The Perry Mason Pages.
Episode Guide & Plot Synopsis.
1962-1963
Bogus Books
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 154
Airdate: 09/27/62
Guests: Phyllis Love; Adam West; John Abbott; H. M. Wynant; Joby Baker; Allison Hayes; Woodrow Parfrey; Maurice Manson; Tenen Holtz; Raymond Greenleaf; Kenneth MacDonald; John Alvin; William Tracy; Michael Fox; Renee Godfrey
Plot: The murder of a bookstore proprietor uncovers a thriving racket of stolen first editions.
Capricious Corpse
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 155
Airdate: 10/04/62
Guests: John Howard; Jacques Aubuchon; Lee Farr; Lori March; Jan Shepard; Jean Engstrom; Dennis Rush; Evelyn Ward; John Pickard; Teru Shimada; Willis Bouchey; June Ellis; Herbert Patterson; Ed Stoddard; Alex Bookston; Richard Geary; Everett Glass; Gilbert Frye; John Morley; William Hines
Plot: A girl becomes involved with murder while trying to save a charitable youth organization from predatory heirs.
Playboy Pugilist
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 156
Airdate: 10/11/62
Guests: Gary Lockwood; Dianne Foster; Dolores Michaels; Robert Armstrong; Mark Roberts; Anthony Caruso; Joseph Sirola; Mort Mills; Sally Bliss; John Gallaudet; Stewart Taylor; Dee Stratton; Ben Erway; Mae Clarke; Pepper Curtis; Dennis Richards; Marty Brenman; Tom Simcox
Plot: Murder ends the partnership of a wealthy sportsman and a veteran fight trainer who teamed to support a boxer.
Double-Entry Mind
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 157
Airdate: 10/18/62
Guests: Stuart Erwin; Karl Weber; Jack Betts; Paul Tripp; Virginia Christine; Joan Staley; Kathleen Hughes; Richard Reeves; Grandon Rhodes; Pamela Branch
Plot: The boss' secretary thwarts a meek bookkeeper trying to embezzle $201,000 from his employers.
Hateful Hero
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 158
Airdate: 10/25/62
Guests: Dick Davalos; Jeanette Nolan; Mabel Albertson; Edmon Ryan; Leonard Stone; Sue England; William Phipps; William Boyett; Frank Gerstle; Mike Steele; Richard Tretter; George Ives; S. John Launer; Lennie Bremen; Jon Lormer
Plot: Perry defends a rookie policeman charged with robbery and homicide.
Dodging Domino
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 159
Airdate: 11/01/62
Guests: David Hedison; Jeff Morrow; Ellen McRae; Lloyd Corrigan; Robert H. Harris; Eddie Firestone; Janet Ward; James Forrest; Maureen Arthurn; Tom Palmer; Herbert Rudley; Barney Biro; Amanda Randolph; Pat Goldin; Orville Sherman; Diana Reese; Rusty Stevens; Gary Hart; Charlotte Thompson
Plot: A university professor is charged with the murder of a blackmailing songwriter.
Unsuitable Uncle
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 160
Airdate: 11/08/62
Guests: Sean McClory; Liam Sullivan; Ford Rainey; Howard Smith; George Kane; Barbara Parkins; Anna Lee; Charles Irving; Harvey Korman; Paula Winslowe; Harp McGuire; Harry Bartell; Fern Barry; George E. Stone
Plot: A sailor too poor to pay legal fees makes out a will with bequests of $300,000.
Stand-in Sister
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 161
Airdate: 11/15/62
Guests: R. G. Armstrong; Peter Whitney; Peter Mamakos; Parley Baer; Susan Seaforth; Steven Geray; Meg Wyllie; Walter Stocker; Ralph Clanton; S. John Launer; Allen Joseph; Douglas Evans; Michael Fox; Jay Della; George Selk; Charles Stroud; Kaye Farrington
Plot: A mobster fleeing from a Senate hearing involves Perry in a coast-to-coast evidence search.
Weary Watchdog
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 162
Airdate: 11/29/62
Guests: Mala Powers; Doris Dowling; John Dall; Keye Luke; Wesley Addy; Judy Dan; James Hong; Kenneth Tobey; Philip Ahn; Willis Bouchey; Robert S. Carson; Beulah Quo; Seamon Glass; Tom Harkness
Plot: Della's socialite friend (Mala Powers) stands accused of killing a blackmailer.
