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| Original Air Date—21 September 1957
Perry's client is menaced by a car driven by a hooded assailant, whom she shoots at with a revolver that was planted in her room. When the guy winds up dead from a bullet wound, Perry confuses matters by firing an identical revolver at the scene of the crime, but after the fact. |
| Original Air Date—28 September 1957
When his stepbrother is found dead, a man is charged with murder and is accused of using his sleepwalking as a cover-up. |
| Original Air Date—5 October 1957
A wealthy woman hires Mason to buy stock in her husband's land company, hoping to force his mistress out. But her plan goes awry when she is charged with murder. |
| Original Air Date—12 October 1957
Perry Mason, Della Street, and Paul Drake head to a small town to defend a young man who is charged with poisoning a blackmailer. |
| Original Air Date—19 October 1957
An impetuous niece who demands her trust fund be released comes to Perry Mason for help. But it's her boyfriend who needs defending when he is charged with murdering her controlling uncle. |
| Original Air Date—19 October 1957
The owner of a lucrative orchid business is charged with murder after her husband loses stock shares in a poker game to a sleazy ex-con. |
| Original Air Date—2 November 1957
Sam Burris awakens his wife Betsy, saying he has just heard a gunshot at a neighbor's house. Through binoculars they spy Belle Adrian prowling about the house. Fortunately, Perry Mason is on vacation in the area and can come to Belle's aid when she is charged with murder. |
| Original Air Date—9 November 1957
Fay Allison (Sue England) and her roommate Anita (Jean Willes) are found unconscious by Fay's aunt, Louise Marlow (Frances Bavier), who calls her attorney Perry Mason in desperation. In the girls' apartment Perry and Della discover a key that leads them to the body of Carver Clement (John Holland). Someone has left a crimson kiss on Carver's forehead and planted evidence that incriminates Fay. Perry must use all his skills to defend his young client. |
| Original Air Date—16 November 1957
Veronica Dale (Carol Leigh) hitches a ride toward Los Angeles with Edgar Ferrell (Paul Cavanagh), who makes an unsuccessful pass at her. When she arrives in LA, she gets a job with movie producer John Addison's (Robert Ellenstein) company. To complicate matters, Addison is having an affair with Ferrell's wife Lorraine (Catherine McLeod). Ferrell is murdered, and Addison is charged with the crime. Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) must untangle all the threads. |
| Original Air Date—23 November 1957
Ed Davenport, on his deathbed, accuses his wife of poisoning him, then he expires. When Tragg arrives to investigate, the corpse has vanished, only to be found later, buried in a slit trench several miles away. |
| Original Air Date—30 November 1957
Martha and Rita show up at a beauty salon answering to the name "Mrs. Bradford." Their husband Joe turns up dead on his boat, Martha is charged with his murder, and a candle on the table is leaning about twenty degrees. It's up to Perry Mason to sort all this out. |
| Original Air Date—7 December 1957
While on a fishing trip, Perry Mason and Paul Drake pull a beautiful woman out of the ocean. In her possession is a note she found, intended for her employer, accusing him of killing his rich uncle. |
| Original Air Date—14 December 1957
Perry and Della are enjoying a quiet dinner at Morey Allen's restaurant when a waitress suddenly runs out and is hit by a car, shots are fired, and Perry is left holding a moth-eaten mink. |
| Original Air Date—21 December 1957
Perry is awakened in the middle of the night by the telephone. A strange man says someone has been murdered and he has two $1,000 bills as a retainer, as well as half of a $10,000 bill that will serve to introduce Perry's mysterious client if it becomes necessary. The identity of the killer is most surprising. |
| Original Air Date—28 December 1957
When Perry Mason finds some possessions that belong to a fan dancer, he places an ad that several people mistake for a missing horse. Not only does another dancer show up, but so does her husband...dead! |
| Original Air Date—4 January 1958
Nadine, a demure young woman, confesses to her psychiatrist on tape that she poisoned her uncle. Evidence has been tampered with and planted, and Perry is in hot water. |
| Original Air Date—11 January 1958
A gorgeous woman's trailer was stolen while she was sunbathing, so she asks for Perry's help in finding it. She claims it contains her diary, which details the truthful account of a notorious bank heist. |
| Original Air Date—18 January 1958
Elaine Barton (Kipp Hamilton) is being threatened and blackmailed by her husband, Harry Pitkin (Harry Jackson), so she consults Perry Mason (Raymond Burr). In a complex series of moves, Perry is sent on a wild goose chase to Elaine's apartment, Harry winds up dead, and Elaine is charged with murder. |
| Original Air Date—25 January 1958
Claire Olger (Patricia Hardy) is picked up hitchhiking by ladies' man Michael Greeley (John Hubbard). He makes a pass and they struggle, causing the car to crash into an oncoming truck. The truck driver is killed, and when she regains consciousness, Claire is charged with auto theft and manslaughter as the only occupant of the wrecked car. Later, Greeley turns up dead in Claire's room, and Perry Mason (Raymnd Burr) must stay one step ahead of the police to solve the mystery. |
| Original Air Date—1 February 1958
A lonely heiress, Marylin Clark (Kathleen Crowley), looks for a con man who swindled her sister through a lonely hearts magazine, leading to the sister's death. Marylin finds Charles Barnaby (L. Q. Jones), but he winds up dead, and she is charged with murder. |
| Original Air Date—8 February 1958
A dowdy woman comes to Perry Mason for help. Her wealthy father is being blackmailed, and she's afraid if her fiancé finds out, he'll break off their engagement. |
| Original Air Date—15 February 1958
The wife of a prominent physician is arrested for drugging her husband, causing him to crash his private plane. But then he turns up alive, living in Mexico with a beautiful nurse. |
| Original Air Date—22 February 1958
Marian Fargo (Angie Dickenson) is being blackmailed and hires Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) to find a solution to her problem. When Marian is suddenly charged with two murders and the evidence is solidly against her, Perry must use all his wits to save his client. |
| Original Air Date—1 March 1958
To protect his sister, Helen Reed, Robert Crane threatens his brother-in-law, David Reed, with bodily harm. Helen suffers from continuing nightmares that involve memories she cannot explain, and is mysteriously connected to a promiscuous woman named Joyce Martel, who is having an affair with Johnny Hale. When David Reed is murdered, Crane is charged with the crime. It is up to Perry Mason and Dr. Maitland to unravel the mystery. |
| Original Air Date—8 March 1958
Elston Carr is searching for the heir to the Hocksley fortune, with Alan Neil conducting the preliminary interviews. Miriam Hocksley may be the heiress, but she can't prove it, so Neil coyly offers his services for a fee. Meantime, another woman, Doris Hocksley, also has reliable credentials. The proof is in a tin box in Carr's safe, but when opened it is empty, and Carr is lying on the floor dead. |
| Original Air Date—15 March 1958
Perry Mason defends an old wartime buddy, Frank Lawton, who is framed for murder. |
| Original Air Date—22 March 1958
Teenager Doris Bannister is having a fling with Stefan Riker, a shady East German who is a longtime acquaintance of Doris' step-mother, Lisa Bannister. One day Doris shows up at Perry Mason's office asking for help. Riker has been murdered, and Doris has global amnesia, or is she faking it? |
| Original Air Date—29 March 1958
