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Perry Mason

Season: 4

Episode: 1

The Case of the Treacherous Toupee

Air Date:17/09/1960

Tyrannical company president Hartley Bassett returns home after being presumed dead for two years. His first act is to fire Peter Dawson which makes Dawson the prime suspect when Bassett is found dead with two bullet holes in him.

Crew

Name: Richard Kinon

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Maurice Zimm

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Robert Redford

Character: Dick Hart

Department: Acting

Name: Bert Freed

Character: Ken Woodman

Department: Acting

Name: George E. Stone

Character: Court Clerk

Department: Acting

Name: Hal Smith

Character: Supper Club Owner

Department: Acting

Name: Philip Ober

Character: Peter Dawson

Department: Acting

Name: Lee Miller

Character: Sgt. Brice

Department: Acting

Name: Jonathan Hole

Character: Stanley Roderick

Department: Acting

Name: Frank Wilcox

Character: Judge

Department: Acting

Name: C. Lindsay Workman

Character: Wilber Fenwick

Department: Acting

Name: Peggy Converse

Character: Sybil Basset

Department: Acting

Name: Cindy Robbins

Character: Teddi Hart

Department: Acting

Name: Thomas Browne Henry

Character: Hartley Basset

Department: Acting

Name: Nelson Olmsted

Character: Arthur Colemar

Department: Acting

Name: Dee Arlen

Character: Lorna Grant

Department: Acting

Name: Juney Ellis

Character: Lucy

Department: Acting

Name: Rita Duncan

Character: Flo

Department: Acting

Name: Len Hendry

Character: Plainclothesman

Department: Acting

Name: Patricia Marlowe

Character: Receptionist

Department: Acting

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Episode: 2

The Case of the Credulous Quarry

Air Date:24/09/1960

Perry defends Richard Hammond who is charged with killing his former girlfriend by running over her with his car.

Crew

Name: William D. Russell

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Renee Godfrey

Character: Miss Winslow

Department: Acting

Name: Vinton Hayworth

Character: Marvin Claridge

Department: Acting

Name: Willis Bouchey

Character: Judge

Department: Acting

Name: George E. Stone

Character: Court Clerk

Department: Acting

Name: Nan Peterson

Character: Barbara Claridge

Department: Acting

Name: Fred Graham

Character: Fire Chief

Department: Acting

Name: Walter Reed

Character: Alexander Hill

Department: Acting

Name: Lee Miller

Character: Police Sgt. Brice (uncredited)

Department: Acting

Name: Russell Arms

Character: Everett Dorrell

Department: Acting

Name: John Conwell

Character: Richard Hammond

Department: Acting

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Episode: 3

The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker

Air Date:01/10/1960

Jim Ferris is having an affair with his uncle's bored young wife. They concoct a scheme to finagle $80,000.00 from the uncle by faking a kidnapping. Things go horribly wrong when secretary Betty Wilkins, acting as a go-between, is charged with the murder of Jim Ferris.

Crew

Name: Charles F. Haas

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Edward J. Lakso

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Kenneth Tobey

Character: Deputy D.A. Jack Alvin

Department: Acting

Name: George E. Stone

Character: Court Clerk

Department: Acting

Name: Sue Randall

Character: Betty Wilkins

Department: Acting

Name: S. John Launer

Character: Judge

Department: Acting

Name: Howard Petrie

Character: Carl Gorman

Department: Acting

Name: William Campbell

Character: Jim Ferris

Department: Acting

Name: James Anderson

Character: Stan Piper

Department: Acting

Name: Tyler McVey

Character: Harold Ames

Department: Acting

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Episode: 4

The Case of the Singular Double

Air Date:08/10/1960

Perry is accused of obstructing justice in this case when he defends a woman who had previously faked her own suicide by running her empty car off a cliff. It seems as though the police found the body of another woman in the wreckage.

Crew

Name: Arthur Marks

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Alan Baxter

Character: Whitney Locke

Department: Acting

Name: Connie Hines

Character: Lucy Stevens

Department: Acting

Name: Harry Townes

Character: A.D.A. Grosvenor Cutter

Department: Acting

Name: Andrea King

Character: Catherine Locke

Department: Acting

Name: Michael Fox

Character: Autopsy Surgeon

Department: Acting

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Episode: 5

The Case of the Lavender Lipstick

Air Date:15/10/1960

An heiress to a cosmetics company is charged with the murder of the company's owner.

