9.2/1017 votesLoading...#1 - Madman (2)
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1962
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Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Writer: Robert Thom
- 9.0/1019 votesLoading...
#2 - Grandma TNT
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/22/1962
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Director: Elliot Silverstein
Writer: David Karp
- 8.9/1022 votesLoading...
#3 - Blacklist
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/18/1964
Blacklist is an episode of TV program The Defenders.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Writer: Ernest Kinoy
- 8.8/1014 votesLoading...
#4 - Conspiracy of Silence
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1963
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Director: Alex March
Writer: Roger H. Lewis
- 8.7/1011 votesLoading...
#5 - Blood Country
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1962
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Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: Ernest Kinoy
- 8.6/1030 votesLoading...
#6 - The Attack
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/9/1961
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Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Writer: John W. Bloch
- 8.6/1012 votesLoading...
#7 - The Hidden Fury
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/28/1964
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Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Writer: George Baxt
- 8.4/1047 votesLoading...
#8 - Killer Instinct
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1961
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
- 8.4/1035 votesLoading...
#9 - Death Across the Counter
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1961
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Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: Reginald Rose
- 8.4/1025 votesLoading...
#10 - Perjury
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/2/1961
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Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: Adrian Spies
8.4/1025 votesLoading...#11 - Reunion with Death
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/21/1962
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Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Writer: David Shaw
- 8.4/1010 votesLoading...
#12 - Man Against Himself
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/12/1963
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Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: Raphael Hayes
- 8.4/1013 votesLoading...
#13 - Old Lady Ironsides
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/1963
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
- 8.3/1012 votesLoading...
#14 - The Voices of Death
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1962
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
- 8.3/1016 votesLoading...
#15 - Madman (1)
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1962
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Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Writer: Robert Thom
- 8.2/1023 votesLoading...
#16 - The Bedside Murder
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/6/1962
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Director: Fielder Cook
Writer: Max Ehrlich
- 8.2/1024 votesLoading...
#17 - The Search
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/20/1962
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Director: John Brahm
Writer: Reginald Rose
- 8.2/1038 votesLoading...
#18 - The Benefactor
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/28/1962
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Director: Daniel Petrie
Writer: Peter Stone
- 8.2/1014 votesLoading...
#19 - Along Came a Spider
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 5/5/1962
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Director: Elliot Silverstein
Writer: Peter Stone
- 8.2/1017 votesLoading...
#20 - The Broken Barrelhead
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/26/1962
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Director: David Greene
Writer: David Karp
- 8.2/1010 votesLoading...
#21 - Poltergeist
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/26/1963
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Director: David Greene
Writer: Reginald Rose
- 8.2/1014 votesLoading...
#22 - The Traitor
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/16/1963
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Director: David Greene
Writer: Larry Cohen
- 8.2/1013 votesLoading...
#23 - The Man Who Saved His Country
Season 3 Episode 29 - Aired 5/9/1964
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Director: Elliot Silverstein
Writer: Albert Ruben
- 8.2/1014 votesLoading...
#24 - The Non-Violent
Season 3 Episode 33 - Aired 6/6/1964
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Director: Paul Bogart
Writer: Ernest Kinoy
- 8.1/1029 votesLoading...
#25 - The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1961
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
The Best Episodes of The Defenders
Every episode of The Defenders ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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...
Genre:Drama
Network:CBS
Best Episodes Summary
"Madman (2)" is the best rated episode of "The Defenders". It scored 9.2/10 based on 17 votes. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg and written by Robert Thom, it aired on 10/27/1962. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Grandma TNT".