THE DEFENDERS: SEASON ONE [REGION 1]

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• Release Year: 1961
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: On the path to justice, there shall stand The Defenders.; ; One of television's most respected dramas finally arrives on DVD with The Defenders: Season One. E.G. Marshall and Robert Reed star as Lawrence and Kenneth Preston, a father-and-son team of defense attorneys specializing in complex and challenging cases, many of which explored real-world concersn that still resonate with audiences today.; ; Created by Reginald Rose (Twelve Angry Men), The Defenders was an Emmy® award-winning series many times over, with a well-earned reputation as one of the most socially conscious series ever to air on television.; ; In addition to its critical accolades, Season One's thirty-two episodes feature guest appearances from a litany of tremendous stars, including Jack Klugman, William Shatner, Ossie Davis, Richard Thomas, Frank Gorshin, Eva Gabor, Robert Duvall, Robert Loggia, Martin Sheen, Julie Newmar, and more.; ; An unquestionable champion of quality television, The Defenders: Season One is at long last in session.
• Cast: E.G. Marshall; Robert Reed; Polly Rowles; Ossie Davis; J.D. Cannon; Lonny Chapman; John Boruff; Robert Gerringer; Kermit Murdock; Murray Hamilton; Judson Laire; Lester Rawlins; Marc Connelly; William Shatner; Simon Oakland; Tim O'Connor; Frank Overton; Joan Hackett; Charles White; Dana Elcar; Salem Ludwig; Sam Wanamaker; Vincent Gardenia; Collin Wilcox Paxton; Martin Sheen; Charles Randall; Michael Strong; Walter Greaza; Edward Binns; Michael Higgins; Walter Klavun; Leon B. Stevens; Ken Kercheval; Wynn Wright; Dolph Sweet; John Gibson; Frank Campanella; Martin Balsam; Jack Gilford; David J. Stewart; Paul Stevens; Jack Ragotzy; Jack Klugman; Robert Webber; Robert Duvall; Patrick O'Neal; Arthur Hill; Brenda Vaccaro; Malachi Throne; Cliff Hall; Russell Bailey; Will Hussung; Ben Piazza; Milton Selzer; Janet Ward; Fred Stewart; Alan Bunce; Fred J. Scollay; Russell Hardie; Bruce Kirby; Don McHenry; Lester Lawrence; Richard Kiley; Mary Fickett; Barbara Barrie; Howard St. John; Ellen Madison; John McGovern; Chester Morris; Nancy Wickwire; Martin Rudy; Arthur Storch; Val Avery; Conrad Nagel; John Baragrey; Gerald Hiken; Gene Raymond; Theo Goetz; Wallace Rooney; Dan Morgan; Carl Low; Frank Marth; Lou Antonio; John Seymour; Donald Davis; Gerald S. O'Loughlin; James Patterson; John Cullum; Andrew Duncan; John Randolph; Pat Hingle; Robert Loggia; Fritz Weaver; Dennis Hopper; Carroll O'Connor; Sylvia Sidney; Howard Da Silva; Leslie Nielsen; Dustin Hoffman; Larry Hagman; Donald Harron; Darren McGavin; Don Gordon; Lynn Loring; Alfred Ryder; Barry Morse; James Earl Jones; Logan Ramsey; John Beal; Zohra Lampert; Michael Conrad; Woodrow Parfrey; Edgar Stehli; Hildy Brooks; Mary Finney; Louise Larabee; Gene Hackman; Muni Seroff; Robert Walker Jr.; Arnold Soboloff; George Mitchell; Alexander Clark; Dirk Kooiman; Wendell K. Phillips; John Crowther; Mitch Ryan; Barry Primus; Roger Burris; Bob O'Connell; Frank Daly; Virginia Donaldson; Michael Lipton; Richard X. Slattery; Alan Weeks; Jon Richards; John Marriott; Brendan Fay; Emory Richardson; Charlotte Jones; Will Davis; William