Before he played Mike Brady on the U.S. TV sitcom "The Brady Bunch", Robert Reed played an attorney on which legal U.S. drama?

From 1961 to 1965, Robert Reed portrayed Kenneth Preston on the popular legal drama "The Defenders". He worked alongside E. G. Marshall. He later went on to become best known as the husband and dad Mike Brady. He worked opposite Florence Henderson who was Carol Brady on the ABC sitcom "The Brady Bunch", which aired from 1969 to 1974.

The show was about a blended family living in the 1970s. There were six kids, two parents and one housekeeper. They made up the Brady clan. They never let a minor setback get in the way of their wholesome outlook on life. It was a wholesome family from the start. Single mother Carol found love and marriage with single father Mike Brady to be the best thing for him, her, and all their kids. To help keep them focused, there was Ann B. Davis who starred as the Bradys' goofy housekeeper, Alice.

"The Defenders" was a CBS courtroom drama series that ran in the early 1960s. On this show, E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed were father-and-son defense attorneys. They specialized in handling legally complex cases. Their clients included defendants who were: neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, demonstrators of the Civil Rights Movement, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, a physician charged in a mercy killing, and others. Robert Reed as Kenneth Preston fought for morality and justice. He didn't always win his cases. Law is the subject that propelled the series.