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The Defenders

Name: The Defenders
Genre: Drama
Cast: E.G. Marshall, Robert Reed, Polly Rowles, Ossie Davis, J.D. Cannon

1961–1965 · 4 seasons, 132 episodes · 60m episodes · Drama · CBS · United States

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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Reginald Rose

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E.G. Marshall, Robert Reed, Polly Rowles, Ossie Davis, J.D. Cannon, Frank Overton

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