The Defenders - Season 3 - Eps 12: Old Lady Ironsides
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.
About The Defenders
Title: The Defenders
First Air Date: 1961-09-16
Last Air Date: 1965-05-13
Status: Ended
Rating: 6.2/10 (from 9 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 4
Total Episodes: 132
Network: CBS
Genres: Drama
Production Companies: Plautus Productions, CBS
Synopsis
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.
Cast
E.G. Marshall
Lawrence Preston
Robert Reed
Kenneth Preston
