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Defenders Television Series - Scripts and Set Plans
PASC.0129
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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title:
The Defenders scripts and set plans
Identifier/Call Number: PASC.0129
Physical Description:
3 Linear Feet
(7 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1962-1965
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.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access
special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on
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Language of Material:
English.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in
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Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
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.
[Identification of item],
The Defenders Scripts and Set Plans
(Collection PASC 129). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library,
UCLA.
Processed by UCLA staff, 2004.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
964466
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.
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.
Paramount Television records (Collection PASC 171). Available at UCLA Library Special
Collections, UCLA.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Television scripts.
Television -- Production and direction -- Archives.