The OG courtroom drama that made your dad's law shows possible.
Season 4 • Episode 30
LatestThe 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.
Acting
Marshall's gravitas vs. Reed's youthful fire—perfect push-pull.
Writing
Reginald Rose scripts that still slap sixty years later.
Creator
Reginald Rose
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Robert Reed later played Mike Brady—imagine Kenneth Preston raising six kids in suburbia.
Reginald Rose also wrote '12 Angry Men,' and you can feel that same claustrophobic moral pressure in every Defenders episode.
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