PERRY MASON

in The Case of the . . .

with Raymond Burr

as Perry Mason

and

Barbara Hale as Della Street

William Hopper as Paul Drake

William Talman as Hamilton Burger

Ray Collins as Lt Arthur Tragg appears only in episodes

125, 126, 128, 131, 134, 137, 139, 142, 144, 148 and 150, but is credited the entire season

 

FIFTH SEASON 1961-62

This and following pages copyright © MMXI by William Allin Storrer.

All episodes of the fifth season of "Perry Mason in The Case of the . . ." have been upgraded as of 22 November 2010. Episodes 125, 128,131, 133, 134, 135, 136,138, 140, 141, 142, 143, 145, 146, 147, 149 and 153. appear for the first time in other than broadcast format with the release of the CBS-Paramount edition, from which they have been upgraded.. Episode 150 is on DVD in the 50th Anniversary Perry Mason issue; DVD chapter indices for this issue are in { } brackets. Further, all episodes of less than 1400 words have been upgraded from the CBS-Paramount release. Where indicated "CBS Tape/DVD," the synopsis shows the DVD chapter indices placed in parentheses within the synopsis text. All episodes have been marked with their CBS-Paramount "Raymond Burr is Perry Mason Season 5" chapter markings in italics and squared [parentheses]. The coding and other information for the CBS-Paramount release takes precedence over previous tape and DVD releases.
Last update; 1/7/11

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124

Jealous Journalist

2 Sept 61

139

Shapely Shadow

6 Jan 62

125

Impatient Partner

16 Sept 61

140

Captain's Coins

13 Jan 62

126

Missing Melody

30 Sept 61

141

Tarnished Trademark

20 Jan 62

127

Malicious Mariner

7 Oct 61

142

Glamorous Ghost

3 Feb 62

128

Crying Comedian

14 Oct 61

143

Poison Pen-Pal

10 Feb 62

129

Meddling Medium

21 Oct 61

144

Mystified Miner

24 Feb 62

130

Pathetic Patient

28 Oct 61

145

Crippled Cougar

3 Mar 62

131

Travelling Treasure

4 Nov 61

146

Absent Artist

17 Mar 62

132

Posthumous Painter

11 Nov 61

147

Melancholy Marksman

24 Mar 62

133

Injured Innocent

18 Nov 61

148

Angry Astronaut

7 Apr 62

134

Left-Handed Liar

25 Nov 61

149

Borrowed Baby

14 Apr 62

135

Brazen Bequest

2 Dec 61

150

Counterfeit Crank

28 Apr 62

136

Renegade Refugee

9 Dec 61

151

Ancient Romeo

5 May 62

137

Unwelcome Bride

16 Dec 61

152

Promoter's Pillbox

19 May 62

138

Roving River

30 Dec 61

153

Lonely Eloper

26 May 62

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TITLE

SHOW DATE

CBS TAPE

124

Jealous Journalist

2 Sept 61

26309

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Kerry Worden

Claire Griswold

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Seward Quentin

Parley Baer

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Bartender (Young)

Paul Smith

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Hope Quentin

Frieda Inescort

Grace Davies

Irene Hervey

Bonnie Mae

Roxanne Arlen

Ralph Quentin

Jan Merlin

Newscaster

Lee Giroux

Joe Davies

Linden Chiles

Operative (Don)

James D Neilson

Tilden Stuart

Denver Pyle

(Mr) Lewis

Alex Bookston

Miriam Coffey

Bek Nelson

Judge

Tom Harkness

Boyd Alison

Theodore Marcuse

Searcher

Richard Geary

Produced by Art Seid Directed by John English Teleplay by Samuel Newman

[2-6/1-9 Title credits] [2-9] Three men are in a boat in the High Sierras. Whitewater overturns the boat. / Los Angeles Chronicle headlines declare ADAM YORK PARTY REPORTED MISSING and NEWSPAPER TYCOON MISSING ON TRIP. Adam York has apparently been lost with brother Prentice York and managing director cousin Tilden Stuart, reports a newscaster. / Three men are tramping through the forest when one discovers Stuart. // [3-9] Los Angeles Chronicle editor (Joe Davies) is laying out the day's paper with his secretary (Miriam Coffey). Boyd Alison wants to know if Davies will continue Adam York's fight over annexation election of Derek Flats. He points out that the Los Angeles Chronicle is short of cash and at a ten-year low in circulation. Davies admits that he and his mother will get half the stock, the Quentins the other half. Then Allison offers half a million for Davies's and his mother's stock as security, 60 days, no interest. Davies heads to Kerry Worden's office. / Several models, a photographer and Ralph (Quentin) are with Kerry Worden who is directing the shoot. All but Worden leave as Davies enters. Worden tells her that he's got the money, will tell her at dinner. She says she saw Perry Mason about her will. Her stepfather was strange, but left her what little he had. The phone interrupts, and Joe is called to see Allison's attorney, Bradshaw. / In his office Perry Mason is learning about the situation of the Los Angeles Chronicle. Adam York owned all 100 shares of the Los Angeles Chronicle stock. Tilden Stuart gets 10 shares non-voting, Prentice York, Hope York Quentin, Ralph Quentin, sister Grace York Davies, and her son Joe Davies each gets 18 shares, and if any does not survive, those shares are equally divided. Hope Quentin asks, what if Davies's want to keep the paper running, she and her son want to sell it? Mason says that Davies controls it during the trust. One proviso, Tilden's non-voting may be voted by Joe Davies. Ralph asks why the step-daughter of uncle Prentice doesn't pick up 18 shares. Because he died simultaneously with Adam York. Drake reports this is not so, he died a bit later. Kerry Worden, Prentice York's legal heir, now gets his 18 shares. / Seward goes to Kerry, tells her of the offer to buy the paper. She does the math and sees what marriage to Joe is worth. / There is a celebration at the Fairmont Country Club. Grace announces the engagement of Kerry to Joe. Ralph announces that this is only half right, for Kerry is being engaged to him. Joe tells Kerry to get out of his sight or he'll kill her. // [4-9] Joe is drinking heavily at a bar, when Boyd Allison suggests that he fight the sale of the newspaper. Joe says "short of murder. . ." / Drunk, Joe bursts into a living room at 2:35. He picks up a poker, then sees Kerry, dead. Mr Lewis observes. / In jail Joe tells Perry that he got a call at the bar from Kerry, who said she wasn't going to vote with the Quentins. / Perry sends Paul Drake out on various searches, has Della Street send a telegram to all the stockholders for an 8 p m meeting, as well as District Attorney Hamilton Burger. / Stuart explains that Derek Flats is drilled-out oils fields and other run-down property. Annexation would allow this to be cleared and new housing put up, which is why Grace Davies says the Los Angeles Chronicle supports the annexation. Miss Coffey notes that the city has a backup for the marina if Derek Flats is not annexed. / Drake gives operative Don instructions to get phone records at the Warden Apartments. The switchboard girl knows him, so he can’t go. / Bonnie Mae, the switchboard girl at the Warden Apartments (doing Marilyn Monroe dumb blond act) poses for Don, who tricks her into letting him see her call book. Miriam gets Joe's signature, but he misses her overtures. She approaches him, he begins to see, but she quickly pecks him on the cheek and runs out. / At the stockholder's meeting Ralph is drinking. Grace and Hope argue. The offer of $2.5 million will be reinstated. Grace says no sale. So does Allison. Hamilton Burger joins them, says there was a second phone call to Joe at the bar, besides Kerry's. Yes, Alison made the call once he knew Kerry was going to sell him her shares, for then he could take over the paper. // [5-9] In court Mr Lewis testifies that he came into the decedent's room about 2:35, saw the defendant with the murder weapon. Stuart says that at a luncheon after reading of the will, Joe Davies said it might be better to marry Kerry before she realized it could be more profitable to vote with the Quentins. Ralph tells Mason that he was in love with Kerry, but the attorney gets him to admit even the engagement was through his father. Hope Quentin admits that a survey indicating the Los Angeles Chronicle was in trouble was done by her husband, Seward. He testifies to arranging the sale for $2.5 million, and that Joe had said he'd kill Kerry. Mr Young, the bartender, followed Joe from the bar to Worden's at 2:30. He went to a drug store to call her to warn her. The line was busy, about 2:32. At 2:35 a neighbor saw her dead and Joe with a poker. The judge recesses court. No lunch, says Mason, as he sends Drake and Street to the newspaper and such to find the killer. // [6-9] The judge tells Mason to procede with his cross examination. Young is shown a photo of the crime scene, with evidence of a fight, and phone hanging on side of the couch. Mason asks if maybe didn't he think, when he called, that this could be the reason for a busy signal. No, not at the time. Burger redirects. She might have been on the phone before a struggle. Mason then suggests the question is when the murder happened. Boyd Alison admits that the defendant knew if the deal with Worden went through he could kiss the paper goodbye. At the bar, where he asked Davies if there wasn't anything he could do, Joe had said, "short of murder. . ." Mason sets up an exhibit. He asks Alison if he owns any newspapers. No. Mason points out that he owns the Derek Flats Shopping News and Derek Flats Independent. Then, with a chart, he shows that these are owned by Enterprises, Ltd, 100% of whose stock is Alison's, through Coast Enterprises which, as Seward Quentin testified, made the $2.5 million offer for the Los Angeles Chronicle. He withdrew his offer when he figured he could get it cheaper, through the loan to Davies and purchase of Worden's stock. Also, Mason notes, he has always been opposed to annexation. Mason, on the chart, now shows how the All Services Company, which is the other branch next Coast Enterprises, owned 80% of Derek Flats slum properties. Mason now reveals the other branch of the Enterprises companies, which own the alternate land for the marina. But, he says, he didn't kill Kerry Worden. Mason asks, she phoned Ralph, Joe, and him? What did this double-dealing lady have to tell him? Stuart brought Worden to the engagement party. Did she tell him what she was going to do with her stock? He cannot remember. Well, didn't he buy shares, and take an option on more, of the company that owned the alternate marina land? Mason states that he sold everything he had to buy the first group of shares, but had no money to pick up the others. When he pulled the two men to the shore after the boat capsized, didn't he then see how he'd get the money? Probably the cause of death of Prentice York was largely indeterminate, since his body was found a few miles from his father's it was assumed he had outlived his father. Mason produces photos of Prentice as he was found. His broken-leg shoe is unscuffed, and the hands he used to pull himself over rocky ground are clean. Why was his first call from the hospital to Kerry Worden, and his first visitor her? He admits that he made an agreement to set her up as the heir to Prentice if they'd split, but she found out of her deal for the alternate marina land, and refused to split, then demanded half his profits. He couldn't let her sell to Alison, or tell people about him. He needed time to pick up the option and to get the money. He was desperate for time. // [7-9] Stuart heard Joe at the door, turned off lights, hid, explains Mason. Then when Joe broke in and fell to the floor, he slipped away. The annexation is winning in a walk-away. The newspaper ad sales have doubled, circulation has gone into orbit, and they have enough contracts to pay the loan off twice, says Miriam Coffey. Joe wonders what to do with her, but mother Grace says he'll think of something. [51:49 end credits]

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TITLE

SHOW DATE

125

Impatient Partner

16 Sept 61

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Mrs (Agnes) Murdock

Mary Young

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Mrs Temple

Cheerio Meredith

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Bert Nickols

Jack Betts

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Carlos Silva

Dan Seymour

Lt Tragg

Ray Collins

Charles Grant

Chet Stratton

Frank Wells

Ben Cooper

Judge

Barney Biro

Vivian Ames

Leslie Parrish

Court Clerk

Charles Stroud

Amory Fallon

Wesley Lau

Margo

Paula Courtland

Edith Fallon

Lucy Prentis

[Sgt Brice

Lee Miller]

Ned Thompson

Peter Adams

Produced by Art Seid Directed by Arthur Marks Teleplay by Adrian Gendot

[3-6/1-9 Title credits] [2-9] At the Drake Detective Agency Mrs Murdock is questioned by (Amory) Fallon about where she lived while Paul Drake and Amory's brother-in-law (Frank Wells) listen. Fallon gives her some money and she is escorted out by Drake. Drake’s secretary (Margo) answers the agency phone, passes it over to Paul. Fallon informs Frank Wells that he's found what he was looking for, Mrs Murdock. / Was she at the bus stop Monday between 7 and 7:30? No. Amory and Wells are baffled. In the hall, Amory says that he was fooled by her coat. After they've left, Agnes Murdock crosses the hall to returns the coat to her sick friend, Mrs Temple. // [3-9] Drake drives up to Fallon’s Paints. Inside, Fallon is busy when his wife calls, but he tells his secretary he won’t take the call. Drake barges in and, tells Fallon that he doesn't like being played for a fool. He knows of the fire at Fallon Paints and that he's been to see Mrs Murdock. He dismisses Frank and secretary Miss (Vivian) Ames. Fallon apologizes, explains that the phone call he got the morning after the fire from a man identifying a woman who probably saw the arsonist. Drake figures out that Fallon hasn’t gone to the police since he thinks the arsonist is someone in his own company. Ned Thompson breaks up the discussion and Drake is introduced as “Mr Henry.” Drake leaves. Ned asks Amory about his month-long trip. What prospects did he bring back from Mexico City, Carlos Silva? And why, being Wednesday and he returned Monday, hasn't he seen his wife yet. Ames brings in some correspondence and Amory asks why certain files weren't in his office. They got moved and thus burned in the fire. She says it was done on order of Ned Thompson. She mentions a phone call from his wife and he dismisses her curtly. / Amory cross-examines his lab man, Bert Nichols, about what could cause an explosion, such as two chemicals in vials that he removes from the shelf. Vivian tells Amory that Silva is on the phone. Then Bert tries to get her to go out with him and Viv brushes him off. He tells her that she’s “not even on the first team” in Ned Thompson’s list of girlfriends. / Carlos Silva on the phone is put off by Amory, but notes it isn't often a quarter of a million is dumped into ones lap. / Mrs Temple in the convertible with Paul Drake says that she doesn't recognize any of the men leaving Fallon Paints as the one she saw Monday night. Edith catches Amory, leaving the plant, wants to know what happened. When Ned Thompson comes out, he asks if that is why she is there, then says that he never wants to see or talk to her again. / It is dark and Drake is about to send Edith Temple up to Thompson's when Amory Fallon, drunk, comes out and she identifies him as the man that she saw at the fire. / In Perry Mason's office Amory explains that about 7 p m Monday he bumped into a woman, who asked for a match and, when he didn't have any, went down the street and got a light from a man in a doorway whom she cannot identify. He went inside to look into the files that had been moved, remembered something he needed from his car twenty minutes later and thus was outside when the explosion occurred. He thinks Thompson was the man in the door. Mason shows him alternate interpretations of the facts, that his wife really could have wanted to see him, not Thompson and, since no one knew he was at the plant, murder is out and perhaps arson. Mason agrees to see Thompson and get the note the drunk Fallon slipped under the door. / Drake and Mason arrive at Thompson's apartment only to be greeted by Lieutenant Tragg. Thompson is dead. Sergeant Brice is investigating in the background. // [4-9] At the crime scene Mason and Drake get Lt Tragg’s explanation, including evidence regarding the time of death and a reading of Fallon’s threatening note. / Amory explains that he can't remember much of what happened, but he sat down and the next thing he remembered was that he was leaving the apartment. At the bar he saw Bert Nickols with a woman, before going to the apartment. Drake reports by phone that the fire was rigged, not professional. / Wells tells Drake that there never was anything between Thompson and Edith Fallon. If anyone was Thompson's girl, it was Ames. Drake leaves, Edith enters and says she's got to go to Amory. / Mason, going to see Vivian, is met by Bert Nickols, who knows that Thompson is dead. Bert notes that he is still only a chemist, while Thompson rose through the company rapidly, but clams up when Mason mentions the Martin project, which “could be worth quite a lot of money.” Drake reports that Ames called Mr Green, Thompson's neighbor, about 7:50 insisting Thompson had to be in his apartment but he wasn't answering the phone, so he went down and found the body. Ames cannot be found. Lt Tragg, "practically a member of the family,"enters and says that Ames is in a city-paid hotel room, and they've arrested Fallon after talking to a couple of old ladies, particularly Mrs Temple. // [5-9] In court Charles Grant tells D A Hamilton Burger that he found a $20,000 discrepancy in the books while Fallon was away and, when told about it, Thompson hoped Fallon would have an explanation. Evidence of this was destroyed in the fire. Mason asks why he went directly to a partner rather than Wells. Wells was the kid brother of the boss's wife. While Fallon was away in Mexico, did Thompson have access to the books? Yes. Wells says that he arrived at Thompson's apartment about 6:30. Amory caused a commotion about 7, but was not let in. When he left at about 7:05 did Wells see a note pushed under the door? No. Vivian Ames testifies that she went to the plant to get a file for Thompson, remembered Fallon had it, phoned Thompson, but he didn't answer. She became worried, called his neighbor, Mr Green. Bert Nickols testifies that Thompson made a microfilm copy of the ledger, but Fallon did not know of this. Carlos Silva says that he was told Fallon had told Thompson of the quarter-million-dollar deal, but he found Thompson did not know the deal had been closed. Thompson became violent. Silva saw the exposed microfilm at Thompson's. Mason traps him. Despite giving Fallon more time, he went to Thompson, so wasn't there more than one deal, involving members of the family others than Fallon? Silence equals a yes. Though the eve was warm, Tragg says that there was a fire, and no microfilm but ashes of the film. He found the missing contract file in a brief case belonging to Fallon in Thompson's apartment. / Della Street notes that Fallon didn't enter the apartment. But the brief case did. Drake reports that Thompson is a man-about-town, and heavy gambler. / Mason assures Edith Fallon that she's made the right decision. // [6-9] The judge recalls Lt Tragg to the stand, but Mason says he has no more questions of him. Bert Nickols admits he was in bar with friend Miss Bruce, saw Fallon. He left about 7:15, went to his house, then Thompson's before eight, where he got no answer, so left. Wells, a trained accountant, didn't find the embezzlement, Thompson did. With the Court’s permission, Mason asks, if Thompson did doctor the books, could he have had an accomplice? Perhaps the company had a secret formula that could be sold for millions, and the accomplice discovered this. What if Thompson had photographed the records knowing arson could destroy his evidence. Nickols admits that it is 20 minutes from the plant to Thompson’s apartment. How did he accomplish this in 5, asks Mason, since he was at the apartment at eight, back at plant five minutes later. He actually arrived at Thompson's at 7:30, found Fallon, unaccustomed to drink, asleep (for 45 minutes) on the stairs. He and Thompson were going to sell the perfected Martin formula directly to Silva. The killer was Thompson's accomplice says Mason. The killer went back into the apartment, overheard Vivian Ames on the phone giving him an alibi, killed Thompson and destroyed the evidence. Frank Wells did it. Wells breaks out hysterically, admitting his guilt. // [7-9] Mason says Wells took the brief case from the sleeping Fallon. Fallon apologizes to Edith, thanks her and Mason for heir faith in him. Mason says he always has faith, as Judge Learned Hand called "The eventual supremacy of reason.” [8-9 end credits] [52:00]

