1. Perry ditches Evelyn in the library and won't let any on the Bank of California building (which Erle Stanley Gardner's Tragg talk to her. But it’s not long before she was later used for establishing shots for The Case of the Restless Redhead and Tragg meet again--this time when he Perry's office building), actually located at 555 Original Airdate: January 21, 1957 arrests Evelyn. Perry must solve the mystery Hope Street, next to the California Club and Directed by William D. Russell about Helene Cheney before he can clear backing onto the street which deadends at the Teleplay by Russell S. Hughes Evelyn of killing Harry Merrill. Los Angeles main library. Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins Helene is a star for Magnum Pictures, a Guests: Whitney Blake ...... Evelyn Bagby fictitious film studio, which will be used again Ralph Clanton...... Mervyn Aldrich in the show (see episode #19, ‘The Case of Gloria Henry ...... Helene Chaney the Haunted Husband’). Vaughn Taylor...... Mr. Boles Perry drives a black '57 Ford Fairlane 500 Jane Buchanan ...... Mrs. Boles Skyliner, the "first production car with a Dick Rich ...... Sgt. Holcomb retractable steel top." Note the seam across Grandon Rhodes...... Judge Kippen the roof when Perry enters the car later. The Norman Leavitt...... Mr. Redfield forward section folded under the remaining Helen Mayon ...... Mary Thompson roof, the trunk lifted and the whole contraption Jack Gargan...... Court Clerk slid into the trunk. This slightly distorted the Clark Howat...... Policeman trunk from other '57 Fairlanes (it was boxier) Lorraine Martin .... Drake's Operator and made it difficult if not impossible to use Evelyn Bagby comes home, tired, from the trunk for luggage or anything else when the top was down. Ford buyers chose the work. She reaches for a cigarette and in the Whitney Blake (Evelyn Bagby) played box, a revolver lies on top of the cigarettes. regular ragtop convertible by a 4 to 1 margin Dorothy Baxter on the comedy Hazel and was over this new-fangled model. She is horrified and calls Perry's service, a regular on The David Frost Revue before begging the switchboard operator to reach retiring to raise a family. She now appears him, though it's late at night. She was just occasionally on TV and on stage (she’s also a acquitted after being accused of stealing singer). jewelry from film star Helene Cheney. Perry Sunset Canyon Road isn’t a real street, but tells her to take the gun, check into a sort of a composite. There’s Sunset Blvd., of Hollywood hotel and come to his office in the course, which extends many miles from morning. But when she does as ordered, a downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Ocean. man follows her, wearing a pillowcase hood. There are many canyon roads, including He tries to force her off the road and in Malibu Canyon Road and Topanga Canyon desperation, she pulls out the revolver and Road, both not far from the ocean end of fires at the car, which swerves off. She makes Sunset. a hysterical call to Perry. Note Perry’s pastel phone--still a bit of a It's 1:15 a.m. by the time a distraught novelty at the time and his enormous ‘50s Evelyn arrives at Perry’s office. Perry ceramic ashtray. Evelyn drives a '48 Ford Super Deluxe interrupts Paul's card game to ask him to trace The entrance to the fictitious Brent Building convertible. the gun. Perry goes to where Evelyn fired at where Perry has his office is actually just a The man in the hood and sheet has a '57 the man and finds the police there, holding a facade on the studio backlot. Note that the Ford Custom 4-door, the lowest-priced car crude hood made out of a pillowcase from the entrance has a revolving door, common in Los offered by the Ford Motor Co. Villa España, Evelyn's apartment building. Angeles buildings at the time, but there aren't Tragg arrives shortly after Perry gets back. The police squad cars are also '57 Ford Makeup Mel Berns Custom sedans. Wardrobe Supervision Dick James Set Decoration Aalter M. Scott [and] Charles Q. Vassar Properties Ray Thompson Recorded by Alfred Bruzlin Rerecording Mixer Harry M. Leonard Script Supervisor Cosmo Genovese A CBS Television Network Production Filmed in Hollywood by TCF Productions, Inc.

You can see here that the trunk deck of the car is very boxy looking. This was to hide the retractable hardtop.

Most studios had various devices through Full credits for opening episode the years to indicate outdoor shooting on the Producer Ben Brady lot or backlot. Today, there is generally a Produced by CBS TV in assn. with Paisano guard and/or a flashing light on some kind of Productions stanchion. Each soundstage, of course, has Executive Producer Gail Patrick Jackson flashing lights over all the doors and the doors Story Editor Gene Wang are generally locked when the cameras are Production Supervisor J. Paul Popkin, Director actually rolling. of Photography Frank Redman, A.S.C. Art Direction Lyle Wheeler [and] Lewis Creber Assistant Director Art Marks Editorial Supervisor Art Seid, A.C.E. Film Editor Richard W. Farrell 2. was a regular on The Abbott and Costello Richard Hale...... George Lutts Erle Stanley Gardner's Show and played Roberta Townsend on a ‘50s James Gavin ...... Jerome Keddie The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece" classic, My Little Margie. Jean Howell...... Vinnie Dean Original Airdate: September 28, 1957 Dwayne Hickman’s (Steve Harris) first Claudia Bryar...... Ruth Marvel Directed by William D. Russell regular TV role was as Bob Cummings Morris Ankrum ...... Judge Hoyt Teleplay by Laurence Marks and Gene Wang nephew Chuck MacDonald on The Bob Tyler McVey...... Sam Elkins Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins Cummings Show, but is best-known for Robert Bice...... Hurley Guests: John McNamara ...... Peter Cole playing the title character on The Many Loves Norman Leavitt ...... Alexander Redfield Hillary Brooke...... Doris Cole of Dobie Gillis. He and his brother Darryl both George Eldredge .....Fenton Thompson John Archer ...... Frank Maddox appeared in many films in the ‘40s and ‘50s Gail Bonney...... Harriet Nancy Hadley...... Edna Hammar but were typecast because of their ever- Sam Flint ...... Mr. Rector Darryl Hickman ...... Steve Harris youthful looks and both moved into the Jack Harris ...... Court Clerk Helen Mowery...... Lucille May production end of television in the ‘60s, Sybil Granger has a philandering husband Thomas B. Henry...... Ralph Duncan making only occasional acting appearances. who plays house in a model home with Roxy Harry Hickox ...... Phillip Kendall Harry Hickox played the anvil salesman Howard. Sybil wants him back. The Sylvan Kenneth MacDonald ...... Judge who blows the whistle on Robert Preston’s Glade Development Co. announces it has Tony Michaels...... Jackson Harold Hill in the musical film The Music Man. discovered oil on the tract property, halted Clark Howat ...... Policeman Note that in this episode, Perry's got a legal construction and hired Bruce Granger to Fred Graham ...... Sheriff assistant named Jackson. Jackson is actually develop the oil. Sybil wants to stop the oil Joey Ray ...... Detective an attorney in the Gardner books, who does development and by extension, her husband's Jack Harris...... Court Clerk the grunt work for Perry. A lawyer of Mason’s excuse to spend time with Roxy. She hires Poor old Peter Cole is a sleepwalker. caliber and reputation would certainly have Perry, who sabotages the board meeting and Trouble is, he does it with a knife in his hand, had either another attorney or experienced stops the oil exploration. and his wife Doris is sure he's going to murder paralegal in the office. Della couldn’t do George Lutts figures out who's behind her. Their divorce will be final in 24 hours. everything! Mason's actions and meets Sybil on the hill Peter’s business partner comes to see her above the model home and threatens her. and Frank Maddox knows Pete is taking her to Suddenly he's shot and falls dead. Sybil flees the cleaners and suggests a scheme to get and goes to Perry. Her gun's gone from her her $100,000 free and clear. (They’re also glove compartment. Perry sets up a game lovers.) Maddox announces to Pete that he plan to muddy the cab driver's memory. Sybil plans to sell his share in Cole Enterprises. He is charged with the murder. Lutts was shot wants Phil and Pete to buy his share of the from under two feet; Sybil insists it was from a company...for $500,000. They insist the whole 3. Erle Stanley Gardner's distance. The cab driver does get confused company is barely worth that. Maddox has an The Case of the Nervous Accomplice and the hearing is dismissed. answer: no sale, no divorce. Perry meets with Original Airdate: October 5, 1957 the principals and calls it extortion--but legal. Directed by William D. Russell Greta Thyssen (Roxy Howard) was the All parties concerned go to a ranch that Teleplay by Stirling Silliphant ‘Pirate Girl’ on the TV game show, Treasure night--to keep tabs on each other but come Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins Hunt. Robert Cornthwaite played John James morning, Phil is dead. Guests: Audubon on the horse opera The Adventures Maggie Hayes ...... Sybil Granger of Jim Bowie. Like the female lead in episode one, Hillary Greta Thyssen...... Roxy Howard The model home is typical of those of the Brooke (Doris Cole) abandoned a promising William Roerick ...... Bruce Granger period, and the development is probably one in acting career for marriage and family. She Robert Cornthwaite ...... Herbert Dean the hills around Los Angeles. This episode is an early one using two mysterious "Miss X" involved, whose name 5. Mason standby ploys; he toys with a witness’s was never revealed. Meeham makes it clear Erle Stanley Gardner's memory by presenting plausible alternatives he doesn't welcome his curiosity. The Case of the Sulky Girl and he stages a demonstration in court that As he tries to leave town, Martha Norris Original Airdate: October 19, 1957 isn’t what it seems to be (but then he never sends word by the local cop that he wants to Directed by Christian Nyby said it was anything more than it is, thus see Perry. She says the man Ben Devereaux Teleplay by Harold Swanton making the whole thing morally ethical). killed was her first husband, David Latwell. Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins She wants it left alone. At a barbecue on the Guests: 4. Waters' dairy farm for their employees, Olive Sturgis ...... Fran Celane Erle Stanley Gardner's chemistry major Marv wows the local kids with William Schallert...... Graves The Case of the Drowning Duck a drowning duck trick (he uses a chemical to Lillian Brondon...... Clara Original Airdate: October 12, 1957 take all the oil out of the duck's feathers). Paul Robert Griffin ...... Crinston Directed by William D. Russell and Perry go to see Briggs. A tired blonde at Brian Hutton...... Rod Gleason Teleplay by Al C. Ward the motel tells them someone picked him up. Raymond Greenleaf ...... Norton Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins They break and enter, find old newspaper clips Howard Wendell...... Judge Purley Guests: and a funny odor...and Briggs' body, murdered Paul Bryar...... Sgt. Wilbur Carol Kelly...... Lois Reed by an interesting combination of chemicals. Frank Wilcox ...... Judge Markham Noland Leary...... Judge Meeham Miss X is Lois Reed and she was supposed Bob Kline ...... Officer Delaney Victor Sutherland...... Clyde Waters to marry Devereaux's partner, David Latwell, Larry Thor...... Police Surgeon Carolyn Craig ...... Helen Waters and they shared a desk, which is why her Jack Gargan...... Court Clerk Don Beddoe ...... George Norris photo and letters were in the desk, supposed Dick Winslow...... Reporter Paula Winslow ...... Martha Norris to be Devereaux'. Latwell was also married. Fran Celane has a rip-roaring fight with her Gary Vinson ...... Marv Adams Marv Adams' mother dies. Mrs. Norris was uncle Edward, then bursts into Perry's office Garry Landers ...... Donald Briggs supposedly incapacitated with a sprained and announces: "I'm being cheated out of a Olive Blakeney ...... Mrs. Adams ankle when her husband was killed. But Perry fortune." She wants him to break a $1 million Rusty Lane ...... Chief Glass unearths a photo of Mrs. Norris was standing trust set up by her father, who died two years Tom London...... Cabbie at a stock auction that same night. Briggs ago. The property was left to Edward Norton Phillip Tonge ...... Cortland figured this out too, and was blackmailing Mrs. as absolute trustee. Edward is not only Joseph Forte ...... Dr. Creel Norris. She killed her husband over Ms. Reed withholding the money, he's forbidden her to Helen Hatch ...... Secretary and Briggs because of what he found out. marry until she's 25 (she's now 23). Clifford Botelho...... Pedro ‘Logan City’ is a studio backlot, western Five years ago, she ran off with a bellhop to Perry and Paul must solve an 18-year-old street. Note the gloriously streamlined bus Miami. Paul observes, "she's a very murder case to keep Perry's client out of next to the taxicab, which looks like a 1941 expensive delinquent." The boyfriend is prison. Series C33 Chrysler Crown Imperial 8- Rodney Gleason, an artist. He's pragmatic Donald Briggs tells Mrs. Adams she must passenger sedan. Many pre-war vehicles and realistic. He's also the bellhop she ran pay $5,000 for him to keep quiet about her were still on the streets at the time, especially away with. During that week five years ago, son's father, a convicted murderer. Marv cabs, panel trucks, ambulances and police they got married. They've tried to stay apart, Adams is engaged to the daughter of a vehicles. Not everyone was seduced by fins but failed. Now they can't wait--she's prominent citizen and their wedding plans or could afford the latest models. This was a pregnant. Perry finds Uncle Edward as won't survive the scandal. Clyde Waters asks generation who had experienced both the obstreperous as Fran does. Rod is outside Perry to go to Logan City where Judge depression and a war. They didn’t get rid of the mansion as Arthur Crinston, Norton's Meeham gives