leona Warner, delivers a baby with Down Syndrome.

2. Killer Instinct

7.0
September 23, 1961
51 min

When 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

September 30, 1961
60 min

4. The Riot

October 7, 1961
60 min

5. The Young Lovers

October 14, 1961
50 min

6. The Boy Between

October 21, 1961
60 min

7. The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms

October 28, 1961
60 min

Frank 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

November 4, 1961
60 min

9. The Trial of Jenny Scott

November 11, 1961
60 min

10. The Man with the Concrete Thumb

November 18, 1961
60 min

11. The Treadmill

November 25, 1961
60 min

12. Perjury

8.0
December 2, 1961
60 min

13. The Attack

December 9, 1961
60 min

14. The Prowler

December 16, 1961
60 min

15. Gideon's Follies

December 23, 1961
60 min

16. The Best Defense

December 30, 1961
60 min

17. The Bedside Murder

January 6, 1962
60 min

18. The Search

January 20, 1962
60 min

19. Storm at Birch Glen

January 27, 1962
60 min

20. The Point Shaver

February 3, 1962
60 min

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.

21. The Locked Room

February 10, 1962
60 min

22. The Empty Chute

February 17, 1962
60 min

23. The Crusader

February 24, 1962
60 min

24. The Hickory Indian

March 3, 1962
60 min

25. The Iron Man

March 10, 1962
60 min

26. The Tarnished Cross

March 17, 1962
60 min

27. The Last Six Months

9.0
March 31, 1962
60 min

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.

28. The Naked Heiress

April 7, 1962
60 min
Reunion with Death

29. Reunion with Death

April 21, 1962
60 min

30. The Benefactor

April 28, 1962
60 min

31. Along Came a Spider

May 5, 1962
60 min

32. The Broken Barrelhead

May 26, 1962
60 min