The Defender (Studio One)
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The pilot for the television series, "The Defenders." The story of Walter and Kenneth Pearson, a father-and-son legal team. Broadcast as two segments of "Studio One," the story relates how the Pearsons defend a young man accused of killing a woman during a robbery attempt.
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Season 5, Episode 13 of the Westinghouse Studio One staging a medieval mystery play about the Nativity.
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- Director
- Robert Mulligan
- Starring
- Ralph Bellamy, Martin Balsam, Steve McQueen, Vivian Nathan, William Shatner, Ian Wolfe, David J. Stewart, Russell Hardie
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