Perry Mason TV Episodes 1957-1958

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Episode Guide & Plot Synopsis.

1957-1958


TCOT Restless Redhead

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 1
Airdate: 09/21/57
Guests: Whitney Blake; Vaughn Taylor; Jane Buchanan; Ralph Clanton; Dick Rich; Gloria Henry; Grandon Rhodes; Clark Howat; Norman Leavitt; Helen Mayon; Jack Gargan; Lorraine Martin
Plot: Plenty of drama in this one. Car chases,a hooded man, and redheaded Evelyn Bagby needs Perry to defend her for the hooded man's murder.
*Series debut.


TCOT Sleepwalker's Niece

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 2
Airdate: 09/28/57
Guests: John McNamara; Hillary Brooke; John Archer; Nancy Hadley; Darryl Hickman; Helen Mowery; Thomas B. Henry; Harry Hickox; Kenneth MacDonald; Tony Michaels; Clark Howat; Fred Graham; Joey Ray; Jack Harris
Plot: One of Perry's clients - a notorious sleepwalker is awakened standing over a slain body with the murder weapon in hand



TCOT Nervous Accomplice

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 3
Airdate: 10/05/57
Guests: Maggie Hayes; Greta Thyssen; William Roerick; Robert Cornthwaite; Richard Hale; James Gavin; Jean Howell; Claudia Bryar; Morris Ankrum; Tyler McVey; Robert Bice; Norman Leavitt; George Eldredge; Gail Bonney; Sam Flint; Jack Harris
Plot: A fight for supposedly oil-rich land designated for a housing development ends in murder.



TCOT Drowning Duck

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 4
Airdate: 10/12/57
Guests: Carol Kelly; Noland Leary; Victor Sutherland; Carolyn Craig; Don Beddoe; Paula Winslow; Gary Vinson; Harry Landers; Olive Blakeney; Rusty Lane; Tom London; Phillip Tonge; Joseph Forte; Helen Hatch; Clifford Botelho
Plot: Perry's case involves a duck that almost drowned, a blackmailer and a man executed for murder years before.



TCOT Sulky Girl

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 5
Airdate: 10/19/57
Guests: Olive Sturgis; William Schallert; Lillian Bronson; Robert Griffin; Connie Cezon; Brian Hutton; Raymond Greenleaf; Howard Wendell; Paul Bryar; Frank Wilcox; Bob Kline; Larry Thor; Jack Gargan; Dick Winslow
Plot: A young heiress who sought Perry's help with her father's estate encounters a blackmailer and a murderer.



TCOT Silent Partner

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 6
Airdate: 10/26/57
Guests: Peggy Maley; Dan Seymour; Anne Barton; Mark Roberts; Cyril Delevanti; Michael Emmet; Joe Abdullah; Henry Hunter; Dawn Richard; Jimmy McCallion; Janet Stewart; Dan Sheridan; Ed Stevlingson; Jann Darlyn; Charles Franc; Joe Quinn; Don Anderson; Richard Geary
Plot: A former convict attempts to become a partner in a lucrative orchid business.



TCOT Angry Mourner

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 7
Airdate: 11/02/57
Guests: Sylvia Field; James Westerfield; Joan Weldon; Paul Fix; Dorothy Adams; Malcolm Atterbury; Barbara Eden; Peter Nelson; Eve McVeagh; Addison Richards; Eric Sinclair; Harry Tyler; William Boyett
Plot: A killing to defend a woman's honor doesn't convince Perry.



TCOT Crimson Kiss

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 8
Airdate: 11/09/57
Guests: Jean Willes; Sue England; Douglas Dick; Gloria McGhee; John Holland; Connie Cezon; Joi Lansing; Douglas Evans; Frances Bavier; John Harmon; Frank Wilcox; Howard Culver
Plot: Two roommates, one a bride, nearly die from sleeping pills.



TCOT Vagabond Vixen

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 9
Airdate: 11/16/57
Guests: Robert Ellenstein; Catherine McLeod; Carol Leigh; Peggy Converse; James Anderson; Barbara Pepper; Paul Cavanagh; Robert Carson; Pierre Watkin; Perry Ivins; Russell Trent; Jack Gargan; Lee Miller
Plot: A film mogul posts bail for a lovely hitchhiker and involves Perry in blackmail and homicide.



