In the first episode outside of LA County and District Attorney Hamilton Burger, Perry Mason heads off to the sea shore when Sylvia Field comes knocking on his door. She's worried about her daughter Barbara Eden who has just escaped the clutches of a lecherous neighbor. But that neighbor winds up shot to death and Raymond Burr doesn't get Eden, he gets Field as a client.
The key lies with a pair of nosy neighbors played by Malcom Atterbury and Dorothy Adams. Fingerprints and footprints dug up by the Sheriff's department headed by James Westerfield and by none other than Paul Drake of the Drake Detective Agency. William Hopper may find the evidence, but it's a matter of interpretation.
There's an interesting secondary plot as witness Joan Weldon brings in her own attorney Addison Richards to court. Richards starts by threatening Raymond Burr with abuse of due process. Does he ever get his ears pinned back.
Nice episode and the interesting part is the sheriff had a right guess as to the perpetrator, but got sidetracked.
The key lies with a pair of nosy neighbors played by Malcom Atterbury and Dorothy Adams. Fingerprints and footprints dug up by the Sheriff's department headed by James Westerfield and by none other than Paul Drake of the Drake Detective Agency. William Hopper may find the evidence, but it's a matter of interpretation.
There's an interesting secondary plot as witness Joan Weldon brings in her own attorney Addison Richards to court. Richards starts by threatening Raymond Burr with abuse of due process. Does he ever get his ears pinned back.
Nice episode and the interesting part is the sheriff had a right guess as to the perpetrator, but got sidetracked.