Crew

Name: James Sheldon

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Patricia Breslin

Character: Karen Lewis

Department: Acting

Name: George E. Stone

Character: Court Clerk

Department: Acting

Name: John Lupton

Character: Peter Nichols

Department: Acting

Name: Nelson Leigh

Character: Judge John Davis

Department: Acting

Name: Whit Bissell

Character: Max Pompey

Department: Acting

Name: Joe Maross

Character: A.D.A. Ernest Helming

Department: Acting

Name: Rita Lynn

Character: Myra Heston

Department: Acting

Name: Lee Miller

Character: Sgt. Brice (uncredited)

Department: Acting

Name: Dabbs Greer

Character: Charles Knudsen

Department: Acting

Name: Walter Coy

Character: Gabe Rawson

Department: Acting

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Episode: 6

The Case of the Wandering Widow

Air Date:22/10/1960

When a man accused of a murder is freed from prison upon newly discovered eyewitness testimony, it starts a chain reaction of blackmail and murder.

Guest Stars

Name: Coleen Gray

Character: Lorraine McClaine Kendall

Department: Acting

Name: Stephen Talbot

Character: Jimmie Kendall

Department: Acting

Name: Marguerite Chapman

Character: Faye Donner

Department: Acting

Name: Max Showalter

Character: Burt Stokes

Department: Acting

Name: Dean Harens

Character: Riley Morgan

Department: Acting

Name: Paul Langton

Character: Assistant D.A. Bertram Telford

Department: Acting

Name: Richard Gaines

Character: Judge

Department: Acting

Name: Hal Taggart

Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)

Department: Acting

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Episode: 7

The Case of the Clumsy Clown

Air Date:05/11/1960

A circus clown is charged with the murder of its part owner when a gun is slipped to him during a gun act.

Crew

Name: Andrew V. McLaglen

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Sam Neuman

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Kenneth Tobey

Character: Deputy D.A. Jack Alvin

Department: Acting

Name: Robert Clarke

Character: Jerry Franklin

Department: Acting

Name: Margaret Hayes

Character: Joyce Gilbert

Department: Acting

Name: Lillian Bronson

Character: Judge

Department: Acting

Name: Ken Curtis

Character: Tim Durant

Department: Acting

Name: Douglas Henderson

Character: Felix Heidemann

Department: Acting

Name: Jon Lormer

Character: Autopsy Surgeon

Department: Acting

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Episode: 8

The Case Of The Provocative Protégé

Air Date:12/11/1960

Washed up pianist David Carpenter is knocked out and pushed over a cliff for insurance money. Carpenter's beautiful protege, Donna Ross, immediately comes under suspicion by the police.

Crew

Name: László Benedek

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: George E. Stone

Character: Court Clerk

Department: Acting

Name: Kathie Browne

Character: Donna Loring Ross

Department: Acting

Name: Virginia Field

Character: Anita Carpenter

Department: Acting

Name: Donald Foster

Character: James Gracie

Department: Acting

Name: Robert Karnes

Character: Deputy D.A. Chamberlin

Department: Acting

Name: Jon Lormer

Character: Autopsy Surgeon

Department: Acting

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Episode: 9

The Case of the Nine Dolls

Air Date:19/11/1960

Perry's fishing trip to Scotland is interrupted by seven year old Peggy Smith. Peggy is living at a boarding school and searching for her identity since she has no idea who her real parents are. After searching into the matter, Perry comes to believe that Peggy is the daughter of Clark Lawson and Margaret Jeffers Lawson. Margaret was the daughter of wealthy Courtney Jeffers who disowned her after she eloped with Clark. Both parents died shortly after Peggy was born. Jeffers, a mean and miserable old man, has his heart warmed after meeting Peggy and changes his will to leave everything to her. The next day, he is found dead, killed by a blow from a poker.

