The Defenders

S01E27: The Last Six Months

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.

Overview

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.

Episodes

S01E01 Quality of Mercy

September 16, 1961 60 min
Dr. Bill Conrad's patient, Leona Warner, delivers a baby with Down Syndrome.

S01E02 Killer Instinct

September 23, 1961 7.0 51 min
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.

S01E03 Death Across the Counter

September 30, 1961 60 min

S01E04 The Riot

October 7, 1961 60 min

S01E05 The Young Lovers

October 14, 1961 50 min

S01E06 The Boy Between

October 21, 1961 60 min

S01E07 The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms

October 28, 1961 60 min
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.

S01E08 The Accident

November 4, 1961 60 min

S01E09 The Trial of Jenny Scott

November 11, 1961 60 min

S01E10 The Man with the Concrete Thumb

November 18, 1961 60 min

S01E11 The Treadmill

November 25, 1961 60 min

S01E12 Perjury

December 2, 1961 8.0 60 min

S01E13 The Attack

December 9, 1961 60 min

S01E14 The Prowler

December 16, 1961 60 min

S01E15 Gideon's Follies

December 23, 1961 60 min

S01E16 The Best Defense

December 30, 1961 60 min

S01E17 The Bedside Murder

January 6, 1962 60 min

S01E18 The Search

January 20, 1962 60 min

S01E19 Storm at Birch Glen

January 27, 1962 60 min

S01E20 The Point Shaver

February 3, 1962 60 min
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...

S01E21 The Locked Room

February 10, 1962 60 min

S01E22 The Empty Chute

February 17, 1962 60 min

S01E23 The Crusader

February 24, 1962 60 min

S01E24 The Hickory Indian

March 3, 1962 60 min

S01E25 The Iron Man

March 10, 1962 60 min

S01E26 The Tarnished Cross

March 17, 1962 60 min

S01E27 The Last Six Months

March 31, 1962 9.0 60 min
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.

S01E28 The Naked Heiress

April 7, 1962 60 min
Reunion with Death

S01E29 Reunion with Death

April 21, 1962 60 min

S01E30 The Benefactor

April 28, 1962 60 min

S01E31 Along Came a Spider

May 5, 1962 60 min

S01E32 The Broken Barrelhead

May 26, 1962 60 min

Cast

E.G. Marshall
E.G. Marshall
Lawrence Preston
Robert Reed
Robert Reed
Kenneth Preston

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