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Perry Mason Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - The Case of the Restless Redhead

First aired: Sep/21/1957
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Whitney Blake (Evelyn Bagby), Vaughn Taylor (Mr. Boles (Lewis Boles)), Jane Buchanan (Mrs. Boles), Ralph Clanton (Aldritch (Mervyn Aldritch)), Dick Rich (Sgt. Holcomb), Gloria Henry (Helene Chaney), Grandon Rhodes (Judge Kippen), Clark Howat (Policeman), Norman Leavitt (Mr. Redfield), Jack Gargan (Court Clerk), Lorraine Martin (Drake's Operator), Helen Mayon (Mary Thompson)

Perry receive a call from a frantic Evelyn Bagby who claims she was chased by a hooded man in a car and fired two shots in his direction to scare him away. Upon arriving on the scene, Perry finds the police recovering the body of Harry Merrill who went over the side of a cliff in a car. Merrill's body contains two bullet wounds.



2 :01x02 - The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece

First aired: Sep/28/1957
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: John McNamara (Peter Cole), Hillary Brooke (Doris Cole), John Archer (Frank Maddox), Nancy Hadley (Edna Hammer), Darryl Hickman (Steve Harris), Helen Mowery (Lucille Mays), Thomas Browne Henry (Ralph Duncan), Harry Hickox (Phillip Kendall), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge), Tony Michaels (Jackson), Clark Howat (Policeman), Fred Graham (Sheriff), Joey Ray (Detective), Jack W. Harris (Court Clerk (as Jack Harris))

Perry defends chronic sleepwalker Peter Cole who's charged with the murder of his step-brother.



3 :01x03 - The Case of the Nervous Accomplice

First aired: Oct/05/1957
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Margaret Hayes (Sybil Granger), Richard Hale (George Lutz), Greta Thyssen (Roxy Howard), William Roerick (Bruce Granger), Robert Cornthwaite (Herbert Dean), Jean Howell (Vinnie Dean), James Gavin (Jerome Keddie), Norman Leavitt (Alexander Redfield), Claudia Bryar (Ruth Marvel), Morris Ankrum (Judge), Tyler McVey (Sam Elkins), Robert Bice (Hurley), George Eldredge (Fenton Thompson), Gail Bonney (Harriet), Sam Flint (Mr. Rector), Jack W. Harris (Court Clerk (as Jack Harris))

Sybil Granger attempts to buy stock in her estranged husband's oil company in order to force his new lover out of the picture, but she ends up getting charged with the murder of a business rival.



4 :01x04 - The Case of the Drowning Duck

First aired: Oct/12/1957
Writer: Al C. Ward
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Carol Kelly (Lois Reed), Victor Sutherland (Clyde Waters), Carolyn Craig (Helen Waters), Don Beddoe (George Norris), Paula Winslowe (Martha Norris (as Paula Winslow)), Gary Vinson (Marv Adams), Harry Landers (Donald Briggs), Olive Blakeney (Mrs. Adams), Rusty Lane (Chief Glass), Tom London (Cabbie), Philip Tonge (Cortland), Joe Forte (Dr. Creel), Helen G Hatch (Secretary (as Helen Hatch)), Clifford Botelho (Pedro), Nolan Leary (Judge Meeham)

A sleazy private eye discovers that his client's prospective son-in-law is the son of a man executed for murder 18 years ago. When the detective turns up murdered, the fiancee is charged with the crime after being seen arguing with the sleuth the previous evening.



5 :01x05 - The Case of the Sulky Girl

First aired: Oct/19/1957
Writer: Harold Swanton
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Olive Sturgess (Fran Celane (as Olive Sturgis)), William Schallert (Graves (Donald Graves)), Lillian Bronson (Clara (Clara Mayfield)), Robert Griffin (Crinston (Arthur Crinston)), Connie Cezon (Gertie), Brian G. Hutton (Rod Gleason (as Brian Hutton)), Raymond Greenleaf (Norton (Edward Norton)), Howard Wendell (Judge Purley (Brian C. Purley)), Paul Bryar (Sgt. Wilbur), Frank Wilcox (Judge Markham), Bob Kline (Officer Delaney), Larry Thor (Police Surgeon), Jack Gargan (Court Clerk), Dick Winslow (Reporter (Andy))

Francis Celane feels that her uncle, Edward Norton, is being too restrictive towards her. Under terms of her father's will she cannot marry until her 25th birthday so she asks Perry to try to break this clause. Perry soon has to come to the aid of Fran's fiancee, Rod Gleason, when three witnesses claim they saw him leave the house where a murdered Edward Norton's body was found.



6 :01x06 - The Case of the Silent Partner

First aired: Oct/26/1957
Writer: Donald S. Sanford
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Peggy Maley (Lola Florey), Dan Seymour (Harry Marlow), Anne Barton (Mildred Kimber), Mark Roberts (Bob Kimber), Cyril Delevanti (Tulloch), Michael Emmet (Sam Lynk), Joe Abdullah (Mack Fried), Henry Hunter (Dr. Rubin), Dawn Richard (Ginger Kay), James McCallion (Veteran Reporter (Smitty, as Jimmy McCallion)), Janet Stewart (Girl Reporter), Dan Sheridan (Welsh), Ed Stevlingson (Henry), Jann Darlyn (Miss Carling), Charles Franc (Mr. Curtis), Joe Quinn (Fire Chief), Don Anderson (Policeman), Dick Geary (Interne)

A crooked card game in which a business owner is cheated out of his share of the company soon leads to a murder.



7 :01x07 - The Case of the Angry Mourner

First aired: Nov/02/1957
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Sylvia Field (Belle Adrian), James Westerfield (Sheriff Elmore), Joan Weldon (Marion Keats), Paul Fix (District Attorney Hale), Dorothy Adams (Betsy Burris), Malcolm Atterbury (Sam Burris), Barbara Eden (Carla Adrian), Peter Nelson (Harvey Delano), Eve McVeagh (Nora Fleming), Addison Richards (George Lansing), Eric Sinclair (Mark Cushing), Harry Tyler (Court Clerk), William Boyett (Motorcycle Cop)

Playboy Mark Cushing has a major infatuation with a woman, Carla Adrian, which she does not reciprocate. Then one night a neighbor hears a shot and a woman's scream in Cushing's cabin. The amorous playboy is found murdered and Carla's mother is charged with the crime.



8 :01x08 - The Case of the Crimson Kiss

First aired: Nov/09/1957
Writer: Joel Murcott, Walter Doniger, Milton Geiger
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Howard Culver (Dr. Hawley), Jean Willes (Anita Bonsal), Frank Wilcox (Judge), John Holland (Carver Clement), Douglas Dick (Dane Grover), Joi Lansing (Vera Payson), Douglas Evans (Don Ralston), Frances Bavier (Louise Marlow), Sue England (Fay Allison), Gloria McGehee (Shirley Tanner), Connie Cezon (Gertie)

About to be married Fay Allison is charged with the murder of a man with whom her roommate was having an affair. It seems as though the police found Fay's fingerprints on a glass in the man's apartment.



9 :01x09 - The Case of the Vagabond Vixen

First aired: Nov/16/1957
Writer: Al C. Ward
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: James Anderson (Peter Handsell), Pierre Watkin (Judge), Paul Cavanagh (Edgar Ferrell), Robert Carson (Sgt. Brent), Peggy Converse (Myrtle Northrup), Barbara Pepper (Mrs. Dale), Robert Ellenstein (John Addison), Russell Trent (Neff), Catherine McLeod (Lorraine Ferrell), Carolyn Leigh (Veronica Dale)

Hollywood producer John Addison pulls a bone when he picks up a hot chick who's hitchhiking. She's actually a blackmailer and a witness to a murder that Addison is later charged with.



10 :01x10 - The Case of the Runaway Corpse

First aired: Nov/23/1957
Writer: Malvin Wald, Jack Jacobs
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: William Challee (Medford), Michael Fox (Dr. Hoxie), Rebecca Welles (Rita Norge), Adam Williams (Jason Beckmeyer), Edwin Jerome (Judge), Sarah Selby (Louise Ansell), John Stephenson (Ed Davenport), James Maloney (Dr. Renault), June Dayton (Myrna Davenport), Martha Wentworth (Motel Manager), Jack W. Harris (Court Clerk), Robin Morse (Dr. Mitchell), Keith Alan (Officer Bloom), Jack Kenny (Kenny)

Ed Davenport falls ill on a business trip. When he calls a doctor he claims his wife poisoned him with candy. The doctor then calls the police but when they arrive Davenport's corpse is missing. Later, when Davenport's corpse is found in a shallow grave, his wife Myrna is charge with the murder.



11 :01x11 - The Case of the Crooked Candle

First aired: Nov/30/1957
Writer: Robert Tallman
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Henry Corden (Nikolides), Doris Singleton (Rita Bradford), Francis McDonald (Capt. Noble), Nancy Gates (Martha Bradford), Whit Bissell (Larry Sands), Frank Wilcox (Judge), Hal Taggart (Clerk), Robert Clarke (Jack Harper), Helene Santley (Receptionist)

At a beauty parlor, Martha Bradford meets another woman who claims to be married to a man with the same name as Martha's husband. Then Martha's husband is found murdered on his boat and she is accused of murder when her fingerprints are found on a candle located on board the boat.



12 :01x12 - The Case of the Negligent Nymph

First aired: Dec/07/1957
Writer: Richard Grey
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: John Cliff (Hess), Joan Banks (Karen Alder), James Griffith (Arthur Dorian), Forrest Lewis (Dr. Murray), Robert Tafur (Martinez), James Nusser (Judge), Peggie Castle (Sally Fenner), David Lewis (George Alder), Nadia Posey (Nina Santos)

Perry Mason and Paul Drake are on a fishing trip when they spot a young woman named Sally Fenner being pursued by vicious guard dogs on an island estate. Sally has to swim for it in order to avoid being chewed up by the canines. Perry and Paul fish her out of the drink and the attorney ends up defending Sally on a murder charge.



13 :01x13 - The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink

First aired: Dec/14/1957
Writer: Ben Starr, Laurence Marks
Director: Ted Post
Guest star: Roxanne Arlen (Mae Nolan), Douglas Kennedy (Sgt. Jaffrey), Grandon Rhodes (Judge), Than Wyenn (Frank Hoxie), Robert Osterloh (Morey Allen), Kay Faylen (Dixie Dayton), Connie Cezon (Gertie), Marc Krah (George Fayette)

A restauranteur and his waitress/galpal are charged with murdering a man who was stalking the damsel. Perry takes the case and finds that it ties in with the murder of a young policeman a few months before.



14 :01x14 - The Case of the Baited Hook

First aired: Dec/21/1957
Writer: Richard Grey
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Willard Sage (Robert Dawson), George N. Neise (Albert Tydings), Lyle Latell (Officer), Geraldine Wall (Abigail Leeds), Alfred Hopson (Richard Ellis), Maurice McEndree (Operative), Frank Marlowe (Janitor), Judith Braun (Carol Stanley), Mary Castle (Enid Shaw), Connie Cezon (Gertie), Peg Whitman (Receptionist)

Carol Stanley is accused of murdering the embezzler who took $80,000 from her trust account.



15 :01x15 - The Case of the Fan-Dancer's Horse

First aired: Dec/28/1957
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Robert Bice (Faulkner), Herbert Lytton (Dr. Lambert), Hugh Sanders (John Callender), James Nolan (Meeker), Sydney Smith (Judge), Judy Tyler (Cherie Chi-Chi), Minerva Urecal (Landlady), Rusty Wescoatt (Sgt. Holcomb), Susan Cummings (Lois Fenton), John Brinkley (Jasper Fenton), Scott Elliott (Arthur Sheldon)

Perry and Della witness an automobile accident which later leads Perry into defending an exotic dancer charged with murder.



16 :01x16 - The Case of the Demure Defendant

First aired: Jan/04/1958
Writer: Richard Grey, Ben Brady
Director: László Benedek
Guest star: Joseph Mell (Stand Owner), Christine White (Nadine Marshall), Maurice Manson (Dr. Granby), John Mitchum (Operative), Barry Atwater (Dr. Denair), Ashley Cowan (Messenger), Walter Coy (Lester Newburn), Sherwood Price (Jon Locke), Clem Bevans (Captain Hugo), Morris Ankrum (Judge), Steven Geray (Korbell), Rickie Sorensen (Arthur Lindner), Paul Hahn (Ballistics Man), Lei Lani Sorenson (Girl), Alexander Campbell (Wellman), Fay Baker (Marion Newburn), Jack W. Harris (Court Clerk), Connie Cezon (Gertie), Lida Piazzo (Miss Wilson)

This one's a toughie because Perry's client made a taped confession that she poisoned her uncle.



17 :01x17 - The Case of the Sun Bather's Diary

First aired: Jan/11/1958
Writer: Gene Wang
Director: Ted Post
Guest star: Susan Morrow (Arlene Dowling), Carl Betz (Dr. Chandler), Gertrude Michael (Helen Rucker), Peter Leeds (Bill Emory), Connie Cezon (Gertie), Ralph Moody (George Ballard), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge), Paul Brinegar (Tom Sackett), Walter Reed (Detective Myers), Nesdon Booth (Hartsel), Jon Locke (Sam Elliott), John Pickard (Sergeant Neil)

Arlene Dowling approaches Perry for help in retrieving her diary which was stolen when she was sunbathing. Things take a turn for the worse when Arlene gets charged with murder.



18 :01x18 - The Case of the Cautious Coquette

First aired: Jan/18/1958
Writer: Gene Wang, Leo Townsend
Director: László Benedek
Guest star: Virginia Gregg (Sheila Cromwell), James Seay (Ross Hollister), Ralph Sanford (Pat), Ed Hinton (Sheriff Daley), Harry Jackson (Harry Pitkin), Weaver Levy (Jimmy), Brett Halsey (Robert Finchley), Sydney Smith (Judge), Sidney Clute (Frederick Arms), Kipp Hamilton (Elaine Barton), Chet Stratton (Bates), Paul Hahn (Sgt. Davis), Donald Randolph (Steven Argyle), Stephen Ellsworth (Sgt. Kenny)

Perry's obstacles in this one: murder, hit-and-run, a secret marriage, and a missing witness.



19 :01x19 - The Case of the Haunted Husband

First aired: Jan/25/1958
Writer: Gene Wang
Guest star: Herb Vigran (Charlie (Bartender)), Fredd Wayne (Ernie Tanner), Sydney Smith (Judge), Karen Steele (Doris Stephanak), Helen Westcott (Marcia Greeley), Grant Richards (Jerry Heywood), John Hubbard (Michael Greeley), Harlan Warde (Harold Hanley), Patricia Hardy (Claire Olger), Jack Gargan (Court Clerk)

Hitchhiking Claire Olger is picked up by a drunk driver and ends up being charged with his murder after the man is discovered dead in her motel room.



20 :01x20 - The Case of the Lonely Heiress

First aired: Feb/01/1958
Writer: Donald S. Sanford
Director: László Benedek
Guest star: L. Q. Jones (Charles Barnaby), Robert H. Harris (Edmund Lacey), Gail Kobe (Marge), Frank Wilcox (Judge), Robert Williams (LIeutenant), Kathleen Crowley (Marilyn Cartwright), Robert McQueeney (Dr. Palmer), Anna Navarro (Delores Cotero), Richard Crane (George Moore), Betty Lou Gerson (Agnes Sims)

Heiress Marilyn Cartright is looking for the con man who swindled and drove her sister to suicide. She finds him in Charles "Country Boy" Barnaby but when Barnaby is found poisoned to death the police theory is that Marilyn killed him as an act of revenge.



21 :01x21 - The Case of the Green-Eyed Sister

First aired: Feb/08/1958
Writer: Richard Grey
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Dennis King (Dr. Hanover), Charles Tannen (Night Clerk), Virginia Vincent (Harriet Bain), Dan Riss (Arthur West), Morris Ankrum (Judge), Carl Benton Reid (Ned Bain), James Bell (J. J. Stanley), Robin Hughes (Addison Doyle), Tina Carver (Sylvia Bain), Alan Gifford (Dr. Fisher), Leonard Bell (Taxi Driver), Jack Gargan (Court Clerk), Connie Cezon (Gertie)

Harriet Bain is desperate to protect her father's reputation so she involves Perry and Company in a case involving blackmail, embezzlement, and murder.



22 :01x22 - The Case of the Fugitive Nurse

First aired: Feb/15/1958
Writer: Gene Wang, Al C. Ward
Director: László Benedek
Guest star: Dabbs Greer (Dave Kirby), Larry J. Blake (Smith), Jeanette Nolan (Mrs. Kirby), Owen Cunningham (Judge), Bethel Leslie (Janet Norris), Helen Brown (Mrs. Strome), Lee Roberts (Detective Jacks), Gil Frye (Marshall), Arthur Hanson (Lt. Brewer), Shepperd Strudwick (Dr. Norris), Maxine Cooper (Gladys Strome), Al Lettieri (Arthur Strome), Sydney Mason (Detective Ralston), Woody Chambliss (Phil Reese), George Davis (Frederick)

Janet Norris is charged with poisoning her doctor husband just before his death in the crash of a private plane but further investigation reveals that the doctor is still alive and well in Mexico and that the victim was one Dave Kirby.



23 :01x23 - The Case of the One-Eyed Witness

First aired: Feb/22/1958
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Paul Picerni (Charles Gallagher), Richard Benedict (Steve Daniels), Jan Arvan (Pierre), Vincent Perry (Judge), Sam Gilman (George Danvers), Eve Miller (Nora Kelly), Angie Dickinson (Marian Fargo), Dorothy Green (Diana Maynard), Luis Van Rooten (Samuel Carlin), Peter Adams (Arthur Fargo)

Marian Fargo has an alibi after she's charged with the murders of her husband and a man who was blackmailing her. But the alibi witness has only one good eye and might not be telling the truth about who she is.



24 :01x24 - The Case of the Deadly Double

First aired: Mar/01/1958
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Guest star: Carole Mathews (Cora Dunbar), Pierre Watkin (Judge), Denver Pyle (Robert Crane), George E. Stone (George), Paul Langton (Harry Vance), Clark Howat (Sgt. Grant), Murray Hamilton (John Davis Hale), Constance Ford (Helen Reed/Joyce Martel), Carleton G. Young (David Reed), Abraham Sofaer (Dr. Maitland), Carlyle Mitchell (Dr. Desmond)

A man is charged with the murder of his sister's estranged husband. Unfortunately, the sister suffers from multiple personality disorder and her alter ego is needed as a witness to clear her brother of the charge.



25 :01x25 - The Case of the Empty Tin

First aired: Mar/08/1958
Writer: Seeleg Lester
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Guest star: Warren Stevens (Alan Neil), Otto Waldis (John Lowell), Frank Wilcox (Judge), Benson Fong (Gow Long), Anthony Jochim (Elston Carr), Toni Gerry (Doris Hocksley), Olive Deering (Rebecca Gentrie), Bert Holland (Dr. Morton), Mary Shipp (Miriam Hocksley)

Perry has a tough row to hoe this time. It seems that his client was found inside a locked room with the murder victim.



26 :01x26 - The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife

First aired: Mar/15/1958
Writer: Stanley Niss
Director: Anton Leader
Guest star: Paul E. Burns (Richy), Jason Johnson (Judge Ellsworth), Claude Akins (Sgt. Phillip Dick), Tom Palmer (Scott Shelby), Jonathan Hole (Arthur Williams), Frederick Draper (Ted Young), Phyllis Avery (Marion Shelby), Howard Petrie (Ben Parker), Barbara Lawrence (Ellen Waring), Peter Hansen (D.A. Howard Black), Stewart Bradley (Frank Lawton)

Frank Lawton goes to visit old pal Scott Shelby and ends up getting charged with his murder. Fortunately for Lawton, Perry Mason is another old pal of his.



27 :01x27 - The Case of the Desperate Daughter

First aired: Mar/22/1958
Writer: Donald S. Sanford, Gene Wang
Director: Arthur Hiller
Guest star: Pierre Watkin (Judge), Robert F. Simon (Edward Bannister), Ivan Bonar (Detective Marlowe), Werner Klemperer (Stefan Riker), Wendell Holmes (Dr. Forbes), Gigi Perreau (Doris Bannister), Robert Williams (Detective Quincy), Paul Genge (Detective Davis), Don Durant (Gary Marshall), Osa Massen (Lisa Bannister), Patricia Mowry (Waitress), Jack Gargan (Court Clerk), Gere Craft (Helene)

Doris Bannister is accused of murdering the man who was blackmailing her stepmother.



28 :01x28 - The Case of the Daring Decoy

First aired: Mar/29/1958
Writer: Seeleg Lester
Director: Anton Leader
Guest star: Marie Windsor (Linda Griffith), H. M. Wynant (Daniel Conway), Jack Weston (Fred Calvert), Grandon Rhodes (Judge), Louise Lorimer (Miss Eastman), Donald Foster (H. B. Varnell), Jacqueline Scott (Amelia Armitage), Natalie Norwick (Mavis Jordan), Pamela Duncan (Rose Calvert), Johnny Mack Brown (Warner Griffith)

Perry gets involved in a case of corporate intrigue involving a proxy fight for an oil company that turns deadly. The case might hinge on a witness who can identify people by the type of shoes they wear.



29 :01x29 - The Case of the Hesitant Hostess

First aired: Apr/05/1958
Writer: Al C. Ward
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Fred Sherman (Albert Sanders), Ned Wever (Joe Gibbs), Robert Karnes (Detective Purvis), Les Tremayne (Fred Archer), John Alvin (Sam Walsh), June Vincent (Martha Rayburn), Karen Sharpe Kramer (Inez Kaylor), George Cisar (Wickett), Gil Frye (Detective Faulkner), Robin Raymond (Secretary), Mike Mason (Larry Coles), Betty Utey (Kim Lane)

The solution to this case hinges on a heroin ring operating out of a dance hall as Perry once again defends an old friend charged with murder.



30 :01x30 - The Case of the Screaming Woman

First aired: Apr/26/1958
Writer: Dick Stenger, Gene Wang
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Guest star: Ruta Lee (Connie Cooper), Karin Booth (Susan Marshall), Marian Seldes (Mary K. Davis), Philip Ober (Ralph Davis), Berry Kroeger (Eugene Jarech), Jeanne Bates (Miss Clay), Morris Ankrum (Judge), Dick Ryan (Hill), Josephine Hutchinson (Leona Walsh), Arthur Shields (Dr. Barnes)

Nasty gossip columnist Mary K. Davis is found murdered and there's no shortage of suspects but when the wrong one is charged it's Perry to the rescue once again.



31 :01x31 - The Case of the Fiery Fingers

First aired: May/03/1958
Writer: Laurence Marks
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Charles Davis (Dr. Meecham), Fay Spain (Charlotte Lynch), Sydney Smith (Judge), Charles Lane (Dr. Williams), Mary La Roche (Vickie Braxton), Robert Burton (Dr. Fremont), Edward Norris (George Gordon), Susan Dorn (Louise Gordon), Lenore Shawcross (Nora Mae Quincy)

A nurse is charged when her wealthy employer is poisoned to death but Perry does some digging and discovers that the first wife of the deceased's husband also died of poisoning. Is the husband the real culprit or could it be someone else?



32 :01x32 - The Case of the Substitute Face

First aired: May/10/1958
Writer: Francis Cockrell
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Donald Lawton (Daniel James/Morgan Shreeve), Theodore Newton (Carl Houser), Gavin Gordon (Captain Waters), Bill Quinn (Christopher Walsh), Lurene Tuttle (Anna Houser), Frank Wilcox (Judge), Ralph Dumke (Roland Carter), Maureen Cassidy (Laura Houser), Maurice Wells (Andrew Dale), Barbara Collentine (Marta Lawrence), Joan Tabor (Evelyn Whiting)

Perry and Della are traveling on a cruise ship returning to Los Angeles from Vancouver when Carl Houser jumps overboard and is presumed drowned at sea. Houser later turns up on shore but with a bullet wound in his body. Wife Anna is charged with Houser's murder and Perry discovers that the case hinges on an income tax evasion trial in which the victim sat on the jury as well as a mysterious man wrapped in bandages on board the cruise ship.



33 :01x33 - The Case of the Long-Legged Models

First aired: May/17/1958
Writer: Seeleg Lester
Director: Anton Leader
Guest star: Ray Walker (Salesman), Peggy McCay (Stephanie Faulkner), Russell Thorson (Glenn Faulkner), Lyle Talbot (Michael Garvin Sr.), Frank Wilcox (Judge), Joe De Santis (George Castle), William Swan (Michael Garvin Jr.), Ann McCrea (Margo Garvin), Alix Talton (Eva Elliott), Jack W. Harris (Court Clerk)

Racketeer George Castle murders Las Vegas hotelier Glenn Faulkner over a gambling debt and sets his site on land inherited by Faulkner's daughter. When Castle is found murdered too, the daughter is charged with the crime.



34 :01x34 - The Case of the Gilded Lily

First aired: May/24/1958
Writer: Gene Wang, Richard Grey
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Guest star: Max Wagner (Janitor), Peggy Knudsen (Sheila Bowers), Barbara Baxley (Enid Griffin), Richard Erdman (Arthur Binney), Carleton G. Young (Dr. Parsons), Fay Roope (Judge Kyle), Wally Brown (Harry Mitchell), Mari Aldon (Anne Brent), Alan Dexter (Dr. Corley), Grant Withers (Stewart Brent), Cy Malis (Garage Attendant), Jack Gargan (Court Clerk)

Stewart Brent, the owner of Perry's office building, is charged with murdering the blackmailer who threatened to reveal juicy tidbits about his new wife's past.



35 :01x35 - The Case of the Lazy Lover

First aired: May/31/1958
Writer: Francis Cockrell
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Harry Townes (Bob Fleetwood), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge), Yvonne Craig (Patricia Faxon), Neil Hamilton (Bertrand Allred), Anna Lee (Lucille Allred), Len Hendry (Officer), James Bell (P. E. Overbrook), Frances Helm (Bernice Archer)

After shifty businessman Bertrand Allred is found dead in his car, his wife Lucille is charged with murder after she is seen walking back to the hotel from the scene of the crime.



36 :01x36 - The Case of the Prodigal Parent

First aired: Jun/07/1958
Writer: Seeleg Lester, Gene Wang
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Ann Doran (Claire Durrell), Virginia Field (Irene Collaro), Nancy Kulp (Sarah Winslow), Michael Fox (Dr. Samuel Anders), John Hoyt (Joseph Harrison), Fay Wray (Ethel Harrison), Richard Bull (Court Reporter), Terry Becker (Phillip Larkin), Chet Stratton (Alcorn), Morris Ankrum (Judge), Andra Martin (Lorraine Stevens), Herbert Rudley (George Durrell), Leo Needham (Officer Norden), Dean Casey (Detective Sanchez)

Perry is hired by a woman to defend her ex-husband on a murder charge.



37 :01x37 - The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde

First aired: Jun/14/1958
Writer: Gene Wang
Director: Roger Kay
Guest star: Phyllis Coates (Norma Carter), Jack Lomas (Sgt. Brewster), Rachel Ames (Marian Shaw), R. G. Armstrong (Matthew Bartlett), Grandon Rhodes (Judge), Jan Merlin (Tony Davis), Whitney Blake (Diana Reynolds), Francis DeSales (Dr. Rose), Irene Hervey (Helen Bartlett), Joe Dominguez (Carlos Figueroa), Ludwig Stossel (Otto Kessler), Casey Peters (Bobby Carter)

Perry's office receives a visit from a hot blonde chick who sports a most unattractive black eye. This leads into a case involving the long lost grandson of a wealthy man and murder.



38 :01x38 - The Case of the Terrified Typist

First aired: Jun/21/1958
Writer: Phillip MacDonald, Robert C. Dennis
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Guest star: James Stone (Jury Foreman), Alan Marshal (James Kincaid/Duane Jefferson), Boyd 'Red' Morgan (Muscleman), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge), Hank Patterson (Jack Gilly), Frankie Darro (Barney), Joanna Moore (Patricia Taylor), Ben Wright (Walter Lumis), Jack Raine (George Baxter), Joan Elan (Mrs. Lumis), Jack Gargan (Court Clerk), Connie Cezon (Gertie), Harald Dyrenforth (Henrich), Steve Carruthers (Duane Jefferson (the real one))

In this case, Perry's client refuses to provide the identity of a woman who could prove him innocent murder. The only ray of hope for Perry and Company in this one is a typist who disappeared suddenly from the lawyer's office.



