| Perry Mason: Season 7 | |||||
| Paramount (1963) | |||||
| TV Series / Drama, Crime, Mystery | |||||
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| Raymond Burr | Perry Mason | |
| Ray Collins | Police Lt. Arthur Tragg | |
| William Hopper | Paul Drake | |
| Barbara Hale | Della Street | |
| Wesley Lau | Police Lt. Andy Anderson | |
| William Talman | Hamilton Burger | |
| Don Anderson | Police Officer | |
| Lee Miller | Police Sgt. Brice | |
| Willis Bouchey | Judge | |
| Bert Stevens | Juror / Courtroom Spectator | |
| Chuck Hamilton | Townsman | |
| John Gallaudet | Judge Penner | |
| Connie Cezon | Gertie | |
| Kenneth MacDonald | Judge | |
| S. John Launer | Judge Ryder | |
| Arthur Tovey | Man at Airport | |
| Charles Stroud | Man No. 1 | |
| Michael Fox | Dr. Hoxie | |
| Kenner G. Kemp | Townsman | |
| Alexander Lockwood | Medical Examiner |
| Director |
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| Producer | Arthur Marks
Jackson Gillis Art Seid Gail Patrick |
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| Writer | Robb White
Jonathan Latimer Philip Saltzman Sam Neuman |
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| Cinematography | Frank Redman
Howard Schwartz Robert G. Hager John M. Nickolaus Jr. |
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| Musician | Van Cleave
Lucien Moraweck René Garriguenc Richard Shores |
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There are few actors so closely tied to a persona than Raymond Burr as Perry Mason. This long-running series was built upon Erle Stanley Gardner´s many novels about a brilliant defense lawyer and his staff, that solved many a crime with surprise witnesses and stern cross-examinations.It was the first mystery series to feature chalk or tape outlines to mark the spots where bodies were found. Filmed almost exclusively in the Los Angeles area, Raymond Burr had Gardner's seal of approval in the role. The cases were usually won by way of pivotal confessions of witnesses, solicited by Perry Mason (Burr's) surgeon-like examination or with last-minute, key evidence brought into the courtroom by private investigator, Paul Drake (William Hopper). Della Street (Barbara Hale), Perry´s faithful secretary, was always at Perry's side in the courtroom where hapless Hamilton Burger (William Tallman) was the Los Angeles District Attorney who never seemed to win. As to the myth that Perry Mason never lost, there were 2 episodes where it did occur... but you'll have to watch to find out.The show was revived in 1973-74, with other actors in the familiar roles (Monte Markham as Mason), and then again with the some of the original cast, in a string of feature length TV films from 1985 until Raymond Burr´s death in 1993. |
| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 9/26/1963 1. The Case of the Nebulous Nephew | |||
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Con artist John Brooks comes up with a new twist to convince Sophia and Ninevah Stone that he's the rightful heir to their fortune. Perry ends up reluctantly defending Brooks when he's charged with murder.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/3/1963 2. The Case of the Shifty Shoe-Box | |||
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John Flickenger pulls off a carefully planned robbery without a hitch - until his young nephew finds the gun used in the heist.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/10/1963 3. The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito | |||
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This case has nothing to do with mosquitos but rather a hidden mine that could lead to a fortune. Plus murder.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/17/1963 4. The Case of the Deadly Verdict | |||
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Janice Barton is found guilty of the murder of her wealthy relative and sentenced to death. Can Perry find the evidence to clear her of the crime before the pellets in the gas chamber fall?
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/24/1963 5. The Case of the Decadent Dean | |||
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Perry has to defend the dean of a prep school on charges of murdering a teacher who had been stealing, embezzling, and blackmailing.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/31/1963 6. The Case of the Reluctant Model | |||
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Crude but wealthy art connisseur Otto Olney throws a party to celebrate his purchasing a painting by famed artist Gauguin. Then a party guest, art expert Colin Durant, says that the painting is actually a fake. Olney then goes to Perry who decides to sue Durant for libel. Durant then claims he never said anything regarding the painting and the only witness, an art student named Maxine Lindsay, confirms his story. Perry then discovers the dead body of Austin Durant, fully clothed, in the shower of Maxine's apartment. Paul Drake then tracks down Maxine but the police are right behind him and they arrest her for murder. Guess who she hires to defend her?