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TITLE

SHOW DATE

CBS TAPE

126

Missing Melody

30 Sept 61

26314

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

George Sherwin(/Shearing)

Grant Richards

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Midge Courtland

Lorrie Richards

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Templeton Courtland

Graham Denton

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Barney

Barney Kessell

Lt Tragg

Ray Collins

Judge

Frederic Worlock

Jonny ("Joan-ee") Baker

Constance Towers

Boyson

Owen McGiveney

Eddy King

James Drury

Sgt Brice

Lee Miller

Bongo White

Bobby Troup

Detective

Richard Geary

Polly Courtland

Jo Morrow

Minister

Irving Mitchell

David Gideon

Karl Held

Waiter

Tony Mafia

Enid Markham

Andrea King

First Gambler

Jack Williams

Jack Grabba

Walter Burke

Second Gambler

Philip Harron

Produced by Art Seid Directed by Bernard L Kowalski Teleplay by Jonathan Latimer

[4-6/1-9 Title credits] [2-9] A combo of guitar, bass and drums are playing soft jazz inside a church, outside of which is parked a Buick convertible with “just married” sign on its side. Perry Mason and Della Street greet (Templeton) Courtland , who is with his secretary (Enid) Markham, with “aren’t you happy to have such a beautiful day for the wedding of your daughter?“ His response is curt, ”Perhaps.” They meet David Gideon, a friend of the bride's sister, Midge. Mason and Street are surprised at the modern music in the church, but Gideon thinks that is accepted now. Midge readies Polly. Eddy King asks the best man if he has the ring. The jazz trio starts “Here comes the bride.” As Polly comes down the aisle, a man waves an envelope at her, and she turns and runs out. // [3-9] Gideon gets advice from Mason, namely, “read the problem over ag6ain carefully.” Eddy comes to Mason for help in getting through to Polly. He expects Mason to dislike him, but Mason offers that he likes jazz, from “Jelly Roll Morton through to Dave Brubeck.” Polly, says Eddy;, refuses to see him or talk to him. / Midge is drinking. Polly shows her a picture of "sub-deb" daughter (Midge, who is only 17)) registering at a Las Vegas hotel with a famous jazz artist Bongo White. Another picture shows Midge gambling with gangsters, with Jack Grabba in the background. Midge says it was just a party at Jack Grabba's suite, and she wants to know how George Sherwin got hold of the pictures. Sherwin threatened to turn the photos over to a publisher and Polly couldn't let that happen; ti would destroy their father. She's tried to reach Sherwin (she calls him Shearing), and cannot tell Eddy about this. (Enid) Markham says that Polly's dad is waiting with Perry Mason to see her. Templeton admits that he’s opposed to the marriage, but wasn’t the cause of her running out. Mason asks her if she is in trouble. She tries to explain that finally dad's cautions about jazz musicians playing in smoky nightclubs and staying in third-rate hotels finally got through “when Edie’s combo started playing the wedding march, so she rushed out. Mason notes that Eddy King nets close to $100,000 a year, never plays in smoky nightclubs and doesn't stay in third-rate hotels. / Jonny Baker finishes "the thrill is gone." (Bongo White is in the group.) Eddie compliments her, then gets a call from Mason in which George Sherwin is mentioned. Jonny asks Bongo to join her. // George Sherwin and Enid discuss Grabba’s willingness to pay $25,000 to get something with which to smear Courtland. He points out how much more he'd get for marrying Polly, $250,000. She leaves. Bongo comes in, tells Sherwin to clear out in case Eddy's heard about the photos. George threatens using the photos. Eddy joins the, asks George if he a said anything to Polly as she came down the aisle. Of course, we know he “said’ nothing, so, with a straight face, he denies the accusations. George suggests that he, Jonny and Eddy meet that evening at the club. / Jonny is singing "the man I love" as David, Polly and Midge enter with Sherwin. The song finished, Eddy rushes to Polly, who says that Sherwin was her reason and that someday she may be able to explain, but "please leave me alone." / Eddy drives to Sherwin's apartment. He sees Polly rushing out from the back, then Templeton Courtland from the entry. He enters and finds Sherwin dead, holds the gun. // [4-9] Lieutenant Tragg and Sergeant Brice view the scene, find no lipstick on the glasses, orders them finger printed and the cigarettes lab tested. Brice finds a woman's face powder in the carpet. / Courtland admits to Mason that Polly was at Sherwin's. He was also there, but claims Polly didn’t do it because he saw Eddy Kin, in his rear view mirror, enter the apartment as he drove away. / Polly shows Mason the gambling photo and says that she saw Sherwin alive at 2:30. She wouldn’t have gone out the back way if she knew it was her father ringing the bell. She saw a man smoking in the alley and she was limping away. Paul Drake joins, with news that the police have lots of evidence and have an eye witness. They have identified a French brand of cigarettes in Sherwin's, a brand Polly smokes. She is missing a compact, having broken her heel. / Mason and Drake confront King with the photos and the fact that Polly was a minor (17) at the time. King says the photo was taken for Grabba so he could ruin Courtland politically. / Mason confronts Grabba with the gambling photo. Grabba says he once offered $25,000 for info to get Courtland off his back for gambling, but he'd never go through his daughter for it. He offers Mason the sum to burn the photos and negatives. / David Gideon speaks to Mr Boyson about his seeing the limping woman leaving Sherwin's apartment building. Inside, Drake instructs Jonny Baker on what to do. Boyson identifies Baker as the limping woman to Gideon. / Tragg and Brice listen as Jonny finishes "the thrill is gone." She joins Mason and Della Street, says that her iron-clad alibi is that she was with Bongo White. Eddy joins them. Mason informs him that he was seen at Sherwin’s about 2:30. Tragg and Brice come, ask Jonny about her brand of cigarettes and cosmetics and broken shoe in her apartment, then arrest Eddy. // [5-9] In jail Eddy explains how he changed the crime scene. He took a tape which was recording Sherwin and put it in his car, which the police have. / Under D A Hamilton Burger’s questioning, Boyson admits that he identified Eddy King from an album cover. Lt Tragg connects the gun to Eddy and identifies one cigarette as having saliva matching Eddy’s. Mason gets him to admit another, foreign brand, cigarette was found, such as smoked by Jonny Baker. He discovered this due to Paul Drake’s getting the janitor to be sure to remember her. “. . . in a typical attempt to throw dust in the prosecutor’s eyes” shouts Burger. “Not so” replies Mason., he was only testing the recollection of the witness.” “A fine line of demarcation,” notes the judge. Mason queries about the tape. It "was blank." Bongo says Eddy's meeting with Sherwin was calm, but Enid says that it was violent. She says she told Courtland about the photos. Baker says she stopped at Sherwin's about 2:00 to hear a song that he was composing for her, left the back way where she broke her heel. Hamilton Burger points out that the night janitor saw her leave at 2:20, but she claims to have gotten to Bongo's at 2:15. Now Jonny admits that she was never in Sherwin's apartment. She was just trying to help whomever was. Burger asks for an adjournment. Granted. The judge asks to see Mason in chambers. // [6-9] In his office Mason tells Paul, Della and Polly that by now Burger has figured out who the real woman was. Mason is also sure something should have been on the tape. Polly says that she did not smoke at Sherwin's. / Mason enters Bongo's apartment. He finds a tape playing. He riffles through a desk, finds another that is under several tape boxes He puts it on, hears Polly.. Bongo enters, lets Mason listen for a while, then tells him, under gunpoint, to erase it. Just then Drake pushs the door in shaply, knocking Bongo down. / Back in court, Mason recalls Baker. Doesn't she smoke the French brand in question? He accuses her of the murder. Bit by bit he shows how she did it, then plays the tape on which Polly is heard leaving and Jonny entering. Then Jonn, brings up Sherwin’s “next week, next month, next year” excuses, and a gunshot is heard. “Eight years . . . that’s just too long to wait for any man” she sobs. // [7-9] Eddy and Polly marry. Mason explains how the judge came to allowing the tape, which could not be introduced as evidence, to be played, thus forcing Jonny's confession. [8-9 end credits] [50:51]

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TITLE

SHOW DATE

CBS TAPE

127

Malicious Mariner

7 Oct 61

26316

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Sheng

Victor Sen Yung

Della Street

Barbara Hale

MacLean

Tudor Owen

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Capt Lansing

Robert Carson

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Lt Gregg

George Ives

Wenzel

Sean McClory

Vogel

Robert Foulk

Charles Griffin

Edward Binns

Judge

Kenneth MacDonald

Arthur Janeel

Roy Roberts

Autopsy Surgeon

Pitt Herbert

Jerry Griffin

Lee Farr

Capt Wilson

Douglas Evans

David Gideon

Karl Held

Connor

George Sawaya

Frank Logan

Casey Adams

Officer

Roy Jenson

Lt Anderson

Wesley Lau

Nagata

Rollin Moriyama

Julie Abbott

Penny Edwards

Panjong

Gordon Kee

Capt Bancroft

Robert Armstrong

Produced by Art Seid Directed by Christian Nyby Teleplay by Robert Leslie Bellem

[5-6/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Aboard the Janeel Trader, (Jerry) Griffin goes to Captain (Bancroft) with safety concerns as a storm rages. “This tub’s rotten from stem to stern.” It needed a major overhaul before he signed on. Many crew jumped ship at the previous port, Yokahama. The captain tells him that he makes money by delivering fast. He knows every reef and shoal The captain points out that the cargo is worth $1.5 million and he doesn’t want it shifting in the rolling sea. / Sheng tells Jerry that he can't blame the captain. The ship heaves and the captain is injured. MacLean tells Griffin that leakage is dangerous. Griffin assumes command. Sheng is ordered to stand by to jettison the cargo. “My ship, my cargo”“ cries a delirious captain. // [3-8] Captain Lansing brings the ship into port with Jerry. Jerry reports to MacLean that they are tied up safe. The captain orders Jerry off the ship, warns him that he'll be sorry. The captain then tells (Arthur) Janeel to quite babying him. “You won’t get away with (treating him like a cabin boy), not while I’m alive, you won’t” he shouts at Jerry. He says that he'll have Griffin held up on mutiny. Janeel counters that Jerry saved his ship. The captain is taken away in a Cadillac ambulance, sirens blaring. Charles Griffin arrives with Frank Logan who carted the machinery. Charles tells Jerry that he almost blackjacked Janeel into flying his brother, Jerry, to Japan when he heard there was no first mate aboard so he’d have someone he could count on. Yet he “dumped a textile mill worth a million and a half overboard as if it were ballast.” Frank reports that all is lost. Jerry brings up the issue of insurance, but Charles says he’ll stick it to his brother instead. / In Perry Mason’s office, law student David Gideon says that Jerry Griffin saved the ship. The general average law applies; his brother gains 1/3 from the insurer, 1/3 from Janeel, but must pay his own third. But if Charles can make Jerry the scapegoat, this could make Janeel fully responsible. Either way Jerry is in the middle of all this. / Wenzel, the first mate, shows up at the captain's quarters, wants to know what the deal was that put him ashore. Bancroft feigns a faint. / Julie (Abbott) welcomes Jerry at the Janeel Shipping office, says she’ll quit if he’s fired. Bancroft tells Jerry that he'll help him. / At the hearing MacLean says that the ship might have been saved with or without jettisoning of the cargo but “the fact Griffin got us home safe is good enough for me.” Wenzel, a merchant marine officer, said that he could have saved both ship and cargo. He demonstrates with a model how he’d have shifted the cargo. Jerry jumps up and protests. Capt Bancroft is called, but he is not there. / Julie tells Jerry that she’s tried everywhere but cannot locate Bancroft. He says he’s going back to the ship; “I’ll catch him if I have to wait all night.” / On the pier, two officers notice someone (it is Jerry) aboard the Janeel Trader. They go aboard and find a drunk. Then they find Jerry holding the murder weapon of Capt Bancroft. // [4-8] Mason arrives as Bancroft is wheeled off the ship. Lieutenant Anderson meets with him, says Jerry was caught with the weapon and resisted arrest. Then Bancroft died. Mason informs Jerry that there is little that he can do. / Janeel admits he twisted Bancroft's arm to get him to say that jettisoning was necessary. Mason explains the situation regarding liability. Bancroft owned a share of the ship, notes Janeel. A telegram advises that the insurance underwriters have divers salvaging the entire jettisoned cargo. / Paul Drake is instructed by Mason on how to oversee the salvage operation. Could the cargo have been shifted as Wenzel claims? Drake reports that Wenzel is habitually drunk. David given permission to check out Wenzel, but only after Della ask “is he old enough to get into a bar?” David misses the humor. / At Neptune's Bar, Wenzel wins an arm wrestle, then sees David drinking milk at the bar so teases him. David accuses him of cheating by lifting his elbow. They arm wrestle and David wins, getting him on the good side of Wenzel. / Two divers with oxygen tanks cruise the ocean bottom. On shore at Pacific Islands Salvage & Towing Company, Drake, smoking, watches as one crate drops, and only scrap iron falls out. / David reports that he was framed so as to be arrested in Yokohama. Bancroft wanted to sail without a first mate. Then Logan, Mason, and Gideon listen to a phone report of Drake. No machinery, just scrap iron. Logan says that he personally supervised the packaging of the crates. Drake suspects “a gypsy switch.” Mason sends Drake to Yokohama to backtrack the shipment. / Charles Griffin catches Mason outside the jail house, says he did what he did only for financial reasons. He offers to help his brother. / Drake reports from Yokohama. The machinery was shipped out the previous day, just before the Yokohama police got there. Jerry Griffin supervised the loading of substitute junk. // [5-8] In court the autopsy surgeon tells D A Hamilton Burger that death was not necessarily instantaneous. So, he tells Mason, Bancroft could have been dying before Jerry Griffin arrived. Lieutenant Anderson identifies the weapon. (Special officer) Vogel says that Jerry was holding the weapon when he arrived, and no one else could have left the ship. Janeel says Bancroft would have lost $45,000 had he not testified that jettisoning was necessary, and he had no idea of the substitution. Seamanship of Bancroft was above reproach, but the contract had early delivery bonus rider. Charles Griffin says the he had a far greater financial involvement than Bancroft, but made no deal regarding testimony. Charle’s outburst gets the judge to admonish his conduct. Did he try to get such a deal? Jerry says he doesn't want to get off by accusing his brother. // [6-8] Mason, Gideon and Street arrive at the shipping yard. They time walking distances and ins and outs of dock guards. Mason gets a parking ticket at a standpipe. The ticketing officer tells Della, “you can see it (the sign) if you look.” / In court Mason recalls Special Officer Vogel who, with Connor, checks warehouses once an hour. He testifies that he saw Bancroft go aboard the Trader at 8, Griffin at 9, but in between he and Connor were in and out of warehouses. Someone could have gone aboard and not been seen. Charles Griffin is given an hypothetical question. What if the cargo, insured, was substituted with junk, then sunk? “Would he not collect full insurance” and hold “the original cargo for future clandestine sale?” Wouldn't he have had to enter into collusion with the ship's captain to be sure that the cargo would sink? Mason confronts Charles with a parking ticket that proves he was at the pier at 8:30. He loaned his car to Frank Logan, who then tries to leave the court. Logan admits that he went to see Bancroft about 8:30 to 8:40 on the ship. Mason asks, did he not go aboard because of a phone call from Kobe notifying him of plans to salvage the jettisoned cargo? He refuses to answer about the cargo, asserting that it was Bancroft's idea to scuttle the ship. Janeel denies knowing of the cargo switch or the plan to sink the Janeel Trader. Mason produces depositions showing that the ship needed repairs beyond affording and he was about to have his license revoked. Where was he to get the money to buy a new ship from Acme Maritime? He had colluded on the sinking of the ship, but not the switching of the cargo. Mason reads the story of murder, how Janeel went aboard about 8:30, heard how he'd been double-crossed by Logan and Bancroft, then confronted Bancroft with his duplicity and killed Bancroft after Logan left. Janeel says he was in a blind rage and didn't mean to kill him. // [7-8] In Mason's office Charles thinks Janeel cut it short or he'd have noticed him. David notes that the guards would have, too. Della cannot believe that Bancroft would sink his own ship, but Paul says he'd intended to ground it on a shallow shoal, then run it out to deep water with his crew having only a short distance to land. That's why he was so mad at Jerry for keeping it in shallow water. Charles offers to pay Mason for his services, but Perry suggest his brother wouldn’t allow it David suggests he pay the parking ticket .[8-8 end credits] [50:46]