39 :01x39 - The Case of the Rolling Bones

First aired: Jun/28/1958
Writer: Gene Wang
Director: Roger Kay
Guest star: Alan Lee (Dave Kemp), Sid Tomack (Victor Kowalski), Arthur Space (Willard Scott), Ted Stanhope (Court Clerk), Olan Soule (Teller), James Nolan (Attendant), Richard Gaines (Judge Treadwell), King Calder (Maury Lewis), Joan Camden (Donna Knox), Simon Scott (George Metcalfe), Morris Ankrum (Judge Morrissey), Kitty Kelly (Millie Foster), William Remick (Herbert Walker), Edgar Stehli (Daniel Reed), Mary Anderson (Arlene Scott), Richard Aherne (Dr. Norris), Miller Lee (State Trooper)

Perry gets his client freed from a mental institution but then has to defend him on a murder rap.



40 :02x01 - The Case of the Corresponding Corpse

First aired: Sep/20/1958
Writer: Don Brinkley, Gene Wang
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Joan Staley (Roberta Quinn), Herbert Lytton (Corby), Lillian Bronson (Judge), Owen Cunningham (Jonah Whittaker), Joan Camden (Ruth Whittaker), Ross Elliott (George Beaumont), Jeanne Cooper (Laura Beaumont), William Ching (Glenn McKay), Vaughn Taylor (Harry Folsom), Martha Wentworth (Mrs. Lyle)

Perry receives an unexpected call from George Beaumont whom he thought had died in a plane crash three years prior. Still alive, Beaumont wants to return home but when he does he gets a letter opener stuck in his back.



41 :02x02 - The Case of the Lucky Loser

First aired: Sep/27/1958
Writer: Seeleg Lester
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: John Eldredge (Thurston), Tyler MacDuff (Ted Balfour), Douglas Kennedy (Steven Boles), Richard Hale (Addison Balfour), John Bleifer (Schmidt), Patricia Medina (Harriet Balfour), Morris Ankrum (Judge), Paul Genge (Police Sergeant), Bruce Bennett (Lawrence Balfour), Heather Angel (Florence Ingle), Guy Rennie (Roger Faris), Woody Chambliss (Fred Haley)

A murder gets Perry involved in the tangled financial and personal affairs of the wealthy Balfour family.



42 :02x03 - The Case of the Pint-Sized Client

First aired: Oct/04/1958
Writer: Herman Epstein
Director: Buzz Kulik
Guest star: James Anderson (Frank Anderson), Joseph Mell (George Koch), Otto Waldis (Joseph Kolichek), Raymond Greenleaf (Judge), Robert P. Lieb (Charles Hays), Elisha Cook, Jr. (Art Crowley), Bobby Clark (Nicky Renzi), Eduardo Ciannelli (Anthony Renzi), Paul Bryar (Sgt. Bender), Nita Talbot (Iris Anderson), Than Wyenn (Eddie Merlin), Eleanor Audley (Lois Gilbert), Eddie Marr (Cagle)

When Anthony "Pop" Renzi is identified as a participant in an armed robbery from a finance company in which a man was later murdered in the aftermath. Perry steps in to clear Renzi.



43 :02x04 - The Case of the Sardonic Sergeant

First aired: Oct/11/1958
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: John Dehner (Major Lewis), Robert Armstrong (Walter Haskell), Lori March (Helen Lessing), John Archer (Major Lessing), Harry Jackson (M Sgt. William Smith), Grant Richards (Captain Kennedy), Paul Picerni (Sgt. Joseph Dexter), Wendell Holmes (Howard Evans), Barbara Luna (Rikki Stevens), Kevin Hagen (Sgt. Burke), Russell Thorson (Lt. Colonel Brice), George E. Stone (Bartender), Lee Torrance (Sgt. McKnight), Rand Harper (Lt. Walker), Hal Torey (Blake), Helene Heigh (Mrs. Agnes Haskell), Vance Howard (Court Clerk)

When a payroll officer on an Army base is found murdered, Sgt. Joseph Dexter is charged with the crime. The case hinges on a payroll robbery in the Phillippines years before. Some of the bills from that robbery had recently shown up on the base.



44 :02x05 - The Case of the Curious Bride

First aired: Oct/18/1958
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Christine White (Rhoda Reynolds), Max Showalter (Carl Reynolds (as Casey Adams)), John Hoyt (Phillip Reynolds), Michael Emmet (Arthur Kane), James Seay (Dr. Michael Harris), Dorothy Neumann (Ellen Crandall), Tommy Cook (Frank Lane), Peggy Maley (Edna Freeman), Lewis Charles (Sidney Otis), S. John Launer (Judge), James Nolan (Deputy)

Rhoda Reynolds is charged with murdering her blackmailing ex-husband. Perry then moves the trial proceedings to the room in which the victim was murdered in order to re-enact the fatal night.



45 :02x06 - The Case of the Buried Clock

First aired: Nov/01/1958
Writer: Francis Cockrell
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Paul Fix (D. A. Hale), Robert Foulk (Sheriff Elmore), Charles Cooper (Phillip Strague), Don Beddoe (Dr. Blane), Fredd Wayne (Jack Hardisty), Howard Wendell (A. J. Randall), Jeanne Bates (Jean Strague), Phil Chambers (Dr. Ritchie), Robin Hughes (Rodney Beaton), Gil Frye (Faulkner), June Dayton (June Hardisty), James Forster (Judge Norwood)

Slimy Jack Hardesty embezzles one hundred grand from his father-in-law, Dr. Blane, and then tries blackmail to shake the good doctor down for more. Perry is hired by Dr. Blane to put an end to Hardesty's shenanigans but the rotter turns up dead and the good doctor is charged with murder. Perry then uses a wildlife camera triggered by a buried clock to unmask the real killer.



46 :02x07 - The Case of the Married Moonlighter

First aired: Nov/08/1958
Writer: Gene Wang, Stanley Niss
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Olan Soule (Court Clerk), Richard Gaines (Judge), Stacy Harris (Frank Curran), Tom Palmer (George Palmer), Anne Sargent (Eileen Harrison), Jesse White (Luke Hickey), Arthur Franz (Danny Harrison), Douglas Evans (Phil McCabe), Fern Barry (Mrs. Cunningham), Frances Helm (Linda Kennedy), Carole Anderson (Model)

A moonlighting teacher is charged with murdering an acquaintance he had earlier taken home after the victim had earlier caused trouble at a diner where the teacher worked a night job.



47 :02x08 - The Case of the Jilted Jockey

First aired: Nov/15/1958
Writer: Seeleg Lester, Robert Warnes Leach
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Joe Forte (Coroner), Nolan Leary (Bob Allen), Hugh Sanders (Dion Bannon), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge), Joe Di Reda (Eddie Davis), June Vincent (Victoria Bannon), Roy Engel (Horty), Barbara Lawrence (Gloria Barton), Don Durant (Johnny Starr), Bill Pearson (Tic Barton)

Jockey Tic Barton finds himself in a full-blown mess. He's fired from his job when his horse loses a fixed race then he's charged with the murder of the man actually responsible for the fix. Plus, Tic's wife was having an affair with the murder victim. Perry might have his plow in the hard ground.



48 :02x09 - The Case of the Purple Woman

First aired: Dec/06/1958
Writer: Robert Bloomfield, Gene Wang
Director: Gerd Oswald
Guest star: Rhys Williams (Rufus Varner), Doris Singleton (Doris Andrews), Stephen Bekassy (Laslo Kovac), George MacReady (Milo Girard), Robert H. Harris (Aaron Hubble), Edwin Jerome (Judge), Bethel Leslie (Evelyn Girard), Donald Murphy (Wayne Gordon), Shirley Houser (Waitress)

An art dealer's wife is charged with murdering her husband after he sold an art collector a forged painting of a masterpiece called the "Purple Woman."



49 :02x10 - The Case of the Fancy Figures

First aired: Dec/13/1958
Writer: Barry Trivers, Gene Wang
Director: Arthur Hiller
Guest star: William Phipps (Martin Ellis), Joan Banks (Valerie Brewster), Ralph Clanton (Charles Brewster), Harvey Stephens (Victor Squires), Frank Silvera (Jonathan Hyatt), S. John Launer (Judge), Anne Barton (Carolyn Ellis), Chuck Webster (Sgt. Brice), Ray Kellogg (Richard Hyatt), David McMahon (Walter Vico), Leslie Kimmell (Mailman)

Martin Ellis is sent to jail for embezzlement but his wife manages to discover evidence that the real thief was Charles Brewster. Ellis is freed and Brewster jailed but Brewster turns up murdered after he gets out of jail on bail. Ellis is then charged with his murder.



50 :02x11 - The Case of the Perjured Parrot

First aired: Dec/20/1958
Writer: Marian Cockrell
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Howard Culver (Rufus Bolding), Jason Johnson (District Attorney R. Sprague), Edgar Buchanan (Andy Templet), Maurice Manson (Charles Sabin), Jesslyn Fax (Court Clerk), Dan Barton (Richard Waid), Frank Ferguson (Sheriff Barnes), Robert Griffin (Fred Bascomb), Mel Blanc (Parrot), Joseph Kearns (Mr. Langley), Fay Baker (Stephanie Sabin), Jody Lawrance (Ellen Monteith), Pamela Branch (Helen Watkins)

The courtroom in this episode is actually a coroner's inquest in which a parrot holds the key to freeing Perry's client from blame in the murder of her husband.



51 :02x12 - The Case of the Shattered Dream

First aired: Jan/03/1959
Writer: Seeleg Lester, Robert Bloomfield
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Guest star: Lillian Bronson (Judge), Robert Carson (Lawrence David), Theodore Marcuse (William Walker), Ivan Triesault (Fred Schoenbeck), Chris Alcaide (Jerry Morrow), Virginia Vincent (Virginia Trent), Barry Brooks (Dealer), Kurt Kreuger (Hans Breel), Gilman Rankin (Autopsy Surgeon), Osa Massen (Sarah Werner), Marion Marshall (Irene Bedford), Cy Malis (Hilton), Ludwig Stossel (Adolph Van Beers), Brandy Bryan (Doris)

Sarah Werner asks Perry to find her rotter of a husband who ran off with her inheritance. Now using the name Hans Breel, hubby is working a gem scam but when the scam backfires, Sarah is charged with his murder.



52 :02x13 - The Case of the Borrowed Brunette

First aired: Jan/10/1959
Writer: Seeleg Lester
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Adrienne Marden (Barbara Slater), Joe De Santis (Melvin Slater), John Stephenson (Grant Reynolds), Morris Ankrum (Judge Bates), Margaret Field (Eva Martell), Sheila Bromley (Agnes Nulty), Herman Rudin (Thomas Folsom), Paula Raymond (Helen Reynolds), Gisele Verlaine (Secretary), Fred Rapport (Clerk), Howard Van Proyen (Samuel Dixon)

Melvin Slater is interviewing candidates to impersonate a woman named Helen Reynolds for some unknown reason. Eva Martell is chosen and moves into a nice apartment with her aunt. They are paid well by Slater as long as Eva continues her impersonation. Smelling a rat, Eva goes to Perry Mason for advice but she soon needs more than advice when Slater is found murdered in the apartment.



53 :02x14 - The Case of the Glittering Goldfish

First aired: Jan/17/1959
Writer: Milton Krims
Director: Gerd Oswald
Guest star: John Hudson (Tom Wyatt), Olan Soule (Clerk), Gage Clarke (Frederick Rollins), Rusty Lane (Harry Tiller), Willard Sage (Dan Myers), S. John Launer (Judge), Cecil Kellaway (Darrell Metcalf), Chuck Webster (Sgt. Brice), Jacqueline Scott (Sally Wilson), Murvyn Vye (Jack Huxley), Catherine McLeod (Nora Huxley), May Wynn (Donna Sherwood)

The inventor of a cure for sick fish is charged with murdering the nasty purchaser of a fish pet store.



54 :02x15 - The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll

First aired: Jan/24/1959
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Eve McVeagh (Laura Richards), Ruta Lee (Millie Crest), Sam Buffington (Fred Ernshaw), Robert Bray (Carl Davis), Richard Gaines (Judge), Charles Meredith (Doctor), Jan Harrison (Patient), Barton MacLane (Senator Baylor), Carol Byron (1st Girl), Susan Dorn (Grace), Betty Lou Gerson (Marjory Davis), John Bryant (Bob Wallace), Jim Kirkwood (Johnny Baylor), Jack W. Harris (Court Clerk), Helene Stanley (Fern Driscoll)

When Millie Crest and Fern Driscoll switch identities, it leads to Millie being charged with murder. She gets Perry to help her in return for a 38 cent retainer.



55 :02x16 - The Case of the Fraudulent Foto

First aired: Feb/07/1959
Writer: Seeleg Lester, Lawrence L. Goldman
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Carole Mathews (Leora Mathews), Peter Brocco (Theophile Duclerc), Hugh Marlowe (Brander Harris), Bartlett Robinson (Marshall Scott), Herbert Anderson (Eugene Milton), Wilton Graff (Cleveland Blake), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge), Francis DeSales (George Fairbanks), Mark Roberts (James Castleton), Nancy Millard (Switchboard Operator), Carol Nugent (Helen Preston), June Clayworth (Eva Scott), Arline Hunter (Receptionist), Irving Mitchell (Autopsy Surgeon)

A District Attorney in a suburban Los Angeles town get charged with the murder of the bid committee chairman of a defectively built hospital whom the D. A. has been investigating for corruption.



56 :02x17 - The Case of the Romantic Rogue

First aired: Feb/14/1959
Writer: Gene Wang
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Jack Daly (Pete Daniels), Jean Willes (Irene Wallace), Robert Bice (Faulkner), Frederick Worlock (Judge), Marion Ross (Helen Harvey), Pitt Herbert (Autopsy Surgeon), Sara Haden (Florence Harvey), Don Dillaway (Robert Riley), John Bryant (Stacey Chandler), Peggy Maley (Margo Lawrence), Albert Linville (Harry West)

An heiress, searching for her missing uncle, gets charged with murdering a female private eye who supposedly had info about the man.



57 :02x18 - The Case of the Jaded Joker

First aired: Feb/21/1959
Writer: Milton Krims
Director: Gerd Oswald
Guest star: Walter Burke (Freddie Green), Bobby Troup (Buzzie), Harry Jackson (Charles Goff), Tom Drake (Cleve Niles), Jon Lormer (Coroner), S. John Launer (Judge), Mary La Roche (Lisa Hiller), Frankie Laine (Danny Ross), Martha Vickers (Sheila Hayes)

The best friend of a has-been comic is charged with murdering a slimy advertising executive who reneged on a promise to get the comic a new television show.



58 :02x19 - The Case of the Caretaker's Cat

First aired: Mar/07/1959
Writer: Seeleg Lester
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Raymond Bailey (John Hilliard), Bill Erwin (Paint Store Clerk), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Anthony Eustrel (Gordon Roland), Michael Fox (Autopsy Surgeon), Benson Fong (James Hing), Robert Knapp (Stuart Baxter), Anthony Jochim (Peter Baxter), Richard Crane (Dr. Douglas Keene), Maxine Cooper (Edith Devoe), Judy Lewis (Winifred Oakley), John Agar (Kenneth Baxter), Barney Biro (Judge), Jacqueline Lee (Nurse Watson)

Peter Baxter decides to test the loyalty of his heirs by pretending to cut them out of his will and leaving his entire estate to his groundskeeper. Baxter will then fake his death and if any of the heirs contest the will, they will be automatically disinherited. Wouldn't you know it, Baxter is found really dead and the groundskeeper gets charged with the crime.



59 :02x20 - The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

First aired: Mar/14/1959
Writer: Gene Wang
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Karl Davis (Leo Kaster), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Rebecca Welles (Carol Delaney), Ken Lynch (Wallace Lang), Herb Ellis (Deputy District Attorney), Morris Ankrum (Judge), Carl Benton Reid (Charles Burroughs), Claire Carleton (Blanche Atkins), Vaughn Taylor (Bishop Mallory), Hubie Kerns (Skin Diver), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Joan Vohs (Janice Burroughs), Jim Brandt (Teenage Boy), Peter Garey (Larry Kenyon), Philip Burroughs (Doctor)

Carol Delaney is approached by Bishop Arthur Mallory and informed that she might be the real granddaughter of wealthy Charles Burroughs. But it seems as though a lot of people don't want Carol's identity to be established for certain and when Burroughs is found stabbed to death Carol gets charged with his murder.



60 :02x21 - The Case of the Lost Last Act

First aired: Mar/21/1959
Writer: Milton Krims
Director: Gerd Oswald
Guest star: George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Katharine Bard (Helen Dwight), Richard Erdman (Jim West), Richard Gaines (Judge), Stacy Harris (Frank Brooks), Jerome Cowan (Ernest Royce), Robert McQueeney (Michael Dwight), William Talman (Hamilton Burger), Joanne Gilbert (Faith Foster), David Lewis (John Gifford), Connie Cezan (Gertie)

A playwright is found shot to death in the same manner as a character in one of his unproduced plays. In order to clear his wrongfully charged client, Perry must find the missing last act of the play.



61 :02x22 - The Case of the Bedeviled Doctor

First aired: Apr/04/1959
Writer: Jay Dratler, Gene Wang
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Michael Fox (Dr. Hoxie), Frederick Worlock (Judge), Marianne Stewart (Edith Douglas), Dick Foran (Dr. David Craig), Andrea King (Barbara Heywood), Allen Case (Ronny Fowler), John McKee (Faulkner), Phillip Terry (Peter Heywood), Norma Moore (Dana Lewis), Barry McGuire (Mark Douglas), Jane Eagar (Martha)

A psychiatrist discovers that tapes of his sessions with his patients have been stolen and are being used for blackmail purposes. The shrink gets charged with murder when the thief and blackmailer turns up dead.



62 :02x23 - The Case of the Howling Dog

First aired: Apr/11/1959
Writer: Seeleg Lester
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Gregory Walcott (Bill Johnson), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), S. John Launer (Judge), Vito Scotti (D'Amato), Pitt Herbert (Coroner), John Holland (Clinton Forbes), Fintan Meyler (Thelma Brent), Tom Greenway (Rod Andrews), Ed Prentiss (Dr. Bayliss), Robert Ellenstein (Arthur Cartright), Ann Rutherford (Evelyn Forbes), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Grace Raynor (Marilyn Storm), Elaine Edwards (Polly Forbes), Marcia Drake (Nurse)

Evelyn Forbes escapes from a mental institution only to be charged with murder. The key to the case hinges on a dog that continues to howl no matter what.



63 :02x24 - The Case of the Calendar Girl

First aired: Apr/18/1959
Writer: Seeleg Lester
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: John Anderson (George Andrews), Ralph Moody (Harvey Dennison), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Richard Gaines (Judge), Jon Lormer (Autopsy Surgeon), Kasey Rogers (Loretta Harper), Charles Tannen (Jasper Horn), Dean Harens (Frank Fettridge), George N. Neise (Wilfred Borden), Evelyn Scott (Beatrice Cornell), Douglas Marland (Bob), Dolores Donlon (Dawn Manning), Diana Crawford (Patti Drew), Tom Conroy (Head Waiter)

Perry defends a building contractor charged with murdering a political manipulator.



64 :02x25 - The Case of the Petulant Partner

First aired: Apr/25/1959
Writer: Milton Krims, Gene Wang
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Myron Healey (Howard Roper), Francis McDonald (Salty Sims), Russell Thorson (Mel Topham), R. G. Armstrong (Harry Bright), Nan Leslie (Margaret Clark), Stafford Repp (Phillip Morgan), Russ Bender (Sgt. Givens), Will Wright (Chuck Clark), Geraldine Wall (Nell Gridley), William Swan (Bill Shayne), James Forster (Judge), Lynne Allen (Louise Dayton), Steve Stevens (Bellboy)

Harry Bright and Chuck Clark were once close friends and business partners until a younger woman on the make manipulated Chuck into marrying her. When Chuck's young bride is found shot to death, Harry is charged with her murder and hires Perry for his defense.



65 :02x26 - The Case of the Dangerous Dowager

First aired: May/09/1959
Writer: Milton Krims
Director: Buzz Kulik
Guest star: Leo Gordon (Charles Duncan), Ellen Corby (Woman), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Kathryn Givney (Matilda Benson), Frederick Worlock (Judge), Patricia Cutts (Sylvia Oxman), King Calder (Dr. Ralph Caldwell), Robert Strauss (Danny Barker), Barry Atwater (Robert Benson), Michael Dante (Arthur Manning), Gene Blakely (Frank Oxman), Joey Faye (Walter Cobb)

Matilda Benson rules her brood with an iron hand but she's unable to prevent them from getting involved in a gambling scandal involving slimy nightclub owner Danny Barker. Then, when Barker is found murdered, the scandal expands to include murder.



66 :02x27 - The Case of the Deadly Toy

First aired: May/16/1959
Writer: Seeleg Lester
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Paul Cavanagh (Horace Selkirk), Kathryn Card (Hannah Barton), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Nancy Kulp (Katherine Collins), Max Adrian (Ralph Jennings), Dennis Patrick (Martin Selkirk), Norman Alden (Darrel Reed), Pitt Herbert (Autopsy Surgeon), Robert Rockwell (Dick Benedict), Mala Powers (Claire Allison), Morris Ankrum (Judge), Jennifer Howard (Lorraine Jennings), David Brady (David Selkirk), Bob Howard (Bill Evans), Richard Hervey (Counterman), Nina Stevens (Nurse)

Martin Selkirk is a major league rotter who has the hots for Claire Allison in the worst way. When Selkirk is found murdered in his beach house, Claire gets arrested and charged with the crime but Perry's investigation finds that the evidence points more towards Selkirk's 5 year old son. Or could it be someone else?



67 :02x28 - The Case of the Spanish Cross

First aired: May/30/1959
Writer: Gene Wang, Robert J. Shaw
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Arthur Space (James Morrow, Sr), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Linda Watkins (Grace Runyan), Richard Gaines (Judge), Jonathan Hole (Everett Wormser), Jacques Aubuchon (Felix Karr), Harlan Warde (Sgt. Kenton), Richard Miles (Jimmy Morrow), Josephine Hutchinson (Miriam Baker), Herman Rudin (Roger), Donald Randolph (Curtis Runyan), Chuck Zacha (Harry Kline)

Bad luck seems to follow young Jimmy Morrow. Already on probation for his part in a car theft, Jimmy finds himself charged with the theft of a valuable Spanish cross and the murder of its owner.



68 :02x29 - The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom

First aired: Jun/13/1959
Writer: Milton Krims
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Keith Richards (Sergeant Holt), James Nolan (Policeman), Neil Hamilton (Frank Livesey), Thomas Browne Henry (George Denby), Tom Brown (Jarvis), Patrick McVey (Covington), Betsy Jones-Moreland (Lorrie Garvin), K. T. Stevens (Ethel Garvin), Rosa Turich (Filomena), Robert Nichols (Howard Scanlon), Robert Lynn (Judge), Harry Ellerbe (Edward Garvin), Joan Tabor (Helen Bynum/Virginia Colfax), Richard Keene (Court Clerk)

Perry returns to his office late one night and finds a hot chick climbing through his balcony window. This event leads to a case involving bigamy and murder.



69 :02x30 - The Case of the Lame Canary

First aired: Jun/27/1959
Writer: Seeleg Lester
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Michael Fox (Dr. Hoxie), Biff Elliot (Jimmy McLain), William Kendis (Walter Prescott), S. John Launer (Judge), Dick Wessel (Transfer Man), Chet Stratton (Hotel Clerk), Berry Kroeger (Ernest Wray), James Philbrook (Harry Johnson), Susan Cummings (Margaret Swaine), Ray Phillips (Police Officer), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Stacy Graham (Ruth Prescott), Emerson Treacy (Dr. Fowler)

Ruth Prescott wants to divorce her nasty husband but he refuses. When hubby turns up murdered, Ruth is naturally charged with the crime. Two keys to the case for Perry and company: a lame canary and unusual bruises on the victim.



70 :03x01 - The Case of the Spurious Sister

First aired: Oct/03/1959
Writer: Maurice Zimm
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: James Seay (Ralph Hibberly), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Peggy Knudsen (Marie Chapman), Michael Fox (Autopsy Surgeon), Charles Cooper (Greg Evans), Marianne Stewart (Helen Sprague), S. John Launer (Judge), Mary La Roche (Grace Norwood), Sam Edwards (Cashier), Robert Osterloh (Walter Sprague), Karl Weber (Bruce Chapman), Marion Marshall (Ginny Hobart)

When Bruce Chapman returns home early from a business trip he finds that his wife, Marie, wants a divorce. This is odd because just before Chapman left to go on his trip he thought he had seen the strangled body of his wife lying on the floor of his office. But if Marie Chapman is still alive, who was the dead woman?



71 :03x02 - The Case of the Watery Witness

First aired: Oct/10/1959
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Richard Kinon
Guest star: Kathryn Card (Harriet Snow), Fay Wray (Lorna Thomas), Ned Glass (Smith), Douglas Dick (Fred Bushmiller), Malcolm Atterbury (Dennis Briggs), Pat Moran (Court Clerk), John Bryant (George Clark), Lester Vail (Tony Rayburn), Charles Conrad (Judge), Dusty Enders (Betty Clark)

Greedy George Clark discovers that his wife might be the long-last daughter of former movie star Lorna Thomas and begins seeing dollar signs. George soon sees the inside of a jail cell when Lorna is found murdered and he is charged with the crime.



72 :03x03 - The Case of the Garrulous Gambler

First aired: Oct/17/1959
Writer: Gene Wang
Director: Walter Grauman
Guest star: Victor Sen Yung (Mickey Fong), Steve Brodie (Ben Wallace), Gordon Wynn (Mike Granger), Anne Barton (Nora Bradley), Wynn Pearce (Larry Benton), Morris Ankrum (Judge), Dick Foran (Steve Benton), Lawrence Green (Dr. Victor), Robert Nash (Earnshaw), Tony Travis (Johnny Clay), Paula Raymond (Doris Shackley)

Hard luck Larry Benton gets into an argument in poker game and knocks Mike Granger out cold. Then he's informed that Granger is dead. In reality, the whole set-up is a scam to shake him down for money. Larry forges a check on his brother Steve's account for $5,000 but then Johnny Clay, the mastermind of the scam, tries to shake him down for more. Clay ends up dead and Steve Benton gets charged with his murder. Perry must get to the bottom of the crooked poker game in order to clear his client.



73 :03x04 - The Case of the Blushing Pearls

First aired: Oct/24/1959
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Richard Whorf
Guest star: Angela Greene (Thelma Nichols), John Gallaudet (Judge), Christine White (Alice Carson), Tom Wilde (Detective), Nobu McCarthy (Mitsuo Kamuri), Benson Fong (Itsubi Nogata), George Takei (Toma Sakai), Steve Terrell (Grover Nichols), Jack Carol (Technician), Bill Walker (Watchman), Ralph Dumke (Hudson Nichols), Leah Waggner (Maid), Rollin Moriyama (Ito Kamuri), Martha Wentworth (Landlady)

After Mitsuo Kamuri gets "caught" with a string of valuable pearls belonging to the mother of her boyfriend, Grover Nichols, his father agrees to drop all charges provided that Mitsuo stop seeing his son. Then things get more complicated when Mitsuo's uncle, who strung the pearls, is found murdered.



74 :03x05 - The Case of the Startled Stallion

First aired: Oct/31/1959
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: John Harmon (Fingerprint Man), Trevor Bardette (John Brant), Harry Tyler (Pop Abbott), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Paul Richards (Earl Mauldin), Morris Ankrum (Judge), Melora Conway (Clara Hammond), Howard Hoffman (Minister), Patricia Hardy (Jo Ann Blanchard), Arthur Hanson (Coroner), Don Dillaway (Charlie Cass), Richard Rust (Porter White), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Elliott Reid (Terry Blanchard)

John Brant holds the mortgage on Jo Ann Blanchard's ranch and forecloses. He also takes possession of her prized stallion, Jo Ann goes to Perry for help in recovering the horse but soon needs his help in something else when she's arrested for killing Brant.



75 :03x06 - The Case of Paul Drake's Dilemma

First aired: Nov/14/1959
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Anne Bellamy (Margo), Robert Bice (Private Detective), Ralph Moody (Jacob Wiltzy), Robert P. Lieb (Joe Marsden), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Norman Leavitt (Ballistics Man), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge), Bruce Gordon (Frank Thatcher), Robert Cornthwaite (Anders), Basil Ruysdael (Henry Dameron), Simon Scott (Charles Dameron), Dean Harens (Tad Dameron), Jennifer Howard (Judith Thatcher), Sheila Bromley (Mrs. Callan), James T. Callahan (1st Policeman), Vanessa Brown (Donna Kress), Steve Stevens (Paper Boy)

Perry's friend, private eye Paul Drake, is charged with murder when his gun is found to be the murder weapon in the killing of a hit-and-run driver who was also the son-in-law of a wealthy tycoon.



