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Perry Mason - Episode Guide

Season 1

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Restless Redhead

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 21, 1957

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Restless Redhead

Attorney Perry Mason's attractive client claims she was chased by a hooded man in a car. Now she's wanted for his murder...and hasn't been too honest about her past arrest as a jewel thief.

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Sulky Girl

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 19, 1957

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Sulky Girl

An impetuous niece who demands her trust fund be released comes to Perry Mason for help. But it's her boyfriend who needs defending when he is charged with murdering her controlling uncle.

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Crimson Kiss

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 9, 1957

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Crimson Kiss

When a lipstick print is found on the forehead of a murder victim, Mason's client is charged with the crime, even though she and her roommate were poisoned and unconscious at the time.

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Crooked Candle

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Nov 30, 1957

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Crooked Candle

Two women show up at a beauty parlor and find out they share the same name, address...and husband. When the supposed bigamist is killed, the way a candle burns becomes a clue to the mystery.

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Negligent Nymph

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 7, 1957

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Negligent Nymph

While on a fishing trip, Perry Mason and Paul Drake pull a beautiful woman out of the ocean. In her possession is a note she found, intended for her employer, accusing him of killing his rich aunt.

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Dec 14, 1957

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink

Perry and Della's visit to a restaurant is interupted when a waitress is shot at. After they hide her mink, they discover it contains a pawn ticket that may hold the key to the past murder of a police officer.

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Fan Dancer's Horse

Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Dec 28, 1957

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Fan Dancer's Horse

When Perry Mason finds some possessions that belong to a fan dancer, he places an ad that several people mistake for a missing horse. Not only does another dancer show up, but so does her husband...dead.

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Sun Bather's Diary

Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Jan 11, 1958

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Sun Bather's Diary

A gorgeous woman's trailer was stolen while she was sunbathing, so she asks for Perry's help in finding it. She claims it contains her diary, which details the truthful account of a notorious bank heist.

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Cautious Coquette

Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Jan 18, 1958

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Cautious Coquette

While investigation a hit-and-run, Perry Mason meets a model who is being blackmailed by her estranged husband. When the husband shows up dead, our hero suspects the two cases are related.

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Haunted Husband

Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Jan 25, 1958

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Haunted Husband

A girl is picked up by a drunk driver who hits a truck and escapes. When the girl is charged with manslaughter, her best friend plays spy for Perry Mason to find out how a movie producer is involved.

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Lonely Heiress

Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Feb 1, 1958 (52 min)

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Lonely Heiress

Detective Paul Drake helps a magazine publisher locate an heiress. But when the publisher is cut out of a deal and a con man is poisoned, the heiress is charged with murder.

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Fugitive Nurse

Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Feb 15, 1958

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Fugitive Nurse

The wife of a prominent physician is arrested for drugging her husband, causing him to crash his private plane. But then he turns up alive, living in Mexico with a beautiful nurse.

The Case of the Deadly Double

Episode: 1x24 | Airdate: Mar 1, 1958

The Case of the Deadly Double

After her brother is accused of murder, a schizophrenic woman is put on the witness stand. So Perry cross-examines both sides of her split personality.

The Case of the Desperate Daughter

Episode: 1x27 | Airdate: Mar 22, 1958

The Case of the Desperate Daughter

When a man from East Berlin threatens a rancher's wife, the rancher's daughter romances him to protect her stepmother - but is then accused of killing him.

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Daring Decoy

Episode: 1x28 | Airdate: Mar 29, 1958

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Daring Decoy

An attractive secretary, spying on an oil executive in order to help his rival, is found murdered. And Perry's star witness is an elevator operator who identifies suspects by their shoes.

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Substitute Face

Episode: 1x32 | Airdate: May 10, 1958

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Substitute Face

While sailing home on a cruise ship, Perry and Della briefly meet an accountant who is later pushed overboard. His wife is accused of killing him, and his daughter has mysteriously disappeared.

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Gilded Lily

Episode: 1x34 | Airdate: May 24, 1958

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Gilded Lily

When a blackmailer is found dead, suspicion falls upon three beautiful blondes: the defendant's wife, his receptionist, and his personal secretary who holds a grudge.

