season (its final season), the show was taped from Opryland's Gaslight Theatre. PUB LIC DEFENDER---65 EPISODES---$35.00--- 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 on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 1955