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SHOW DATE

128*

Crying Comedian

14 Oct 61

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Tom Gilrain

Liam Sullivan

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Judge

John Gallaudet

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Nico

Nestor Paiva

Lt Tragg

Ray Collins

Manager

John Alvin

Charlie Hatch

Tommy Noonan

Remy

Louis Mercier

Gunner Grimes

Jackie Coogan

Reese Lordan

Ray Dannis

Anne Gilrain

Gloria Talbott

M C

Art Lewis

Rowena (Leech)

Sue Anne Langdon

Dr Iverson

Alan Reynolds

Sgt McVey

Med Flory

Bolin

Carl Milletaire

Ed Brigham

Stacy Harris

Court Clerk

Charles Stroud

Produced by Art Seid Directed by Arthur Marks Teleplay by Robert C Dennis

[2-5/1-9 Title credits] [2-9] A woman (Anne Gilrain) crosses the lawn of the Glen Haven Sanitarium at night, leaving. / She is admitted by the manager to her husband's apartment #49) where she finds liquor set for two. She phones the Cadenza Club, asks for Gunner Grimes . . . The Cadenza Club maitre d’ answers, goes for Grimes. Anne hears in the background the announcement of comedian Charlie Hatch in his first Los Angeles appearance and the beginning of his routine (he’s only been a few days in town and already he’s been offered a picture; his doctor wants to X-ray his liver!). She rushes to the liquor, takes a quick drink. // [3-9] Husband Tom Gilrain welcomes Anne home. She assures him that she’s better. The phone is off the hook and he hears the comedian's act. He calls Dr Iverson at the sanitarium, asking what kind of sanitarium he’s operating.. Anne goes into her room, opens her jewelry box in which is a gun and a key. Tom finds the room empty. / Charlie Hatch, Gunner Grimes and Rowena commiserate after the performance. Gilrain arrives and confronts Hatch, who is not happy seeing him again. He doesn't know Anne has been in a sanitarium. Gilrain warns Hatch against seeing his wife. They fight and Gilrain leaves. Grimes admits to Hatch that he saw Anne and stopped her letter from getting to him. He warns, “you can’t do her no good. She’s sick.” Charlie warns that if he can't find Anne, Gunner is out. With Gunner watching, Rowena tells (Ed) Brigham that her “next guy is gonna have assets.” He might have charm or brains, but must “come up with the loot.” He leaves with a parting shot; “maybe I’ll start saving my money.” Gunner joins her, asks her to take a phone call tomorrow, then they can leave together with more than $50,000. She lights up! / Charlie tells Perry Mason that Anne married Tom Gilrain after losing both parents in an auto accident. Gilrain had a previous marriage. He wants her free of her husband. Mason gives no encouragement, saying that she can divorce her husband only if she went to the sanitarium voluntarily. He tells her that he’ll handle it his way. “Sorry there weren’t any laughs.” / Anne calls for Grimes, gets Rowena. She tells her that she’ll await Gunner at Nico’s at 10. / Charlie finds Anne at Nico's. She says she needed someone, and Tom seemed so kind until they got married. Tom Gilrain’s “a nothin’ with money in his pocket” says Charlie. Anne admits alcoholism sent her to the sanitarium of her own choice. Hearing this, Charlie tells her that she needn’t go back, to the sanitarium or to her husband. Gilrain comes for his wife, and Nico has to prevent a fight. As husband and wife depart, Rowena overhears Gilrain; “you took a key of mine, I want it back.” She comes to Charlie's aid. He says there has to be some justice in the world; “I’ll kill him.” / Gilrain, lying on the floor, reaches for the phone as the desk clerk (Reese Lordan) tries to answer his summons. // [4-9] In Glen Haven Sergeant McVey interviews Anne in the presence of Dr Iverso. She argues that she’s been in the sanitarium for months so is completely out of touch with her husband’s affairs. Iverson shows McVey the visitors book and Grimes as her visitor. He has nothing to do with this, she asserts, but McVey says “he night lead us to someone else.” She thinks she got back to the sanitarium around midnight, but The night matron said she let you in at 2:15.” / Charlie tells Mason that he’s in love with Gilrain’s widow. Mason tells him that Tom married too soon after his interlocutory decree; “If you’d only waited.” He lets Mason know that Gunner visited Anne. He should go to the police now, but won’t without Mason. Perry says he reserves the right to withdraw if Charlie has withheld anything from him. / Lieutenant Tragg introduces “Lieutenant” McVey to Mason and Hatch. Tragg wonders to Hatch that “your attorney brought you here just to assure us that you have no connection to the murder?” As to Anne, she’s “still a friend.” He last saw Gillrain at 10. The comedian says that he has a show at nine and another between 12 and 1. Gilrain was shot about 1. Tragg notes that he can change the rules about the meeting and Mason says he wants to confer with his client. Hatch now admits that he didn't do his second show. He got stoned. With Mason, Charlie suggests that Anne killed Tom, but indicates that he'd go to trial for murder to keep the police from charging Anne and, once acquitted, they'd never look for someone else. He has an alibi! / Rowena says Charlie was with her all night, except for a bit around 2. She’d be glad to say anything Mason would like! / At an outdoor drive-in, Anne tells Paul Drake that she had the key to Tom's safe deposit box and Grimes knew which bank the box was in, because Grimes and Gilrain had been toegther at Lake Tahoe, where she met both. / The Tahoe club owner tells Drake that, two weeks after Gilrain, a dealer, quit the club, it was robbed of $65,000 by two men. “I’d say murder’s been done for a lot less” quips Darke. / Brigham admits his insurance company paid off on the Tahoe robbery. He figured it was Gilrain, but he married a rich girl and then didn't need the money, so kept it hidden. The partner, however, probably need the money, so he took an apartment across from Gilrain and kept a notebook of visitors hoping to find the money. Charlie Hatch is the last entry, 12:45 the night of the murder. // [5-9] Reese Lordan tells D A Hamilton Burger that he never saw Hatch. He heard Gilrain mumble "Hatch." Mason gets an admission that it might have been "help, help." Brigham identifies his notebook and the last two entries, the Gilrains at 10:30, Hatch at 12:45. Mason questions why he took no particular notice of Hatch. Brigham had decided Hatch didn’t do it, so he was looking for the second partner of Gilrain. Burger objects to this line of reasoning, is sustained. Drake reports to Mason his finding Gilrain's safe deposit box. "Elwood" Grimes identifies himself as Charlie's bodyguard. He explains the shouting match. He kept a letter and phone calls from Anne away from Charlie. Didn’t he, asks Mason, discuss a plan for stealing a large amount of money from Gilrain’s safe deposit box? He gets angry. Anne says that she went to her husband's apartment hoping to get money. She asked for a divorce. The judge adjourns court and Mason tells Drake they need to get to the safe deposit box. // [6-9] The bank manager says a special box had to be built, one requiring three, not the usual two, keys, and the signatures of both George Angstrom and T H Gilrain. A woman fitting Anne's description showed up the day after the murder, but with only one key. Drake explains the murder simply as Anne fighting with Tom. Mason notes that if he followed this line of reasoning, his client would confess! / In court Anne tells Mason that Grimes told her to get the key and he'd get the money she inherited. On the night of the murder she gave her husband back his key. She did not go to the bank after the murder. After explaining Charlie’s fight with Gilrain, Rowena asserts that Charlie was with her all night, but the court sustains Burger's objection to this “conclusion.” Mason notes that if she cannot give Charlie an alibi, he cannot give her one. Eventually she admits to wearing a wig and going to the bank. All she ever meets is “small timers,” she wails. She did it for Brigham! The insurance agent claims that he had been checking Grimes as the partner in the robbery and had told him if the money were returned there'd be no prosecution. Mason says that he was going to take the money and go to South America with Rowena, as he'd promised her. He got the key from Grimes. No, says Mason, he got the key from Gilrain. Grimes proves Mason right, holding out his key, then exclaiming that Brigham was even trying to steal his girl! // [7-9] Perry explains how things worked to Paul, Perry and Anne. Brigham did try to bargain with Grimes and he lied about Charlie who actually was passed out all night at Rowena's. [8-9 end credits] [50:49]

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SHOW DATE

CBS TAPEDVD

129

Meddling Medium

21 Oct 61

20453/17-31569

CHARACTOR

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

David Gideon

Karl Held

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Michael Craig

Paul Smith

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Elaine Paisley

Ann Carroll

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Princess Charlotte

Lea Marmer

Sylvia Walker

Virginia Field

Philip Paisley

James Forrest

Dr Arthur Younger

Kent Smith

Judge

S John Launer

Helen Garden

Mary LaRoche

Sgt Bradley

James Chandler

Bonnie Craig

Sonya Wilde

Dr Andrija Puharich

Dr Andrija Puharich

Produced by Art Seid Directed by Arthur Marks Teleplay by Samuel Newman

[3-5/1-9 Title credits](3-1) [2-9](3-2) A violent storm rages over a mansion perched high on a cliff above the ocean. A gravestone reads, “Father, Kenneth Walker, loving husband.” A second gravestone reads “Son, In Memory of Thomas Leslie Walker” (son). Inside a room with French doors opening to the storm, a blindfolded medium (Princess Charlotte) holds a seance. Helen (Garden) gives her an object, a glove. The medium relates it to Sylvia (Walker), who has recently lost her son, who has a message for his mother. Sylvia then calls the medium a fake, for the glove was purchased that afternoon and her son never touched it. There is a lightening flash and immediate crash. Sylvia has an attack. Michael (Craig) helps her out. Helen is told to get rid of the psychic and call Dr. Younger. / Princess Charlotte, Psychometric Medium, greets Philip Paisley. She’s had enough of his bright ideas. (He was at the seance with his wife Elaine). He offers offers “$500 in crisp new bills” if she’ll explain automatic writing and “her expert help help on how to fake a trance.” // [3-9](3-3) Dr Arthur (Younger) thanks Sylvia for dinner, tells Bonnie (who was at the seance) to be sure her mother takes her medicine, leaves. Michael, Sylvia's son-in-law follows. He asks the doctor how Sylvia really is. She's used psychic activities to reach dead son Tom. He reassures Michael that Sylvia will be fine. Philip Paisley has gone into a trance. Sylvia asks Helen to get a writing board. Dr Younger tells her to stop, she can’t take much more. She calls him a lying fool, for she believes “the truth is beyond the next hill.” Some charlatan is using her belief in spiritualism to rob her suggests the doctor. The board is place before philip. Michael calls it a “ghost to ghost telegraph company.“ Philip writes "automatically," Helen then reads, “Death’s omnipotence gloom casting . . .” Sylvia opens her safe, takes out a paper on which in his last day Tom wrote a poem. Dr Younger reads the poem from the safe. Helen reads what Philip wrote in his trance. The two match. Sylvia comforts Philip as he emerges from his trance. // Philip is moving into Tom's room which upsets the dead man's sister, Bonnie Craig, who says that he was putting on an act and got a copy of the poem in a letter from Tom. Since Tom died in an elevator crash, falling five stories. Philip demands that the elevator be fixed. He kisses Bonnie, which is seen by Elaine Paisley and Helen Garden. He kisses a reluctant wife, “only the first step on the way to 50 million bucks." / Perry Mason is welcomed at the cliffside mansion by Bonnie during another storm. She’s worried, but Mason suggests “frauds have a way of ultimately tripping over themselves.” They join the group where Philip, drunk, complains that “the spirit just isn’t interested.” Bonnie explains that she invited Mason. He's brought Life After Death, the Posthumous Poetry of Thomas Leslie Walker. He praises Philip for the book, asks him for an autograph. Philip says that Tom should autograph it. Mason congratulates him on the Thomas Leslie Walker Memorial Foundation. It is supported not by book sales, but one million from Walker Industries. Sylvia notes “I AM Walker Industries.” Mason hopes for a demonstration of automatic writing, but Philip refuses. Bonnie thinks that it is all an act and he challenges her to do it. “I’ll show him, myself” she shouts as lightening strikes outside. She falls into a trance and, as the others watch in stunned silence, writes "The fraud whose hoax turned hope to dread shall take his place among the dead" that can be read only in a mirror! Bonnie revives. Philip is terrified, calls her the fraud and rushes to his room, then takes the elevator . . . to his death. // [4-9](3-4) Sergeant Bradley informs Mason, Dr Younger and the others that it was not accidental, but murder. / Paul Drake explains to Perry and Della Street how the elevator was wired not just to fall, but pick up extra speed. During repair of the elevator, Bonnie “seemed unusually interested in how the elevator worked, what might conceivably go wrong with it, and what safety features it had.” Dr Younger saw her in Philip's room with a screw driver and a pair of pliers the night of the murder. David Gideon, who has permission to use Mason’s law library, suggests that Mason see Dr Andrija Puharich at the Parapsychology Lab. Mason gives Paul Drake extensive instructions, then gets a call from Bonnie. She’s been arrested for murder. / In jail Bonnie says that of course she was interested, because she wanted the elevator to be safe. She had to open a box that she thought had poems Philip was faking, so she had the tools. She deliberately got Philip drunk by “serving highballs that were almost all liquor,” so that he would not disturb her while she was searching his room. She’s not sure no one saw her making the loaded drinks. She vehemently declares that she did not fake her trance. / Mason explains to Dr Puharich how only Paisley used the elevator, to get to his car. The doctor tells Mason that a trance allows one to reveal what they’d not say otherwise. Bonnie could not incriminate herself in a trance, Puharich asserts, and Bonnie's trance can be proven. Drake reports by phone from Perry’s office that a Princess Charlotte, fake spiritualist, may have been in on Philip's swindle, which included blackmail of Michael Craig. / Michael says that Philip was putting the pressure on Bonnie over a business matter in which he was involved in order to become a vice-president at Walker Industries. Dr Younger admits to loving Sylvia ever since he first met her. Elaine, on her way out, stops to bitterly assert that Bonnie was having a little love affair with Philip. // [5-9](3-5) In court D A Hamilton Burger gets the judge to force Helen Garden, secretary companion to Sylvia, to state that Philip always reacted in the same manner when drunk by using the elevator to get down to his car and go driving. Bonnie said that “she'd see Philip Paisley dead and buried" before he could hurt the family. A week before the murder Bonnie did a fake trance, imitating Philip. Burger rests for the prosecution, giving a full explanation of how and why - ”a woman scorned” - Bonnie did it. Court is recessed by the judge. Burger approaches Mason, wonders how the lawyer can defend Bonnie, since Mason would never make the mistake of putting her on the stand. Sylvia, who has watched and overheard the foregoing, comes to Mason to say that the attorney “can’t possibly let Bonnie testify.” / Bonnie agrees to testify after admitting that she once went out with Philip hoping somehow to buy him off, but he was drunk. / Mason asks the court for a demonstration at the Parapsychology Lab. The judge listens to Mason’s reasoning regarding ESP, disagrees and is ready to say ‘no’ when Burger agrees, since this will give him the right of cross-examination. / Paul tells Perry and Della that Tom Walker was always in trouble with the ladies. He was always paying off. Both Craigs have electrical experience, he with the Signal Corp, she in a summer job with an electrical company. David reports that he found five positive identifications of photos given him by Mason. In a telephone call from Puharich Mason learns that the Faraday cage, to test for ESP, is ready. Bonnie’s life may depend upon it, ”particularly what happens with the Faraday cage” notes Mason. // [6-9](3-6) At the lab Elaine Paisley and Bonnie are the first test subjects. Elaine scores 93 of 1000, Bonnie 97 of 1000. “Neither score exceeds chance expectation” or shows ESP capability. Michael Craig, instructed by Gideon, works with Bonnie to match ten numbered blocks. No ESP. The Faraday cage is needed for a final determination. Dr Younger goes in the cage with Bonnie. Helen Garden is outside. 22,000 volts isolates the cage, notes Mason. “Do not touch the cage” cautions the attorney. Garden arranges ten blocks outside, Bonnie arranges inside. Of a sudden, the cage sparks. Garden jumps up, turns around, goes directly to the high voltage switch, opens it. She, not Bonnie, was Philip’s girlfriend and also Tom's lover, knew that he needed money which she’d then helped him get, had access to the company's books which she juggled for Tom. She killed Tom, who only laughed at her, and then Paisley guessed what she had done. So she also killed Philip Paisley. // [7-9](3-7) The family celebrates with Paul, Perry, David and Della. It seems that the partial test in the Faraday Cage indicated that Bonnie does have latent, or very mild, ESP capabilities, justifying her trance. What should she do with this? Mike suggests, “call herself ‘countess’ and give readings with an accent.” [8-9 end credits](3-8) [50:47](50:30)

