The Defenders

...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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

...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...

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