him the trial transcript. He something that still ran easily. attorney, arrives for a late appointment. says justice was done. There was a Shortly thereafter, Norton calls the cops, claiming his niece has threatened his life. The about a new couple-about-town who were to begin court hearings. Unless requested, it cops send a car. Crinston comes out and gets obviously anything but. The line was usually takes much longer as the investigation in the car with the judge who dropped him, immortalized in Cole Porter's musical Silk is rarely completed at that point. listening to the fight. Norton yells about some Stockings, where Janis Paige--playing a film papers. He sends Donald Graves (his star--says it numerous times at a press 6. secretary) with them to get it. As they pull conference about every man she's asked "Erle Stanley Gardner's around the circular driveway, Graves sees about, including Tolstoy. The Case of the Silent Partner" someone in Norton's office threatening him. Fran drives a white '57 Chrysler Imperial Original Airdate: October 26, 1957 They go back and find the man dead. And Crown convertible; the Judge a '57 black Directed by Christian Nyby they catch Rod running from the house. Lincoln Premiere Landau; and Paul, a '57 Teleplay by Donald S. Sanford Note the rattan barstool in Rod's apart- Thunderbird (license No. LTZ 413) Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins ment. Rattan was not only inexpensive at the Guests: time, but very popular, as were all the tropical Peggy Maley...... Lola Florey looks. Many people did their dens or rumpus Dan Seymour...... Harry Marlow rooms over into "Hawaii" rooms, with rattan, Anne Barton...... Mildred Kimber fishnets, tapa cloth and plastic leis. Mark Roberts...... Bob Kimber Cyril Delevanti ...... Tulloch Michael Emmet...... Sam Lynk Joe Abdullah...... Mack Fried Henry Hunter ...... Dr. Rubin At the time, it hadn’t been too many years Dawn Richard...... Ginger Kay since California (and other populous states) Jimmy McCallion ...... Veteran Reporter had switched to three letter/three number license plates. These were seen as the ideal Parker Center, shown as the location of solution, offering maximum combinations with Tragg's office, is still the L.A.P.D. the fewest possible offensive words which headquarters. It was brand new when this could come up (and which were eliminated episode was filmed. It was named after the from the sequences). In recent years chief of police when constructed. California has had to switch to 7-letter/number plates. Note the very plain courtroom. Evidently, the much more elaborate one had not yet been built. With ratings comes money and as the show became more popular, they could At Orchids Unlimited, owner Mildred spend more money per episode. Kimber admires Mr. Tulloch's new orchid when The court proceedings here are a one Harry Marlow shows up. He's an preliminary hearing. California law provides a obnoxious ex-con who doesn't talk, he defendant may be indicted by a preliminary threatens. He is determined to be her silent hearing or by grand jury indictment. Those partner. He insults her husband, and she who watched the O. J. Simpson preliminary Paul notes that Walter Winchell, famous slaps him. Mildred collapses (she's been ill) hearing will remember that a citizen's right to a New York gossip columnist, used to use the and asks for a pill. Later, Marlow plays high speedy trial states that the state has sixty days line "they're just good friends" when writing stakes poker with Bob Kimber in Sam Lynk's office at the Club Eldorado. He loses very was more expensive and most shows and big...$37,000. His check is not accepted. He films shot day for night (shooting in daylight shows them 100 shares of Orchids Unlimited. then ‘stopping down’ the camera to darken the He and Marlow scuffle and Lynk throws them picture), but the Mason show had a noir look out. Marlow asks Lynk for the stock, he says which suited it, and night shooting allowed he'll need $10,000 more in cash. Mildred them to cheat on locations or the backlot—the nurses her drunk husband and finds out the sets didn’t have to be so fancy or as complete. stock is gone. 7. Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Angry Mourner Original Airdate: November 2, 1957 He calls Tragg and when they get there, Directed by William D. Russell she's still alive...just barely. Perry and Della Teleplay by Francis Cockrell go to see Mildred, who's a wreck, but says Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins everything's "solved." She's got a gun her Guests: mink coat pocket. She also says she never Sylvia Field ...... Belle Adrian heard of Lola Florey. James Westerfield...... Sheriff Elmore Perry goes to Lynk's and the house has Joan Weldon ...... Marion Keats been trashed, the phone's off the hook, Lynk's Paul Fix...... District Attorney Hale She calls Perry, desperation in her voice. dead and Mildred's prescription is on the floor. Dorothy Adams...... Betsy Burris He's swamped and makes an appointment for Marlow says he’s not surprised Mrs. Malcolm Atterbury...... Sam Burris the next morning. Mildred goes to Lynk's Kimber questions his interest in orchids, but Barbara Eden ...... Carla Adrian office. He's not there. Lola Florey, Lynk's he’s not the first large man to love orchids. Peter Nelson...... Harvey Delano "hostess," follows her. Marlow made a deal Nero Wolfe was famous for it, though he was Eve McVeagh ...... Nora Fleming with Lynk to fleece Bob in a crooked poker on the other side of the law. Addison Richards ...... George Lansing game. She'll give her one of Sam's marked Tragg has a package of Wonder bread in Eric Sinclair...... Mark Cushing decks. If she tells the story around, he's his bag of groceries. The brand and Harry Tyler...... Court Clerk ruined. She can't do without two things-- packaging were fairly new at the time, though William Boyett...... Motor Cop chocolates by Andre and Sam Lynk. Mildred it is now a pop culture cliché. Something funny's going on over at Mark asks her to tell Perry the story. Lola agrees. Note the box of prescription medicine Perry Cushing's place. The neighbors hear a Lola leaves the club when someone delivers a finds at Lynk’s. Tablets usually came in these scream, a shot, breaking glass, then see Belle box of chocolates by Andre. She eats one, white slide-open cardboard boxes at the time. Adrian in the house with their binoculars. They goes out, and Tulloch watches her go to her Bottles were only used for liquids. These call the sheriff. The next morning, Mrs. Adrian car. She calls Perry, saying the candy is boxes replaced folded paper, which was calls on Perry, who's on a fishing holiday. poisoned. She's fading fast. common earlier in the century. She's in desperate trouble. There's been a This must be the only episode where murder. Her daughter Carla had dinner with Mason threatens Burger with a manslaughter the victim. Perry says if Carla tells the truth, charge. there should be no problem. But Mrs. Adrian As will become the norm, there is no trial says Cushing had a terrible reputation and (hiring 12 extras as jurors is expensive). The she's worried about the notoriety, The sheriff episode was shot almost entirely at night, arrives to see Mrs. Adrian. The thing is, it another hallmark of the series. Night shooting rained heavily after midnight, and the entire night's events are revealed in the tracks in the Gloria McGhee ...... Shirley Tanner the apartment across the hall, then found out neighborhood, including Belle Adrian's John Holland ...... Carver Clement about Anita and Clement. Poisoned his drink. footprints from her house to Cushing's and Connie Cezon...... Gertie Charge dismissed. back. Joi Lansing ...... Vera Payson Perry’s unconventional move of grabbing Belle Adrian heard a scream, went there Douglas Evans ...... Don Ralston Shirley Tanner and pressing her lips against a and saw the body, then removed all traces of Frances Bavier ...... Louise Marlow piece of paper to tie her to the murder would her daughter's presence in the house. Marion John Harmon...... Lab Man not only be illegal today, but highly risky in a Keats was in love with Cushing, was insanely Frank Wilcox ...... Judge Randolph litigious world. You can’t get DNA from an jealous and wanted to catch him red-handed, Howard Culver...... Dr. Hawley uncooperative witness, let alone a lip print. so she had his housekeeper call her when he The Mandrake Arms apartment building: had a date. She's the one who screamed, Dane Grover and Fay Allison are getting when she got there and found the body. The married in three days. Fay's roommate Anita neighbor, Sam Burris, is the murderer. He is a little upset. She used to date Dane. Anita took the gun from Carla's car earlier, waited has a date with a married roué in the building, until she left, shot Cushing, broke some glass, and she's home early. Fay's Aunt Louise then went home and went to bed. Later, he arrives in the early hours to find both girls woke his wife, telling her he heard a shot and drugged and out cold. She calls Perry (at breaking glass. Clay's Bar and Grill, having his breakfast). He 9. The establishing shot of the exterior and and Della send a doctor and hurry over. Fay interior with log cabin walls and flagstone was would have died if Louise had come the next Erle Stanley Gardner's common at the time for a well-appointed cabin day as she'd planned. Perry knows it was no The Case of the Vagabond Vixen at Big Bear or Arrowhead. Many summer accident and searches the apartment. They Original Airdate: November 16, 1957 cabins still had no electricity, but they were find keys to two different apartments in the Directed by Christian Nyby increasingly being upgraded and made more building. They go to #702, where they find the Teleplay by Al C. Ward habitable. roué dead with a heavily lipsticked kiss mark Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins The portable screen was a fixture of every on his forehead. "Someone bid him a fond, Guests: home, either for slides or movies (these are 16 but unfriendly farewell." They leave as another Robert Ellenstein ...... John Addison mm). The faux rustic furniture with wagon couple arrive and beat on the door. Perry calls Catherine McLeod ...... Lorraine Ferrell wheels, milk cans and steer horns was Aunt Louise from the lobby and tells her to get Carol Leigh ...... Veronica Dale popular even in primary homes. the girls in a sanitarium now. Phillip Walsh is Peggy Converse ...... Myrtle Northrup the name on the mailbox, but the other couple James Anderson ...... Peter Handsell 8. IDs him as Carver Clement. Tragg is very Barbara Pepper ...... Mrs. Dale Erle Stanley Gardner's suspicious. Fay Allison's clothing is in Paul Cavanaugh...... Edgar Ferrell The Case of the Crimson Kiss Carver's apartment. Robert Carson ...... Sgt. Bent Original Airdate: November 9, 1957 Perry eventually realizes someone in Pierre Watkin...... Judge Keetley Directed by Christian Nyby Clement's apartment buzzed in the other Perry Ivins...... Print Man Teleplay by Joel Murcott, Walter Doniger and couple just before Perry and Della got there, Russell Trent ...... Neff Milton Geiger long after Fay and Anita were in a drugged Jack Gargan...... Court Clerk Lee Miller...... Deputy Sheriff Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins sleep. The woman across the hall, who It's an odd scene on a dark, seaside road. Guests: complained every time anyone knocked. A man drops a woman off with instructions Jean Willes...... Anita Bonsal Perry gets a lip print from her in court. They and drives away. Shortly, a Hollywood Sue England...... Fay Allison match. She loved him, he promised to get a producer picks her up and then drives to a Douglas Dick...... Dane Grover divorce, then left her. She followed him, sublet house. He quells her jitters with the offer of a Ferrell drives a 1957 Lincoln Premiere Jack Harris ...... Court Clerk movie deal. Veronica Dale is impressed with convertible coupe. The mortality rate in Myrna Davenport's the house, which he says his studio owns and family is shocking. First her cousin Charles uses for location shoots. Once they're inside, Below is a scene with Perry arriving at ‘Fidelity dies, then her husband Ed has his sandwiches a series of bizarre events begins. Headlights, Studios.’ This is really the Desilu Cahuenga analyzed and finds arsenic in them. He she hides then exits from the back, then she lot. accuses Myrna of trying to kill him and killing hears a gunshot. She runs down the road to a her cousin. He's put it all in a letter to be given pay phone and tries to reach Peter Handsell. to the police if he dies. He moves to a motel, Another man sees her and she asks for a ride; where he's immediately falls deathly ill. he agrees. His registration says John Myrna's cousin Louise intercepts a call from a Addison. Addison is also in the movies and local doctor and takes Myrna and Ed's letter to hires Perry to get Veronica out of jail. She was Perry first. They then go to the motel, where arrested for vagrancy after he dropperd her Ed's dying words accuse Myrna of poisoning off. Perry is very sweet and she's very the candy in his suitcase. The doctor calls the grateful, and he thinks she's headed home to police. Louise calls Perry sending him and Albuquerque. But Veronica starts work at Della to get the letter from Ed's real estate Addison's studio the next day and her mother office. A stunning brunette arrives and peers arrives in town, leaving $100 for Perry, as a in Davenport's office. She leaves when she 10. fee for his services. Perry hotfoots it to sees Perry. Perry checks the books and finds Addison's office; he hired her, and says Peter Erle Stanley Gardner's a $17,300 withdrawal today, the entry in a Handsell, a scandal magazine writer The Case of the Runaway Corpse woman's hand.Then they get an anonymous blackmails Addison to the tune of $10,000. Original Airdate: November 23, 1957 call, saying "Unit 13, Desert Motel, Perry is confronted with a lot of suspects but Directed by Christian Nyby Bakerstown." Perry sends Paul to investigate. when "everybody with a selfish motive was Teleplay by Malvin Wald and Jack Jacobs Perry steams open the sealed envelope to find ruled out, we had to look for someone with an Producer Ben Brady several blank pages. Then Tragg and the unselfish one." It's Myrtle Northrup, she was Executive Producer Gail Patrick Jackson cops get to the motel and find Ed Davenport's trying to protect Addison. She posed as Associate Producer Sam White body is gone. The cops storm Davenport's Veronica's mother so there would be no Story Editor Gene Wang office, called by the brunette. The brunette, connection between the girl and Addison. Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins Ed's secretary Rita Norge, says the letter is in Perry just might defend Myrtle...after all, Guests: her desk. Then Myrna calls Perry to report the Addison came at her with a poker. June Dayton ...... Myrna Devenport lively corpse of Ed Davenport. James Maloney ...... Dr. Renault Then someone finds Ed's body buried in a Sarah Selby...... Louise Ansel dump. Hamilton offers Perry a deal if Myrna Adam Williams ...... Jason Beckmeyer pleads guilty but he isn't having any. In Rebecca Welles ...... Rita Norge retaliation, Burger accuses Perry of tampering John Stephenson ...... Ed Davenport with evidence. Paul and Perry catch Rita Michael Fox...... Dr. Hoxie Norge cleaning out Ed's office. There's William Challee ...... Mr. Medford evidence he's recently sold off all his Keith Alan ...... Officer Boom investments. Perry goes to Tragg to sic him Robin Morse...... Dr. Mitchell on Rita, but the tables are turned when Tragg Martha Wentworth...... Motel Manager brings out the receipt he gave her when she Jack Kenney...... Kelly turned in the $17,300 she withdrew the day of Ed Jerome...... Judge Ed's death. At trial, Perry exposes Dr. Renault as an uncredentialed quack who conspired • ‘57 white Buick Special convertible (Rita with Ed to stage his death. Beckmeyer found Norge); Renault for Ed Davenport. He also helped Ed • ‘57 black Buick Special sedan (Tragg)-- juggle his wife's money into fraudulent bank Specials had 3 holes, Roadmasters and accounts. He owns a house trailer. Under his Centurys had four; relentless grilling, he admits killing Ed for • ‘57 2-tone corvette convertible coupe being so cocky and framing his wife and for (Paul). the money he siphoned out of Ed's bank accounts. Ed also killed uncle Charlie, so his 11. wife could be an heiress, he could steal the Erle Stanley Gardner's money and then disappear. Davenport put the The Case of the Crooked Candle blank pages into the letter to convince the Original Airdate: November 30, 1957 cops it had been tampered with. Directed by Christian Nyby The brunette, Martha, goes to Perry. He Della suggests "invisible ink" when she and Teleplay by Robert Tallman calls Harper, who says Joe is in Skinner Hills. Perry find Ed's letter to the authorities filled Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins Perry and Martha go up there and are met by with blank pages of paper. As every kid used Guests: Nikolides, who says if Joe comes there, he'll to know, if you write a letter using lemon juice Nancy Gates ...... Martha Bradford as ink--for this you need a fountain pen or quill shoot him. Larry Sands, Joe's surveyor. Joe Whit Bissell...... Larry Sands bought this land and discovered oil. Nikolides pen--the words are invisible until the sheet of Doris Singleton. Rita [Wassell Bradford] paper is passed over heat such as the flame will have to get his sheep out soon. Perry Robert Clarke ...... Jack Harper confronts Harper, who says he was told to say of a candle or lighter, when the words Francis McDonald ...... Capt. Noble suddenly appear. that. Joe's on the Mary Belle, his boat. Henry Corden ...... Nikolides Martha and Joe have been married a year and San Fernando Road does exist--it runs Bruce Cowling ...... Joe Bradford from near downtown L.A. all the way across Harper's quite happy to hear they may not be Frank Wilcox ...... Judge Newark legally married. the San Fernando Valley. There was no Vista Helene Santley...... Receptionist Motel on the street at the time. Bakerstown is Hal Taggart ...... Clerk a fictionalized version of Bakersfield a (then) Two Mrs. Joseph Bradfords show up at the largely agricultural community north of Los same Beverly Hills salon at the same time-- Angeles. one a blonde, one a brunette. They each have June Dayton (Myrna) played Mary Aldrich a house key for the same house at 741 N. on The Aldrich Family, a popular TV series Marquette Dr. Meanwhile, Joseph Bradford, based on an even more popular radio comedy. land developer, talks to his associate, Jack Sarah Selby (who plays Myrna's cousin louise Harper. He's heading for San Diego on was a regular (as Miss Thomas) on Father business. One of the wives calls him and he's Knows Best and she played Ma Smalley, who impatient but agrees to meet her at a coffee ran the boarding house in Gunsmoke's Dodge shop at 5:00. Harper is surprised; he knows City. Joe has no intention of keeping the date. That This show’s a car-lover’s dream. It has: night, the blonde is at home when the brunette Perry and Della find the boat in the basin • ‘57 Chevy (doc); lets herself in with her own key and sneaks and Bradford's body on it. There's a crooked • ‘57 Pontiac Star Chief convertible coupe into the bedroom while the other Mrs. Bradford candle on a table, but it didn't burn crooked. 2-tone (victim); is investigating the noises and removes a gun Perry talks to Martha and the family • ‘57 Cadillac Series Sixty-Two Sedan de from the dresser and leaves. homestead. Tragg takes her away. Paul Ville convertible (dark)(Perry); learns Rita Bradford was divorced from Joe some time ago in Mexico. As Paul's drooling phony confession had one flaw. He the second year in a row (the big three over he photo, she comes to see Perry. She mentioned the candle in the hurricane lamp, automakers generally stuck to a style with was on the Mary Belle last night, and saw her which was broken later and the candle was not slight modifications for several years), but Ford husband dead. But in a different position than mentioned in the press. He killed him outsold Chevy in '57 with this simple but the way Perry found him. She's staying at a because he loved Martha. He didn't realize superbly designed streamlined car, available in motel. Perry wants Burger to release Martha, she loved Harper. 6-cylinder and V-8 models, with prices ranging but the D.A.'s got a shoe of Martha's with The Two Mrs. Bradfords is a suspense from $1879 to $3408. Safety features blood on it. Larry and Harper meet on the thriller film starring Barbara Stanwyck. introduced in '57 included a dished steering boat, looking for clues. Harper tells Sands he The set for Bradford’s office is the same wheel, padded dashboards and seatbelts were was in love with Martha. Later, Sands one used for episode #14. Only the names on available for $9 extra. The reason you see confesses to the murder. Burger doesn't buy the doors have been changed. more '57 Chevys today than '57 Fords were it. This episode also has yet another pattern that Ford was slower than G.M. in introducing of lurid wallpaper inside someone’s home. undercoat rustproofing and the '57 Fords were We’re not seeing what is now considered ‘50s very prone to rust. wallpaper yet in the show—these are the busy, 1957 was also the last year for some time darker patterns of the late ‘40s and early ‘50s. with cars having only single headlights--which The first Mrs. Bradford says the beauty handled both regular and high-beam duties. In shop is on Wilshire Blvd. In Beverly Hills. 1958 the industry switched to dual lights on Wilshire does pass through Beverly Hills and each side, both were on when in the high- there certainly could have been several beauty beam mode. shops on the street, though it is more likely they would have been on one of the cross streets. Sponsors for this episode were Sweetheart soap, Dutch cleanser, Trend, Beads O’Bleach. The scene in the boat harbor is quite Rita has no memory of being divorced or, remarkable for TV. Not only did they shoot in fact, of the last two years. She fought with Hale and Burr actually going out in a dinghy, Joe and got on a train to New York and but boarding a sailboat and the whole thing is remembers nothing until she found herself on shot from several angles. Inside the boat, Wilshire Blvd. Nikolides disappears and that things are authentic too. Note the rails around night, Perry and Dell go to the Mary Belle. the table holding the crooked candle. These They light a candle. At 2:30 am, the boat goes keep things from sliding off the table when at aground and lists heavily to starboard, tipping sea. the candle and shifting a dummy they set up in Most drama shows that did exterior scenes the position Rita saw him. It is now in the arranged a tie-in with an automobile 12. position in which Perry found him. In court, manufacturer, who supplied the cars for the Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Perry calls an old salt to testify. The Mary principal characters on the series. The Perry Negligent Nymph Belle was grounded at low tide, like always. Mason Show switched in this episode from Original Airdate: December 7, 1957 The channel needs dredging. She was listing General Motors cars to Ford products. Directed by Christian Nyby 18-20 degrees. Perry uses a model to Perry drives a black '57 Ford Fairlane 500 Teleplay by Richard Grey illustrate what he and Della experienced on the Sunliner convertible. In 1957 fins were in. Producer Ben Brady boat. Sands claims to love Martha too. His Chevrolet introduced a new body design for Executive Producer Gail Patrick Jackson Associate Producer Sam White Nina Santos was Agatha's companion and Roxanne Arlen...... Mae Nolan Story Editor Gene Wang maid. Karen says Sally didn't do it. Perry and Grandon Rhodes ...... Judge Lennox Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Paul talk to Nina. She says there was a Marc Krah...... George Fayette Collins, Cezon terrible storm the night Agatha died. The note Connie Cezon...... Gertie Guests: is too perfectly typed for those conditions. But Brian Hutton...... Parking Attendant Joan Banks ...... Karen Adler Nina says "madame was too good a sailor to Jack Gargan...... Baliff David Lewis...... George Adler have such an accident." Perry figures Nina Lyn Guild ...... Drake's Operator James Griffith...... Arthur Dorian owns the restaurant. Tragg finds Sally, even A waitress is shot at, then run down in front Peggy Castle...... Sally Fenner though Della has her stashed, so Tragg hauls of a restaurant where Perry and Della are Nadja Posey...... Nina Santos in Della too. Perry takes the blame and gets dining. Anticipating the police's imminent visit, James Nusser...... Judge Della out of Burger's clutches, and uses the Morey, the owner, asks Perry and Della to take Forrest Lewis...... Dr. Murray law to get out himself. Tragg brings in Dorian. charge of the waitress' slightly moth-eaten John Cliff ...... Guard Hess He has the original note and Tragg has the mink. They agree, then Perry finds an Oregon Robert Tafur...... Martinez typewriter on which it was typed--from Sally's pawn ticket hidden behind the label. He also Troy Melton ...... Patrolman apartment. Burger catches Karen in perjury questions Morey about a man (George Irene Calvillo ...... Waitress trying to protect Sally. Perry forces her to Fayette) in the restaurant who was remarkably Elvira Corona ...... Dancer confess to putting the note in the bottle. And incurious during the police questioning of Michael Kopcha.....Police Photographer to killing her husband. Morey. Perry calls Tragg to ask him to put We’re back with the GM cars—shows Dixie under guard. Paul checks the pawn A beachcomber finds a note implicating didn’t air in the same sequence they were ticket, but his associate reports the cops were George Alder in the death of his wealthy aunt shot. Paul drives a sporty Corvette already there. She pawned two things, a Agatha. He blackmails him for $50. Karen Peggy Castle (Sally Fenner) played Lily diamond engagement ring and a Smith & Adler is an alcoholic and a nuisance. Adler Merrill on the western series The Lawman Wesson police special. Then she disappears calls Sally, his secretary, to keep Karen out of from 1959 to 1962. Joan Banks (Karen Alder) from the hospital. Fayette was arrested for his way. Karen's contemptuous of him. used her distinctive voice to become a veteran bookmaking three years ago. Dixie's pawn Sally's not impressed with George, and he radio actress with dozens of credits on both ticket was for a gun used in the killing of a accuses her of stealing $10,000 from his drama shows and soap operas. She's police officer a year ago. Perry is worried: aunt's accounts right before she died. Paul probably best known for playing Susie's "The lawyer doesn't live who could get an and Perry are coming in from a fishing trip. slightly bitchy friend Sylvia on Private acquittal for anyone in possession of that gun." Sally breaks into George's office to look at the Secretary from 1953-57. Tragg collects the mink. note the beachcomber brought, without Morey calls Mason in a panic; he's with noticing George's body on the floor. When 13. Dixie in a hotel room. Perry gets there and the she makes a noise, the guard and his Erle Stanley Gardner's room's empty. There's a message in lipstick doberman go into action. She goes into the The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink for help under a table, but Perry tells Paul it's a ocean. Paul and Perry rescue her. She tells Original Airdate: December 14, 1957 trap; it's too perfectly written. There's a further Perry the truth about what she was doing. The Directed by Ted Post message referring to the phone book, a Mr. next day, Slly comes to Perry's office [looking Teleplay by Laurence Marks and Ben Starr Granton, the address Fayette gave when he adorable in Perry's turtleneck and pants, but Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins was picked up. Then Paul and Perry find her makeup is perfect!] and Perry tells her the Guests: Fayette's body in another room. Tragg finds bad news. Perry talks to Karen, who's Douglas Kennedy...... Sgt. Jaffrey them. Tragg and a cop, Jaffrey, lean on P&P, "clinical" about George's shortcomings. The Robert Osterloh...... Morey Allen hard. Perry levels with Tragg, but Jaffrey gets Alder's don't divorce. She says George killed Kay Faylen...... Dixie Dayton more surly. Tragg wants Dixie and Morey real Agatha. Than Wyenn...... Frank Hoxie bad. They pick them up in the morning. Perry finds Morey in the slammer. He says Dixie's Los Angeles already had its phone engaged to his half-brother, who's the directories split into districts in 1957 and it was suspected cop killer. Perry defends them for common for people to have books for several the murder of Fayette. The hotel clerk id's the adjoining districts and hotels did too. Hotels dead cop as a visitor to Fayette's room the commonly put their phone books in padded night before he died. Jaffrey comes to Perry's vinyl covers as they are in the scenes at the office; Perry accuses him of killing the cop and Keymont Hotel, though it wasn't usually done Fayette. He also owns the hotel where by places as sleazy as this one is. Fayette was killed. Tragg shoots him in Perry's office. 14. Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Baited Hook Original Airdate: December 21, 1957 Carol Stanley calls to complain and Directed by Christian Nyby Tydings makes an appointment to see her that Teleplay by Richard Grey night. She comes to the office and he's dead. Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins At midnight, [note the clock turned Guests: conveniently toward the camera, not toward Geraldine Wall...... Abigail E. Leeds the room as it should be] Perry gets a call from Willard Sage...... Robert Dawson a man asking for his help. He acts strangely Judith Braun ...... Carol Stanley when he gets to Perry's apartment, along with Alfred Hopson ...... Richard Ellis a heavily veiled woman. He gives Perry Mary Castle ...... Enid Shaw The set for Morey's Restaurant is lavish by $2,000 retainer and half a $10,000 bill for a George Neise ...... Albert Tydings TV standards at the time. It’s obviously a set possible retainer. They both remain Connie Cezon...... Gertie built for a film. anonymous. He gives the other bill half to the Peg Whitman ...... Receptionist Dixie Dayton is hit by a 1955 Chevrolet. woman. The next day, Abigail Leeds appears. Lyle Latell ...... Officer The hospital she's taken to is L.A. County She's a brash old broad who "gets what she Frank Marlowe ...... Janitor General, near downtown L.A. wants." She rescued a child, Carol, from the Maurice McEndree ...... Operative Note the screaming '50s light fixture in Paul Holocaust. Being single, she put the child in a Drake's office which resembles a flying saucer home, which later sold the girl for $1,000. It Investment counselor Robert Dawson is (lots of things did in those days--Perry's wall took her five years to find out where she was. livid. He accuses his partner, Albert Tydings, sconces look like rockets). It was attached She was happy with the Stanley family, and of embezzling $80,000 from one of their like a conventional ceiling fixture, the cord was she saw no reason to disrupt their lives. They client's trust accounts. To Dawson's fury, wrapped with a woven silken thread and the died and left Carol a trust fund "in six figures" Tydings doesn't shake or sweat--he smirks. metal double cone device just above the with "that crook Tydings" as trustee. He's got a file of photostats that makes fixture itself contained reels. You could raise As Abigail is no relative, Perry declines to Dawson shut up fast. Then Tydings accuses or lower the fixture by pulling on the knob act. She promises to bring Carol that the bookkeeper, Ellis, of stealing $20,000 from attached to the bottom frosted plexiglass disk afternoon. Paul finds out the $10,000 bill was the same account, that of Carol Stanley. Ellis, and the slack from the cord was automatically issued to Tydings. He and Paul go to his the original 98-pound weakling, is furious. wound into the double cone. home. There is blood on the front step and a Tydings' secretary doesn't like him either. Note than Paul and Perry have the same body in the closet. Carol and Mrs. Leeds headboard on their beds; a cost saving. come to Perry's office. He tells them Tydings is dead. Tragg shows up looking for Mrs. Leeds. He asks her if she threatened him. "If I'd had a horse whip, I'd have thrashed him!." Mrs. Leeds lives on Rossmore--an actual Sydney Smith ...... Judge Donahue She flummoxes Tragg. Dawson's wrecked car street which borders the Wilshire Country Club John Brinkley...... Jasper Fenton is found by a lake, the gas pedal wired to the and goes through Hancock Park, a very, very Connie Cezon...... Gertie floor. Perry and Paul play reporters to check nice area of Los Angeles and an enclave of Rusty Westcoatt ...... Sgt. Holcomb out the car and then break into Tydings' office old money and site of the official residence of James Nolan ...... Meeker with Della's help. "Comfortable? So's the city the mayor of Los Angeles. Herbert C. Lytton ...... Dr. Lambert jail." Perry goes over the books. He finds an Perry--black '57 Cadillac Coupe de Ville Perry and Della are on their way back to empty small caliber shell on the floor. Why convertible. L.A. when they witness a hit-and-run accident was Tydings killed there and then taken to his near the entrance to John Callender’s ranch. home. Perry knows Enid Shaw, his secretary, The driver of the damaged car is an old had something going with Tydings. Tragg woman who speaks only Spanish. She seems comes and Paul is delayed giving Perry the unhurt and another driver stops and offers to warning. He puts the shell back on the floor take her to the hospital. Perry tries to return a and takes Della out the window onto the fire package which has spilled out on the road, but escape. Paul shows Perry a photo of Dawson the woman leaves without it. It contains the (the man who retained Perry) and says the "complete wardrobe" of a fan dancer--an cops have found bloodstains in Dawson's car. ostrich-feather fan and a pair of high heels. Paul's man finds Dawson and a woman in a Perry advertises the fan dancer's property motel. Perry and Paul find Dawson and Carol in the classifieds and rancher John Callender about to flee. Tragg is there too. Carol is answers the ad. He carries a note from Lois charged with murder and Dawson as Robert Dawson--white '54 Pontiac Starchief Fenton, aka Cherie Chi-Chi, authorizing him to accessory. Dawson thought by moving the Catalina 4-door sedan. pick up a racehorse. Perry says he has body, he'd give Carol an alibi. Carol Stanley--2-tone Pontiac Star Chief nothing that answers the property. Perry and Perry and Della check out the Leeds convertible (odd considering her wealth, that Della check out Cherie Chi-Chi's act that night. apartment (Della: "I suppose you have a court she didn't get the pricier, flashier Bonneville). She thought it was the horse but realizes it order for justifiable snooping"). They find baby You can see the car's elaborate tail fins later in was the fans, her ‘favorites.’ She busses a photos and five years worth of cancelled the show. flummoxed Perry. checks to Ellis. He confronts him--he was with He finds her later at a hotel with Arthur the home Carol was placed in. He wants 15. Sheldon, who told Gertie there is a ‘real’ Lois Tydings' blackmail file. He collected the file Erle Stanley Gardner's Fenton. He says she needs legal help and and blackmailed Mrs. Leeds and then sold it to The Case of the Fan Dancer's Horse protection from Callender, her husband, who's Tydings. Perry figures out Carol is Mrs. Leeds' Original Airdate: December 28, 1957 blackmailing her. After a night when nearly daughter and is sure she killed Tydings. She Directed by William D. Russell everybody visited Callender, Perry and Paul proceeds to jail with spirit and elegance. Della Teleplay by Stirling Silliphant then find Callender's body with a knife in the takes care of Perry, who has a cold. "I'm a Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins back. very handy girl to have around." Guests: One of the Mason-isms is in this episode. Note the continuity glitch in the opening Susan Cummings...... Lois Fenton As in a number of shows, Perry orders Della to scenes. Carol Stanley meets Tydings at his Scott Elliott ...... Arthur Sheldon check a client into a motel, sometimes under office at 8 p.m., but it's noon-bright outside. It Judy Tyler...... Cherie Chi-Chi their own name (so that Lt. Tragg can’t claim still is after the murder when Carol's friend Robert Bice...... Faulkner Perry was hiding a suspect or witness even calls Perry, who's in his pajamas, robe, and Minerva Urecal ...... Landlady though the motel is way out of town), other asleep in his living room chair. Hugh Sanders ...... John Callender times under a fictitious name. Clay's Grille address 1248 (no street). Perry mentions Jackson, but he’s not in the she steals some cyanide and puts it in a When Perry talks to Nadine about her fears episode. saccharine bottle. At home, she fixes uncle she has a "bad seed," he refers to the 1956 Madison 5-1190 is the police phone Martin his hot chocolate. He has some horrid, film, The Bad Seed, which was a sensation at number. Madison was a real downtown greedy relatives with him. He says he's cutting the time, with Patty McCormack as the child exchange. Nadine out of his will. He's leaving his estate who has inherited evil. Paul’s operative uses the transom over the to the Hartford Medical Foundation. Marian motel room door and a periscope to watch the and Lester are stunned. Marian fixes his 17. hall. Transoms were common for cross chocolate, with some saccharine from "Erle Stanley Gardner's ventilation before air conditioning. Cardboard Nadine's bottle. That night, uncle Martin dies The Case of the Sun Bather's Diary periscopes were common in Europe—used by from the cocoa. Nadine tells all to a Original Airdate: January 11, 1958 children to watch parades. psychiatrist, to whom she confesses under Directed by Ted Post ‘Vine St. Records’ is actually Wallachs truth serum. She went to the lake and threw in Teleplay by Gene Wang Music City at Sunset and Vine. the saccharine bottle. He goes to Perry, who Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins Perry mentions Tehachapi Woman’s prison tells him he's got to go to the police. Perry Guests: and San Quentin, both actual correctional plays the tape for Nadine, who's horrified. A Susan Morrow ...... Arlene Dowling facilities. nosy nurse calls Tragg. Perry retrieves the Carl Betz...... Dr. Chandler bottle from the lake. He has it analyzed. Gertrude Michael...... Helen Rucker 16. Nadine disappears from the hospital and Peter Leeds ...... Bill Emory Erle Stanley Gardner's Tragg gets the bottle from the chemist. Ralph Moody ...... George L. Ballard The Case of the Demure Defendant Psychiatrist: "I'm glad I'm not in your shoes." Connie Cezon...... Gertie Original Airdate: January 4, 1958 Perry: "Now that you mention it, Bob, they do Kenneth MacDonald...... Judge Directed by Laslo Benedek pinch a little." The bottle contains pure Paul Brinegar...... Tom Sackett Teleplay by Ben Brady and Richard Grey saccharine. Tragg is confused. Tragg also Walter Reed ...... Detective Myers Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins has the tape of Nadine's confession. Nesdon Booth...... Mr. Hartsel Guests: Tragg sends divers back to the lake and Jon Locke ...... Sam Elliott Christine White...... Nadine they find another bottle, this time with cyanide. John Pickard...... Sergeant Neil Clem Bevans...... Capt. Hugo Perry's in trouble. He finds John and tells him It hasn't been a good year for Arlene Fay Baker...... Marion Newburn they've got to see Nadine. The cops arrive Dowling. Ten months ago, her father was Walter Coy ...... Lester Newburn and Della tells John he and Nadine better get convicted of embezzling $400,000 from his Barry Atwater ...... Dr. Denair married so he can't testify against her. He bank, and now, while sun bathing al fresco, Sherwood Price...... John Locke escapes. An old codger who lives with Nadine her house trailer is stolen from under her Alexander Campbell...... Wellman and Martin, Capt. Hugo, tells Perry Nadine nose. It contains her diary--the record of her Moris Ankrum...... Judge didn't do it. He told Lester that Nadine did it. ten-month investigation into her father's Connie Cezon ...... Gertie Perry confronts Hugo again. He accuses him. wrongful conviction. She goes to Perry, who Maurice Manson...... Dr. Granvy He took the cyanide out of her purse when agrees to search for it for $1,500 and she Steven Geray ...... Korbell John called him that night when he noticed it immediately agrees. He tells her if she's lying missing. he will "throw her to the wolves without Nadine Marshall is afraid to tell her uncle This episode is filled with terrific cars and compunction." Martin she's engaged to chemist John Locke we learn the L.A.P.D. black-and-whites are '57 He advertises for the trailer and gets and with good reason: when he hears about it, Chevys. In the 1960s, the department results. It’s in a used trailer lot and Perry is he shows her something that strikes terror in switched to Chrysler products for its squad confounded when Arlene peels off $2,500 to her heart. At the lab, she asks John if they cars, and stayed with them for years. They pay for it, no questions asked. Her father's aren't rushing things. When he's not looking, have recently switched back to Chevys. friend, George Ballard, is bankrolling her. He's also the other man with a key to the armored Harry Jackson ...... Harry Pitkin error in a show that was usually very carefully truck. Perry locates the driver, Bill Emory, who Chester Stratton ...... Bates crafted. is out of work and bitter. Arlene pays off Perry Sid Clute...... Frederick Arms Insert shots--close-ups of a hand holding a with a $1000 and a $500 bill, which gets his James Seay...... Ross Hollister letter, a hand adding knockout drops to a drink curiosity up. Perry is in trouble over the cash, Sydney Smith ...... Judge Osborn or any other detail--are done by the post- though he circumvents the grand jury. K. L. Smith...... Joe Raymond production staff of a show. They