Season 1
The Defenders
32 EPISODES • 1961
Season 1 of The Defenders was released on September 16 and consists of 32 episodes.

Episodes

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