Perry Mason

Perry Mason

1957
Perry Mason
Perry Mason

Perry Mason

8.3 | TV-PG | en | Drama

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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EP30  The Case of the Final Fadeout
May. 22,1966
The Case of the Final Fadeout

A nasty actor with a lot of enemies is murdered. Perry gets his accused killer off the hook but then HE turns up dead and an aging, eccentric actress is blamed for that one. Are there two murderers on the loose or are both the work of one person?

EP29  The Case of the Crafty Kidnapper
May. 15,1966
The Case of the Crafty Kidnapper

Gossip columnist Danny Shine is a real scumbag. Even his own mother would disown him. So it's no surprise when he turns up shot to death in his car one night after a party at Alex Tanner's house. Danny's assistant, Greg Stanley, is arrested for the murder. Tanner can provide Stanley with an alibi except for one thing--his baby has been kidnapped and if he testifies the child will die.

EP28  The Case of the Positive Negative
May. 01,1966
The Case of the Positive Negative

Retired general Roger Brandon is set to head an anti-crime commission to investigate racketeering in a notoriously corrupt town. Rackets boss George Emory claims to have compromising photos of Brandon's young wife, Laura. Emory threatens to launch a smear campaign against Laura unless Brandon refuses the assignment. Brandon calls Emory's bluff and accepts the assignment but then Emory turns up murdered. Guess who gets charged with the crime?

EP27  The Case of the Misguided Model
Apr. 24,1966
The Case of the Misguided Model

Perry has all sorts of troubles in this one including a client who takes a shot at him. It starts when dim bulb prizefighter Duke Maronek gets into a fight with Art Grover over pretty model, Sharon Carmody. Duke believes he killed Grover with his bare hands. Perry discovers that a vagrant, who stole a wallet from the corpse, has been charged with the crime. He quickly gets the vagrant off the hook only to discover that Duke has disappeared. It is Sharon Carmody, the model who is up for a big assignment, who holds the keys to Duke's whereabouts and what really happened on the night Art Grover died.

EP26  The Case of the Dead Ringer
Apr. 17,1966
The Case of the Dead Ringer

Perry Mason finds himself the target of an attempt to discredit him while he is in the middle of a major lawsuit.

EP25  The Case of the Unwelcome Well
Apr. 03,1966
The Case of the Unwelcome Well

Nasty oilman Jerome Klee is shot to death and there's no shortage of suspects. Perry's client is Klee's foreman who tried to change his boss's mind about backing out on a drilling contract on a low income family's land.

EP24  The Case of the Fanciful Frail
Mar. 27,1966
The Case of the Fanciful Frail

Things keep going from awful to good grief for poor Ethel Andrews. First she's left at the altar by her fiancé, Bruce Strickland, who also let's her take the blame for a $50,000 securities theft since her signature was on the transfer authorization. Ethel decides to leave town but nearly has an accident with a car driven by Peggy Sutton. Peggy, it seems, is on the run from a hired killer. Ethel foolishly agrees to swap identities with Peggy but then Peggy perishes in a car accident. Ethel then finds $50,000.00 in the trunk of Peggy's car and makes the mistake of informing Bruce Strickland who turns up murdered. Perry sends Paul Drake up to Lake Tahoe to find out about Peggy Sutton but it might be too late because the noose is getting pretty tight around poor Ethel's neck.

EP23  The Case of the Tsarina's Tiara
Mar. 20,1966
The Case of the Tsarina's Tiara

Imagine Gerard Van Ness's surprise when a long-lost tiara worth a fortune turns up in his hands. Imagine Perry and Della's surpise when the body of a jewel thief turns up in a trunk delivered to their building. Needless to say, Van Ness gets blamed for the death and it's up to Perry and company to save the day.

EP22  The Case of the Avenging Angel
Mar. 13,1966
The Case of the Avenging Angel

Perry must defend a goofy, untalented British kid whom someone thinks has the talent to be a pop singer but in reality couldn't get in the door of American Idol. Then someone bumps off a shady promoter and the would be pop idol gets blamed.

EP21  The Case of the Twice-Told Twist
Feb. 27,1966
The Case of the Twice-Told Twist

Perry plays Mr. Brownlow to young Lenny Beale who's involved with a gang of teenage car strippers. Lenny wants to quit the gang but when his boss, Bill Sikes, turns up murdered the police theorize that Lenny killed him in revenge for Sikes shooting his girlfriend.