76 :03x07 - The Case of the Golden Fraud

First aired: Nov/21/1959
Writer: Maurice Zimm, Robert C. Dennis
Director: Herbert Hirschman
Guest star: George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Alex Gerry (Hale), Joyce Meadows (Sylvia Welles), Alan Hewitt (Fred Petrie), Frank Sully (Delivery Man), David Sheiner (Rip Connors), Neil Hamilton (Henry Noble), S. John Launer (Judge), Pitt Herbert (Autopsy Surgeon), Patricia Huston (Doris Petrie), Arthur Franz (Richard Vanaman), Thom Carney (Officer), June Dayton (Frances Vanaman), Asa Maynor (Bunny Lee)

Richard Vanaman is up for a promotion at his company but someone sabotages his advancement and Vanaman ends up being framed for a murder.



77 :03x08 - The Case of the Bartered Bikini

First aired: Dec/05/1959
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Arthur Hiller
Guest star: John Anderson (Bud Ferrand), Robert Bice (Operative), Stephen Bekassy (Rick Stassi), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Paul Langton (Simon Atley), Richard Gaines (Judge), John Lupton (Wally Dunbar), Bill Idelson (Police Technician), June Vincent (Madge Wainwright), Rita Lynn (Lisa Ferrand), Terry Huntingdon (Kitty Wynne), Herbert Patterson (Macready), Maura McGiveney (Yvonne), Scotty Morrow (Cal)

The girlfriend of a designer goes on trial for the murder of a rival designer who had stolen her boyfriend's designs for a new line of swimwear.



78 :03x09 - The Case of the Artful Dodger

First aired: Dec/12/1959
Writer: Jackson Gillis, Robert C. Dennis
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Douglas Henderson (Ralph Curtis), Max Wagner (Gate Officer), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Michael Fox (Autopsy Surgeon), Peter Leeds (Lou Caporale), Kenneth Patterson (Fred), Patricia Donahue (Joyce Fulton), Lurene Tuttle (Sarette Winslow), Cosmo Sardo (Maitre'd), Jerome Cowan (Victor Latimore), William Campbell (Allen Sheridan), Vera Marshe (Maid), Terry Loomis (Doris)

Ne'er-do-well Allen Sheridan has made quite a few enemies, and he's' due to inherit over a hundred and fifty thousand dollars. So when Sheridan is murdered the culprit could be almost anyone. The police arrest his cousin Sarette Winslow, but Perry has other ideas.



79 :03x10 - The Case of the Lucky Legs

First aired: Dec/19/1959
Writer: Robert Bloomfield
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Sid Tomack (Night Clerk), Renny McEvoy (Emcee), Doreen Lang (Miss Fields), Arthur Marshall (Art Store Clerk), Michael Miller (Bob Doray), John Archer (J. R. Bradbury), S. John Launer (Judge), Pitt Herbert (Coroner), Lisabeth Hush (Marjorie Clooney), Jeanne Cooper (Thelma Bell), Douglas Evans (Frank Patton), Ray Kellogg (George Sanbourne), Pat Moran (Court Clerk), Leo Needham (Policeman)

Small town gal Marjorie Cluny wins a contest for best looking legs sponsored by a shady Hollywood producer. Her prize is a trip to Hollywood and a part in the producer's next film. Unfortunately, things fall through rather quickly for Marjorie and her Hollywood career doesn't last long. The producer is found stabbed to death with a woodcarving instrument and Marjorie is arrested for his murder.



80 :03x11 - The Case of the Violent Village

First aired: Jan/02/1960
Writer: Seeleg Lester, Sam Elkin
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Jason Johnson (Clerk), Bart Burns (Norman Thurston), Richard Hale (Robert Tepper), John Dennis (Ward Lewis), Robert Stephenson (1st Man), Terry Becker (Everett Ransome), Willis Bouchey (Judge), Ray Hemphill (Phil Beecher), Jacqueline Scott (Kathy Beecher), Ina Victor (Charlotte Norris), Barton MacLane (Sheriff Norris), Frank Hagney (2nd Man), Ann Rutherford (Judith Thurston), Cecil Weston (Court Reporter)

Perry goes to the Sierra Nevadas on a fishing trip with an old friend but becomes sidetracked into a murder case involving an ex-convict and a revenge seeking sister.



81 :03x12 - The Case of the Frantic Flyer

First aired: Jan/09/1960
Writer: Seeleg Lester, Robert Bloomfield
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Ed Kemmer (Roger Porter), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Rebecca Welles (Carol Taylor), Wilton Graff (Wade Taylor), Richard Gaines (Judge), Patricia Barry (Janice Atkins), Jon Lormer (Autopsy Surgeon), Simon Oakland (Howard Walters), Virginia Vincent (Ruth Walters), James Bell (Zack Davis), Barry Brooks (Hastings), Joey Faye (Motel Manager)

A plane crash, a double murder, missing money, and an innocent widow charged with crimes she didn't commit are the elements of this case.



82 :03x13 - The Case of the Wayward Wife

First aired: Jan/23/1960
Writer: William O'Farrell
Director: Walter Grauman
Guest star: Marshall Thompson (Arthur Poe), Bethel Leslie (Sylvia Sutton), Frank Maxwell (Harry Scott Wilson), Madlyn Rhue (Marian Ames), Alexander Davion (Gilbert Ames), Richard Shannon (Ben Sutton), I. Stanford Jolley (Alan Kirby), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge), Kathleen Mulqueen (Miss Croft), Lawrence Green (Autopsy Surgeon (as Law Green)), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Peter Hayman (Clerk (Bookstore)), Irving Steinberg (Cabbie), Craig Duncan (Sgt. Townley)

Author Ben Sutton is a fraud, taking credit for another man's story of his time in a POW camp. When Sutton turns up dead, his wife is arrested for the murder.



83 :03x14 - The Case of the Prudent Proecutor

First aired: Jan/30/1960
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Robert Ellis Miller
Guest star: Philip Bourneuf (Asa Culver), J. Pat O'Malley (Jefferson Pike), Barbara Fuller (Joan Leonard), Ruta Lee (Vita Culver), Walter Coy (Denver Leonard), Dabbs Greer (Hal Kirkwood), Dennis Patrick (Prosecutor), Ron Foster (Fred Pike), Frank Albertson (Duck Hunter), S. John Launer (Judge), Ed Stoddard (2nd Hunter), John Alonzo (Guitterez), Paul B. Kennedy (Court Reporter)

Burger is forced to make use of Perry's defense talents when the DA's old friend faces a murder charge.



84 :03x15 - The Case of the Gallant Grafter

First aired: Feb/06/1960
Writer: Sy Salkowitz
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Charles Aidman (Arthur Siddons), Fintan Meyler (Patricia Martin), Herbert Rudley (Edward Nelson), Virginia Chapman (Sylvia Nelson), John Stephenson (Frank Avery), Phillip Terry (Robert Doniger), Charlotte Austin (Norma Williams), Nelson Leigh (Judge), Henry Hunter (Banker), Eve McVeagh (Saleswoman), John Alvin (Bank Teller), Joan Staley (Judith), George E. Stone (Court Clerk)

CEO Edward Nelson is charged with the murder of an embezzler within his company.



85 :03x16 - The Case of the Wary Wildcatter

First aired: Feb/20/1960
Writer: Robert Bloomfield
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Douglas Kennedy (Lucky Sterling), Barbara Bain (Madelyn Terry), Byron Palmer (Charles Houiston), Lori March (Paula Wallace), King Calder (Floyd Gordon), Harry Jackson (Roger Byrd), Richard Gaines (Judge), Larry J. Blake (Officer (as Larry Blake)), Tony De Mario (Dealer (as Anthony De Mario)), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice)

Madelyn Terry finds herself in a locked room with the corpse of her sister's husband, and a motive for killing him.



86 :03x17 - The Case of the Mythical Monkeys

First aired: Feb/27/1960
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Gerald Mayer
Guest star: Beverly Garland (Mauvis Meade), Lawrence Dobkin (Gregory Dunkirk), Louise Fletcher (Gladys Doyle), Lew Gallo (Richard Gilman), Joan Banks (Mrs. Manley), Norman Fell (Caspar Pedley), John Reach (Dukes Lawton), Nelson Leigh (Judge), Bill Erwin (Morrison Findlay), William Boyett (Kelton (as Bill Boyett)), Frances Morris (Miss Carlisle), Paul Lees (Parking Lot Attendant), Ralph Brooks (Headwaiter), George E. Stone (Court Clerk)

Secretary Gladys Doyle goes to a remote mountain cabin to pick up a package for her employer. A man who seems to know her greets her there, but when he leaves Gladys finds a corpse.



87 :03x18 - The Case of the Singing Skirt

First aired: Mar/12/1960
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Joan O'Brien (Betty Roberts), Henry Lascoe (George Anclitas), Allison Hayes (Sadie Bradford), H. M. Wynant (Wilton (Slim) Marcus), Jeanne Moody (Vivian Ennis), Fredd Wayne (William Gowrie), Chris Warfield (Manning Ennis), Robert Williams (Police Captain (as Robert B. Williams)), Richard Gaines (Judge), Stafford Repp (Frederick Halstead), Byron Morrow (Thomas Ranger), John Harmon (Frank Wilton), Michael Fox (Autopsy Surgeon), Harry Fleer (Detecetive), Ken Walken (Parking Lot Attendant), George E. Stone (Court Clerk)

George Anclitas runs a casino but when a showgirl comes up dead, he plants a gun on working girl Betty Roberts to frame her and draw attention off herself. But who killed the showgirl?



88 :03x19 - The Case of the Bashful Burro

First aired: Mar/26/1960
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Robert Ellis Miller
Guest star: Ray Stricklyn (Gerald Norton), Elisabeth Fraser (Hazel Bascombe), George Mitchell (Amos Catledge), Sue George (Sally Norton), Ben Wright (Crawford Wright), Charles Bateman (Roy Dowson), Hugh Sanders (Ken Bascombe), Wendell Holmes (Distract Attorney Williams), John Pickard (Sheriff Keller), Lewis Martin (Judge), Kay E. Kuter (Deputy (as Kay Kuter)), Jack Orrison (Coroner's Physician), Stephen Courtleigh (Ballistics Expert), Mike Mason (Cowboy), Joan Elliott (Button Salesgirl), Tony Michaels (Waiter)

Gerald Norton is working the mine he inherited from his father, and rancher Ken Bascombe tries to buy him out. When Gerald refuses, things turn violent and Gerald ends up accused of murdering Bascombe.



89 :03x20 - The Case of the Crying Cherub

First aired: Apr/09/1960
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Joe Maross (David Lambert), Tom Drake (Richard Harkens), Abraham Sofaer (Sylvester Robey), Mala Powers (June Sinclair), David Lewis (Deputy D.A. Mark Hanson), Kathryn Givney (Amelia Harkens), Carmen Phillips (Lisa Carson Lambert), Tom McBride (Thomas Clark), Richard Gaines (Judge), Isabel Randolph (Mrs. Vandercord), Elvia Allman (Mrs. Forbes), Elizabeth Harrower (Woman Artist), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Patrick Waltz (Policeman), John Perrin Flynn (Bidder #1 (as Jack Perrin)), Mary Benoit (Bidder #2), Helene Heigh (Club Woman), George E. Stone (Court Clerk)

Museum employee June Sinclair and her boyfriend Dave Lambert are accused of the murder of a thief at the museum.



90 :03x21 - The Case of the Nimble Nephew

First aired: Apr/23/1960
Director: Richard Kinon
Guest star: Robert Gist (Deputy D.A. Claude Drumm), William H. Wright (Adam Thompson), Carl Benton Reid (Victor Logan), Bert Convy (Harry Thompson), Crahan Denton (Frank Jarrett), Linda Leighton (Ellen Foster), Myrna Fahey (Lydia Logan), S. John Launer (Judge), Joel Lawrence (Elliott Carter), Warren Frost (Technician), Michael Fox (Autopsy Surgeon), Sam Flint (Banker), Ted Stanhope (Realtor), George E. Stone (Court Clerk)

Millionaire Adam Thompson hires Perry Mason when he suspects someone of stealing secrets from his safe, but it becomes a case of murder when Thompson's assistant turns up dead. with the secrets.



91 :03x22 - The Case of the Madcap Modiste

First aired: Apr/30/1960
Writer: Harold Swanton
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: John Conte (Charles Pierce), Marie Windsor (Flavia Pierce), Les Tremayne (Deputy D.A. Stewart Linn), Leslie Parrish (Hope Sutherland), David White (Henry De Garmo), Robert Ellenstein (Medical Examiner), Dorothy Neumann (Leona Durant), Edward Mallory (George Halliday), Truman Bradley (Narrator), Morris Ankrum (Judge), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Annabelle George (Model #1 (as Anna Belle George)), Patricia Olson (Model #2 (as Pat Olson))

When fashion designer Flavia Pierce is poisoned, suspicion initially falls on her husband until the police go after a new suspect.



92 :03x23 - The Case of the Slandered Submarine

First aired: May/14/1960
Writer: Sam Neuman
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Hugh Marlowe (Cmdr. James Page), Robert F. Simon (Anthony Beldon), Jack Ging (Robert Chapman), Mort Mills (Barry Scott), Robert H. Harris (Gordon Russell), Edward Platt (Cmdr. Driscoll), Russ Conway (Cmdr. Jerome Burke), Robert Brubaker (Lou Hansford), Ann Robinson (Vivian Page), Stephen Chase (Cmdr. Foyle), William Tannen (Lt. Cmdr Matt Stewart), Joseph Corey (Johnny Larkin), Tom Palmer (Cmdr. Reynolds), Herb Vigran (Ernest Pritchard), Raoul De Leon (Julio Remarto), Freeman Lusk (Capt. Horton), Dick Geary (O.N.I. Officer (as Richard Geary)), Dean Casey (Shore Patrolman)

Commander James Page is testing electronic equipment on the U.S. Navy sub Moray. It's commander, Burke, is assisting the police in the investigation of a murdered cafe sing, as the police suspect a submariner may be responsible. On the day of the tests, Page is found dead and a sailor, Chapman, is implicated in the murder of the commander and the cafe singer.



93 :03x24 - The Case of the Ominous Outcast

First aired: May/21/1960
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Arthur Hiller
Guest star: Robert Emhardt (J.J. Flaherty), Jeremy Slate (Bob Lansing), Margaret Hayes (Vivian Bell), Denver Pyle (Tom Quincy), Walter Burke (James Blackburn), Irene Tedrow (Amy Douglas), Claude Stroud (Jeff Douglas), Henry Norell (Frederick Bell), Willis Bouchey (Judge), Jack Holland (Autopsy Surgeon), David McMahon (Bartender), Mary Eastman (Secretary)

The son of a bank robber needs help when a murderer tries to find his father's loot.



94 :03x25 - The Case of the Irate Inventor

First aired: May/28/1960
Writer: Francis Rosenwald, Marianne Mosner
Director: Gerald Mayer
Guest star: Thomas Coley (James Frazer), Kasey Rogers (Lois Langley), Ken Lynch (Robert Hayden), Manning Ross (Calvin Boone), CeCe Whitney (Thelma Frazer (as Ce Ce Whitney)), Douglas Odney (Arthur Hayden (as Doug Odney)), Barry Cahill (Sgt. M. Quimby), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge), Gertrude Flynn (Mrs. Nichols), Arthur Peterson (Sorrell), George E. Stone (Court Clerk)

Inventor James Frazer returns from a three-month trip to get away from his cheating wife. However, he finds her murdered in his office, and the only way in or out is a foolproof lock that he designed.



95 :03x26 - The Case of the Flighty Father

First aired: Jun/11/1960
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Anne Benton (Trudy Holbrook), Hayden Rorke (Jay Holbrook #1), Francis X. Bushman (Lawrence King), Henry Beckman (David), William Allyn (Wally Harper), Berry Kroeger (Donald J. Evanson), Francis DeSales (Holbrook #2 (as Francis De Sales)), Dan Riss (Peter Sample), Grandon Rhodes (Judge), Tom Fadden (Gus Nickels), Arthur Hanson (Autopsy Surgeon), Betty Farrington (Housekeeper), Gail Bonney (Maid), Paul B. Kennedy (Court Reporter), George E. Stone (Court Clerk)

Trudy Holbrook's mother dies, leaving her $10 million, and two men arrive claiming to be her long-lost father Jay. Only one man can identify them, her blind uncle Lawrence, but he turns up dead.



96 :04x01 - The Case of the Treacherous Toupee

First aired: Sep/17/1960
Writer: Maurice Zimm
Director: Richard Kinon
Guest star: Peggy Converse (Sybil Basset), Philip Ober (Peter Dawson), Bert Freed (Ken Woodman), Cindy Robbins (Teddi Hart), Thomas Browne Henry (Hartley Basset), Robert Redford (Dick Hart), Nelson Olmsted (Arthur Colemar), Dee Arlen (Lorna Grant), Jonathan Hole (Stanley Roderick), Frank Wilcox (Judge), C. Lindsay Workman (Wilber Fenwick (as Lindsay Workman)), Juney Ellis (Lucy), Rita Duncan (Flo), Hal Smith (Supper Club Owner), Len Hendry (Plain Clothesman), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Patricia Marlowe (Receptionist)

Hartley Bassett, a gruff company president returns from his death of two years and promptly fires Peter Dawson, who is assumed the killer when Bassett is found shot dead. But Perry thinks he has a solid alibi since both Dick Hart and his new wife,Teddi, each swear that a different man was at the scene. But soon, Teddi and Dick disappear.



97 :04x02 - The Case of the Credulous Quarry

First aired: Sep/24/1960
Writer: Sy Salkowitz
Director: William D. Russell
Guest star: Katherine Squire (Clara Thorpe), Russell Arms (Everett Dorrell), John Conwell (Richard Hammond), Vinton Hayworth (Marvin Claridge), Walter Reed (Alex Hill), Nan Peterson (Barbara Claridge), Russ Bender (Policeman), Willis Bouchey (Judge), Fred Graham (Fire Chief), Renee Godfrey (Miss Winslow), Bart Conrad (Autopsy Surgeon), George E. Stone (Court Clerk)

Richard Hammond is in need of Perry Mason's services when he is accused of running his car over his girlfriend.



98 :04x03 - The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker

First aired: Oct/01/1960
Director: Charles Haas
Guest star: William Campbell (Jim Ferris), Kenneth Tobey (Prosecutor), June Dayton (Alice Gorman), Sue Randall (Betty Wilkins), Howard Petrie (Carl Gorman), James Anderson (Stan Piper), Tyler McVey (Harold Ames), Sarah Selby (Mrs. Ames), S. John Launer (Judge), Pitt Herbert (Autopsy Surgeon), George E. Stone (Court Clerk)

Jim Ferris and his uncle's bored young wife are having an affair, and plan to fake her kidnapping in order $80,000 from his uncle. But when Ferris ends up dead, his secretary Betty Wilkins, who was used as a go-between, is charged with his death.



99 :04x04 - The Case of the Singular Double

First aired: Oct/08/1960
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Harry Townes (Grosvenor Cutter), Connie Hines (Lucy Stevens), Arch Johnson (John Ruskin), Alan Baxter (Whitney Locke), Andrea King (Catherine Locke), Wilton Graff (Hugo Burnette), Mary Webster (Marjorie Ralston), Morris Ankrum (Judge), Michael Fox (Autopsy Surgeon), Sue England (Switchboard Girl), Dick Geary (Skin Diver)

When a woman fakes her own death by running a car off a cliff, Perry winds up in trouble for obstructing justice as her defense lawyer. The body in the car had belonged to another woman.



100 :04x05 - The Case of the Lavender Lipstick

First aired: Oct/15/1960
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: James Sheldon
Guest star: Joe Maross (Ernest Helming), Patricia Breslin (Karen Lewis (as Pat Breslin)), John Lupton (Peter Nichols), Rita Lynn (Myra Heston), Betty Farrington (Woman), Dabbs Greer (Charles Knudsen), Whit Bissell (Max Pompey), James Bell (Silas Vance), Walter Coy (Gabe Rawson), Nelson Leigh (Judge), George E. Stone (George), Charlotte Thompson (Matron)

When the owner of a cosmetics company is found murdered, the heiress of the company is charged with the crime.



101 :04x06 - The Case of the Wandering Widow

First aired: Oct/22/1960
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: William F. Claxton
Guest star: Paul Langton (Deputy D.A.Telford), Coleen Gray (Lorraine Kendall), Dean Harens (Riley Morgan), Marguerite Chapman (Faye Donner), Max Showalter (Burt Stokes (as Casey Adams)), Ralph Clanton (Roger McClaine), Hugh Sanders (Warren Donner), Robert Cornthwaite (Bill Worth), Stephen Talbot (Jimmie Kendall), Richard Gaines (Judge), Robert Carson (Warden), Bob Whiting (Mr. Leeman (as Robert Whiting)), Gil Rogers (Buddy Staples), Helen Spring (Martha)

A chain reaction of blackmail and murder coincide with the release of a murderer from prison.



102 :04x07 - The Case of the Clumsy Clown

First aired: Nov/05/1960
Writer: Sam Neuman
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Guest star: Kenneth Tobey (Deputy D.A. Alvin), Chana Eden (Lisa Franklin), Douglas Henderson (Felix Heidemann), Margaret Hayes (Joyce Gilbert (as Maggie Hayes)), Walter Sande (Judd Curtis), Willard Sage (Tony Gilbert), Robert Clarke (Jerry Franklin), Ken Curtis (Tim Durant), Lillian Bronson (Judge), Jon Lormer (Autopsy Surgeon), Russ Thompson (Ring Master)

A clown is accused of murder after the circus owner is found dead, and the murder weapon was placed in with a phoney gun act he performs.



103 :04x08 - The Case of the Provocative Protégé

First aired: Nov/12/1960
Director: László Benedek
Guest star: Virginia Field (Anita Carpenter), Robert Lowery (Andrew Collis), Kathie Browne (Donna Loring), Robert Karnes (Deputy D.A. Chamberlin), Charles Cooper (Eric Sturgis (as Charles D. Cooper)), Gregory Morton (David Carpenter), Harry Jackson (George Worthington), Donald Foster (James Gracie), Barry Cahill (Sgt. Binns), Morris Ankrum (Judge), Jon Lormer (Autopsy Surgeon), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Cindy Courtland (Alice)

When a washed up pianist, David Carpenter, is killed for the insurance money, his protégé, Donna Ross, becomes the prime suspect.



104 :04x09 - The Case of the Nine Dolls

First aired: Nov/19/1960
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: William F. Claxton
Guest star: Margaret Field (Linda Osborne (as Maggie Mahoney)), Jeanette Nolan (Emma Benson), Laurie Perreau (Peggy Smith), Frances Helm (Helene Osborne), John Bryant (Larry Osborne), Gage Clarke (Edgar Benson), Francis X. Bushman (Courtney Jeffers), John Banner (A. Tobler), Robert Karnes (Deputy D.A. Chamberlin), Nelson Leigh (Judge), Eleanor Audley (Headmistress Lorimer), Fred Essler (Mr. Kringle), James Chandler (Sgt. Willoughby), Eugene Borden (Swiss Waiter)

Perry's search for an orphaned girl's real parents finds that both had died shortly after her death. The hunt also discovers a grandfather is still alive, but the next day he too is found murdered.



105 :04x10 - The Case of the Loquacious Liar

First aired: Dec/03/1960
Writer: Michael Morris
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: H. M. Wynant (Deputy D.A. Sampson), Bruce Gordon (Judson Bailey), Lurene Tuttle (Emma Bailey), Wynn Pearce (Lester Martin), Regis Toomey (Sam Crane), Melora Conway (Lois Rogers), Jeanne Baird (Marge Fuller), Baynes Barron (The Man), S. John Launer (Judge), Dorothy Adams (Wilma Stone), Michael Fox (Autopsy Surgeon), John Truax (The Stranger), Lori Kaye (Photo Girl), George E. Stone (Court Clerk)

Lester Martin, the owner of a boat company, is kidnapped at gun-point and left behind in a forest, drunk after being forced to drink a half bottle of Scotch. And things turn out worse when his stepfather is found dead.



106 :04x11 - The Case of the Red Riding Boots

First aired: Dec/10/1960
Writer: Harold Swanton
Director: László Benedek
Guest star: H. M. Wynant (Deputy D.A. Sampson), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Corey Allen (Rennie Foster), Frank Maxwell (Joe Dixon), Bill Idelson (Autopsy Surgeon), John Archer (Burt Farwell), Sara Seegar (Miss Pennock), Richard Deacon (Wilmer Beaslee), Willis Bouchey (Judge), Shirley Ballard (Rita Conover), Reba Waters (Kathy Jergens), Linda Leighton (Jill Farwell), Elen Willard (Ann Farwell), Michael Harris (Deputy Sheriff)

When the young girlfriend of Ann Farwell's father is found dead, Ann and her mother both think each other is guilty of the crime. Meanwhile, Perry is defending a ranch hand who was charged with the murder.



107 :04x12 - The Case of the Larcenous Lady

First aired: Dec/17/1960
Director: James Sheldon
Guest star: Ellen Drew (Julia Webberly), Arthur Franz (Mayor Henderson), Louise Fletcher (Susan Connolly), Robert Brown (Frank Sykes), Patricia Huston (Mona Henderson), Robert Terry (Arnold Webberly), Edward Platt (Tom Stratton), King Calder (William Carter), Byron Morrow (Judge), William Boyett (Sergeant Reynolds), Myron Natwick (Desk Clerk), Christopher Dark (Prosecutor Thorne), Mara Massey (Switchboard Girl)

The meddlesome wife of a Mayor jeopardizes his political career with her actions.



108 :04x13 - The Case of the Envious Editor

First aired: Jan/07/1961
Writer: Milton Krims
Director: László Benedek
Guest star: Philip Abbott (Edmond Aitken), James Coburn (Donald Fletcher (as James H. Coburn)), Paul Lambert (Ben Nicholson), H. M. Wynant (Deputy D.A. Sampson), Barbara Lawrence (Lori Stoner), Jennifer Howard (Milly Nash), Vinton Hayworth (Wendell Harding), Sara Shane (Alyce Aitken), S. John Launer (Judge), Sid Tomack (Rudi Tripp), Dave Willock (Jay Robinson), Jim Drum (1st Reporter), Virginia Carroll (Mrs. Welch), Paul Power (Winslow), Donna Hayes (Girl), Harry Hollins (2nd Reporter), George E. Stone (Court Clerk)

The family of a publishing house want to get their business back after a disreputable publishing tycoon, Donald Fletcher, buys up controlling interest in the company and then turns it into a scandalous newspaper. But when Fletcher is found dead it is the family matriarch who is charged with the crime after it is disclosed that she was being blackmailed over some scandalous pictures from her younger days.



109 :04x14 - The Case of the Resolute Reformer

First aired: Jan/14/1961
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Richard Eastham (Deputy D. A. Parness), Diana Millay (Debra Bradford), John Hoyt (William Harper Caine), Douglas Dick (Peter Caine), James Westerfield (Roger Quigley), Phillip Terry (Lawrence Kent), Byron Palmer (Charles Sistrom), Maxine Stuart (Grace Witt), Hardie Albright (Supervisor Albert Johnson), Tom Harkness (Judge), John McLiam (Councilman William Daniels), Charles J. Conrad (Dr. Auerback), Tony Hughes (Jack Parrish), Joe Quinn (Lewis Bergdorf (as Dennis Quinn)), Bert Stevens (Ronald Arthur), Dean Casey (Henry Bartlett), Joe McGuinn (Lt. Lew Kaufman), Gisele Verlaine (Waitress)

A county engineer, William Harper Caine, is charged with murder when Roger Quigley, a chief contractor on an aqueduct which was to be named after Caine, is found dead.



110 :04x15 - The Case of the Fickle Fortune

First aired: Jan/21/1961
Writer: Glenn Wolfe, Sol Stein
Director: László Benedek
Guest star: Cathy O'Donnell (Norma Brooks), Vaughn Taylor (Ralph Duncan), Philip Ober (Albert Keller), Robert Casper (Charley Nickels), Liam Sullivan (Lloyd Farrell), Helen Brown (Mrs. Hollister), Virginia Christine (Helen Duncan), Richard Gaines (Judge), Eve March (Nurse Hamilton), Connie Cezan (Gertie), Michael Fox (Autopsy Surgeon), Berkeley Harris (Patrolman), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Hal Taggart (Clerk), Vincent Troy (Waiter)

Ralph Duncan, a civil servant, returns home carrying $153,000 that he found in the home of a recently deceased woman. He expected to turn in the cash the next day until his cousin takes off with the loot, leaving Duncan behind and accused of theft and even murder.