An attractive secretary, spying on an oil executive in order to help his rival, is found murdered. And Perry's star witness is an elevator operator who identifies suspects by their shoes! |
| Original Air Date—5 April 1958
Fred Archer (Les Tremayne) is blackmailed by Kim Lane (Betty Utey), who winds up dead. Albert Sanders (Fred Sherman), Perry Mason's derelict client, is charged with the murder. Perry depends on Kim's friend, Inez Kaylor (Karen Sharpe Kramer), to assist in the defense, but she double-crosses him at every turn. |
| Original Air Date—26 April 1958
Influential columnist Mary K. Davis (Marian Seldes) desperately wants a baby in order to keep her diplomat husband, Ralph Davis (Philip Ober), from leaving her for another woman. She tries to force Dr. George Barnes (Arthur Shields) and nurse Leona Walsh (Josephine Hutchinson) to trade a baby for a stolen book of the doctor's adoption records. Leona consults with Perry Mason for advice. When Mary K. is murdered, Leona confesses to the crime, and Perry must cut a Gordian knot of intrigue to get at the truth. |
| Original Air Date—3 May 1958
Bedridden Louise Gordon believes her husband George is having an affair with Charlotte Lynch, and will not allow him into her room. Only her friend Vicky Braxton and nurse Nora Mae Quincey may see Louise. Suspecting trouble in the household, Nora Mae consults Perry Mason. When Louise dies of arsenic poisoning, Nora Mae is charged with murder. |
| Original Air Date—10 May 1958
Carl Houser secretly loads up a money belt in the bank where he works, and takes his wife Anna on a cruise. Coincidentally, Perry Mason and Della Street are on the same ship, along with a patient whose face is completely covered with bandages. One night, Carl disappears overboard, and Anna is charged with murder. The investigation clears Carl of embezzlement, but the Chicago mob might somehow be involved. The questions for Perry are: who has jurisdiction in the case, and where is the mysterious patient? |
| Original Air Date—17 May 1958
Gambler Glenn Falkner (Russell Thorson) is murdered by George Castle (Joe De Santis), who tries to collect a debt from Falkner's daughter, Stephanie (Peggy McCay). Michael Garvin Sr. (Lyle Talbot) asks Perry Mason to represent Stephanie if anything happens. Sure enough, Castle is murdered and Stephanie is charged. The case becomes confusing when not one, but three identical revolvers circulate among the persons of interest. |
| Original Air Date—24 May 1958
Enid Griffin (Barbara Baxley) overdoses on sleeping pills because her boss, Stewart Brent (Grant Withers), unexpectedly got married. Enid's life is saved by her roommate, Sheila Bowers (Peggy Knudsen). Arthur Binney (Richard Erdman) blackmails Brent and his wife Anne (Mari Aldon) to suppress the fact that she has a prison record. Brent is framed for the murder of Binney, but confesses to shield his wife. Every female in the story is blond, which leads to confusion all around. |
| Original Air Date—31 May 1958
While repositioning his car in the driveway, Bertrand Allred finds the unconscious Robert Fleetwood, who wakes up with amnesia. It appears that Bertrand's step-daughter, Patricia, struck Fleetwood as she was driving toward the house. Bertrand and his wife Lucille spirit Fleetwood away to a remote location. Then, Lucille's car is found wrecked with the dead Bertrand in it, and statements to the police and footprints in the mud confuse the situation. Only Perry Mason can unravel the tangled yarns. |
| Original Air Date—7 June 1958
Philip Larkin is killed, and his step-father, Joseph Harrison, is charged with murder. Joe is recently divorced from Larkin's mother, Ethel Harrison for his possible attraction to young Lorraine Stevens, secretary to an import/export merchant, George Durell. Lorraine is a friend of Joe's private secretary, Irene Collaro, which confuses the issues. With Joe in serious difficulty, Ethel asks Perry Mason to defend him. |
| Original Air Date—14 June 1958
Diana Reynolds arrives at Perry Mason's office wearing a black eye she received in a scuffle with Tony Davis. She is interested in the welfare of the toddler son of Norma Carter, daughter-in-law of tycoon Matthew Bartlett. Marian Shaw, Diana's former roommate, also concerned with Bartlett's grandson, is murdered at the Carter residence. Diana is charged with murder, and Perry has to walk gingerly through a mine field. |
| Original Air Date—21 June 1958
A terrified typist rushes into Perry Mason's office pretending to be sent by a temp agency. The jewel importers on the floor above has been invaded. Later one of the partners, George Baxter (Jack Raine), is killed and another partner, Duane Jefferson (Alan Marshal), is charged. Perry defends Marshal, but the accused man is too gallant to name his alibi, a married woman. Such chivalry leads to a dramatic twist and an unexpected conclusion. |
| Original Air Date—28 June 1958
Daniel Reed (Edgar Stehli) is forcibly placed in a mental sanitarium as incompetent to deal with his affairs. Perry Mason takes the case to court and wins Reed's freedom on a writ of habeas corpus. Before the writ can be served, however, Reed escapes and is charged with murder. |
| Original Air Date—20 September 1958
George Beaumont calls Perry Mason to set up a meeting, which is a surprise since Beaumont was supposedly killed in a plane crash three years ago. George confesses to his girlfriend, Ruth Whittaker, that he plans to reconcile with his wife. When George is murdered and Ruth is charged with the crime, Perry must use all his wits to get to the truth. |
| Original Air Date—27 September 1958
Ted Balfour, youthful heir to the Balfour fortune, is convicted of vehicular manslaughter and given a suspended sentence through a plea bargain. When the police discover the victim actually died of a gunshot wound to the head, Ted is charged with first degree murder. Perry Mason argues that the second charge is prohibited by the constitutional guarantee against double jeopardy, but the judge is not persuaded by the argument. |
| Original Air Date—4 October 1958
Nicky Renzi, a diminutive fourteen-year-old, finds the loot from a robbery in an abandoned house and consults Perry Mason about the legality of keeping it. His grandfather, Gramp Renzi, is adamant about reporting it to the police, but then Gramp is charged with grand theft. When the brains of the robbery, Frank Anderson, is found dead, Gramp is charged with murder. Perry ultimately depends on ears more than eyes to solve the riddle. |
| Original Air Date—11 October 1958
Major Frank Lessing, a payroll officer on an Army base, is found murdered and Sgt. Joseph Dexter is charged with the crime. The case hinges on a payroll robbery committed in the Phillippines years before. It seems as though some of the bills from that robbery were turning up on the base. |
| Original Air Date—18 October 1958
Rhoda Reynolds is blackmailed by Artie Kane for a past indiscretion, which she would like to keep from her weakling husband Carl and his overbearing father Philip. Dr. Michael Harris, who practices at the hospital where Rhoda works, offers to help but she refuses. Instead, Rhoda consults Perry Mason about the legitimacy of her present marriage but is not satisfied with the answer. Artie turns up dead, and Rhoda is charged with murder. Perry meddles with the evidence, so the case involves buzzers and bells, and a honky-tonk named "The Oryx". |
| Original Air Date—1 November 1958
Jack Hardisty steals $100,000 from the bank where he works and asks his father-in-law, Dr. Blane, the chairman of the bank's board, to repay it and avoid a scandal. Meantime, Jack's wife Sue is having an affair with a neighbor, Philip Strague. While investigating matters, Paul Drake discovers Dr. Blane rifling Jack's home and Jack dead on the floor. Perry Mason demonstrates his knowledge of clocks in solving the case. |
| Original Air Date—8 November 1958
