The Perry Mason Pages.
Episode Guide & Plot Synopsis.
1958-1959
Corresponding Corpse
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 40
Airdate: 09/20/58
Guests: Joan Camden; Vaughn Taylor; Jeanne Cooper; William Ching; Ross Elliott; Owen Cunningham; Lillian Bronson; Herbert C. Lytton; Martha Wentworth; Joan Staley; Gil Frye; Jack Gargan
Plot: Perry receives a phone call, supposedly from a man whose funeral he attended three years earlier.
Lucky Loser
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 41
Airdate: 09/27/58
Guests: Patricia Medina; Bruce Bennett; Heather Angel; Douglas Kennedy; Tyler MacDuff; Richard Hale; Woodrow Chambliss; John Eldrege; Morris Ankrum; Guy Rennie; Paul Genge; John Bleifer; Jack Holland; Len Hendry
Plot: Perry defends his client by invoking the constitutional provision of double jeopardy.
Pint-sized Client
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 42
Airdate: 10/04/58
Guests: Eduardo Ciannelli; Nita Talbot; Elisha Cook; Bobby Clark; James Anderson; Otto Waldis; Robert Lieb; Eleanor Audley; Joseph Mell; Raymond Greenleaf; Paul Bryar; Edward Marr; Than Wyenn
Plot: Perry becomes involved in one of the toughest cases of his career because of a 13-year-old boy.
Sardonic Sergeant
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 43
Airdate: 10/11/58
Guests: John Dehner; Robert Armstrong; Lori March; John Archer; Larry Jackson; Grant Richards; Paul Picerni; Wendell Holmes; Barbara Luna; Kevin Hagen; Russell Thorson; George E. Stone; Lee Torrance; Rand Harper; Hal Torey; Helene Heigh; Vance Howard
Plot: Perry arrives at an Army post to defend an officer on a murder charge before a court martial, only to find his client dead.
Curious Bride
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 44
Airdate: 10/18/58
Guests: Christine White; Casey Adams; John Hoyt; Michael Emmet; James Seay; Dorothy Neumann; Tommy Cook; Peggy Maley; Lewis Charles; S. John Launer; James Nolan
Plot: Perry finds himself deeply embroiled in a case involving blackmail, embezzlement and murder.
Buried Clock
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 45
Airdate: 11/01/58
Guests: Don Beddoe; Fredd Wayne; June Dayton; Jeanne Bates; Paul Fix; Charles Cooper; Robert Foulk; Robin Hughes; Howard Wendell; Harry Tyler; Paul Serra; Gil Frye; Jamie Forster; Phil Chambers; Don Kennedy
Plot: A man is charged with murder after asking Perry's advice in a case of embezzlement and blackmail.
Married Moonlighters
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 46
Airdate: 11/08/58
Guests: Arthur Franz; Jesse White; Anne Sargent; Stacy Harris; Frances Helm; Douglas Evans; Tom Palmer; Richard Gaines; Olan Soule; Fern Barry; Carol Anderson
Plot: A schoolteacher working two jobs to make ends meet helps a drunken friend, and finds himself charged with murder.
Jilted Jockey
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 47
Airdate: 11/15/58
Guests: Billy Pearson; Barbara Lawrence; June Vincent; Don Durant; Joe di Reda; Hugh Sanders; Nolan Leary; Kenneth R. MacDonald; Roy Engel; Joe Forte
Plot: A jockey (played by jockey Billy Pearson) is charged with murder.
Purple Woman
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 48
Airdate: 12/06/58
Guests: George Macready; Bethel Leslie; Robert H. Harris; Rhys Williams; Doris Singleton; Donald Murphy; Stephen Bekassy; Edwin Jerome; Shirley Houser
Plot: A possible art forgery is somehow involved in the death of an art dealer.
Fancy Figures
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 49
Airdate: 02/13/58
Guests: Frank Silvera; Joan Banks; Anne Barton; William Phipps; Ralph Clanton; Ray Kellogg; Harvey Stephens; S. John Launer; Chuck Webster; Leslie Kimmell; David McMahon
Plot: A man freed by Perry from an unjust, 5-year imprisonment subsequently is charged with murder.