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CBS TAPE

130

Pathetic Patient

28 Oct 61

22195

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Janice Edley

Bek Nelson

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Leslie Hall

Edward Kemmer

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Judge

Charles Irving

Dr (Wayne) Edley

Skip Homeier

Mr Morgan (Manager)

Wally Brown

Joe Widlock

Frank Cady

Asa Cooperman

Percy Helton

Hiram Widlock

Frank Cady

Autopsy Surgeon

Bill Ervin

Mrs Osborn

Virginia Gregg

Miss York

Maura McGiveney

Prosecutor Parness

Richard Eastham

Grif Roland

Wayne Heffley

Sgt Ben Landro

Mort Mills

(Dr) Banning

Thomas Freebairn-Smith

Roger Gates

Peter Whitney

Produced by Arthur Marks Directed by Bernard Kowalski Teleplay by Maurice Zimm

[4-5/1-9 Title credits] [2-9] A Palm View Ace taxi turns a corner and delivers a man (Hiram Widlock) and his crutches to the construction site of the Palm View Medical Center. Nurse York warns Dr (Wayne) Edley of Widlock's arrival. Widlock has an X-ray of a hip Edley “treated for a whole month for bursitis” but it shows broken bones. The X-ray Edley took was destroyed by an electrical fire. Widlock threatens a malpractice suit. // [3-9] Janice Edley suggests to Grif Rolan that “they should have broken a bottle of champagne over a sawhorse.” It was she who persuaded the doctor to move out here. She calls out to Wayne as he watches a car leave. He just turns away. Back in the office, Wayne tells Janice that Widlock demanded $5,000, which they don't have. She worries about what any scandal would do to him in this small town. He wants to have Dr Gates, her uncle, who taught him radiology, see if he can remember the destroyed X-ray. She suggests that he see instead her former boyfriend, Leslie Hall. He calls him a “hick-town boyfriend.” He goes to / Los Angeles, and sees the new man renting Gate's office, Dr Banning, who says the records are stored, see Leslie Hall about them. / On the phone, Hall, who has already talked with Janice, offers to lend him money. He informs Edley that the notes are stored in the attic of the old Gates farmhouse. / Hall drives to the farmhouse and finds the notebook, takes it away. / Roger Gates finds Edley trying to get into the house. Edley is in a hurry. Roger moans that he got stuck with a mortgage and taxes, while Janice got $100,000. / Edley goes to Mrs Osborn, Dr Gates's housekeeper, in hopes she might have the notebooks. Gates left her an anuity which she lives on. She tells him to see Hall. “Leslie Hall has a very shrewd mind” is what Doctor Gates told her. / He goes to Perry Mason and Paul Drake joins them. He wonder that someone who threatened to ruin the doctor professionally and financially would settle for only %$5,000. says the 24 hours they have is enough. / Drake finds Widlock at a bar and warns him of insurance fraud, that by morning he’ll know of “every broken hip that ever collected 5¢.” He then calls Edley to say Widlock will will probably run. “He’s as crooked as they come. / Edley returns home. Janice is at a meeting. When he calls her, there is no such meeting. / He goes to Hall's place, sees a woman's glove thru a window,. He enters at the rear, finds a notebook, badly burned, in the fireplace. Hall enters. Mr Morgan interrupts, to check on a prowler. Edley accuses Hall of burning the notes. It was because Janice jilted him. He swings at Hall and misses, is then knocked down. / Morgan returns with a policeman and plainclothesman (Sergeant Ben Landro). They find Hall, dead. // [4-9] The next morning Drake reports to Mason that Widlock took an early bus to Phoenix. Paul is told to look at page 2 of the newspaper; MURDER IN PALM VIEW. Mason sends him to Phoenix, because of the newspaper report of Hall's death. / Edley tells Mason that, after the fight, he walked for hours and got into bed without waking Janice. Also, when the police got to the scene, not even ashes of the notebooks remained. Sergeant Ben Landro arrives with a blood-stained scalpel that he found in the doctor’s incinerator, reaped in a bloody towel. He then escorts Edley to headquarters. / Drake finds Widlock at a bus stop where he shows him the newspaper article on Hall’s murder. / L A Chronicle; DOCTOR HELD FOR MURCER. Widlock tells Mason and Drake that he never met Hall. He left because he was paid off, $3,000, by a Della Street. He doesn’t recognize Della’s voice. The cash was sent to him by messenger. // Janice is asleep when Mrs Osborn greets Mason. She explains how Janice lost both parents when she was early in her teens and was then cared for by uncle Dr Gates who took in her cousin Roger Gates. Janice tells Mason that she did see Hall. Mason suggests that Hall urged her to settle and she did. He warns that “it’s too bad you didn't listen to her husband, rather than the rest of the town." / Mason confronts Roger Gates over his not mentioning Hall's taking the notebooks because “nobody does me any favors.” Roger complains that he has to go to L A, his father's laboratory, having been so ordered by the police. / In Dr Gate's office in L A, Mason learns from Landto that Gates is dead and has been buried in a flower planter for the entire year. // [5-9] In court prosecutor Parness hears Widlock complain about his hip. Parness suggests that there are two murders, committed by the same person; “People don’t bury themselves in planter boxes.” Widlock identifies Grif Roland as the man who delivered the $3,000. Roland admits that he got the money out of the payroll. He tells Mason that he owed Janice for getting him the construction contract. He was also friends with Hall, as he “was with just about everybody.” The autopsy surgeon says that only a physician or surgeon would have known how to correctly use the murder weapon. Mason, however, asks what other crime was committed this way, and by whom. A bookkeeper! Miss York admits that the murder weapon is of a Swedish make her doctor used, and one was missing. Asa Cooperman testifies to seeing someone that, to him, looked like Edley at the doctor's incinerator. Sgt Landro introduces the blood-stained towel which was wrapped around the murder scalpel found in the incinerator about midnight. The blood type was the same as the victim’s. The towel was the type supplied Edley. Mason gets Landro to admit that the towel could have been Hall's, and that the murder could have been committed even with a paper cutter. Couldn’t the towel have been planted to incriminate the doctor? Yes, it could. The prosecutor goes back on the attack. Landro found another place where Dr Gates, uncle to Roger, had stashed records, namely a farmhouse. Roger testifies to finding just this morning a photostat of the $100,000 Swiss check to Janice and Wayne, along with a letter. The letter is a threat to reveal Dr Edley's part in Gate's disappearance. // [6-9] Edley tells Mason that he got no notes from Hall. Della Street reports that Paul has found scattered bank accounts all over, in Hall's name. / By phone from Phoenix Drake tells Mason that he has found another Widlock. / Widlock also collected another $5,000. Drake brings in the second, twin, Widlock. Widlock admits that Hall gave him the $5,000, about 9:45. Mason suggests he tried to get a third payoff, that his crutches are window dressing, and Widlock admits that it was he who was at the incinerator. Nurse York again denies being at the incinerator, though Mason notes that Cooperman also said he might not have noticed a woman he was so used to seeing her. How rich was Dr Gates? A millionaire. So $100,000 was little. Mason suggests that only one person could have been the woman who was being blackmailed by Hall. . . Mrs Osborn interupts him, and confesses. She went to see Gates at his office. He was already packed. He was leaving her! And Leslie kept asking questions, so many questions. She finally says, “Leslie Hall has a very shrewd mind.” // [7-9] Mason explains to the Edleys, Paul and Della, that Dr Gates converted his assets to cash and negotiable securities, on which Mrs Osborn was able to get her hands. Hall maintained the illusion of Gates being alive since he had power of attorney. He was bleeding Osborne. That is why he wanted Widlock paid off, so people wouldn’t start asking questions. Mrs Osborne was tougher than Hall. One of the Widlock twins had a fracture, the other didn’t, so they could switch people and X-rays. Mason notes that old and proven temptations are better than new and untried. Paul agrees, he like old temptations. [8-9 end credits] [50:47]

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SHOW DATE

131*

Travelling Treasure

4 Nov 61

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Charlie Bender

Baynes Barron

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Jones

Hardie Albright

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Allen

Frank Gerstle

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Jaygee

Richard Adams

Lt Tragg

Ray Collins

Ambulace Driver

Jim Drum

Scot(/Scott) Cahill

Jeff York

Mexican Bartender

Nacho Galindo

Rita Magovern

Lisa Gaye

Assistant

Robert Whiting

Karl Magovern

Arch Johnson

Police Officer

Gil Frye

Max (Bleeker)