Danny Harrison holds two jobs to make ends meet, one as a schoolteacher, the other at Luke Hickey's diner. One evening Frank Curran comes to the diner flashing a wad of cash, which is tempting to both Danny and Luke. When Curran is robbed and killed, Danny is charged with murder. |
| Original Air Date—15 November 1958
Jockey Tic Barton's wife tries to persuade him to throw a race to please gambler Johnny Starr, with whom she is having an affair. Tic refuses, but he loses the race anyhow. When Starr is killed, Tic is charged with murder and calls on Perry Mason to defend him. Real-life jockey Billy Pearson stars as Tic Barton. |
| Original Air Date—6 December 1958
Prominent art collector Rufus Varner has bought a famous Van Houten painting, The Purple Woman, from dealer Milo Girard, but the painting may be a forgery by Aaron Hubbell, a third-rate hack. Girard's estranged wife Evelyn consults Perry Mason for protection against any involvement in the suspected fraud. To complicate matters, Evelyn is having an affair with the art critic Wayne Gordon, and Milo is having an affair with his secretary Doris Andrews. Milo is murdered, Evelyn is charged and Perry must separate the wheat from the chaff in solving the mystery. |
| Original Air Date—13 December 1958
Martin Ellis, a former employee of Jonathan Hyett, is serving time for embezzlement, a charge he strongly denies. New evidence curiously emerges that may cast doubt on Ellis' conviction, so his wife Caroline consults Perry Mason about the case. Meanwhile, there is tension within the firm because of the way Hyett's son-in-law, Richard Brewster, treats his alcoholic wife Valerie. Through Perry's efforts Ellis is released just hours before Brewster is found by Hyett shot to death. Ellis is quickly re-arrested and charged with murder. Perry must deal with California and Nevada laws in defending his client. |
| Original Air Date—20 December 1958
The only witness to a rich man's murder is his parrot, who keeps repeating the suspect's name. But in court, everyone is surprised at what the bird says next. |
| Original Air Date—3 January 1959
Diamond cutter and confidence man Hans Breel, alias Hugo Werner, owes a large sum to belligerent gambler William Walker. Breel convinces Irene Bedford to let him sell her diamond and cut it to raise money. He sells the diamond to Virginia Trent, but swindles Irene out of her share. Meanwhile his wife, Sarah Werner, is consults Perry Mason for help in recovering funds from her child's trust account that Hans/Hugo has embezzled. Breel smashes Trent's diamond to bits and is later found dead. Sarah is charged with murder, and Perry must defend her. |
| Original Air Date—10 January 1959
Attractive brunette Eva Martell interviews with Melvin Slater for a special assignment--to pose as Helen Reynolds. Eva takes the job chaperoned by her Aunt Agnes Nulty. Meantime, Slater's wife Barbara is looking for him to collect overdue child support. Aunt Agnes consults Perry Mason about the situation. Eva and Agnes find Slater dead and are charged with murder. |
| Original Air Date—17 January 1959
Frederick Rollins and Tom Wyatt have discovered a cure for gill fever, a deadly goldfish disease. As they plan to market the product, they find that entrepreneur Jack Huxley has bought the aquarium supply business and owns all patents and intellectual property. Huxley's marriage is on the rocks and he breaks up with his girl friend. Huxley's partner, Dan Myers, despises him and tries to double-cross him. Huxley is murdered, Wyatt is charged with the crime, and Perry Mason has to sort everything out. |
| Original Air Date—24 January 1959
Bob Wallace breaks off his engagement to Millie Crest after involving her in an embezzlement scheme. Millie hurriedly leaves town and gives a lift to Fern Driscoll, who tries to highjack the car, causing it to plunge down a canyon. Fern is killed and Millie assumes her identity, traveling on to Los Angeles. There she is contacted by a shady insurance investigator, Carl Davis. Davis tries to recover incriminating letters from Fern/Millie, who knows nothing about them. That evening Millie protects herself by stabbing an intruder with an icepick. As the wounded intruder, Davis later contacts Millie, threatening to harm her if she does not produce the letters. Millie sends Perry Mason to represent her in the matter. Davis dies and Millie is charged with murder. |
| Original Air Date—7 February 1959
District Attorney Brander Harris is investigating possible graft in the Northport Hospital project. He meets with Leora Matthews to obtain proof, but is a victim of the old badger game. Matthews unexpectedly disrobes and kisses Harris as a photographer takes an incriminating picture. The picture goes to political fixer Marshall Scott and newspaper editor Jimmy Castleton, both of whom may be involved in the graft. Harris consults Perry Mason, who meets unsuccessfully with Matthews. When Scott is killed, Harris is charged with murder. |
| Original Air Date—14 February 1959
Stacey Chandler gives Helen Harvey his mother's cameo as an engagement gift, but Helen finds out that Stacey is a con man. Irene Wallace tries to involve Stacey in a con game against Helen, but he refuses. Helen confronts Irene unsuccessfully, then consults Perry Mason about the case. In a whirlwind courtship Stacey and Helen are married in Las Vegas. Then Irene is killed, and Perry confuses the issue with ID hocus-pocus. |
| Original Air Date—21 February 1959
Fading funnyman Danny Ross has been promised a new television show, which he desperately needs for a comeback. Charles Goff, the television executive who promised Danny the new show, double-crosses the jaded joker and pitches the show for another talent. Danny and his gofer, Freddie Green, consult with Perry Mason about the case. Goff is killed and Freddie is charged with murder. Perry has to dig cool jive to wade through some of the testimony. |
| Original Air Date—7 March 1959
Wealthy Peter Baxter decides to test the loyalty of his heirs. He pretends to change his will cutting them all out and leaving his entire estate to groundskeeper, James Hing. Hing is then supposed to burn down Baxter's house and Baxter would substitute a medical cadaver for his own body. If any of the heirs contested the will, they would be disinherited. Hing does as he is instructed. He burns down the house but the body discovered inside is really that of Peter Baxter. Perry tries to sort through this muddled mess and arrive at the truth. |
| Original Air Date—14 March 1959
Bishop Arthur Mallory searches for a young woman who may be the heiress to $1,000,000 from the Charles Burrows estate. Carole Delaney fills the bill. Mallory is beaten by detective Wallace Lang and his henchman to persuade him to drop the case. Later, Carole is also warned off by Lang. Carole and Mallory consult Perry Mason, who doubts the bishop's bona fides because he stutters. Burrows is killed and Carole is charged with murder. |
| Original Air Date—21 March 1959
At a script read-through of a new play by Ernest Royce, the last act has been stolen. Royce has words with the producer, John Gifford, and the publicist, Jim West, who think the new play is dreadful. It may even be a roman a clef that could be hurtful to the real people characterized. Royce threatens Gifford with exposure if the play is not produced. Meanwhile, Royce is having an affair with Faith Foster, the ingenue of the play. Tough guy Frank Brooks has $75K, and his girlfriend Faith, invested in the play, and he wants his assets back. Royce is murdered, and Brooks consults with Perry Mason, who is concerned the New York City mob may be involved. |
| Original Air Date—4 April 1959
Psychotherapist Dr. David Craig records his patients' sessions on audio tape. Patient Peter Heywood reveals an affair on one of the tapes. Heywood's wife Barbara goes through mobster Ronnie Fowler to buy a copy of the tape from Mark Douglas, brother of Dr. Craig's nurse Edith. After his office is ransacked, Dr. Craig consults with Perry Mason. Mark Douglas is killed, and everyone has a motive, but Dr. Craig is charged with murder. |