TCOT Runaway Corpse

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 10
Airdate: 11/23/57
Guests: June Dayton; James Maloney; Sarah Selby; Adam Williams; Rebecca Welles; John Stephenson; Michael Fox; William Challee; Keith Alan; Robin Morse; Martha Wentworth; Jack Kenney; Ed Jerome; Jack Harris
Plot: Perry deals with a year-old homicide, an arsenic poisoning and a disappearing corpse.



TCOT Crooked Candle

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 11
Airdate: 11/30/57
Guests: Nancy Gates; Whit Bissell; Doris Singleton; Robert Clarke; Francis McDonald; Henry Corden; Bruce Cowling; Frank Wilcox; Helene Santley; Hal Taggart
Plot: A way a candle has burned provides the key in the case of a woman charged with killing her husband.



TCOT Negligent Nymph

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 12
Airdate: 12/07/57
Guests: Connie Cezon; Joan Banks; David Lewis; James Griffith; Peggy Castle; Nadja Posey; James Nusser; Forrest Lewis; John Cliff; Robert Tafur; Troy Melton; Irene Cavillo; Elvira Corona; Michael Kopcha
Plot: Perry's fishing vacation off a fog-shrouded coast is interrupted by homicide when he pulls a beautiful blonde from the ocean.



TCOT Moth-eaten Mink

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 13
Airdate: 12/14/57
Guests: Douglas Kennedy; Morey Allen; Kay Faylen; Than Wyenn; Roxanne Arlen; Grandon Rhodes; Marc Krah; Connie Cezon; Brian Hutton; Jack Gargan; Lyn Guild
Plot: A frightened waitress flees a restaurant, leaving behind her paycheck and a slightly moth-eaten mink coat.
*Though aired as the 13th episode, this was actually the first Perry Mason episode to be made (in October 1956) .



TCOT Baited Hook

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 14
Airdate: 12/21/57
Guests: Geraldine Wall; Willard Sage; Judith Braun; Alfred Hopson; Mary Castle; George Neise; Connie Cezon; Peg Whitman; Lyle Latell; Frank Marlowe; Maurice McEndree
Plot: Perry's retainer in a cloak-and-dagger case is one half of a $1,000 bill.



TCOT Fan Dancer's Horse

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 15
Airdate: 12/28/57
Guests: Susan Cummings; Scott Elliot; Judy Tyler; Robert Bice; Minerva Urecal; Hugh Sanders; Sydney Smith; John Brinkley; Connie Cezon; Rusty Westcoatt; James Nolan; Herbert C. Lytton
Plot: Perry's case involves a pair of red-haired fan dancers, a stolen horse and bloodstained ostrich plumes.



TCOT Demure Defendant

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 16
Airdate: 01/04/58
Guests: Christine White; Clem Bevans; Fay Baker; Walter Coy; Barry Atwater; Sherwood Price; Alexander Campbell; Morris Ankrum; Connie Cezon; Maurice Manson; Steven Geray; Joe Mell; Paul Hahn; Ashley Cowan; John Mitchum; Jack Harris; Lida Piazza; Rickie Sorensen; Leilani Sorensen
Plot: Perry investigates a murder confession obtained by the use of truth serum.



TCOT Sun-bather's Diary

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 17
Airdate: 01/11/58
Guests: Susan Morrow; Carl Betz; Gertrude Michael; Peter Leeds; Ralph Moody; Connie Cezon; Kenneth MacDonald; Paul Brinegar; Walter Reed; Nesdon Booth; Jon Locke; John Pickard
Plot: A gorgeous, towel-clad sunbather tells Perry that all her possessions have been stolen.



TCOT Cautious Coquette

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 18
Airdate: 01/18/58
Guests: Virginia Gregg; Donald Randolph; Kipp Hamilton; Harry Jackson; Chester Stratton; Sid Clute; James Seay; Sydney Smith; K. L. Smith; Brett Halsey; Ed Hinton; Stephen Ellsworth; Ralph Sanford; Jeanne Bates; Paul Hahn; Weaver Levy; Jack Gargan
Plot: While investigating a hit-and-run, Perry finds another client -- one charged with murder.



TCOT Haunted Husband

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 19
Airdate: 01/25/58
Guests: Karen Steele; Grant Richards; Patricia Hardy; Fredd Wayne; Helen Westcott; John Hubbard; Harlan Warde; Herb Vigran; Sydney Smith; Jack Gargan
Plot: The loyalty of a suspect's friend inspires Perry to take on a seemingly hopeless case.



