The Defenders
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.
Cast (255)
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Directors
Paul Bogart
Director
Ages 41-45
Stuart Rosenberg
Director
Ages 34-37
David Greene
Director
Ages 40-44
Buzz Kulik
Director
Ages 39-42
Franklin J. Schaffner
Director
Ages 41-44
Don Richardson
Director
Daniel Petrie
Director
Ages 40-44
Alex March
Director
Ages 40-44
Charles S. Dubin
Director
Ages 42-46
Elliot Silverstein
Director
Ages 34-37
John Brahm
Director
Ages 68-71
Leonard Horn
Director
Ages 35-38
Paul Sylbert
Director
Ages 33-37
William Ball
Director
Ages 30-34
Paul Stanley
Director
Jack Smight
Director
Ages 36-40
Robert Stevens
Director
Ages 40-44
Robert Butler
Director
Ages 33-37
Philip Leacock
Director
Ages 43-47
Lamont Johnson
Director
Ages 38-42
Ralph Nelson
Director
Ages 45-48
Ted Post
Director
Ages 43-47
Gerald Mayer
Director
Ages 42-45
John Newland
Director
Ages 43-47
Fielder Cook
Director
Ages 38-42
Denis Sanders
Director
Ages 32-36
Sam Wanamaker
Director
Ages 42-45
Sidney Katz
Director
Ages 43-47
Tom Gries
Director
Ages 38-42
James Sheldon
Director
Ages 40-44
Michael Powell
Director
Ages 55-59
Shepard Traube
Director
Paul Stewart
Director
Ages 53-57
Alexander Mackendrick
Director
Ages 49-52
David Pressman
Director
Boris Sagal
Director
Ages 37-41
Sydney Pollack
Director
Ages 27-30
Vincent J. Donehue
Director
Ages 45-49
Writers
Robert Thom
Writer
Ages 32-35
Reginald Rose
Writer
Ages 40-44
David Karp
Writer
Ages 39-43
William Woolfolk
Writer
Larry Cohen
Writer
Ages 20-23
Ernest Kinoy
Writer
Stanley R. Greenberg
Writer
Ages 34-37
Roger H. Lewis
Writer
Ages 43-47
Robert J. Crean
Writer
Ellen M. Violett
Writer
Edward DeBlasio
Writer
Max Ehrlich
Writer
Ages 51-55
David Shaw
Writer
Ages 45-48
Peter Stone
Writer
Ages 31-35
Albert Ruben
Writer
Alvin Boretz
Writer
James Lee
Writer
Ages 38-42
Charles Garment
Writer
David W. Rintels
Writer
Ages 23-26
David Davidson
Writer
Ages 53-57
Ian McLellan Hunter
Writer
Ages 46-49
Harold Gast
Writer
Ages 42-46
Jerome Ross
Writer
A.J. Russell
Writer
Ages 46-50
John Vlahos
Writer
Charles Eckert
Writer
George Baxt
Writer
Mann Rubin
Writer
Ages 33-37
Bo Goldman
Writer
Ages 29-32
Robert Van Scoyk
Writer
Ages 33-37
Rod Sylvester
Writer
Raphael Hayes
Writer
Allan Chase
Writer
John W. Bloch
Writer
Ages 37-41
Martin Donaldson
Story
A. E. Hotchner
Writer
Ages 44-47
Arnold Manoff
Writer
Ages 47-51
Andrea Russo
Writer
Adrian Spies
Writer
Ages 41-45
George Bellak
Writer
Howard Fast
Writer
Peter A. Chilles
Writer
Original Language
en
Spoken Languages
English
Production Companies
Plautus Productions, CBS