The Defenders - Season 1

1. Quality of Mercy

Aired: 9/16/1961

Dr. Bill Conrad's patient, Leona Warner, delivers a baby with Down Syndrome.

2. Killer Instinct

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.

3. Death Across the Counter

Aired: 9/30/1961

4. The Riot

Aired: 10/7/1961

5. The Young Lovers

Aired: 10/14/1961

6. The Boy Between

Aired: 10/21/1961

7. The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms

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.

8. The Accident

Aired: 11/4/1961

9. The Trial of Jenny Scott

Aired: 11/11/1961

10. The Man with the Concrete Thumb

Aired: 11/18/1961

11. The Treadmill

Aired: 11/25/1961

12. Perjury

Aired: 12/2/1961

13. The Attack

Aired: 12/9/1961

14. The Prowler

Aired: 12/16/1961

15. Gideon's Follies

Aired: 12/23/1961

16. The Best Defense

Aired: 12/30/1961

17. The Bedside Murder

Aired: 1/6/1962

18. The Search

Aired: 1/20/1962

19. Storm at Birch Glen

Aired: 1/27/1962

20. The Point Shaver

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.

21. The Locked Room

Aired: 2/10/1962

22. The Empty Chute

Aired: 2/17/1962

23. The Crusader

Aired: 2/24/1962

24. The Hickory Indian

Aired: 3/3/1962

25. The Iron Man

Aired: 3/10/1962

26. The Tarnished Cross

Aired: 3/17/1962

27. The Last Six Months

Aired: 3/31/1962

Arthur Hill plays a man with six months to live--he kills his business partner in a fit of rage when the man refuses to help support his family after he has died.

28. The Naked Heiress

Aired: 4/7/1962

29. Reunion with Death

Aired: 4/21/1962

30. The Benefactor

Aired: 4/28/1962

31. Along Came a Spider

Aired: 5/5/1962

32. The Broken Barrelhead

Aired: 5/26/1962