Public Defender S01E19 A Call In The Night

1.19 [--] Public Defender: CALL IN THE NIGHT [CK]

15-Jul-1954

Starring: Reed Hadley (as Bart Matthew)

Barbara Whiting ..... Elly Black
Claudia Barrett ..... Sue Bennett
Robert Patten ....... Don
Gloria Donovan ...... Cora
James Flavin ........ Jim Black
Sally Fraser ........ Peg Whitney
Harold Goodwin ...... Police Officer
Tom Irish ........... Chuck
Ruth Lee ............ Alice Black

Synopsis:
Matthews aids a teenage girl involved in a hit-and-run case. [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)