EP20  The Case of the Scarlet Scandal
Feb. 20,1966
The Case of the Scarlet Scandal

Another fishing trip goes awry for Perry when he's drawn into the murder of a woman who was killed while delivering a blackmail payment.

EP19  The Case of the Sausalito Sunrise
Feb. 13,1966
The Case of the Sausalito Sunrise

An art dealer and his girlfriend are arrested for a two murders related to a series of hijacks. Paul goes undercover to ferret out the hijacking ring and Perry finds himself staring face down the barrel of a gun pointed by a killer even he never considered.

EP18  The Case of the Golfer's Gambit
Jan. 30,1966
The Case of the Golfer's Gambit

Chick Farley is a low rent, semi-talented golf pro at an exclusive country club. He now mooches off his wife's money and occasionally blackmails members of the country club in order to keep his position. One night, ole Chick discovers that someone has been stealing from the pro shop. He calls club member Hamilton Burger at his home to inform him of the theft. While on the phone, somebody takes a sand wedge and bashes in Chick's skull. Chick is no great loss to humanity but, as usual, the wrong man is charged with the crime.

EP17  The Case of the Vanishing Victim
Jan. 23,1966
The Case of the Vanishing Victim

Dr. Stacey Fielding takes off for Salt Lake City on business. When his plane crashes, Veronal poisioning is found in the body. Miriam Fielding is arrested since the last thing the good doctor drank was whiskey from a flash she had given him. Upon further investigation, Miriam is cleared when it's discovered that the man who really perished in the crash was Al Dolby, the plane mechanic. But where is Dr. Fielding and who did the poisoning?

EP16  The Case of the Midnight Howler
Jan. 16,1966
The Case of the Midnight Howler

Barney Austin is the king of late night talk radio in Los Angeles. One night during his on-air rants, Barney gets a note to call his boss, Kevin Steele. While talking to Steele on the air, the audience hears Steele begin arguing with someone and then two shots ring out.

EP15  The Case of the Bogus Buccaneers
Jan. 09,1966
The Case of the Bogus Buccaneers

Aspiring actor Tony Polk lands a job on a popular TV program. Part of his job consists of dressing up in a buccaneer costume and delivering free gifts to viewers at their homes. Another actor and Tony trade lists and before too long he's up the creek. One of the women on the list is murdered with a buccaneer's hook, the one belonging to Tony, and a neighbor swears that Tony fought with the woman.

EP14  The Case of the Golden Girls
Dec. 19,1965
The Case of the Golden Girls

Victor Montalvo, co-owner of the Golden Bear Club, gives a ride to a sweet young thing named Debbie Conrad who later attempts to blackmail him by threatening to claim he took advantage of her. Debbie is working the scam with her boyfriend, Rick Durbin, and Montalvo decides to pay them off. But before he can make the payment his partner in the club is murdered.

EP13  The Case of the Baffling Bug
Dec. 12,1965
The Case of the Baffling Bug

Tryon Laboratories hires the Drake Detective Agency to protect their latest formulas. In spite of Paul's best efforts, there is a leak in security and some top-secret information is stolen. One night, Leigh, an undercover agent working for Dr. Scranton, the head of the company, calls to say he knows the identity of the spy. Scranton and Paul rush to the laboratory only to find Leigh dead, floating in a vat of water.

EP12  The Case of the Fugitive Fraulein
Nov. 28,1965
The Case of the Fugitive Fraulein

In this change of pace episode Perry and Della travel behind the Iron Curtain and get involved in a murder case which ends up being tried in an East German court.

EP11  The Case of the Silent Six
Nov. 21,1965
The Case of the Silent Six

Police Sergeant Dave Wolfe warns Joe Oliver to stay away from his kid sister, Susan. Now Susan's been beaten up in her apartment, Oliver has been shot to death, and Dave is being charged with murder.

EP10  The Case of the Runaway Racer
Nov. 14,1965
The Case of the Runaway Racer

Test driver Pete Griston cracks up one of ace car builder Pappy Ryan's vehicles. Pappy accuses Havey Rettig of tampering with the car and files charges against Rettig and Griston. Then Rettig is killed and Griston is found standing groggily over the body.