| Original Air Date—11 April 1959
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| Original Air Date—18 April 1959
Contractor George Andrews meets with political strongman Wilfred Borden, an amateur photographer, about resolving the arbitrary inspection problems on the job. As he leaves the estate, Andrews sideswipes a car, throwing a young woman into the driveway. The woman identifies herself as Beatrice Cornell and refuses medical aid, asking only for a ride home. Andrews consults Perry Mason, who finds that the accident victim was not who she said. Borden is killed, and Mason must search for a model who might have been in the house that evening. Lt. Tragg finds the murder weapon, a Colt .38 automatic, in Andrews' car and arrests him. |
| Original Air Date—25 April 1959
Partners Harry Bright and Chuck Clark are at bitter odds with one another over Chuck's marriage to gold-digger Margaret. Harry consults Perry Mason, who advises dissolving the partnership. Margaret's brother, Howard Roper, tries to break up the partners for his sister's benefit. Margaret is killed and Harry charged with murder, although he refuses to assist in his defense. Perry must sort out all the affairs to solve the case. |
| Original Air Date—9 May 1959
Compulsive gambler Sylvia Oxman meets with shady casino man Danny Barker to repay IOUs. Her husband Frank also wishes to acquire them as evidence in a suit for custody of their young son, Peter. Sylvia's grandmother, Matilda Benson, consults with Perry Mason about covering the debts herself. Perry and Paul Drake run an unsuccessful scam to recoup the IOUs. Barker is killed with Sylvia's gun, and Sylvia is charged with murder. Perry must play his cards well to defend his client. |
| Original Air Date—16 May 1959
In San Francisco, Claire Alison and Dick Benedict try to avoid Martin Selkirk, who wants to break up their romance. Selkirk finds them and breaks Benedict's jaw in a fight. In Los Angeles, Lorraine Jennings, Selkirk's former wife, contacts Claire offering help if Claire will testify on Lorraine's behalf in a custody battle over young David Selkirk. Claire contacts Perry Mason about the situation while Dick recuperates in the hospital. A mysterious shot is fired in the night, Ralph Jennings walks with a pronounced limp, and Selkirk is found murdered. When Claire is charged, Perry must deal with young David's deadly toy to solve the case. |
| Original Air Date—30 May 1959
Collector Curtis Runyan owns a precious art object called "The Spanish Cross," which he refuses to sell to art dealer Felix Karr. The cross goes missing and may have been taken by Jimmy Morrow, on probation for grand theft auto, who works as a gardener for the Runyans. Wheelchair bound Grace Runyan and her husband are estranged, and she has taken a motherly interest in Jimmy. Felix Karr calls on Perry Mason to defend Jimmy, who has disappeared. Runyan is shot, and Jimmy is seen holding a gun. |
| Original Air Date—13 June 1959
A lovely blonde hops over the wall onto Perry Mason's office terrace, tossing a revolver into a flower pot. When confronted by him, she says her name is Virginia Colfax and claims to be a secretary next door. She quickly eludes Perry and disappears. Next door, majority stockholder Edward Garvin is in a proxy fight with his ex-wife Ethel and consults Mason about the case. Garvin finds the revolver and locks it in his desk. Ethel charges Edward with bigamy as his Mexican divorce may not be legal in the U. S. Perry advises the Garvins to flee to Mexico until their marital status can be documented. Ethel is killed and Edward is charged. Perry has to straighten out the true identity and purpose of the blonde and determine who stands to gain most from the proxy fight. |
| Original Air Date—27 June 1959
Walter Prescott tries to extort all his wife Ruth's money to give her a divorce. As she leaves, a truck almost runs her down, instead crashing into a car and injuring the passenger, a man named Walden. The truck driver, Harry Jonson, and Prescott drive Walden to the hospital. Meanwhile, Ruth goes to Jimmy McLain's apartment where she finds an empty shoulder holster. She rushes back home to find Prescott dead and her pet canary injured. She burns some love letters, takes a gun from the floor and is discovered by Margaret Swaine, Walter's secretary. Ruth consults Perry Mason and is later charged with Prescott's murder. After Walden is found murdered, Perry must use all his legal wiles to defend his client and solve the mystery. |
| Original Air Date—3 October 1959
Bruce and Marie Chapman have marital trouble because of her compulsive gambling. After Bruce cuts off her funds and leaves town, Marie blackmails her former husband and his wife, Walter and Helen Sprague. She flies to Las Vegas to contact her former partner is a "sister" act, Virginia Hobart. When Bruce returns, he receives divorce papers from Marie, and consults Perry Mason. Bruce finds Marie's car at the bottom of a canyon near their home and identifies her body for Lt. Tragg, who arrests Bruce for murder. Perry wades through a succession of look-alike women and red herrings in solving the case. |
| Original Air Date—10 October 1959
Sleazy detective Fred Bushmiller questions movie actress Lorna Thomas whether she gave birth about twenty-five years earlier to a daughter who was put up for adoption. He has seen Lorna physically arguing with her business manager, Dennis Briggs, and tries to extort an admission from her. George Clark consults with Perry Mason on behalf of his wife Betty, insisting that she is Lorna's long-lost daughter. Betty interrupts an argument between Lorna and her producer, Tony Raeburn. The actress has delayed funding his new picture. Betty is abruptly dismissed and consults Perry. Lorna is killed, and George is charged with murder. |
| Original Air Date—17 October 1959
At a beach-house poker game, Larry Benton accuses Mike Granger of cheating. They fight and Granger is killed with his own gun. Johnny Clay offers to dispose of the body. One of the poker players, Ben Wallace, tries to blackmail Larry, knowing that his brother is wealthy oilman Steve Benton. But the whole thing is a set-up because Granger is alive and in on the plot. Steve Benton confronts his brother with $20,000 of forged checks to Clay, then consults Perry Mason about the issue. Larry steals $20,000 from Clay to cover the forged checks, but Steve goes to return the money. He finds Clay dead and wipes off fingerprints. Discovered in the act by Wallace, Steve is charged with murder. Perry proves there is no honor among thieves in solving the case. |
| Original Air Date—24 October 1959
Hudson Nichols frames Mitsou Kamuri for stealing his wife Thelma's string of expensive blush pearls, but offers to absolve her if she breaks off her relationship with his son Grove. Young Nichols confronts his father and promises to marry Mitsou. Mitsou consults Perry Mason, who tries to intervene. Ito Kamuri, Mitsou's uncle, has made two sets of false pearls and is found dead, having apparently committed hara kiri. Perry and Lt. Tragg independently decide that Uncle Ito was murdered. Mitsou is charged with the crime, and Perry must solve the mystery of who has the real pearls. |
| Original Air Date—31 October 1959
Disabled "John Brant" marries Clara Hammon, but the bridegroom is really Clara's lover, actor Earl Malden. Through a series of crafty moves, the real John Brant has gained control of everything Jo Ann Blanchard and her ne'er-do-well brother Terri have inherited. Clara is also having an affair with Terri. Now Brant wants the Blanchards' thoroughbred stallion, Spindrift, to race under his colors. Brant's ward, Peter White, is in love with Jo Ann and takes issue with the old man. Jo Ann consults Perry Mason, who finds that the horse is not covered by Brant's claims. Clara and Terri plan to murder Brant and blame Spindrift. Brant is found dead in the horse's stall, and Jo Ann is arrested. |
