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 complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.

E.G. Marshall
Lawrence Preston

Robert Reed
Kenneth Preston

Polly Rowles
Helen Donaldson

Ossie Davis
District Attorney Daniel Jackson

J.D. Cannon
District Attorney

Murray Hamilton
District Attorney

Frank Overton
D.A. Bill Bryan

Joan Hackett
Joan Miller

William Shatner
Gil Rawson