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Lazy Lover

Episode: 1x35 | Airdate: May 31, 1958

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Lazy Lover

When the ne'er-do-well husband of a wealthy woman is killed, a series of footprints at the crime scene belong to any number of suspects - who all deny having been there.

The Case of the Prodigal Parent

Episode: 1x36 | Airdate: Jun 7, 1958

The Case of the Prodigal Parent

A secretary, who was harassed by the boss she once dated, has a solid alibi when he is killed. But his stepfather does not - and his fingerprints are all over the murder weapon.

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Terrified Typist

Episode: 1x38 | Airdate: Jun 21, 1958

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Terrified Typist

After a woman tries to steal some letters from an office in Perry's building, she masquerades as a temp for Della in order to escape the police. Later, it's discovered that she stumbled upon a murder plot.

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Rolling Bones

Episode: 1x39 | Airdate: Jun 28, 1958

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Rolling Bones

An old man seems to be giving his money away, something his nephew and wife try to stop by having him committed. But once he escapes from the sanitarium, he's accused of murder.

Season 2

The Case of the Corresponding Corpse

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 20, 1958

The Case of the Corresponding Corpse

A complex case ensues after Perry Mason receives a telephone call, supposedly from a man whose funeral he attended three years earlier.

The Case of the Pint-Sized Client

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1958

The Case of the Pint-Sized Client

A thirteen-year-old boy gets Perry Mason involved in one of the toughest cases of his career.

The Case of the Sardonic Sergeant

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1958

The Case of the Sardonic Sergeant

Perry represents an Army sergeant accused of shooting his superior officer, who may have been involved with a notorious payroll robbery in the Philippines.

The Case of the Married Moonlighter

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1958

The Case of the Married Moonlighter

A desperate husband, trying to support his wife and daughter, escorts a drunk home after his night job, but is accused of killing him for his poker winnings.

The Case of the Purple Woman

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1958

The Case of the Purple Woman

When an art dealer is found dead, the suspects include his wife, her lover, the man who bought a fake painting from him...and the artist who painted it.

The Case of the Fancy Figures

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Dec 13, 1958

The Case of the Fancy Figures

A man wrongfully imprisoned for embezzlement is released, but is then accused of killing the person responsible for putting him behind bars in the first place.

The Case of the Shattered Dream

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1959

The Case of the Shattered Dream

A ruthless diamond cutter tries to sell a priceless gem just before he cleaves and shatters it.

The Case of the Fraudulent Foto

Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1959

The Case of the Fraudulent Foto

A district attorney who is about to expose a building scam must try to explain a racy photo of himself, now that he's been accused of murder.

The Case of the Romantic Rogue

Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1959

The Case of the Romantic Rogue

Perry defends a young heiress who married a fortune hunter, and who now has been accused of murdering the woman who was blackmailing her new husband.

The Case of the Jaded Joker

Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1959

The Case of the Jaded Joker

Danny Ross is a television comedian who is waiting to hear about a new television show. It has been three years since his last television show was cancelled.

The Case of the Lost Last Act

Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: Mar 21, 1959

The Case of the Lost Last Act

For the first time in his legal career, Perry Mason finds himself backstage in a New York theater when his client, Frank Brooks, is charged with murder.

The Case of the Bedeviled Doctor

Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: Apr 4, 1959

The Case of the Bedeviled Doctor

A psychoanalyst is accused of murdering his nurse's brother, who was trying to blackmail the good doctor with stolen recordings of his sessions.

The Case of the Petulant Partner

Episode: 2x25 | Airdate: Apr 25, 1959

The Case of the Petulant Partner

Harry Bright and Chuck Clark were once best friends and business partners until Margaret entered the picture. Margaret was a much younger woman on the make who entranced Chuck into marrying her. 

The Case of the Spanish Cross

Episode: 2x28 | Airdate: May 30, 1959

The Case of the Spanish Cross

Perry Mason defends a juvenile, previously convicted of theft, when the boy is charged with stealing a valuable piece of antique jewelry and murdering its owner.

