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#2 - 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
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#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
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#10 - 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
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#17 - 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
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#23 - Quality of Mercy
Season 1 Episode 1
Aired 9/16/1961
Dr. Bill Conrad's patient, Leona Warner, delivers a baby with Down Syndrome.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: Reginald Rose
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#25 - The Point Shaver
Season 1 Episode 20
Aired 2/3/1962
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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The Best Episodes of The Defenders
Genre:Drama
Network:CBS
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...
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...
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Best Episodes Summary
"Conspiracy of Silence" is the best rated episode of "The Defenders". It scored 8.8/10 based on 14 votes. Directed by Alex March and written by Roger H. Lewis, it aired on 10/26/1963. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Old Lady Ironsides".