The Perry Mason Pages.
Episode Guide & Plot Synopsis.
1961-1962
Jealous Journalist
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 124
Airdate: 09/02/61
Guests: Irene Hervey; Jan Merlin; Linden Chiles; Denver Pyle; Bek Nelson; Theodore Marcuse; Claire Griswold; Parley Baer; Paul Smith; Frieda Inescort; Roxanne Arlen; Lee Giroux; James D. Neilson; Alex Bookston; Tom Harkness; Richard Geary
Plot: A newspaper publisher is charged with murdering his unfaithful fiancee.
Impatient Partner
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 125
Airdate: 09/16/61
Guests: Ben Cooper; Leslie Parrish; Wesley Lau; Lucy Prentis; Peter Adams; Mary Young; Cheerio Meredith; Jack Betts; Dan Seymour; Chet Stratton; Barney Biro; Charles Stroud; Paula Courtland
Plot: Perry uncovers an embezzler's murderer and a plan to steal a paint formula. Written by Erle Stanley Gardner.
Missing Melody
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 126
Airdate: 09/30/61
Guests: Constance Towers; James Drury; Bobby Troup; Jo Morrow; Karl Held; Andrea King; Walter Burke; Grant Richards; Lorrie Richards; Crahan Denton; Barney Kessel; Frederic Worlock; Owen McGiveney; Lee Miller; Richard Geary; Irving Mitchell; Tony Mafia; Jack Williams; Philip Harron
Plot: A bride-to-be flees the church, and the wrong person is accused of slaying her blackmailer.
Malicious Mariner
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 127
Airdate: 10/07/61
Guests: Sean McClory; Edward Binns; Roy Roberts; Lee Farr; Karl Held; Casey Adams; Wesley Lau; Penny Edwards; Robert Armstrong; Victor Sen Yung; Tudor Owen; Robert Carson; George Ives; Robert Foulk; Kenneth MacDonald; Pitt Herbert; Douglas Evans; George Sawaya; Roy Jenson; Rollin Moriyama; Gordon Kee
Plot: Perry uncovers a scheme to defraud an insurance company while solving the murder of a ship's captain.
Crying Comedian
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 128
Airdate: 10/14/61
Guests: Tommy Noonan; Jackie Coogan; Gloria Talbott; Sue Ane Langdon; Med Flory; Stacy Harris; Liam Sullivan; John Gallaudet; Nestor Paiva; John Alvin; Louis Mercier; Ray Dannis; Art Lewis; Alan Reynolds; Carl Milletaire; Charles Stroud
Plot: A comedian tries to take blame for a murder to protect an innocent girl.
Meddling Medium
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 129
Airdate: 10/21/61
Guests: Virginia Field; Kent Smith; Mary La Roche; Sonya Wilde; Karl Held; Paul Smith; Ann Carroll; Lea Marmer; James Forrest; S. John Launer; James Chandler; Dr. Andrija Puharich
Plot: An elaborate electrical device in the courtroom proves Perry's point about a murder in a booby-trapped elevator.
Pathetic Patient
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 130
Airdate: 10/28/61
Guests: Skip Homeier; Frank Cady; Virginia Gregg; Richard Eastham; Mort Mills; Peter Whitney; Bek Nelson; Edward Kemmer; Charles Irving; Wally Brown; Percy Helton; Bill Erwin; Maura McGiveney; Wayne Heffley; Thomas Freebairn-Smith
Plot: A doctor is accused of malpractice and the slaying of a dishonest lawyer.
Traveling Treasure
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 131
Airdate: 11/04/61
Guests: Jeff York; Lisa Gaye; Arch Johnson; H. M. Wynant; Vaughn Taylor; Ron Kennedy; Jack Searl; Addison Richards; Baynes Barron; Hardie Albright; Frank Gerstle; Richard Adams; Jim Drum; Nacho Galindo; Robert Whiting; Gil Frye; Lee Miller; Tony Miller; Richard Geary; Tom Harkness; Lionel Dante
Plot: Perry takes a break from a deep-sea fishing trip to defend a charter-boat captain accused of murder and gold smuggling.
Posthumous Painter
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 132
Airdate: 11/11/61
Guests: Stuart Erwin; George Macready; Carol Rossen; Lori March; Karl Held; Wesley Lau; Jason Evers; Britt Lomond; James Griffith; Nelson Leigh; John McNamara; Vera Marshe; Don Lynch; Paul Barselow; Chuck Hamilton
Plot: An artist fakes suicide to increase his work's value, then is found murdered.
Injured Innocent
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 133
Airdate: 11/18/61
Guests: John Conte; Frank Maxwell; Audrey Dalton; Alejandro Rey; Wesley Lau; Jess Barker; Linda Lawson; Phil Arthur; Raymond Bailey; Noel Drayton; S. John Launer; Pitt Herbert; Cindy Ames; Lee Miller
Plot: A race driver is murdered after deliberately wrecking a valuable test car.