| Original Air Date—14 November 1959
Donna Kress and Frank Thatcher have a spat. He will not divorce his wife. Driving home that night, Frank runs over and kills a pedestrian in the road, Alexander Collins. Under direction of old Henry Dameron, Frank's father-in-law, Tad Dameron, Frank's brother-in-law, takes care of the body. Frank, as "Danko," hires Paul Drake to deliver $25,000 to Collins' widow, but Paul finds out the gift is a set-up. Paul fights with "Danko" and is knocked out. When he revives, he finds Thatcher/Danko is dead, shot with Paul's gun. Paul calls Perry Mason and is charged with murder. He is further accused of blackmailing Thatcher with the hit-and-run incident. Perry fights Dameron money and influence in defending Drake. |
| Original Air Date—21 November 1959
Sylvia Welles asks Rip Conners to bug her apartment and make a bogus tape as a joke. She invites her boss, Richard Vanaman, over to work on a project. Vanaman discovers the bug and makes threatening remarks, but Welles blames it on a jealous husband. Later, Vanaman realizes he has lost a special coin in the apartment and goes to recover it, where he finds Welles dead and flees. Vanaman consults Perry Mason about claiming an unusual coin that was found in a parking meter. When he tries to retrieve the coin, Vanaman is arrested. Perry and D. A. Hamilton Burger each use the fraudulent tape to prove his case. |
| Original Air Date—5 December 1959
Madge Wainwright, owner of an exclusive women's wear store, sees cheap knockoffs of designs she is selling for big bucks and complains irately to fashion house owner Wally Dunbar and chief designer Rick Stassi, who decide to scrap their previous work and create new designs with model Kitty Wynne as the focus. Madge and Rick were once an item. Wally is seeing Kitty, who also has a history with Rick. Assistant designer Lisa Ferrand wants Rick, but he spurns her. Lisa's husband, photographer and lush Bud Ferrand, shoots a series of Kitty in the new designs. Wally discusses design security with Perry Mason, who assigns the case to Paul Drake, who follows Kitty to Rick's house and finds sketches of the new designs in her car. Newspaper ads appear for a competitor with the new Dunbar designs. Rick is killed and Kitty charged with murder. |
| Original Air Date—12 December 1959
Like Dickens' rascally scamp, Allen Sheridan cons everyone for his own benefit. He asks Joyce Fulton for money to pay a nonexistent gambling debt to Lou Caporale. He plans his get away under the name "William Wyatt." He lies about his birthday to his financial advisor, Victor Latimore, in order to secretly receive his inheritance. He flees to Los Angeles to escape Ralph Curtis, whom he injured in a fight in New York. And he hides from his penniless aunt, Sarette Winslow, to avoid paying her rightful share of his inheritance. Who wouldn't want him dead? Sheridan apparently flies to Mexico City as "Wyatt," but his body is found in Los Angeles. So who flew to Mexico? Sarette is charged with murder, and Perry Mason must sort out this mess. |
| Original Air Date—19 December 1959
In Cloverdale, Utah Marjorie Cluny is chosen "Lucky Legs," but her boyfriend, Bob Doray, accuses the show's producer, Frank Patton, of running a bogus contest. Marjorie goes to Hollywood anyway and disappears. Her former boss, J. R. Bradbury, asks Pery Mason to find Marjorie and pursue Patton as a fraud. Marjorie is staying with Thelma Bell, a former "Lucky Legs" winner. Perry goes after Patton and find him stabbed to death with a wood-carving knife that belongs to Marjorie. She is arrested and calls Perry. |
| Original Air Date—2 January 1960
Phil Beecher comes home from a year in prison for vehicular manslaughter of Aggie Norris, the sheriff's daughter. His wife Kathi forgives him, although the people of the town despise him. Charlotte, Aggie's sister, stops Deputy Sheriff Ward Lewis from beating Phil to a pulp, but her kindness is part of a plot to discredit Phil. Charlotte and the sawmill manager, Norman Thurston, invite Phil to the mill on a pretext. Charlotte is killed, and Phil is arrested for murder and theft of the mill payroll. By coincidence Perry Mason is vacationing in the village and agrees to defend Phil, putting him in conflict with his old friend, Sheriff Eugene Norris. |
| Original Air Date—9 January 1960
Howard Walters and his mistress, Janice Atkins, plan to rob Wade Taylor's company and fake Walters' death. Janice schemes with Roger Porter to double-cross Howard. Howard flies himself across country, calls in a bogus mayday, and crashes the plane in the mountains. He breaks his leg, however, and has to hole up for seven weeks with a prospector, Zack Davis. Carole Taylor, Wade's daughter-in-law, asks Perry Mason to find her husband Andrew. The crashed plane is found with Andrew's body, dead from a gunshot. Howard unexpectedly shows up at Janice's apartment but she thought he was dead. Janice sends Carole and Howard's wife Ruth to his motel. Howard is killed and Carole is arrested. Perry must follow the money to solve the case. |
| Original Air Date—23 January 1960
Arthur Poe, Ben Sutton and Harry Wilson were comrades in the Korean War. Sutton and Wilson escaped, thinking Poe was dead, but he survived and spent several years in POW camps. Returning home, Poe finds that Sutton had stolen his war diary and published it as a best seller. Poe presses Sutton for money, but the writer is broke from paying blackmail. Gilbert Ames or his wife Marian ran over Alan Kirby's wife, leaving her permanently paralyzed. The Ameses have paid thousands of dollars to the Kirbys, mostly extorted from Ben Sutton. Sylvia Sutton, Ben's wife, contacts Perry Mason about dealing with blackmail. Marian tells Sylvia that Gilbert has killed Ben with a fireplace poker, at which Sylvia runs home and finds her husband dead, and the room a shambles. She dashes out of the house, runs into Poe and flees. Sylvia arrested later and calls on Perry to defend her. |
| Original Air Date—30 January 1960
In a remote hunting and fishing village, Jefferson Pike tries to confront Denver Leonard, but Leonard refuses to see the old man. Pike steals a revolver from Leonard's car and shoots himself in the leg, intending to implicate Leonard. Leonard's ranch foreman, Hal Kirkwood, helps Pike dress the wound. Pike's son, Fred, was once a professional ice skater, but was injured in a car accident and can no longer perform. Leonard accuses Fred of forging his name to checks to cover his medical expenses. Asa Culver, the angel for a new ice show, rightly suspects his wife Vita of carrying on with Leonard. Leonard is killed and Pike arrested. By coincidence, Pike's friend District Attorney Hamilton Burger is vacationing in the area. Burger calls Perry Mason to defend his friend and recuses himself from the case. |
| Original Air Date—6 February 1960
"George Livingston" opens a bank account, makes periodic deposits, and withdraws all $112,000 a month later. Sylvia Nelson forces her husband Edward, company president, to give her a divorce in exchange for her proxies in a hotly contested corporate fight with vice-president Frank Avery. Womanizer Robert Doniger, corporate accountant, reports $112K embezzlement to Nelson, who consults Perry Mason. Doniger turns out to be "Livingston," and secretary Norma Williams tries to extort half the money from him. Doniger promises his latest girlfriend, Patricia Martin, that he will return the money to the company. Perry and Della Street discover Doniger dead, with Nelson looking suspicious, and Avery acting triumphant. Nelson is arrested and Perry has his work cut out for him. |
| Original Air Date—20 February 1960