Season 3

The Case of the Spurious Sister

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Oct 3, 1959

The Case of the Spurious Sister

Perry Mason is challenged to solve a mystery involving a dead wife who sues for divorce, a lovely blonde who is not a sister in a sister act, a husband, and an ex-husband.

The Case of the Watery Witness

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Oct 10, 1959

The Case of the Watery Witness

Perry Mason is hired by George Clark to establish the fact that Lorna Thomas, a onetime famous actress, is his wife's real mother.

The Case of the Garrulous Gambler

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 17, 1959

The Case of the Garrulous Gambler

Steve Benton retains Perry Mason to help his brother Larry, who has been forging checks to payoff purported gambling debts.

The Case of the Blushing Pearls

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Oct 24, 1959

The Case of the Blushing Pearls

A puzzling and contradictory case develops as Mason defends pretty Mitsou Kamuri, first, against a charge of stealing some valuable rose pearls, then, against a charge of murder.

The Case of the Startled Stallion

Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Oct 31, 1959

The Case of the Startled Stallion

Jo Ann Blanchard seeks the help of Perry Mason when John Brant, a wealthy and crippled old man, takes her prize race horse as payment for a mortgage he holds on her property.

The Case of Paul Drake's Dilemma

Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Nov 14, 1959

The Case of Paul Drake's Dilemma

After coming to a small town to do a investigation, Paul Drake becomes embroiled in a murder charge and needs Perry's help to keep from going to jail.

The Case of the Golden Fraud

Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Nov 21, 1959

The Case of the Golden Fraud

The rivalry between Richard Vanaman and Fred Petrie for an executive promotion in an investment firm involves Perry Mason.

The Case of the Bartered Bikini

Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Dec 5, 1959

The Case of the Bartered Bikini

A pretty model suspected of selling bathing suit designs to her employer's competition gets Mason involved in the results of greed and jealousy, including murder.

The Case of the Artful Dodger

Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Dec 12, 1959

The Case of the Artful Dodger

Perry Mason is hired to defend Sarette Winslow, a woman accused of murdering a nephew who neglected his financial obligations toward her.

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Lucky Legs

Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Dec 19, 1959

Erle Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Lucky Legs

A worthless movie contract drives a glamor girl into hiding. Mason, asked to find her, finds more than he bargained for, including a romantic triangle and murder.

The Case of the Violent Village

Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Jan 2, 1960

The Case of the Violent Village

When a young man just released from prison is accused by the entire town of robbery and murder, Perry Mason changes his plans for a fishing holiday and enters the case.

The Case of the Frantic Flyer

Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Jan 9, 1960

The Case of the Frantic Flyer

A widow concerned with re-establishing her dead husband's reputation with his wealthy father hires Perry Mason to defend her.

The Case of the Wayward Wife

Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Jan 23, 1960

The Case of the Wayward Wife

In a labyrinthine search for the facts, Perry Mason goes from books to bookies.

The Case of the Prudent Prosecutor

Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Jan 30, 1960

The Case of the Prudent Prosecutor

The usual courtroom battle between Mason and District Attorney Hamilton Burger can't take place as Burger has himself disqualified because the defendant, Mason's client, is a good friend of his.

The Case of the Gallant Grafter

Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Feb 6, 1960

The Case of the Gallant Grafter

A bitter contest for control of millions is centered around the theft of $112,000 and an unscrupulous wife's revenge.

The Case of the Wary Wildcatter

Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Feb 20, 1960

The Case of the Wary Wildcatter

Telescopic photographs of a man in the act of committing a murder become the principal evidence sought by Perry Mason.

The Case of the Singing Skirt

Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Mar 12, 1960

The Case of the Singing Skirt

When Perry is retained as the legal counsel of a singing cigarette girl at a California casino where playing draw poker is legal, he has to prove his client is innocent when she is charged with the murder of a patron's wife after he lost a large sum of money while playing a game there one night.

The Case of the Bashful Burro

Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Mar 26, 1960

The Case of the Bashful Burro

Perry arrives in the gold mining town of Placer City looking for an old prospector to subpoena for testimony. He then get involved in a murder case when one of the participants in a barroom fight is found killed and the other is accused of the crime.