Left-Handed Liar
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 134
Airdate: 11/25/61
Guests: Ed Nelson; Leslie Parrish; Les Tremayne; Maggie Pierce; Karl Held; Wesley Lau; Dabbs Greer; Alan Baxter; Joan Banks; Richard Derr; Amzie Strickland; Kenneth MacDonald; John Harmon; Claude Stroud; Barbara Pepper; Wallace Rooney; Henry Hunter; John Reach; Cynthia Patrick; Lee Miller
Plot: A former All-American football player is accused of killing a health-club owner.
Brazen Bequest
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 135
Airdate: 12/02/61
Guests: Phyllis Avery; Alan Hewitt; Karl Weber; Mort Mills; John Wilder; Barbara Stuart; Strother Martin; Joseph Julian; William Allyn; Will Wright; James Millhollin; Charles Irving; Elvia Allman; Nelson Olmsted; Dick Whittinghill; Ernest Sarracino; Sally Mills; Charles Tannen; Frank Behrens; Morris Erby; Herbert Lytton; Richard Geary; Sandy Shaffer
Plot: A scandal from the past of a college's president-elect threatens a $1,000,000 university endowment.
Renegade Refugee
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 136
Airdate: 12/09/61
Guests: Frank Overton; Dick Foran; Paul Lambert; John Sutton; Karl Held; Wesley Lau; Ronald Long; Jennifer Howard; Donna Atwood; Denver Pyle; John Gallaudet; William Boyett; John Lormer; Robert Nash; Victor Izay; Jess Kirkpatrick; Lee Miller; Jo Summers
Plot: Perry defends a man accused of killing a newspaper reporter trailing a Nazi war criminal.
Unwelcome Bride
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 137
Airdate: 12/16/61
Guests: Torin Thatcher; Gerald Mohr; Diana Millay; De Forest Kelley; Alan Hale; Wesley Lau; Melora Conway; Bryan Grant; Willis Bouchey; Ben Young; George E. Stone; Emile Meyer
Plot: A man offers his daughter-in-law $50,000 to divorce his playboy son.
Roving River
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 138
Airdate: 12/30/61
Guests: Sarah Marshall; Bruce Bennett; Paul Fix; Philip Ober; Karl Held; June Vincent; J. Pat O'Malley; Harry Carey, Jr.; Kelly Thordsen; Robert Lowery; Dirk London; Sherwood Price; Lewis Martin; Ed Prentiss
Plot: A young woman faces charges she used a homemade bomb to murder her stepfather.
Shapely Shadow
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 139
Airdate: 01/06/62
Guests: Robert Rockwell; Dorothy Green; Elaine Devry; Barbara Lawrence; Karl Held; George Neise; James Callahan; Willis Bouchey; Ray Hemphill; John Dennis; John Zaremba; Hal Smith; William McLean; Austin Green; Ollie O'Toole; Olan Soule; Phil Arnold
Plot: A secretary who believes her boss is being blackmailed comes to Perry carrying a suitcase full of money.
Captain's Coins
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 140
Airdate: 01/13/62
Guests: Jeremy Slate; Arthur Franz; Joan Patrick; Jay Novello; Herbert Rudley; Wesley Lau; Parley Baer; Don Beddoe; Henry Beckman; Allison Hayes; Lauren Gilbert; Morris Ankrum; Eddie Quillan; Tom Palmer; Will J. White; Tafa Lee
Plot: A murder clue comes from a coin commemorating the rescue of a king's son from drowning.
Tarnished Trademark
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 141
Airdate: 01/20/62
Guests: Karl Swenson; Osa Massen; Marie Windsor; Malcolm Atterbury; Phillip Terry; Wesley Lau; Dennis Patrick; Morgan Woodward; Edward Norris; Francis De Sales; S. John Launer; Tommy Farrell; William Tracy; Thom Carney; Don Dillaway; Robert Ball; Stafford Repp; Lisa Davis; James Hansen; Frank Hagney; Harry Strang; Ted White
Plot: A con man swindles the furniture craftsmen of a Danish community.
Glamorous Ghost
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 142
Airdate: 02/03/62
Guests: Mary Murphy; Jeanne Cooper; Ziva Rodann; Merry Anders; Douglas Dick; Wesley Lau; Coleen Gray; Vinton Hayworth; Kenneth MacDonald; Jon Lormer; Jan Stine; Judee Morton; Don McGovern; George E. Stone
Plot: Five lovely women, including Perry's amnesiac client, are suspects in a murder case.
Poison-Pen Pal
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 143
Airdate: 02/10/62
Guests: Everett Sloane; Patricia Breslin; Douglas Henderson; Bert Freed; Wright King; Joan Tompkins; Kathryn Givney; Naomi Stevens; Charles Cooper; Harry Jackson; Paul Genge; John Litel; Chrystine Jordan; Diane Mountford; Richard St. John; Walter Kelly; Marshall Reed; Diana Darrin; John McKee; Sherry Hall; Kathy Huber
Plot: Word of a planned business merger may have been leaked through the letters of two little girls.
