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.


The Defenders (1961)
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E.G. Marshall
Lawrence Preston (132 episodes)

Robert Reed
Kenneth Preston (132 episodes)

Polly Rowles
Helen Donaldson (24 episodes)

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

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
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 Miller (5 episodes)

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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