111 :04x16 - The Case of the Waylaid Wolf

First aired: Feb/04/1961
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Gene Fowler, Jr.
Guest star: Robert Karnes (Deputy D.A. Chamberlin), Rebecca Welles (Edith Bristol), Andra Martin (Arlene Ferris), Laurie Mitchell (Madge Elwood), Tony Travis (Loring Lamont), Barry Atwater (George Albert), Benson Fong (Oolong Kim), Robert Carricart (Orvel Kingman), Frances Fong (Frances Kim), I. Stanford Jolley (Jerome Henley), Morris Ankrum (Judge), William Cord (Police Officer Lyons (as Bill Cord)), Irvin Ashkenazy (Tom Grimes), Elizabeth Harrower (Woman Apt. Manager), Tiger Joe Marsh (Al), Pitt Herbert (Coroner's Physician), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), George E. Stone (Court Clerk)

Loring Lamont lures his father's secretary, Arlene Ferris, to his beachfront home with seduction on his mind. She rejects his advances and takes off in his car. When Loring is found dead, Arlene is made the chief suspect.



112 :04x17 - The Case of the Wintry Wife

First aired: Feb/18/1961
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Jerome Thor (Walter Randall), Robert Karnes (Deputy D.A. Chamberlin), June Vincent (Laura Randall), Alan Hewitt (Bruce Sheridan), Marianne Stewart (Phyllis Hudson), Fredd Wayne (Roger Phillips), Jean Howell (Amelia Phillips), Barney Phillips (Mr. Johnson), Sue England (Judy Baldwin), Willis Bouchey (Judge (as Willis B. Bouchey)), Paul Barselou (John Penner (as Paul Barselow)), Robert Bice (Second Operative), Michael Fox (Autopsy Surgeon), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Rudolph Salinger (Chemist), Charles Stroud (First Operative)

Phyllis, the other woman in inventor Walter Randall's life, is charged with murder after Walter's wife, Laura is found dead. As the story unfolds, it is discovered that Laura was blackmailing an assistant to Walter to build a bomb which would destroy one of his inventions, and Phyllis had found her scam out.



113 :04x18 - The Case of the Angry Dead Man

First aired: Feb/25/1961
Writer: Michael Morris
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Gloria Talbott (Eve Nesbitt), Edward Binns (Lloyd Castle), Les Tremayne (Willard Nesbitt), Gordon Jones (Second Deputy), Carol Ohmart (Jenny Bartlett), James Millhollin (Ben Otis), Frank Ferguson (Prof. Laiken), Naomi Stevens (Fanny Werbler), Karl Held (Bruce Nesbitt), Wally Brown (John Givney), Ray Montgomery (First Deputy), Juney Ellis (Receptionist (as Juney Ellis)), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge), Phil Chambers (Anderson), Charles Stroud (Court Clerk)

Willard Nesbitt, believing he is near death, fakes his own drowning to give his wife, Eve, the insurance money. James Castle, his business partner, plans on scheming Willard's wife out of the money. When Willard winds up dead again, the police believe Eve is running an insurance fraud.



114 :04x19 - The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff

First aired: Mar/11/1961
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: John Conte (Karl Addison), George MacReady (Charles Slade), Jean Allison (Helen Slade), Jack Ging (James Kincannon), Berry Kroeger (Edgar Whitehead), Merry Anders (Adele Bentley), Nelson Leigh (Judge), Benny Rubin (Sassano), Alexander Lockwood (Doctor), Arthur Hanson (Sgt. Ferris), Geraldine Wall (Mrs. Cartwright), Sidney Clute (Jack Shaw (as Sid Clute)), Bart Conrad (Charlie), Susan Davis (Miss Padway), George E. Stone (Court Clerk)

Karl Addison, owner of a jewelry store, plans to rob his own store after having an operation that would render him temporarily blind...using that excuse as a solid alibi. But things go wrong when Addison ends up dead and the jewels missing and James Kincannon has been accused of the crime.



115 :04x20 - The Case of the Barefaced Witness

First aired: Mar/18/1961
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: László Benedek
Guest star: Paul Fix (Prosecutor Hale), Josephine Hutchinson (Miss Sarah), Malcolm Atterbury (Alfred Needham), Roy Roberts (W.L. Picard), Adam West (Dan Southern), Enid Jaynes (Iris McKay (as Enid Janes)), Russ Conway (Fred Swan), Eloise Hardt (Marta Wiltern), Lewis Martin (Judge), Tom Fadden (Beller), Charlie Briggs (Policeman), Russ Bender (Chief Hagerty), Rosemary Day (Secretary)

Paul Drake investigates a case in which money was embezzled by a bank president. His lead sends him to a country town which is running a festival where all men must wear a beard. Paul discovers the missing money along with a dead body.



116 :04x21 - The Case of the Difficult Detour

First aired: Mar/25/1961
Director: John Peyser
Guest star: Jeff York (Pete Mallory), Suzanne Lloyd (Sheila Benton), Jason Evers (Stuart Benton), Mort Mills (Sgt. Ben Landro), Lee Farr (Chet Stark), Joe Di Reda (Phil Edwards), Neil Hamilton (Ames), Joan Camden (Miriam Ames), Bert Freed (Edward Parker), John Gallaudet (Reviewing Judge), S. John Launer (Judge), Michael Masters (Driver (as Mike Masters))

A vacation resort developer is found murdered and Pete Malloy, a contractor, is accused of the killing.



117 :04x22 - The Case of the Cowardly Lion

First aired: Apr/08/1961
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Carol Eve Rossen (Hilde Fursten), Fred Beir (Tony Osgood), Phyllis Coates (Frieda Crawson), Leslie Bradley (Dr. Walther Braun), Warren J. Kemmerling (Boris Zelbowski (as Warren Kemmerling)), O. Z. Whitehead (Harry Beacom), Betty Lou Gerson (Trudie Braun), Paul Birch (Sec. Officer Crawford), Paul Langton (Prosecutor Green), Eddie Quillan (Bookkeeper Keller), Mack Williams (Second Judge), Bill Quinn (First Judge), Norman Leavitt (Crime Lab Technician), Art Lewis (Immigration Clerk), Ralph Manza (Dr. Prince), Bert Remsen (Lt. White)

When a monkey is found to be missing from the San Diego Zoo, Dr. Walther Braun, a visiting dentist, blames Hilde Fursten a zoo worker. Later, Dr. Braun is found dead at the zoo and Tony Osgood, a partner of Hilde, is accused of the murder.



118 :04x23 - The Case of the Torid Tapestry

First aired: Apr/22/1961
Writer: Bob Mitchell
Director: John English
Guest star: Conrad Nagel (Nathan Claver), Paula Raymond (Brenda Larkin), Robert H. Harris (Claude Demay), Lillian Buyeff (Sarah Demay), John Holland (Leonard Voss), Ray Kellogg (Jim Hazlett), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge), Percy Helton (Pawnbroker), Syd Saylor (Watchman), John Graham (Lawrence), Lloyd Nelson (Clerk), Louis Serrano (Officer)

Claude Demay, recently released from prison after serving six years for arson of a building housing a famous art collection, is planning on proving his innocence. His plan includes uncovering a piece of the art collection presumed burned to ashes.



119 :04x24 - The Case of the Violent Vest

First aired: Apr/29/1961
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Lewis Allen
Guest star: Myrna Fahey (Grace Halley), Hayden Rorke (Walter Caffrey), Sonya Wilde (Joy Lebaron), Erik Rhodes (Herman Albright), Joe Cronin (Buddy Frye), Dorothy Green (Ida Albright), Rosemary Eliot (Vicky), Frank Jenks (Barman), Richard Gaines (Judge), Barbara Pepper (Mrs. Diamond), Bill Erwin (Superintendent), Robert Harrow (Young Man), Sam Flint (Welkes), George E. Stone (Court Clerk)

Herman Albright is killed when he mistakenly wears the vest of the intended victim but a fashion model whom Herman had been hitting on is charged with the crime.



120 :04x25 - The Case of the Misguided Missile

First aired: May/06/1961
Writer: Sol Stein, Glenn Wolfe
Director: John Peyser
Guest star: Bruce Bennett (Dan Morgan), Jeanne Bal (Helen Rand), Simon Oakland (Captain Caldwell), Robert Rockwell (Major Jerry Reynolds), Richard Arlen (Dr. Harrison), William Schallert (Dr. Bradbury), Med Flory (Captain McVey), George N. Neise (George Huxley), Stephen Roberts (Major Cooke), Richard Shannon (Colonel Sloan), Ronnie Knox (Sgt. Lewis), Larry Gray (Brig. Gen. Bishop), Clark Howat (Lt. Col. Fremont), Alan Dexter (Dr. Stanton), Paul Lees (Air Policeman), James Sikking (Civilian Engineer)

A death of an officer at Vandenburg Air Force Base while a mysterious missile crash was being investigated leaves an old Army buddy of Perry accused of murder.



121 :04x26 - The Case of the Duplicate Daughter

First aired: May/20/1961
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Michael Fox (Autopsy Surgeon), Don Dubbins (Hartley Elliott), Anne Helm (Glamis Barlow), Walter Kinsella (Carter Gilman), Don C. Harvey (Sheriff), Nelson Olmsted (Cartman Jasper), Willis Bouchey (Judge), Harlan Warde (Connors), Charles Stroud (Court Clerk), Dick Whittinghill (Glenn McCoy), Kaye Elhardt (Muriell Gilman), Joyce Mackenzie (Nancy Gilman), George Selk (Maurice Fellows)

Blackmail, murder and a boyfriend who stayed the night leaves a mess of a case for Perry to piece together.



122 :04x27 - The Case of the Grumbling Grandfather

First aired: May/27/1961
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Guest star: Hal K. Dawson (Watchman), John Gallaudet (Superior Court Judge), Henry Hunter (Avery Bellison), Patricia Barry (Dorine Hopkins), Dub Taylor (Stroller), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge), John Close (Police Sergeant), Fifi D'Orsay (Woman Witness), Gavin MacLeod (Lawrence Comminger), Fred Coby (Tony Mongomery), Frances Rafferty (Sue Franks), Maura McGiveney (Waitress), Otto Kruger (J. J. Gideon), Phil Arthur (Si Farrell)

The estranged husband of a conniving woman is found dead and a young man, David Gideon, who is in love with the woman will do anything to protect her and her reputation...including going on trial for her.



123 :04x28 - The Case of the Guilty Clients

First aired: Jun/10/1961
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Lewis Allen
Guest star: Lisa Gaye (Lola Bronson), Charles Bateman (Jeff Bronson), Guy Mitchell (Bill Ryder), Faith Domergue (Conception O'Higgins), Barbara Stuart (Violet Ryder), Alan Bunce (Courtney Patton), William Mims (Leander Walker), Ben Wright (Clarence Keller), Grandon Rhodes (Divorce Judge), Sydney Smith (Trial Judge), Tom Vize (Astronomer), Pitt Herbert (Pathologist), Charles Stroud (Court Clerk), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), William Coffin (Pilot)

Bill Ryder, a man who is sabotaging Jeff Bronson's business and is in love with his wife, is found shot dead. Now Lola and Jeff Bronson, once awaiting a divorce, are helping each other look innocent.



124 :05x01 - The Case of the Jealous Journalist

First aired: Sep/02/1961
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: John English
Guest star: Irene Hervey (Grace Davies), Jan Merlin (Ralph Quentin), Linden Chiles (Joe Davies), Denver Pyle (Tilden Stuart), Bek Nelson (Miriam Coffey), Theodore Marcuse (Boyd Allison), Claire Griswold (Kerry Worden), Parley Baer (Seward Quentin), Paul Smith (Bartender), Frieda Inescort (Hope Quentin), Roxanne Arlen (Bonnie Mae), Lee Giroux (Newscaster), James Neilson (Operative (as James D. Neilson)), Alex Bookston (Lewis), Tom Harkness (Judge), Dick Geary (Searcher)

The drowning death of a newspaper executive during a fishing trip sets off all kinds of repercussions at the newspaper itself. Including murder.



125 :05x02 - The Case of the Impatient Partner

First aired: Sep/16/1961
Writer: Adrian Gendot
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Ben Cooper (Frank Wells), Leslie Parrish (Vivian Ames), Wesley Lau (Amory Fallon), Lucy Prentis (Edith Fallon), Peter Adams (Ned Thompson), Mary Young (Mrs. Murdock), Cheerio Meredith (Mrs. Temple), Jack Betts (Bert Nichols), Dan Seymour (Carlos Silva), Chet Stratton (Charles Grant), Barney Biro (Judge), Charles Stroud (Court Clerk), Paula Courtland (Margo)

A paint manufacturer suspects that his partner is behind a mysterious fire and explosion at their factory. Then the manufacturer gets charged with the murder of the partner.



126 :05x03 - The Case of the Missing Melody

First aired: Sep/30/1961
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Guest star: Karl Held (David Gideon), Constance Towers (Jonny Baker), James Drury (Eddie King), Bobby Troup (Bongo White), Jo Morrow (Polly Courtland), Andrea King (Enid Markham), Walter Burke (Jack Grabba), Grant Richards (George Sherwin), Lorrie Richards (Midge Courtland), Crahan Denton (Templeton Courtland), Barney Kessel (Barney), Frederick Worlock (Judge), Owen McGiveney (Boyson), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Dick Geary (Detective (as Richard Geary)), Irving Mitchell (Minister), Tony Mafia (Waiter), Jack Williams (First Gambler), Phil Harron (Second Gambler (as Philip Harron))

When Perry and Della attend a wedding, the bride runs out of the ceremony yelling "No, no!" It seems as though a blackmailer held up compromising photos of her sister in hopes of getting the bride to leave the groom for him. But the blackmailer's scheme comes a cropper when he's found shot to death and the prospective groom is charged with the crime.



127 :05x04 - The Case of the Malicious Mariner

First aired: Oct/07/1961
Writer: Robert Leslie Bellem
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Karl Held (David Gideon), Wesley Lau (Lt. Anderson), Sean McClory (Wenzel), Edward Binns (Charles Griffin), Roy Roberts (Arthur Janeel), Lee Farr (Jerry Griffin), Max Showalter (Frank Logan (as Casey Adams)), Penny Edwards (Julie Abbott), Robert Armstrong (Captain Bancroft), Victor Sen Yung (Sheng), Tudor Owen (McLean), Robert Carson (Capt. Lansing), George Ives (Lt. Gregg), Robert Foulk (Vogel), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge (as Kenneth MacDonald)), Pitt Herbert (Autopsy Surgeon), Douglas Evans (Capt. Wilson), George Sawaya (Connor), Roy Jenson (Officer), Rollin Moriyama (Nagata), Gordon Kee (Panjong)

During a storm at sea, First Officer Jerry Griffin jettisons a million dollars worth of goods into the sea in order to lessen the chance of his ship sinking. Hauled before a maritime court of inquiry on shore, Griffin needs the testimony of Captain Bancroft to clear him but he's murdered before he can give it. It's Perry to the rescue when Jerry Griffin is charged with that crime too.



128 :05x05 - The Case of the Crying Comedian

First aired: Oct/14/1961
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Tommy Noonan (Charlie Hatch), Jackie Coogan (Gunner Grimes), Gloria Talbott (Anne Gilrain), Sue Ane Langdon (Rowena), Med Flory (Sgt. McVey), Stacy Harris (Ed Brigham), Liam Sullivan (Tom Gilrain), John Gallaudet (Judge), Nestor Paiva (Nico), John Alvin (Manager), Louis Mercier (Remy), Ray Dannis (Reese Lordan), Art Lewis (Emcee), Alan Reynolds (Dr. Iverson), Carl Milletaire (Bolin), Charles Stroud (Court Clerk)

Comedian Charlie Hatch learns that his old galpal, Anne Gilrain, has escaped from an asylum from where she was forcibly by her nasty husband. When hubby turns up murdered, Charlie fears that Anne did the deed and sets himself up as a suspect. It's up to Perry and company to try and save the comic from his abysmal stupidity.



129 :05x06 - The Case of the Meddling Medium

First aired: Oct/21/1961
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Karl Held (David Gideon), Virginia Field (Sylvia Walker), Kent Smith (Dr. Arthur Younger), Mary La Roche (Helen Garden), Sonya Wilde (Bonnie Craig), Paul Smith (Michael Craig), Anne Carroll (Elaine Paisley (as Ann Carroll)), Lea Marmer (Princess Charlotte), James Forrest (Phillip Paisley), S. John Launer (Judge), James Chandler (Sgt. Bradley), Andrija Puharich (Dr. Puharich (as Dr. Andrija Puharich))

Phony pyschic Phillip Paisley meets a grisly end when an elevator that has been tampered with crashed with him inside. It's up to Perry to set up another fantastic demonstration to prove his client innocent and expose the real killer.



130 :05x07 - The Case of the Pathetic Patient

First aired: Oct/28/1961
Writer: Maurice Zimm
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Guest star: Skip Homeier (Dr. Wayne Edley), Frank Cady (Joe/Hiram Widlock), Virginia Gregg (Mrs. Osborne), Richard Eastham (Prosecutor Parness), Mort Mills (Sgt. Ben Landro), Peter Whitney (Roger Gates), Bek Nelson (Janice Edley), Ed Kemmer (Leslie Hall (as Edward Kemmer)), Charles Irving (Judge), Wally Brown (Mr. Morgan (Manager)), Percy Helton (Asa Cooperman), Bill Erwin (Autopsy Surgeon), Maura McGiveney (Miss York), Wayne Heffley (Griff Roland), Thomas Freebairn-Smith (Banning)

Perry defends a physician who's accused of committing two murders.



131 :05x08 - The Case of the Traveling Treasure

First aired: Nov/04/1961
Writer: Robb White
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Nacho Galindo (Mexican Bartender), H. M. Wynant (Max), Frank Gerstle (Allen), Baynes Barron (Charlie Bender), Arch Johnson (Karl McGovern), Addison Richards (Smith), Jim Drum (Ambulance Driver), Hardie Albright (Jones), Lisa Gaye (Rita McGovern), Jackie Searl (Leon Ulrich), Gil Frye (Police Officer), Jeff York (Scott Cahill), Vaughn Taylor (Professor Snyder), Dick Geary (Seaman), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Richard Adams (J.G.), Bob Whiting (Assistant), Ron Kennedy (Ben Wylie), Tom Harkness (Judge), Lionel Dante (Watchman)

Once again, Perry and Paul have bad luck on a fishing trip when their fishing guide friend Scott Cahill gets charged with murder as part of a gold smuggling scheme.



132 :05x09 - The Case of the Posthumous Painter

First aired: Nov/11/1961
Writer: Richard Grey
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Guest star: George MacReady (Dr. Vincent Kenyon), Lori March (Edna Culross), James Griffith (Walter Hutchings), Jason Evers (Clint Miller), Paul Barselou (Resident), Stuart Erwin (Austin Durant), Nelson Leigh (Judge), John McNamara (Robert Shelby), Vera Marshe (Woman), Britt Lomond (Jack Culross), Don Lynch (Deputy), Chuck Hamilton (Postal Inspector), Carol Eve Rossen (Linda Burnside)

Artist Jack Culross fakes his own death and sees the sales of his paintings go through the roof. Unfortunately, Jack forgot to tell wife Edna about the scheme so when she finds out he's still alive the you know what hits the fan. Including Edna getting charged with her husband's murder.



133 :05x10 - The Case of the Injured Innocent

First aired: Nov/18/1961
Writer: Paul Franklin
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Guest star: Jess Barker (Walter Eastman), Raymond Bailey (Dr. Bell), Frank Maxwell (Dr. Mooney), Linda Lawson (Erin Mooney), Noel Drayton (Ellis), Alejandro Rey (Vincent Danielli), S. John Launer (Judge), Pitt Herbert (Autopsy Surgeon), Audrey Dalton (Kate Eastman), John Conte (Kirby Evans), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Cindy Ames Salerno (Secretary), Phil Arthur (Ralph Townley)

A really weird courtroom confession scene highlights this episode about the murder of a race car driver.



134 :05x11 - The Case of the Left-Handed Liar

First aired: Nov/25/1961
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Jerry Hopper
Guest star: Amzie Strickland (Clara Prentice), Dabbs Greer (Buzz Farrell), John Harmon (Lab Technician), Joan Banks (Rhonda Houseman), Henry Hunter (Baxter), Claude Stroud (Master), Alan Baxter (Eugene Houseman), Les Tremayne (Bernard Daniels), Maggie Pierce (Casey Daniels), Ed Nelson (Ward Nichols), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge), Leslie Parrish (Veronica Temple), Barbara Pepper (Overweight Woman), Wallace Rooney (Handwriting Expert), John Reach (Policeman), Richard Derr (Dr. Harrison Berry), Cynthia Patrick (Fencer)

A health club owner is found crunched to death with a dumbbell at his establishment. Perry's client is an employee who wanted to marry the victim's daughter.



135 :05x12 - The Case of the Brazen Bequest

First aired: Dec/02/1961
Writer: Robert Leslie Bellem
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: John Gallaudet (Judge), Alan Hewitt (Dr. Marcus Tate), James Millhollin (Professor Grove), Elvia Allman (Julia Slovak), Barbara Stuart (Maisie Freitag), Strother Martin (Pete Gibson), Nelson Olmsted (Dr. Hunterlin), Mort Mills (Sgt. Landro), Phyllis Avery (Mary Cromwell), Will Wright (James Vardon), Ernest Sarracino (Rafael Sandoval), Morris Erby (Jonas), Sally Mills (Nurse Talbot), John Wilder (Dick Wilson), William Allyn (Robert Haskell), Karl Weber (Charles Cromwell), Dick Whittinghill (Jerry), Joseph Julian (Deputy D.A. Horner)

A college president finds himself charged with murder not long after an old acquaintance makes an unusual bequest to the school.



136 :05x13 - The Case of the Renegade Refugee

First aired: Dec/09/1961
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Guest star: William Boyett (Buck Osborne), Denver Pyle (Emory Fillmore), John Gallaudet (Judge), Paul Lambert (Lawrence Vander), Jon Lormer (Autopsy Surgeon), Ronald Long (Arthur Hennings), Jess Kirkpatrick (Lou Kauffman), Frank Overton (Father Paul), Dick Foran (Harlan Merrill), Jennifer Howard (Winifred Dunbrack), Robert Nash (Colonel), John Sutton (Clifton Barlow), Victor Izay (Jones), Jo Summers (Miss Gibson), Donna Atwood (Phyllis Merrill)

A journalist is murdered while tracking a Nazi war criminal who might be posing as an executive at an aerospace company.



137 :05x14 - The Case of the Unwelcome Bride

First aired: Dec/16/1961
Writer: Helen Nielsen
Director: Gilbert Kay
Guest star: Alan Hale, Jr. (Lon Snyder), George E. Stone (Court Clerk), Torin Thatcher (Walter Frazer), Emile Meyer (Patrolman), Willis Bouchey (Judge), DeForest Kelley (Peter Thorpe), Melora Conway (Amanda Thorpe), Gerald Mohr (Medici), Diana Millay (Sue Ellen Frazer), Ben Young (Cary Duncan), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Bryan Grant (Gregson Frazer)

Wealthy Walter Frazer has always blamed his daughter-in-law for the failures of his no talent assclown son. You can only imagine how Frazer feels when his daughter-in-law is charged with his son's murder.



138 :05x15 - The Case of the Roving River

First aired: Dec/30/1961
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Jerry Hopper
Guest star: Paul Fix (D. A. Hale), Philip Ober (Harvey Farrell), Sarah Marshall (Judy Bryant), J. Pat O'Malley (Seth Tyson), Harry Carey, Jr. (Frank Deane), Ray Boyle (Neil Gilbert), June Vincent (Cloris Bryant), Sherwood Price (Ralph Ordway), Kelly Thordsen (Sheriff Vincent), Robert Lowery (Amos Bryant), Lewis Martin (Judge), Bruce Bennett (Matt Lambert)

Perry goes to the Manzana Valley to help settle a land dispute but the key witness in the case gets blown up by a homemade bomb.



139 :05x16 - The Case of the Shapely Shadow

First aired: Jan/06/1962
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Christian Nyby
Guest star: Phil Arnold (Smitty), Olan Soule (Water Company Man), Bill McLean (Newsdealer), John Zaremba (Autopsy Surgeon), John Dennis (Lt. Sophia), Robert Rockwell (Cole B. Troy), George N. Neise (Morley Thielman), Willis Bouchey (Judge), Dorothy Green (Carlotta Thielman), Ollie O'Toole (Dudley Roberts), Hal Smith (Moulage Man), Ray Hemphill (Henry Battle), Barbara Lawrence (Mrs. Thielman), Elaine Devry (Janice Wainwright), Austin Green (Meteorologist), James T. Callahan (Fred Carlyle)

A beautiful but naive secretary gets charged with the murder of her boss after a witness states that he saw a shapely shadow through the shades of the boss's office window shortly before the murder occurred.



140 :05x17 - The Case of the Captain's Coins

First aired: Jan/13/1962
Writer: Adrian Gendot
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Parley Baer (Edward Faraday), Don Beddoe (Carter Faraday), Jeremy Slate (Phillip Andrews), Tom Palmer (Charles Noyman), Henry Beckman (Garth), Eddie Quillan (Photographer), Morris Ankrum (Judge), Jay Novello (Nicholas Trevelian), Will J. White (Sailor), Arthur Franz (Evans), Lauren Gilbert (Henry Cosgrove), Herbert Rudley (Ben Faraday), Allison Hayes (Jane Weeks), Joan Patrick (Evelyn Faraday), Tafa Lee (Mrs. Ionescu)

Historian Phillip Andrews believes that his fiancee, Evelyn Faraday, is entitled to a share of a shipping company fortune but then finds himself accused of murdering the company's top man.



141 :05x18 - The Case of the Tarnished Trademark

First aired: Jan/20/1962
Writer: Oliver Crawford, Maurice Zimm
Director: Jerry Hopper
Guest star: Morgan Woodward (Carl Pederson), Marie Windsor (Edie Morrow), Karl Swenson (Axel Norstaad), Dennis Patrick (Martin Somers), Stafford Repp (Bartender), S. John Launer (Judge), Malcolm Atterbury (Maigret), Francis DeSales (Floyd Chapman), Robert Ball (Clerk), Tommy Farrell (Salesman), Harry Strang (2nd Workman), Thom Carney (Policeman), Frank Hagney (1st Workman), Edward Norris (Sam Hadley), Ted White (Foreman), Lisa Davis (Secretary), Don Dillaway (Ramsey), William Tracy (Motel Manager), Phillip Terry (Latham Reed), Osa Massen (Lisa Pederson)

Axel Norstaad sells his respected furniture trademark to Martin Somers, described by some as the slide trombone of the furniture business. Somers immediately begins stripping the company of its assets and churning out inferior products. Axel protests these developments vehemently and is charged with murder when Somers if found dead.



142 :05x19 - The Case of the Glamorous Ghost

First aired: Feb/03/1962
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Merry Anders (Sadie Hepner), Coleen Gray (Olga Jordan), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge), Jon Lormer (Dr. Oberon), Ziva Rodann (Suzanne Granger), Douglas Dick (Walter Richie), Mary Murphy (Eleanor Corbin), Jeanne Cooper (Ethel Belan), Vinton Hayworth (Homer Corbin)

Eleanor Corbin pleads amnesia when police find her running and screaming through the woods near her apartment building but this loss of memory does Eleanor little good when she is later charged with murder.



143 :05x20 - The Case of the Poison Pen-Pal

First aired: Feb/10/1962
Writer: Maurice Zimm
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Joan Tompkins (Florence Holman), Marshall Reed (First Officer), Douglas Henderson (Peter Gregson), Diana Darrin (Mrs. Thatcher), Kathryn Givney (Wilma Gregson), Charles Cooper (Ben Willoughby), Harry Jackson (Matt Clark), Patricia Breslin (Karen Ross), Everett Sloane (District Attorney), Bert Freed (Carl Holman), Naomi Stevens (Agnes), John Litel (Judge), Paul Genge (Inspector Wade), Wright King (Lee Gregson), Diane Mountford (Jill Thatcher), Richard St. John (Autopsy Surgeon), John McKee (Woodfern), Chrystine Jordan (Sandra Gregson), Sherry Hass (Court Clerk), Walter Kelly (Surgeon), Kathy Huber (Nurse)

A casual pen pal relationship between two young girls leads to insider information and murder.



144 :05x21 - The Case of the Mystified Miner

First aired: Feb/24/1962
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Francis D. Lyon
Guest star: John Gallaudet (Judge), Bartlett Robinson (Endicott Campbell), Maidie Norman (Maid), Helen Brown (Charlotte Jackson), Kathie Browne (Susan Fisher), Louise Lorimer (Cindy Hastings), Pitt Herbert (Autopsy Surgeon), Carlos Rivas (Alfredo Gomez), Stanja Lowe (Sophia Elliott), Sheila Bromley (Elizabeth Drew), Leonard P. Geer (Station Attendant), Josephine Hutchinson (Amelia Corning), Patrick Thompson (Carlton Campbell), Michael Harvey (Ken Lowry)

Perry tries to clear a smoking hot secretary in a case that begins with $200,000 mysteriously turning up in a shoebox and later disappearing. Other elements include a mine that's not running but still receiving a payroll and two women claiming to be the company owner.