Mystified Miner
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 144
Airdate: 02/24/62
Guests: Kathie Browne; Josephine Hutchinson; Carlos Rivas; Bartlett Robinson; Sheila Bromley; Wesley Lau; John Gallaudet; Stanja Lowe; Louise Lorimer; Patrick Thompson; Michael Harvey; Helen Brown; Maidie Norman; Robert J. Stevenson; Lenny Geer; Pitt Herbert; Howard Redman; Martin Dean; Christian Pasques
Plot: A secretary comes to Perry when she discovers the $200,000 she found in a shoe box has disappeared.
Crippled Cougar
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 145
Airdate: 03/03/62
Guests: Bill Williams; John Howard; Rita Lynn; Mort Mills; Noah Keen; John Bryant; Simon Scott; Abbagail Shelton; Tom Fadden; Willis Bouchey; Shary Marshall; Florence Wyatt; Joe Benson
Plot: An oilman who wishes to sell oil leases at an unusually low price asks Perry to handle the transaction.
Absent Artist
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 146
Airdate: 03/17/62
Guests: Zasu Pitts; Mark Roberts; Mark Roberts; Richard Erdman; Victor Buono; Jay Barney; Wesley Lau; Arline Sax; Wynne Pearce; Pamela Curran; Carl Don; Lane Bradford; Bill Zuckert; Barney Phillips; Mabel Rex; Patrick Waltz; Wes Bishop; Marshall Kent; Ann Staunton
Plot: Perry encounters a dual identity when he investigates the murder of a successful cartoonist.
Melancholy Marksman
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 147
Airdate: 03/24/62
Guests: Paul Richards; Jeff Donnell; Mari Branchard; William Schallert; Ann Rutherford; Wesley Lau; Peter Baldwin; Jesse White; Edward Ashley; Cindy Robbins; S. John Launer; John Harmon; John Straub; Jon Lormer; Betsy Hale; Shari Lee Bernath
Plot: A husband is accused of shooting his deceitful wife from a rooftop with a high-powered rifle.
Angry Astronaut
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 148
Airdate: 04/07/62
Guests: James Coburn; Robert Bray; Jeanne Bal; Patricia Donohue; Steve Brodie; Wesley Lau; Paula Raymond; John Marley; Robert Casper; Richard Grant; Ned Roberts; Tom Harkness; Richard Geary
Plot: The head of a priority moon project is murdered, interrupting the operation.
Borrowed Baby
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 149
Airdate: 04/14/62
Guests: Hugh Marlowe; Maria Palmer; Corey Allen; Nellie Burt; Kaye Elhardt; Gregory Morton; Sara Taft; Joan Petrone; El Brended; Charles Thompson; Kenneth MacDonald; Ed Stoddard; Lee Miller; Charles Stroud
Plot: Startled Perry finds a basket containing a 4-week-old baby on his desk.
Counterfeit Crank
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 150
Airdate: 04/28/62
Guests: Otto Kruger; Jeanette Nolan; Don Dubbins; Connie Hines; John Larkin; Burt Reynolds; Michael King; William Woodson; Paul Langton; Charles Irving; S. John Launer; William Keene; John Hubbard; Russ Bender; Barney Biro; Paul McGuire; David Saber
Plot: A nephew betrays his uncle after the older man alters company books to protect him.
Ancient Romeo
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 151
Airdate: 05/05/62
Guests: Jeff Morrow; Rex Reason; Harry von Zell; Patricia Huston; Antoinette Bower; Wesley Lau; K. T. Stevens; Kendrick Huxham; Robert Cornthwaite; Willis Bouchey; Donald Curtis; Stafford Repp; Rosemary Day; Charles Stroud
Plot: Murder results when the dueling scene from ``Romeo and Juliet'' becomes all too real.
Promoter's Pillbox
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 152
Airdate: 05/19/62
Guests: Geraldine Brooks; Dianne Foster; George Matthews; Ben Cooper; Linden Chiles; Wesley Lau; John Lasell; Edmon Ryan; John Gallaudet; Geraldine Wall; James O'Hara; Danielle Aubrey; Dan Seymour; Michael Fox; Ivan Dixon; Kitty Kelly; Chuck Webster; George Conrad
Plot: A pharmacist with ambitions of being a TV writer discovers a body and is accused of murder.
Lonely Eloper
Season: 61/62
Episode#: 153
Airdate: 05/26/62
Guests: Jack Ging; John Dall; Jana Taylor; Joan Staley; Jorja Curtright; Wesley Lau; Paul Tripp; Billy Halop; Kenneth MacDonald; Carol Andreson; John Zaremba; Ralph Reed; Pepper Curtis; Maurice Wells; Holly Harris
Plot: A young woman is suspect after her domineering legal guardian is murdered.
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