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The Defender (Studio One)

Directed by Robert Mulligan

Starring Ralph Bellamy, Martin Balsam

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.