EP9  The Case of the Wrathful Wraith
Nov. 07,1965
The Case of the Wrathful Wraith

Louise Self must have broken a mirror. She has to stand trial for murdering her husband, Jamison, twice. Perry gets her off the hook the first time because the body was never found. Guess what? Jamison Self only faked his death and is still alive. When he ends up dead a second time it's deja vu all over again for poor Louise and Perry gears up for the second round.

EP8  The Case of the Twelfth Wildcat
Oct. 31,1965
The Case of the Twelfth Wildcat

Burt Payne owns 10% of a professional football team. His rich wife, Ellen, owns the remainder. Knowing that he's washed up and needing some quick cash, Burt tries to sell his share of the team to a group of investors and even gets a down payment from them. Ellen, however, is opposed to the deal. Then, after she meets with one of the potential buyers aboard a train, Burt is apparently killed in an explosion.

EP7  The Case of the Hasty Honeymooner
Oct. 24,1965
The Case of the Hasty Honeymooner

.An old Army buddy of restauranteur Terrence Clay, Lucas Tolliver, arrives in California from Oklahoma to meet the woman he was matched up with by a computer dating service. The woman, Miliicent Barton, is supposedly a rich widow. Lucas has money too having inherited it from his previous wife who died under mysterious circumstances. This doesn't prevent Millie from marrying Lucas but she dies at a party after drinking poisoned lemonade supposedly provided to her by Lucas. This one is a tough row to hoe for Perry.

EP6  The Case of the Carefree Coronary
Oct. 17,1965
The Case of the Carefree Coronary

The Safeline Insurance Company notices an increase in heart attacks among their policy holders. The company suspects fraud and hires Perry and Paul to investigate. When Paul goes undercover as a construction worker, he almost doesn't survive the assignment.

EP5  The Case of the Impetuous Imp
Oct. 10,1965
The Case of the Impetuous Imp

Perry rescues Diana Carter from the ocean in his boat and then must rescue her twice more in the courtroom. Once for jewel theft and once for murder.

EP4  The Case of the Cheating Chancellor
Oct. 03,1965
The Case of the Cheating Chancellor

Perry returns to his college alma mater to receive an award but there's no rest for the weary when he's called upon to defend Van Fowler for the murder of a professor.

EP3  The Case of the Candy Queen
Sep. 26,1965
The Case of the Candy Queen

Things aren't going too good for the self-styled candy queen, Claire Armstrong, these days. Boyfriend Mark Chester steals her candy formula in order to pay back his gambling debts and Harry Arnold is blackmailing her. Then there's cousin Wanda. She'd like nothing better than to see Claire convicted when Arnold is murdered so that she can takeover the business.

EP2  The Case of the Fatal Fortune
Sep. 19,1965
The Case of the Fatal Fortune

A fortune teller gives a series of accurate predictions regarding a woman's future. But something goes wrong when she's charged with murdering her new husband.

EP1  The Case of the Laughing Lady
Sep. 12,1965
The Case of the Laughing Lady

Carla Chaney is caught seemingly red-handed at the scene of the murder of her ex-boyfriend. Perry agrees to take the case pro bono after three other attorneys drop out. Carla's only hope is an unseen woman she claims was also present at the scene. According to Carla, this woman had a sinister laugh.

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8.3 | TV-PG | en | Drama , Crime , Mystery | More Info
Released: 1957-09-21 | Released Producted By: CBS Productions , TCF Television Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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Cast