The Case of the Crying Cherub

Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Apr 9, 1960

The Case of the Crying Cherub

Treacly paintings of infants and a Matisse masterpiece become equally important to Perry Mason.

The Case of the Nimble Nephew

Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Apr 23, 1960

The Case of the Nimble Nephew

Three hundred and nine acres of land, due to be worth five times their going price in a short time, become the test by which a man tries to determine the honesty of two nephews.

The Case of the Madcap Modiste

Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: Apr 30, 1960

The Case of the Madcap Modiste

The queen of the fashion world is poisoned on the eve of an important spring showing.

The Case of the Slandered Submarine

Episode: 3x23 | Airdate: May 14, 1960

The Case of the Slandered Submarine

Cmdr. Jerome Burke is assisting the police in the investigation of the murder of a cafe singer. The police believe an unknown sailor on the Moray may be responsible. 

The Case of the Ominous Outcast

Episode: 3x24 | Airdate: May 21, 1960

The Case of the Ominous Outcast

A boy brought up in an orphanage goes to a small town in California with hopes of finding his people but is accused of murder instead.

The Case of the Irate Inventor

Episode: 3x25 | Airdate: May 28, 1960

The Case of the Irate Inventor

An anti-collision device that might eventually prevent midair accidents turns into a motive for murder.

The Case of the Flighty Father

Episode: 3x26 | Airdate: Jun 11, 1960

The Case of the Flighty Father

An heiress with two men claiming to be her father becomes Perry Mason's client.

Season 4

The Case of the Treacherous Toupee

Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Sep 17, 1960

The Case of the Treacherous Toupee

An executive who has been "missing" for two years returns on the day of an important stockholders' meeting and ends up being slain.

The Case of the Credulous Quarry

Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Sep 24, 1960

The Case of the Credulous Quarry

A shady lawyer, a client facing a murder charge and a woman witness demanding a payoff help complicate this case for Mason.

The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker

Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Oct 1, 1960

The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker

Perry Mason is hired by a harassed business executive who wants to rid himself of a larcenous, freeloading nephew.

The Case of the Singular Double

Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Oct 8, 1960

The Case of the Singular Double

Perry Mason is hired by a distressed girl who assumed the identity of a non-existent cousin to report her own disappearance as a suspected suicide.

The Case of the Lavender Lipstick

Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Oct 15, 1960

The Case of the Lavender Lipstick

Lawyer Perry Mason takes the case of a girl chemist accused of slaying her employer when planted evidence is found to indicate that she had sold secret formulas to a rival cosmetics firm.

The Case of the Wandering Widow

Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Oct 22, 1960

The Case of the Wandering Widow

Perry Mason is hired by a woman who is being blackmailed by a long-missing witness in the six-year-old murder of her husband.

The Case of the Clumsy Clown

Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Nov 5, 1960

The Case of the Clumsy Clown

Perry Mason is hired by a circus clown to untangle a case of bigamy and head off a threat of blackmail.

The Case of the Provocative Protégé

Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1960

The Case of the Provocative Protégé

Perry Mason is hired by a distinguished concert pianist's widow to determine whether the musician's fatal plunge off a cliff was murder or suicide.

The Case of the Nine Dolls

Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1960

The Case of the Nine Dolls

A little girl's plaintive request for help in learning who she is leads Perry Mason into an international quest and a murder trial.

The Case of the Loquacious Liar

Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Dec 3, 1960

The Case of the Loquacious Liar

Lester Martin's life takes a horrible turn for the worse when a man breaks into his apartment, forces him at gun-point to drink half a bottle of Scotch, and then drives him into the country. 

The Case of the Red Riding Boots

Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Dec 10, 1960

The Case of the Red Riding Boots

Ann Farwell is miserable over the separation of her parents. Things aren't made any better when her father starts seeing Rita Conover, a scheming woman half his age. 

The Case of the Larcenous Lady

Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1960

The Case of the Larcenous Lady

A pretty secretary enlists Perry Mason's help when she finds herself framed in a blackmail plot, then is accused of the death of her employer's wife.

The Case of the Envious Editor

Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Jan 7, 1961

The Case of the Envious Editor

Slimy publishing tycoon Donald Fletcher buys controlling interest in a respectable but financially troubled publishing house. Fletcher turns things upside down by turning the publications into scandal sheet featuring photographs of scantily clad women. 