145 :05x22 - The Case of the Crippled Cougar

First aired: Mar/03/1962
Writer: Bob Mitchell
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Bill Williams (Mike Preston), Tom Fadden (Watchman), Mort Mills (Sgt. Landro), Simon Scott (Elliott Dunbar), Rita Lynn (Lydia Reynolds), Noah Keen (Harlow Phipps), Willis Bouchey (Judge), Abigail Shelton (Paula Hamilton), Joe Benson (Deputy), John Bryant (Arnold Keith), Shary Marshall (Airline Agent), John Howard (Hugh Jamison), Florence Wyatt (Grace Keith)

Mike Preston despises Hugh Jamison because he mistakenly believes Jamison stole $100,000 from him and was responsible for him being crippled. Trying to entrap Jamison, Preston gets himself set up for murder by the real thief.



146 :05x23 - The Case of the Absent Artist

First aired: Mar/17/1962
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Lane Bradford (Arnold Buck), Richard Erdman (Charles Montrose), Ann Staunton (Woman), Pamela Curran (Leslie Lawrence), Victor Buono (Alexander Glovotsky), Arlene Martel (Fiona Cregan), Bill Zuckert (Judge), Barney Phillips (Newburg), Wynn Pearce (Pete Manders), Wes Bishop (Agnew), Zasu Pitts (Daphne Whilom), Patrick Waltz (Court Clerk), Mark Roberts (Gabe Phillips/Otto Gervaert), Marshall Kent (Man), Jay Barney (Harry Clark), Carl Don (Myer), Mabel Rea (Girl)

Cartoonist Pete Manders is elated when Gabe Phillips offers to sell him ownership of the comic strip "Zingy" for a song. Manders is less than elated when he learns that Phillips plans to leave for Europe with Manders' galpal Leslie and gets charged with the crime when Phillips turns up murdered.



147 :05x24 - The Case of the Melancholy Marksman

First aired: Mar/24/1962
Writer: Robb White
Director: Jerry Hopper
Guest star: Peter Baldwin (Tony Benson), John Harmon (Expert), William Schallert (Len Dykes), Paul Richards (Ted Chase), Jon Lormer (Medical Examiner), S. John Launer (Judge), Jesse White (Cecil), Edward Ashley (Charles Vale), Mari Blanchard (Irene Chase), Jeff Donnell (Sylvia Dykes), Betsy Hale (Betty Chase), Ann Rutherford (Ellen Chase), Shari Lee Bernath (Ann Chase), Cindy Robbins (Mabel Richmond), John Straub (Doctor)

Ted Chase comtemplates revenge when he discovers that his second wife might have been responsible for the death of his first wife. Someone else beats Ted to the punch but he gets charged with the murder.



148 :05x25 - The Case of the Angry Astronaut

First aired: Apr/07/1962
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Francis D. Lyon
Guest star: Steve Brodie (Eddie Lewis), James Coburn (General Addison Brand), Robert Bray (Matthew Heller), Patricia Donahue (Bonnie Winslow), John Marley (Matthew Owen), Robert Casper (Bruce Young), Jeanne Bal (Linda Carey), Dick Geary (Attendant), Paula Raymond (Terry Faye), Ned Roberts (Sewell), Richard Grant (Gordon Kendall), Tom Harkness (Judge)

Astronaut Matthew Heller is charged with murdering his old service rival, General Addison Brand, after Brand is put in charge of the astronaut program.



149 :05x26 - The Case of the Borrowed Baby

First aired: Apr/14/1962
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Corey Allen (Lester Menke), Hugh Marlowe (Jarvis Baker), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge), Nellie Burt (Hollie Cosgrove), Sara Taft (Mrs. Leander Kendrick), Gregory Morton (Dr. Paul Hogarthy), Charles Stroud (Court Clerk), Kaye Elhardt (Ginny Talbot), Maria Palmer (Florence Wood), Joan Petrone (Lenora Graves)

A baby that's mysteriously left on the doorstep of Perry's office leads to a case of murder.



150 :05x27 - The Case of the Counterfeit Crank

First aired: Apr/28/1962
Writer: Robert Leslie Bellem
Director: Jerry Hopper
Guest star: Otto Kruger (August Dahlgren), Jeanette Nolan (Martha Blair), Don Dubbins (Kenneth), Connie Hines (Sandra), John Larkin (Jay Fenton), Burt Reynolds (Chuck Blair), Michael King (Don Morley), William Woodson (Dr. Jackman), Paul Langton (Bertram Telford), Charles Irving (Judge #1), S. John Launer (Judge #2), William Keene (Bank Teller), John Hubbard (Joseph Tayback), Barney Biro (Judge #3), Russ Bender (Deputy Bowman), Paul McGuire (Deputy Turner), David Saber (Joe Fanning)

Is August Dahlgren really crazy or is he being cagily eccentric? Either way, he's charged with murder when his sleazy nephew turns up dead.



151 :05x28 - The Case of the Ancient Romeo

First aired: May/05/1962
Writer: True Boardman
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Antoinette Bower (Ellen Carson), Donald Curtis (Amos Martin), Stafford Repp (Shipping Agent), Robert Cornthwaite (Carl Bruner), Kendrick Huxham (Kelvin MacRae), Willis Bouchey (Judge), K. T. Stevens (Margit Bruner), Patricia Huston (Claire Adams), Jeff Morrow (Franz Lachman), Rex Reason (Steve Brock), Harry Von Zell (Phil Scharf), Charles Stroud (Court Clerk), Rosemary Day (Helen Finney)

Perry's friend Steve Brock is appearing in Romeo and Juliet. Perry and Della are in the audience when the lights go out during the Paris/Romeo dueling scene... and they come back up to reveal that leading man Franz Lachman, Romeo, is dead. When Brock is put on trial for the murder, Perry must stage a play of his own to solve the case.



152 :05x29 - The Case of the Promoter's Pillbox

First aired: May/19/1962
Writer: Peter Martin
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Geraldine Brooks (Miriam Waters), Dianne Foster (Nelly Lawton), George Mathews (Mike Flint), Ben Cooper (Davis Crane), Linden Chiles (Herbert Simms), Wesley Lau (Lt. Anderson), John Lasell (Charles Corby), Edmon Ryan (Jerome Stokes), John Gallaudet (Judge), Geraldine Wall (Mrs. Simms), James O'Hara (Kelsey), Danielle Aubry (Alice), Dan Seymour (Markett), Michael Fox (Coroner), Ivan Dixon (Parness), Kitty Kelly (Ethel Mowry), Chuck Webster (Gustavson), George Conrad (Chico)

Producer Charlie Corby steals a teleplay from up-and-comer Herbert Simms and prepares to produce it. When Corby turns up dead, a witness places Simms at the scene of the crime.



153 :05x30 - The Case of the Lonely Eloper

First aired: May/26/1962
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Jack Ging (Danny Pierce), John Dall (Julian Kirk), Jana Taylor (Merle Telford), Joan Staley (Gina Gilbert), Jorja Curtright (Olive Langley), Paul Tripp (Howard Langley), Billy Halop (Corbett), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge), Carole Anderson (Margo Stevens), John Zaremba (Dr. Wales), Ralph Reed (Messenger), Pepper Curtis (Guest), Maurice Wells (Doctor), Holly Harris (Doctor's Wife)

Naive and maladjusted Merle Telford is about to turn 21 and receive a substantial inheritance. As soon as she receives her money, Merle plans to run away from her guardians and elope with Danny Pierce but Danny is really a greedy schemer and Merle's supposed best friend, Gina Gilbert, is his accomplice. Paul Drake is hired by the guardians to keep Merle in line but when a murder is committed during her birthday party she gets arrested for the crime.



154 :06x01 - The Case of the Bogus Books

First aired: Sep/27/1962
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Raymond Greenleaf (Rare Book Curator), H. M. Wynant (Gene Torg), Michael Fox (Coroner), Phyllis Love (Ellen Carter), Joby Baker (Kenneth Carter), Maurice Manson (Joseph Kraft), Tenen Holtz (Mr. Gilfain), John Abbott (Professor Carlos Muntz), Woodrow Parfrey (George Pickson), John Alvin (Bank Teller), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge), Adam West (Pete Norland), Allison Hayes (Pearl Chute), William Tracy (Man), Renee Godfrey (Lady Librarian)

Joseph Kraft seems to be a harmless bookseller, but appearances decieve: Kraft earns thousands a year peddling forgeries of rare first edition books to unsuspecting marks! When Kraft dies, apparently the victim of a broken gas valve, the police soon suspect murder, and they charge Ellen Carter, one of Kraft's employees. But Perry Mason isn't convinced and comes to her defense.



155 :06x02 - The Case of the Capricious Corpse

First aired: Oct/04/1962
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: John Howard (Dr. Guy Omstead), Jacques Aubuchon (George Gage), Lee Farr (Nicholas Blake), Lori March (Olive Olmstead), Jan Shepard (Joanne Proctor), Jean Engstrom (Claudia Demming), Dennis Rush (Timmy), Evelyn Ward (Nurse Evelyn King), John Pickard (Detective Boykins), Teru Shimada (Ito Kumagi), Willis Bouchey (Judge), Juney Ellis (Chambermaid), Herbert Patterson (Auto Engineer), Ed Stoddard (Police Chemist), Alex Bookston (Druggist), Dick Geary (Diver (as Richard Geary)), Everett Glass (Carleton Gage), Gil Frye (Desk Clerk (as Gilbert Frye)), John Morley (Ernest Demming), Bill Hines (Waiter (as William Hines))

An orphanage's future hangs in the balance when its principal benefactor, Carleton Gage, lapses into a coma and then dies. A power struggle begins between beneficiaries who want to close the home and those who want to keep it open. And it is complicated when the police charge orphanage defender Joanne Proctor with Gage's murder.



156 :06x03 - The Case of the Playboy Pugilist

First aired: Oct/11/1962
Writer: Helen Nielsen
Director: Francis D. Lyon
Guest star: Gary Lockwood (Davey Carroll), Dianne Foster (Lori Richards), Dolores Michaels (Jo Sands), Robert Armstrong (Jimmy West), Mark Roberts (Tod Richards), Anthony Caruso (Keith Lombard), Joseph Sirola (George Hale), Mort Mills (Sergeant Landro), Sally Bliss (Kay McKenzie), John Gallaudet (Judge), J. Stewart Taylor (Sparring Partner (as Stewart Taylor)), Dee Stratton (Switchboard Opr. #1), Ben Erway (Hotel Manager), Mae Clarke (Switchboard Opr. #2), Pepper Curtis (Blonde), Dennis Richards (Mechanic), Marty Brenman (Bell Captain), Tom Simcox (Waiter)

Jimmy West may have found his ticket to the top: up and coming prize fighter Davey Carroll. But Davey likes the ladies and that causes problems for Jimmy that only Perry Mason can solve.



157 :06x04 - The Case of the Double-Entry Mind

First aired: Oct/18/1962
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Allen H. Miner
Guest star: Joan Staley (Sally), Richard Reeves (Potkin), Virginia Christine (Beth Sandover), Kathleen Hughes (Lita Krail), Grandon Rhodes (Judge), Stuart Erwin (Clem Sandover), Jack Betts (Enos Waterton), Paul Tripp (Steven Banks), Karl Weber (Frank Sellers), Pamela Branch (Typist)

All of Clem Sandover's fancy bookwork - he has painstakingly embezzled over $200,000 - may be for nothing when a fellow employee discovers his misdeeds. It's when she winds up dead and Sandy's wife stands accused that Perry Mason enters the case to defend his old friend Beth Sandover.



158 :06x05 - The Case of the Hateful Hero

First aired: Oct/25/1962
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Dick Davalos (James Anderson), Jeanette Nolan (Erna Norden), Mabel Albertson (Carrie Wilson), Edmon Ryan (Arthur Morrell), Leonard Stone (Jerel Leland), Sue England (Fleta York), William Phipps (Dwight Wilson), William Boyett (Otto Norden), Frank Gerstle (Det. Steve Toland), Mike Steele (Howard Duncan), Richard Tretter (Intern), George Ives (Police Board Chairman), S. John Launer (Judge), Leonard Bremen (Superintendent (as Lennie Bremen)), Jon Lormer (Autopsy Surgeon)

Lieutenant Anderson's cousin Jimmy and his partner Otto Norden discover a robbery in progress at Wilson's Plastics. Otto dies during the ensuing shoot-out and evidence implicates Jimmy as an inside man who helped the robbers. But it gets worse for the young policeman when someone murders a night watchman at Wilson's. Perry takes on the case as a favor to the Lieutenant.



159 :06x06 - The Case of the Dodging Domino

First aired: Nov/01/1962
Writer: Charles Lang
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Orville Sherman (Kirkwood), Janet Ward (Freda Chase), Robert H. Harris (Jerry Janda), Maureen Arthur (Vera Jordan), Tom Palmer (Frank MacManus), Eddie Firestone (Leonard Buckman), Lloyd Corrigan (Rudy Mahlsted), Ellen Burstyn (Mona Winthrope White (as Ellen McRae)), Jeff Morrow (Alex Chase), David Hedison (Damion White), Herbert Rudley (Charles Noymann), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Amanda Randolph (Grace), Pat Goldin (Old Man), James Forrest (Phil Schuyler), Barney Biro (Judge), Rusty Stevens (First Boy), Charlotte Thompson (Operator), Gary Hart (Second Boy), Diana Reese (Girl)

Halloween proves lethal for Phil Schuyler when someone arranges for his electric heater to share his bath. A witness claims only Damian White entered Schuyler's bungalow at the right time to be the killer, but Perry Mason has another theory.



160 :06x07 - The Case of the Unsuitable Uncle

First aired: Nov/08/1962
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Francis D. Lyon
Guest star: Sean McClory (Harry Fothergill), Liam Sullivan (Dickie Durham), Ford Rainey (Russell Durham), Howard Smith (Frank Warden), George Kane (Gil Simpson), Barbara Parkins (Paula Durham), Anna Lee (Crystal Durham), Charles Irving (Judge), Harvey Korman (Coleman (Bartender)), Paula Winslowe (Night Court Judge), Harp McGuire (Officer), Harry Bartell (Handwriting Analyst), Fern Barry (Helen (Maid)), George E. Stone (Court Clerk)

Richard 'Dickie' Durham returns to Los Angeles after spending nearly two decades asea. He plans on making up for the missed rowdiness, but someone has other plans - Dickie ends up dead. Perry defends his long-time crewman Harry Fothergill, who had a hundred thousand reasons to murder Dickie...



161 :06x08 - The Case of the Stand-In Sister

First aired: Nov/15/1962
Writer: Robert Leslie Bellem
Director: Allen H. Miner
Guest star: R. G. Armstrong (John Gregory), Peter Whitney (Stefan "Big Steve" Jahnchek), Peter Mamakos (Nick Paolo), Parley Baer (David Bickel), Susan Seaforth Hayes (Helen Gregory (as Susan Seaforth)), Steven Geray (Franz Moray), Meg Wyllie (Mrs. Margaret Stone), Walter Stocker (Van Bennett), Ralph Clanton (Karl Corby), S. John Launer (Judge), Allen Joseph (Senator Cord), Douglas Evans (William Rice), Michael Fox (Coroner), Jay Della (Davino (Marshal)), George Selk (Attendant), Charles Stroud (Court Clerk), Kay Farrington (Admitting Nurse)

The owner of a tuna fleet and a mobster both claim to be the father of a girl due a $100,000 trust fund bequest. Then a banker named Franz Moray discovers skulduggery in the handling of the trust fund, and someone shuts his mouth permanently. Perry steps in to defend John Gregory, the accused, who has a secret...



162 :06x09 - The Case of the Weary Watchdog

First aired: Nov/29/1962
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Mala Powers (Janet Brent), Doris Dowling (Zaneta Holmes), John Dall (Edward Franklin), Keye Luke (C.C. Chang), Wesley Addy (Alton Brent), Judy Dan (Trixie Tong), James Hong (Dean Chang), Kenneth Tobey (Asst. District Attorney Alvin), Philip Ahn (James Wong), Willis Bouchey (Second Judge), Robert Carson (Commodore Holmes (as Robert S. Carson)), Beulah Quo (Mrs. Tong), Seamon Glass (Policeman), Tom Harkness (First Judge)

Della asks Perry for $25,000. She needs it for her friend Janet, the victim of a blackmailer. Janet confronts the blackmailer Edward Franklin and hits him with a small statue. When Franklin turns up dead, the police charge Janet with his murder, and Della as an accessory! Someone hit Franklin three times with that statue; Janet swears she only hit him once. Perry has a personal stake in the outcome of this one.



163 :06x10 - The Case of the Lurid Letter

First aired: Dec/06/1962
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Mona Freeman (Jane Wardman), Edgar Buchanan (Judge Edward Daley), Robert Rockwell (Everett Rixby), Kaye Elhardt (Doris Wilson), Ann Doran (Mrs. Cornelia Slater), John Durren (Pat Mangan), Tom Lowell (Bobby Slater (as Thomas Lowell)), Noah Keen (Dr. Stephen Grant), Mark Murray (Terry Wardman), Kelly Thordsen (Sheriff Watson), Chris Alcaide (Gus Wiler), Elizabeth Harrower (Mrs. Mangan), Cheryl Miller (First Girl), Judee Morton (Second Girl), Nancy Lee (Third Girl), Greta Granstedt (Mrs. Sommers (as Greta Grandstadt)), Harry Travis (Mr. Mangan)

Someone starts a whispering campaign to smear widowed high school teacher Jane Wardman. It accuses her of romantic affairs with her students! Perry, on vacation, cannot rest. He takes up her cause and gets her a public hearing, in the midst of which a local turns up dead and new facts stand revealed about the death of a student months ago - a boy in whom Jane took an interest.



164 :06x11 - The Case of the Fickle Filly

First aired: Dec/13/1962
Writer: Bob Mitchell, Esther Mitchell
Director: Allen H. Miner
Guest star: Lisabeth Hush (Roberta Harper), Jim Davis (George Tabor), Mort Mills (Sergeant Landro), Joan Freeman (Jennifer Wakely), Jennifer Howard (Madeline Haines Shelby), Strother Martin (Joe Mead), Bartlett Robinson (Emmett Pierson), Bob McQuain (Brad Shelby), Frederick Worlock (Judge), Bill Quinn (H.B. Durell), Thomas A. Geas (Victor (as Tom Geas)), Earl Jolly Brown (Stable Hand (as Earl Brown))

Life mistreats Jennifer Wakely. First her fiancé leaves her for an older and wealthier woman. Then her father dies and her uncle tells her she's destitute - after she has lived a life of comfort. All she has left is a racehorse named Tiger Lily, but she loses that, too, to Brad Shelby. So when someone puts Shelby out of the picture, permanently, the police naturally suspect Jennifer. Fortunately, she has Perry Mason on her side.



165 :06x12 - The Case of the Polka-Dot Pony

First aired: Dec/20/1962
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Jesse White (Burt Renshaw), Virginia Field (Angela Fernaldi), Burt Metcalfe (Richard Campion), Ben Cooper (James Grove), Vivi Janiss (Margaret MacDonald), Melinda Plowman (Maureen Thomas), Eilene Janssen (Maureen Franklin), Jonathan Hole (Edward Link), Byron Foulger (Pop--Leverett Thomas), John Warburton (Mr. Campion), Doris Packer (Mrs. Campion), Morris Ankrum (Judge), Freeman Lusk (Man), Vince Townsend Jr. (Court Clerk)

Angela Fernaldi and Maureen Thomas both claim to be the heirs to a trust fund - whichever of them is telling the truth stands to collect $200,000. Burt Renshaw claims he knows - and can prove - which girl is telling the truth. So when someone murders him, the police naturally suspect Maureen, the girl he was about to disinherit.



166 :06x13 - The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe

First aired: Jan/03/1963
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Margaret O'Brien (Virginia Trent), Lurene Tuttle (Sarah Breel), Leonard Nimoy (Pete Chennery), Melora Conway (Ione Bedford), Richard Coogan (Sgt. Gifford), Arthur Batanides (Bill Golding), Blair Davies (Austin Cullens), Charles Irving (Judge), James Millhollin (Floorwalker), Shirley Mitchell (Saleswoman), Kenneth Patterson (Store Detective), Walter Kelley (Interne), Bernard Fein (Foreman), Vincent Troy (Andre (Matre d'))

A woman accused of shoplifting may have committed the crime to help her brother, a drunk with a gambling problem. But her problems are just beginning - someone shoots her brother's partner Austin Cullins, and a lot of evidence points to her. It only gets worse when her brother catches a fatal bullet...



167 :06x14 - The Case of the Bluffing Blast

First aired: Jan/10/1963
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Allen H. Miner
Guest star: Bill Williams (Floyd Grant), Frank Overton (Deputy D.A. Nelson Taylor), Peter Breck (Clay Elliot), Antoinette Bower (Linda Blake), Mary La Roche (Donella Lambert), Robert Knapp (Charles Lambert), Frank Ferguson (Sheriff Orville Ramsey), Gertrude Flynn (Sylvia Lambert), Jonathan Kidd (Joe Italiano), Ralph Manza (Dr. Lieberson), Bill Zuckert (Judge), William Fawcett (Mr. Morescu), William White (Cab Driver (as Bill Hampton))

Linda Blake comes to Ladera seeking an inheritance from her father, who never married. Someone tries to kill her by gassing her in her hotel room. Later, she agrees to meet a man who claims he has information. Actually, he plans to blow her up! But someone gets to the would-be killer first, bludgeoning him with a cane police can connect to Linda Blake!



168 :06x15 - The Case of the Prankish Professor

First aired: Jan/17/1963
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Constance Towers (Esther Metcalfe), John Gallaudet (Judge), Patricia Breslin (Laura Hewes), Don Dubbins (Ned Bertell), Kent Smith (Dr. Curtis Metcalfe), Joyce Van Patten (Sally Sheldon), Barry Atwater (Professor Ronald Hewes), Barbara Pepper (Mrs. Williamson), Jackie Searl (Ollie Benson), Laird Stuart (Student), John Bryant (Mike Estridge), Harold Goodwin (Clerk), Chris Washburn (Moncton)

Professor Ronald Hewes has published a novel, but the sad truth is that he stole it from a dead woman. Her sister wants a payoff. And the professor suspects his wife wants to murder him. When a man with enemies dies, the police have their work cut out for them. And when Perry Mason defends the suspect they choose, their job gets that much worse!



169 :06x16 - The Case of Constant Doyle

First aired: Jan/31/1963
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Allen H. Miner
Guest star: Bette Davis (Constant Doyle), George Mitchell (Desk Sergeant), Les Tremayne (Lawrence Otis), John Dennis (Police Lieutenant), Gil Perkins (Watchman), Frances Reid (Miss Givney), Michael Parks (Cal Leonard), Neil Hamilton (Fred McCormick), Peggy Ann Garner (Letty Arthur), Willis Bouchey (Judge), Jerry Oddo (Steven Arthur), Dorothy Edwards (Waitress), Dick Wilson (Prisoner), Marc Romaunt (Boy)

Cal Leonard, caught breaking into Otis Industries, tries to get Joe Doyle to help him. But Joe Doyle died a few months back, so Cal gets Joe's widow Constant, instead. Constant has such an easy time getting the charges dropped that she's suspicious, but she'll have another chance: someone murders Cal's cousin Steve, and Cal's back on the hot seat!



170 :06x17 - The Case of the Libelous Locket

First aired: Feb/07/1963
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Carlos Romero (Raul Perez), Dan Seymour (Pedro Dias), John Harmon (Fingerprint Expert), Nacho Galindo (Hotel Owner), Ruta Lee (Vivian Cosgrave), Norman Leavitt (Technician), Michael Fox (Physician), John Hoyt (Darwin Norland), Michael Rennie (Prof. Edward Lindley), S. John Launer (Judge), Jose Gonzales-Gonzales (Taximan), Kathryn Hart (Maid), Harry Von Zell (Sidney Hawes), Patrice Wymore (Maureen Norland), Robert Koff (Male Student), Paul Maxey (Plump Man), Patricia Manning (Janice Norland), Robert Howard (Young Man)

Professor of Law Edward Lindley regards trial lawyers as being less about the law and more about the performance. Then a student of his confesses to him that she killed a man by hitting him with a poker. Fortunately, that blow wasn't fatal. But the man was a blackmailer, and they make enemies, so when he does turn up dead later, the police have a suspect all but gift-wrapped, and Professor Lindley finds himself forced into a role he disdains...



171 :06x18 - The Case of the Two-Faced Turnabout

First aired: Feb/14/1963
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Hugh O'Brian (Bruce Jason), Lisa Gaye (Alyssa Laban), Trevor Bardette (Garrett Richards), Abraham Sofaer (Elihu Laban), Robert F. Simon (Philip Hillman), Werner Klemperer (Ulric Zenas), Berry Kroeger (Darius Tyson), Gregory Morton (Amos Waldemar), Joan Petrone (Tess Noyman), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge (as Kenneth MacDonald)), Henry Travis (T.V. Reporter), Walter Mathews (Second Reporter), Charles H. Radilak (Franz Schreck (as Charles H. Radilac)), William Woodson (Commentator), Dale Johnson (Ride Attendant)

Columnist Elihu Laban gets himself arrested for murder whilst attempting to obtain material for new columns - secret papers. With Perry unavailable, it falls to Bruce Jason to defend the newspaperman. But the plot thickens when it seems Bruce Jason may be the murderer!



172 :06x19 - The Case of the Surplus Suitor

First aired: Feb/28/1963
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Walter Pidgeon (Sherman Hatfield), Joyce Bulifant (Hollis Wilburn), James Best (Martin Potter), Carl Benton Reid (John Wilburn), Nellie Burt (Mrs. Abernathy), Linden Chiles (Vernon Elliot), Andrea King (Jean Crewe), Hayden Rorke (Gage McKinney), John Siegfried (Alex Gaussner), Lisa Davis (Receptionist), Jimmy Cross (Cabbie (as James Cross)), Grandon Rhodes (Judge), Jean Harvey (Cleaning Woman), Russ Grieve (Cop (as Russell Grieve))

John Wilburn, bothered by blackmail, seeks the aid of corporate lawyer Sherman Hatfield. Then someone punches John's ticket for good, and the police nab his niece Hollis. Sherman finds himself in an unfamiliar arena defending the young lady.



173 :06x20 - The Case of the Golden Oranges

First aired: Mar/07/1963
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Arthur Hunnicutt (Amos Keller), Natalie Trundy (Sandra Keller), Erin O'Brien (Janis Carr), Allen Case (James Wheeler), Arch Johnson (Gerald Thornton), Mary Munday (Grace Doyle), Hugh Sanders (John Grimsby), Henry Norell (Courtney Osgood), Lee Van Cleef (Edward Doyle), Charles Irving (Judge Stanley), Vic Perrin (Assistant D.A. Rice), Nolan Leary (Judge Gray), Michael Fox (Coroner), Wallace Rooney (Lab Technician), James Goodwin (Pound Attendant), Alex Bookston (Private Physician), Robert Rothwell (Earth Mover Operator)

Amos Keller's dog Hard Tack bites developer Gerald Thornton, so he hires Perry. Then someone murders Gerald Thornton, and the police charge Amos' niece Sandra. Can Perry, with a little help from Hard Tack, exonerate her?



174 :06x21 - The Case of the Lawful Lazarus

First aired: Mar/14/1963
Writer: True Boardman
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: David McLean (Trevor Harris), Maria Palmer (Nora Kasner), Irene Hervey (Jill Garson), Max Showalter (Clarence Henry), Philip Bourneuf (Edgar Thorne), Abigail Shelton (Michaela Martin (as Abbagail Shelton)), Joy Hodges (Clara Thorne), Kay Stewart (Barbara Billings), Morris Ankrum (Judge), Mack Williams (Doctor), Ted Stanhope (Pawn Broker)

When his wife becomes ill and will soon die, Trevor Harris reappears. Declared legally dead years earlier, he claims he wants to safeguard their children's interest. Her entire family rallies againt Harris, and before the dust settles Edgar Thorne lies dead and Harris has been charged with murder.



175 :06x22 - The Case of the Velvet Claws

First aired: Mar/21/1963
Director: Harmon Jones
Guest star: Patricia Barry (Eva Belter), James Philbrook (Harrison Burke), Wynn Pearce (Carl Griffin), Virginia Gregg (Mrs. Vickers), Anna Lisa (Norma Vickers (Anna-Lisa)), Richard Webb (George Belter), Harry Jackson (Frank Locket), Peter Leeds (Photographer), Paul Barselou (Expert (as Paul Barselow)), Cathie Merchant (Esther Linten), Ron Stokes (Deputy), Don Lynch (Traffic Officer), Kathy Willow (Switchboard Girl), Buddy Ochoa (Bellboy)

A photographer catches politician Harrison Burke and Eva Belter outside a night spot. He's concerned for his career, but she's more worried about her husband George. She asks Perry for help using a fake name and saying that a particular gossip magazine is blackmailing her. Perry takes a personal interest because a friend of his suicided over an article in that magazine and has nasty words with the owner - who turns out to be Eva's husband George! So when George winds up shot, Perry might find himself on the wrong side of the bars...