Lurid Letter
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 163
Airdate: 12/06/62
Guests: Mona Freeman; Edgar Buchanan; Robert Rockwell; Kaye Elhardt; Ann Doran; John Durren; Thomas Lowell; Noah Keen; Mark Murray; Kelly Thordsen; Chris Alcaide; Elizabeth Harrower; Cheryl Miller; Judee Morton; Nancy Lee; Greta Granstadt; Harry Travis
Plot: Someone anonymously claims a young high-school teacher has behaved improperly with students.
Fickle Filly
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 164
Airdate: 12/13/62
Guests: Lisabeth Hush; Jim Davis; Mort Mills; Joan Freeman; Jennifer Howard; Strother Martin; Bartlett Robinson; Bob McQuain; Frederic Worlock; Bill Quinn; Tom Geas; Earl Brown
Plot: A man invites his murder by buying his girlfriend's racehorse after jilting her for an older woman.
Polka Dot Pony
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 165
Airdate: 12/20/62
Guests: Jesse White; Virginia Field; Burt Metcalf; Ben Cooper; Vivi Janiss; Melinda Plowman; Eilene Janssen; Jonathan Hole; Byron Foulger; John Warburton; Doris Packer; Morris Ankrum; Freeman Lusk; Vince Townsend, Jr.
Plot: A stewardess will inherit $200,000 if she was the baby abandoned at an orphanage.
Shoplifter's Shoe
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 166
Airdate: 01/03/63
Guests: Margaret O'Brian; Lurene Tuttle; Leonard Nimoy; Melora Conway; Richard Coogan; Arthur Batanides; Blair Davies; Charles Irving; James Millhollin; Shirley Mitchell; Kenneth Patterson; Walter Kelley; Bernard Fein; Vincent Troy
Plot: A prominent jeweler's sister is charged with shoplifting and murder.
Bluffing Blast
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 167
Airdate: 01/10/63
Guests: Bill Williams; Frank Overton; Peter Breck; Antoinette Bower; Mary La Roche; Robert Knapp; Frank Ferguson; Gertrude Flynn; Jonathan Kidd; Ralph Manza; Bill Zuckert; William Fawcett; Bill Hampton
Plot: A girl searching for the father she's never seen appears to be a target for murder.
Prankish Professor
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 168
Airdate: 01/17/63
Guests: Kent Smith; Constance Towers; Patricia Breslin; Barry Atwater; Don Dubbins; Joyce Van Patten; John Gallaudet; Barbara Pepper; Jack Searl; John Bryant; Lee Miller; Harold Goodwin; Chris Washburn
Plot: A professor's wife is charged with his murder soon after he staged a shooting in class.
Constant Doyle
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 169
Airdate: 01/31/63
Guests: Bette Davis; Michael Parks; Peggy Ann Garner; Frances Reid; Les Tremayne; Neil Hamilton; George Mitchell; Jerry Oddo; John Dennis; Willis Bouchey; Dick Wilson; Marc Romaunt; Dorothy Edwards; Gil Perkins
Plot: Deceased lawyer's name is dragged through the mud. Widow clears his name and helps boy charged with murder.
*Bette Davis stood in as guest attorney in this episode.
Libelous Locket
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 170
Airdate: 02/07/63
Guests: Michael Rennie; Patrice Wymore; Ruta Lee; John Hoyt; Harry von Zell; Patricia Manning; Carlos Romero; Dan Seymour; S. John Launer; Michael Fox; Nacho Galindo; John Harmon; Norman Leavitt; Robert Howard; Paul Maxey; Jose Gonzales Gonzales; Lee Miller; Robert Koff; Kathryn Hart
Plot: A law professor (Michael Rennie) defends a student involved in blackmail and murder.
*Michael Rennie stood in as a guest attorney in this episode
Two-Faced Turnabout
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 171
Airdate: 02/14/63
Guests: Hugh O'Brian; Lisa Gaye; Trevor Bardette; Abraham Sofaer; Robert F. Simon; Werner Klemperer; Berry Kroeger; Gregory Morton; Joan Petrone; Kenneth MacDonald; Henry Travis; Walter Mathews; Charles H. Radilac; William Woodson; Dale Johnson
Plot: A lawyer (Hugh O'Brian) and former spy solves the murder of a totalitarian state's hated minister.
*Hugh O'Brien stood in as a guest attorney in this episode.