H M Wynant

Sgt Brice

Lee Miller

Prof Sneider

Vaughn Taylor

Second Seaman

Tony Miller

Ben Wylie

Ron Kennedy

First Seaman

Richard Geary

Leon Ulrich

Jack Searl

Judge

Tom Harkness

Smith

Addison Richards

Watchman

Lionel Dante

Produced by Art Seid Directed by Arthur Marks Teleplay by Robb White

[5-5/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A buzzer sounds at the Alchemy Gold Mines and a guard opens a door. A man wheels out a load of phony gold ingots. A security guard and an official discuss the theft of over half a million dollars of ingots. How could it have been done? “It certainly wasn’t done by one man” says the official, who continues with “it required an organization, and a brilliant one . . . they can get a half million for it . . . if they can get it out of the country.? Jones thinks that they could have been removed over a period of six or eight weeks. ”Or some or all of it could have been taken out this morning,” offers the security guard. / A balding security man covers gold ingots in his car trunk, then hides his security clothes in a nearby wooded area. // [3-8] At dockside a security man looks for a missing boat. Perry Mason and Paul Drake come looking for the Via Jero II. A watchman says that Captain (Scott) Cahill will be in soon. / At Art’s Landing Cahill tells a crew member (Ben Wylie) that he is preparing the boat for Mason. The Magoverns have canceled their usual weekend because Magovern broke his leg. Ben will miss nights in Old Mexico. “Yeah, not to mention Magoverns pretty young wife” counters Cahill. The security man overhears this and goes to the bar where Charlie (Bender) is half drunk (so he won’t have to dive this weekend, he sings), and looks up Karl Magovern's address. / Karl Magovern asks wife Rita to answer the door. She wants him to tell her why he’s so nervous. It is the security man, and she is very friendly to him - “Perhaps I could help,” she flirts - before taking him to her husband. / Karl phones Professor Sneider at his laboratory to order him to join him at the boat at six o’clock. Sneider hangs up, then notes to his lab technician that Magovern is strange, “always in a hurry.” Doesn’t he owe money asks the technician. / Cahill chases Drake and Mason off the boat. Magovern, Mason notes, is a promoter whose company folded, “leaving a hundred houses half-built.” Magovern is seeking seaweed for alginate. But “what’s so special about Mexican seaweed?” Even Cahill thinks this strange. / Rita confronts Karl; why must he to go to Mexic? She suggests they give themselves another chance and that she have the waiting ambulance take him to the hospital to care for his leg. The ambulance driver enters. / Karl Magovern and Rita arrive at the dock, where he is helped by the ambulance driver. Wylie admires Rita, and Karl threatens him, drinks from a liquor bottle, and she takes it and throws it away. Cases of booze are loaded on the boat which has to be fueled as the balding man watches. Sneider goes to find Charlie, the regular diver, who is now quite drunk, but suggest that his friend Max take his place. / A police officer shows Ben a photo of the balding security man, but Ben does not recognize him. The boat sails with the security man watching. His car trunk is now empty. / Off the coast of Ensenada, Mexico, Rita is sun bathing. Max returns from one dive, then dives again. A coast guard boat approaches. Two coast guard seamen board the Via Jero II and find Magovern dead. / On another boat, DO-BU-JÉ, Mason and Drake are fishing when they receive Cahill's call. Magovern has been murdered, and he's now involved with gold smuggling. // [4-8] Back on land, Mason is greeted by Lieutenant Tragg with “Isn’t it enough for the treasury department, the FBI, the homicide squad, the coast guard, and three vice-presidents of a gold mine . . . who’s your client?” It was tincture of digitalis, found in Cahill's medicine chest, that may have killed Magovern, though neither he nor the captain needed it. Sergeant Brice leads them to a cache of gold on the ship. Tragg points out that Magovern went ashore at Ensenada each week the past eight. Tragg suggests Mason “go fishing.” “But the fish aren’t biting,” responds Mason. / Sneider, who is a consulting chemist, tells Mason and Drake that he now realizes that searching for kelp only in Mexican waters was an excuse for the weekly trips. He tried to fire drunken Charlie Bender but Magovern, who ran everything, liked him. / Rita admits that she’s “one of those women who always love the wrong man,” then says that she hates boats and the roof was falling in on her husband. The police found a map of the (Alchemy) gold mine in Karl's luggage. He was “planning a half million dollar robbery, and he wouldn't even give her enough to pay the gas bill.” / Drake questions Ben Wylie about his interest in Rita. He's just a growing boy. Max is filling his diving tanks. He hasn't been paid by Sneider. / Drake reports that the police are looking for a man, probably connected with the gold robbery, named Leon Ulrich (the photo is of the balding security man). The glass with the poison had Magovern and Cahill's fingerprints. Cahill was broke. Magovern hadn't paid the $1000 per trip. A lot of money to be owed unless he was an accomplice. / Cahill tells Mason that, just before they sailed the last time, Magovern promised to pay from a Mexican bank when they got to Ensenada. The digitalis came from an earlier customer with heart trouble. Tragg enters with a damning report; the medicine cabinet has only Cahill's fingerprints, was locked, and Cahill had the key. When Tragg reminds Mason that he had suggested he “go fishing,” Mason counters that he’ll wait until he can go with Magovern. // [5-8] In court Sneider admits to D A Hamilton Burger that Magovern went ashore in Ensenada on each trip. He found Magovern lying in a hotel corridor, bloodied from a fight with Cahill, on their penultimate trip. Mason gets him to admit that Cahill only left to get a doctor, he did not run away. He tells Mason that Magovern had not put up his share in their company, but he had. Yes, he's in desperate straits because Magovern didn't pay him. Burger asks where was he that night. Playing gin rummy with Rita is his answer. Wylie says Cahill and Magovern went to fill the fuel tank. Cahill and Magovern argued loudly at the gas dock. Cahill had said, “with that cast on you leg, you’d sink like a rock.” Wylie was at the wheel from then until midnight. Mason then shames him over his interest in Rita, which caused Magovern to kick him out of a hotel bar. Yet because of his respect for the old man he kept working without pay! Rita was in the cabin outside her husband's room throughout from just after the poison had to have been administered. Burger rehashes how noone could have been with Magovern in his shipboard room, except Cahill. Mason confronts her; why did she “go on all those boat trips to Mexico?” She cared for Karl. Wasn’t she afraid he’d go ashore and never return, with well over a hundred thousand collected by him in insurance claims when their Palm Springs house burned down? As Max goes to the stand, Mason gets a note from Drake via Street delivered by George. // [6-8] Drake walks into a bar in a small town east of the kelp bed, asks the Mexican bartender for a beer. He notices a still-smoking cigarette butt, then shows the bartender the picture of Ulrich, who is hiding in a back room. He phones Mason to tell him that Ulrich has been seen there. Mason tells Drake to “watch for the light in the belfry.” Drake doesn’ understand. Mason adds, that he’ll know when he’s coming, “one if by land, two if by sea.” / Mason requests a 48 hour recess, to which Burger concurs. Mason provides a lengthy explanation as to why to the judge. / Max, Wylie, Sneider, Mason and Burger are sailing with the coast guard. Mason explains why gold would be smuggled, not in many, but one trip. They reach a large kelp bed, the thickest they found, says Sneider. At full speed, they trigger a pressure buoy. Max, whom Mason suggests once served aboard a mine sweeper, admits that he took all the gold down the last trip, in his aqualung pressure tanks! He simply made a deal with Charlie Bender to take over on this one trip. Magovern didn't know about the gold. Max is not a murderer, as Perry notes that “anyone who could carry out such a masterful plan wouldn’t spoil it with a murder.” / Perry explains to Rita and Hamilton that Max put some of the gold where it would be found to throw suspicion elsewhere. He had Leon Ulrich act as a process server to chase Karl back to Mexico. Had she found out about the $100,000 and her fur coats being hidden by her husband in Ensenada and that her husband was finally leaving her? The poisonous digitalis was in the whiskey bottle which has been found broken where she threw it. Rita admits that Karl could have divorced her in Mexico,and she'd not even get her mink coat back. // [7-8] Mason and Drake are fishing on Cahill's boat. Ulrich has been arrested. Rita found the digitalis, used it after the fact to throw suspicion on anyone on the boat, should a problem arise. Mason hooks a sailfish. [8-8 end credits] [50:51]

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132

Posthumous Painter

11 Nov 61

22195

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Clint Miller

Jason Evers

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Jack Culross

Britt Lomond

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Walter Hutchings

James Griffith

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Judge

Nelson Leigh

Austin Durrant

Stuart Erwin

Robert Shelby

John McNamara

Dr Vincent Kenyon

George Macready

Woman

Vera Marshe

Linda Burnside

Carol Rossen

Deputy

Don Lynch

Edna Culross

Lori March

Resident

Paul Barselow

David Gideon

Karl Held

Postal Inspector (Johnson)

Chuck Hamilton

Lt Anderson

Wesley Lau

[Sgt Brice

Lee Miller]

Produced by Arthur Marks & Art Seid Directed by Bernard L Kowalski Teleplay by Richard Grey

[2-5/1-9 Title credits] [2-9] A man in a Buick convertible drives down to the seashore He writes a note on a ledger; “Edna, this is the only way, Jack.” He clips it to the steering wheel, then smokes a cigarette, and finally dives into the water with his clothes and shoes on and swims away. / The police arrive to hear the story of man's finding the suicide note. “We get all sorts of odd balls coming to the beach.” The car has Durrant’s Art Galleries on the side. / On Castle Rock beach at night, a man signals with a flash light. The suicidal man comes swimming in. He meets Austin (Durrant), who has a coat, and some “sauce,” for him, Jack Culross, artist, who comments, “it went like a dream.” The Los Angeles Chronicle announces his death. // [3-9] A “for sale” sign is displayed at the Durrant Art Galleries. All that is left of Culross's work is sketches. Durrant is telling Edna Culross and her brother Clint (Miller) that Jack wasted his talent. His paintings have begun to sell due to articles by Vincent Kenyon. She plans to move out of the country (within a week, to Panama). He waxes glowingly over a sketch of “Three Witches.” He offers $5,000 cash for the paintings in the studio; she “wouldn’t have to bother probating the estate.” / Durrant drives to an oceanside cottage where he finds Culross doing a great painting. “Art dealers are percentage parasites, fattening off other men’s talent.” Durrant wishes Culross would “paint a little faster.” The painter pours himself a drink. / Later, at the opening of the Culross exhibit at the Durrant Gallery, a woman who has already purchased “Moonscape” and “Tenement Shadows” asks Dr Vincent Kenyon his advice on a third purchase. He suggests “Spectre in Black.” (Linda) Burnside agrees the show is better than a 50% sell out. Clint and Edna have come and they see the "Three Witches," finished, though it was not when she sold it to Durrant. / Edna with Clint tells Perry Mason that the painting was finished after Jack's death. She came back after seeing a photo in the Panama newspaper. Jack, she says, painted in fits and starts, and alone, so she doesn’t know if others are fakes. But she knows “Three Witches” is a forgery. David asks her about the paint thickness of Jack’s paintings. She leaves. David Gideon then explains to Della Street and Mason how, with a thermocouple, it can be determined how recently paint was put on a canvas. / A man slashes one painting several times. Mason offers, if it can be authenticated, to buy the Three Witches, but Dr Kenyon has bought it. / Culross tells Durrant to close the exhibit immediately. / “I like it, but I’m afraid I don’t know much about art” says Gideon. Mason responds, “A good art is like music; it should be enjoyed, not disected.” Kenyon, who was first to recognize Culross’ talent, allows Gideon and Mason to test the painting, which he says is authentic Culross. Gideon waves the thermocouple as Mason reads the temperature. Outside the gallery, Mason confirms to Gideon that a third of the painting was done six days after the artist died. / Burnside informs Durrant that the bank package won't be ready until six, when he has to be in San Diego. She suggests she'll pick up the package at the bank, leave it at the gallery, and deliver another item to Pasadena. Culross has overheard this. He pours himself a drink, then demands a key to the gallery's back door so that he can pick up his share. Then he says, he leaves with his widow driving. Jack then phones his widow. / At the Durrant gallery a man (the slasher) leaves. Edna enters and is greeted by Jack, who tells her this trick is worth $80,000 tax free. She rejects him. “Start over again with you, Jack. I’d rathe die.” She says that she’s going to call the police and goes out to her car. He gets a gun and pulls her out of the car. She bites his arm, pushes him against the car. He falls to the ground. When he comes to, he says, “No, no, don’t be a fool.” // [4-9] Edna tells Perry, Paul Drake, Della and David that she just ran, leaving her purse behind. Jack is “really sick.” / At the gallery, Gideon finds Edna's purse, but the car is gone. Drake smells a bullet from a small caliber gun recently fired. / A policeman pulls over Edna's car on the Malibu Beach road. / Drake informs Mason and Gideon that Clint Miller was driving Edna's car and he's being held on suspicion of murder. Jack Culross was found in the back of the car, dead. / In jail Mason warns Miller, “Don’t underestimate the police.” They'll connect Burnside, Mrs Culross, Durrant and even the package. Miller says that he thought Culross was injured and only realized that he was dead later. He wanted to know what Edna’d done before the body was found. Edna left a note for him saying that she'd heard from her husband and was meeting him at the gallery. / Edna tells Mason and Street that she never fired the gun. They are rehashing the situation when Lieutenant Anderson and Sergeant Brice arrive to arrest her, having found the note. Mason is “more than convinced” Edna is not guilty. / Drake and Gideon go to Walter Hutchings apartment and meet him, the slasher, as he arrives. Friend to Culross? “Like a rattlesnake is a friend.” When Drake identifies him as the slasher, he refuses to cooperate. / Drake notes that Hutchings is on parole from the Huntsville, TX, penitentiary. He was curator of a Dallas university art gallery and was sent up on art bunko. Drake is told to look into the issue of the package the secretary delivered to the gallery. / 4-engine plane in the air. / In Dallas Robert Shelby says Hutchings made only an error of judgment in buying a brilliant fake Matisse, "Blue Waters," from a guy named Peters, who skipped. He recognizes Culross as Peters, then shows them the fake. / Which twin they see in Los Angeles. // [5-9] In court D A Hamilton Burger has Lt Anderson identify the murder bullets and the defendant's note to her brother. Miller, after being granted immunity, reluctantly identifies the note. Hutchings, who still faces charges for the slashing, identifies Edna as the woman who drove up to the gallery shortly before the murder. Linda Burnside testifies that she left the bank package at the gallery before 7:30. Mason tries to get her, who was Durrant’s personal secretary, to admit that she knew what was in the package. Burger counters with the admission by Edna that Culross “had the money in his possession when she arrived.” Durrant was certain Culross was going to fly out of the country, until he told him that his wife was going to drive him. Culross, regarding the air ticket, said "it was taken care of." He inventoried the gallery the next day because tapestries had been knocked off the wall, folded and stacked. Kenyon uses the law of supply and demand to describe while a dead painter’s work would rise in value. He admits that he was the victim of fraud in this posthumous exhibition. / London has sent proof to Mason that Kenyon's "Blue Waters" is a fake. Where is the money may be key to solving the crime. // [6-9] Mason bores in on Kenyon’s fake Matisse, “Blue Waters.” "Was Culross blackmailing you in order to promote his career?" Mason asks Kenyon. The witness won't answer. Burnside says Kenyon helped promote the Culross show. Did Kenyon promote anyon else? Not that she can remember. The murderer, Durrant, Miller or Mrs Culross, plus a fourth, knew that Culross was alive and knew as well of the money package which he killed for. Burger thinks Mason is denigrating Kenyon, but that is not the target Mason had in mind. The judge admonishes Burger for the court wants Mason “to follow this line of reasoning to the end. Mason continues. When she left the package, the tapestries were still hanging. Burnside admits one could have hidden in the gallery storage room and overheard Culross's intended double-cross of Durrant and the murderer's accomplice. When Mrs Culross arrived early, the murderer had to get the money safely out of the building. She admits there were mailing boxes and stamps in the office, and a mail box nearby. Mason has subpoenaed the package, which Deputy Postal Inspector Johnson brings to court. The name to which it has been mailed must be the murderer. The courtroom is hushed as the Deputy Postal Inspector places the package on the rail before Burnside. The name on the package is Linda Burnside. “I don’t want it. It’s just that he didn’t need me. I don’t want it,” she cries. // [7-9] Mason explains to the gathering that Burnside was in love with Culross and had purchased two plane tickets for Mexico City. Durrant is in jail. Dr Kenyon has been fired from his curatorial post. [8-9 end credits] [50:55]

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133

Injured Innocent

18 Nov 61

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Walter Eastman

Jess Barker

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Erin Mooney

Linda Lawson

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Ralph Townley

Phil Arthur

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Dr Bell

Raymond Bailey

Kirby Evans

John Conte

Ellis

Noel Drayton

Dr Mooney

Frank Maxwell

Judge

S John Launer

Kate Eastman

Audrey Dalton

Autopsy Surgeon

Pitt Herbert

Vincent Danielli

Alejandro Rey

Secretary

Cindy Ames

Lt Anderson

Wesley Lau

Sgt Brice

Lee Miller

Produced by Arthur Marks & Art Seid Directed by Bernard L Kowalski Teleplay by Paul Franklin

