The Case of the Grumbling Grandfather (27 May 1961)

J.J. Gideon is worried that his grandson David has taken up with the same woman that led his son, David's uncle, to possibly have embezzled $100,000 from their bank and eventually commit ... See full summary »

Director:

Bernard L. Kowalski

Writers:

Erle Stanley Gardner (characters created by), Jackson Gillis

Stars:

Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Raymond Burr	...	Perry Mason
Barbara Hale	...	Della Street
William Hopper	...	Paul Drake
William Talman	...	Hamilton Burger
Ray Collins	...	Lt. Arthur Tragg (credit only)
Patricia Barry	...	Dorine Hopkins
Otto Kruger	...	J. J. Gideon
Karl Held	...	David Gideon
Frances Rafferty	...	Sue Franks
Gavin MacLeod	...	Lawrence Comminger (as Gavin Mac Leod)
Phil Arthur	...	Si Farrell
Fifi D'Orsay	...	Woman Witness
Dub Taylor	...	Stroller
John Gallaudet	...	Superior Court Judge
Kenneth MacDonald	...	Trial Judge (credit only)

Storyline

J.J. Gideon is worried that his grandson David has taken up with the same woman that led his son, David's uncle, to possibly have embezzled $100,000 from their bank and eventually commit suicide. David is quite in love with the older Dorine Hopkins who had worked at the bank until recently assisting forensic accountant Lawrence Comminger with his audit. David has an altercation with Dorine's husband but it's only later when the man is found dead that David is charged with murder and Perry Mason defends him.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 May 1961 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Stage 4, 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paisano Productions, Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This is Karl Held's first appearance as David Gideon.

User Reviews

Early Episode with David Gideon Character (Young Lawyer) accused of Murder

*** SPOILER ***

Episode is the story of a family with a grandfather, J. J. Gideon (Otto Kruger) who has some sort of a family business, and a grandson, David Gideon (Karl Held) whose Uncle Lucius has committed suicide three months before.

The grandson has been seeing an ex secretary Dorine Hopkins ( Patricia Barry ) and is concerned that she is now rejecting his attention after almost being caught by grandpa. She also was carrying on with an Uncle Lucius, who is also dead, and is suspected of causing a lot of trouble for the Gideon family by the grandfather.

Unknown to David, she is married to a useless guy, Tony Montgomery, who owes a lot of money to gambling interests, and who has blackmailed Grandfather Gideon with a collections of photos of Dorine, and the dead son. all of this unknown to David.

Grandfather is having the company audited by Lawrence Comminger (Gavin MacLeod) to see how much damage has been done to the Gideon company

Tony is murdered, and David is suspected of the killing due to having gone to Tony's house to confront him over $10,000 given by Dorene. He is hit by an enforcer, Si Farrell (Phil Arthur) who was trying to collect the 10,000.

Case is prosecuted by Hamilton Burger (William Talman). Also appearing are Barbara Hale, William Hopper, Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice). Ray Collins did not appear, and may have been ailing at the time. Another actor had some credited lines (John Close). This may have been before Wesley Lau was appearing regularly to fill in for Ray Collins, who eventually passed away, but was still credited.

Actual culprits turns out to be Comminger and Hopkins , who have found and is trying to abscond with the $100,000 that was embezzled and thought by Grandfather to be have been lost by Lucius Gideon. Apparently she took the money, and with help from Comminger was trying to get away with the crime, and ended up having to murder her husband, to keep things quiet.