are filmed Later, he talks to George about the robbery Brett Halsey...... Robert Finchley without the stars present, after the rest of the and George tells him one serial number he Ed Hinton...... Sheriff Mark Daley episode has been filmed. So if you see a remembers. He is very friendly and cordial, Stephen Ellsworth ...... Sgt. Kenny closeup of Perry holding something, it's but Perry's suspicious. He looks at the money Ralph Sanford ...... Pat generally not his hand. The people in post from Arlene, sees the number George Jeanne Bates ...... Western Union Clerk also add music, sound effects and the opticals mentioned, and rolls it in a window shade. Paul Hahn...... Sgt. Davis (dissolves, cuts, special effects). Meanwhile, the cops have the place staked Weaver Levy ...... Jimmy out, see Arlene sneak in the back, see the Jack Gargan...... Court Clerk window shade roll down. They go in and find Model Elaine Barton is walking a delicate George dead with a knife in the back. line between her estranged husband, who's To at least one generation, Carl Betz will trying to blackmail her, and her wealthy fiancé, always be Dr. Alex Stone, loving husband and who is impatient to get married. Perry's father on The Donna Reed Show. He also investigating a hit and run in which a client was starred in (and won an Emmy for) Judd for the injured and gets an anonymous note enclosing Defense. Elaine's apartment key and the information Make sure you watch the wrap-up scene that she witnessed the accident. between Perry and Della. Without spoiling the Harry Pitkin is a class A jerk. He’s not only plot for the viewer, let's just say that Perry leaning on Elaine (and didn’t get the divorce Virginia Gregg (Ross Hollister's colleague does something unexpected and Della's so when he said he would), he’s up to his neck in Sheila) had an illustrious career as a top-level impressed with his beneficence, she kisses other problems. character actress, a singer and a voice-over him, rather more enthusiastically than needed. Meanwhile, Perry’s trying to find the car actress on radio, television and cartoons. She Then there's a rather suggestive exchange that hit his Robert Finchly, his client, and after was a regular on the radio show, Gunsmoke between them which is interrupted by Burger. using the key to find Elaine, who knows and made her TV debut on the subsequent TV Perry's office phone number MAdison 5- nothing about all this, tracks down Pitkin’s version, appearing in eight episodes. She 1190, again a real downtown exchange. boss, Stephen Argyle, who seems to have a appears in many episodes of Perry Mason, solid alibi. Then Hollister disappears and Dragnet and Ben Casey. She appeared in 18. Elaine is arrested for killing Pitkin. more than a dozen TV-movies. Erle Stanley Gardner's There is no Broadmoor Country Club in the Watch when Perry checks the license plate The Case of the Cautious Coquette Los Angeles area. on Stephen Argyle's car. The "plate" is Original Airdate: January 18, 1958 Argyle's car is a white '55 Cadillac Series obviously cardboard and you can see the real Directed by Laslo Benedek 62 sedan. Note the rear fender skirts--a metal plate behind it. Most studios have a Teleplay by Leo Townsend and Gene Wang common accessory at the time. The only variety of fictitious cardboard license plates Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins Cadillac that didn't have them was the available for filming, but they're not usually Guests: Eldorado. Virginia Gregg ...... Sheila Cromwell used in insert shots like this or affixed over a real metal plate. Just a tiny post-production Donald Randolph ...... Stephen Argyle 19. Kipp Hamilton...... Elaine Barton Erle Stanley Gardner's When Doris calls Perry with the information Edmund Lacey tries to follow her. He goes to The Case of the Haunted Husband about Jerry Heywood's car having a 5,000- Paul to try and find the heiress because the Original Airdate: January 25, 1958 mile checkup, it's important to remember that postal authorities think the ad is fake. Paul Directed by Lewis Allen most people at the time were careful about begins by composing an irresistible letter, Teleplay by Gene Wang auto servicing because warranties could be signing it 'Charles B. Barnaby.' And Paul's Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins voided and a car's resale value diminished if letter is the first one Marylin Clark responds to. Guests: servicing wasn't done on schedule. Also, cars She invites him to her apartment. But Lacey is Karen Steele ...... Doris Stephanak needed more lubrication and adjustment than fast: he's intercepted her reply and sends his Grant Richards...... Jerry Heywood they do now and the required service schedule own man in as Barnaby and he's convincing. Patricia Hardy...... Claire Olger maintained these. He calls Paul to cancel the job. But Charlie Fredd Wayne ...... Tanner Karen Steele (Doris Stephanak) appeared Bailey, nee Barnaby, has a girlfriend, who's Helen Westcott...... Marcia Greeley in a number of films, including Marty, The Rise very jealous. Charlie and Lacey discuss the John Hubbard...... Michael Greeley and Fall of Legs Diamond, and Ride split and the size of the eventual spoils, which Harlan Warde...... Harold Hanley Lonesome. Grant Richards (Jerry Heywood) they estimate to be $75,000 or more. Charlie Herb Vigran...... Charlie (Bartender) starred in an early TV series, Doorway to lands his fish. They marry and Delores Sydney Smith ...... Judge Danger, as Doug Carter, number one agent of explodes, interrupting the happy couple's Jack Gargan...... Court Clerk a top-secret government agency, whose champagne toast and Marylin flees. It's part of Claire Olger is on her way to L.A. when her dangerous assignments took him all over the their usual scam, but this time, after Delores money and bus tickets are stolen, so she world. hits him, he falls and Charlie is dead. She's hitchhikes the rest of the way. The tuxedoed distraught, but Tragg tells her he was man who picks her up is drinking and they hit 20. Erle Stanley Gardner's poisoned. a truck, killing the driver. The trouble is, the The Case of the Lonely Heiress Marylin's step-brother comes to Perry's drunk leaves the scene and no one believes Original Airdate: February 1, 1958 office and asks him to represent her. In a Claire did not steal the car and cause the Directed by Laslo Benedek mountain cabin, Marylin tells Perry why she did accident. Written by Donald S. Sanford it. Her sister Helen advertised in a lonely Doris Stephanak, a friend of Claire's, Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins hearts magazine, fell in love with Charlie, got convinces Perry to take the case. The car's Guests: taken for $16,000 and got pregnant. She was owner is Magnum Pictures' film producer, Robert H. Harris ...... Edmund Lacey out to trap him with her money. Perry traps Jerry Heywood, who's a bit of a mystery man. Anna Navarro ...... Delores Coterro Delores on the stand into admitting she killed He insists his car was stolen. But Perry's L. Q. Jones...... Charles Barnaby him because he actually intended to marry convinced that Heywood knows the man who Kathleen Crowley ...... Marylin Clark Marylin and go to Rio. was driving--after all, what thief steals cars Richard Crane ...... George Moore There were many magazines like Lonely wearing a tuxedo? Heywood has problems Betty Lou Gerson ...... Agnes Sims Hearts Calling at the time. The fact that Lacey enough; he's got a script deadline, he has no Gail Kobe...... Margo also publishes something called Tattle fits, too. insurance, and a secretary/valet who is Robert Williams...... Lt. Kramer There were even more sleazy tabloid planning to blackmail Heywood. By the way, Frank Wilcox ...... Judge magazines then, usually published by the Heywood does know who was driving--Michael Robert McQueeney ...... Dr. L. J. Palmer same publishers. Sleaze always sells. Greeley--the husband of his lover, Marsha Is that Paul reading the rag, Lonely Hearts Greeley, and the publicist for Magnum Calling? Yes, because its publisher is 21. Pictures. desperate. A personal ad placed by an Erle Stanley Gardner's But no sooner has Perry bailed out Claire heiress has drawn hundreds of replies. The The Case of the Green-Eyed Sister and stashed her in a motel, when another letters are picked up every day by a young Original Airdate: February 8, 1958 body turns up...in Claire's motel room. man who gets violent whenever the publisher, Directed by Christian Nyby Teleplay by Richard Grey at night. He finds J.J. and says he's going to Original Airdate: February 15, 1958 Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins take care of West. Paul tracks down J.J. too, Directed by Laslo Benedek Guests: across the hall from Wes. Perry and Della go Teleplay by Al C. Ward and Gene Wang Connie Cezon ...... Gertie to see West and find Harriet in West's Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins Virginia Vincent ...... Harriet Bain apartment with J.J.'s body. West appears Guests: Dan Riss...... Arthur West later and "discovers the body." The body's Shepherd Strudwick ...... Dr. Morris Robin Hughes ...... Addison Doyle cold. Bethel Leslie...... Janet Morris Tina Carver ...... Sylvia Bain Bain has another heart attack. The original Dabbs Greer...... Dave Kirby Carl Benton Reid...... Ned Bain tape is under his pillow. Tragg gets it. He Maxine Cooper ...... Gladys Strome James Bell ...... J. J. Stanley arrests Harriet--her fingerprints are all over the Jeanette Nolan ...... Mrs. Kirby Morris Ankrum...... Judge icepick that killed J.J. It's Perry's sharpness Woodrow Chambliss ...... Phil Reese Dennis King, Jr...... Dr. Hanover that discovers that J.J.'s body was in his deep Helen Brown...... Mrs. Strome Alan Gifford ...... Dr. Fisher freeze. Harriet couldn't have lifted it and it Anthony Lettier ...... Arthur Strome Charles Tannen ...... Night Clerk changes the time of death. West is arrested. Arthur Hanson ...... Lt. Brewer Leonard Bell...... Taxi Driver Addison's true colors emerge and he dumps Larry Blake ...... Smith Jack Gargan ...... Court Clerk her and goes to the bus locker where he's got George Davis ...... Frederick Harriet Bain is living the dream of every West's payoff money stashed. He killed J.J. Sydney Mason...... Detective Raslston plain girl--she's engaged to a wealthy socialite for the money. Sylvia was only trying to break Lee Roberts...... Detective Ron Jacks writer. But the dream is about to turn into a his hold on Harriet, since she knew he was Gil Frye ...... Marshall nightmare. Her father Ned gets a call from slime. But Harriet gets a complete makeover Joey Ray...... Workman J.J. Stanley. A private dick has discovered and she has a seat on the plane to Europe Jack Kenney...... Detective they're the ones who robbed the Texas with Perry. Bain did embezzle the money from Owen Cunningham...... Judge National Bank ten years ago. The detective, the bank. Jack W. Harris...... Court Clerk Arthur West, then tries to extort money from The frosted glass front door to Stanley’s Janet Morris and a couple of cops catch Harriet. Her fiancée, Addison Doyle would seedy hotel is the same set door used in David Kirby burglarizing her husband's drop her if he hears of the scandal. She Morey’s Café in episode #13. apartment of $92,000. But Dr. Charles Morris pleads with Della to let her see Perry, who's isn't a bit grateful: now his pied-a-terre (and his about to leave for London. Della talks Perry affair with his nurse) are in the open and the into staying. Paul says West is a shady IRS wants to know where he got that kind of character and Perry sends him to find Stanley, cash. Mrs. Morris admits her blunder to Perry; and Della to get a magnet. He and Harriet go she doesn't want a divorce and she wants to West's and listen to the tape, which Perry Perry to defend him if he's in trouble. Charles cleverly demagnetizes. It's suddenly blank. is supposed to go to Salt Lake City on Friday He figures West will go to his master tape, for a medical convention. Morris calls Kirby which should show splices. Harriet's father (his old war buddy), asking him to come to says it's a fraud, and he wants to fight it. He L.A. Janet comes to the airport to see Charles says he's in oil and J.J. backed him in a off--he's flying his own plane. She gives him wildcat strike and he struck oil. He paid J.J. all coffee and tells him she's going to give him a he owned him, but he hit the bottle some time divorce. He doesn't believe her. Later, ago. He gives Perry a free hand to finish off Charles crashes the plane. There's morphine West. Harriet's step-sister, the beautiful 22. sulfate in the body and in the thermos. Tragg Sylvia, is very flirty with Addison. Then Harriet Erle Stanley Gardner's advises Mrs. M to call a lawyer. Morris had an sees her ill father sneak out of the house late The Case of the Fugitive Nurse insurance policy with $125,000 to his wife and $50,000 to his nurse, Gladys Strome. The Jan Arvin ...... Pierre $92,000 is missing. Mrs. Kirby is a penny- Sam Gilman ...... George Danvers pinching shrew, who runs Kirby's, a drive-in Jean Del Val...... Waiter restaurant in Loganville. Kirby is a drunk. Ralph Montgomery...... Bus Clerk He's now missing. She goes looking for him in Jack W. Harris...... Court Clerk L.A. and Burger and Tragg get their hooks into Ray Kellogg ...... Detective her. She refuses to let them implicate her John Sands ...... Charter Pilot husband. Perry's suspicious when Gladys Doris Wiss...... Suzie doesn't come home from her vacation when Shirley Buchanan ...... Phone Operator Morris is killed. Paul and his men scour the Marian Fargo is at the bus station when crash site, finding Kirby's good luck medallion someone finds her. She has already paid Diana Maynard approaches Paul and offers made of platinum his wife gave him. It was blackmailer Samuel G. Carlin $10,000. He to help, as she sat next to Marian. Paul gets Kirby who died in the plane. Burger tries to pin wants another ten grand and he'll leave her her statement, which gives Marian an alibi. it on Janet Morris, hypothesizing it was alone. She doesn't trust him. But several other people claim Marian didn't impossible for her