[3-5/1-9 Title credits] [2-9] Kirby (Evans) and (Ralph) Townley are joined by (Erin) Mooney. “Only three days before the big race,” says Kirby. “My father says ‘only an accident’ can keep us from winning.” They discuss the new racer's engine and the importance of a test before the race. The racer is unloaded and Vincent (Danielli) is told by Professor (Dr) Mooney to listen to the engine to determine when to shift. Kate and Walter Eastman arrive in a Jaguar. Kate is greeted by brother Kirby. Vincent asks Erin for a kiss, gets one. He begins a test run, then spins the car off the track. // [3-9] Dr Bell tells the gathered throng that he doesn't know why Vincent cannot walk. “A day or so should bring him back to normal.” Kate Eastman, alone with Vincent; they kiss. He tells her that he caused the accident and is faking paralysis. He rolled the car so he wouldn’t have to race, after which he’d be sent back to Italy. He knows she’s unhappy with Walter. “You’re not getting too interested in Danielli, are you?” “For a year you’ve been telling me about the succession of women my husband’s been interested in. Why shouldn’t I have the same right to happiness”“ He’s been provoking her. Should she expose him and dirty his name just to get a divorce? She “couldn’t hate him enough to do that.” / Mooney asserts that Danielli intentionally wrecked the car and it will take a month to repair. Townley says that it will take five weeks to repair the engine. Evans tells partner Eastman that he should still want the engine. Eastman says he’ll make his own decision. / In Perry Mason’s office Eastman explains the Mooney rotary engine to Mason and Della Street. He demanded proof of the engine’s capabilities. He's bailing out of the project. He doesn't like Danielli whom he believes to be dishonest and instructs Mason to pay him off. He’s just no longer interested. He wants Danielli and the contract, which is with Mooney and Evans, taken care of by the next day. / Danielli tells Mason he’ll be gone when he’s well and there is no obligation. Mason informs him that Eastman has arranged to fly him back to Italy, tomorrow. When Mason leaves, Kate and Walter meet. He'll eat at the club and she'll be at Gloria Foster's party. Vincent lies to Kate that he was offered not one penny and has to leave the house tomorrow. He mentions her upcoming trip to San Francisco where her husband will send her off to the opera, “alone, like an unwanted piece of furniture.” She muses; “San Francisco could be so wonderful.” He woos her, says he wants to live for love. He suggests that he steal the club receipts ($5,000) Walter will bring home that evening. He kisses her. She get a flat tire on the way to the party, call her husband at the club to come help. Later he'll steal the money out of the car. They can’t suspect him for he’s paralyzed! / At night Kate drives Danielli to the robbery site, gets out of her car, understands then that Vincent intends to kill Walter. He passionately pleads his love. “When you strike a match, the fire you create is of your own making.” He pleads, “because I love you.” She makes the phone call, but to warn her husband, and is told by the North Hollywood Hills club secretary that she is too late for “the board meeting broke up a half hour ago.” / The Mooney's pick her up. / They find her car run off the road and upside down. She hysterically calls “Walter, but it is Danielli who is dead. // [4-9] Eastman tells Mason and Paul Drake that he didn't go to the club but just parked at "the horseshoe turn." He was there for a couple of hours to think about things. Evans heard Eastman return home about 9:30. He was in the garage with Mooney who was ready to commit mayhem on Danielli, who thought the engine was the cause of the accident. He checked the car and Mooney was right that the engine didn't cause the flip over. Earlier he thought he heard Ralph Townley of Columbia Motors, who had the production rights to the Mooney engine, arguing with Danielli, because it was Townley's car parked outside. Mooney was not with him when he checked the engine. Erin Mooney enters and Walter leaves. Sounds of a police car send Mason out. / Outside, Mason encounters Lieutenant Anderson and Sergeant Brice of homicide, rather than the traffic division, looking at a car wheel. Butler Ellis comes to Mason, who gives him instructions to order a cab and tell Drake to meet him at the club. / Mason talks with Dr Mooney who asserts that lots of people had reason to hate Mooney. He tried to see Danielli earlier and saw Townley’s car. He suggests that Townley might be bribing Danielli to make his engine look bad. Ellis reports that the cab is waiting. Ellis shows Mason a $1,000 check from Townley to Danielli. / Townley tells Mason and Drake that his job was to check the engine for Eastman and he wrote a check to Danielli for his opinion. Danielli wanted more, but $1,000 was all he’d offer. He left Danielli at 8:30 and arrived at the club about ten. / Dr Bell, Lt Anderson, Mason, Eastman and others view Kate, in a delirium, repeat her words to Danielli and the club secretary. ”I won’t let you kill Walter . . .” Then Eastman repeats his "horseshoe turn" story to Andy. / Sgt Brice has found no tire marks at the horseshoe turn, but Andy found the marks within feet of where Danielli was murdered. Andy places him ”under arrest for murder.” // [5-9] In jail Mason wants to know from Eastman why he spent two hours at the horseshoe bend. Eastman responds that Ellis saw Danielli forcing his attentions on Kate. That was what he was thinking about. He realized he'd taken young, lovely Kate for granted and “robbed her of every chance for happiness.” / In court D A Hamilton Burger shows the autopsy surgeon a wrench. It had hairs and blood of the same type as the dead man. Ellis tells Burger that he saw Danielli making love to Miss Mooney and to Mr Eastman's wife. Eastman fired him, then, later, rehired him and ordered him to forget what he'd seen and said. Burger recapitulates the prosecutor’s case. Dr Mooney says that he’d forbidden his daughter, Erin, from seeing Danielli, but she went to him that evening. Erin heard Danielli argue with, and get threatened violently by, Eastman, who ”wouldn’t put up with it any longer.” Walter begs Mason not to bring the entire affair out into the open. Mason honors his request by passing on cross-examination. Andy states that the wrench was found ten yards from the body. Mason stipulates to tire tracks. A cigar, found at the murder scene, is of “a distinctive imported variety’ made for Eastman. // [6-9] Kate is still bed-ridden. Did she know Walter was planning to divorce her months earlier? She admits to Mason that she was a fool over Danielli. Yet she knew of Walter's other affairs; ”Heaven help us, I still love him.” / Back in court Evans testifies that he saw Danielli both early in the eve and after he was dead. The voice he heard arguing with Danielli could have been Ralph Townley. Townley says that after his argument with Danielli he drove around and got back to the club about 10:30. Burger reiterates some factors, then his examination leads to his conclusion that it was Eastman’s quarrel with Danielli, not what Ellis told him, that caused Eastman to cancel his dinner with Townley at the club. Mason suggests that Townley gave a large payment to Danielli before the $1,000 check, to tell Eastman “that the motor was no good.” Didn't he fight with Danielli because he wanted much more than $1,000? Della brings Mason a note which prompts him to recall Lt Anderson, who reads a list of what was found in the broken-open glove compartment of Eastman's car. There is a battery guarantee, but none on the tires. What happened is that the tires were switched on similar cars, the murderers and Eastman's. Anderson raises the issue of how long it takes to change tires. Only the owner of the car with which they were switched, Kirby Evans, could have done that. Evans confesses ”He deserved to be killed.” Mason suggests that he wanted to control his sister Kate and, through her, her husband and his fortune. Evans then explains everything including seeing Walter at the horseshoe turn, getting the cigar that Walter had smoked, the changing of wheels and the missing tire marks at the horseshoe turn which he rubbed out. He could get all of Walter’s money! His greed has betrayed him. // [7-9] Mason, Drake and Street explain to the Eastman's how Evans lied to them about each other's affairs, none of which happened. Drake reports that the car with the Mooney engine has won the Palisades race! So, will Eastman exercise his option. Depends on his lawyer! Mason says it can be worked out. [8-9 end credits] [50:50]

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134

Left-Handed Liar

25 Nov 61

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Rhonda Houseman

Joan Banks

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Dr Harrison Berry

Richard Derr

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Miss Clara Prentice

Amzie Strickland

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Judge

Kenneth MacDonald

Lt Tragg

Ray Collins

Lab Technician

John Harmon

Ward Nichols

Ed Nelson

Masters

Claude Stroud

Veronica Temple

Leslie Parrish

Fat Woman (Mrs Dwyer)

Barbara Pepper

Bernard Daniels

Les Tremayne

Handwriting Expert

Wallace Rooney

Casey Daniels

Maggie Pierce

Mr Baxter

Henry Hunter

David Gideon

Karl Held

Policeman

John Reach

Lt Anderson

Wesley Lau

Woman Fencer

Cynthia Patrick

Buzz Farrell

Dabbs Greer

Sgt Brice

Lee Miller

Eugene Houseman

Alan Baxter

Produced by Arthur Marks Directed by Jerry Hooper Teleplay by Jonathan Latimer

[4-5/1-9 Title credits] [2-9] At Health House (Veronica) Temple is giving instructions to four ladies. One who is quite fat (Mrs Dwyer) tries but fails to touch her toes. “I simply can’t reach any lower, Miss Temple” she complains, “it hurts.” “It’s supposed to hurt!” she’s told. She tries harder. Ward (Nichols) enters and Veronica goes to him, warns him that he must have the money by Friday “or the roof falls in.” “Can’t you see I have to have the money if I’m to do what you want me to do?” “If I could only believe you” he responds. She says she’ll do anything he says; “but say it by Friday.” (Casey) Daniels, a fencer, has watched, concerned. // [3-9] David Gideon and Ward end a game of handball. As Casey approaches them, David boasts “Law student beats former all-American.” Casey asks Ward what is wrong. She overheard Veronica ask him for money. They are to be married, so should have no secrets. He reminds her that she has enough trouble of her own persuading her father that they should marry. / Bernard Daniels asks bookkeeper (Clara) Prentice about four checks totaling $7,000 made out to and cashed by ABC Sporting Goods Company. She says that she's never seen the checks. Eugene Houseman, who signed the checks, says he recognizes his signature, but doesn't recognize the company. Daniels thinks of forgery and that there is only one employee he didn't pass on, Ward Nichols. Casey defends Nichols and Bernard reminds her that he's her guardian. Didn't Ward ask Houseman for a loan? He calls his insurance company. / Casey finds Veronica demonstrating a machine to the fat woman, who quickly leaves. Veronica tells she “wouldn’t take him (Ward) as a gift.“ “But you would take his money” counters Casey. “Why don’t you get lost!” is all Veronica has to say as she stalks off. / Mason is dictating regarding a seven-year law when David Gideon enters, then brings Casey to him and Della Street. Veronica is Ward's ex-wife, which has been kept from Bernard because he won't employ anyone who's been divorced or who smokes or drinks. She thinks Veronica may be doing the stealing. He cannot represent Ward without his permission. Paul Drake enters, tells them he just investigated Veronica, for Bernard Daniels! No final decree has been issued in her divorce. / Veronica is being nuzzled by (Dr) Harrison (Berry) when (Rhonda) Houseman arrives, looking for her husband. Veronica calls for Buzz Farrell, who is drinking. He's instructed to get Houseman, who is playing handball with Daniels. They take note of Buzz's condition. Rhonda points out that were it not for his drinking, he'd been a partner long ago. “Just think of the pleasure Buzz would have gotten out of discharging someone like you>” Buzz approaches the handball court, takes a swig from his bottle, then encounters Ward. Buzz gives Houseman the message, is caught by Daniels with an almost empty pint bottle and is sent to the locker room, then he’ll be fired. Buzz threatens “I’ll break his neck.” With the others gone, Daniels asks Nichols if he has any good reason why he shouldn't send him to jail. / Casey, Mason and Gideon arrive to take Buzz to dinner. They almost trip over a broken whiskey bottle and find Bernard Daniels, dead. // [4-9] Lieutenants Tragg and Anderson and Sergeant Brice investigate with Mason and Gideon present. They find Buzz out cold drunk and the twin of the murder weapon, a dumbbell, in his locker. Miss Prentice has been found upstairs. / A handwriting expert explains to Mason, Street, Casey and Houseman the faults in the forged check signature. Houseman is relieved, an d eaves as Drake enters. Drake reports that Nichols is missing. Veronica has a boyfriend, Dr Berry. Ward's bloody fingerprint was on the broken whiskey bottle. David calls to say that Ward is with him . . . Ward had a wrestling match with Daniels, and cut his hand on the broken bottle He went to Dr Berry to have it fixed. Then he heard of the murder, looked for Casey, then Veronica . . . Mason asks why Veronica wanted money. Six weeks in Nevada! Proof? Dr Berry? / Mason sees Dr Berry and asks him about a medical report that he gave Veronica concerning her pregnancy. When Mason leaves, Veronica enters from an adjacent room. She notes that Daniels was dead when she went to her appointment with him. / Drake is at ABC Sporting Goods where he is met by Mr Masters who explains the lease to J P Jones of the now-vacated company. / Gideon goes to pick up clothes for Nichols and is caught by Lt Anderson and Sgt Brice. They have a search warrant and they've found scratch paper with Houseman's signature, a copy of a lease for the ABC Sporting Goods Company and two bank statements. A phone call reveals that Nichols has been picked up on first-degree murder. // [5-9] In jail Mason lights a cigarette while Ward explains how he discovered only two week ago that he was not divorced. Ward continues with his whole story. Drake reports two more forged checks, totaling $75,000. / In court a lab technician tells D A Hamilton Burger that the murder weapon, the dumbbell, has no fingerprints. Mason objects to an opinion of the witness but, because the witness is an “expert,” the objection is overruled. Ward Nichols' fingerprints are on the broken whiskey bottle. Lt Anderson identifies the items found in Nichols' apartment. Mason makes the point that what Anderson found may have been “planted,” not “hidden.” Houseman testifies that he took Buzz to the locker room but Buzz got another bottle and passed out before he could get him in the shower. He went to report to Daniels, but Daniels was arguing with Nichols, so he took a shower, then went upstairs to his wife. Mason suggests that Houseman snuck out of the locker and killed Daniels while Buzz was out cold. Buzz says that he couldn't have seen who took the dumbbell from his locker. He hated Daniels and is glad he’s dead but didn't kill him. Dr Berry admits that he reported to Veronica “that she was going to have a child.” Veronica testifies to Ward's saying that he'd get the money any way he could when she told him of her child and her wish to complete the divorce. // [6-9] Paul joins Perry, Casey and Della at dinner. Veronica had a high school marriage and no divorce. There were also no lab tests on her. Prentice is in love with Farrell. There is nothing on Berry other than the lab lie. Rhonda was Daniels secretary up to a year ago and Eugene was a handball champ. Mason exclaims, “Paul, you’re a genius.” $82,245 is the total missing. Buzz paid his bookie $245 recently, from horse betting. / Clara Prentice admits to taking the $245 from petty cash for Buzz and not replacing it from her savings account before the audit. Questioned, she says Daniels had asked her to make out a check for what he owed Veronica, whom “he was either going to fire her or expose her.” She opens a secret drawer and they discover $75,000 in bills. / Back in court the handwriting expert says that the two checks totaling $75,000 plus the scratch paper signatures are the same person. Mason has the courtroom cleared of witnesses. Then Mason asks about the slant of the handwriting. The forger was left-handed. With everyone back, Mason asks Dr Berry about his signature on a lab report and forces him to admit to forging the report. He asks Berry to copy Houseman's signature. Berry starts with the pen in his right hand, so Mason stops him. Mason confronts Veronica with her high school marriage, which means she was blackmailing Nichols since she wasn't legally married to him. Why did she want a copy of the report? Who else was she blackmailing? She also writes right-handed. Mason questions Houseman, then tosses him a handball. He catches it with his left hand. He is ambidextrous. He admits that he used his left hand for the forgeries. Veronica demanded $7,000 more than he could get without letting his wife or Daniels know that he was the father of her child. Daniels found out and forced him to write a confession and forge two more checks. He was over-extended with a new swimming pool and ice skating rink and would use the insurance money to pay off the creditors. He gave Bernard the $75,000. When Mason pushes him as the murderer, Rhonda stands and admits to the murder. She saw Eugene's confession and knew Bernard would squeeze them forever. She waited until Daniels was alone in the handball court. Then she took the confession, not the money, for she's not a thief. // [7-9] Back at Health House, Casey and Ward thank Perry. Paul asks Della why Perry thought him a genius. Because he reminded Perry that Houseman was a handball champ and handball players are often ambidextrous. As is Della, who uses her left hand to turn on the machine horse upon which Paul is sitting. Perry, Della and David leave Paul fighting to stay on the horse. [8-9 end credits] [50:53]