TCOT Lonely Heiress

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 20
Airdate: 02/01/58
Guests: Robert H. Harris; Anna Navarro; L. Q. Jones; Kathleen Crowley; Richard Crane; Betty Lou Gerson; Gail Kobe; Robert Williams; Frank Wilcox; Robert McQueeney
Plot: Perry defends a woman when a con game turns into murder.



TCOT Green-eyed Sister

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 21
Airdate: 02/08/58
Guests: Connie Cezon; Virginia Vincent; Dan Riss; Robin Hughes; Tina Carver; Carl Benton Reid; James Bell; Morris Ankrum; Dennis King, Jr.; Alan Gifford; Charles Tannen; Leonard Bell; Jack Gargan
Plot: Perry becomes involved in a murder charge when a private investigator deals in blackmail.



TCOT Fugitive Nurse

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 22
Airdate: 02/15/58
Guests: Sheppard Strudwick; Bethel Leslie; Dabbs Greer; Maxine Cooper; Jeanette Nolan; Woodrow Chambliss; Helen Brown; Anthony Lettier; Arthur Hanson; Larry Blake; George Davis; Sydney Mason; Lee Roberts; Gil Frye; Joey Ray; Jack Kenney; Owen Cunningham; Jack W. Harris
Plot: Perry's client, a woman who retained him on a tax matter, finds herself charged with the fatal poisoning of her husband.



TCOT One-eyed Witness

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 23
Airdate: 02/22/58
Guests: Angie Dickinson; Louis Van Rooten; Dorothy Green; Paul Picerni; Eve Miller; Peter Adams; Vincent G. Perry; Richard Benedict; Jan Arvan; Sam Gilman; Jean Del Val; Ralph Montgomery; Jack W. Harris; Ray Kellogg; John Sands; Doris Wiss; Shirley Buchanan
Plot: Woman is accused of murder and flight to escape arrest on a bus with an eyepatch-wearing travelling companion.



TCOT Deadly Double

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 24
Airdate: 03/01/58
Guests: Constance Ford; Denver Pyle; Carole Mathews; Paul Langton; Murray Hamilton; Abraham Sofaer; Louise Truax; Carleton G. Young; Pierre Watkin; Frank Jenks; Clark Howat; Carlyle Mitchell; Jack Gargan; George E. Stone; Peter Opp; Josef Elman; Kellogg Junge, Jr.
Plot: Perry is retained to defend a client on a homicide charge before the murder takes place.



TCOT Empty Tin

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 25
Airdate: 03/08/58
Guests: Toni Gerry; Warren Stevens; Olive Deering; Benson Fong; Mary Shipp; Anthony Jochim; Frank Wilcox; Otto Waldis; Bert Holland
Plot: A simple case of inheritance turns to murder when a woman is found in a locked room with a body by her side and a gun in her hand.



TCOT Half-Wakened Wife

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 26
Airdate: 03/15/58
Guests: Phyllis Avery; Stewart Bradley; Barbara Lawrence; Claude Akins; Jonathan Hole; Tom Palmer; Jason Johnson; Howard Petrie; Peter Hansen; Paul E. Burns; Frederick Draper
Plot: Perry thinks that a man who called asking to be defended on a charge of homicide is an old wartime buddy.



TCOT Desperate Daughter

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 27
Airdate: 03/22/58
Guests: Gigi Perreau; Robert F. Simon; Osa Massen; Werner Klemperer; Don Durant; Pierre Watkin; Wendell Holmes; Robert B. Williams; Gere Craft; Ivan Bonar; Paul Genge; Patricia Mowry; Jack Gargan
Plot: Paul Drake and Perry search for the identity of a bedraggled, amnesiac teen-age girl.



TCOT Daring Decoy

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 28
Airdate: 03/29/58
Guests: H. M. Wynant; Marie Windsor; Jack Weston; Jacqueline Scott; John Mack Brown; Natalie Norwick; Grandon R. Rhodes; Pamela Duncan; Louise Lorimer; Donald Foster; Jack Gargan
Plot: A fight for control of corporate voting stock results in murder, and Perry's client was at the scene of the crime.



TCOT Hesitant Hostess

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 29
Airdate: 04/05/58
Guests: Karen Sharpe; Fred Sherman; June Vincent; Les Tremayne; Ned Wever; Betty Utey; Robin Raymond; Gil Frye; Jacqueline Holt; Michael Mason; Fay Roope; George Cisar; Robert Karnes; Paul Serra; John Alvin
Plot: Perry volunteers to defend a down-and-out man (Fred Sherman) charged with robbery and the murder of a dance-hall girl.