176 :06x23 - The Case of the Lover's Leap

First aired: Apr/04/1963
Writer: Robb White
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Julie Adams (Valerie Comstock), John Conte (Roy Comstock), Carleton Carpenter (Peter Brent), Richard Jaeckel (Willie), Maura McGiveney (Gloria Winters), Marvin Miller (F. J. Weatherby), John Gallaudet (Judge), Stewart Bradley (Bill Vaughan), Walter Coy (Mr. Lawson), Lewis Charles (Bartender), John Zaremba (Medical Examiner), Ken Renard (Divorce Judge), William Cord (Coast Guard Officer (as Bill Cord)), Henry Rowland (Watchman), Dick Geary (Diver (as Richard Geary)), Barry Brooks (Man), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Audrey Clark Caire (Polly Vaughan (as Audrey Caire))

Roy Comstock has a plan, and it's a beauty: swindle his partner Peter Brent and fake his own death so he can disappear! Sadly for Roy, someone makes his death all too real, and the police are sure it's Peter - until Perry steps in to explain it to them...



177 :06x24 - The Case of the Elusive Element

First aired: Apr/11/1963
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Harmon Jones
Guest star: Gloria Talbott (Bonnie Lloyd), Gerald Mohr (Austin Lloyd), Douglas Henderson (Dwight Garrett), George MacReady (Roscoe Pearce), Douglas Dick (Ned Chase), Ronald Long (Myron Baker), Elaine Devry (Terry Clover), S. John Launer (Judge), Jon Lormer (Coroner), Tommy Farrell (Robert Fordney), Billy Halop (Man), Ollie O'Toole (Grocery Clerk), Ray Dannis (Radio Salesman), Michael Harris (Sgt. Bruce), Guy Standing Jr. (Airline Clerk), Harry Fleer (Bank Teller)

Austin Lloyd and Dwight Garrett are partners - right up to the day Garrett discovers Lloyd is defrauding a client. Lloyd also knows his wife Bonnie loves Garrett. Faced with losing his livelihood and his love, Lloyd phonies up an attempt on his own life - and actually dies! The police charge Garrett, but Perry's convinced the man didn't murder his ex-partner.



178 :06x25 - The Case of the Greek Goddess

First aired: Apr/18/1963
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: John Larkin (John Kenyon), John Anderson (Dan O'Malley), Marianna Hill (Theba), Robert Harland (Ken Judson), Faith Domergue (Cleo Grammas), George Kennedy (George Spangler), Russell Arms (Roger Correll), Tol Avery (Charles L. Welsh), Willis Bouchey (Judge), William Hughes (Policeman), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice)

Sculptor John Larkin has it bad for his young and attractive Greek model Theba. But he knows her mother will never permit them to marry, and that Theba has a boyfriend her own age. Then someone murders Cleo, and a witness comes forward who saw John throw a woman's body from a cliff!



179 :06x26 - The Case of the Skeleton's Closet

First aired: May/02/1963
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Keith Andes (Dave Weaver), Peggy McCay (Margaret Layton), Frank Aletter (Harry Collins), Michael Pate (Richard Harris), David Lewis (Albert McCann), Pat Finley (Grace Kingman), John Heath (George Layton), Walter Mathews (Second Reporter), Diane Mountford (Janet Layton), Linda Marshall (Norma Weaver), Toby Michaels (Secretary), Sally Smith (Nancy Layton), Pitt Herbert (Dr. Desmond), John Truax (Guard), Jarone Bakewell (First Reporter), Dabbs Greer (Jack Tabor)

Richard Harris has written a thinly-veiled exposé of Cliffside Heights' dirty laundry. Outraged residents hire Perry to sue the author and Perry almost succeeds. Then someone murders Harris, and the police discover that a woman named Margaret Layton has a powerful motive. But Perry isn't convinced, and agrees to defend her.



180 :06x27 - The Case of the Potted Planter

First aired: May/09/1963
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Constance Ford (Frances), Diane Brewster (Andrea Walden), Paul Fix (District Attorney Hale), Mark Goddard (Roy Mooney), Robert Bray (Martin Walden), Joe Maross (Nelson Tarr), Davey Davison (Melinda Tarr), Harry Lauter (Chris Hearn), William Allyn (David Pinter), Frank Behrens (Doctor Oldham), Robert Foulk (Delehanty), Allan Hunt (Jimmie Moore), David Macklin (Boy), James Forster (Judge), Pepper Curtis (Receptionist), Richard Emory (Intern), Jaclyn Carmichael (Girl)

Martin Walden's sister pays his nephew to fake an affair with his wife Andrea. But Martin already suspected Andrea was stepping out with her old flame Nelson Tarr! Is this Palmetto, or Peyton Place? Either way there's bad blood between Tarr and Walden, so when someone murders Walden, Tarr winds up in a sticky situation from which only Perry can free him!



181 :06x28 - The Case of the Witless Witness

First aired: May/16/1963
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Robert Middleton (Judge Daniel Redmond), David White (Victor Kendall), Jackie Coogan (Gus Sawyer), Steve Brodie (Quinn Torrey), Florida Friebus (Marian Lamont), Rita Lynn (Madge Eberly), Vaughn Taylor (Martin Weston), Lee Bergere (James Wall), Harry Holcombe (Senator Deering), Grandon Rhodes (Judge), Larry Thor (Commentator), Michael Fox (Coroner), Henry Hunter (Attorney), Jason Johnson (Second Senator)

Appellate judge Daniel Redmond may be appointed lieutenant governor. But an alcoholic named Martin Weston will testify that Judge Redmond was part of a plot to defraud the government years earlier. So when Weston departs the mortal coil, the police have a natural suspect, unless Perry Mason steps up to help the man who just handed him a rare court defeat!



182 :07x01 - The Case of the Nebulous Nephew

First aired: Sep/26/1963
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Arthur Space (Leonard), Ivan Dixon (Caleb Stone), Irene Tedrow (Sister Theresa), Beulah Bondi (Sophia Stone), Hugh Marlowe (Ernest Stone), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge), Meg Wyllie (Nineveh Stone), Ron Starr (John Brooks), Mark Roberts (Wayne Jamison), Linda Marshall (Young Nun), Kate Manx (Irene Stone)

John Brooks comes up with a new twist to convince Sophia and Ninevah Stone that he's the rightful heir to their fortune. When murder results, Perry reluctantly defends Brooks.



183 :07x02 - The Case of the Shifty Shoebox

First aired: Oct/03/1963
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Denver Pyle (Frank Honer), Ray Teal (Joe Downing), Constance Ford (Sylvia Thompson), Bill Mumy (Miles), Diane Ladd (Miss Frances), Russ Conway (Deputy), Jim Boles (Night Man), Willis Bouchey (Judge), Benny Baker (John Flickinger), Joseph Sirola (Bill Sheridan), Pat Coghlan (Chuck), Henry Travis (TV Announcer), Lincoln Wilmerton (Deputy #2)

No-talent crook John Flickenger pulls off a robbery without a hitch but then his young nephew finds the gun used in the heist. The entire business soon leads to murder.



184 :07x03 - The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito

First aired: Oct/10/1963
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Arthur Hunnicutt (Sandy Bowen), Russell Collins (Banning Grant), Kathleen Crowley (Lillian Braddison), Clinton Sundberg (Deputy Coroner Chute), Robert J. Wilke (Deputy Sheriff Connors), Archie Moore (Jason Sparks), Strother Martin (Gerald Summers), Robert Knapp (James Braddison), Ann Doran (Nell Wyatt), Woodrow Parfrey (George Moffat), Richard Derr (Hayward Small), Garry Walberg (Asst. D.A. Northridge), Charles Stroud (Man No. 1), Jack Fife (Man No. 2)

A rumored lost gold mine leads to murder in a desert town.



185 :07x04 - The Case of the Deadly Verdict

First aired: Oct/17/1963
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Joan Tompkins (Emily Green), Steve Franken (Christopher Barton), Bernie Gozier (Guide), Kathleen O'Malley (Matron #1), Olan Soule (Court Clerk), Michael Fox (Dr.Hoxie), Julie Adams (Janice Barton), Sally Hughes (Dr. Faulkner), Robert Gibbons (Foreman), S. John Launer (Judge), Mike Mazurki (Arthur Jacks), Hollis Irving (Violet Barton-Ames), Jan Shepard (Paulette Nevin), Lee Bergere (Dr. Nevin), Erin O'Brien (Letitia Simmons), Marie Worsham (Elizabeth Carson), Holly Harris (Matron #2), Sherry Hall (Bailiff)

Janice Barton is found guilty of the murder of her wealthy relative and sentenced to death. Can Perry find the evidence to clear her of the crime before the pellets in the gas chamber fall?



186 :07x05 - The Case of the Decadent Dean

First aired: Oct/24/1963
Writer: Joseph Lamont, Samuel Newman
Director: Earl Bellamy
Guest star: Milton Selzer (Aaron Stuart), Joan Tetzel (Marian Stuart), Lloyd Corrigan (Harvey Forrest), H. M. Wynant (Tobin Wade), Eddie Firestone (Jenkins), Paul Lukather (Chuck Emmett), Kelly Thordsen (Sheriff Ward Vincent), Blair Davies (John Marshall Baxter), Lauren Gilbert (Mr. Ryan), Stanja Lowe (Janet Gwynne), Richard "Dick" Simmons (Mr. Ogden (as Richard Simmons)), Lewis Martin (Judge One), Albert Vail (Judge Two (as Albert A. Vail)), Geraldine Wall (Mrs. Perkins), Willis Robards (Mr. Baker), Thomas Alexander (John (as Tommy Alexander)), Don Parker (Bruce Perkins), Shelley Ames (Grace Witt)

Perry defends the dean of a prep school on charges of killing a faculty member who had been a liar, thief, and blackmailer.



187 :07x06 - The Case of the Reluctant Model

First aired: Oct/31/1963
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: John Larkin (Otto Olney), Robert Brown (Goring Gilbert), Joanna Moore (Grace Olney), Margaret Hayes (Leslie Rankin), John Dall (Colin Durant), Erin O'Donnell (Maxine Lindsay), Carl Prickett (Oscar Pickering), Charles Irving (Judge), Shirley Mitchell (Ticket Woman), Kitty Kelly (Agnes Newton), Walter Mathews (First Reporter), Dick Garton (Second Reporter), Noel Drayton (Art Expert), Ida Mae McKenzie (Housewife), Julia Faye Thomas (Assistant in Art Gallery), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), C. Lindsay Workman (Yacht Steward (as Lindsay Workman)), Louise Lane (Critic)

Crude art collector Otto Olney purchases a Gauguin but art expert Colin Durant says it's a fake. Olney gets Perry to sue Durant for libel but he ends up defending a model when the expert is found murdered.



188 :07x07 - The Case of the Bigamous Spouse

First aired: Nov/14/1963
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Karl Swenson (Corley Ketchum), Jackie Loughery (Nell Grimes), Claude Stroud (Bolton), Michael Conrad (Felton Grimes/Frank Gillette), Allan Melvin (Carl Jasper), Charles Irving (Judge), Pippa Scott (Gwynn Elston), Patrick McVey (George Baker), Ann Mitchell (Mrs. Gillette), Betsy Hale (Little Girl)

Gwynn Elston moves in with galpal Nell Grimes because Nell's husband is frequently absent but then Gwynn discovers that her friend's hubby is leading a double life. Murder is the end result.



189 :07x08 - The Case of the Floating Stones

First aired: Nov/21/1963
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Don Weis
Guest star: Marshall Reed (Fisherman), Irene Tsu (Julie Eng), James Hong (Louis Kew), Baynes Barron (Chowan), Ken Lynch (Wendel), Gertrude Flynn (Agatha Culpepper), Joyce Jameson (Lorraine Iverson), Walter Brooke (District Attorney), Walter Janowitz (Dr. Lefcourt), Bill Zuckert (Judge), Dale Ishimoto (Lao), Jerry Oddo (Ralph Iverson), Richard Loo (Eng), Victor Maddern (Gilbert Tyrell), James Forrest (Tudor Sherwin), Gilchrist Stuart (Inspector Richie)

It's Perry to the rescue when Julie Eng's precious gems left to her by her grandfather turn up missing and the thief who swiped them turns up dead.



190 :07x09 - The Case of the Festive Felon

First aired: Nov/28/1963
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Earl Bellamy
Guest star: Jon Hall (Max Randall), Sherry Jackson (Madeline Randall), Kathie Browne (Carla Eden), Anne Seymour (Hetty Randall), Jeff Morrow (Lawton Brent), Ray Stricklyn (Reed Brent), Gilbert Green (Chester Brent), Elisabeth Fraser (Eloise Brent), John Howard (Justin Grover), Nelson Leigh (Judge), Anne Barton (Bebe Brent), Michael Fox (Surgeon), Marshall Reed (Policeman), Louise Fitch (Mrs. Taylor (as Louise Lewis))

Dying Bebe Brent gives the bulk of her estate to her loyal nurse. Needless to say, this act angers the rest of the Brent clan and leads to a murder.



191 :07x10 - The Case of the Devious Delinquent

First aired: Dec/05/1963
Writer: Robb White
Director: Irving J. Moore
Guest star: Virginia Christine (Edith Summers), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge), Jon Lormer (Medical Examiner), John Mitchum (Operative), David Winters (Chick Montana), Barton MacLane (Harold Minter), Johnny Washbrook (Timmy Balfour), Frances Rafferty (Miss Alder), Otto Kruger (Timothy Balfour), David Lewis (Luke Balfour), David Clegg (Greasy Neale)

Young Timmy Balfour has begun hanging out with a bunch of juvenile delinquents and things go from awful to good grief when he's charged with murder.



192 :07x11 - The Case of the Bouncing Boomerang

First aired: Dec/12/1963
Writer: Arthur Orloff
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Paul Picerni (Walter Jeffries), Ralph Moody (Morgan), Alan Hale, Jr. (Nelson Barcliff), Parley Baer (Willard Hupp), Rod Cameron (Grover Johnson), Frederic Downs (Judge), Ed Peck (Prosecutor), Nelson Olmsted (Dr. Lewis), Wright King (Sidney Welpo), Berkeley Harris (Les Gilpin), Diana Millay (Eula Johnson), John Pickard (Sheriff)

Grover Johnson's wife, Eula, hates living on their barren ranch spread so they're both overjoyed when wealthy Texas Nelson Barcliff comes along and offers to purchase the property. But things aren't exactly as they seem and when both Barcliff and Eula end up dead, Grover gets charged with Eula's murder.



193 :07x12 - The Case of the Badgered Brother

First aired: Dec/19/1963
Writer: Bob Mitchell, Esther Mitchell
Director: Earl Bellamy
Guest star: L. Q. Jones (Lewis), Orville Sherman (Hotel Clerk), John Gallaudet (Judge), Peter Walker (Martin Baylor), Arthur Peterson (Dr. McBurney), Nancy Kovack (Carla Rinaldi), C. Lindsay Workman (House Man), Robert Harland (Todd Baylor), George Petrie (Orin Leslie), Patricia Blair (Nicolai Wright), Patrice Wymore (Jane Alder), Vera Marshe (Maid), Gregory Morton (Joseph Rinaldi), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice)

Brothers Martin and Todd Baylor are feuding over ownership of a chain of department stores so when Martin ends up with a knife stuck in his back one evening Todd gets charged with his murder.



194 :07x13 - The Case of the Wednesday Woman

First aired: Jan/02/1964
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Irving J. Moore
Guest star: Ralph Manza (Amos Elwell), Marie Windsor (Helen Reed), Phillip Pine (Phillip Stewart), John Cliff (Guard), John Hoyt (Thomas Webber), Bill Idelson (Ticket Agent), William Fawcett (Pawn Broker), Michael Pate (Jack Mallory), Douglas Dick (Lester Ormesby), Lisa Gaye (Joyce Hadley), Morris Ankrum (Judge), Phyllis Hill (Katherine Stewart), Alvy Moore (Cab Driver), Pedro Gonzales Gonzales (Rosie Dell), Greta Granstedt (Manager)

A wife's ears perk up when an insurance investigator informs her that he has proof that her husband was wrongfully convicted of the crime for which he is imprisoned. Then the insurance investigator turns up dead and the case hinges upon goings on in an elevator.



195 :07x14 - The Case of the Accosted Accountant

First aired: Jan/09/1964
Writer: Albert Vail, Samuel Newman
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Richard Anderson (Edward Lewis), Dee Hartford (Leslie Ross), Murray Matheson (B. K. Doran), Gail Kobe (Gertrude Lewis), Lynn Bari (Sylvia Cord), Leonard Stone (Arthur Sutton), J. Edward McKinley (Walter Cord), Jean Engstrom (Vera Hillman), Robert Armstrong (Phil Jenks), John Gallaudet (Judge Penner)

Edward Lewis gets into increasingly bitter arguments with his father-in-law which make him suspect number one when the old man turns up murdered.



196 :07x15 - The Case of the Capering Camera

First aired: Jan/16/1964
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: John Harmon (Fingerprint Man), Edmon Ryan (Lewis Ames), John Zaremba (Coroner), Grandon Rhodes (Judge), Len Hendry (Police Photographer), Mark Dempsey (Norman Ames), Kurt Kreuger (Karl Kadar), Paula Raymond (Katherine Ames), Karyn Kupcinet (Penny Ames), Margaret Mason (Receptionist), Elaine Stewart (Irene Grey), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Margo Moore (Judith Blair), Eric Feldary (Jacob Kadar), Byron Palmer (Harper Green)

Perry tries to figure out who shot a photographer while a model pointed a loaded gun at him but didn't fire.



197 :07x16 - The Case of the Ice-Cold Hands

First aired: Jan/23/1964
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Joyce Bulifant (Nancy Banks), Dick Davalos (Rodney Banks), Dabbs Greer (Larson Halstead (Larson E. Halstead)), Lisabeth Hush (Lorraine Lawton), Arch Johnson (Marvin Freemont), Phyllis Coates (Inez Freemont), Paul Bryar (Burdett), John Goddard (Sgt. McClanahan), Henry Norell (Jarvis Nettle Gilmore), Willis Bouchey (Judge), Art Lewis (Man), Alex Bookston (Court Reporter), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Dorothy Edwards (Juror), Charles Stroud (Court Clerk), Thalmus Rasulala (Officer (as Jack Crowder))

Sweet but ditzy Nancy Banks wants Perry to cash a bundle of winning racing tickets for her but her former employer claims the tickets as his own. Nancy then gets even deeper into trouble when she's charged with the ex-employer's murder.



198 :07x17 - The Case of the Bountiful Beauty

First aired: Feb/06/1964
Writer: Robb White
Director: Irving J. Moore
Guest star: Sandra Warner (Stephanie Carew), Ryan O'Neal (John Carew), Zeme North (Deborah Dearborn), Douglas Fowley (Rubin Cason), John van Dreelen (Gideon Long), Maxwell Reed (Chet Worth), Jean Carson (Mrs Mitchell), John Zaremba (Medical Examiner), Sydney Smith (Judge), George Cisar (Neighbor), Fifi D'Orsay (Mrs. Davis), Lonnie Blackman (Miriam Worth (as Lonie Blackman)), Barbara Wilkin (Switchboard Operator), Fern Barry (Maid)

Deborah Dearborn is a 20 year-old novelist who has
unknowingly written a novel on her ex-boyfriend's
stepmother. Although John Carew warns her,
his stepmother finds Deborah and threatens to sue her.
Real trouble strikes when the stepmother is found murdered and Deborah must turn to Perry Mason for help.



199 :07x18 - The Case of the Nervous Neighbor

First aired: Feb/13/1964
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Paul Winchell (Henry Clement), Richard Rust (Charles Fuller), Jeanne Cooper (Mary Browne), Katherine Squire (Vera Hargrave), Sheila Bromley (Alice Bradley), Les Tremayne (George Browne), Barry Atwater (Karl Dickenson (G.B. Atwater)), Booth Colman (Doctor Younger), Francis X. Bushman (Phillip), Jesslyn Fax (Little Old Lady), S. John Launer (Judge)

Mason's first client in this one is an amnesia victim accused of the murder of her husband. His second is her son who's accused of the murder of a blackmailing neighbor.



200 :07x19 - The Case of the Fifty-Millionth Frenchman

First aired: Feb/20/1964
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: David McCallum (Phillipe Bertain), Jacques Bergerac (Armand Ravel), Roxane Berard (Ninette Ravel), Janet Lake (Carole Ogilvie), Jackie Coogan (Ron Litton), Coleen Gray (Linda Sutton), Don Collier (Peter Hayes), Arthur Franz (Ray Ogilvie), Naomi Stevens (Mrs. Kransdorf), Gene O'Donnell (Prosecutor), Tom Greenway (Dick Jenkins), Kenneth Patterson (Judge), Lisa Davis (Girl Skier), Stuart Randall (Sheriff Max Taylor), Clark Howat (Tower Man)

Phillipe Bertain begins giving money to an old lady love from his hometown. She says it's because she wants enough money to leave her abusive husband but in reality it's all a scam for cash. When the husband is poisoned to death, Phillipe gets charged with the crime.



201 :07x20 - The Case of the Frightened Fisherman

First aired: Feb/27/1964
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Mala Powers (Helen Bradshaw), Connie Gilchrist (Mrs. Pennyworth), Lee Farr (Randolph James), Marian Collier (Natalie James), Ilze Taurins (Gretchen Lang), Richard Devon (Marion Devlin), Bartlett Robinson (Hudson Bradshaw), Émile Genest (Hans Lang), William Smith (Andy Witcoe (as Bill Smith)), Connie Cezon (Gertie), Richard H. Cutting (Blind Fisherman (as Richard Cutting)), Stacy Keach, Sr. (Lt. Gibson (as Stacy Keach)), Kort Falkenberg (Interne), Ray Walker (Fake Fisherman), Walter Stocker (1st Police Officer), Seamon Glass (2nd Police Officer), Dick Geary (3rd Police Officer (as Richard Geary)), Harry Strang (Lab Parking Guard), Tom Harkness (Judge)

Charged with the murder of his estranged wife, Randolph James claims he was fishing at the time of her death but nobody can find the fisherman to substantiate his story.



202 :07x21 - The Case of the Arrogant Arsonist

First aired: Mar/05/1964
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Tom Tully (Carey York), Frank Aletter (Tommy Towne), Jeff York (Ross Walker), Wynn Pearce (Dorian York), Elaine Devry (Sylvia Gwynne), Russell Thorson (Farrell Moorefield), Byron Morrow (Captain Hillman), Connie Cezon (Gertie), Tenen Holtz (Otto Joseph), Holly McIntire (Elaine Joseph), John Gallaudet (Judge), Tommy Farrell (Herbert Baker), Michael Harris (Cameraman), Robert Chadwick (Policeman), Robert Kenneally (Radio Dispatcher), Coby Denton (Phone Dispatcher), Lester Dorr (Bailiff)

A former fire chief wants Perry to bring a libel suit against a reporter who accused him of burning down his own warehouse. Instead of libel, Perry ends up defending the chief on a murder charge.



203 :07x22 - The Case of the Garrulous Go-Between

First aired: Mar/12/1964
Writer: Philip Saltzman
Director: Irving J. Moore
Guest star: Sue Randall (Amy Scott/Arnell Stiller), Lori March (Madame Zillia), Jacques Aubuchon (Victor Bundy), Anthony Eisley (Howard Kern), Merry Anders (Joyce Carlton), Lillian Buyeff (Dora), John Napier (Tommy Stiller), Nelson Leigh (Judge), Charles Stroud (Court Clerk), Gil Frye (Apt. Hotel Clerk)

A fortune teller's prediction's begin coming true with deadly accuracy for a woman when she goes on trial for murder.



204 :07x23 - The Case of the Woeful Widower

First aired: Mar/26/1964
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Jerry Van Dyke (James Douglas), Harry Townes (Newton Bain), Nancy Gates (Mary Douglas), Joan Banks (Nellie Conway), Joyce Meadows (Carole Moray), Anne Carroll (Georgiana Duncan), Shirley Mitchell (Elizabeth Bain), Allen Joseph (Prosecutor), Frank Gerstle (Sgt. Steve Toland), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge (as Kenneth MacDonald)), Alexander Lockwood (Dr. Stevenson), Edmund Glover (Municipal Judge), Steve Pendleton (Duncan), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Connie Cezon (Herself)

Perry gets a call from a frantic housekeeper named Nellie Conway who thinks her employer is plotting to murder his wife.



205 :07x24 - The Case of the Simple Simon

First aired: Apr/02/1964
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Victor Buono (John Sylvester Fossette), Virginia Field (Ramona Carver), Tom Conway (Guy Penrose), Doug Lambert (Doug McKenzie), James Stacy (Scott Everett), Don 'Red' Barry (Red Doyle (as Donald Barry)), Malachi Throne (Sandifer), David Macklin (Dyker), Jay Barney (District Attorney), William Keene (Rogers), Douglas Evans (Clerk), Sherwood Keith (Ogden G. Kramer), Ted Stanhope (Maitre'd), Pepper Curtis (Waitress)

Murder is the end result when actress Ramona Carver is confronted by a man claiming to be her son.



206 :07x25 - The Case of the Illicit Illusion

First aired: Apr/09/1964
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Irving J. Moore
Guest star: Mona Freeman (Rosanne Ambrose), Keith Andes (Dr. Jesse Young), Ron Randell (Hubert Ambrose), Norma Varden (Winifred Wileen), Rebecca Welles (Leslie Eden), Jena Engstrom (Vera Janel), Oliver McGowan (Fillmore Garrett), Berry Kroeger (Kirk Cameron), Willis Bouchey (Judge Two), John Gallaudet (Judge), Dick Garton (Lt. Barlow), Melville Ruick (Michael Rancer), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice)

Mason is hired by a woman after a series of bizarre events convince the woman that she's going crazy.



207 :07x26 - The Case of the Antic Angel

First aired: Apr/16/1964
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Michael Ansara (Vince Kabat), George Tobias (Sidney Falconer), Peter Breck (William Sherwood), Richard Erdman (Harry Niles), Bek Nelson (Dana Kent), Cathleen Cordell (Maggie Malecki), Logan Field (Sergeant), Alexander Lockwood (Medical Examiner), Morris Ankrum (Judge), Tracy Morgan (Waitress), Billy Halop (Barman), Jimmy Cross (Panhandler (as James Cross)), Janet Dey (Lynn Bowman), Larry Barton (Clerk)

Recovering alcoholic William Sherwood starts hitting the bottle again after seeing his wife, who's supposedly been dead for five years. When she turns up dead for real, Sherwood is arrested for her murder.



208 :07x27 - The Case of the Careless Kidnapper

First aired: Apr/30/1964
Writer: Robb White
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Tom Lowell (David Pelham (as Thomas Lowell)), Marilyn Erskine (Susan Pelham), Burt Metcalfe (John Lathrop), Mimsy Farmer (Sande Lukins), Mark Slade (Michael Da Vinci), Peter Hobbs (Gregory Pelham), Regina Gleason (Mary Manning), Tudor Owen (Capt. Horatio Jones), Ron Kennedy (Joe Velvet), Gale Gerber (First Girl), Frances Karath (Second Girl (as Francie Karath)), Pamela Baird (Third Girl), Gilbert Gardner (Boy), Garland Thompson (Lab Expert), Barbara Fuller (Maid), Harry Stanton (Judge), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice)

A phony kidnapping note gets into the wrong hands and murder is the end result.



209 :07x28 - The Case of the Drifting Dropout

First aired: May/07/1964
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Cynthia Pepper (Annalee Fisher), Malcolm Atterbury (Dell Harper), Carl Reindel (Barry Davis), Vaughn Taylor (Sanford Harper), Natalie Norwick (Miss Standish), Ted de Corsia (Mort Lynch (as Ted deCorsia)), Neil Hamilton (Grove Dillingham), Blair Davies (Prosecutor), Harry Holcombe (Judge), House Peters, Jr. (Plainclothesman), Don Haggerty (Police Chief), Alex Montoya (Neighbor), Seamon Glass (Officer)

Dropout Barry Davis is accused of bashing small town junk dealer/mayoral candidate Mort Lynch's head in with a monkey wrench. Perry defends Barry and discovers that the case hinges on a 20 year old counterfeiting scheme involving Barry's late uncle and a few of the town's prominent citizens.



210 :07x29 - The Case of the Tandem Target

First aired: May/14/1964
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Irving J. Moore
Guest star: Philip Ober (Sumner Hodge), Ann Rutherford (Mona Hodge), Paul Carr (Con Bolton), Lonny Chapman (Jack Talley), Natalie Trundy (Irma Hodge), Dan Seymour (Leo Lazaroff), Vince Barnett (Noonan), Tom Fadden (Cooper), Barney Biro (Judge), Pat Priest (Miss Young)

Con Bolton is accused of murdering his fiancee's stepfather when witnesses say they saw him fooling around with the brakes minutes before the stepfather perished in an accident.