to know it wasn't him in the Her husband Arthur is worried when she get on until Wayne City. Gallagher comes to plane. But Perry works away at Mrs. Kirby. comes home, since he thought she was on her Perry's office. He's a convicted felon, and he She's gotten $15,000 from her husband's way to Harristown. She tells Arthur the truth. realizes Marian was protecting him. He insurance policies, and wonders why such a She'll pay and get the file on her brother escaped from prison, made a fortune, caught tightwad bought such an expensive medallion. Charles Gallagher. He's very understanding. TB, retired in Harristown. It was this The morphine sulfate was in a whiskey bottle. Marian, desperate, appeals to Perry to help information about which Carlin threatened to One of the cops notes that the money is her. She asks him to deliver the envelope of release. He offers to turn himself in. Della “about ten years pay” to a cop, which would money to Carlin and pick up the file. They go says he shouldn't. She doesn't want Perry to make a policeman’s salary at the time around to the house and Carlin acts bewildered. He see him. He splits. He proves Diana is lying. $9,200 annually. says he knows nothing about any of it. Perry She has eye trouble, wears a patch, and Perry Mrs. Kirby sells burgers and fries for 35 starts the car and leaves. Carlin has Marian’s proves she can see better with one eye than cents, fine for a policeman’s salary. husband Arthur hidden in the house. They two. She's Fargo's floozy, and she killed debate who’s the biggest thief and Fargo plans Fargo. She reveals Samuel Carlin in court (in 23. to relieve his wife of all her funds so he can disguise) who "dreamed up this stunt." Erle Stanley Gardner's run away with the proverbial floozy. But Perry When Paul’s date complains when he The Case of the One-Eyed Witness didn't leave, he's watching the house. A stops to make a phone call, he says “We Original Airdate: February 22, 1958 woman in a raincoat arrives and goes in. Paul never sleep,” which was the motto of the Directed by Christian Nyby is there, and they are stunned when an famous Pinkerton Detective Agency. Teleplay by Robert C. Dennis explosion bursts from Carlin's window, starting Paul mentions Marian could have chartered Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins a fire. Carlin's body is brought out, with a a plane. This is often discussed in TV shows Guests: bullet in his head. of the period, and charter services must have Angie Dickinson ...... Marian Fargo Paul traces Marian and he and Paul go to been reasonable. Louis Van Rooten...... Samuel Carlin her house. Arthur Fargo is dead in the entry Dorothy Green...... Diana Maynard hall with a note from Marian in his hand. Perry 24. Paul Picerni...... Charles Gallagher sends Paul after the bus to Harristown. Paul The Case of the Deadly Double Eve Miller ...... Nora Kelly is waiting for her when the bus arrives and so Original Airdate: March 1, 1958 Peter Adams ...... Arthur Fargo are the cops. Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen Vincent G. Perry...... Judge Teleplay by Sam Neuman Richard Benedict...... Steve Daniels Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins Guests: Warren Stevens ...... Alan Neil turned them in. His manservant also seeks Constance Ford ...... Helen Reed Olive Deering...... Rebecca Gentrie Lowell. He wants Perry to work for him. Perry Denver Pyle...... Robert Crane Benson Fong...... Gow Loong refuses. There's a Miriam Hocksley, who's Carole Matthews ...... Cora Dunbar Mary Shipp ...... Miriam Hocksley also a claimant. He goes to see her, and Paul Langton ...... Harry Vance Anthony Jochim...... Elston Carr she's got the story down pat. She thinks she's Murray Hamilton...... Johnny Hale Frank Wilcox ...... Judge got the book and picture, being sent from her Abraham Sofaer...... Dr. Maitland Otto Waldis...... John Lowell house in Palm Beach. She's got plenty of Louise Truax ...... Sarah Bert Holland...... Dr. Morton money, but wants the estate if she's entitled to Carleton G. Young ...... David Reed it. Rebecca Gentrie calls that night and is Pierre Watkin ...... Judge hysterical. Elston has been shot and she's got Frank Jenks ...... Cab Driver someone trapped in the house. He tells her to Clark Howat...... Sergeant Grant call Tragg. It's Doris and she clutches a book. Carlyle Mitchell...... Dr. Desmond There's a big safe, containing only an empty George E. Stone ...... George tin. The book Doris clutches contains a photo Peter Opp...... Johnson of two men. The bible fits the tin exactly. Josef Elman ...... Tony Doris is divorced, with a low-paying job and Kellogg Junge, Jr...... Tommy Reed a daughter with polio. Doris says Elston asked This is an early show dealing with multiple her to come to the house. He was dead when personality disorder. Helen Reed is in a she got there. Mr. Lowell brought the bible custody battle with her husband for her son. and photo down to her from San Francisco. But she's having nightmares and strange She says the photo he brought was the same picture she received, but she threw it away things happen to her. Then David Reed is An intriguing ad in a San Francisco paper years ago. How did he get it? In court, Perry murdered with Helen's brother's gun. Helen catches the eye of Doris Hocksley. An pries open the false bottom of the tin box and and Robert Crane come to Perry to try and attorney, Elston Carr, seeks the daughter of a finds a duplicate of the photo Doris got from unravel the confusing story. Helen's alter ego, man who lived in China. An estate of $2 Lowell. The proofs the claimant was to bring a floozy named Joyce Martel, causes no end million is involved. In Los Angeles, Doris were the bible, cut to fit in the box and the of trouble, including killing Helen's husband. A presents her bonafides to Alan Neil, attorney photo, which would match the one in the box. fur stole provides the clue for Perry, since Carr's nephew. She doesn't remember her Miriam calls Perry with the news she killed Helen is allergic to it, but Joyce is not. It turns father well. She has no photos, but she did Neil. She loved him and is going to kill herself. out Joyce's boyfriend, Johnny Hale, killed get a package from China some years ago--a Miriam has a 60-40 chance and didn't know Reed after seeing Joyce/Helen with him, book and a note written on the back of a whether she was Adam's daughter or not. thinking she was two-timing him. Helen's picture. He treats her as though she's a fraud. Perry, Tragg and Burger go to the Carr house doctor believes he can cure her. He says there are two pieces of evidence and confront Rebecca and Carr's valet. She which would prove her claim, she has neither. killed both Carr and Neil, and tried to kill 25. He makes her an offer, he'll help her if she'll Miriam. She confesses when she learns Erle Stanley Gardner's cut him in for half. She goes to Perry. Elston Miriam is still alive. Rebecca loved Neil. Carr The Case of the Empty Tin is a crotchety old man in a wheelchair. caught her at the safe. Paul observes: "What Original Airdate: March 8, 1958 Legally, there is no Hocksley estate. The some women will do for a man is just plain Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen money's his. He, Hocksley and John Lowell murder." Teleplay by Seeleg Lester were partners in Asia for 25 years, making a Carr’s home is extremely elaborate, with Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins fortune in gun running. John Lowell turned many Oriental artifacts. This again was Guests: Judas when the Korean War began and Toni Gerry ...... Doris Hocksley probably a set done for a film. Though each wall was a ‘flat,’ and the room could be 26. Shelby. He took an infrared photo of her that disassembled and stored, dressing the set Erle Stanley Gardner's night which clinches his story. She's on the would have taken more time that a busy TV The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife dock with her husband's body. Poor Frank show had. Original Airdate: March 15, 1958 packs up and leaves, looking for luck Directed by Anton M. Leader somewhere else. Written by Stanley Niss Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins 27. Guests: The Case of the Desperate Daughter Phyllis Avery...... Marion Shelby Original Airdate: March 22, 1958 Stewart Bradley...... Frank Lawton Directed by Arthur Hiller Barbara Lawrence...... Ellen Waring Teleplay by Gene Wang Claude Akins ...... Phillip Dix Story by Donald S. Sanford Jonathan Hole ...... Arthur Williams Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins Tom Palmer...... Scott Shelby Guests: Jason Johnson ...... Judge Ellsworth Gigi Perreau ...... Doris Bannister Howard Petrie...... Ben Parker Robert F. Simon ...... Edward Bannister Peter Hansen ...... Howard Black Osa Massen ...... Lisa Bannister Carr’s safe is used in a number of episodes Paul E. Burns ...... Richy Werner Klemperer...... Stefan Riker including this season’s ‘TCOT Baited Hook.’ Frederick Draper ...... Ted Young Don Durant ...... Gary Marshall The missing heiress plot was quite Pierre Watkin...... Judge common in fiction, TV and films, possibly due Scott Shelby is a real jerk. He makes Wendell Holmes ...... Dr. Forbes to the hundreds of thousands of people snide insinuations about his wife and the hired Robert B. Williams...... Det. Quincey displaced by WW II. handyman, Frank Lawton. But Shelby doesn't Gere Craft...... Helene Perry’s gone Oriental too, with a nice paper know Lawton is a war pal of Perry's. Bad luck Ivan Bonar ...... Det. Marlowe lantern in his apartment, a tonsu chest in the dogs his footsteps, and Perry goes to the lake Paul Genge...... Det. Davis hall and a couple of Chinese tables. to help him out. Before he gets there, though, Patricia Mowry...... Waitress Shelby concocts a frame which is meant to get Jack Gargan...... Court Clerk Lawton out of the way, but ends up getting Shelby killed. The unexplained clues give Gary Marshall is an employee at Bannister circumstantial evidence a whole new meaning. Farms, always on the lookout for a fast buck. Lawton is even surprised to see Perry. He When he meets Stefan Riker, an East German didn't even send the telegram. Lawton insists who's looking for Mrs. Bannister, he knows there isn't--and never has been--anything he's hit pay dirt. He tries to threaten her, then between him and Mrs. Shelby. However, he make a pass. Riker comes to the house and keeps a stream-of-consciousness diary which says he's Lisa Bannister's cousin. But when ruminates on Shelby's awfulness and Marion's Lisa comes in, she's upset. When her step- long-suffering sweetness. Shelby's body daughter Doris finds her about to take pills to hasn't yet been found, and Perry doesn't think kill herself, Lisa confesses she's in the country he's dead. He was a "flim-flam" artist and was illegally. Her passport was forged. She having a fling with Ellen Waring. Perry solves believes Stefan is here to take her back. Doris the case by delving deep into the photos of an says not to worry, she'll think of something. amateur photographer, who was hired to spirit She goes to Riker's hotel room and makes a Shelby away that night. He accuses Marion pass at him. Three months later, Bannister throws Riker off his ranch, and an amnesiac There's more than a little industrial Amelia Armitage comes to see Perry. Doris turns up at Perry's office, battered and espionage going on at Dan Conway's land She's concerned about Conway. She even bewildered. Bannister sees her picture in the exploration company. He catches Rose tries to give him an alibi but Perry won't let her. paper and calls Perry. Bannister asks Perry to Calvert going through his desk and Perry shatters Rose's husband Fred on the handle things, as he's crippled. He tells Perry immediately suspects she's allied with his stand and he confesses to killing her. Conway she's been seeing Stefan Riker, who has a business foe, Warner Griffith. Later, he and Miss Armitage look like they'll have a house near where she was found. Tragg is misses the confidential report she stole. relationship beyond that of company president already at Riker's house, where he's very Amelia Armitage, a large stockholder, and stockholder. dead. There are odd prints outside a window, confronts Conway, demanding to know what The intersection of Wilton and La Brea is probably from a ladder. he's doing to counter Warner Griffith. Then he mentioned in dialogue. Both are real streets, gets a call from another woman who offers but run parallel. This ‘mistake’ is common in The cops think Doris did it, Perry thinks (and vital information to fight Griffith. She tells him television, where using real addresses or Paul proves) she was in a car accident. Gary to meet her in a hotel room. He goes, only to intersections is avoided for legal reasons. is busy covering his butt and Paul thinks Doris find the dead body of Rose Calvert. He gets Rose Calvert lives at the ‘Serrano Arms’ is using Perry as a patsy. By taking out but not before picking up the gun from the apartment. Serrano is a real street, and it has surreptitious prints of Bannister and his canes, floor. He goes to Perry, who's not pleased he many pre-War apartment buildings on it. Perry proves the prints outside Riker's window took the gun, a Smith & Wesson which were him, not a ladder. He forces him to belongs to the company. The voice on the 29. admit killing Riker and tried to incriminate his phone was Warner Griffith's wife. Erle Stanley Gardner's wife. He thought they were lovers. Doris was The Case of the Hesitant Hostess willing to go to the gas chamber to protect Original Airdate: April 5, 1958 Lisa's secret. Directed by Christian Nyby Teleplay by Al C. Ward 28. Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins Erle Stanley Gardner's Guests: The Case of the Daring Decoy Keren Sharpe ...... Inez Kaylor Original Airdate: March 29, 1958 Fred Sherman ...... Albert Sanders Directed by Anton M. Leader June Vincent...... Martha Rayburn Teleplay by Seeleg Lester Les Tremayne ...... Fred Archer Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins Ned Wever ...... Joe Gibbs Guests: Betty Utey ...... Kim Lane H. M. Wynant ...... Daniel Conway Robin Raymond...... Secretary Marie Windsor...... Linda Griffith Perry ditches Conway in a motel and goes Gil Frye ...... Det. Ralph Faulkner Jack Weston ...... Fred Calvert to see Linda Griffith. He traps her into Jacqueline Holt...... Christine Jacqueline Scott ...... Amelia Armitage admitting she made the calls, but says she'll Michael Mason ...... Larry Coles John Mack Brown ...... Warner Griffith deny it. She's divorcing her husband. He's Fay Roope ...... Judge Natalie Norwick ...... Mavis fooling around with Rose Calvert. Perry goes George Cisar ...... Mr. Wickett Grandon R. Rhodes ...... Judge to Rose's apartment and finds a letter from her Robert Karnes ...... Det. Purvis Pamela Duncan ...... Rose Calvert estraged husband. He heads there and sees Paul Serra ...... Court Stenographer Louise Lorimer ...... Miss Eastman Fred Calvert. They've been separated seven John Alvin...... Sam Walsh Donald Foster...... H. B. Varnell months. Jack Gargan...... Court Clerk Danceland Ballroom's bouncer tosses out the local drunk, Albert Sanders. But he's not the problem owner Fred Archer has on his Marian Seldes...... Mary K. Davis mind. Kim Lane is blackmailing him. Philip Ober...... Ralph Davis Inez Kaylor isn't all that unhappy with her Karin Booth...... Susan Marshall job as a hostess--there are occasional Don Gardner...... Bob Schroeder "overseas modeling assignments." But Kim Morris Ankrum ...... Judge Cameron Lane says this is her last night. Her boss, Phil Arnold ...... Apartment Manager Martha Rayburn says there's nothing between Richard Ryan...... Mr. Hill Kim and Archer. He's a married man. He's Jeanne Bates ...... Miss Clay also been held up. Marian Collier ...... Attendant The next day, the cops find Archer's wallet Jack Gargan...... Court Clerk in a trash can outside Sanders' broken-down trailer. Perry defends him pro bono. Eight Newspaper columnist Mary K. Davis has years ago, Sanders' wife and child were killed told her husband and her readers she's having in an auto accident, Perry says he can't keep a baby but she's not pregnant. So she rifles on blaming himself. He's never seen Archer On the stand the next day, Perry shows a Dr. Barnes' desk, steals his patient book and before. Archer says Martha was with him, she purse to Martha Rayburn. The powder is holds it for ransom--for a baby. Dr. Barnes is IDs Sanders. She says she was ill and he under the mirror. He says it's heroin and he a baby broker with principles and he won't give took her home. But Paul digs up Inez in Las urges the D. A. to investigate them for Ms. Davis one. Ms. Davis' husband is with the Vegas, who says Martha fired her at the smuggling narcotics. Perry accuses her and State Dept. and will divorce her if there's no Ballroom two hours after the robbery. But Archer of killing Kim Lane. It was Kim in the baby. Her secretary Connie Cooper is the one before Perry can put her on the stand, she car with Archer. She was already dead at the who told the doctor what kind of woman Ms. splits. Tragg finds Kim Lane's body and her time of the robbery. She insists he found her Davis was, and now she threatens to reveal a jewelry under Sanders' trailer. Perry and Della dead. He was just disposing of her body. horrid secret about Connie's fiance's mother. search Inez's Vegas apartment. In the mail, a Perry calls Joe Gibbs, the boss of the Connie and Bob go to see Ms. Davis' postcard to Kim Lane from a modeling agency modeling agency. He sent her hostesses on lawyer. He says he'll handle it. Nurse Walsh about an assignment. modeling assignments and they unknowingly goes to Perry to try and get the book back. An older man enters the apartment with a brought back the heroin. But he incriminates She says she's already tried to break in. Mary key and catches Perry. He pulls a gun, takes himself on the stand about the $5,000 payoff K. meets her lawyer for lunch but not before the postcard and leaves. Back in L. A., Della from Archer. He killed her for that money. mailing the book off. Then Mary K. Davis is goes to the agency for an interview. There's a killed and Leona Walsh confesses. lot of South and Central American jobs. Della 30. Perry uses some very shady methods to passes muster except for her "husband." The Erle Stanley Gardner's get the book out of the mail and goes to see ad specified "unnattached" models. The boss The Case of the Screaming Woman Connie. Jarech comes to see Perry and wants is the man who came to Inez's apartment in Original Airdate: April 26, 1958 the book. He figures out how Perry got it. He Las Vegas. They realize all the models carry Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen wants to blackmail the names in it. He'll go to the same handbag. Martha Rayburn has one Teleplay by Dick Stenger and Gene Wang Burger if Perry doesn't give it to him. Perry too. On the stand, she insists the purse was Television Story Adapted by...... Dick Stenger craftily gives Dr. Barnes a chance to burn the custom made for her. Kim had one. Later, Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins book. Della is subpoenaed to produce the Paul manages to borrow Kim's bag. It has a Guests: book. Perry gets her off the hook with large mirror, which Perry pries loose. There's Ruta Lee...... Connie Cooper technicalities. Burger fusses and fumes, but traces of white powder under it. He sends Berry Kroeger ...... Eugene Jarech fails to move the judge. Perry hires an actress Della on a shopping trip. Josephine Hutchinson...... Leona Walsh to record a phony impersonation of Ms. Davis Arthur Shields...... Dr. George Barnes on her dictation machine, which Tragg happily snatches sans warrant. Burger plays the Mary La Roche ...... Vicky Braxton says she didn't even give Louise the milk with phony cylinder in court and Connie breaks Edward Norris...... George Gordon the tablets in it, she poured it down the sink down. She killed her because she was about Lenore Shanewise... Nora Mae Quincey and brought her a fresh batch. to expose the truth about Bob's mother--a Susan Dorn ...... Louise Gordon Perry discovers that it isn't the despicable serial killer. Everyone feels sorry for Connie Fay Spain ...... Charlotte Lynch George, but companion/cousin Vicky Braxton, and Tragg says Burger is considering second Robert Burton...... Dr. D. W. Fremont who did Louise in. She tried to frame George. degree. Charles Lane...... Dr. Williams She was only left her usual salary of $350 a The dictation machine uses heavy wax Sydney Smith ...... Judge month, but as Louise's only living relative, if cylinders, which were soon replaced by flexible Connie Cezon...... Gertie George had been convicted of her murder, "belts," such as the ones used by the Dallas Charles Davis...... Dr. J. Meecham Vicky would have gotten it all. Louise always police to record the police radio traffic during Gilbert Frye...... Detective flaunted her money to Vicky, ever the poor the Kennedy assassination. Jack Gargan...... Court Clerk relative. Nora Mae gives Perry another $25.00 for his services. He says it was exactly the Perry accepts thirty bucks (in singles) to sum he had in mind. defend nurse Nora Mae Quincey for murder. Nora Mae is a private duty nurse for invalid Louise Gordon. Louise overheard George on the phone and they fought, and Louise tumbled down the stairs. After a long hospital stay, she comes home but refuses to see him. She tells her companion Vicky Braxton George has stolen her jewelry. She's also cutting him out of her will. George realizes Nora Mae has the jewelry, which she uses in a pitiful fantasy life. She's sure the philandering George Gordon is The set for the Gordon home is extensive, There probably were small sanitariums and planning to kill Louise and goes to Perry. He including a two-story staircase with chandelier. hospitals on the beach at the time, but no gives him the medicine to be analyzed. She more. The establishing shot is Malibu, one of pays Perry $5.00 for the consultation 32. the few southern California neighborhoods (including tea). Della notes she was wearing a Erle Stanley Gardner's where homes are actually on the beach, close fortune in diamonds: "I thought her fingers The Case of the Substitute Face to the water. Every small beach cottage in that were on fire." Original Airdate: May 10, 1958 shot is gone, replaced by lot line to lot line Nora Mae goes home to find George in her Directed by William D. Russell mansions. room with Louise's jewelry. She always Teleplay by Francis Cockrell intended to put them back as Louise wasn't Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins 31. using them. He forces her to give Louise one Guests: Erle Stanley Gardner's of the tablets. She drops the remaining three Lurene Tuttle ...... Anna Houser The Case of the Fiery Fingers in a pitcher of milk. Vicky wakens to the Maureen Cassidy...... Laura Houser Original Airdate: May 3, 1958 sound of Louise gasping for breath on the Joan Tabor ...... Evelyn Whiting Directed by Arthur Marks intercom. The doctor pronounces Louise Ralph Dumke...... Roland Carter Teleplay by Laurence Marks dead. Tragg finds the jewels in Nora Mae's Theodore Newton...... Carl Houser Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins room. The pills only contained a sedative, but Maurice Wells...... Andrew Dale Guests: the milk pitcher contained arsenic. Nora Mae Frank Wilcox ...... Judge Romley Gavin Gordon...... Capt. Walters When Anna is arrested for her husbands 33. Donald Lawton ...... Daniel James murder, Perry represents her. But Houser Erle Stanley Gardner's Noel Drayton ...... Purser may not be dead and the money may be tied The Case of the Long-Legged Models Stanley Farrar ...... Accountant to a trial a year ago in Chicago. Original Airdate: May 17, 1958 William Quinn...... Christopher Walsh Directed by Anton M. Leader Bobbie Collentine ...... Marta Lawrence Teleplay by Seeleg Lester Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins Perry and Della are on a romantic ship Guests: sailing to L. A. from British Columbia after a Peggy McCay ...... Stephanie Falkner contested will case. The decks are loaded Alix Talton...... Eva Elliott with interesting people and Perry has to Joe De Santis ...... George Castle redirect Della's attention from them to the Lyle Talbot ...... Michael Garvin Sr. moon on the water. In the opening, we see the exterior of a William Swan...... Michael Garvin Jr. very modern building, and yet inside, the Russell Thorson ...... Glen Falkner counter is littered with fountain pens sitting in Frank Wilcox ...... Judge ink. These pens were around a long time, as Ann McCrea ...... Margo Garvin people liked them and ball points were still Ray Walker...... Salesman new enough that many people didn’t carry a Jack Harris ...... Court Clerk pen with them. Billy Snyder...... Stickman Note that Houser has the cash in a file Joey Ray...... Policeman cabinet marked ‘M.’ For money? Carol Anderson ...... Model According to the life ring, the ship everyone’s on is the Westminster out of Vegas motel owner Glen Falkner loses it Liverpool—unlikely that it would be in the all at the crap table. He writes an apology to Pacific. Even on around-the-world cruises, his daughter Stephanie. George Castle He does his best to avoid other people's ships don’t usually go from British Columbia to watched him lose and has a promissory note problems, but Anna Houser finally nabs him to Los Angeles. Perry tries to use the ship’s for $8,000. He'll take the motel, which is a confess her husband Carl embezzled British origins to delay the trial, but fails. prime site for a new casino. Falkner says over $100,000 from the S&L where he was an Once the man overboard call is made, my dead body, so Castle shoots him, then accountant. He told her he won a the ship is suddenly in rough seas (the camera offers daughter Stephanie a deal for the land. sweepstakes but she doesn't believe him. rolls from side to side but the people don’t), She doesn't want to sell. She'll get him the He's got the money in a money belt. She with a heavy wind. And when the captain says $8,000. wants Perry to negotiate a return of the Mr. Houser might have been ‘washed Stephanie is getting good advice from remaining money. overboard’ that scenario is extremely unlikely investment maven Michael Garvin, Sr. Castle Paul checks with Houser's bank and the on a large liner in coastal waters. has something on Garvin's secretary and he manager immediately suspects him of theft. State National Savings and Loan is a calls in a favor. Garvin meets Stephanie the But the books balance to the penny. Back on name the show has used several times. next day at Perry's office. He says the the ship, the captain announces "man When Paul plays informant to Burger, he $600/front foot Garvin offered her is half what overboard." Perry checks with Anna, and says Evelyn Whiting and her patient went to a the land is worth. He thinks Castle killed Glen. notices the photo of Anna and her daughter house in ‘the Palisades.’ He refers to Pacific Garvin plans to meet Castle gun to gun and Laura is gone, a photo of Carl substituted in its Palisades, an upscale community overlooking Perry tries to dissuade him. Perry finds place. The captain comes and tells her Carl the Pacific ocean. Castle, who increases the offer for the motel. was washed overboard. They found his gun. Perry says he wants $225,000. Castle says that's $1500 a front foot, and $1000 is the Perry drives a black 1958 Ford Skyliner, work for him have different reactions. One's going rate. He finally goes $1200. Perry says but Junior tries to sell him a ’58 T-Bird, saying mildly amazed, the other tries to kill herself. that's not acceptable. He goes to $1300. ‘it’s a real bomb.’ Odd that he’d have a new Sheila calls a doctor and Enid survives. Enid Perry forces him to $1500. Then George car on his used car lot. thinks her kindly widowed boss was "trapped" Castle is dead and Perry catches Stephanie and vows to keep on trying to get him herself. [and Tragg nearly does] leaving his apartment. Garvin Sr. hires Perry to take care of Stephanie. He gave his gun to Stephanie. One shot's been fired, but she says she didn't fire it. Stephanie’s apartment building is one of the classic ones in Hollywood.