Freelance photographer Roger Byrd takes telephoto pictures of oil wildcatter Charles Houston pushing a car over a cliff with his wife Evelyn in it. Houston pays Byrd blackmail, then offers a share in a prospective well, but Byrd refuses. Houston then sells big time gambler Lucky Sterling 50% of the action to pay off Byrd. Byrd double-crosses Houston and sells the incriminating photos to Paula Wallace, Evelyn's sister, who intends to pay Byrd with money from her 50% of Houston's well. Paula consults Perry Mason. Incredibly, the 200% oversold wildcat well comes in a huge producer. Charles flees and is found dead in Byrd's apartment by Paula, shot with Evelyn's gun. Paula is charged with murder, and Perry has to sort things out. |
| Original Air Date—27 February 1960
In a driving rainstorm Gladys Doyle, secretary to novelist Mauvis Meade, struggles to the door of a remote cabin. A strange man in the cabin denies he has a package for Mauvis. He disappears into the night, and Gladys finds a dead man in the cabin. Mauvis arrives at home to find the place in a shambles, and shyster Gregory Dunkirk is glad that incriminating materials he gave Meade for her latest novel have been stolen. Gladys appears and tells her boss about the dead man, who turns out to be a Las Vegas gambler, Joseph Manley. Gladys consults Perry Mason and is arrested for murder. A scarf decorated with three mythical monkeys is found at the cabin, meant to implicate Mauvis in the crime. Other evidence points to Gladys. Perry must discover who is the framer, who was the man at the cabin, and what happened to the package. |
| Original Air Date—12 March 1960
In Rowena, CA where draw poker is legal, Manning Ennis pays a casino manager, Slim Marcus, $60,000 to settle his losses. The only witness to the game is the singing cigarette girl, Betty Roberts. The casino owner, George Anclitus, arrives in time to see the exchange and is displeased at the situation. Vivian Ennis, Manning's wife, calls Betty to help retrieve the money. Betty consults Perry Mason about the issue and shows him an automatic pistol she found in her hat box. Perry surreptitiously switches weapons and sends Betty on her way. Vivian is killed and Betty arrested. Surprisingly, the gun Perry put in her hat box is the murder weapon. |
| Original Air Date—26 March 1960
Gerald and Sally Norton own an old mine, which they refuse to sell to rancher Ken Bascombe, who wants the property for its available water supply. Someone shoots up the Nortons' campfire, and a ghostly voice warns them to get out. Prospector Amos Catledge arrives with his diffident donkey Sheba, reporting that he saw Bascombe galloping away. Meanwhile, foreman Roy Dowson is having an affair with Bascombe's wife Hazel. Coincidentally, Perry Mason is in town to question Amos and talks with the assayer, Crawford Wright, about the local mines. After another attack, Gerald takes matters into his own hands. He finds Bascombe's body, shot in the back. The murder weapon turns out to be Gerald's rifle, and he is charged with murder. Amos disappears and Perry has to depose Sheba to get to the bottom of things. |
| Original Air Date—9 April 1960
At the Harkins Gallery, Sylvester Robey wishes to see Richard Harkins about a Matisse hanging in the gallery. Amelia Harkins, Richard's mother who owns the gallery, is incensed to see that the painting is a forgery and blames Richard's assistant, June Sinclair, and master copyist David Lambert of collusion. June and David are in love and ask Perry Mason to intercede with Amelia. David quarrels with his wife Lisa, who paints cherubs, over their impending divorce and whether he should also paint commercially viable cherubs. Lisa tries to extort money from Amelia in return for the genuine Matisse. Later, June confronts Lisa and they struggle until Lisa pulls a gun and forces June to retreat. As she leaves, June hears Lisa scream and shots fired. She finds Lisa dead, calls Perry Mason and flees the scene. Perry discovers Lisa's body, the police arrive, and Perry clams up until he can talk to his client. June is arrested and Perry has to go to work. |
| Original Air Date—23 April 1960
Adam Thompson thinks one of his nephews, Harry Thompson or Elliott Carter, is rifling the house. He sets up an infrared camera near a wall safe to catch the thief. Adam openly marks a survey map to indicate property that he will soon buy, which his assistant, Ellen Foster, puts in the safe. Unknown to Adam, Frank Jarrett as "Norman Durston," puts up earnest money to buy the precise tract drawn on the map. Adam consults with Perry Mason to find out how the land was sold from under him without the safe having been opened. Adam reveals that he never intended to buy the land, but drew the map as a ruse for the thief. Jarrett, needing money, blackmails Victor Logan over a problem with Logan's credentials. Perry and Paul Drake find Jarrett's body in a running auto in his garage. Later, Harry is discovered rifling Jarrett's office and is arrested for murder. Lydia Logan, Victor's daughter and Harry's fiancée, asks Perry to defend them both. |
| Original Air Date—30 April 1960
Flavia Pierce, fashion designer, and her husband/partner Charles appear on a celebrity television show to promote their upcoming preview of the new line. They argue over a proposed business deal with another designer, Henry De Garmo, which Flavia rejects on the air. She suspects the deal will benefit one of Charles' favorite models, Hope Sutherland. Henry contacts Flavia's brother, George Halliday, to see if George can influence his sister. Charles consults Perry Mason about the situation. Hope gives Charles a bottle of champagne to celebrate the preview, after which she plans to leave the firm. Flavia drinks some of the champagne and falls to the floor. She makes a dying declaration to her assistant, Leona Durant, that Charles has poisoned her. Charles is arrested, and Perry questions whether the death is murder or suicide. |
| Original Air Date—14 May 1960
In Long Beach a local bar-girl, Dolores Chapman, has been murdered and the investigation centers around the crew of the submarine USS Moray. Cmdr. James Page, captain of the Moray, is involved in testing new equipment from Alpha Electronics. He meets with Alpha spokesmen Gordon Russell and Lou Hansford to set up the test, and finds that his father-in-law, Anthony Beldon, has bought into the company. Beldon consults Perry Mason about suing the U. S. Navy and relieving Page of his command, which Perry declines. Cmdr. Page is found stabbed to death with a special screwdriver. Robert Chapman, Delores' husband and member of the Moray's crew, becomes a prime suspect in both murders. Perry is retained anonymously to defend Chapman. |
| Original Air Date—21 May 1960
In Outcast, CA, newcomer Bob Lansing encounters strange, hostile reactions. At the request of Dr. Kennedy, headmaster of the orphanage where he was raised, Bob is there to look up Frederick Bell, who has been sending anonymous donations to the orphanage for several years. Bell denies this. Suspicious, Bob returns to Los Angeles and consults Perry Mason. From old newspaper accounts, Bob thinks he may be the son of notorious bank robber Lynn Aberdeen, who killed two deputy sheriffs. Curiously, Bell was a clerk in the bank when it was robbed. Now Bell works for the town's richest tycoon, Tom Quincy, who is having an affair with Bell's wife Vivian. Bell is found dead with Bob leaning over him. Bob is arrested, and the outlook is indeed ominous. |
| Original Air Date—28 May 1960
Inventor James Frazer thinks his wife Thelma is having an affair, so he leaves for three months to work on his anti-collision device. Thelma and a neighbor, Lois Langley, spend the day together, and Lois spots Thelma romancing inventor Calvin Boone in his office at the firm where James is a partner. Robert and Arthur Hayden, the other partners, announce that if James does not return by a certain date, they will automatically buy his part of the firm, including all inventions, for a ridiculously low price and replace James with Boone. Thelma consults Perry Mason about the partnership agreement. James returns home to find his locked workshop in flames and Thelma dead inside of a gunshot. James arrested for murder and asks Perry to defend him. |