Guest Stars

Name: John Banner

Character: A. Tobler

Department: Acting

Name: Nelson Leigh

Character: Judge

Department: Acting

Name: Fred Essler

Character: Mr. Kringle

Department: Acting

Name: Francis X. Bushman

Character: Courtney Jeffers

Department: Acting

Name: Eleanor Audley

Character: Headmistress Lorimer

Department: Acting

Name: Robert Karnes

Character: Deputy D.A. Chamberlin

Department: Acting

Name: Margaret Field

Character: Linda Osborne

Department: Acting

Name: Jeanette Nolan

Character: Martha Benson

Department: Acting

Name: John Bryant

Character: Larry Osborne

Department: Acting

Name: Gage Clarke

Character: Edgar Benson

Department: Acting

Name: James Chandler

Character: Police Sgt. Willoughby

Department: Acting

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Episode: 10

The Case of the Loquacious Liar

Air Date:03/12/1960

Lester Martin's life takes a horrible turn for the worse when a man breaks into his apartment, forces him at gun-point to drink half a bottle of Scotch, and then drives him into the country. Lester's circumstances then go from awful to good grief when he's charged with the murder of his step-father who was trying to takeover the family boat company.

Crew

Name: Arthur Marks

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Regis Toomey

Character: Sam Crane

Department: Acting

Name: George E. Stone

Character: Court Clerk

Department: Acting

Name: Michael Fox

Character: Dr. Hoxie

Department: Acting

Name: Jeanne Baird

Character: Marge Fuller

Department: Acting

Name: S. John Launer

Character: Judge

Department: Acting

Name: Dorothy Adams

Character: Wilma Stone

Department: Acting

Name: Lurene Tuttle

Character: Emma Bailey

Department: Acting

Name: Bruce Gordon

Character: Judson Bailey

Department: Acting

Name: H.M. Wynant

Character: Deputy D.A. Sampson

Department: Acting

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Episode: 11

The Case of the Red Riding Boots

Air Date:10/12/1960

Ann Farwell is miserable over the separation of her parents. Things aren't made any better when her father starts seeing Rita Conover, a scheming woman half his age. When Rita turns up dead both Ann and her mother think the other committed the crime which causes Perry great difficulty in defending the ranch hand who's been charged.

Crew

Name: László Benedek

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Corey Allen

Character: Rennie Foster

Department: Directing

Name: Willis Bouchey

Character: Judge

Department: Acting

Name: George E. Stone

Character: Court Clerk

Department: Acting

Name: Sarah Seegar

Character: Miss Pennock

Department: Acting

Name: Richard Deacon

Character: Wilmer Beaslee

Department: Acting

Name: Elen Willard

Character: Ann Farwell

Department: Acting

Name: Reba Waters

Character: Kathy Jergens

Department: Acting

Name: Bill Idelson

Character: Autopsy Surgeon

Department: Acting

Name: John Archer

Character: Burt Farwell

Department: Acting

Name: Frank Maxwell

Character: Joe Dixon

Department: Acting

Name: H.M. Wynant

Character: Deputy D.A. Sampson

Department: Acting

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Episode: 12

The Case of the Larcenous Lady

Air Date:17/12/1960

A suburban town mayor's secretary is accused of murdering the mayor's wife, who was engaging in blackmail to further her husband's career.

Guest Stars

Name: Robert Brown

Character: Frank Sykes

Department: Acting

Name: Ellen Drew

Character: Julia Webberly

Department: Acting

Name: Christopher Dark

Character: Prosecutor Thorne

Department: Acting

Name: Edward Platt

Character: Tom Stratton

Department: Acting

Name: William Boyett

Character: Police Sgt. Ralph Reynolds

Department: Acting

Name: Louise Fletcher

Character: Susan Connolly

Department: Acting

Name: Arthur Franz

Character: Mayor James M. Henderson

Department: Acting

Name: Patricia Huston

Character: Mona Henderson

Department: Acting

Name: Byron Morrow

Character: Judge #2

Department: Acting

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Episode: 13

The Case of the Envious Editor

Air Date:07/01/1961

Slimy publishing tycoon Donald Fletcher buys controlling interest in a respectable but financially troubled publishing house. Fletcher turns things upside down by turning the publications into scandal sheet featuring photographs of scantily clad women. Edmond Aitken, whose family once owned the publishing house, wants to oust Fletcher but Perry tells him he has no legal basis on which to do so. Not to worry. Fletcher is found murdered in his apartment but the prime suspect is Aitken's wife, Alyce, whom Fletcher had been blackmailing over lurid photos Alyce made during her younger days.

