The Defenders
Television Show
Law & marriage: The Good Wife proves the Spitzer case made for good television...legal drama was Perry Mason (1957 to 1966), with Raymond Burr, and I can't even remember whether Perry was married. In The Defenders (1961-1965), the father-and-son team of defense lawyers, E.G. Marshall and Robert Reed, said very... In this article: Eliot Spitzer, Silda Spitzer, Tony Scott, Law & Order, Chicago, Perry Mason, and Docket |
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Wikipedia | October 25, 2009
The Defenders (TV series)
...all of the series' three regular advertisers refused to sponsor the episode, necessitating a last-minute replacement. The Defenders won 13 Emmy Awards (including three in a row for Outstanding Drama Series ) and received an additional...
In this article: Reginald Rose, E. G. Marshall, Emmy, William Shatner, Beau Bridges, Defendant, Liberalism, Frank Lewin, and Leonard Rosenman
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TMZ | September 30, 2009
Dennis Hopper Rushed to Hospital
...acting school. He appeared in over 140 episodes of television shows such as Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, The Defenders, The Investigators, The Legend of Jesse James, The Big Valley, The Time Tunnel, The...
In this article: Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider, Peter Fonda, Hollywood, Academy Award, San Diego, New York City, True Grit, Rebel Without a Cause, and Terry Southern
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Wikipedia | September 22, 2009
Reginald Rose
...film adaptation . Rose wrote for all three of the major broadcast network s of the 1950-80 period. He created and wrote for The Defenders '' in 1961, a weekly courtroom drama spun off from one of Rose's episodes of ''Studio One; The...
In this article: Reginald Rose, Studio One, Internet Movie Database, Emmy, Townsend Harris High School, Heart failure, Silver, Manhattan College, and City University of New York
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Times Online | September 02, 2009
Michael Mansfield - the dangerous subversive?
...dance). His interest in the law was fired in part by his mother's battle over a parking ticket as well as watching the American TV series The Defenders. The Bar exams, which he did by correspondence course, he found "mind-numbing" and only...
In this article: Michael Mansfield, Stephen Lawrence, Angry Brigade, Britain, Radicalism, and Margaret Thatcher
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L.A. Times - Entertainment News | July 28, 2009
Notable 1962 Emmy winners
...of the White House" in 1962, the director of the special, Franklin Schaffner, picked up the helming award that night for his work on the "The Defenders," which also won drama program of the year. Schaffner won an Oscar eight years later for...
In this article: Emmy, Oscar, Shirley Booth, Grammy, Richard Rodgers, Franklin Schaffner, Come Back, Little Sheba, Bracketing, and The Time of the Cuckoo
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L.A. Times - Gold Derby - Oscar & Awards Blog | July 17, 2009
Ernest Borgnine edges out George Clooney and other 'ER' returning regulars for guest actor Emmy nod
...a nod in the expansive lead actor in a series category for the laffer "McHale's Navy" but lost to E.G. Marshall, star of the legal drama "The Defenders." And in 1980, Borgnine was bested in his bid for best supporting actor in a limited series...
In this article: Emmy Awards, Ernest Borgnine, George Clooney, ER, Michael J. Fox, Oscar, Marty, Edward Asner, And in the End, and Paul Sheehan
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NBC | July 16, 2009
The Case of the Fictional Lawyers
...of fictional lawyers. Lawyers, in pop culture, have gone from truth-seeking heroes like Perry Mason and father-and-son team of "The Defenders" to ambitious professionals with feet of clay, in such shows as "L.A. Law," "Ally McBeal" and...
In this article: Sonia Sotomayor, Perry Mason, Supreme Court, Al Franken, Raymond Burr, Atticus Finch, and Jack McCoy
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NY Post: TV | August 12, 2008
DON DRAPER THE GRAB MAN - New York Post
...a storyline about a show that did air then, but almost didn't because of its subject matter. The show within the show was "The Defenders," a legal drama about father-son lawyers starring E.G. Marshall and Robert Reed (later to play dad...
In this article: Don Draper, Mad Men, AMC, Melinda McGraw, New York Post, God, Speidel, Kimberly-Clark, and Jon Hamm
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New York Times | February 05, 2008
Barry Morse - Actor - Obituary - New York Times
...town. Mr. Morse appeared in many other television productions, including "The Outer Limits," "The Untouchables," "Naked City," "The Defenders," "Wagon Train," "The Martian Chronicles" and "War and Remembrance. " In 1969, when Mr. Morse...
In this article: Barry Morse, Robert E. Wood, Richard Kimble, The Fugitive, London, CBC Radio, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and Sydney Sturgess
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USATODAY.com | August 22, 2007
Critic's Corner Thursday - USATODAY.com
...1957 Studio One episode, "The Defender." For those who love TV trivia, that episode was the basis for the hit TV show The Defenders, in which E.G. Marshall and Robert Reed took over the father/son roles played in the original by Ralph Bellamy...
In this article: Wonder Woman, William Shatner, USA Today, Superboy, GE, Jason Sudeikis, E.G. Marshall, and Robert Reed
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Description from Wikipedia:
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series which ran on CBS from 1961–1965. It starred E.G. Marshall and Robert Reed as a father-and-son legal team who specialized in defending hopeless cases. It was created by television writer Reginald Rose. It was a slight reworking of his 1957 two-part drama, The Defender, from the anthology series Studio One. In the original program, Ralph Bellamy played the father and William Shatner played his son. Shatner guest-starred as a prosecutor in the later series, and the original drama later was incorporated into an episode of his series, Boston Legal. Original music for the series was scored by Frank Lewin and Leonard Rosenman.
A re-envisioned version of the series (which many called a sequel) debuted on the Showtime (which is now owned by CBS) network in 1997. Still called The Defenders, it focused on Beau Bridges and Martha Plimpton as the grandchildren of E.G. Marshall's character. They worked as lawyers and carried on the family legacy. However, Marshall died after completion of the Second episode ("Choice Of Evils"). Production was halted and the remaining canned episode, "Taking the First", aired as a movie special in 1998.
- Name:
- The Defenders
- Country of Origin:
- United States
- Executive Producer:
- Herbert Brodkin
- Created By:
- Reginald Rose
- Starring:
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- Joan Hackett
- Polly Rowles
- E.G. Marshall
- Robert Reed
- Length:
- 60 min.
- Format:
- Legal drama
- Broadcast Channel:
- CBS
- Number of Seasons:
- 4
- First:
- September 16, 1961
- Last:
- May 13, 1965
- Number of Episodes:
- 132
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