Raymond Burr , Barbara Hale , William Hopper

Director

Erle Stanley Gardner

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davidcarniglia What a great TV series. One of the best, as many others have said. Its longevity, given notoriously fickle TV audiences, shows how much interest it generated and sustained in an era of great change. Thanks to FETV, the show is currently on air. I find it difficult to add much to the excellent commentary on this forum; the superb acting, intricate, noir-ish plots, and erudite courtroom drama have been justly praised. I'll just offer some observations on Perry Mason.The dual nature of the plots--first the exposition of the crime, and then its dissection in the courtroom--gave the viewer two shows elegantly woven together. Often the crime has more threads to play out after the trial has begun. That device adds more wrinkles and surprises for both Mason and Hamilton Burger. The perpetrator usually is introduced early on, before the murder, but seems to have an insignificant role: a relative, love interest, business partner, or go-between among the main characters. It's almost never the obvious antagonist. Like others have noted, Mason and Drake always seem at least one step ahead of Burger and Lt. Tragg.The criminals and their prey project exaggerated personalities compared to the low-key teams of Mason and Burger (ok, Burger is high-strung, but at least he's predictable). So we have an assortment of odd-balls setting the plot in motion with their mayhem, leaving the steady authority projected by the prosecution and defense, as symbolized by the courtroom itself, to resolve the conflict.Society has been rent by the crime in question; and it's up to Mason, with or without Burger's help, to put things right again. Despite the feel-good endgame in Mason's office after justice has been done, this scene actually shows relief on the part of Mason and his team, and frequently Tragg joins in to rehash the case. Burger seems like a hothead, but he and Mason have the same goal, and understand and respect each other.There's two levels of strife in Perry Mason. The criminal act and its consequences, and the resulting prosecution vs. defense struggle in the courtroom. Someone, usually a jerk of some sort, winds up dead; but those accused unjustly are restored as citizens, and society, the Masons and Burgers of the world, go on more or less comfortably until the next episode.Like Mason, we struggle against the Burgers in life, who would frustrate us continually if we couldn't out-manuver them. The criminal acts exemplify the issues that we fight over with our antagonists, our Hamilton Burgers. As Mason and his team face palpable danger in every episode, they can't avoid what is obtuse (Burger's team) or unseemly (the murder and its chaos). They manage a sense of cool detachment that serves them well; Burger, by contrast, has a more common reaction to stress and surprises, he seems to come undone. The stoic sense of accepting difficult situations while not letting them overwhelm our integrity preserves our sense of self. If we're dealing with a full deck everything else takes care of itself.That's why we don't need to see Perry, Paul, and Della's home life. I have noticed a few short scenes at Perry or Paul's homes, but usually just for a phone call. There's nothing extrinsic to the crime and its resolution. As noted by many other reviewers, that's part of the genius of this series.This focus does lead to some improbable situations. Perry seems to almost live in his office, and, along with Paul and Della, never sleep. We can suspend our disbelief enough to let the drama play out, with all of its entertainment value, as well as the more esoteric gems I've gleaned from it.
CriticGirl91 Who doesn't love Perry Mason? I've read a lot of his books, and thoroughly enjoyed them. I was naturally skeptical when it came to seeing s TV series of his name, but was in for a pleasant surprise when I began to watch my favorite stories unfold on screen. For the actors, Burr is extremely lovable as are Hopper and Collins. Though my favorite is Talman who has a very easy and realistic style to him. The stories are not distorted by any means, neither is there any attempt to glamorize or sensationalized them. This very simplistic approach is what makes this serial amazing. I need not describe the genius of the plots for they are known to all. A rare gem of an adaptation of a much loved series.
pnorris What's not to like about Perry Mason?......noirish themes, beautylicious babes in bullet bras, killer cars, mysterious murders, smarmy suspects, brazen blackmailers…..all with one of the strongest regular casts and many notable guest appearances by second tier stars and soon to be stars…..Earl Stanley Gardner's protagonist is the quintessential TV attorney and probably few could have played Mason as well as Raymond Burr…although many of Burr's previous film roles were as a heavy (and he was very good at those roles), he transforms wondrously into the 'good guy' in this series, his biggest star turn...while Mason is an attorney, he is also a terrific detective…..the only other TV Detective show on par with 'Perry Mason' is the 'Rockford Files'…..
brent_a_graham The actors and writers took it all seriously, when they could have played it as a spoof. That's what made this TV series one of the best ever.It's a bit of a shock to see pre-Miranda law enforcement, but what seems like egregious behavior today was foiled by Perry's fast-and-loose actions, always in defense of his client first and the truth second! Of course, Raymond Burr is PERFECT as Mason, but Barbara Hale and William Hopper capture Della and Paul exactly as Gardner envisioned, I suspect. Add Ray Collins with his indefatigable politeness as Lt. Tragg and William Talman as the down-but-never-out Hamilton Burger, and the scene is set. All that's left is to translate some of the best "legal drama" novels into a series of 1-hour shows and voilà - TV magic.You owe it to yourself to find and watch these gems again.