Scripts and Set Plans for the Television Series The Defenders, 1962-1965 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.
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Language of Material: English.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], The Defenders Scripts and Set Plans (Collection PASC 129). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

Processing Information

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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 964466 

Biographical / Historical

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.

Scope and Contents

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.

Related Material

Paramount Television records (Collection PASC 171). Available at UCLA Library Special Collections, UCLA.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Television scripts.
Television -- Production and direction -- Archives.

box 1

ALONG CAME A SPIDER, . 31 2/24/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: Peter Stone.
box 2

APOSTLE, THE, . 45 8/6/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: Stanley R. Greenberg.
box 1

AVENGER, THE, . 37 4/26/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: James Lee.
box 1

BLOOD COUNTY, . 33 3/9/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: Ernest Kinoy. Director: Buzz Kulik.
box 1

BROKEN BARRELHEAD, . 32 3/2/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: David Karp.
box 7

BUMS' RUSH, THE, . 131 3/11/1965

Scope and Content

Writer: Alvin Boretz.
box 5

COMEBACK, . 107 6/15/1964

Scope and Content

Writers: Reginald Rose, Edward DeBlasio.
box 5

CONFLICT OF INTERESTS, . 108 6/23/1964

Scope and Content

Writers: Reginald Rose, Ellen M. Violett.
box 6

DEATH ON WHEELS, . 119 11/3/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: George Bellak.
box 2

DEATH TAKES THE STAND, . 42 6/13/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: David Davidson
box 3

DRINK LIKE A LADY, . 90 1/2/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: Ellen M. Violett
box 3

EYE OF FEAR, THE, . 54 11/6/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: Stanley R. Greenberg.
box 6

EYEWITNESS, . 116 10/6/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: David Karp.
box 4

FADE AWAY, . 94 2/12/1964

box 4

FINE LINE, THE, . 99 4/1/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: Harold Gast. Director: Buzz Kulik.
box 6

FIRES OF THE MIND, . 122 12/3/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: Arnold Manoff.
box 5

GO-BETWEEN, . 111 7/21/1964

Scope and Content

Writers: Larry Cohen, Reginald Rose.
box 1

GRANDMA TNT, . 38 5/2/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: David Karp.
box 5

HERO OF THE PEOPLE, . 106 5/20/1964

Scope and Content

Writers: Rod Sylvester, William Woolfolk.
box 4

HIDDEN FURY, THE, . 93 2/3/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: George Baxt.
box 2

HIDDEN JUNGLE, THE, . 40 5/7/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: Stanley R. Greenberg.
box 5

HOLLOW TRIUMPH, . 102 4/30/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: Howard Fast
box 3

HOUR BEFORE DOOMSDAY, THE, . 56 11/28/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: William Woolfolk
box 7

IMPEACHMENT, . 126 1/21/1965

Scope and Content

Writer: Stanley R. Greenberg.
box 1

INDELIBLE SILENCE, THE, . 36 3/14/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: Charles Garment
box 2

KILL OR BE KILLED, . 47 8/24/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: Larry Cohen.
box 5

KING OF THE HILL, . 110 7/1/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: Robert J. Crean.
box 3

LAST ILLUSION, THE, . 57 12/7/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: William Woolfolk
box 2

MADMAN, . 41 6/4/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: Robert Thom.
box 2

MAN AGAINST HIMSELF, A, . 48 9/7/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: Raphael Hayes.
box 6

MAN WHO, THE, . 113 9/1/1964

Scope and Content

Writers: Reginald Rose, Ernest Kinoy.
box 7

MATTER OF LAW AND DISORDER, A, . 128 2/10/1965

Scope and Content

Writer: Roger H. Lewis.
box 7

MERRY-GO-ROUND MENDER, THE, . 124 12/30/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: Robert J. Crean.
box 3

METAMORPHOSIS, . 55 11/1/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: Stanley R. Greenberg.
box 4

MIND OVER MURDER, . 97 3/11/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: Roger H. Lewis
box 4

MOMENT OF TRUTH, . 92 1/21/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: David Karp
box 3

MURDER MINUS ONE, . 89 12/5/1963

box 1

NAKED HEIRESS, THE, . 29 1/23/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: Alvin Boretz.
box 7

NO-KNOCK, . 123 12/15/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: Peter A. Chilles. Director: Daniel Petrie.
box 7

NOBODY ASKS WHAT SIDE YOU'RE ON.., . 125 1/7/1965

Scope and Content

Writer: Ellen M. Violett.
box 4

NON-VIOLENT, THE, . 100 4/10/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: Ernest Kinoy
box 6

OBJECTOR, THE, . 121 11/23/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: Harold Gast.
box 7

ONLY A CHILD, . 132 3/22/1965

Scope and Content

Writer: Ellen M. Violett.
box 3

ORDEAL, . 52 11/11/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: David Shaw.
box 3

PILL MAN, THE, . 88 11/25/1963

Scope and Content

Writers: Charles Eckert, Albert Ruben
box 2

POISONED FRUIT DOCTRINE, . 50 9/19/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: A.J. Russell
box 2

POLTERGEIST, . 51 10/8/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: Reginald Rose.
box 1

REUNION WITH DEATH, . 30 2/13/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: David Shaw.
box 2

SAVAGE INFANT, THE, . 49 8/17/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: David Karp.
box 3

SECRET, THE, . 86 11/11/1963

Scope and Content

Writer: Larry Cohen.
box 5

SIEGE, THE, . 112 7/30/1964

Scope and Content

Writers: Bo Goldman, Ian McLellan Hunter.
box 1

SEVEN GHOSTS OF SIMON GRAY, . 34 3/23/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: Stanley R. Greenberg.
box 6

SILENT KILLER, . 118 10/22/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: Martin Donaldson, William Woolfolk. Directed by Daniel Petrie.
box 4

SIXTH ALARM, THE, . 98 3/23/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: William Woolfolk
box 4

STOWAWAY, . 101 4/3/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: Edward DeBlasio
box 4

SURVIVAL, . 91 1/10/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: William Woolfolk
box 7

SWORN TWELVE, THE, . 127 2/1/1965

Scope and Content

Writer: Edward DeBlasio.
box 3

TASTE OF ASHES, A, . 87 11/19/1963

Scope and Content

Writers: Reginald Rose, David W. Rintels.
box 4

THIEF, THE, . 95 2/21/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: Robert J. Crean
box 2

TILL DEATH DO YOU PART, . 43 5/22/1962

box 3

TRAITOR, THE, . 53 10/24/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: Larry Cohen
box 5

TURNING POINT, . 109 6/29/1964

Scope and Content

Writers: Reginald Rose, James Lee.
box 5

UNCIVIL WAR, THE, . 103 5/8/1964

box 1

UNWANTED, THE, . 39 5/11/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: Robert Thom.
box 6

UNWRITTEN LAW, THE, . 120 11/23/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: Larry Cohen.
box 6

VOICE LOUD AND CLEAR, A, . 115 9/23/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: Robert J. Crean
box 1

VOICES OF DEATH, THE, . 35 3/9/1962

Scope and Content

Writer: Reginald Rose.
box 6

WHIPPING BOY, . 117 10/15/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: Edward DeBlasio.
box 6

WHITEWASH, . 114 9/11/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: Roger H. Lewis.
box 4

YANKEE COME HOME, . 96 2/28/1964

Scope and Content

Writer: Albert Ruben
box 7

YOUTHS AND MAIDENS ON AN EVENING WALK, . 129 2/19/1965

Scope and Content

Writer: Robert J. Crean.