| Original Air Date—11 June 1960
After funeral services for Louise Holbrook, her daughter, ten million dollar heiress Tracy, meets a man who claims to be her father, long gone Jay Holbrook. The family head, old Cousin Lawrence King, is blind and cannot identify Holbrook. King hires detective, Peter Sample, who finds another "Jay Holbrook" in San Francisco. Cousin Lawrence is found dead, and Trudy is seen running from the scene. She consults Perry Mason, telling him about a confrontation with King, but he was alive when she left. Holbrook #1 calls on Perry Mason to help Trudy, closely followed by Holbrook #2 with the same request. Trudy is arrested, and Perry takes the case. |
| Original Air Date—17 September 1960
After a mysterious two-year absence, Hartley Bassett returns to reclaim his company. His wife Sybil is at a stockholders' meeting to vote with company president Peter Dawson to restructure the business after accusations that her husband embezzled funds. Bassett bursts in and breaks up the meeting. Sybil's son and Bassett's stepson, Dick Hart, is in San Francisco on company affairs. While there he marries gold-digger Teddi. Dawson consults with Perry Mason about the situation, confessing that he is in love with Sybil. At the company offices Perry, Dick and Teddi find Hartley Bassett murdered, clutching a tuft of hair from a toupee. Dawson wears one, but is not the only owner of a renegade rug. Teddi disappears, Tragg arrests Dawson, and Perry runs a desperate con to flush out the murderer. |
| Original Air Date—24 September 1960
Because he was unable to secure an adequate judgment, attorney Everett Dorrell offers to loan Dick Hammond $15,000 for his mother's medical care. Dorrell gets a frantic call that his girlfriend Helen Austin is threatening to kill herself. He speeds out of his driveway and runs over Helen. Hammond drives up and offers to dispose of the body, suggesting that Dorrell drive into a post, have the car repaired and blame the damage on that accident. Dorrell gives Hammond the $15,000 in cash. That evening Hammond's garage catches fire, and Dorrell's damaged car is found inside. Clara Thorpe, Helen's aunt, demands Hammond return the $15,000 to her. Hammond consults Perry Mason, who says Dick must inform the authorities. Where Dorrell had been willing to support Hammond, his prospective father-in-law, Marvin Claridge, silences the attorney. Fatefully, Helen was the driver of the car that injured Hammond's mother and killed his sister. Further, she was dead a half hour before Dorrell hit her. Hammond is charged with murder, and Perry takes the case. |
| Original Air Date—1 October 1960
Carl Gorman spats with his wife Alice over his ne'er-do-well nephew, Jim Ferris, who constantly asks for money to pay non-existent gambling debts. Unknown to Carl, Alice is having an affair with Ferris, who schemes with Stanley Piper to extort money from Carl. Ferris persuades Alice to join the venture. Carl consults with Perry Mason on how to deal with Jim. Alice calls Carl from their mountain cabin, pretending to be held for $80,000 by the gamblers who are after Jim. Carl sends his secretary, Betty Wilkins, with a briefcase full of cash to the cabin. After the money arrives, Piper, masked and armed, rushes in to claim the ransom, but Alice pulls a gun and accidentally shoots Jim. A kerosene lamp falls to the floor in the struggle and sets the cabin on fire. Alice escapes and arrives home incoherent. Betty sees the cabin in flames and finds a gun--her gun--outside the cabin. Carl asks Perry to defend Betty, who is soon arrested for murder. |
| Original Air Date—8 October 1960
At the Los Angeles airport parking lot, Lucy Stevens puts a briefcase in a car and telephones Hugo Burnette in New York to report a successful delivery of $60,000, which will be a bribe to secure favorable zoning for developer John Rushkin. Marjorie Ralston drives the car to meet her boss, Whitney Locke, and hand over the briefcase, which proves to be stuffed with newspaper rather than cash. Burnette thinks Lucy stole the money. She disguises herself as a blond, writes a note and sends money to her cousin, Carol Morgan. Then she drives her car into the ocean, faking suicide. Pretending to be Carol, Lucy asks Perry Mason to look for Lucy. When Lucy's car is recovered, there is a woman's body inside, which is identified at first as Lucy, but later a Marjorie. Carol is a sham, and Lucy is arrested for murder. Perry must defend a duplicitous client. |
| Original Air Date—15 October 1960
At Caress Cosmetics, Max Pompey fires Karen Lewis for allegedly selling new lipstick samples to competitor Gabe Rawson. Karen goes missing and her boyfriend, Peter Nichols, consults Perry Mason. She may be hiding something from her childhood. Caress owner Silas Vance gets involved in the situation. Pompey meets with Rawson about undercutting Caress. Vance calls Karen, who goes to the plant, finds the night watchman, Charles Knudsen, unconscious and Vance dead. Paul Drake arrives in time to see Karen run from the building. Surprisingly, Karen stands to inherit Vance's entire estate, including Caress. Perry finds an ominous message written by Vance in lavender lipstick. Karen is arrested. |
| Original Air Date—22 October 1960
At San Quentin, merchant seaman Burt Stokes comes forward as a witness to tell the Warden that Riley Morgan, convicted murderer, did not kill Martin Kendall. Stokes also offers information on the crime to Morgan's wife Lorraine, requesting $5,000 to help rehabilitate Morgan. Bill Worth, a freelance writer, is working with Stokes on the story, including Lorraine's hidden past. Lorraine contacts Perry Mason about a manuscript she received that distorts the details, and Morgan calls it quits with Stokes. Lorraine arranges to meet Stokes in a public park. Later Perry and Paul Drake find Stokes dead, and evidence incriminates Lorraine. Lorraine is arrested for murder. |
| Original Air Date—5 November 1960
Circus clown Felix Heidemann marries Lisa in a whirlwind. Part owner Jerry Franklin, who is also in love with Lisa, is taken aback. In her exuberance Lisa accidentally releases a tiger that seriously mauls Jerry. Four years later, Lisa has married wheelchair-bound Jerry out of pity, but she did not divorce Felix. Another clown, Tim Durant, tries to oust Felix from the circus by supporting the other owner, Judd Curtis, in his bid to buy out Jerry. Felix consults Perry Mason, and everyone goes to the circus that evening, including Lt. Tragg. During Felix's act, the main attraction, one stunt involves blank cartridges, but one shot fired was a live round that kills Curtis. Tragg arrests Felix, and Perry must prove him not guilty. |
| Original Air Date—12 November 1960
Internationally known concert pianist David Carpenter has a irreparably disabled hand, the result of a tragic accident, and a disastrous cash flow problem. His business manager, Andrew Collis, suggests refocusing the career of David's protégé, brilliant pianist Donna Loring, into more lucrative musical fields. That evening David's car goes over a cliff, an apparent suicide. Eric Sturgis, David's partner in artists management, tries to persuade David's widow Anita to guide Donna into the field of rock-and-roll. Anita is appalled. George Worthington tells Anita that he saw David's car being pushed over the cliff, making his death a homicide. Anita and George tell Perry Mason the tale, but Lt. Tragg finds that George was at a bookie joint at the time of David's death. However, Tragg believes it was murder and arrests Donna. Anita asks Perry to defend the young pianist. |
