Public Defender S01E07 Behind Bars

1.07 [--] Public Defender: BEHIND BARS [CK] [verified -RF]

22-Apr-1954

Produced by Hal Roach Jr. & Carroll Case
Teleplay by David Dortort
Directed by Erle Kenton
Director of photography Jack MacKenzie

Reed Hadley (as Bart Matthews)

Joan Camden ......... Ginny
King Donovan ........ Redmond
Coulter Irwin ....... Tom
Don Beddoe .......... Warden
Douglas Henderson ... Bill
Phil Chambers ....... Dr. Pollard
Jesslyn Fax ......... Mrs. Bassett

Synopsis:
Matthews tries to get a young mother pardoned from a prison term. [RF]

Episode Information Courtesy:
ctva.biz/US/Legal/PublicDefender.htm



Series Premise:
The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley (1911-1974) as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 1955, a season and a half. When this series was created by Mort R. Lewis and Sam Shayon, the concept of the public defender was little known in the United States except in capital cases. The Public Defender purportedly based each episode on true cases, and each segment closes with a tribute to a public defender. Hadley portrays the stoic but driven public defender Bart Matthews, whose clients cannot otherwise afford expensive legal representation.

Series Info Courtesy:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Public_Defender_(TV_series)