Season 1
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 16, 1973
Perry Mason, that great criminal lawyer is back in business. The first case involves an astrologer named Junius who fears for his life. The seer hires Mason for he suspects Nancy, his wife, is intent on killing him. Junius wants his wife commited to a sanatory for her erratic behavior. Corinne Warner, a cosmetics line owner, is angry with Junius as he threatens to reveal her past. Milo, a rival astrologer has discredited Junius before Corinne. Then Junius is found murdered and Perry must expose the culprit before Nancy is sentenced for murder.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 23, 1973
Religious crusade is background for blackmail and murder when Mason defends a young girl. A blackmailer tapes a scandalous photo beneath the bible of a popular evangelist (Richard Hatch).
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Sep 30, 1973
Mason defends a mechanic in his retrial for the murder of a prominent physician.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 7, 1973
When two men, one wanted by the law and the other by a crime syndicate killer, exchange identities, the result is murder.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 14, 1973
Duped investors (Keenan Wynn, Mary Ann Mobley, Richard Anderson) plan a murder, for which one is arrested four years later.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 21, 1973
A poker player faces murder charges and the loss of his daughter (Jodie Foster). Mason defends a big time gambler, played by guest star Will Hutchins, on a murder charge and the case gets complicated when Mason must also defend his client in an action to transfer custody of the gambler's daughter to her grandparents.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1973
An inventor (Roger Davis) is arrested for a murder at his newly purchased lakeside home
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1973
Lt. Tragg finds himself working both sides of a murder case when he is forced to arrest Det. Dave Cook for murder, then ask Perry to give him the best defense possible.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 25, 1973
Mugged in a crowded parking lot by an ex-basketball player who once had a million-dollar future, Mason turns around to defend the young man when he's charged with murdering the head of a major amateur sports federation.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1973
A hard-nosed judge finds himself on the other side of the bench when he's accused of poisoning his son-in-law.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 9, 1973
A story of blackmail and bigamy. Perry is helping Nhi Khanh to locate his presumed dead husband in Vietnam. He was a war correspondent named Ben Porter who went missing after marrying Nhi. Paul Drake trails a man who has been watching Perry and he is led to the political headquarters of candidate Clinton Exeter. There Paul sees a man who looks very much like Ben but then he disappears. Perry discovers that Ben's real name is Royce and he was already married when he deceived Nhi.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 16, 1973
Mason defends the fiery and beautiful editor of women's lib magazine on a charge of murdering the publisher who gave her job to another woman.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1973
Private detective Paul Drake goes undercover as a prison convict to help Perry Mason develop the evidence needed to prove that his client, a prisoner at the penitentiary, did not call one of the guards.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1974
Chance meeting with beautiful young girl leads Mason to become her defense attorney when she's arrested for murdering the brother of an aging architect who's been committed to a mental institution.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Jan 20, 1974
The kidnapping of Mason's young counsel Magic Larson from the courtroom complicates his attempt to gain a fair trial for a man accused of murdering a hated ranch foreman in a rural California town.