Fort; Bill Smillie; Hal Galili; Robert Levine; Peter Gumeny; John Buckwalter; Pat Malone; Norma Crane; Burt Brinckerhoff; Lillian Gish; Viveca Lindfors; George Voskovec; Biff McGuire; Harold J. Stone; James Broderick; Aline MacMahon; Teresa Wright; John Colicos; Joanne Linville; Richard Jordan; Kathleen Maguire; Alexander Scourby; Edward Asner; William Redfield; Jon Voight; Diana Van der Vlis; Nancy Marchand; Larry Gates; Alan Hewitt; Leslye Hunter; James Olson; Roland Winters; Ivan Dixon; Addison Powell; Thomas A. Carlin; Philip Coolidge; Clarice Blackburn; William Daniels; Luella Gear; Neva Patterson; Peggy Maurer; Kathleen Widdoes; Morgan Sterne; Jessica Walter; Joe Silver; Joseph Sweeney; Rex Everhart; Roy Poole; Sidney Armus; Doris Roberts; Marian Seldes; Donald Moffat; Lou Gilbert; Anne Seymour; Tom Clancy; Larry Haines; George Ebeling; Sam Capuano; Heywood Hale Broun; Sally Gracie; William Duell; Henderson Forsythe; Nell Harrison; Jo Wilder; Matt Crowley; Will Hare; David Hurst; Philip Bruns; Ben Yaffee; Duke Farley; Herbert Nelson; Peter Turgeon; Mart Hulswit; Jack Hollander; Terry Carter; Warren Finnerty; Frederick Rolf; David Kerman; James Dimitri; Vince O'Brien; John C. Becher; Molly McCarthy; Robert Riesel; Susan Melvin; George Lambert; Howard Mann; Ted van Griethuysen; Barbara Baxley; Rudy Bond; William Hansen; Dorrit Kelton; Sándor Szabó; Ludwig Donath; Diane Higgins; Lee Grant; Joseph Julian; Rochelle Oliver; Jan Miner; Brett Somers; Joanna Roos; Cliff Carpenter; Michael Lombard; Ruth White; Herschel Bernardi; David Doyle; Robert Drivas; June Harding; James Karen; Tom Poston; Rick Sommers; Boris Tumarin; Shirl Conway; Evans Evans; Frank Gorshin; Frank McHugh; Kent Smith; Loring Smith; Paul Hartman; Sam Jaffe; Salome Jens; Paul Prokop; Albert Salmi; Robert F. Simon; Warren Stevens; Andrew Duggan; James Farentino; Peter Fonda; Arch Johnson; Joe Mantell; Kevin McCarthy; Dean Stockwell; Milton Berle; James Coburn; James Gregory; Skip Homeier; Glynis Johns; Martin Landau; Ralph Meeker; Ricardo Montalban; Robert Redford; Dan O'Herlihy; David Opatoshu; Jerry Orbach; Donald Pleasence; Carol Eve Rossen; Philip Abbott; Edward Andrews; Ilka Chase; Leora Dana; Gloria DeHaven; Frank Sutton; Harry Townes; Crahan Denton; Louisa Horton; John Kerr; Enid Markey; Anne Meacham; Lee Philips; Ruth Roman; Zachary Scott; Dolores Sutton; Mary Astor; Joe De Santis; Janet Margolin; Frank Silvera; Sam Groom; Marsha Hunt; Anne Jackson; Mike Kellin; Horace McMahon; Laurence Naismith; Phyllis Thaxter; Daniel J. Travanti; Larry Blyden; Kim Hunter; Madlyn Rhue; William Smithers; Elizabeth Ashley; Eva Gabor; Stefan Gierasch; Edith Meiser; Glenda Farrell; Bill Gunn; Pat Henning; Stanley Kristien; Leonard Stone; Inga Swenson; Charles Aidman; Austin Willis; Norman Fell; Philip Bosco; Nicolas Coster; Clu Gulager; Jeff Rowland; Robert Goodier; Lou Jacobi; Leo Penn; Andrew Prine; H.M. Wynant; Ward Costello; Bert Freed; Louise Sorel; Hope Cameron; Martyn Green; Michael Constantine; Peggy Feury; Julie Newmar; Richard Thomas; Barbara Turner; James Congdon; Jenny Egan; Elisabeth Fraser; Dody Goodman; Leon Janney; Harvey Lembeck; Renée Taylor; Penny Fuller; Jan Murray; Claudette Nevins; Helen Auerbach; Tsai Chin; Valerie Cossart; Mary James; Doreen Lang; Mort Marshall; J. Pat