TCOT Screaming Woman

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 30
Airdate: 04/26/58
Guests: Ruta Lee; Berry Kroeger; Josephine Hutchinson; Arthur Shields; Marian Seldes; Philip Ober; Karin Booth; Don Gardner; Morris Ankrum; Phil Arnold; Richard Ryan; Jeanne Bates; Marian Collier; Jack Gargan
Plot: Perry defends a woman (Josephine Hutchinson) who confessed to the murder for which she is being tried.



TCOT Fiery Fingers

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 31
Airdate: 05/03/58
Guests: Mary La Roche; Edward Norris; Lenore Shanewise; Susan Dorn; Fay Spain; Robert Burton; Charles Lane; Sydney Smith; Connie Cezon; Charles Davis; Gilbert Frye; Jack Gargan
Plot: An elderly woman retains Perry when she feels her employer is about to be murdered, a crime for which she is later arrested.



TCOT Substitute Face

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 32
Airdate: 05/10/58
Guests: Lurene Tuttle; Maureen Cassidy; Joan Tabor; Ralph Dumke; Theodore Newton; Maurice Wells; Frank Wilcox; Gavin Gordon; Donald Lawton; Noel Drayton; Stanley Farrar; William Quinn; Bobbie Collentine
Plot: An ocean cruise's calm is shattered when a passenger falls overboard, an incident that eventually results in a courtroom struggle.



TCOT Long-Legged Models

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 33
Airdate: 02/01/58
Guests: Peggy McCay; Alix Talton; Joe De Santis; Lyle Talbot; William Swan; Russell Thorson; Frank Wilcox; Ann McCrea; Ray Walker; Jack Harris; Billy Snyder; Joey Ray; Carol Anderson
Plot: A case that begins in a Las Vegas casino ends with two dead victims lying in the morgue.



TCOT Gilded Lily

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 34
Airdate: 05/24/58
Guests: Peggy Knudsen; Barbara Baxley; Mari Aldon; Grant Withers; Richard Erdman; Wally Brown; Fay Roope; Alan Dexter; Carleton Young; Jack Gargan; Cy Malis; Max Wagner
Plot: Perry's client is charged in the death of a blackmailer.



TCOT Lazy Lover

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 35
Airdate: 05/31/58
Guests: Harry Townes; Frances Helm; James Bell; Yvonne Craig; Neil Hamilton; Ann Lee; Kenneth MacDonald; Len Hendry
Plot: An unexplained $2,500 check in Perry's mail leads him to eventually defend its sender on a murder charge.



TCOT Prodigal Parent

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 36
Airdate: 06/07/58
Guests: Virginia Field; Herbert Rudley; Fay Wray; Andra Martin; Ann Doran; John Hoyt; Terry Becker; Morris Ankrum; Nancy Kulp; Chet Stratton; Michael Fox; Richard Bull; Dean Casey; Leo Needham
Plot: A divorcee retains Perry to defend her former husband in the slaying of his stepson.



TCOT Black-Eyed Blonde

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 37
Airdate: 06/14/58
Guests: Whitney Blake; Irene Hervey; R. G. Armstrong; Ludwig Stossel; Jan Merlin; Phyllis Coates; Judith Ames; Grandon Rhodes; Francis De Sales; Jack Lomas; Frank Sully; Joe Dominguez; Casey Peters
Plot: A beautiful blonde (Whitney Blake) enters Perry's legal life wearing a bathrobe and sporting a black eye.



TCOT Terrified Typist

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 38
Airdate: 06/21/58
Guests: Alan Marshall; Joanna Moore; Joan Elan; Ben Wright; Connie Cezon; Jack Raine; Kenneth R. MacDonald; Harald Dyrenforth; Hank Patterson; Jack Gargan; James Stone; Frankie Darro; Red Morgan; Steve Carruthers
Plot: A South African diamond company retains Perry to defend one of its employees on a charge of murder.
*Perry's client is guilty! But, he goes on to find the real murderer, so technically he did not lose the case!


TCOT Rolling Bones

Season: 57/58
Episode#: 39
Airdate: 06/28/58
Guests: Joan Camden; Mary Anderson; Edgar Stehli; Arthur Space; King Calder; Kitty Kelly; Simon Scott; Richard Gaines; Sid Tomack; Morris Ankrum; Richard Aherne; Alan Lee; William Remick; James Nolan; Ted Stanhope; Olan Soule; Lee Miller
Plot: Murder suddenly disrupts attempts to commit a wealthy man to a mental institution.



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