The Defenders - Season 1
1 - Quality of Mercy
Air Date: September 16, 1961
Dr. Bill Conrad's patient, Leona Warner, delivers a baby with Down Syndrome.
2 - Killer Instinct
Air Date: September 23, 1961
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
Air Date: September 30, 1961
4 - The Riot
Air Date: October 7, 1961
5 - The Young Lovers
Air Date: October 14, 1961
6 - The Boy Between
Air Date: October 21, 1961
7 - The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms
Air Date: October 28, 1961
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
Air Date: November 4, 1961
9 - The Trial of Jenny Scott
Air Date: November 11, 1961
10 - The Man with the Concrete Thumb
Air Date: November 18, 1961
11 - The Treadmill
Air Date: November 25, 1961
12 - Perjury
Air Date: December 2, 1961
13 - The Attack
Air Date: December 9, 1961
14 - The Prowler
Air Date: December 16, 1961
15 - Gideon's Follies
Air Date: December 23, 1961
16 - The Best Defense
Air Date: December 30, 1961
17 - The Bedside Murder
Air Date: January 6, 1962
18 - The Search
Air Date: January 20, 1962
19 - Storm at Birch Glen
Air Date: January 27, 1962
20 - The Point Shaver
Air Date: February 3, 1962
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
Air Date: February 10, 1962
22 - The Empty Chute
Air Date: February 17, 1962
23 - The Crusader
Air Date: February 24, 1962
24 - The Hickory Indian
Air Date: March 3, 1962
25 - The Iron Man
Air Date: March 10, 1962
26 - The Tarnished Cross
Air Date: March 17, 1962
27 - The Last Six Months
Air Date: March 31, 1962
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
Air Date: April 7, 1962
29 - Reunion with Death
Air Date: April 21, 1962
30 - The Benefactor
Air Date: April 28, 1962
31 - Along Came a Spider
Air Date: May 5, 1962
32 - The Broken Barrelhead
Air Date: May 26, 1962