The defenders. Season one

Author

Reginald Rose

Call Number

• DVD TV SERIES (CEN)

Performers

E.G. Marshall, Robert Reed, Polly Rowles, Joan Hackett.

Publication Information

Hollywood, Calif. : CBS DVD, [2016]

Physical Description

9 videodiscs (approximately 1590 minutes) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Lawrence and Kenneth Preston are a father and son team of defense attorneys specializing in complex and challenging cases.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally broadcast as individual episodes on CBS during the 1961-1962 television season.

Special features: The Studio One presentation of The defender (1957) starring Ralph Bellamy, Steve McQueen and William Shatner ; original and extended version of the pilot episode ; new interviews with associate producer Bob Markell and writer Larry Cohen ; interview with actor E.G. Marshall.

Contents

• The quality of mercy ; Killer instinct ; Death across the counter ; The riot
• The young lovers ; The boy between ; The hundred lives of Harry Simms
• The trial of Jenny Scott ; The man with the concrete thumb ; The treadmill ; Perjury
• The attack ; The prowler ; Gideon's follies ; The best defense
• The bedside murder ; The search ; Storm at Birch Glen ; The point shaver
• The locked room ; The empty chute ; The crusader ; The hickory Indian
• The iron man ; The tarnished cross ; The last six months ; The naked heiress
• Reunion with death ; The benefactor ; Along came a spider ; The broken barrelhead --