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The Worst Episodes of Public Defender

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The Worst Episodes of Public Defender

The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on...

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  1. Background image for The Auto Accident
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #1 - The Auto Accident

    S1:E13

    No description available

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Call in the Night
    5.9/10(16 votes)

    #2 - Call in the Night

    S1:E19

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Big Race
    6.4/10(16 votes)

    #3 - The Big Race

    S2:E3

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Story of Nora Fulton
    6.4/10(17 votes)

    #4 - Story of Nora Fulton

    S2:E40

    Matthews defends an ex-policeman's daughter when she is accused of murdering her boyfriend.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Eight Out of a Hundred
    6.5/10(19 votes)

    #5 - Eight Out of a Hundred

    S2:E37

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    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Behind Bars
    6.6/10(23 votes)

    #6 - Behind Bars

    S1:E7

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  8. Background image for The Escape
    6.6/10(14 votes)

    #7 - The Escape

    S1:E20

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Let Justice Be Done
    6.7/10(27 votes)

    #8 - Let Justice Be Done

    S1:E10

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    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Deep Ditch
    6.7/10(12 votes)

    #9 - Deep Ditch

    S2:E20

    Matthews must defend a ditch-digger accused of attacking his boss. Further investigation reveals more complexity to the story.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for When Credit Is Due
    6.8/10(18 votes)

    #10 - When Credit Is Due

    S2:E7

    When a father of 2 is temporarily disabled in an auto accident, his wife gets a job to make ends meet. However, unscrupulous debtors begin to garnish her wages and then her boss fires her. Matthews comes to the rescue.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Your Witness
    6.9/10(11 votes)

    #11 - Your Witness

    S2:E22

    Bart Matthews defends Karl Novak, who faces a second-degree murder charge following the grisly slaying of a storekeeper.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Two Brothers
    7.0/10(13 votes)

    #12 - Two Brothers

    S1:E8

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Crash Out
    7.1/10(13 votes)

    #13 - Crash Out

    S2:E8

    An prison inmate just 3 weeks from parole participates in a prison break. His wife cannot understand why he would do such a thing and goes to Bart Matthews for help,

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    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for A Pair of Gloves
    7.1/10(15 votes)

    #14 - A Pair of Gloves

    S2:E34

    Flippant small time hood and three time loser Allie Kilgore claims he bought out of town a pair of gloves that are the like the pair he is accused of taking in a home burglary.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for The Jockey and the Nun
    7.1/10(10 votes)

    #15 - The Jockey and the Nun

    S2:E42

    Joey leaves his orphanage to be a jockey when an encounter with hotel owner Mr. Barry gets him returned. But after the hotel is burned Joey is arrested. Only Sister Anthony continues to believe him during the trial.

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    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for The Director
    7.2/10(16 votes)

    #16 - The Director

    S2:E23

    A once famous film director is now working as night-watchman at the film studio. One night he knocks down another film director, who once was his assistant director but now is the famous one, and takes 300 dollars from him. The public defender cannot understand why somebody would destroy all of his former reputation for such a small crime.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for The Big Steel
    7.2/10(12 votes)

    #17 - The Big Steel

    S2:E25

    A man is accused of purposely running a co-worker down and is arrested for attempted murder. But the Public Defender is able to get him off after talking to his other co-workers. Oh, but wait, that's only half the story.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Lee Loeb
  19. Background image for Pauper's Gold
    7.3/10(9 votes)

    #18 - Pauper's Gold

    S1:E11

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    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Cornered
    7.3/10(19 votes)

    #19 - Cornered

    S2:E30

    An upcoming prizefighter wants to turn himself into Matthews for parole violation but the threats of small time hoodlums and the actions of a clueless police officer cause things to go wrong.

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    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Operation: CLEAT
    7.3/10(14 votes)

    #20 - Operation: CLEAT

    S2:E39

    Law enforcement agencies from the U.S. and Mexico join forces after the public defenders' office uncovers a car theft ring that is connected to drug trafficking.

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    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for The Stepchild
    7.4/10(16 votes)

    #21 - The Stepchild

    S1:E12

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for High Stakes
    7.4/10(10 votes)

    #22 - High Stakes

    S1:E21

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Loyalty
    7.4/10(13 votes)

    #23 - Loyalty

    S2:E5

    Matthews takes the case of a cop killer who is depending on his little brother's false testimony to get him off. When the killer thinks Matthews is getting to friendly with his little brother, he fires Matthews.

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    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Socrates
    7.4/10(12 votes)

    #24 - Socrates

    S2:E16

    Guy from the hood gets framed for murder. Matthews enlists the help of Socrates, who runs the hood's homeless shelter, to obtain proof of his client's innocence.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Another World
    7.4/10(15 votes)

    #25 - Another World

    S2:E19

    The Bachman siblings are European refugees who've worked hard in America. But Hans begins to romance Wanda and convinces her to get him valuable plans. Erich ends the spy ring by shooting Hans but was it justified in Reed's definition of justice.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Worst Episodes Summary

"The Auto Accident" is the worst rated episode of "Public Defender". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/3/1954. This episode scored 5.9 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Call in the Night".