Perjured Parrot
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 50
Airdate: 12/20/58
Guests: Edgar Buchanan; Jody Lawrance; Dan Barton; Fay Baker; Robert E. Griffin; Frank Ferguson; Joe Kearns; Jason Johnson; Maurice Manson; Pamela Branch; Jesslyn Fax; Howard Culver
Plot: Perry is faced with the unusual task of having to cross-examine a parrot (voice by Mel Blanc).
Shattered Dream
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 51
Airdate: 01/03/59
Guests: Osa Massen; Marion Marshall; Virginia Vincent; Kurt Kreuger; Chris Alcaide; Ludwig Stossel; Ivan Triesault; Theodore Marcuse; Lillian Bronson; Robert Carson; Gil W. Rankin; Cy Malis; Barry Brooks; Brandy Bryan
Plot: A murder charge against a woman follows the cutting attempt which ruins a huge diamond.
Borrowed Brunette
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 52
Airdate: 01/10/59
Guests: Maggie Mahoney; Paula Raymond; Sheila Bromley; Adrienne Marden; John Stephenson; Joe De Santis; Morris Ankrum; Herman Rudin; Gisele Verlaine; Howard Van Proyen; Fred Rapport
Plot: A woman, hired at $100 a day to impersonate a private detective's client, becomes involved in murder.
Glittering Gold Fish
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 53
Airdate: 01/17/59
Guests: Cecil Kellaway; May Wynn; John Hudson; Jacqueline Scott; Catherine McLeod; Willard Sage; Gage Clarke; Murvyn Vye; S. John Launer; Rusty Lane; Olan Soule; Chuck Webster
Plot: Perry's client wants to break a contract. The police want to book him for murder.
Footloose Doll
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 54
Airdate: 01/24/59
Guests: Barton MacLane; Robert Bray; Ruta Lee; Betty Lou Gerson; Eve McVeagh; Sam Buffington; Richard Gaines; Susan Dorn; Helene Stanley; Jim Kirkwood, Jr.; John Bryant; Jan Harrison; Charles Meredith; Carol Byron; Lee Miller; Jack Harris
Plot: Perry defends woman accused of using an ice pick to commit murder.
Fraudulent Foto
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 55
Airdate: 02/07/59
Guests: Hugh Marlowe; Carole Mathews; Wilton Graff; June Clayworth; Mark Roberts; Bartlett Robinson; Carol Nugent; Peter Brocco; Kenneth R. MacDonald; Herbert Anderson; Francis De Sales; Nancy Millard; Irving Mitchell; Arline Hunter
Plot: Perry helps a nearby county's district attorney, whose graft investigation led to a blackmail threat.
And, yes, they did spell "photo" as "foto" in the original episode title!
Romantic Rogue
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 56
Airdate: 02/14/59
Guests: Marion Ross; Albert Linville; Sara Haden; John Bryant; Peggy Maley; Jean Willes; Jack Daly; Frederic Worlock; Pitt Herbert; Don Dillaway; Lee Miller; Robert Bice
Plot: The strong evidence in a homicide case against a woman involves a poison-pen note and a man long thought dead.
Jaded Joker
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 57
Airdate: 02/21/59
Guests: Frankie Laine; Bobby Troup; Walter Burke; Tom Drake; Mary LaRoche; Martha Vickers; Harry Jackson; S. John Launer; Jon Lormer
Plot: Perry enters the strange world of beatniks to defend a client.
*One of Tragg's famous ending scenes in which he speaks beatnik lingo.
Caretaker's Cat
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 58
Airdate: 03/07/59
Guests: Benson Fong; John G. Agar; Robert Knapp; Maxine Cooper; Judy Lewis; Dick Crane; Raymond Bailey; Anthony Eustrel; Barney Biro; Bill Erwin; Michael Fox; Anthony Jochim; George E. Stone; Jacqueline Lee
Plot: Japanese caretaker is charged with burning his invalid employer to death.
Stuttering Bishop
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 59
Airdate: 03/14/59
Guests: Vaughn Taylor; Ken Lynch; Herb Ellis; Rebecca Welles; Joan Vohs; Jonathan Kidd; Carl Benton Reid; Peter Garey; Morris Ankrum; Jon Lormer; Claire Carleton; Killer Karl Davis; George E. Stone; Jim Brandt; Lee Miller; Hubie Kerns
Plot: An Australian bishop wants Perry to establish a woman's claim to a multimillion dollar inheritance.