Crew

Name: Milton Krims

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

Name: László Benedek

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: James Coburn

Character: Donald Fletcher

Department: Acting

Name: Philip Abbott

Character: Edmond Aitken

Department: Acting

Name: George E. Stone

Character: Court Clerk

Department: Acting

Name: Paul Lambert

Character: Ben Nicholson

Department: Acting

Name: Virginia Carroll

Character: Mrs. Welch

Department: Acting

Name: Dave Willock

Character: Philip Robinson

Department: Acting

Name: S. John Launer

Character: Judge

Department: Acting

Name: Vinton Hayworth

Character: Wendell Harding

Department: Acting

Name: H.M. Wynant

Character: Deputy D.A. Sampson

Department: Acting

Name: Jennifer Howard

Character: Milly Nash

Department: Acting

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Episode: 14

The Case of the Resolute Reformer

Air Date:14/01/1961

Perry represents a citizen's group in hearings on a proposed aqueduct to be named after county engineer William Harper Caine. Perry gets a stop work order until a section of the proposed location can be checked for an underground spring. Eventually, Caine needs Perry's help when he's accused of murdering Roger Quigley, the project's chief contractor.

Crew

Name: Arthur Marks

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Samuel Newman

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Hardie Albright

Character: Supervisor Albert Johnson

Department: Acting

Name: Diana Millay

Character: Debra E. Bradford

Department: Acting

Name: Richard Eastham

Character: Deputy D.A. Parness

Department: Acting

Name: Bert Stevens

Character: Ronald Arthur

Department: Acting

Name: James Westerfield

Character: Roger Quigley

Department: Acting

Name: Byron Palmer

Character: Charles Sistrom

Department: Acting

Name: John Hoyt

Character: William Harper Caine

Department: Acting

Name: Phillip Terry

Character: Lawrence Kent

Department: Acting

Name: John McLiam

Character: Councilman William Daniels

Department: Acting

Name: Tom Harkness

Character: Judge

Department: Acting

Name: Douglas Dick

Character: Peter Caine

Department: Acting

Name: Maxine Stuart

Character: Grace Witt

Department: Acting

Name: Charles J. Conrad

Character: Dr. Auerback

Department: Acting

Name: Charles Anthony Hughes

Character: Jack Parrish

Department: Acting

Name: Dennis Quinn

Character: Lewis Bergdorf

Department: Acting

Name: Dean Casey

Character: Henry Bartlett

Department: Acting

Name: Joe McGuinn

Character: Lt. Lew Kaufman

Department: Acting

Name: Gisele Verlaine

Character: Waitress

Department: Acting

Name: George Ford

Character: Party Guest (uncredited)

Department: Acting

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Episode: 15

The Case of the Fickle Fortune

Air Date:21/01/1961

Ralph Duncan is a civil servant whose job is to inventory the estates of wealthy decedants. One day, he returns home with $153,000.00 worth of old greenbacks he discovered while going through a recently deceased old woman's home. Duncan took the money on a lark and was planning to return it the next day but his shifty cousin decides to purloin the bundle. Duncan is then accused of theft and later murder.

Crew

Name: László Benedek

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Cathy O'Donnell

Character: Norma Brooks

Department: Acting

Name: Connie Cezon

Character: Gertie

Department: Acting

Name: George E. Stone

Character: Court Clerk

Department: Acting

Name: Liam Sullivan

Character: Lloyd Farrell

Department: Acting

Name: Philip Ober

Character: Albert Keller

Department: Acting

Name: Vaughn Taylor

Character: Ralph Duncan

Department: Acting

Name: Virginia Christine

Character: Helen Duncan

Department: Acting

Name: Michael Fox

Character: Autopsy Surgeon

Department: Acting

Name: Berkeley Harris

Character: Patrolman

Department: Acting

Name: Lee Miller

Character: Sgt. Brice

Department: Acting

Name: Richard Gaines

Character: Judge

Department: Acting

Name: Robert Casper

Character: Charley Nickels

Department: Acting

Name: Hal Taggart

Character: Clerk

Department: Acting

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Episode: 16

The Case of the Waylaid Wolf

Air Date:04/02/1961

Womanizing playboy Loring Lamont has his sights set on Arlene Ferris, his father's shapely secretary. He lures her to his beachfront bachelor pad with seduction on his mind. Arlene slaps the rotter and flees taking Loring's car back into town. Things then go from awful to good grief for poor Arlene. After her departure someone stabs Loring to death and she's suspect number one.

Crew

Name: Gene Fowler Jr.

