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The Defenders

The Defenders (1961)

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The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.

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E.G. Marshall

E.G. Marshall

Lawrence Preston (132 episodes)

Robert Reed

Robert Reed

Kenneth Preston (132 episodes)

Polly Rowles

Polly Rowles

Helen Donaldson (24 episodes)

Ossie Davis

Ossie Davis

District Attorney Daniel Jackson (3 episodes)District Attorney (2 episodes)Nixie (1 episode)Assistant District Attorney (1 episode)Officer Bond (1 episode)

J.D. Cannon

J.D. Cannon

District Attorney (5 episodes)D.A. Al Ashley (1 episode)District Attorney Manetto (1 episode)Assistant District Attorney Ashley (1 episode)

Murray Hamilton

Murray Hamilton

District Attorney (2 episodes)Miles Morgan (1 episode)Tark Bennett (1 episode)Bryan Phelps (1 episode)D.A. Sid Morgan (1 episode)

Frank Overton

Frank Overton

D.A. Bill Bryan (2 episodes)District Attorney (1 episode)Richard Holmes (1 episode)William Bryan (1 episode)Malcolm Page (1 episode)

Joan Hackett

Joan Hackett

Joan Miller (5 episodes)

William Shatner

William Shatner

Cliff Sellers (1 episode)Jim McCleery (1 episode)Charles Terranova (1 episode)Assistant District Attorney Earl Rhodes (1 episode)Gil Rawson (1 episode)

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