The Defenders

American television program

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contribution by Schaffner
- In Franklin J. Schaffner
  …episodes of the weekly series The Defenders.
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history of television in the U.S.
- In Television in the United States: Escapism
  …1961–66) and the courtroom drama The Defenders (CBS, 1961–65)—were given high priority at the networks after the speech.
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Klugman
- In Jack Klugman
  …and his recurring role on The Defenders earned him an Emmy Award in 1964. In 1970 he was cast as the carefree and disorderly sports journalist Oscar Madison in the television adaptation of Neil Simon’s play The Odd Couple; he had earlier replaced Walter Matthau in the role in the…
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Voight
- In Jon Voight
  …television shows as Naked City, The Defenders, Coronet Blue, and Gunsmoke. Voight’s first film appearance was in the title role of the low-budget Fearless Frank (1967), and he had a small part in John Sturges’s Hour of the Gun (1967) before he was cast in the Academy Award winner
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