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Jonathan Latimer

Role: Teleplay

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: George E. Stone

Character: Court Clerk

Department: Acting

Name: Benson Fong

Character: Colong Kim

Department: Acting

Name: Rebecca Welles

Character: Edith Bristol

Department: Acting

Name: Elizabeth Harrower

Character: Woman Apartment Manager

Department: Acting

Name: Andra Martin

Character: Arlene Ferris

Department: Acting

Name: Robert Karnes

Character: Deputy D.A. Victor Chamberlin

Department: Acting

Name: Lee Miller

Character: Sgt. Brice

Department: Acting

Name: Morris Ankrum

Character: Judge

Department: Acting

Name: Pitt Herbert

Character: Coroner's Physician

Department: Acting

Name: Laurie Mitchell

Character: Madge Elwood

Department: Acting

Name: Tony Travis

Character: Loring Lamont

Department: Acting

Name: Barry Atwater

Character: George Albert

Department: Acting

Name: Robert Carricart

Character: Orvel Kingman

Department: Acting

Name: Frances Fong

Character: Frances Kim

Department: Acting

Name: I. Stanford Jolley

Character: Jerome Henley

Department: Acting

Name: Bill Cord

Character: Police Officer Lyons

Department: Acting

Name: Irvin Ashkenazy

Character: Tom Grimes

Department: Acting

Name: Tiger Joe Marsh

Character: Al

Department: Acting

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Episode: 17

The Case of the Wintry Wife

Air Date:18/02/1961

Inventor Walter Randall wants a divorce from his cold-blooded wife Laura in order to be with Phyllis Hudson. Laura decides to get back at Walter by blackmailing one of his assistants into building a bomb that will destroy Walter's underwater sounding invention. While checking on the bomb in the warehouse, Laura is discovered by Phyllis and takes advantage of the situation by knocking her rival out. Phyllis manages to survive the explosion but she is later charged with Laura's murder.

Crew

Name: Arthur Marks

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Barney Phillips

Character: Mr. Johnson

Department: Acting

Name: Willis Bouchey

Character: Judge

Department: Acting

Name: George E. Stone

Character: Court Clerk

Department: Acting

Name: Michael Fox

Character: Dr. Hoxie

Department: Acting

Name: Robert Karnes

Character: Deputy D.A. Victor Chamberlin

Department: Acting

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Episode: 18

The Case of the Angry Dead Man

Air Date:25/02/1961

Willard Nesbitt faked his drowning death in a boating accident so his wife could collect the double indemnity life insurance money. Nesbitt thought he had only a short time to live anyway. When Nesbitt's crooked business partner, James Castle, illegally cuts "widow" Eve Nesbitt out of a protitable deal he must rise from the dead to warn her. Then someone kills the "dead man" for good. The police smell insurance fraud and Eve Nesbitt is their number one suspect.

Crew

Name: Arthur Marks

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Gordon Jones

Character: Deputy Gillis

Department: Acting

Name: Carol Ohmart

Character: Jenny Bartlett

Department: Acting

Name: Naomi Stevens

Character: Fanny Werbler

Department: Acting

Name: Edward Binns

Character: Lloyd Castle

Department: Acting

Name: Wally Brown

Character: John Givney

Department: Acting

Name: Gloria Talbott

Character: Eve Nesbitt

Department: Acting

Name: Frank Ferguson

Character: Prof. Laiken

Department: Acting

Name: Les Tremayne

Character: Willard Nesbitt

Department: Acting

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Episode: 19

The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff

Air Date:11/03/1961

Crooked jewelry store owner Karl Addison learns that he needs an operation which will temporarily blind him. Addison makes plans to rob his own store knowing that his sightlessness will provide him with a perfect alibi. Things go wrong when someone kills the scheming Addison and steals the already pinched jewels. James Kincannon enlists Perry's aid when he's charged with the crime.

Crew

Name: Arthur Marks

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Benny Rubin

Character: Sassano

Department: Acting

Name: Nelson Leigh

Character: Judge

Department: Acting

Name: George E. Stone

Character: Court Clerk

Department: Acting

Name: Merry Anders

Character: Adele Bentley

Department: Acting

Name: Alexander Lockwood

Character: Doctor

Department: Acting

Name: George Macready

Character: Charles Slade

Department: Acting

Name: Jack Ging

Character: James Kincannon

Department: Acting

Name: John Conte

Character: Karl Addison

Department: Acting

Name: Berry Kroeger

Character: Edgar Whitehead

Department: Acting

Name: Lee Miller

Character: Sgt. Brice (uncredited)

Department: Acting

Name: Jean Allison

Character: Helen Slade

Department: Acting

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Episode: 20

The Case of the Barefaced Witness

Air Date:18/03/1961

The setting in this episode is a small California town where because of a festival all men must wear beards. Paul Drake travels there to try to locate missing money which a former bank president embezzled. Paul eventually finds the money but he also finds a dead body as well. Perry arrives on the scene in order to straighten things out.

