August 11, 2008

"It's lawyers, but, you know... they really care"

Courtesy of "Mad Men," a show I didn't know about, possibly because when it went off the air, I was 4: "The Defenders":

The Defenders was American television's seminal legal drama, and perhaps the most socially-conscious series the medium has ever seen... The series concerned the cases of a father-and-son team of defense attorneys, Lawrence Preston (E.G. Marshall), the sharp veteran litigator, and his green and idealistic son Kenneth (Robert Reed)... Certainly The Defenders exploited the inherent drama of the courtroom, but it did so by mining the complexity of the law, its moral and ethical implications, and its human dimensions...

2 Comments:

Petition For Review said...

Boston Legal had an episode that used snippets from an episode of "The Defenders." It was really well done from what I remember.

Petition For Review said...

Forgot the link. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394920/