The Case of the Resolute Reformer

Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Jan 14, 1961

The Case of the Resolute Reformer

Perry Mason, helping a citizen's committee fight a proposed construction project, gets more deeply involved than he had planned as bribery, political blackmail and murder develop.

The Case of the Fickle Fortune

Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1961

The Case of the Fickle Fortune

Going to Perry Mason for advice after $153,000 in estate money is stolen from his car, civil servant, Ralph Duncan, soon needs more than advice, when he is caught at the scene of a murder where part of the missing money is found.

The Case of the Waylaid Wolf

Episode: 4x16 | Airdate: Feb 4, 1961

The Case of the Waylaid Wolf

Womanizing playboy Loring Lamont has his sights set on Arlene Ferris, his father's shapely secretary. He lures her to his beachfront bachelor pad with seduction on his mind. Arlene slaps the rotter and flees taking Loring's car back into town.

The Case of the Wintry Wife

Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Feb 18, 1961

The Case of the Wintry Wife

Vindictive Laura Randall is slain after she plots to blow up her husband's unique underwater sounding device.

The Case of the Angry Dead Man

Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: Feb 25, 1961

The Case of the Angry Dead Man

Willard Nesbitt stages his own death so his wife can collect on a large insurance policy. Then he learns his business partner means to cheat the wife out of some mining property royalties. Nesbitt's "return to life" is short lived, and Perry Mason defend

The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff

Episode: 4x19 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1961

The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff

Crooked jewelry store owner Karl Addison learns that he needs an operation which will temporarily blind him. Addison makes plans to rob his own store knowing that his sightlessness will provide him with a perfect alibi. 

The Case of the Barefaced Witness

Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1961

The Case of the Barefaced Witness

When convicted embezzler Fred Swan returns to his hometown it means trouble for Iris McKay, a former client of private investigator Paul Drake.

The Case of the Difficult Detour

Episode: 4x21 | Airdate: Mar 25, 1961

The Case of the Difficult Detour

A road builder facing bankruptcy decides to have things out with the man responsible for his plight, only to wind up being charged with murder.

The Case of the Cowardly Lion

Episode: 4x22 | Airdate: Apr 8, 1961

The Case of the Cowardly Lion

When a new baby monkey is found missing, Hilde Fursten is blamed by Dr. Walther Braun, a visiting dentist. That evening, Dr. Braun arrives at the zoo to perform oral surgery on a lion and is found dead in the lion's cage. 

The Case of the Torrid Tapestry

Episode: 4x23 | Airdate: Apr 22, 1961

The Case of the Torrid Tapestry

A museum worker returns from prison, sent there after being falsely accused of setting fire to an art collection, to settle accounts with the man who framed him, only to find himself held accountable for murder.

The Case of the Violent Vest

Episode: 4x24 | Airdate: Apr 29, 1961

The Case of the Violent Vest

Advertising executive Herman Albright is in the wrong place at the wrong time wearing the wrong clothes. These mistakes cost poor Herman his life in a case of mistaken identity. Perry is called on to defend the fashion model charged with the crime.

The Case of the Misguided Missile

Episode: 4x25 | Airdate: May 6, 1961

The Case of the Misguided Missile

A misfiring missile, an inquiry and death on a firing range lead Perry Mason to the defense of an Air Force officer court-martialed on a murder charge.

The Case of the Duplicate Daughter

Episode: 4x26 | Airdate: May 20, 1961

The Case of the Duplicate Daughter

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

The Case of the Grumbling Grandfather

Episode: 4x27 | Airdate: May 27, 1961

The Case of the Grumbling Grandfather

Young David Gideon has his head turned by, what else, a conniving woman. In his haste to protect her, and her supposed good name, the source of her pain turns up dead. Namely her estranged husband. 

The Case of the Guilty Clients

Episode: 4x28 | Airdate: Jun 10, 1961

The Case of the Guilty Clients

It looks as though Perry Mason may finally lose a case when the man he is defending makes a dramatic courtroom confession.

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