Crew

Name: Robert C. Dennis

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

Name: László Benedek

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Adam West

Character: Dan Southern

Department: Acting

Name: Josephine Hutchinson

Character: Miss Sarah

Department: Acting

Name: Russ Conway

Character: Fred Swan

Department: Acting

Name: Malcolm Atterbury

Character: Alfred Needham

Department: Acting

Name: Paul Fix

Character: Prosecutor Hale

Department: Acting

Name: Roy Roberts

Character: W. L. Picard

Department: Acting

Name: Enid Jaynes

Character: Iris McKay

Department: Acting

Name: Eloise Hardt

Character: Marta Wiltern

Department: Acting

Name: Lewis Martin

Character: Judge

Department: Acting

Name: Tom Fadden

Character: Beller

Department: Acting

Name: Charlie Briggs

Character: Policeman

Department: Acting

Name: Russ Bender

Character: Chief Hagerty

Department: Acting

Name: Rosemary Day

Character: Secretary

Department: Acting

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Episode: 21

The Case of the Difficult Detour

Air Date:25/03/1961

Contactor Pete Mallory is charged with the murder of a vacation resort developer.

Crew

Name: John Peyser

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Jeff York

Character: Pete Mallory

Department: Acting

Name: Jason Evers

Character: Stuart Benton

Department: Acting

Name: Michael Masters

Character: Driver

Department: Acting

Name: Mort Mills

Character: Sergeant Landro

Department: Acting

Name: Bert Freed

Character: Harry Parker

Department: Acting

Name: Neil Hamilton

Character: Jim Ames

Department: Acting

Name: S. John Launer

Character: Judge Ryder

Department: Acting

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Episode: 22

The Case of the Cowardly Lion

Air Date:08/04/1961

Hilde Fursten and Tony Osgood work at the San Diego Zoo. When a new baby monkey is found missing, Hilde Fursten is blamed by Dr. Walther Braun, a visiting dentist. Boris Zelbowski also works at the zoo and is dating Frieda Crawson, Dr. Braun's nurse. That evening, Dr. Braun arrives at the zoo to perform oral surgery on a lion and is found dead in the lion's cage. Tony Osgood is accused of the murder when a witness sees someone wearing Tony's blue sportcoat near the lion's cage at the time.

Crew

Name: Arthur Marks

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Bert Remsen

Character: Police Lt. White

Department: Acting

Name: O.Z. Whitehead

Character: Harry Beacom

Department: Acting

Name: Ralph Manza

Character: Dr. Prince

Department: Acting

Name: Paul Birch

Character: Security Officer Frank Crawford

Department: Acting

Name: Carol Eve Rossen

Character: Hilde Fursten

Department: Acting

Name: Eddie Quillan

Character: Bookkeeper Abner Keller

Department: Acting

Name: Betty Lou Gerson

Character: Trudie Braun

Department: Acting

Name: Bill Quinn

Character: First Judge

Department: Acting

Name: Phyllis Coates

Character: Frieda Crawson

Department: Acting

Name: Warren J. Kemmerling

Character: Boris Zelbowski

Department: Acting

Name: Paul Langton

Character: Prosecutor Green

Department: Acting

Name: Norman Leavitt

Character: Crime Lab Technician

Department: Acting

Name: Arthur Tovey

Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Department: Acting

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Episode: 23

The Case of the Torid Tapestry

Air Date:22/04/1961

Hard luck Claude Demay was sent up for six years in prison for starting a fire in a warehouse containing the valuable Nathan Claver art collection. After his release, Demay devises a plan to expose the real criminal, Leonard Voss, and prove his innocence. He tediously weaves a perfect imitation of a valuable tapestry supposedly lost in the fire and barters this tapestry to Voss in exchange for an original Buddah statue. Demay knows that the statue will prove that the collection was not destroyed in the fire and will expose Voss as the real criminal. Unfortunately, Voss is murdered before the trade takes place and Demay is arrested for another crime he didn't commit.