211 :07x30 - The Case of the Ugly Duckling

First aired: May/21/1964
Writer: Richard Landau
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Anne Whitfield (Alice Trilling), Constance Towers (Natalie Graham), Reginald Gardiner (Albert Charity), Adam Lazarre (Anthony Usher), Max Showalter (Talbot Spear), Ford Rainey (Harry Triling), S. John Launer (Judge), Jay Adler (Herman), Frances Morris (Landlady), William Boyett (Police Officer), Dick Geary (Scuba Fella), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice)

Under the term's of her father's will, the unattractive Alice Trilling must marry within one year in order to inherit ownership of the old man's company. Uncle Harry, who's currently in control of the company, then begins playing matchmaker behind the scenes for reasons of his own. It all leads to Alice being charged with a murder for which she herself believes she's guilty.



212 :08x01 - The Case of the Missing Button

First aired: Sep/24/1964
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Richard Donner
Guest star: Robert Riordan (Janice's Lawyer), Julie Adams (Janice Blake), Alan Baxter (Roger Gray), Ed Nelson (Dirk Blake), Dee Hartford (Lois Gray), Stanley Adams (Pancho Morado), Pitt Herbert (Coroner's Physician), Mike Mazurki (Cully Barstow), Charles Irving (Judge), Garland Thompson (Lab Expert), David Macklin (Mike Sommers), Ruth Packard (Miss Smithers), Claire Wilcox (Button Blake), Anthony Eisley (Vince Rome), Dick Geary (Scuba Diver), Otto Kruger (Judge Norris), Joe Dominguez (Bartender), Lysa D'anjou (Naomi Sutherland), Jean Macrae (Woman At Motel)

A murder interrupts a man's charges to prove his ex-wife is an unfit mother.



213 :08x02 - The Case of the Paper Bullets

First aired: Oct/01/1964
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Richard Anderson (Jason Foster), Lynn Loring (Susan Foster), Patrick McVey (Harry Mardig), Jan Shepard (Margaret Foster), Melora Conway (Alma Rice), Ford Rainey (Randolph Cartwell), Arthur Space (Edgerton Cartwell), Frank Marth (Carl Rohr), Booth Colman (Prosecutor), Stewart Moss (David Cartwell), Carl Prickett (Rufus Findley), House Peters, Jr. (Lt. Jeffers), Lou Krugman (Gambling Boss), Joel Fluellen (Bartender), Paul Barselou (Coroner's Physician), Jason Johnson (Judge), William Tracy (Photographer), Anne Ayars (Woman Reporter), Robert Rothwell (Campaign Worker No. 1), John Truax (Taxi Driver), Barry Brooks (Croupier), Jack Fife (Campaign Worker No. 2), Charles Stroud (Court Clerk)

A romance between members of rival political families finds Perry Mason caught in the middle.



214 :08x03 - The Case of the Scandalous Sculptor

First aired: Oct/08/1964
Writer: Philip Saltzman
Director: Jack Arnold
Guest star: June Lockhart (Mona Stanton Harvey), Stuart Erwin (Everett Stanton), Sue Ane Langdon (Bonnie), Sean McClory (Hannibal Harvey), Dan Tobin (Dickens), Nydia Westman (Ivy Stanton), Simon Scott (Rex Ainsley), Carlos Romero (Nonno Volente), Isabel Randolph (Lottie Porter), Willis Bouchey (Judge), Ellen Atterbury (Secretary), Ralph Manza (Yard Man), Frances Morris (Matron), Don Washbrook (Messenger), Don Anderson (Bartender), Jonathan Hole (Whitey)

The principal stockholder in a publishing firm is blackmailed by her husband through a letter written by a model, Everett, the blackmailer, hands the money over to the model. But when both Everett and his wife pay a visit to Bonnie, the model, they find her murdered.



215 :08x04 - The Case of the Sleepy Slayer

First aired: Oct/15/1964
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Phyllis Hill (Rachel Gordon), Hugh Marlowe (Doctor Lambert), Robert Brown (Tracey Walcott), Gigi Perreau (Phyllis Clover), John Napier (Bruce Jay), Karl Swenson (Charles Norman), Joan Tompkins (Sadie Norman), J. Edward McKinley (Harlan Farrell), Richard Hale (Abner Gordon), Morris Ankrum (Judge), William Woodson (Medical Examiner), Douglas Evans (Salesman), Alfred Hopson (Clark), John Rayborn (Pusher), Gil Frye (Chef)

When Rachel steals money from her Uncle Abner's safe to feed her boyfriends drug habit, the uncle demands restitution. But instead, Uncle Abner is found murdered with his secretary charged with the crime.



216 :08x05 - The Case of the Betrayed Bride

First aired: Oct/22/1964
Writer: John Elliotte
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Annie Farge (Marie Claudel (as Anne Farge)), Dianne Foster (Elaine Meacham), Michael Forest (Pierre Dubois), Jeanette Nolan (Nellie (Nellie Meacham Dubois)), Guy Stockwell (Jimmy Meacham), John Larkin (Todd Meacham), Jacques Aubuchon (Roger Brody), Neil Hamilton (Victor Billings), Paul Dubov (Monsieur Arnaux), Grandon Rhodes (Judge), Joey Wilcox (Boy), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Robert Gormley (Officer)

A fortune-hunting Frenchman marries a recently widowed woman. But a visit from his ex-wife leaves him floating dead in a swimming pool.



217 :08x06 - The Case of the Nautical Knot

First aired: Oct/29/1964
Writer: Robert Leslie Bellem
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Tom Tully (Harvey Scott), Anne Whitfield (Joanna Monford), Lisa Gaye (Pamela Blair), Arline Judge (Emmalou Schneider), Hank Brandt (Rick Scott (as Henry Brandt)), Barbara Bain (Elayna Scott), Mark Roberts (Ben Scott), Whit Bissell (Laurence Barlow), Francis McDonald (Peg-Leg Jasper), Lane Bradford (Rider On Horseback), Renata Vanni (Rosa Martinez), Thomas Hasson (Bellboy), Willis Robards (Banker), Maurice Wells (Captain Vinson), Fern Barry (Esther Larson), Glen Vernon (Steward), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge (as Kenneth MacDonald))

A murder is committed as Harvey Scott tries to regain control of his families mining company.



218 :08x07 - The Case of the Bullied Bowler

First aired: Nov/05/1964
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: John Gallaudet (Judge), Maurice Manson (Orson Stillman), Charles H. Gray (Jack Baker), Milton Selzer (Dr. Max Taylor), William Tannen (Sergeant), Elizabeth Harrower (Sadie Noymann), Anne Seymour (Bonnie Mae Wilmet), Robert Harland (Bill Jaris), Paul Lukather (Alan Jaris), Allan Hunt (Marla's Boyfriend), Jeff Donnell (Rose Carol), Patricia Morrow (Marla Carol), Lonnie Blackman (Marge), Patricia George (Linda Terry)

Attorney Joe Kelly takes on a case while Perry is away on vacation, representing Bill Jarvis who is trying to keep his bowling alley running despite efforts from his mother-in-law to shut it down. But the case becomes serious when Jarvis is charged with murder.



219 :08x08 - The Case of a Place Called Midnight

First aired: Nov/12/1964
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Gerald Mohr (Alan Durfee), Harry Townes (Colonel Owens), Robert Emhardt (Frank Appleton), Werner Klemperer (Hurt), Eddie Firestone (Phil Morton), Susanne Cramer (Greta Koning), Fred Vincent (Frederic Ralston), Robert Cornthwaite (Duval), Jim Davis (Joe Farrell), Ivan Triesault (Dr. Kleinman), Eva Soreny (Madame Jurgen), Peter Mamakos (Juan Carlos Ramirez), Monique Lemaire (Stewardess), Peter Hellman (Max), Jean Bartel (Helga), Will J. White (M.P. Sgt.), Jan Arvan (Swiss Bank Clerk), Werner Reichow (Mechanic), Charles Stroud (Policeman), Ike Ivarsen (Swedish Sailor), Ken Willer (Juggler)

While meeting his friends future daughter-in-law while in Switzerland, Perry Mason is caught up in international intrigue.



220 :08x09 - The Case of the Tragic Trophy

First aired: Nov/19/1964
Writer: Mann Rubin
Director: Richard Donner
Guest star: Richard Carlson (Anthony Fry), Paul Stewart (J. J. Pennington), Constance Towers (Joanne Pennington), Patricia Huston (Lydia Lawrence), John Fiedler (Howard Stark), George Brenlin (Coley Barnes), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge), Mimsy Farmer (Kathy Anders), Alvin Childress (Janitor), Reed Hadley (Medical Examiner), Robert Bice (Uniformed Man), Walter Mathews (Second Reporter), E. J. Andre (Druggist), Alex Bookston (First Reporter), Charles McDaniel (Third Reporter), Jack Swanson (First Cameraman), Russ Whiteman (Second Cameraman), Bobby Johnson (Red Cap)

Kathy James plans her revenge on movie producer Tony Fry, who years earlier had ruined the career of her father, a cameraman. As she confronts him with photos of Fry and another woman meant to use as blackmail, but soon finds the need to defend herself with a trophy as he attacks her.



221 :08x10 - The Case of the Reckless Rockhound

First aired: Nov/26/1964
Writer: Robb White
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Audrey Totter (Reba Burgess), Bruce Bennett (Malone), Elisha Cook, Jr. (Reelin' Pete (as Elisha Cook)), Ben Johnson (Kelly), Doug Lambert (Kinder), Jeff Corey (Bascom (Carl Bascom)), Donald Buka (Clark), Ted de Corsia (Polek), Roy Barcroft (Murphy), Lenore Shanewise (Mrs. Munger), Ralph Moody (Jenkins), Robert C. Gormley (Guard), Nick Nicholson (Police Sergeant), Harry Stanton (Judge)

Reba Burgess finds herself confused as a man shows up with a contract for partnership of her late husband's mining company, signed just before he died.



222 :08x11 - The Case of the Latent Lover

First aired: Dec/03/1964
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Lloyd Bochner (Eric Pollard), Jason Evers (Roy Galen), John Lasell (Dean Franklin), Gilbert Green (Harlan Talbot), Marian McCargo (Sibyll Pollard (as Marion Moses)), Charlotte Fletcher (Aimee Wynne), Douglas Dumbrille (Judge Robert Adler), Alexander Lockwood (Autopsy Surgeon), Armand Harrison (Nat Rudick), Emory Parnell (Leo Mann), John Matthews (Dr. Richard Jenkins), Charles Irving (Judge No. 2), Harold Gould (Lawrence West), Olan Soule (Court Clerk), Henry Travis (1st Spectator), Richard Reeves (Taxi Cab Driver), Robert J. Stevenson (Police Officer), Patricia Joyce (2nd Spectator)

Investment broker Eric Pollard is released from attempted bank robbery by getting probation. But his peculiar actions continue when he insists his probation officer is having an affair with Pollard's wife, Sybil. And it's the probation officer who is accused of murder when Sybil Pollard is found dead.



223 :08x12 - The Case of the Wooden Nickels

First aired: Dec/10/1964
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Will Kuluva (Homer Doubleday), Phyllis Love (Minerva Doubleday), Nancy Berg (Vivian Norman), Murray Matheson (Howard Hopkins), Walter Burke (Panhandler (Kelso) (Jerry Kelso)), Berry Kroeger (Rexford Wyler), Jack Betts (George Parsons), Grandon Rhodes (Judge), Penny O'Donnell (Cigarette Girl), Vera Marshe (Woman Apartment Manager), Sherwood Keith (Museum Curator), Thomas Freebairn-Smith (Hotel Desk Clerk), Karen Norris (Matron), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice)

When a rare Confederate coin is made available for sale, Paul Drake agrees to act as the courier, getting him much more involved than he expected.



224 :08x13 - The Case of the Blonde Bonanza

First aired: Dec/17/1964
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Mary Ann Mobley (Dianne Adler), Michael Constantine (Dillard), Bruce Gordon (Winlock), Vaughn Taylor (Montrose Foster), Paul Gilbert (Harrison Boring), Ruth Warrick (Mrs. Winlock), Jonathan Lippe (Marvin Palmer), John Gallaudet (Judge), Larry J. Blake (Plainclothesman (as Larry Blake)), Jack Pepper (Waiter), Len Hendry (Police Officer), Jim Henaghan (Delivery Boy)

Della's cousin, an aspiring young model, is disheartened when she signs a contract, unaware of a clause stating that she will agree to gain weight.



225 :08x14 - The Case of the Ruinous Road

First aired: Dec/31/1964
Writer: Esther Mitchell, Bob Mitchell
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Grant Williams (Quincy Davis), Barton MacLane (Archer Osmond), Joan Blackman (Hilary Gray), Allen Case (Adam Conrad), John Howard (Harley Leonard), Meg Wyllie (Marguerite Keith), Les Tremayne (Ed Pierce), Bert Freed (Joe Marshall), Willis Bouchey (Judge), Frankie Darro (Messenger), Patricia Joyce (Secretary), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice)

A young engineer, Adam Conrad, is charged with murder after a land development deal goes south.



226 :08x15 - The Case of the Frustrated Folksinger

First aired: Jan/07/1965
Writer: John Elliotte
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Gary Crosby (Jazbo Williams), Bonnie Jones (Amy Jo Jennings), Mark Goddard (Lester Crawford), Robert H. Harris (Harry Bronson), Richard Garland (Lionel Albright), Joyce Meadows (Audrey Stemple), John Considine (Chris Thompson), Leonard Stone (Al Siebring), Gale Robbins (Evelyn Bronson), Lee Meriwether (Natalie Graham), S. John Launer (Judge), Sidney Clute (Taxi Driver), Eddie Hanley (Photographer), Bebe Kelly (Starlet No. 1 (as BeBe Kelly)), Linda Burton (Starlet No. 2), Bess Flowers (Woman at Party), Christopher Riordan (Young Man At Party)

A disreputable agent seeks to free aspiring singer and heiress Amy Jo Jennings from her recently inherited fortune by agreeing to let her have the lead role in a musical comedy if she backs the show. But his real plan is to run off with the money, only his death can stop him.



227 :08x16 - The Case of the Thermal Thief

First aired: Jan/14/1965
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Jack Arnold
Guest star: Barry Sullivan (Kenneth W. Kramer), Bettye Ackerman (Amy Reid), Burt Metcalfe (Jeff Mills), Kathie Browne (Lona Upton), Robert Strauss (Pete Kamboly), Richard Eastham (Roland Canfield), Nina Shipman (Maxine Nichols), Joyce Van Patten (Fay Gilmer), Noel Drayton (Mr. Costelni), Dick Whittinghill (Barman), Irene Martin (First Girl), Mimi Dillard (Second Girl), Mark Tapscott (First Officer), John Hart (Dion Reid), Don Lynch (Third Officer), Harlan Warde (Desk Sergeant), Joan Sudlow (Stella (Maid)), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), S. John Launer (Judge)

With Perry out of the country, attorney Ken Kramer defends a man accused of stealing a necklace worth $50,000.



228 :08x17 - The Case of the Golden Venom

First aired: Jan/21/1965
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Lee Philips (Kevin Lawrence), Noah Beery, Jr. (Tony Claus (as Noah Beery)), Frances Reid (Lucille Forrest), Carole Wells (Mirna Lawrence), Frank Ferguson (Walter Coffee), Mort Mills (Sgt. Ben Landro), Arthur Malet (Ralph Day), Cal Bartlett (Joe Sullivan), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge (as Kenneth MacDonald)), Richard Reinauer (Doctor)

A woman wants to reopen the case of her deceased son, but needs Perry's help to eliminate a clause in her late husband's will that disinherits her if she ever tries another investigation.



229 :08x18 - The Case of the Tell-Tale Tap

First aired: Feb/04/1965
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Linden Chiles (Clyde Darrell), Roland Winters (Archer Bryant), Jeanne Bal (Vera Wynne), H. M. Wynant (Glen Holman), Indus Arthur (Nancy Bryant), Parley Baer (Ian Jarvis), William Allyn (Elliot Forrest), S. John Launer (Judge), Lester Dorr (Bartender), Seamon Glass (Karl Lewis)

When the secretary of an investment firm taps her boss' phone to send stock tips to an accomplice. But when the secretary discovers an affair between a cub executive and the bosses daughter, she is murdered. Meanwhile, her accomplice is razing a new building with embezzled funds, which is discovered by Paul Drake.



230 :08x19 - The Case of the Feather Cloak

First aired: Feb/11/1965
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Jon Hall (Lt. Kia), David Opatoshu (Gustave Heller), John van Dreelen (Jarvis Logan), Michael Dante (Douglas Kelland), Wende Wagner (Anona Gilbert), James Frawley (District Attorney Alvarez), Miriam Goldina (Auntie Hilo), Joyce Jameson (Dolly Jameson), Keye Luke (Choy), Anthony Scott (Jon Kakai (as Tony Scott)), Tom Palmer (Attorney Roberts), Arthur Wong (Judge Kee), Bob Okazaki (Pet Shop Owner), Thomas Carlisle (First Man Surfer), Steven Blair (Second Man Surfer), Diane Swanson (First Girl), Gunilla Hutton (Second Girl)

Perry Mason and Paul Drake discover a murder while in Hawaii to investigate a hotel chain.



231 :08x20 - The Case of the Lover's Gamble

First aired: Feb/18/1965
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Harry Harris
Guest star: Elizabeth Perry (Estelle Mabury), Harold Peary (Freddy Fell), Margaret Blye (Betty Kaster), Donald Murphy (Dr. Philip Stark), Joan O'Brien (Jill Fenwick), Roy Roberts (Henry Thomas), June Dayton (Frances Stark), Linda Leighton (Sarah Thomas), Grandon Rhodes (Judge), Hal Baylor (First Truck Driver), Minerva Urecal (Martha Glenhorn), Barbara Perry (Beauty Operator), Richard Reeves (Second Truck Driver), Orville Sherman (Mr. Link), Robert Hernandez (Newsboy), John Cliff (Bus Driver), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice)

Convinced that her boss is planning on murdering his invalid wife, she turns to Perry Mason for help.



232 :08x21 - The Case of the Fatal Fetish

First aired: Mar/04/1965
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Charles Rondeau
Guest star: Fay Wray (Mignon Germaine), Karen Steele (Carina Wileen), Alan Hewitt (Curt Ordway), Gary Collins (Larry Germaine), Lynn Bari (Ruth Duncan), Douglas Kennedy (Brady Duncan), Erin Leigh (Agnes Fanchon), Richard Devon (Neil Howard), James Griffith (Jack Randall), John Gallaudet (Judge Penner), William Keene (Mr. Kenneth), Robert Chadwick (Policeman), Douglas Evans (Magistrate), Brenda Howard (Nurse), Wilda Taylor (Choreographer and Dancer), John Francis (Master of Ceremonies (as Johnny Francis))

Hamilton Burger prosecutes his young assistant who is charged with murdering the unscrupulous women he fell in love with.



233 :08x22 - The Case of the Sad Sicilian

First aired: Mar/11/1965
Writer: Milton Krims
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Fabrizio Mioni (Paulo Porro), Anthony Caruso (Enrico Bacio), Nico Minardos (Giangiacomo), Paul Comi (Father Reggiani), Rudy Solari (Massimo Bacio), Dabbs Greer (Dodson), Margo (Serafina), Linda Marsh (Elizabeth Bacio), Charles La Torre (Uncle Fiastri), Charles Irving (Judge), Tommy Cook (Joe (Bellboy)), Dort Clark (Desk Sergeant), Alexander Lockwood (Coroner), Patricia Joyce (Woman Customer), Jack LaRue (Cafe Proprietor)

Paulo Porro gets involved with an Italian family in which one of the members, Enrico Bacio, believes that Porro and his relatives have had a feud with his family back in Sicily and has come to kill Enrico. His beliefs seem true when Enrico is found murdered.



234 :08x23 - The Case of the Murderous Mermaid

First aired: Mar/18/1965
Writer: Mann Rubin
Director: Robert Sparr
Guest star: Patrice Wymore (Victoria Dawn), Bill Williams (Charles Shaw), Jean Hale (Reggie Lansfield), Jess Barker (Doug Hamilton), Richard Erdman (Ben Lucas), Lee Bergere (Dr. George Devlin), Nan Leslie (Lillian Keely), Ron Kennedy (Male Nurse), Richard St. John (Patron), Jack Carol (First Reporter), John Ward (Second Reporter), Maurice Wells (First Man), Barry Brooks (Second Man)

Victoria Dawn, the owner of a chain of failing health clubs, is a former swimming champion. She hires a young woman, Reggie, to impersonate her and swim across the Catalina Channel to L.A. as a means of gaining publicity. But when Victoria is found murdered, it's Reggie who is accused of her death.



235 :08x24 - The Case of the Careless Kitten

First aired: Mar/25/1965
Writer: Erle Stanley Gardner
Director: Vincent McEveety
Guest star: Louise Latham (Matilda Shore), Lloyd Corrigan (Gerald Shore), Allan Melvin (Thomas Link), Julie Sommars (Helen Kendall), Alan Reed, Jr. (Frank Templar), Hedley Mattingly (Cosmo), Percy Helton (Hotel Desk Clerk), Francis DeSales (Doctor (as Francis De Sales)), Raymond Guth (Veterinarian), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Christopher Riordan (Juror)

Franklin Shore, believed dead the past decade has returned from the grave with plans on killing his wife and the man who blackmailed him during his lifetime.



236 :08x25 - The Case of the Deadly Debt

First aired: Apr/01/1965
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Chris Robinson (Carl Talbert), Joe De Santis (Louie Parker), Gregory Morton (Steve Radom), Joan Huntington (Kitty Delany), Max Showalter (Charles Judd), Robert Quarry (Danny Talbert), Allison Hayes (Stella Radom), Sheila Bromley (Mrs. Talbert), Willis Bouchey (Judge), Madgel Dean (Mrs. Johnson), Emile Meyer (Ed Talbert), Alex Bookston (Station Master), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Johnny Silver (Eddie), Jimmy Cross (Waiter in Hotel)

Danny Talbert is accused of killing a man, Steve Radom, who Danny believes caused his fathers death by stressing over the $10,000 debt he owed.



237 :08x26 - The Case of the Gambling Lady

First aired: Apr/08/1965
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Richard Donner
Guest star: Peter Breck (Peter Warren), Ruta Lee (Irene Prentice), Myrna Fahey (Myrna Warren), Benny Baker (Jerome Bentley), Kevin Hagen (Jacob Leonard), John Rayner (Ned Beaumont), Dan Seymour (Croupier), Harry Holcombe (Mr. Big), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge), Willis Robards (Business Man (as Willis L. Robards)), Pitt Herbert (Coroner's Physician), Bebe Kelly (Cocktail Waitress), Pepper Curtis (Secretary), Adair Jameson (Teller), Jesse White (Tony Cerro)

Pete Warren, the owner of a novelty manufacturing plant, is accused of murder when his soon to be ex-wife is found dead after she ran a counterfeit gambling chip scam in Reno.



238 :08x27 - The Case of the Duplicate Case

First aired: Apr/22/1965
Writer: Philip Saltzman
Director: James Goldstone
Guest star: Don Dubbins (Burt Blair), Martin West (Herbert Cornwall), Susan Bay (Millie Cornwall), Steve Ihnat (Charlie Parks), David Lewis (A. K. Dudley), Herb Voland (Ernest Hill), Dave Willock (Bartender), Audrey Larkins (Miss Dahlbet (as Audry Larkin)), Douglas Dumbrille (Judge), Irene Anders (Elevator Operator), Robert Nelson (Detective), Don Lynch (Policeman), Gil Frye (First Technician), Larry Barton (Second Technician)

Some kind of explanation is expected when an unsuccessful salesman slams down his suitcase and a huge sum of cash is revealed inside of it.



239 :08x28 - The Case of the Grinning Gorilla

First aired: Apr/29/1965
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Victor Buono (Nathon Fallon), Janos Prohaska (Gorilla), Charlene Holt (Helen Cadmus), Robert Colbert (F. A. Snell), Lurene Tuttle (Josephine Kempton), Gavin MacLeod (Mortimer Hershey), Bartlett Robinson (Sydney Hardwick), Harvey Stephens (Benjamin Addicks), Robert Foulk (Sergeant Deputy), Jim Boles (Estate Guard), Tommy Farrell (Jefferson), True Boardman (Morgue Attendant), Ted Stanhope (Waiter), Charles Stroud (Animal Regulation Man)

Perry is lead into a case involving an eccentric millionaire, his two scheming assistants and a klepto gorilla, when Della reads a diary of a dead woman who she believes may have been murdered and not a suicide as reported.



240 :08x29 - The Case of the Wrongful Writ

First aired: May/06/1965
Writer: Samuel Newman
Director: Richard Kinon
Guest star: James Shigeta (Ward Toyama), Philip Abbott (Harry Grant), Peter Whitney (Capt. Otto Varnum), Bobby Troup (Smitty), Katherine Squire (Esther Norden), Douglas Henderson (Frank Jones), Henry Beckman (Albert King), Nobu McCarthy (Sally Choshi), Francine York (Ursula Quigley), Bill Zuckert (Judge Simpson), Douglas Evans (Judge)

A man claiming to be an intelligence agent contacts a friend of Perry, lawyer Ward Toyama, and gets him involved in murder and gunrunning on the high seas.



241 :08x30 - The Case of the Mischievous Doll

First aired: May/13/1965
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Ben Cooper (Jasper), Mary Mitchel (Dorrie Ambler / Minerva Minden), Allyson Ames (Rita Jasper), Marge Redmond (Henrietta Hull), Paul Lambert (Del Compton), Phil Arthur (Del Compton), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Second Judge (as Kenneth MacDonald)), Charles Martin (Judge), Stanley Clements (Second Taxi Driver), Byron Foulger (Airport Clerk), William Boyett (Police Sergeant), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Holly Harris (Woman Bystander), Alan Fordney (Man Bystander), Phil Harron (First Taxi Driver), Jack Fife (Man at Airport), Ann Staunton (Woman at Airport)

Perry is asked by Dorrie Ambler to be her witness after a shady P.I., Phil Arthur, uses her as a body double for heiress Minerva Minde. Perry discovers that Minerva was accused of a hit and run accident that Arthur is examining and is using Dorrie to prove his case. But both Dorrie and Minerva are hiding a secret in which Perry has uncovered.



242 :09x01 - The Case of the Laughing Lady

First aired: Sep/12/1965
Writer: Orville Hampton
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Constance Towers (Leona Devore), Jean Hale (Carla Chaney), John Abbott (Dr. Durwood Tobey), Bernard Fox (Peter Stange), John Dall (Roan Daniel), Allison Hayes (Cho Sin), Mickey Manners (Lenny Linden), John Gallaudet (Judge), Shirley O'Hara (Superintendent), Michael Rye (Commentator), Irene Anders (Matron)

Life has been unkind to Carla Chaney, in part because of her own poor choices. So when she's charged with murder, it surprises no one. And when she drives three lawyers away, a judge asks Perry to help her. He agrees, but the case will tax his skill, for Carla trusts no one and her claim that someone else, someone with a shrill and sinister laugh, was also present is thin - and gets thinner when she identifies the person.



243 :09x02 - The Case of the Fatal Fortune

First aired: Sep/19/1965
Writer: William Bast
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Julie Adams (Patricia L. Kean), Lee Philips (Gordon Evans), Jesse White (Max Armstead), Ford Rainey (Dr. Fisher), Nan Martin (Beth Fuller), Dean Harens (Daniel Buckley), James Lanphier (Marius Stone), Grandon Rhodes (Judge), Belle Mitchell (Gypsy), Nora Marlowe (Landlady), Alex Bookston (Desk Clerk)

On a lark, businesswoman Pat Kean goes to see a psychic, and amazingly, the psychic's predictions come to pass. Ignoring the seer's cryptic assertion that she would "wear white and then black" Pat marries her boss Max Armstead. But then Max dies, poisoned by digitalis, and with his dying words assures Lieutenant Drumm and Perry that Pat was his murderer! Charged with first degree murder, Pat now depends on Perry to restore her freedom.



244 :09x03 - The Case of the Candy Queen

First aired: Sep/26/1965
Writer: Robb White, Orville Hampton
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Nancy Gates (Claire Armstrong), Patricia Smith (Wanda Buren), Nina Shipman (Carol Olin), Robert Rockwell (Ed Purvis), H. M. Wynant (Tony Mario), John Napier (Mark Chester), John Archer (Harry Arnold), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge (as Kenneth MacDonald)), Kitty Kelly (Landlady), Walter Mathews (Intern), William Boyett (Detective), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Sam Flint (Old Man), Charles Stroud (Court Clerk), Russ Whiteman (Steward), Bebe Kelly (Hat Check Girl)

Claire Armstrong has a booming candy business but life is not sweet. Her boyfriend Mark has stolen her candy recipe and the sinister Harry Arnold is blackmailing her! When Harry turns up dead, Claire's cousin Wanda, who wants to get her sticky fingers into Claire's candy empire, frames Claire for the crime!