O'Malley; Joe Ponazecki; Zvee Scooler; Harrison Dowd; George Gaynes; Dino Narizzano; Peter Trytler; Wesley Addy; Joseph Leon; Danny Dayton; Hugh Franklin; Arthur Hughes; Dwight Marfield; Robert Pastene; Florence Stanley; Dave Willock; Margaret Barker; Lawrence Fletcher; Bette Henritze; Freda Holloway; Lucy Landau; William LeMassena; Charles Saari; David Sheiner; Norman Shelly; Jerry Stiller; Joan Wetmore; Gene Wilder; Marian Winters; Joshua Shelley; Gertrude Jeannette; David Karp; Eugene Roche; Malcolm Atterbury; Roger C. Carmel; Alfred Hinckley; Barnard Hughes; Leslie Litomy; Louis Sorin; Augusta Dabney; Humphrey Davis; Sam Gray; William Griffis; Luke Halpin; Nicholas Hammond; Julie Hirsh; Henry Lascoe; Augusta Merighi; Harry Millard; Rosalyn Newport; Wayne Robertson; James Noble; Greta Markson; Ruth Attaway; Conrad Bain; Larry J. Blake; Perry Fiske; William Bramlette; Marion Brash; Ralph Dunn; Robert Gentile; Sylvia Miles; Ray Reinhardt; Dean Stolber; William Larsen; John McQuade; Estelle Parsons; Wally Engelhardt; Mark Lenard; Eugene Wood; Barbara Bolton; Norman Burke-Smith; Don Fellows; Raymond Greenleaf; Albert Linville; Larry Robinson; Arthur Anderson; Vincent Baggetta; Bernard Fein; Ivor Francis; Dee Hartford; Alan Landers; Burton Mallory; Richard Mulligan; Jerry Rockwood; Charles Tyner; Roland Wood; Gerry Matthews; Eugene Peterson; Irving Joseph; Robert Mandan; Robert Cromwell; Thomas Barbour; Rachel Benoff; Dort Clark; Edwin Cooper; Bill Erwin; Harold Gary; Benedict Herrman; Gerald Price; Billy Sands; Michael Wright; John Alexander; Reynolds Evans; Al Lewis; Donald Marye; Allen Nourse; Robert Reilly; Frederic Tozere; Joseph Trapaso; Warren Wade; Jane Rose; Maxwell Glanville; Karl Light; Brad Spinney; Walter Kattwinkel; Billie Allen; Frank Baxter; Jim Boles; Edward Crowley; Mitchell Lear; Gary Oakes; Beverly Bentley; Richard Bowler; Roscoe Lee Browne; Linda Canby; Ted Chapman; Mike Crecco; Jerome Guardino; Jerry Hardin; Allen Joseph; Deane Seimier; D.J. Sullivan; Len Wayland; Paul Bogart; Stuart Rosenberg; David Greene; Buzz Kulik; Don Richardson; Franklin J. Schaffner; Daniel Petrie; Charles S. Dubin; Alex March; Elliot Silverstein; John Brahm; Leonard Horn; Paul Stanley; Jack Smight; Robert Butler; Philip Leacock; Paul Sylbert; William Ball; Robert Stevens; Ralph Nelson; Boris Sagal; Fielder Cook; John Newland; Ted Post; Denis Sanders; Sydney Pollack; James Sheldon; Paul Stewart; Shepard Traube; Vincent J. Donehue; Tom Gries; Lamont Johnson; Alexander Mackendrick; Sidney Katz; Michael Powell; David Pressman; Reginald Rose; William Woolfolk; Ernest Kinoy; Larry Cohen; Stanley R. Greenberg; Roger H. Lewis; Robert J. Crean; David Shaw; Max Ehrlich; Robert Thom; Edward DeBlasio; Ellen M. Violett; Alvin Boretz; Peter Stone; James Lee; Albert Ruben; John Vlahos; Charles Garment; David Davidson; Jerome Ross; Ian McLellan Hunter; David W. Rintels; A.J. Russell; Harold Gast; John W. Bloch; Adrian Spies; Mann Rubin; Raphael Hayes; A.E. Hotchner; Andrea Russo; Robert Van Scoyk; George Baxt; Allan Chase; Charles Eckert; Howard Fast; Bo Goldman; Rod Sylvester; George Bellak; Peter A. Chilles; Martin Donaldson; Arnold Manoff
• Director: Paul Bogart
• Runtime: 26:30:00
• Company: Shout Factory!, CBS Television
• Media Format: Series