Flashgear
Senior HTF Member
Neil Brock, I would value your reviews of season 2 - 4 Defenders episodes if you would care to share them with us...it would also be a good way to keep this thread going...have you viewed them full run at UCLA or elsewhere? I myself have some derived from multi-gen video dupes originating from those long ago, limited, Armed Forces TV airings...almost too painful to watch because of terrible video and audio drop outs...and I was far too young during the original network run to have any comprehensive memories of any particular episode...
J. D. Cannon had several effective and memorable scenes in season 1...in an episode like "The last six months" , an episode I otherwise thought ordinairy, he is the best thing about it...staging a brilliant scene with Robert Reed during a plea deal argument...one of my favorite ADA's of season 1, along with Kermit Murdock...Cannon is also brilliant in "The Attack"...
Ruth Roman could certainly portray an understated and ambiguous sense of menace...that same 1962 - 63 season, she's great in the Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode "What really happened?", directed by Jack Smight, who along with Stuart Rosenberg directed some of my favorite season 1 Defenders episodes...the young Dustin Hoffman was certainly getting more NYC based TV credits that season...he's a hood memorably shot on the street early on by Steven Hill in the very last Naked City episode aired "Barefoot on a bed of coals"...I would guess that Naked City gave him his first credit on 1961's "Sweet prince of Delancy street"...
Neil Brock, as I remember you saying that you might have preferred a select "best of" release of The Defenders rather than only the complete first season release we thankfully have, with the rest in question... and the fact that the show only got stronger as it emerged from it's premiere season... I hope you continue to venture your thoughts on the show...
Let's keep this thread going...and keep hope alive for seasons 2, 3, and 4 of The Defenders...
J. D. Cannon had several effective and memorable scenes in season 1...in an episode like "The last six months" , an episode I otherwise thought ordinairy, he is the best thing about it...staging a brilliant scene with Robert Reed during a plea deal argument...one of my favorite ADA's of season 1, along with Kermit Murdock...Cannon is also brilliant in "The Attack"...
Ruth Roman could certainly portray an understated and ambiguous sense of menace...that same 1962 - 63 season, she's great in the Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode "What really happened?", directed by Jack Smight, who along with Stuart Rosenberg directed some of my favorite season 1 Defenders episodes...the young Dustin Hoffman was certainly getting more NYC based TV credits that season...he's a hood memorably shot on the street early on by Steven Hill in the very last Naked City episode aired "Barefoot on a bed of coals"...I would guess that Naked City gave him his first credit on 1961's "Sweet prince of Delancy street"...
Neil Brock, as I remember you saying that you might have preferred a select "best of" release of The Defenders rather than only the complete first season release we thankfully have, with the rest in question... and the fact that the show only got stronger as it emerged from it's premiere season... I hope you continue to venture your thoughts on the show...
Let's keep this thread going...and keep hope alive for seasons 2, 3, and 4 of The Defenders...
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