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.