Surplus Suitor
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 172
Airdate: 02/28/63
Guests: Walter Pidgeon; Joyce Bulifant; James Best; Carl Benton Reid; Nellie Burt; Linden Chiles; Andrea King; Hayden Rorke; John Siegfried; Lisa Davis; James Cross; Grandon Rhodes; Jean Harvey; Russell Grieve
Plot: A corporate attorney (Walter Pidgeon) represents an heiress in a criminal trial.
*Walter Pidgeon stood in as a guest attorney in this episode.
Golden Oranges
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 173
Airdate: 03/07/63
Guests: Arthur Hunnicutt; Natalie Trundy; Erin O'Brian; Allen Case; Arch Johnson; Mary Munday; Hugh Sanders; Henry Norell; Lee Van Cleef; Charles Irving; Vic Perrin; Nolan Leary; Michael Fox; Wallace Rooney; James Goodwin; Alex Bookston; Robert Rothwell
Plot: Perry's client, a dog, is brought to court and helps solve a murder.
Lawful Lazarus
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 174
Airdate: 03/14/63
Guests: David McLean; Maria Palmer; Irene Hervey; Max Showalter; Philip Bourneuf; Abbagail Shelton; Joy Hodges; Kay Stewart; Morris Ankrum; Mack Williams; Ted Stanhope
Plot: A man who has been declared legally dead seeks Perry's help in a child-custody fight.
Velvet Claws
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 175
Airdate: 03/21/63
Guests: Patricia Barry; James Philbrook; Wynn Pearce; Virginia Gregg; Anna-Lisa; Richard Webb; Harry Jackson; Peter Leeds; Paul Barselow; Cathie Merchant; Ron Stokes; Don Lynch; Kathy Willow; Buddy Ochoa
Plot: A client tries to make Perry a suspect in her husband's murder.
Lover's Leap
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 176
Airdate: 04/04/63
Guests: Julie Adams; John Conte; Carleton Carpenter; Richard Jaeckel; Maura McGiveney; Marvin Miller; John Gallaudet; Stewart Bradley; Audrey Caire; Walter Coy; Lewis Charles; John Zaremba; Ken Renard; Bill Cord; Henry Rowland; Richard Geary; Barry Brooks; Lee Miller
Plot: Perry suspects the fake suicide of a house builder is really part of a $200,000 land swindle.
Elusive Element
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 177
Airdate: 04/11/63
Guests: Gloria Talbott; Gerald Mohr; Douglas Henderson; George Macready; Douglas Dick; Ronald Long; Elaine DeVry; S. John Launer; Jon Lormer; Tommy Farrell; Billy Halop; Ollie O'Toole; Ray Dannis; Michael Harris; Guy Standing III; Harry Fleer
Plot: A promoter's plot to make himself the victim of attempted murder backfires.
Greek Goddess
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 178
Airdate: 04/18/63
Guests: John Larkin; John Anderson; Mariana Hill; George Kennedy; Faith Domergue; Robert Harland; Russell Arms; Tol Avery; Willis Bouchey; William Hughes; Lee Miller
Plot: Perry's sculptor friend is charged with murdering a Greek woman.
Skeleton's Closet
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 179
Airdate: 05/02/63
Guests: Keith Andes; Peggy McCay; Frank Aletter; Michael Pate; David Lewis; Dabbs Greer; Pat Finley; John Heath; Walter Mathews; Diane Mountford; Linda Marshall; Toby Michaels; Sally Smith; Pitt Herbert; John Truax; Jarone Bakewell
Plot: The author of a lurid expose is murdered, changing an invasion-of-privacy case to homicide.
Potted Planter
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 180
Airdate: 05/09/63
Guests: Constance Ford; Diane Brewster; Paul Fix; Mark Goddard; Robert Bray; Joe Maross; Davey Davison; William Allyn; Harry Lauter; Frank Behrens; Robert Foulk; Allan Hunt; David Macklin; Jaclyn Carmichael; Jamie Forster; Pepper Curtis; Richard Emory
Plot: A husband who has threatened to ruin his wife's alleged suitor is found murdered.
Witless Witness
Season: 62/63
Episode#: 181
Airdate: 05/16/63
Guests: Robert Middleton; David White; Jackie Coogan; Steve Brodie; Florida Friebus; Rita Lynn; Vaughn Taylor; Lee Bergere; Harry Holcombe; Grandon Rhodes; Larry Thor; Michael Fox; Henry Hunter; Jason Johnson
Plot: A respected judge is accused of poisoning a witness who was going to expose him as a crook.
*The opening scene is in the courtroom and we hear Judge Daniel Raymond refusing an appeal and upholding the guilty verdict on a client of Perry's.
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