245 :09x04 - The Case of the Cheating Chancellor

First aired: Oct/03/1965
Writer: Lawrence L. Goldman
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Peter Helm (Bob Hyatt), Louise Latham (Shirley Logan), James Noah (Van Fowler), Michael Walker (Joe Price), Barry Atwater (Dr. Stuart Logan (as G. B. Atwater)), Peter Hobbs (James Hyatt), Jay Barney (District Attorney), Lee Meriwether (Evelyn Wilcox), Adrienne Ellis (Myra Finley), Linda Leighton (Mrs. Hyatt), Joseph Mell (Medical Examiner), Phil Chambers (Guard), Stacy Keach, Sr. (Judge (as Stacy Keach))

In the midst of a celebration, Van Fowler murders Stuart Logan, a professor at Perry's alma mater. Perry doesn't think the case is as cut-and-dried as the police do, and defends Fowler.



246 :09x05 - The Case of the Impetuous Imp

First aired: Oct/10/1965
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Stuart Erwin (Henry Simmons), Bonnie Jones (Diana Carter), Hanna Landy (Helga Dolwig), Don Dubbins (Bill Vincent), Jeff Cooper (Henning Dolwig), Frank Marth (Mike Carson), Richard Webb (Addison Powell), James McCallion (Harvey Blake), Byron Morrow (Judge), Michael Fox (Dr. Lund), Ed Prentiss (Judge Morton), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Clay Tanner (Officer), Helen Gerald (Matron), Rand Brooks (Trainer), Wally West (Shelter Man)

Perry rescues the beautiful Diana Carter from a watery grave, so who does she turn to when first charged with grand larceny, and then with murdering Addison Powell? Perry and Paul both have their work cut out for them, for Davy Jones holds the key to this one.



247 :09x06 - The Case of the Carefree Coronary

First aired: Oct/17/1965
Writer: Orville Hampton
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Robert Emhardt (Arthur Wendell), Bruce Bennett (Reve Watson), Benny Baker (Jerry Ormond), Whit Bissell (Dennison Groody), David Lewis (Wallis Lamphier), Lawrence Montaigne (Dr. Chauncy Hartlund), Hal Baylor (Jack David), Joseph Sirola (Dr. Raul Caudere), Shirley Mitchell (Marilyn David), Tracy Morgan (Doreen Wilde), Dan Seymour (Nappy Tyler), Alexander Lockwood (Deputy), William Woodson (Dr. Willard Sholby), Tommy Farrell (TV Reporter), Jay Weston (News Reporter)

Safeline Insurance, noting an increase in heart attacks among its insured, hired Perry to look into the matter. Perry sends Paul Drake in undercover. But after Perry badgers a man into a fatal heart attack, the attorney himself comes under suspicion. Perry must prove the man was poisoned.



248 :09x07 - The Case of the Hasty Honeymooner

First aired: Oct/24/1965
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Noah Beery, Jr. (Lucas Tolliver (as Noah Beery)), K. T. Stevens (Alice Munford), Hugh Marlowe (Guy Munford), Cathy Downs (Millicent Barton), Richard Evans (Larry Dunlap), Strother Martin (Roy Hutchinson), Robert Colbert (Carl Snell), Mark Tapscott (Sgt. Woodward), Al Checco (Medical Examiner), William Keene (Judge), Thom Carney (Salesman), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice)

After a computer dating service matches Lucas Tolliver with Millie Barton, Lucas comes to California as a penniless hick. But rich Millie agrees to marry him anyway. Perry smells a rat and discovers, with Paul's help, that Lucas is very rich - and that he inherited money when his previous wife died after eating a poisonous plant. So when Millie dies after drinking poisonous lemonade that Lucas server her, what are the police likely to think. Fortunately for Lucas, Perry once again rejects the easy answer.



249 :09x08 - The Case of the 12th Wildcat

First aired: Oct/31/1965
Writer: Ernest Frankel
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Mona Freeman (Ellen Payne), Bill Williams (Burt Payne), Regis Toomey (Andy Grant), John Conte (Jud Warner), Karl Swenson (Unk Hazekian), Robert Quarry (Casey Banks), Roy Roberts (Harvey Skeen), Clark Howat (Team Doctor), Willis Bouchey (Judge), George Cisar (Bartender), Ivy Bethune (Mrs. Frye), Tommy Farrell (Reporter), Patrick Riley (Police Officer), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Sue England (Receptionist), Howard Wright (Conductor), Lindon Crow (Assistant Coach), Joe Scibelli (Himself), Bill Munson (Himself), Don Chuy (Himself), Roman Gabriel (Himself), Cliff Livingston (Himself), Marlin McKeever (Himself), Mel Profit (Ski), Paul Power (Reporter)

Burt Payne owns ten percent of the Wildcats, a professional football team. To raise cash, he tries to sell his share, but the majority owner, his wife Ellen, opposes the deal. She meets with one of the possible buyers, and shortly after that Burt dies in an explosion. Perry and Paul must literally chase down the facts to free their client Ellen.



250 :09x09 - The Case of the Wrathful Wraith

First aired: Nov/07/1965
Writer: Henry Farrell
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Jeanne Bal (Rosemary Welch), Marian McCargo (Louise Selff (as Marion Moses)), Douglas Dick (Ted Harberson), Lee Farr (Glenn Arcott), Gene Lyons (Ralph Balfour), Walter Brooke (Deputy D.A.), Winnie Collins (Willa Saint Sutton (as Winifred Coffin)), Robert Easton (Ed Allison), Geraldine Wall (Mrs. Stallman), Byron Morrow (Second Judge), Don Dillaway (First Reporter), Henry Hunter (Doctor), Frank Biro (First Judge), Lester Dorr (Photographer), George Conrad (Second Reporter), Jack Carol (Third Reporter), Cecil Elliott (First Woman), John Hart (Jamison Selff), Mari Lynn (Second Woman)

Perry manages to earn an acquittal for Louise Selff for the murder of her husband, because the body disappeared! Then Louise begins to see her dead husband - at a seance, on the telephone... Soon enough the truth comes out - Jamison Selff faked his death! And then someone decides they liked him better dead, and Louise finds herself at the defendant's table a second time for the same crime!



251 :09x10 - The Case of the Runaway Racer

First aired: Nov/14/1965
Writer: Sy Salkowitz
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Hank Brandt (Pete Griston), Jan Shepard (Marge Leonard), Anthony Caruso (Harvey Rettig), Michael Constantine (Pappy Ryan), Richard Eastham (Oliver Stone), Gavin MacLeod (Dan Platte), Robert H. Harris (Marty Webb), Jimmy Cross (Drunk), Michael Harris (Blake Leonard), Paul Winfield (Mitch), Lawrence Green (Medic), Seamon Glass (Joe)

Pappy Ryan builds race cars. When test driver Pete Griston wrecks one of Ryan's cars, Ryan works himself into a towering rage and accuses Griston and Harvey Rettig of causing the crash on purpose. Then Rettig dies and authorities discover a groggy Griston at the scene. Digging, they discover Griston signed for a large loan Rettig took out with a shark - according to Burger, motive enough to slam the cell door on Griston for good!



252 :09x11 - The Case of the Silent Six

First aired: Nov/21/1965
Writer: William Bast
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Skip Homeier (Sgt. Dave Wolfe), Dianne Foster (Linda Blakely), Cyril Delevanti (Craig Jefferson), Virginia Gregg (Flo Oliver), David Macklin (Ron Peters), Hampton Fancher (Hamp Fisher), Chris Noel (Susan Wolfe), Tyler MacDuff (Herb Jackson), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge Carter (Kenneth MacDonald)), John Heath (Arch), Walter Mathews (Reporter), Peter Baron (Monk Coleman), Dale van Sickel (Joe Oliver (as Dale van Sickle)), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice)

Sergeant Dave Wolfe warned Joe Oliver to steer clear of his sister. Someone beats up Susan and shoots Joe - and it looks like Dave Wolfe is that man. All he can manage is the "mysterious dude defense" - someone hit him over the head and used his gun on Joe. Perry discovers six people heard Susan's cries and none of them tried to help. He'll have to figure out why to clear his client.



253 :09x12 - The Case of the Fugitive Fraulein

First aired: Nov/28/1965
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Susanne Cramer (Gerta), Jeanette Nolan (Emma Ritter), Gregory Morton (Wolfgang Stromm), Kevin Hagen (Samuel Carleton), Ronald Long (Franz Hoffer), Lilyan Chauvin (Matron), Wolfe Barzell (Prof. Hans Ritter), Eileen Baral (Elke), Barbara Morrison (Woman Magistrate), Peter Hellman (German Sergeant), Horst Ebersberg (Border Guard), Hans Heyde (Guard at Courtroom), Charles H. Radilak (1st Associate Magistrate (as Charles Hradilak)), George Perina (2nd Associate Magistrate), Shony Alex Braun (Violinist)

Soviet agents contact physicist Hans Ritter and offer him his six-year-old granddaughter, currently living in an East German orphanage. If Ritter comes to work for him, the Soviets will release little Elke to Ritter's wife Emma. Perry agrees to negotiate the deal, but Ritter jumps the gun, forcing Perry, Della, and Paul to follow him behind the Iron Curtain and right into a murder trial: East German police accuse Emma of murdering a man named Franz Hoffer. Perry must defend her in a court where the usual rules of fairness don't apply!



254 :09x13 - The Case of the Baffling Bug

First aired: Dec/12/1965
Writer: Orville Hampton
Director: Vincent McEveety
Guest star: Grant Williams (Dr. Todd Meade), Dee Hartford (Rhonda Coleridge), Ben Cooper (Lowell Rupert), Aliza Gur (Dr. Nina Revelli (as Alizia Gur)), Gilbert Green (Dr. Malcolm Scranton), Bryan O'Byrne (Horace Lehigh (as Byron O'Byrne)), Teru Shimada (Dr. Maseo Tachikawa), S. John Launer (Judge), Mary Treen (Bess), Bob Okazaki (Manager), Nancy Hsueh (Geisha)

Tryon Laboratories' hires Paul Drake to protect its discoveries, but an industrial spy still manages to pierce their security. So Drake is very relieved when Tryon employee Horace Leigh calls claiming to know the identity of the spy. And then Drake is very unhappy, for when he arrives at Tryon he discovers Leigh dead and floating. Did Dr. Meade kill him, as the police think? Or someone else? One thing Drake is sure of: Perry Mason will get to the bottom of it.



255 :09x14 - The Case of the Golden Girls

First aired: Dec/19/1965
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Philip Bourneuf (Victor Montalvo), Paula Stewart (Beverly Garnett), Victoria Vetri (Debbie Conrad (as Angela Dorian)), Mark Roberts (Irving Florian), Jean Engstrom (Corinne Richland), George N. Neise (Stacey Garnett (as George Neise)), Bruce Glover (Rick Durbin), John Gallaudet (Judge), Lee Frederick (Sgt. Eggers), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Charles Stroud (Ad-Lib Man), Annazette Chase (Teddy Bear #1 (as Annazette)), Nancy Czar (Teddy Bear #2)

Victor Montalvo owns the Golden Bear Club. One night, he gives a young woman named Debbie Conrad a ride, only to be surprised to later see her working as one his sexy waitresses! The surprises build when Debbie tries to blackmail her boss, who reluctantly decides to pay her off. But then Vic's partner Stacey Garnett dies and the police like Victor for it. To secure an acquittal, Perry will have to extract testimony from Debbie Conrad...



256 :09x15 - The Case of the Bogus Buccaneers

First aired: Jan/09/1966
Writer: Henry Farrell
Director: Arthur Hiller
Guest star: Rhodes Reason (Martin Eldridge), Patricia Cutts (Ann Eldridge), Mary Mitchel (Beth Polk), Kathleen Crowley (Grace Knapp), Richard Jaeckel (Mike Woods), John Milford (Clayton Douglas), Steve Harris (Tony Polk), Leonard Stone (Harlan Keen), Michael Fox (Abe Heyman), Willis Bouchey (Judge), Meg Wyllie (Mrs. Webb), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Len Hendry (Officer #4), Linda Lee (Girl in Newspaper Office), John Strong (Buccaneer), Jack Swanson (Officer #1), Hugh Warden (Officer #2 (as Hugh Warren)), John Underhill (Officer #3), Jack Shea (Officer #5), Patricia Joyce (Receptionist)

Tony Polk lands a television job on the "Bad Buccaneer" show despite his criminal past. Part of that job involves taking gifts to the homes of viewers. Tony trades lists with another actor and the trouble begins. A woman dies, killed by the hook that's part of Tony's costume, and a witness claims he fought with the woman. Add in his criminal past and the case seems open and shut. But nothing around Perry Mason is ever open and shut.



257 :09x16 - The Case of the Midnight Howler

First aired: Jan/16/1966
Writer: Robert Kent
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Lee Patterson (Dan Thorne), Myrna Fahey (Holly Andrews), Daniel J. Travanti (Barney Austin (as Dan Travanty)), Alan Baxter (Gorden Sellers), Cathleen Cordell (Clara Michaels), Ian Wolfe (Abel Jackson), Grandon Rhodes (Judge), Pitt Herbert (Medical Examiner), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Marc Desmond (Control Room Man), Phil Arnold (Mechanic)

Barney Austin burns up the airwaves. One night, he gets a message to call his boss Kevin Steele. While they speak on the air, the audience hears Kevin argue with someone, and then hears two gunshots. Someone has murdered Steele on live radio, and the prosecution believes it is Holly Andrews, and plans to prove it with Perry's help.



258 :09x17 - The Case of the Vanishing Victim

First aired: Jan/23/1966
Director: Harmon Jones
Guest star: Lisa Gaye (Laraine Keely), Jeanne Cooper (Miriam Fielding), George D. Wallace (Stacey Fielding (as George Wallace)), Richard Erdman (Jud Bennett), Russell Arms (Reed Kavanaugh), John Matthews (F.A.A. Inspector), S. John Launer (Judge Telford), John Goddard (Al Dolby), Carl Prickett (Operations Clerk), Carol Brewster (Ruth Kavanaugh), Tom Vize (Process Server), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Glen Vernon (McGill)

Dr. Stacey Fielding must travel to Salt Lake City on business. He flies himself, but the plane crashes and tests of the body confirm barbiturate poisoning. The police arrest Miriam Fielding, since the last thing her husband drank was whiskey from a flask she provided. But Perry earns an acquittal. And then authorities learn the body recovered from the wreckage is actually that of Al Dolby, the plane's mechanic, raising the question of what, exactly, happened to the doctor...



259 :09x18 - The Case of the Golfer's Gambit

First aired: Jan/30/1966
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Carl Reindel (Danny Bright), Nancy Kovack (Dina Brandt), Harry Townes (Erwin Brandt), Phyllis Hill (Alma Farley), Dennis Patrick (Chick Farley), Don Dubbins (Bill Vincent), Alan Reed, Jr. (Jim Harrell), Bartlett Robinson (Edward "Pat" Patterson), Gertrude Flynn (Rosalind - Mrs. Hedrick), Regina Gleason (Rosalie), Byron Morrow (Judge), Bill Brundige (Announcer), Ted Stanhope (Butler), Maurice Wells (Golf Official), Bud Perkins (Photographer), Maureen Gaffney (Operator P.A. Voice (as Maureene Gaffney))

Chick Farley, local golf pro, mixes his days between giving lessons and living off his rich wife's past glories. For variety, he mixes in a little blackmail. Then he discovers someone has been stealing from the club's pro shop. Fortunately, he knows a club member - Hamilton Burger - who is an officer of the court. Unfortunately, someone else knows how to use a golf club for more than hitting golf balls. The police think Chick Farley's assistant Jim Farrell arranged the meeting between golf club and pro's head, but Perry disagrees.



260 :09x19 - The Case of the Sausalito Sunrise

First aired: Feb/13/1966
Writer: Ernest Frankel, Orville Hampton
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Francine York (Bobbi Dane), Donald Murphy (Francis Clune), Mark Tapscott (Sgt. Deke Bradley), Allan Melvin (Bert Kannon), Peter Mamakos (Olaf Deering), Elisabeth Fraser (Estelle Paige), Richard Angarola (Campbell Boyd), Stanley Clements (Floyd Walters), Steve Conte (Mac), Paul Genge (Bud), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge (as Kenneth MacDonald)), Bill Erwin (Counterman (as William Erwin)), Dirk Evans (Detective), Bebe Kelly (Nurse), Linda Burton (Student Nurse), Charles Cirillo (Waiter), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice)

Francis Clune can't catch a break. Forgers replace the art pieces en route to his gallery. His girlfriend Bobbi is kidnapped and then struck by a car. And THEN the police arrest them both on a pair of murder charges. It will take the skills of Perry and Paul Drake both to unknot this one, and even these seasoned pros will come up against the unexpected.



261 :09x20 - The Case of the Scarlet Scandal

First aired: Feb/20/1966
Writer: Kenneth M. Rosen
Director: Jerry Hopper
Guest star: Will Hutchins (Donald Hobart), Gene Evans (Moose Dalton), Luana Patten (Cynthia Perkins), Mala Powers (Elaine Bayler), Lloyd Gough (Richard Bayler), Clinton Sundberg (Aaron Chambers (as Clint Sundberg)), Richard Devon (Ed Kesko), Dee Pollock (Howard Bayler), Connie Gilchrist (Natasha), Blair Davies (C. A. Woodmire), William Keene (Judge Seymour), Walter Stocker (Charlie Horgan), Carl Prickett (Mark), Jack Swanson (1st Deputy), Alex Bookston (1st Reporter), Paul Sorenson (2nd Deputy), Pat McCaffrie (2nd Reporter)

Musician Donald Hobert enjoys the largess of Elaine Baylor, wife of Richard Bayler. A blackmailer wants $10,000 or he'll tell the work Elaine's doing more than just supporting the arts financially. When she and Donald drive to a remote place to deliver the money, someone shoots her in cold blood! First the sheriff arrests Donald, and then his girlfriend Cynthia.



262 :09x21 - The Case of the Twice-Told Twist

First aired: Feb/27/1966
Writer: Ernest Frankel, Orville Hampton
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Victor Buono (Ben Huggins), Kevin O'Neal (Lennie Beale), Scott Graham (Bill Sikes), Lisa Pera (Donna Reales), Lisa Seagram (Robin Spring), Nicolas Surovy (Tick Gleason), Marc Rambeau (Jody Laird), Harry Holcombe (Judge #1), Keg Johnson (Lester), Judson Pratt (Tom Loman), Beverly Powers (Sue (as Beverly Hills)), Harlan Warde (Sgt. Roddin), Byron Morrow (Judge #2), Helen Kleeb (Welfare Worker), Will J. White (Deputy DA), Coby Denton (1st Officer), Jim Farley (3rd Officer)

Thieves strip Perry's car to the frame. It seems that a modern day Fagin runs a gang of teenagers who strip cars. But Perry might have a lever, if he can convince Lennie Beale, who wants out of the gang, to testify against them. Then Lennie's boss shoots Lennie's girlfriend and Lennie, apparently in retaliation, stabs the man. Before he can do anything else, Perry will have to win the young hoodlum an acquittal.



263 :09x22 - The Case of the Avenging Angel

First aired: Mar/13/1966
Writer: Lawrence L. Goldman
Director: Jerry Hopper
Guest star: Richard Carlson (Clete Hawley), Sue Ane Langdon (Dorothy (Dotty) Merrill), Lurene Tuttle (Henny McLeod), Chick Chandler (Riff Lawler), Paul Stewart (Cameron Burgess), Martin Horsey (Sandy Chester), Patricia Owens (June Burgess), Sandy Descher (Sherry Lawler), Douglas Evans (Judge), Michael McGiveney (Technician), John McKee (Policeman (as John kcKee)), Mary Statler (Woman), Christopher Riordan (Technician)

Clete Hawley brings Sandy Chester over from England with an eye towards making another British megastar. Trouble is, Sandy's just not that talented. Worse, when someone kills Clete, the police think Sandy's their man, and unless Perry can prove otherwise, Sandy won't be going home for a long time to come...



264 :09x23 - The Case of the Tsarina's Tiara

First aired: Mar/20/1966
Writer: Orville Hampton, Ernest Frankel
Director: Harmon Jones
Guest star: Virginia Field (Madame Sonya Galinova), Kendall Clark (Gerard Van Ness), Vivienne Segal (Pauline Thorsen), Leonid Kinskey (Vyacheslav Gerznov), Wesley Addy (Joachim DeVry), Phillip Terry (Rolf Thorsen), Janet De Gore (Lisabeth Wells (as Janet DeGore)), Carlos Romero (Ricardo Arena), Barbara Perry (Girl Assistant), Lew Brown (Officer One), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr. (Rizal (as Rodolfo Hoyos)), Willis Robards (Alvin McCauley), Fay King (Attendant (as Fayrene King)), Ray Hemphill (Officer Two), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge (as Kenneth MacDonald)), Dante Orgalini (Dinaldo (as Dante Orgolini)), Larry Barton (Spectator), Fred Krone (Nils Dorow)

Gerald van Ness is shocked when a tiara worth three quarters of a million dollars, and thought lost, surfaces in his possession. But his surprises are just beginning: someone delivers a truck to Perry and Della, and it contains the body of Nils Dorow, top tier jewel thief. Perhaps its natural that the police assume van Ness killed Dorow, but Perry intends to prove otherwise...



265 :09x24 - The Case of the Fanciful Frail

First aired: Mar/27/1966
Writer: Ernest Frankel, Orville Hampton
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Pippa Scott (Ethel Andrews), Barry Kelley (Mr. Park Milgrave), Arch Johnson (Frank Carruthers), Joan Huntington (Althea Milgrave), Coleen Gray (Martha Erskine), Abigail Shelton (Peggy Sutton), John Rayner (Tierney), Jack Betts (Bruce Strickland (as Hunt Powers)), Phil Arthur (Pit Boss), Henry Hunter (Reverend Alford), Vera Marshe (Mrs. Alford), Roy Engel (Detective), S. John Launer (Judge), Ray Montgomery (Attendant), Timothy Blake (Waitress), Marshall Kent (Ed Thomas), Seamon Glass (Driver), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Mildred Harrison (Chambermaid)

Bruce Strickland leaves Ethel Andrews at the altar and arranges for her to take the fall for a $50,000 securities theft. She flees town and runs into - almost literally - Peggy Sutton who is in trouble herself. They switch identities and then Peggy dies and Ethel finds $50,000 in the truck of the car. She goes to Perry for help, and then someone kills Bruce Strickland. Poor Ethel - even Perry will have to work hard to unknot this one.



266 :09x25 - The Case of the Unwelcome Well

First aired: Apr/03/1966
Writer: Orville Hampton, Ernest Frankel
Director: Harmon Jones
Guest star: Wendell Corey (Jerome Klee), Paul Brinegar (Jason Rohan), Marilyn Erskine (Mirabel Corum), Les Tremayne (Harry Lannon), James Best (Allan Winford), Gloria Talbott (Minna Rohan), Danielle de Metz (Monique Martin), Edmund Hashim (Prince Ben Ali Bhudeem), William Lanteau (Ross Darley), Hal Lynch (Matt Rohan), Gordon Wescourt (Job Rohan), Martin Braddock (Dick Yates), Frank Biro (Judge), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Robert Stephenson (Guard)

When someone murders Jerome Klee, there's no shortage of suspects, because Klee had a knack for making enemies. But the police settle on Allen Winford, his foreman, with whom he'd recently argued. To clear Winford, Perry will have to identify the murderer from among a rich array of candidates.



267 :09x26 - The Case of the Dead Ringer

First aired: Apr/17/1966
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Indus Arthur (Barbara Kramer), Arlene Martel (Sandra Dunkel), Oliver McGowan (Otis Swanson), Henry Beckman (William March), Stewart Moss (Dan Swanson), Maurice Manson (Jess Parkinson), Tom Palmer (Franklin Bates), Chet Stratton (Minister), Alan Fordney (Harley), Grandon Rhodes (Judge No. 2), Anthony Jochim (Makeup Man), Ed Prentiss (Judge No. 1), Roland La Starza (Bouncer), Mike De Anda (Mexican Worker (as Mike Miguel De Anda)), Alex Bookston (Assistant Manager), Raymond Burr (Grimes), Connie Cezan (Receptionist)

Perry loses a civil case when the opposing counsel successfully suggests that Perry paid off a witness! But who? Before Otis Swanson can benefit from his victory, someone murders him, and the police suspect Perry's client Barbara Kramer.



268 :09x27 - The Case of the Misguided Model

First aired: Apr/24/1966
Writer: Orville Hampton, Ernest Frankel
Director: Jerry Hopper
Guest star: Mary Ann Mobley (Sharon Carmody), Paul Lukather (Dennis 'Duke' Maronek), Anthony Eisley (Rudy Blair), Rita Lynn (Fern Bronwyn), Don Dubbins (Deputy D.A. Vincent), James Griffith (Jake Stearns), Harry Holcombe (Judge), Armand Harrison (Ira Dewitt), Sarah Selby (Clerk), Isabel Randolph (Madam Rosa Bruening), Lauren Gilbert (Dave Bronwyn), Eddie Quillan (Agent), Lisa Davis (Receptionist), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Darlene Enlow (White Snow #1), Robert Legionaire (Road Block Policeman), James Johnson (Policeman #2 (as Jim Johnson)), Howard Davis (Policeman #1)

Model Sharon Carmody very much wants to be the "White Snow Queen" who will pitch the product. Alas, she is not as pure as white snow, and someone knows it. It seems fortunate for her when someone kills the blackmailer - until her boyfriend confesses to Perry that he struck the fatal blow. The police arrest a vagrant, and torn by conscience, Perry wins him an acquittal. But the question remains: just what did happen that night, and how did the blackmailer die?



269 :09x28 - The Case of the Positive Negative

First aired: May/01/1966
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: Brian Donlevy (General Roger Brandon), Bettye Ackerman (Laura Brandon), Parley Baer (Frank Cummings), Dabbs Greer (Bill Cotton), Simon Scott (Stanley Overton), Anthony Hayes (Warren Cotton), Ted de Corsia (George Emory), John Gallaudet (Judge), Jim Drum (Photographer), Tom Allen (Policeman)

In a corrupt town, Roger Brandon intends change: he will accept a position at the head of an anti-crime commission to shut down the rackets. Racketeer George Emory has other ideas. He claims possession of evidence against Brandon's wife that he will use to smear her name unless Brandon refuses the appointment. Brandon calls the crime boss's bluff. Then someone murders Emory and builds a nice frame around Brandon into the bargain. Or is it a frame? The police certainly don't think so...



270 :09x29 - The Case of the Crafty Kidnapper

First aired: May/15/1966
Writer: William Bast
Director: Jerry Hopper
Guest star: Gary Collins (Alex Tanner), Cloris Leachman (Gloria Shine), Douglas Henderson (Greg Stanley), Anne Whitfield (Patricia Tanner), Mary Foskett (Lola Stanley), John Lasell (Danny Shine), Pat Priest (Norma Fenn), John Holland (Bruno Grant), William Bramley (Leon Vandenberg), Walter Burke (Man (Private Investigator Adams)), Willis Bouchey (Judge), Patricia Joyce (Receptionist), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice)

Danny Shine ruins lives for a living. As a gossip columnist, that's his job, or so he thinks. The person who puts a bullet in him evidently holds a different opinion. The police like Greg Stanley, Shine's assistant, for this murder. Stanley might have an alibi, but it's a man with a secret that will close his lips, even on the witness stand.



271 :09x30 - The Case of the Final Fadeout

First aired: May/22/1966
Writer: Ernest Frankel, Orville Hampton
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Guest star: James Stacy (Barry Conrad), Estelle Winwood (Winifred Glover), Jackie Coogan (Pete Desmond), Denver Pyle (Jackson Sidemark), Dick Clark (Leif Early), Gerald Mohr (Andy Rubin), Marlyn Mason (Erna Landry), Kenneth R. MacDonald (Judge One (as Kenneth MacDonald)), William Tannen (Studio Guard (Frank)), Margaret Shinn (Starlet #1), Linda Burton (Starlet #2), Maureen Crow (Adlib), Louie Elias (Stunt Man No. 1), Saul Gorss (Stunt Man No. 2), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice), Erle Stanley Gardner (Judge), Gail Patrick (Courtroom Spectator)

Barry Conrad, a nasty individual whose personality has richly endowed him with enemies, finally meets his end. Mason manages to see Jackson Sidemark acquitted - and then Sidemark dies. Did Winnifred Glover kill him? Both of them? Or was it someone else entirely?