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/14/1963 7. The Case of the Bigamous Spouse | |||
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Gwynn Elston's best friend, Nell Grimes, asks her to move in with her due to the fact that Nell's husband, Felton, is often out of town on business. Gwynn, who has a door-to-door sales job, is then astonished to see Felton's picture in someone else's house where he's known as Frank Gillette. Felton, who's really a nasty mother, tries to poison Gwynn, when she confronts him but she survives and runs to Perry for help. Then Felton is found shot to death and things go from awful to good grief for poor Gwynn--she gets arrested for the crime.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/21/1963 8. The Case of the Floating Stones | |||
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Julie Eng needs Perry's help when some precious stones her grandfather left her turn up missing, and the assclown who swiped them, Ralph Iverson, ends up assuming room temperature.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/28/1963 9. The Case of the Festive Felon | |||
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Wealthy but dying Bebe Brent gives the bulk of her estate to her loyal nurse. Needless to say, this act angers the remainder of the Brent clan and leads to a murder.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 12/5/1963 10. The Case of the Devious Delinquent | |||
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Three JD teens cruise Hollywood Boulevard in a cool convertible lookin' for kicks! A liquor store goes down and the blackmail and plot twists begin. Lies and more lies and it's going from bad to worse for young Timmy Balfour who soon discovers that there's every bit as much delinquency from the adults when he's charged with murder.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 12/12/1963 11. The Case of the Bouncing Boomerang | |||
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Grover Johnson manages somehow to talk his much younger bride Eula into living with him on a barren spread of ranch land. Needless to say, Eula hates it and can't wait to sell the property. Along comes wealthy Texas Nelson Barcliff who's ready, willing, and able to purchase the property. But is this big Texan really who he appears to be? Or is it just an elaborate real estate swindle cooked up by Eula? Either way, both Eula and Barcliff end up dead and Grover finds himself charged with Eula's murder.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 12/19/1963 12. The Case of the Badgered Brother | |||
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Brothers Martin and Todd Baylor are feuding over ownership of a successful chain of clothing stores. Martin ends up with a knife sticking out of his back one night and Todd is charged with the murder.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/2/1964 13. The Case of the Wednesday Woman | |||
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A wife's ears perk up when an insurance investigator informs her that he has proof that her husband was wrongfully convicted of the crime for which he is imprisoned. Then the insurance investigator turns up dead. Goings on in an elevator highlight this episode.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/9/1964 14. The Case of the Accosted Accountant | |||
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Edward Lewis's increasingly bitter arguments with his father-in-law make him the suspect when the old goat is murdered.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/16/1964 15. The Case of the Capering Camera | |||
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Mystery clouds Mason's search for the murderer of a photographer who was shot while a model pointed a loaded gun at him but didn't pull the trigger.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/23/1964 16. The Case of the Ice-Cold Hands | |||
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Sweet but ditzy Nancy Banks wants Perry to cash a bundle of winning racing tickets for her. There's only one problem: her former employer claims the racing tickets as his own. Nancy then gets in even deeper feces when she's charged with her ex-employer's murder.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 2/6/1964 17. The Case of the Bountiful Beauty | |||
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20 year old Deborah Dearborn has just written a best selling novel about a cold and calculating woman who bears a strong resemblance to her boyfriend's stepmother. Now Deborah is living at a beach house in Malibu and in the process of selling the rights to her book to a movie producer. Then the stepmother, Stephanie Carew, appears on the scene threatening to sue for libel. This throws a monkey wrench into the movie but when Stephanie's dead body is found floating in a swimming pool everyone assumes the death is accidental and champagne corks begin popping all-around because the blockbuster movie can proceed. Hold everything, says the coroner. His autopsy shows that Stephanie did not die in the swimming pool but in the ocean and that the cause of death was a blow on the head not drowning. Poor, little Deborah is charged with the crime.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 2/13/1964 18. The Case of the Nervous Neighbor | |||
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Mason's client: an amnesia victim on trial for the murder of her husband.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 2/20/1964 19. The Case of the Fifty Millionth Frenchman | |||
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A Frenchman is giving money to an old lady love from his hometown, unaware that she's sharing the cash with her husband. When hubby turns up murdered guess who gets charged with the crime?
