Collection context
Summary
- Abstract:
- The Defenders was televised 1961 to 1965. The series featured E.G. Marshall and Robert Reed as a father-son team of defense attorneys. The program established a model for social-issue type television series that were created in the early sixties. The collection consists of annotated scripts from January 1962 to March 1965.
- Extent:
- 3 Linear Feet (7 boxes)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], The Defenders Scripts and Set Plans (Collection PASC 129). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of annotated scripts for the television series The Defenders. Includes the scripts for production numbers 29-132 (January 1962-March 1965). Script annotations may have been made by writer, Robert Markell.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Defenders television series ran from September 1961-September 1965. Filmed in New York, the stories centered on a father-and-son team of defense attorneys, and explored issues such as euthanasia, abortion, blacklisting, and civil disobedience. Regular cast members included, E.G. Marshall, Robert Reed, Polly Rowles, Helen Donaldson, and Joan Hackett. The series was created by Reginald Rose, who wrote several of the scripts, and was produced by Herbert Brodkin. Other regular writers included Ernest Kinoy and Robert Crean.
- Processing information:
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Processed by UCLA staff, 2004.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], The Defenders Scripts and Set Plans (Collection PASC 129). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988