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The Defenders

1961–1965CBSDrama

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A father-and-son legal practice taking cases the era's networks were not supposed to broadcast — abortion, blacklisting, euthanasia.

The Defenders opens with a main title sequence of 43 seconds.

It arrived on CBS in 1961, when Candid Camera, Guiding Light and As the World Turns were also on the network.

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The opening titles

Season 1

43s

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