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.

Director

Paul Bogart,Stuart Rosenberg,David Greene,Buzz Kulik,Don Richardson,Franklin J. Schaffner,Daniel Petrie,Alex March,Charles S. Dubin,Elliot Silverstein,Leonard Horn,John Brahm,Robert Stevens,Jack Smight,Paul Stanley,Robert Butler,Philip Leacock,William Ball,Paul Sylbert,David Pressman,Vincent J. Donehue,Tom Gries,Denis Sanders,Ralph Nelson,Michael Powell,Gerald Mayer,Paul Stewart,Boris Sagal,Ted Post,Alexander Mackendrick,Sidney Katz,Fielder Cook,Lamont Johnson,Sydney Pollack,John Newland,Sam Wanamaker,James Sheldon,Shepard Traube

Created by

Herbert Brodkin

Writers

Robert Thom,Reginald Rose,David Karp,William Woolfolk