First thing the next day, an Arthur Binney It wasn’t necessary for the show to go to 34. arrives at the office and shows Brent a dummy Vegas to shoot this episode. All studios had a Erle Stanley Gardner's scandal magazine with an expose on the number of slot machines, roulette wheels and The Case of the Gilded Lily brand new Mrs. Brent, who has a record--she crap tables to dummy up a room. The main Original Airdate: May 24, 1958 pawned her jewelry and reported it stolen. difference is the casinos in Vegas are huge Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen He'd like $30,000. Enid listens in on the and this one clearly is not. Teleplay by Richard Grey and Gene Wang intercom. Brent goes to Paul and reveals he's Della and Paul refer to a shop called Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins only known his wife two weeks. Julie’s in Vegas which carries outrageously Guests: Brent has a wedding reception the next expensive women’s clothes (Della says ‘if Peggy Knudsen ...... Sheila Bowers night. Anne Brent tried hard to make friends you’re a smart shopper, you might be able to Barbara Baxley...... Enid Griffin with Enid. Paul checks on Anne's record; she pick up a cotton frock for about 200 dollars’). Mari Aldon ...... Anne Brent was convicted in Seattle six years ago and Each hotel at the time had such a shop—a Grant Withers...... Stewart Brent served a year in prison. Binney calls and trend that eventually spread to hotels Richard Erdman ...... Arthur Binney orders Brent to a motel in the valley for the everywhere. As is mentioned in the episode, it Wally Brown ...... Harry Mitchell payoff. He arrives with the money and a gun, was a good place for male gamblers to make Fay Roope...... Judge Kyle Binney coshes him, removes the cash and their female companions (rarely wives) happy Alan Dexter...... Dr. Cortley when Brent regains consciousness, he finds while they spent hours at the tables. Also, Carleton Young ...... Dr. Parsons his gun wrapped in a towel in the bathroom both exclusive shops and high end department Jack Gargan...... Court Clerk and Binney dead in an adjacent room with one stores at the time used models to display Cy Malis...... Garage Attendant of Anne's earrings in his hand. He pockets the merchandise, rather than putting it on a Max Wagner...... Janitor earring and the motel manager walks in. hanger on a rack. Brent confesses to Tragg. En route to Perry does one of his many tricks to do Perry's office landlord, Charles Stewart headquarters, he hides the towel and earring with duplicate guns. Brent, marries in Vegas and two women who in the seat of the cop car. Note the chenille bedspreads on Enid Lucille is divorcing Bertie and her fortune were open-toed sandal high heels with no and Sheila’s beds. Back in fashion today, they is not community property. Bertie's a little back straps. The shoe was held on the foot by were popular and inexpensive at the time. upset. Paul and Perry try to find Mrs. Allred, a wide elastic band which was about 4” long in Binney tells Brent to drive out Ventura but she's gone from her motel room. Bertie the insole. These shoes are not made for Blvd. To Angeles. Ventura is real, Angelus is tells them she ran off with Fleetwood. Then running in soft ground, and Della is right to be not. Note the old round screen TV in the she's back at home. She doesn't know where miffed. motel. A motel of that type would have been Fleetwood is. She said he just left and took Mountain View is a real northern unlikely to have any TV in the rooms, not even her car. Then Tragg arrives. "Are you Mrs. California community. old ones. Allred's lawyer, Perry, or are you just acting as Paul says Miss Archer lives in an an emcee?" Her car was found wrecked at apartment ‘out on Laurel.’ Laurel Avenue is a 35. the bottom of a canyon and Fleetwood was real street in West Hollywood, the continuation Erle Stanley Gardner's dead in it. The car was in neutral. Fleetwood of Laurel Canyon Blvd. The Case of the Lazy Lover and Mrs. Allred left the motel together and she Original Airdate: May 31, 1958 returned on foot. Then Tragg gets a call. The Directed by William D. Russell dead man was Bertie, not Fleetwood. Allred drives a 1957 Buick Century. Teleplay by Francis Cockrell Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins Guests: Harry Townes...... Bob Fleetwood Frances Helm...... Bernice Archer James Bell ...... P.E. Overbrook Yvonne Craig ...... Patricia Faxon Neil Hamilton...... Bertrand Allred Ann Lee...... Lucille Allred Kenneth R. MacDonald...... Judge Len Hendry...... Officer 36. Perry gets a check for $2500 in the mail Erle Stanley Gardner's with little explanation. Patricia Faxon asks her One of the great Della/Perry exchanges The Case of the Prodigal Parent stepfather Bertrand Allred to move his car begins this episode: Perry: "Just this bare, Original Airdate: June 7, 1958 because she clipped the hedge coming into naked check?" Della: "Just that bare, naked Directed by Arthur Marks the estate. He goes out to do it and finds his 2,500 clams." Perry: "Della, when its over a Teleplay by Seeleg Lester and Gene Wang business associate, Bob Fleetwood, dead on thousand, you don't refer to them as clams, Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins the driveway. they become dollars." Guests: The check Perry got is from the Allreds, a And later: Perry to Della, “How would you Virginia Field...... Irene Collaro retainer to represent Lucille Allred or her like to married for a couple of hours to a fairly Herbert Rudley ...... George Durrell daughter Patricia Faxon, if needed. Lucille's nice looking man about 40 years old?” Fay Wray...... Ethel Harrison married to a wealthy mining man. Perry goes Unfortunately for Della, he doesn’t mean Andra Martin...... Lorraine Stevens to see Patricia. She confesses she might himself. John Hoyt ...... Joseph Harrison have hit Fleetwood. But he came to and didn't When Perry asks Della to run across the Terry Becker...... Philip Larkin know who he was. Lucille and Bertie took him crime scene, she is wearing a type of shoe Morris Ankrum ...... Judge away someplace; she doesn't know where. popular at the time—Spring-o-Lators. They Nancy Kulp ...... Sarah Winslow She doesn't want them to cover up for her. Chet Statton ...... Mr. Alcorn Burger watches a 16mm film found in Larkin's somebody's just written a letter about a Michael Fox...... Dr. Samuel Anders closet and passes the word he's got a perfect grandson Bartlett didn't know about. The letter Richard Bull...... Court Reporter case. Mrs. Harrison has gone missing and is intercepted by Diana Reynolds, Bartlett's Dean Casey ...... Det. Sanchez Burger thinks Perry's got her stashed--he secretary. Tony goes to see the child and his Leo Needham ...... Officer Norton doesn't. Even Paul can't find her. Burger's big mother and then plants his mother's jewelry in evidence is a home movie of Ethel and Joe her room and they fire her. She goes to Perry. Lorraine Stevens is a walking testimony Harrison in the garden. It's a loving scene, of Unfortunately, the letter's gone. He confronts about the pitfalls of office romances. One of him giving her a string of pearls. Larkin enters Bartlett, who believes him. He found out about her bosses, George Durrell, is a gentleman. frame and yells at Harrison, who decks him. his grandson five months ago. He hired Philip Larkin is not and he is still trying to Burger's smug as hell. detectives to check and they reported his rekindle a past romance, but she’s having Another classic Perry Mason tradition is at mother, Norma, is doing a wonderful job none of it. Another worker interrupts his the end of this episode. Della asks ‘Which raising the boy. He was estranged from his blackmail threats. one of you handsome gentlemen is going to son, who was then killed. Bartlett wants his take me to lunch?’ which evokes some joking grandson. by-play between the guys. Many of the Tragg arrives with the announcement that episodes end with Perry and Paul taking Della Diana was murdered last night with Bartlett's out for a meal, usually steaks and martinis. gun at Norma Carter's house. But it's not Diana who's dead--it's her roommate Marian 37. Shaw. Marian was a good friend of Norma's. Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Marian and Diana fought because Marian was Black-Eyed Blonde seeing Tony and Diana thought he was a Original Airdate: June 14, 1958 swine. Directed by Roger Kay Teleplay by Gene Wang Norma Carter’s house seems to be in farm Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins country, but in fact, there were many rural Guests: areas near Los Angeles in 1958. The style Whitney Blake ...... Diana Reynolds and area around this location look like the Lorraine goes to pick up something for Alatadena/Monrovia/Sierra Madre area, where her bosses, but the jewelry shop has no record Irene Hervey...... Helen Bartlett R. G. Armstrong ...... Matthew Bartlett there was still considerable citrus acreage and of the order. She calls Durrell’s house, only to some farms. be hit with the hysterics of his wheelchair- Ludwig Stossel ...... Otto Kessler Jan Merlin...... Tony Davis Women at the time often had diaries and bound and very jealous wife. She tries Larkin, took great pains to conceal them. Diaries but though the phone is answered, no one’s Phyllis Coates...... Norma Carter Judith Ames ...... Marian Shaw were sold in a wide variety of styles, from there. He’s dead. plastic ones in pink for teenagers to hand- Tragg finds out the Larkin business is a Grandon Rhodes...... Judge Francis De Sales...... Dr. Rose tooled, Moroccan leather. All had a strap with twisted mass of jealousy, ex-stepfathers and a small lock and key, which was rather futile deceit. Larkin’s mother, Mrs. Harrison, hires Jack Lomas...... Sgt. Brewster Frank Sully ...... Cop as the strap could be easily cut. The one in Perry after her ex-husband is arrested. this episode looks to be leatherette. Harrison's prints were all over the gun Joe Dominguez ...... Carlos Figueroa case. He admits to Perry he was there but Casey Peters...... Bobby Carter 38. Philip was already dead. Lorraine tells Perry Erle Stanley Gardner's of her strange interval at the jewelers and he Everyone wants a piece of Matthew The Case of the Terrified Typist says she's the only one with a perfect alibi. Bartlett's money. His new wife Helen has a greedy, egotistical son, Tony Davis, and Original Airdate: June 21, 1958 Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen Then a man in a 2-tone Olds dumps Teleplay by Robert C. Dennis, Phillip Baxter's body in the ocean, with a cement tile Macdonald, Ben Brady tied to his ankle. He's witnessed by an old Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins fisherman, Jack Gilly, who IDs Duane Guests: Jefferson, who hires Perry. He insists he was Alan Marshall ...... James Kincaid out to dinner with "a certain lady" all evening...... alias Duane Jefferson Paul finds the terrified typist (thanks to Della's Joanna Moore ...... Patricia Taylor keen eye for high fashion label clothes) and Joan Elan ...... Mrs. Lumis she's Mrs. Ralph Taylor, wife of a senator. Connie Cezon ...... Gertie Perry and Paul take the harlequin glasses to Jack Raine ...... George Baxter the Taylor estate and confront her. She tells a Kenneth R. MacDonald. Judge [Hartley] lengthy story about meeting an Air Force Harald Dyrenforth...... Henrich captain named Duane Jefferson, long before Hank Patterson ...... Jack Gilly she met the senator. She tried to reclaim Paul can't find the other woman in the Jack Gargan...... Court Clerk some letters and cartoons she sent him. She nightclub photos, but remembers seeing her at Frankie Darro ...... Elevator Operator broke into his office to get them back. the South African Diamond Co. She must be Red Morgan ...... Muscleman Paul goes to Jefferson's apartment and Mrs. Lumis. They go to Lumis' house. The Steve Carruthers...... Duane Jefferson looks around. He finds Mrs. Taylor. They also find two identical photos of Jefferson in a elegant Mrs. Lumis is the woman and confesses to being with him that night. Lumis This is the case Perry really loses. nightclub, except there's a different woman in is angry--they were partners with Jefferson A woman in harlequin glasses uses stolen each print. One of them is Mrs. Taylor. In and were about to leave for Mexico. She keys to get inside the South African Diamond court, Jefferson still refuses to ID the lady who sends him on alone. Lumis picks up his Co. office. She ransacks the place, then she is his alibi. Perry introduces Patricia Taylor's hostage--the real Duane Jefferson--who's tied pretends to be a typist, but one of the name and Burger erupts, but Jefferson admits up in his shed. But Paul is there and nabs the employees figures out she's up to no good and to knowing her, but not that she's the one he assembled company. Perry's demands a new tries to call security. She coshes him and was with. Burger's not impressed with his trial as the entire trial took place without the escapes into the stairwell. She comes out a chivalry. presence of the real Duane Jefferson. The floor below and hurries from office to office. Perry calls Mrs. Taylor. She says she was defendant is James Kincaid, who conspired The doors are locked. with him for 15 minutes (it is never explained with Lumis to bilk the company of half a She bursts into Perry's office where Gertie why Mrs. Taylor met the phony Jefferson at million. assumes she's been sent by a temp agency to the nightclub), long enough to tell him she Crawford Jewelry is a tenant of Brent Bldg. help Della. She says she is and begins work. "despised the ground he walks on." Burger Also the South African Diamond Co.--Suite While the police scour the building, she's introduces the letters. Jefferson said he'd 1012. innocently pounding out Perry's return the letters and cartoons in person. He We see an elevator operator in the Brent correspondence. Paul comes in with the news blackmailed her. The jury returns and finds Building. There is one in the books, but they of the excitement, and Della realizes what's Jefferson guilty! The media clusters around a began so much earlier, when operators were happened. But she's gone. Perry goes up to grinning Burger. common. Note the fan-shaped vertical file on the burgled company and meets Walter top of the file cabinets. It’s been used as a Lumis. He's got other worries. Partner prop in a dozen episodes this season. George Baxter brought their diamonds in from Walter Lumis calls the thief ‘our young lady South Africa today, but they missed him at the Raffles.’ He refers to Raffles, the classic story airport. He's the one who caught the woman, of a nobleman who is a master criminal by called the cops, and now he's missing. night. The 1899 novel and play Raffles were William Remick ...... Herbert Walker the body. He used Sewell's name when he left so popular, they were filmed several times, James Nolan ...... Attendant and married Millie. She walked out when he and the plot has been used dozens more. The Ted Stanhope...... Court Clerk wouldn't go to the authorities. Lewis bought 1930 film starring Ronald Colman is probably Olan Soulé...... Teller Sewell's old shack and found the body. Tragg the best version. Lee Miller...... State Trooper walks in. He makes a phony call to Della to bollix up Daniel Reed has been "railroaded" into a Burger, claiming that Maury Lewis was really sanitarium by his nephew, Willard Scott, and Sewell. Though he just made it up, it proves his greedy, social-climbing wife Arlene. to be true! Reed finally admits it. He thought Reed's fiancée, the earthy Millie Foster, hires he really did kill Sewell, until Lewis and Donna Perry to extricate him. Perry runs across Knox showed up three months ago and began Maury Lewis, who pretends to be a friend of blackmailing him. Perry wrenches a Reed's, but is really blackmailing him. confession from Willard Scott, who killed Lewis only to frame Reed after the commitment failed. He wanted control of The Reed's money in order to get away from his lavish formal gardens where Perry and Paul domineering, nagging wife. confront Mrs. Taylor were probably a park or Perry wears a light-colored suit (left) in botanical garden. court—one of the few times he isn’t wearing a The Lumis home is one of the first of the dark suit when in front of the bar. homes of the wealthy we’ve seen on the show that is decorated in a more modern style. .

39. Perry exposes the quack doctor and the Erle Stanley Gardner's court moves to the sanitarium to find Reed has The Case of the Rolling Bones escaped by bonking the guard with a bar of Original Airdate: June 28, 1958 soap wrapped in a sock and posing as a Directed by Roger Kay laundry man. The judge orders the Written by Gene Wang commitment overturned. But later, Reed calls Regulars: Burr, Hale, Hopper, Talman, Collins Millie from a room with Maury Lewis' dead Guests: body in it. Joan Camden...... Donna Knox One of the blackmail partners squeals on Mary Anderson...... Arlene Scott Donna Knox, Lewis' girl. Tragg finds her first Edgar Stehli...... Daniel Reed and is there when she blames Perry for letting Arthur Space ...... Willard Scott Reed out. Millie calls Perry from Reno-- Donna Knox is photographed (above) with King Calder ...... Maury Lewis Reed's with her. Perry and Paul go up there the stripes from a venetian blind across the Kitty Kelly...... Millie Foster and Reed admits he was being blackmailed. room. This technique—seen to great effect in Simon Scott...... George Metcalf Thirty years ago in Fairbanks, Reed was the film Casablanca—can indicate a character Richard Gaines ...... Judge Treadwell partners with Monty Sewell. They struck it rich is in a kind of prison. Sid Tomack ...... Victor Kowalski with a gold mine. Sewell wanted it all. One Morris Ankrum...... Judge Morrisey night he pretended to be asleep when Sewell Richard Aherne ...... Dr. Norris tried to shoot him. He killed him and buried Alan Lee ...... Dave Kemp