Public Defender, Vol. 7

American actor Reed Hadley rose to brief fame on the basis of starring roles in two very similar CBS television series - the 1951-3 RACKET SQUAD (as a police officer, Captain John Braddock) and the legal drama THE PUBLIC DEFENDER (1954-55), as attorney Bart Matthews. Episodes of PUBLIC DEFENDER generally found Bart aiding one client or another unjustly accused of a crime, each of whom (hence the public defender title) couldn't afford ordinary legal representation. This box set contains four classic 30-minute episodes of the program: THE UNFIT MOTHER, with Matthews assisting a young woman whose child had been taken by the state; THE MODERN FAGIN, about a man who pays teenagers to commit robberies for him; THE MAN WHO COULDN'T REMEMBER, about a poor fellow thrown into jail for a hold-up he didn't commit; and EIGHT OUT OF ONE-HUNDRED about a wealthy creep who has a young woman arraigned on false charges after she rejects his advances.