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135

Brazen Bequest

2 Dec 61

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Prof Grove

James Millhollin

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Judge

Charles Irving

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Julia Slovak

Elvia Allman

Mary Cromwell

Phyllis Avery

Dr Hunterlin

Nelson Olmsted

Dr Marcus Tate

Alan Hewett

Jerry

Dick Whittinghill

(Dr) Charles Cromwell

Karl Weber

Rafael Sandoval

Ernest Sarracino

Sgt Landro

Mort Mills

Nurse Talbot

Sally Mills

Dick Wilson

John Wilder

Cabby

Charles Tanner

Maizie Freitag

Barbara Stuart

Autopsy Surgeon

Frank Behrens

Pete Gibson

Strother Martin

Jonas

Morris Erby

Deputy D A Horner

Joseph Julian

Motel Clerk

Herbert Lytton

Robert Haskell

William Allyn

Deputy Sheriff

Richard Geary

James Vardon

Will Wright

College Girl

Sandy Shaffer

Produced by Art Seid Directed by Arthur Marks Teleplay by Robert Leslie Bellem

[5-5/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A student (Dick Wilson) walks up to a campus building to the strains of “Gaudameus Igitur.“ Inside, Dr (Charles) Cromwell, the future Euclid College president tells Wilson that the cover of “The Euclid Vanguard” is indiscreet (a high-stepping majorette) because of a potential million dollar endowment from James Vardon, who is strait-laced. Then Mark (Dr Marcus Tate) warns Cromwell about (Robert) Haskell, who is organizing the graduation ceremony. “There is no benefactor like Vardon and Robert Haskell is his prophet,” intones Tate. Outside, Mrs (Mary) Cromwell offers Haskell tea but he says “no,” everything must be just right for Mr Vardon at the commencement. She asks Pete (Gibson) to bring sandwiches. Haskell heads off to continue preparations and Pete suggests that Haskell seems properly concerned. Cromwell joins Haskell and others as the layout is being considered. Haskell suggests that it would be special if Vardon arrived during the ceremony, just like the approaching cab. A woman, drunk, falls out of the cab and makes a fool of herself, then gets back in the cab wanting to see "Curly." // [3-8] Cromwell is trying to locate the cab when Wilson arrives with a new cover. He had thoughts of a box asking “Curly to come forward,” then notes that the woman in the cab had a heart attack. Mary Cromwell joins them. Then after Dick leaves with his cover approved, she wonders about her husband being preoccupied. It is only over the Vardon endowment, he submits. Haskell phones that Vardon is on the way . . . Vardon notes Haskell’s dislike of Cromwell, who asserts that it is only that, after the endowment, he won’t have so much of Vardon’s funds to manage. Vardon considers the loss of his job might be Haskell’s reason. He believes that Cromwell is the kind of upright man to make good use of his money which he has little time to use himself. / At the hospital, nurse Talbot offers to get some refreshment for Cromwell but he says he’s alright. Maizie (Freitag), the drunk woman, wakes and recognizes her "Curly," the nicest thing to happen in her whole life. She tells the nurse they have much to remember and mentions high life in Panama. She apologizes for the scene she made. She mentions the money that she’s stashed, which she wants to go to a student. She has an attack and Dr Hunterlin is called in. “You had such pretty, wavy hair” is her dying statement. Cromwell begins to explain to Dr Hunterlin his relationship to her when the nurse interrupts to say hoe much fun Mazie must have been. Maizie left a written statement , “a surprise for Curly,” but it has disappeared. / Jonas, an orderly, says that he mailed a letter, a will, for Maizie. / Cromwell explains to Perry Mason and Della Street how Maizie Freitag saved him from an ugly situation. Because of the Vardon gift and a Sumner Foundation gift, also $1 million, he wants the relationship kept concealed. This means suppressing the will which is worth only $2000. Mason says that Paul Drake can try to find where the will is to hold off probate. / Cromwell locates Maizie's cabby, who tells where she stayed. / The Travelcrest Lodge clerk says Freitag's room was paid for by Robert Haskell. The bartender Jerry reveals that Haskell tipped him for stocking Freitag's room with liquor before she checked in. He also tipped a cab driver to pick her up later and deliver her to a college campus to surprise an old friend. / Cromwell pounds on Haskell's apartment door; it opens. / Paul Drake reports what Cromwell has already found out to Mason and Street. / Paul and Perry go to Haskell's, find him dead. // [4-8] Sergeant Landro confirms Mason and Drake's discovery of the body. Vardon barges in right by a deputy sheriff demanding to know what is being done. Haskell had no enemies. Mason counters with "he had one." / Mary Cromwell returns from shopping, answers the phone, but we don’t know who is on the line. She asks why she shouldn’t answer the bell. She leaves the phone off the hook to answer the bell. It is Perry Mason, who notices the off-hook phone when she gets him a snapshot of her husband. Mason leaves. Mary returns to the phone and queries “you did what?” / Mason traces Cromwell's steps first through the motel clerk. The clerk notes that a student (Wilson) was there with the woman who is in Mason’s snapshot, and came back for her handbag. / Mary Cromwell asks Dick why he fought with Haskell (so it was he on the phone). To protect her from scandal, he answers that in the cocktail br he slipped a love poem in her hand bag, then decided he had to get it back. / Cromwell has the purse and reads the poem. He burns it. / Dr Tate is cornered by Mason regarding Wilson’s relationship to Mrs Cromwell. Drake reports that the will has not been probated and the nurse has said Maizie was calling for a "Curly Oliver." Sgt Landro is talking to Professor Grove, but Mason is waylaid by Dr Tate who reveals where Cromwell might be. / Cromwell hurries across campus, into a building. He dials, but Mary finds her husband where Tate said he’d be. He tells her that he found and burned the poem. He also found her hand bag where she left it, in Haskell's hotel room. They see Drake outside. On Tate's advice, Mason now finds the two and, when he calls Cromwell "Curly," the jig is up, as Sgt Landro arrives to take him to headquarters. // [5-8] In court the autopsy surgeon tells Deputy D A Horner how he believes the murder occurred, at no earlier than five of two. Young Wilson met with Haskell about one. He identifies Mary’s hand bag. Under Mason's withering cross-examination, he admits to going to the room but not entering when he heard Pete (Gibson) demanding unpaid money. The judge has Gibson stopped from leaving the courtroom in order to question him directly. Gibson was out of the room before the time set for death. Dr Tate is called to attest to this by Deputy D A Horner. He does, and also supplies himself an alibi by saying that he saw Gibson back at the campus at two o'clock. A motel maid (Julia Slovak?) saw Cromwell coming down the stairs with the hand bag. / Prof Grove testifies that Haskell was merely “a go-between for Mr Vardon.” Horner asks Vardon if on what he was paid he could have invested three-quarters of a million on highly speculative stocks that have gone down a quarter of a million? From a list of securities Vardon realizes that Haskell, using his power of attorney, had put up his own securities and now couldn't cover his loses. Which is why Haskell was actually trying to prevent Vardon from giving the college his gift. Vardon was unaware of this until after the death. Now Horner, examining Sgt Landro, launches into a diatribe, claiming Cromwell is the Curly referred to by Maizie Freitag who was a bar girl in Panama City 26 years earlier when the defendant was involved in a barroom stabbing, which charge in Panama is still outstanding. // [6-8] Drake sees little hope for Cromwell. Mason counters that the man was then a kid of seventeen, a stranger and scared. / An airplane in flight. / Mason flies to his friend in Panama, Rafael Sandoval, who provides Mason a list of all who were involved in the brawl that resulted in the stabbing. Because the victim was his older brother, it is he who has made the list that is more complete than the police records. / Back in court Gibson says that he was owed $300 by Haskell. He got his job at Euclid College a decade earlier with a note to Cromwell from Maizie Freitag. Mazie had told him to not mention their friendship to Cromwell. Alright, says Gibson, he told Haskell, who was looking for a way to discredit Cromwell, that Cromwell knew Maizie. Haskell sent for Maizie, but put Gibson's signature on the note. Now he wanted a lot more than $300. Tate confirms seeing Gibson, but Mason notes that several students saw him downtown tinkering with his car. Mason suggests that, by giving Gibson an alibi, he was creating one for himself, thereby exposing Tate's false alibi, as well as his former involvement at a small New England college where a coed tried to slash her wrist. Grove admits to having access to faculty personnel records. Tate jumps up and admits that he got so angry when Haskell brought this up. Haskell was trying to ruin his best friends the Cromwells. Haskell hit him. He struck Haskell and knocked him down. He didn't move. He calls himself “disgusting” for almost letting his best friend be tried for murder. // [7-8] To the strains of "Gaudeamus Igitur," Perry leaves the administration building and joins Della and Paul. Cromwell is telling Vardon he cannot accept his million until he receives the $2000 from Maizie's will, to help male students. Mason announces that Sandoval decided not to pursue the matter; all that matters is that the stabber was not Cromwell. Della says that she knew it all along, for Mrs Cromwell said her husband “couldn’t have done such a thing.” “No logic, but” comments Perry, and he and Paul simultaneously exclaim, “it confirms your faith in women!” [8-8 end credits] [50:53]

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136

Renegade Refugee

9 Dec 61

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Winifred Dunbrack

Jennifer Howard

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Phyllis Merrill

Donna Atwood

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Emery Fillmore

Denver Pyle

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Judge

John Gallaudet

Father Paul

Frank Overton

Buck Osborn

William Boyett

Harlan Merrill

Dick Foran

Autopsy Surgeon

Jon Lormer

Lawrence Vander

Paul Lambert

Colonel

Robert Nash

Clifton Barlow

John Sutton

Mr Jones

Victor Izay

David Gideon

Karl Held

Lou Kouffman

Jess Kirkpatrick

Lt Anderson

Wesley Lau

Sgt Brice

Lee Miller

Arthur Hennings

Ronald Long

Miss Gibsone

Jo Summers

Produced by Art Seid Directed by Bernard L Kowalski Teleplay by Samuel Newman

[2-4/1-9 Title credits] [2-9] Newspaperman Lawrence Vander to see (Clifton) Barlow is announced by Miss Gibson. When he comes in, Vander is greeted with a list of his “title” which include “liar.” Vander admits that he's not there to do research for a feature story on Space Associates Ltd. More importantly, he has proof that Max Kleinerman, a top Nazi, was not killed in the Battle of the Bulge, but switched uniforms and identification with a dead soldier and is here as an executive in Barlow's company. // [3-9] Mrs (Phyllis) Merrill reports that her husband, Harlan, has been fidgety for the past couple of weeks. She thinks “something in his past has caught up with him” and he either plans to leave her or commit suicide. Since he has an appointment with Perry Mason, she came early. / At a meeting of company executives, Barlow tells Harlan Merrill that he wants the sale of Space Research American Division to go smoothly, so he and Emery Fillmore will make their financial records available. Buck Osborn is being given orders when Miss Gibsone announces a visitor and Harlan leaves. (Winifred) Dunbrack has the security checks on employees. The company party that night is announced. / Harlan Merrill receives a passport and birth certificate from a forger who calls them a work of art. He leaves just as Vander enters to ask where Merrill served in the war. Merrill ducks the question. / David Gideon advises Merrill that Mason has been detained in court. Merrill explains that he is going away tonight for a long time and he must transfer all his assets to his wife now. He cannot wait for transfer of the documents and such. Gideon suggests a power of attorney in Mason's name. When Merrill goes to wait for the document in the adjacent room, Gideon closes a book titled Trials of War Criminals before the Nurenberg Military Tribunals. / Mason explains to Gideon that the power of attorney is not enough since it doesn't spell out Merrill’s desires and intent. David is sent out to find and bring back Merrill. / Merrill uses graphite dust to recover the writing on a note setting a meeting at 6 p m. He draws a map on note paper. Gideon finds him but Merrill tells him to forget it, that he'll take care of things himself; “Don’t try to stop me.” Gideon finds the note to which Merrill was reacting and it reads, "Merrill, The deadline is past. You didn't pay. Now I talk." Gideon tries to report to Mason. / Merrill drives up to the St Francis Retreat and is surprised to be met by Barlow, who says a small group of the company come there for weekends. Merrill thought it was a resort hotel. “It could be any of you” he reflects. / Father Paul advises Merrill that he, being of a different faith, should be prepared for fifty hours where he can listen but not speak. Barlow is assigned his retreat captain. Vander asks again about Merrill and the Battle of the Bulge. / At night Merrill tells Father Paul that he’s sunk so low . . . but the priest tells the story of a man who dug so far down that he reached the center of the earth. He continued digging, but now it was all up. Merrill admits he came to kill a man. / Merrill finds someone ransacking his room. They fight until Buck Osborn, entering, turns on the light and the intruder, Vander, leaves. / Mason, Drake and Gideon enter the retreat grounds, find Lawrence Vander dead at the side of the road. // [4-9] The police have finished investigating the crime scene and an officer waves to Drake, Gideon and Lieutenant Anderson high above. At the retreat, Father Paul says Merrill is a man deeply in debt that he cannot pay, yet he goes on as if he could. He doesn't believe Merrill is a murderer. / Lt Anderson tells the Space Associates group that Vander believed one of their five was a long missing Nazi war criminal and now Vander has been murdered. / David shows Mason the note that Merrill recovered. He has to show it to the police. Merrill says that there were four notes. The third demanded $5,000. This is when he went to Mason but got Gideon. He was being blackmailed. He finally admits that, during the Battle of the Bulge, he, an American officer, deserted his men. There was an explosion and when he came to, he was surrounded by a field of dead men. His dog tag had been clipped. He was marked Lt Philip Kuyper. / Gideon tells Della Street how Kuyper/Merrill got to the United States and started a new life. Mason notes that Vander must have thought Merrill was Kleinerman. One of the remaining five must be Kleinerman. / At the Pentagon a colonel tells Drake that the story he's told is backward. Lt Kuyper saved a man under enemy fire and was a hero, and he was killed in action. / Lieutenant Anderson, with Sergeant Brice in the background, tells Mason that $55,000 was taken from Space Associates and Merrill's suitcase held $5,000. He arrests Merrill for murder. / In court the autopsy surgeon tells D A Hamilton Burger how Vander was murdered, by a rock, which he decisivelly identifies. Barlow says that Vander told him that he was seeking a notorious long thought-dead Nazi named Max Kleinerman. Mason asks how Vander knew. Vander was in Germany when Mrs Kleinerman died. He saw a letter, unsigned, to her from her husband. The postmark was the same as the St Francis Retreat. But Merrill had not been to any previous retreat. Winifred Dunbrack identifies a copy of the security check on Merrill. The form, apparently not seen by other executives, states that Merrill was not given security clearance because records for fifteen years were absent. Emery Fillmore states that Vander knew of the missing funds, overhearing him tell Barlow. Besides himself, Merrill also had access to the books. Buck Osborn tells of seeing Vander and Merrill fight. Arthur Hennings heard two angry voices outside on the patio about midnight. He claims to have seen Merrill throw the murder rock into the bushes. // [5-9] David argues that Mason should have been informed of the surprise eye witness. Mason notes that he and Burger are not enemies, but adversaries. Della brings a report from Drake on one of the two soldiers who saw Kuyper killed in action. / In the jail Mason tells Merrill he is not Kuyper. Merrill is still filled with “shame and disgust,” but Mason says that he's “entitled to a fair trial” including appeal to the highest appellate court. / Father Paul tells Perry Mason the story of St Francis of Assisi, the founder of his order. Mason then challenges Father Paul, asking him would he, knowing that he knows who the real Max Kleinerman is and knowing that an innocent man might go to his death, reveal himself? // [6-9] Mason bears in on Hennings. Is he certain the defendant is guilty? Mason eventually quotes St Francis, "it is in giving that we receive . . . “ Hennings fingers his cross, then recants. He says Vander was looking for him for he is Max Kleinerman. He was blackmailed into telling his story of seeing Merrill on the path with the rock. Miss Dunbrack admits that she's a widow using her maiden name. She has no boyfriend but did date Buck Osborn. Mason catches her on Fillmore. They kept it a secret even though they planned to be married. Mason asks her what she plans to do with his wife and two children who are back in Virginia. She is stunned, of course. Now, she admits that she did not give the security form to Vander. Instead she gave it to Fillmore. Fillmore says he's been separated seven years, but divorce is out of the question, and marriage existed only in Miss Dunbrack's imagination. His getting the file on Merrill came about because of contradictory statements by Merrill on being in Germany. He gave the file to Vander and told him about Merrill's embezzlement. Mason now asks him about Bruce Electronics, a company he owns which has shares in another company, Howts Milling, which has been awarded a ten million dollar parts contract with Space Research. His shares cost $50,000. So, he couldn't get the money back before an audit, had to place the blame elsewhere. Mason pushes on. The night of the murder Vander told him Henning was the Nazi. He was going to expose him, Fillmore, as the embezzler. When he pushed Vander over the cliff, he thought everyone would think it was an accident. // [7-9] In his office Mason explains how Henning planned in advance for a possible loss by Germany. Della brings in the second witness to Kuyper's death, Lou Kauffman. He tells how everyone ran away, but Merrill ran the other way, to save the life of another. An explosion knocked him out. They all thought he was dead. "Welcome home, Mr Philip Kuyper" says Father Paul. Della embraces Merrill. [8-9 end credits] [50:47]

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137

Unwelcome Bride

16 Dec 61

15057/8-28610

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Lon Snyder

Alan Hale

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Lt Anderson

Wesley Lau

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Amanda Thorpe

Melora Conway

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Gregson Frazer

Bryan Grant

Lt Tragg

Ray Collins

Judge

Willis Bouchey

Walter Frazer

Torin Thatcher

Cary Duncan

Ben Young

(Joe) Medeci

Gerald Mohr

Court Clerk

George E Stone

Sue Ellen

Diana Millay

Patrolman (Joe)