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 2/27/1964 20. The Case of the Frightened Fisherman | |||
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Chemist Randolph James has started a successful company to develop a new antibiotic but his former boss, Hudson Bradshaw, files suit claiming that James developed the formula while in his employ. James' wife, Natalie, then begins selling her stock to Bradshaw which would give him control of the new company. James vows to stop his wife at any cost and she turns up dead. James claims that he was fishing at the time the murder occurred but things go from awful to good grief when he can't find the fellow fisherman who can substantiate his story.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 3/5/1964 21. The Case of the Arrogant Arsonist | |||
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A fire chief wants to bring a libel suit against a reporter who accuses him of burning down his own warehouse. Things get even worse for the chief when he's charged with murder.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 3/12/1964 22. The Case of the Garrulous Go-Between | |||
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A woman goes on trial for murder when a fortuneteller's deadly prediction becomes a reality.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 3/26/1964 23. The Case of the Woeful Widower | |||
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Certain that her employer is plotting to murder his wife, housekeeper Nellie Conway launches a counterattack.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 4/2/1964 24. The Case of the Simple Simon | |||
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Actress Ramona Carver is confronted by a young man who claims to be the son she gave up for adoption. Murder soon results.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 4/9/1964 25. The Case of the Illicit Illusion | |||
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Mason is hired by a woman who is convinced, after a series of bizarre events, that she's crazy.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 4/16/1964 26. The Case of the Antic Angel | |||
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A recovering alcoholic takes to the bottle after he sees his wife, who's supposedly been dead for five years. Then she turns up dead for real and he's arrested for her murder.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 4/30/1964 27. The Case of the Careless Kidnapper | |||
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A kidnapping hoax leads to murder when the ransom note gets into the wrong hands.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 5/7/1964 28. The Case of the Drifting Dropout | |||
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Small town junk dealer/mayoral candidate Mort Lynch gives college dropout Barry Davis a job because he was once close friend's with Barry's uncle. Barry and Mort's relationship is uneasy and he's soon the number one suspect when someone bashes Mort's skull with a monkey wrench and it's found in Barry's car. Perry enters the case to defend Barry and discovers that the case hinges on a 20 year old counterfeiting scheme involving Barry's late uncle and a few "prominent" citizens in the town.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 5/14/1964 29. The Case of the Tandem Target | |||
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Irma Hodge's wealthy step-father, Sumner Hodge, is withholding her inheritance because he dislikes her folksinger boyfriend, Con Bolton. When someone supposedly takes a shot at Sumner, he suggest to the police that Con is to blame. Then another attempt is made on Sumner's life which proves successful. His car goes over a cliff with him behind the wheel and an investigation reveals that the brake line had been severed. Witnesses then claim Con was fooling around with the brakes minutes before the crash and he's charged with murder.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 5/21/1964 30. The Case of the Ugly Duckling | |||
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The deceased father of Alice Trilling left behind a strange will. His successful toy company would be left to her ONLY if Alice is married or engaged within a year's time. Until then, her wheelchair bound Uncle Harry and a board of directors will run the company. In searching for a husband, Alice has one major problem: she's coyote ugly and she's the first one to admit it. An artist begins a flirtation and after seeing a portrait he's painted of her, Alice begins to think she could find happiness with him. There's one problem though: nasty old Uncle Harry has been playing matchmaker behind the scenes for reasons of his own. Alice discovers her uncle's perfidity and pushes over his wheelchair. Quickly fleeing the scene, Alice is later arrested when Uncle Harry is found dead. Perry is retained as defense counsel but even he has a tough time in this one because Alice herself thinks she's guilty.
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