Lost Last Act
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 60
Airdate: 03/21/59
Guests: Joanne Gilbert; Katharine Bard; Jerome Cowan; Stacy Harris; Richard Erdman; David Lewis; Robert McQueeny; Richard Gaines; Connie Cezon; George E. Stone
Plot: Perry takes his first trip backstage in a New York theater when his client is charged with homicide.
Bedeviled Doctor
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 61
Airdate: 04/04/59
Guests: Dick Foran; Marianne Stewart; Norma Moore; Phillip Terry; Barry McGuire; Allen Case; Andrea King; Frederic Worlock; Michael Fox; George E. Stone; John McKee; Jane Eagar
Plot: The theft of a taped session between a patient and psychiatrist results in murder when it is used for blackmail.
Howling Dog
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 62
Airdate: 04/11/59
Guests: Ann Rutherford; Fintan Meyler; Robert Ellenstein; Elaine Edwards; Gregory Walcott; John Holland; Tom Greenway; Grace Raynor; Ed Prentiss; S. John Launer; Vito Scotti; Pitt Herbert; George E. Stone; Marcia Drake; Frank Hagney; Lee Miller
Plot: Perry resorts to legal trickery to prove his client's innocence.
Calendar Girl
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 63
Airdate: 04/18/59
Guests: Dolores Donlon; John Anderson; Kasey Rogers; Dean Harens; George Neise; Charles Tannen; Evelyn Scott; Ralph Moody; Richard Gaines; Jon Lormer; George E. Stone; Thom Conroy; Diana Crawford; Doug Marland
Plot: Perry uses photography to help a building contractor accused of slaying an amateur photographer.
Petulant Partner
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 64
Airdate: 04/25/59
Guests: R. G. Armstrong; William H. Wright; Francis J. McDonald; Geraldine Wall; Nan Leslie; Myron Healey; William Swan; Russell Thorson; Lynne Allen; Jamie Forster; Russ Bender; Stafford Repp; Sid Cassel; Steve Stevens; Tony Regan
Plot: A man is accused of killing his business partner's wife.
Dangerous Dowager
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 65
Airdate: 05/09/59
Guests: Robert Strauss; Patricia Cutts; Kathryn Givney; Barry Atwater; Michael Dante; Gene Blakely; Leo Gordon; Ellen Corby; King Calder; Frederic Worlock; Joey Faye; George E. Stone; Perry Cook; Barry Brooks; Shirley Monticue
Plot: A child custody case turns deadly after a stack of gambling IOUs is used against Perry's client.
Deadly Toy
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 66
Airdate: 05/16/59
Guests: Mala Powers; Ralph Jennings; Robert Rockwell; Dennis Patrick; Jennifer Howard; Paul Cavanagh; Kathryn Card; Nancy Kulp; Morris Ankrum; Norm Alden; David Brady; Pitt Herbert; Nina Stevens; Richard Hervey; George E. Stone; Lee Miller; Bob Howard
Plot: A jealous suitor indulges in vindictive harassment until he is killed.
Spanish Cross
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 67
Airdate: 05/30/59
Guests: Jacques Aubuchon; Josephine Hutchinson; Richard Miles; Linda Watkins; Arthur Space; Donald Randolph; Jonathan Hole; Richard Gaines; Harlan Warde; Herman Rudin; George E. Stone; Chuck Zacha
Plot: A young man once convicted of theft is charged with stealing antique jewelry and killing its owner.
Dubious Bridegroom
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 68
Airdate: 06/13/59
Guests: Betsy Jones Moreland; Jean Tabor; Patrick McVey; Harry Ellerbe; K. T. Stevens; Thomas Browne Henry; Neil Hamilton; Tom Brown; Robert Nichols; Rosa Turich; Robert Lynn; Keith Richards; James Nolan; Dick Keene
Plot: Perry runs afoul of a beautiful blonde private detective and later finds his client charged with murder.
Lame Canary
Season: 58/59
Episode#: 69
Airdate: 06/27/59
Guests: James Philbrook; Stacy Graham; Biff Elliot; Susan Cummings; William Kendis; Berry Kroeger; S. John Launer; Michael Fox; Emerson Treacy; Chet Stratton; Ray Phillips; Lee Miller; George E. Stone; Richard Wessel
Plot: A lame canary convinces Perry of his client's innocence in the murder of her husband.
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