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At the offices of a boat building company, Sam Crane calls Lester Martin to be sure the latter will be at the stockholders' meeting by 5:00 pm. Lester's step-father, Judson Bailey, wants to take over the company and has the proxy of his wife, Lester's mother Emma. A gunman invades Lester's apartment and kidnaps him. In a remote area, Lester wrests the gunman's weapon away, and the kidnapper escapes. At his mother's home, Lester accuses Bailey of setting up the kidnapping, but Emma does not believe her son, thinking he is a talkative tattletale. Lester consults Perry Mason, who attends the stockholders' meeting. Lt. Tragg turns up to announce that Bailey has been murdered. Lester disappears, but is later found and arrested. |
| Original Air Date—10 December 1960
Ranch owner Burt Farwell and Rita Conover are getting married soon, which prompts Jill Farwell, Burt's ex-wife, to consult Perry Mason about the welfare of their daughter Ann, who is away at a private boarding school. Joe Dixon, the ranch foreman, is also concerned about Ann. Unknown to Burt, Rita and ranch hand Rennie Foster seem to be an item. Perry calls Burt to discuss Ann's emotional health. Insecure in her own future, Rita urges Burt to fly with her to Las Vegas to be married immediately. At school, Ann has problems related to her parents and gives a new pair of red cowboy boots, a gift from her mother, to her best friend, Kathy Jergens. Joe has a flat on the road and in opening the trunk to change the tire he discovers Rita's body. A police officer stops to ask him about a recent car wreck, sees Rita's body and takes Joe into custody. Perry defends Joe in a case where there are more than enough suspects to go around. |
| Original Air Date—17 December 1960
In Upton, CA the governor's representative, state committeeman William Carter, offers the post of head of the crime commission to Mayor James Henderson over attorney Arnold Webberly, the other candidate for the office. Afterward, Jim's wife Mona makes a cryptic call to real estate developer Tom Stratton. At Mona's bidding, Susan Conley, Jim's secretary, picks up a $10,000 payoff from Stratton, but it's the old badger game. Photographer Frank Sykes bursts in and takes pictures of the bribe. Susan consults Perry Mason, telling him she signed a receipt but did not take the money. Mona accuses Julia Webberly, Arnold's wife, of suborning perjury in one of her husband's major cases, which Mona will keep secret if Arnold withdraws as a competitor to Jim. Perry calls on Jim. They hear a shot and find Mona dead, and the evidence points to Susan. |
| Original Air Date—7 January 1961
Aitken magazines are not profitable, and former editor-in-chief Edmond Aitken no longer controls the company. New CEO Donald Fletcher changes the tone of each mag, which appalls the executive committee. At a party in his home, Fletcher insults Milly Nash, Edmond's sister-in-law, then his wife, Alyce Aitken, and Edmond punches him in the face. Poet Ben Nicholson consults Perry Mason about his firm, Pleiades Press, closely followed by Edmond Aitken, who discusses his problems with Perry. Later, Ben and Edmond meet at the writers club. Ben quotes the cynical E. A. Robinson poem "Richard Cory," which resonates with Edmond. Wishing to protect her investment and unaware of Edmond's plan to fight Fletcher, Alyce gives her proxy to the new CEO. That evening, Alyce sets out to retrieve her proxy, Edmond and Milly are in and out of the house, and Fletcher winds up killed with his own gun. Lt. Tragg arrests Alyce, who asks Perry to defend her but is less than forthright with her attorney. |
| Original Air Date—14 January 1961
Peter Caine, driving drunk at night on a lonely road, hits a man and seriously injures him. Peter's companion, Debra Bradford, takes over driving and leaves without offering assistance. She learns the man's name is Joseph Witt and devises a scheme for Peter to pay damages to Grace Witt, Joe's wife. Peter will buy the Witts' property for more than market value, which he willingly does. At the county board meeting, chief county engineer William Harper Caine, Peter's father, sides with Perry Mason to stop construction by contractor Roger Quigley until another survey may be prepared. Such a stop order will bankrupt Quigley, who accuses Caine of conflict of interest, citing Peter's recent real estate purchase. When Caine writes a check to Debra as final payment to Grace Witt, Quigley and his associate, Charles Sistrom, burst in and take pictures of the exchange. Now they want Caine to resign. Perry and Paul Drake find Quigley at home, dead with Caine--gun in hand-- standing over the body. Arrested, Caine confesses to the killing, but he is protecting someone else. |
| Original Air Date—21 January 1961
County tax man Ralph Duncan inventories a house after the owner died intestate. He finds a cache of old greenbacks, "shin plasters," worth $153,000. When he arrives home to show his wife Helen and cousin, Charlie Nickles, the surprising find, the money is gone. Unknown to Duncan, Nickles has the money and fences it to Lloyd Farrell, and import/export merchant. Farrell turns to another county employee, Norma Brooks, to find elderly, infirm Josiah Ames, who is near death. Farrell plants the money in Ames' effects, which are bequeathed to his accountant, Albert Keller. Duncan consults Perry Mason, who speaks with Keller. Farrell is found dead and Duncan is arrested. |
| Original Air Date—4 February 1961
Womanizing businessman Loring Lamont, Jr. wants one of the stenos, Arlene Ferris, to work late. He disappoints his own secretary, Edith Bristol, by giving her the night off. Junior sabotages Ferris's car, so she has to ride with him. On a pretext, he takes Arlene to his Malibu beach house. The Asian caretaker for Lamont Sr., Oolong Kim, asks Junior to repay a long overdue $2,000 loan, which the young slacker blows off. He makes a heavy move on Arlene, who runs out of the house and manages to swipe Lamont's car, hitting him into the bargain. Lamont is found stabbed to death, and Arlene is charged with murder. Perry Mason plays games with Lt. Tragg's identification witness and is accused of planting evidence. |
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After the death of her husband and partner Joe Doyle, Constant Doyle takes on a case involving a young man who knew her husband. Constant asks for Perry's help and he suggests she hire the Paul Drake Detective agency to aid in the case of the Otis Instrument Co. |
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During a coroner's inquest in the mining town of Gold Gulch, Perry learns that con artists have been selling phony gold mines in the vicinity. To find out who's responsible, Perry disguises himself as an old prospector. In the meantime, Paul Drake has been digging for clues, and his investigation leads him to discover the body of murdered local James Braddison. |
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Susan Wolfe is beaten within an inch of her life while her neighbors sit around and do nothing. Her older, overprotective brother Dave, an L.A. police detective and close friend of Steve's, runs to the apartment to check on her sister and is knocked unconscious. However, as Dave is checking on Susan he is knocked out and while he is unconscious Joe Oliver, a man who had earlier made a pass at Susan, is shot and killed with Dave's gun. Steve asks Perry to defend Joe while he investigates what happened. Eventually, Perry narrows down the suspect list to the six witnesses who sat by and did nothing. |
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This is based on the same book as one of season 1's episodes, The Case of The Moth-Eaten Mink. A cop discovers that an art dealer is selling a stolen painting named Sausalito Sunrise. When the cop is found dead in the gallery, Perry has to defend the dealer and an employee against murder. Paul Drake must pose as a semi truck driver to uncover the real fencing operation. Perry and Drake both face criminal charges. |
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