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The Best Episodes of The Defenders Season 3

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The Best Episodes of The Defenders Season 3

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 The Weeping Baboon
    8.0/10(10 votes)

    #1 - The Weeping Baboon

    S3:E1

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    Director:Stuart Rosenberg
    Writer:Reginald Rose
  2. Background image for The Empty Heart
    7.2/10(10 votes)

    #2 - The Empty Heart

    S3:E2

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    Director:Stuart Rosenberg
    Writer:Stanley R. Greenberg
  3. Background image for The Captive
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    #3 - The Captive

    S3:E3

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    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:Larry Cohen
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    #4 - The Bagman

    S3:E4

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    Director:Robert Butler
    Writer:Roger H. Lewis
  5. Background image for Conspiracy of Silence
    8.7/10(15 votes)

    #5 - Conspiracy of Silence

    S3:E5

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    Director:Alex March
    Writer:Roger H. Lewis
  6. Background image for The Cruel Hook
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    #6 - The Cruel Hook

    S3:E6

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    Director:Elliot Silverstein
    Writer:Andrea Russo
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    #7 - Star-Spangled Ghetto

    S3:E7

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    Director:Alex March
    Writer:Reginald Rose
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    #8 - Loophole

    S3:E8

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    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:A. E. Hotchner
  9. Background image for The Seal of Confession
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    #9 - The Seal of Confession

    S3:E9

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    Director:Alex March
    Writer:Ian McLellan Hunter
  10. Background image for Climate of Evil
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    #10 - Climate of Evil

    S3:E10

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    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:David Karp
  11. Background image for The Crowd Pleaser
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    #11 - The Crowd Pleaser

    S3:E11

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    Director:Don Richardson
    Writer:Charles Garment
  12. Background image for Old Lady Ironsides
    8.5/10(15 votes)

    #12 - 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.

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    Director:Paul Bogart
    Writer:Robert Van Scoyk
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    #13 - Fugue for Trumpet and Small Boy

    S3:E13

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    Director:James Sheldon
    Writer:David W. Rintels
  14. Background image for Claire Cheval Died in Boston
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    #14 - Claire Cheval Died in Boston

    S3:E14

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    Director:Paul Bogart
    Writer:Ernest Kinoy
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    #15 - The Last Day

    S3:E15

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    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:Allan Chase
  16. Background image for Blacklist
    8.6/10(24 votes)

    #16 - Blacklist

    S3:E16

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    Director:Stuart Rosenberg
    Writer:Ernest Kinoy
  17. Background image for Who'll Dig His Grave?
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    #17 - Who'll Dig His Grave?

    S3:E17

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    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:William Woolfolk
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    #18 - All the Silent Voices

    S3:E18

    Dr. Katherine Tasso opens a clinic and dispenses birth-control information—although she's aware that her actions violate state laws.

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    Director:Gerald Mayer
    Writer:William Woolfolk
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    #19 - The Secret

    S3:E19

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    Director:Paul Bogart
    Writer:Larry Cohen
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    #20 - The Pill Man

    S3:E20

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    Director:Leonard Horn
    Writers:Charles Eckert, Albert Ruben
  21. Background image for Drink Like a Lady
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    #21 - Drink Like a Lady

    S3:E21

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    Director:Stuart Rosenberg
    Writer:Ellen M. Violett
  22. Background image for Survival
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    #22 - Survival

    S3:E22

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    Director:Tom Gries
    Writer:William Woolfolk
  23. Background image for Moment of Truth
    8.0/10(14 votes)

    #23 - Moment of Truth

    S3:E23

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    Director:Paul Bogart
    Writer:David Karp
  24. Background image for The Hidden Fury
    8.6/10(12 votes)

    #24 - The Hidden Fury

    S3:E24

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    Director:Alexander Mackendrick
    Writer:George Baxt
  25. Background image for Die Laughing
    7.6/10(13 votes)

    #25 - Die Laughing

    S3:E25

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    Director:Stuart Rosenberg
    Writer:Roger H. Lewis

Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Weeping Baboon" is the best rated episode of "The Defenders" season 3. It scored 8/10 based on 10 votes. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg and written by Reginald Rose, it aired on 9/28/1963. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "The Empty Heart".