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The Best Episodes of The Defenders

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The Best Episodes of The Defenders

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...
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  1. Background image for Grandma TNT
    8.8/10(21 votes)

    #1 - Grandma TNT

    S2:E14

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    Director:Elliot Silverstein
    Writer:David Karp
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  2. Background image for Madman (2)
    8.7/10(20 votes)

    #2 - Madman (2)

    S2:E7

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    Director:Stuart Rosenberg
    Writer:Robert Thom
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  3. Background image for Conspiracy of Silence
    8.6/10(15 votes)

    #3 - Conspiracy of Silence

    S3:E5

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    Director:Alex March
    Writer:Roger H. Lewis
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  4. Background image for Blacklist
    8.5/10(24 votes)

    #4 - Blacklist

    S3:E16

    Blacklist is an episode of TV program The Defenders.

    Director:Stuart Rosenberg
    Writer:Ernest Kinoy
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  5. Background image for Death Across the Counter
    8.4/10(36 votes)

    #5 - Death Across the Counter

    S1:E3

    No description available

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Reginald Rose
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  6. Background image for Reunion with Death
    8.4/10(26 votes)

    #6 - Reunion with Death

    S1:E29

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    Director:Franklin J. Schaffner
    Writer:David Shaw
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  7. Background image for Perjury
    8.3/10(25 votes)

    #7 - Perjury

    S1:E12

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    Director:Boris Sagal
    Writer:Adrian Spies
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  8. Background image for The Bedside Murder
    8.3/10(24 votes)

    #8 - The Bedside Murder

    S1:E17

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    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Max Ehrlich
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  9. Background image for Madman (1)
    8.3/10(17 votes)

    #9 - Madman (1)

    S2:E6

    No description available

    Director:Stuart Rosenberg
    Writer:Robert Thom
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  10. Background image for The Hidden Fury
    8.3/10(12 votes)

    #10 - The Hidden Fury

    S3:E24

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    Director:Alexander Mackendrick
    Writer:George Baxt
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  11. Background image for The Attack
    8.2/10(31 votes)

    #11 - The Attack

    S1:E13

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    Director:Franklin J. Schaffner
    Writer:John W. Bloch
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  12. Background image for The Benefactor
    8.2/10(40 votes)

    #12 - The Benefactor

    S1:E30

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    Director:Daniel Petrie
    Writer:Peter Stone
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  13. Background image for Along Came a Spider
    8.2/10(15 votes)

    #13 - Along Came a Spider

    S1:E31

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    Director:Elliot Silverstein
    Writer:Peter Stone
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  14. Background image for The Broken Barrelhead
    8.2/10(17 votes)

    #14 - The Broken Barrelhead

    S1:E32

    No description available

    Director:David Greene
    Writer:David Karp
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  15. Background image for The Voices of Death
    8.2/10(12 votes)

    #15 - The Voices of Death

    S2:E1

    Martha Harrow, a young wife and mother, is convicted of first-degree murder. The victim: her husband, an alcoholic and wife beater.

    Director:Stuart Rosenberg
    Writer:Reginald Rose
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  16. Background image for Old Lady Ironsides
    8.2/10(16 votes)

    #16 - Old Lady Ironsides

    S3:E12

    A high school senior is denied the chance to finish two more months of high school for a diploma, just because she has been found to be pregnant. A little old lady who has befriended the girl, and who had been an active Suffragette, determines to help her: she chains herself to the school entrance. The attending publicity and subsequent sanity hearing for the old lady, force the board to change its ruling.

    Director:Paul Bogart
    Writer:Robert Van Scoyk
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  17. Background image for The Non-Violent
    8.2/10(15 votes)

    #17 - The Non-Violent

    S3:E33

    No description available

    Director:Paul Bogart
    Writer:Ernest Kinoy
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  18. Background image for The Prosecutor
    8.2/10(14 votes)

    #18 - The Prosecutor

    S4:E28

    No description available

    Director:Paul Bogart
    Writer:David Shaw
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  19. Background image for Killer Instinct
    8.1/10(50 votes)

    #19 - Killer Instinct

    S1:E2

    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.

    Director:Franklin J. Schaffner
    Writer:John Vlahos
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  20. Background image for The Search
    8.1/10(24 votes)

    #20 - The Search

    S1:E18

    No description available

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Reginald Rose
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  21. Background image for The Point Shaver
    8.1/10(16 votes)

    #21 - The Point Shaver

    S1:E20

    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 Committee.

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Mann Rubin
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  22. Background image for The Man Who Saved His Country
    8.1/10(13 votes)

    #22 - The Man Who Saved His Country

    S3:E29

    No description available

    Director:Elliot Silverstein
    Writer:Albert Ruben
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  23. Background image for The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms
    8.0/10(29 votes)

    #23 - The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms

    S1:E7

    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.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Alvin Boretz
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  24. Background image for The Trial of Jenny Scott
    8.0/10(25 votes)

    #24 - The Trial of Jenny Scott

    S1:E9

    No description available

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Reginald Rose
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  25. Background image for The Locked Room
    8.0/10(19 votes)

    #25 - The Locked Room

    S1:E21

    No description available

    Director:David Greene
    Writer:Ernest Kinoy
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Best Episodes Summary

"Grandma TNT" is the best rated episode of "The Defenders". It scored 8.8/10 based on 21 votes. Directed by Elliot Silverstein and written by David Karp, it aired on 12/22/1962. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Madman (2)".