Crew

Name: John English

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Syd Saylor

Character: Charlie, Watchman

Department: Acting

Name: Percy Helton

Character: Pawnbroker

Department: Acting

Name: Conrad Nagel

Character: Nathan Claver

Department: Acting

Name: Robert H. Harris

Character: Claude Demay

Department: Acting

Name: Paula Raymond

Character: Brenda Larkin

Department: Acting

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Episode: 24

The Case of the Violent Vest

Air Date:29/04/1961

Advertising executive Herman Albright is in the wrong place at the wrong time wearing the wrong clothes. These mistakes cost poor Herman his life in a case of mistaken identity. Perry is called on to defend the fashion model charged with the crime. It seems as though Herman had been hitting on her for quite a while with no success.

Crew

Name: Robert C. Dennis

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

Name: Lewis Allen

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Frank Jenks

Character: Walter Clemens the Bartender

Department: Acting

Name: Erik Rhodes

Character: Herman Albright

Department: Acting

Name: Sonya Wilde

Character: Joy Lebaron

Department: Acting

Name: George E. Stone

Character: Court Clerk

Department: Acting

Name: Bill Erwin

Character: Superintendent

Department: Acting

Name: Myrna Fahey

Character: Grace Halley

Department: Acting

Name: Barbara Pepper

Character: Mrs. Diamond

Department: Acting

Name: Hayden Rorke

Character: Walter Caffrey

Department: Acting

Name: Richard Gaines

Character: Judge

Department: Acting

Name: Sam Flint

Character: Welkes

Department: Acting

Name: Dorothy Green

Character: Ida Albright

Department: Acting

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Episode: 25

The Case of the Misguided Missile

Air Date:06/05/1961

Jerry Reynolds, an old war buddy of Perry's, is accused of killing an officer at Vandenburg Air Force Base during the investigation into some mysterious missile crashes.

Crew

Name: John Peyser

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Richard Arlen

Character: Dr. Harrison

Department: Acting

Name: Jeanne Bal

Character: Helen Rand

Department: Acting

Name: James B. Sikking

Character: Civilian Engineer Bert Springer

Department: Acting

Name: Med Flory

Character: Capt. McVey

Department: Acting

Name: George N. Neise

Character: George Huxley

Department: Acting

Name: Bruce Bennett

Character: Dan Morgan

Department: Acting

Name: Robert Rockwell

Character: Maj. Jerry Reynolds

Department: Acting

Name: Simon Oakland

Character: Capt. Mike Caldwell

Department: Acting

Name: William Schallert

Character: Dr. Bradbury

Department: Acting

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Episode: 26

The Case of the Duplicate Daughter

Air Date:20/05/1961

A mixed up mess awaits Perry as he struggles to put all the pieces together. Blackmail, murder, a boyfriend who spent the night, all add up to one great case.

Crew

Name: Arthur Marks

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Anne Helm

Character: Glamis Barlow

Department: Acting

Name: Willis Bouchey

Character: Judge

Department: Acting

Name: Kaye Elhardt

Character: Muriell Gilman

Department: Acting

Name: Michael Fox

Character: Dr. Hoxie

Department: Acting

Name: Don Dubbins

Character: Hartley Elliott

Department: Acting

Name: Don C. Harvey

Character: Sheriff

Department: Acting

Name: Dick Whittinghill

Character: Glenn McCoy

Department: Acting

Name: Harlan Warde

Character: Alan Connors

Department: Acting

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Episode: 27

The Case of the Grumbling Grandfather

Air Date:27/05/1961

A young man has his head turned by, whatelse, a woman. In his haste to protect her, and her good name, the source of her pain turns up dead.

Crew

Name: Bernard L. Kowalski

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Jackson Gillis

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Otto Kruger

Character: J. J. Gideon

Department: Acting

Name: Fifi D'Orsay

Character: Woman Witness

Department: Acting

Name: Dub Taylor

Character: Stroller

Department: Acting

Name: Frances Rafferty

Character: Sue Franks

Department: Acting

Name: Maura McGiveney

Character: Waitress

Department: Acting

Name: Gavin MacLeod

Character: Lawrence Comminger

Department: Acting

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Episode: 28

The Case of the Guilty Clients

Air Date:10/06/1961

Lola and Jeff Bronson are going through a divorce and can't wait to be rid of each other until Bill Ryder sabotages Jeff's business and makes a play for Lola. Ryder is then found dead with three bullet holes in his body and Jeff and Lola are the two prime suspects. Now they battle to cover for each other .