Emile Meyer

Peter Thorpe

De Forest Kelley

Produced by Arthur Marks Directed by Gilbert L Kay Teleplay by Helen Nielsen

[3-4/1-9 Title credits](3-1) [2-9](3-2) Amanda (Thorpe) is driving her husband Peter in a convertible at night. They argue about her driving fast, but they are already late. Peter is concerned about the company getting in an uproar over reorganization and she wishes he’d pay more attention. There is worry that Greg(son) Frazier and Sue Ellen wouldn’t show up for dinner. Amanda almost hits a police car. She stops and patrolman Joe comes over. He recognizes Peter and tells him that he's looking for tracks of a prowler who wears tennis shoes. When Amanda indicates they are in a rush, he says that he “wouldn’t keep old man Frazer waiting even if Fort Knox got took!” As they drive off, Peter wonders if “Fort Knox has ever really been robbed.” They are both worried about what Peter’s father is up to. // [3-9](3-3) Greg drives Sue Ellen up to the Frazer home. Sue Ellen tells Greg that his father hates her. Inside, they are met by Walter Frazer. He accuses Amanda of being Sally Delaney, an entertainer, of East St Louis. He asks her if a painting on the wall is valuable and she doesn’t know. He says it is, showing the safe behind. He is either going to Texas with the $50,000 in the safe or . . . he offers her the $50,000 if she'll take the plane tomorrow to Paris and meet with a lawyer who will arrange a divorce. She tells Greg that he's doing this to him, not her. She stabs a letter opener into a tabletop, then runs out as Greg tries to follow. Amanda asks if Frazer has to run everyone's life. She, his stepdaughter, challenges him to see his son for what he is, a spineless no good drifter. Frazer announces that he's going to make Greg a full partner in his firm. She says this is not fair. To whom, himself, his firm, or her husband, Peter? / At a cocktail lounge in the Club Baroque, Joe (Medeci) greets a couple, then sees Sue Ellen entering. He escorts her to his office where he tells her that she made a bad choice of a gambler who is only working in his parking lot. Greg bursts in and tells Sue Ellen that it was only a test and she must come back and apologize. The only job he's interested in is his dad's money. Joe follows Greg to the bar where he is observed by a man in a tweed coat. Joe sends Greg out. / Frazer receives Greg's phone call and is informed that it is all over between him and Sue Ellen. With Peter listening, Walter calls . . . Perry Mason to tell him to complete the partnership papers. Della Street enters with a package dinner. Mason comments, "I wonder what will happen when (Walter Frazer's) investment company is under the management of an overage juvenile delinquent." / Greg returns home where Amanda tells him of the burglaries and that he made a big mistake giving up Sue Ellen. She is irate, perhaps bitter, lets him know she thinks him hardly fit to be an office boy, but this gives him a partnership while loyal Peter gets nothing. He sits at his father's desk on which is clearly displayed a letter opener. Outside, we see two gloved hands. / Joe Medeci introduces pianist Cary Duncan. As Sue Ellen rushes out of the lounge, where a poster advertises her as featured singer, she is noticed by the man in the tweed coat. / She drives to the Frazer's and enters only to find Greg dead. She picks up the letter opener just as Walter Frazer and Perry Mason enter. // [4-9](3-4) Sue Ellen protests “I didn’t kill him!” Frazer doesn’t believe her, but Mason asks him to look around. "The safes open, the report. "Mason stops Frazer from rash action, then calls Lieutenant Tragg. / Della reads the paper to Perry and Paul Drake. It says that the Frazer library window was forced open probably by the same burglar who has terrorized the area, the one who wears tennis shoes. The safe was open but $50,000 in a plain envelope was left untouched. Drake notes that a clock was smashed at 10:45, and Mason adds that it takes twenty minutes to drive from the club to the house. Mason gives Drake a description of the man who saw Sue Ellen leave the club at 11:00. / Walter thinks things went wrong when Greg married Sue Ellen. Mason tells him that he undervalues her and overvalues his son. Walter goes to the safe but does not find what he wants. He admits he keeps cash available, $50,000, for some of his deals. Walter shows Perry a photo of Sue Ellen on Joe Medeci's apartment balcony at five in the morning. / Sue Ellen tells Mason how she met Greg. He'd left his father's company and was getting drunk. He'd used company money to bet on horses. She used her savings to pay it back, then Joe gave him the parking lot job. She admits to being at Joe's in the morning, but doesn’t reveal the reason. / Mason and Drake are trying to confirm Sue Ellen's whereabouts at 11:00 when Cary Duncan suggests that they talk to the family, all of whom hated Greg. / Drake drops Mason off at Thorpe's, where Peter rushes him to the back of the house. There Lieutenant Tragg has found some worn tennis shoes. Sue Ellen is there next to an open car trunk from which Tragg has taken the tennis shoes. / Amanda says that she heard a car. Sue Ellen had come to get Greg's car. The police were all over the place. Peter admits that he drove Greg's car home. Once again, Amanda criticizes Peter. Lieutenant Anderson is admitted and he shows Mason the tennis shoes which reveal the imprint left by the neighborhood burglar. / Mason informs Frazer of the tennis shoes and that the police think Greg and Sue Ellen committed the burglaries. He tells Frazer everything that he thought about Sue Ellen was wrong. Further, his son embezzled from the company. Walter now realizes that he was “a blind, stupid fool,” just as Amanda said. . . . Drake, at the club, reports that he has found the man in the tweed coat, Lon Snyder. . . . Mason relays this report to Frazer. Snyder has told the police that Sue Ellen left at ten, not eleven. Is Mason certain Sue Ellen didn't murder his son, asks Walter. Mason says yes, and Walter asks him to represent his daughter-in-law. Mason says he’d agreed to that an hour earlier. // [5-9](3-5) In court Lt Tragg tells D A Hamilton Burger that the safe was open and Frazer said nothing was missing. He found one footprint and the shoe that made it. He tells Mason that he arrived at the Frazer's about 11:45 the night of the murder. Della Street sets up a Timetable board. Amanda testifies that she saw about 10:35 Sue Ellen - Greg's Car - at the Frazer's, so she turned around and went home. Mason asks her of her knowledge of the partnership Greg was getting, and she sees no importance in this. Didn't she see only the car Sue Ellen was driving and not Sue Ellen? Yes. As she answers questions, Della Street reveals items on the Timetable. 1. 9:00 Sue leaves house --- Greg's car. 2. 10:00 Greg calls house from club. 4. 10:25 Greg arrives at house --- Peter's car. 5. 10:30 Amanda leaves house --- Peter's car. Burger objects to the chart and the judge has Mason explain why he has his secretary doing this. “If the defense needs training aids to visualize how formidable” is the prosecutions case . . . but the judge says he accepts Burger’s acquiescence to the use of the board. 7. 10:38 Amanda returns to house --- sees Greg's car. After short questioning by Burger, Peter Thorpe tells Mason that Greg was never more than a glorified office boy when working for his father and was reckless and in debt from gambling, asking him for $20,000. Medeci says that when Sue visited at five she was concerned about a set of expensive cuff links shown in the newspaper after the first burglary. She'd found them in Greg's car. Yes, Greg owed him $20,000. He gave Sue sleeping pills at ten. Mason reveals four timetable slots. 10.11:05 Medeci starts show. 11. 11:06 Sue awakens. 13. 11:08 Sue leaves club --- Greg's car. 14. 11:28 Sue arrives at house --- Greg's car. / Drake comments to Mason that the 5 a m photos must have been taken from the balcony of the apartment they are in, which was rented by Lon Snyder the night of the murder. Mason has found a hole bored through to the next apartment, Medeci's. Mason sends Drake to Texas. // [6-9](3-6) Back in court Snyder testifies that he was hired by Frazer to investigate the background and activities of Sue Ellen. He says that the defendant come out of Medeci's office shortly after ten. Questioned further, he reveals she also came out of the club after 11. Mason reveals 12. 11:07 Sue bumps into Snyder. The witness then testifies that the decedent never visited the apartment. Medeci, recalled, is not certain if the decedent ever visited him. Mason pulls out a recorder and demonstrates how easily it is to record conversations, as his apartment was bugged. Now, only one person knew that Amanda was asleep so it was safe to take the car, the witness, who gave her sleeping pills. 6. 10:35 Medeci arrives at house --- Greg's car. Since it is a twenty-minute drive; 3. 10:15 Medeci leaves club--- Greg's car. The clock was broken at 10:45. 9. 10:45 Clock broken --- Greg murdered. Medeci admits now to being involved with Greg in the burglaries, but not to murdering him. He went to the house expecting, with Greg, to get the $50,000 for the debt, but Greg explained how the partnership would be worth much more. Mason reveals the last slot. 8. 10:40 Medeci leaves house --- Greg's car. Mason now asserts, to Snyder, that if all the others are telling the truth, someone else must have followed Medeci from the club and hid his car out-of-sight. Since he knew of the plan for Medeci to take the $50,000, it never occurred that it would still be in the safe, in a plain, brown envelope. Because he'd bugged the place, he knew of Walter Frazer's trip to Texas to buy oil land. Mason has gotten a call from Drake in Texas confirming the sale of choice oil lots the day after the murder. Snyder photographed the geological reports in the safe and returned them. He was paid $10,000 to photograph the reports, for which he killed. // [7-9](3-7) In Mason's office the attorney tells Sue Ellen that it was her father-in-law's reaction that gave him the clue that he needed. Frazer comments he’d rather forget what he said, “A blind man often accuses the whole world of darkness.” Mason notes he was not concerned with what he said to Sue Ellen, but when he looked around the murder room he said "the safes open, the report." Drake points out that the “geological reports made a perfect setup for Snyder, or at least so he thought.” The robbery was planned when there would be maximum cash. So the murder wasn’t planned, understands Sue Ellen. It rarely is, comments Mason, and Drake adds, then something usually goes wrong. Della suggests that maybe Greg was trying to make up for some of the things he’d done. Sue Ellen acknowledges to her father that there are some things that don’t need explaining and he thanks her. [8-9 end credits](3-8) [50:49](50:29)

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SHOW DATE

138

Roving River

20 Dec 61

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Seth Tyson

J Pat O'Malley

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Frank Deane

Harry Carey, Jr

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Sheiff Ward Vincent

Kelly Thordsen

Judy Bryant

Sarah Marshall

Amos Bryant

Robert Lowery

Matt Lambert

Bruce Bennett

Neil Gilbert

Dirk London

Prosecutor

Paul Fix

Ralph Ordway

Sherwood Price

Harvey Farrell

Philip Ober

Judge Libott

Lewis Martin

David Gideon

Karl Held

Judge Holmes

Ed Prentiss

Chloris Bryant

June Vincent

Produced by Arthur Marks Directed by Jerry Hopper Teleplay by Samuel Newman

[4-4/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] At the Manzana Valley airport a twin-engine aircraft approaches a waiting station wagon. Neil (Gilbert) gets out, then helps Judy (Bryant) exit the plane. She tells him it is finished. “Because you don’t still care for me, or because you’re afraid to stand up to your mother!” Neil challenges. Uncle Matt Lambert interrupts them. / They meet Harvey Farrell and attorney Robert Ordway, who are involved in construction on land adjacent the Rodero River. Judy claims that her property goes down to the Rodero River, but Ordway says that the deed gives Farrell property from the stakes behind her on the hill down to the river. Uncle Matt confirms their claim, but Judy says she won't let them steal her land. // [3-8] In his private office Perry Mason explains to Judy and Matt that the problem is one of a surveyor's straight line or a meander line documentation of the course of the river. David Gideon explains that the river is 300 feet from the survey line. Matt explains the discrepancy is land that was a swamp. The river has moved a little. Mason instructs Della Street to prepare two suits that will stop construction and return the land to Judy. Matt offers to fly David Gideon and Paul Drake up to the valley. Mason notes that he asked Paul Drake to be there because he'll check out the original surveyor on the survey. Judy says that would be Amos Bryant, her stepfather (she's really Judith Stockey), who disappeared fifteen years ago. She says that if she can show clear title up to the river, she can sell for a quarter of a million dollars. / David is introduced by Matt to Chloris Bryant, Judy’s mother and sole executor of her trust fund. / Forest ranger Frank Deane gets Seth Tyson to come ashore and meet Judy and David. Tyson states that fifteen or twenty years ago the river spread all the way back to the (boundary line) stakes. / Drake has found Amos Bryant. As Judy approaches Amos calls her "Susie." Drake corrects him after she runs away. Then Ralph Ordway approaches him, as Neil Gilbert watches. / Amos meets Judy at night. He tells her that the survey line was not a boundary, but a meander line. He cannot testify to that, because he's in debt and those he owes would find him if this went to court. He says that he can pay off the debts with $10,000, which she should leave at a rock in the bend of the river tomorrow at eight o'clock. / Paul bests Matt in a short pool race at the inn. Matt and Judy go to his office where he gets $10,000 from his safe for her. / She is wrapping the bills when Matt invites her to a surprise birthday party for her mother. She has an appointment but will come later. David comes to take her golfing. She puts the wrapped bills in a golf bag on the back seat of the company station wagon. / At ten of eight Judy takes the package of bills from a drawer and goes to the station wagon. Chloris Bryant and Matt watch, and Chloris wonders if there is something he's not telling her. / Judy leaves the package as instructed. As she drives away, Amos watches. Then the district ranger's car passes her and drives down to the river. Amos opens the package and a bomb goes off. // [4-8] The murder scene. Sheriff (Ward) Vincent tells Perry, Paul and Della that Amos was killed by a bomb in a wood box. Also, he wouldn't like big-city lawyerly shenanigans around him. “Brrr. It can get mighty cold under that thar desert sun” comments Della after the sheriff leaves. Mason instructs Drake to search for what the sheriff missed. / Farrell says he wants to be fair, and he's spent a lot to have the land surveyed and properly conveyed. Mason wants a week's delay, and his injunction indemnifies Farrell against loss. Ordway objects, because the only witness who can substantiate Judy's claim is dead. Farrell says "no" to a delay. / Drake joins Seth Tyson at golf to pump him on his helping Amos with the survey. After missing by a mile an easy put, Drake gets Seth to agree to testify. / In court Deane testifies that the new land was created by accretion. Tyson states that the river ran 300 feet east of where it is now, and the survey was a meander line. Ordway gets a document from the sheriff, then asks Tyson about his stay in a Los Angeles hospital for a hip fracture for six weeks when the survey was done. The sheriff tells the judge that, because of the murder, he's been doing a lot of checking up and that's how he found out about Seth's hospital stay. They also found $10,000 wrapped in a scarf that belonged to Judy Bryant. He says that Mason is going to need more than a fifteen-day continuance because he's arresting Judy Bryant for the murder of Amos Bryant. // [5-8] In jail Seth has given Judy a motive for murder. With his testimony, he didn't need Amos's testimony, Mason informs Judy. She says she was trying to forget Neil, but couldn't, and thought she was doing right. Amos gave her the land as his wedding present when he married her mother. Mason tells her that Amos only made the down payment, mom paid the remainder. Apparently she never wanted to believe that he ran out on her. Mason cautions her that she's made independence the prime thing in her life and she shouldn't. / Mason, Drake and Gideon watch Della reenact the placement of the box. The district ranger drives his car down to the site, as the others time the event. Not enough time to substitute, so the bomb must have been there beforehand. But how could the boxes have been switched? / Back in court the prosecutor has the sheriff identify the bills that were found in the bottom of the golf bag. The bomb was in a "Gracious Lady" gift box and was glued in. The bills couldn't have been taken out and replaced. Tyson testifies to overhearing Judy promise Amos to pay him the $10,000. Lambert is made to admit that he gave Judy the numbered bills and that he saw her wrapping a Gracious Lady gift box. The district ranger who saw the explosion, Frank Deane, testifies that he saw Judy driving away from the murder site. Farrell avoided the birthday party. He went to a site across the river and, through binoculars, saw Judy place the package, Amos went to it, the bomb went off and the ranger drove up. “No” to the possibility of a substituted package. // [6-8] The prosecutor calls for Judy Bryant to be bound over to the superior court for trial and the judge is prepared to do so. Mason allows that he'll “waive a formal defense” if he can recall a few witnesses. District Forest Ranger Frank Deane is first. Mason presents two exhibits, the materials of which Deane had analyzed in Madison, Wisconsin. The first is wood from a packing crate, which contained the bomb. The second, source X, is then identified as from the same source. Source X is from the locked workshop of Neil Gilbert at the golf course. Gilbert admits there are two or three doglegs where, while putting, the golf bags might be left unattended for up to ten minutes. Mason now exposes how the Reno gambling syndicate forced Gilbert out of competitive golf three years earlier, when he placed second in a tournament where he was heavily bet on to win. The syndicate was pressuring him and were the ones who offered Judy the quarter of a million. He withdrew $5,000 from his account, and Seth Tyson deposited that sum, bribed to testify in Judy's favor, so she'd keep the property which the syndicate could then buy. / Lambert remembers that Neil did approach him about some people who were interested in buying some choice land because of lime deposits. The sale of rights to which will tide him over. He denies any connection with Amos Bryant regarding business affairs. Yes, he knew Pete Starkey, Judy's father. His half interest in the mineral rights was purchased from Seth Tyson. Tyson says that he got a 99-year lease just after getting out of the hospital. It was part of an old California Spanish Grant. He thought that there would be gold and only found out about the lime deposits recently. Mason has Chloris (Starkey) Bryant hold up a letter, which he says was written during March by Starkey claiming to have found gold. He found and buried dead Starkey. Though the hospital records show that he was there until April, he was let out for ten days in March. During this time he killed Starkey, stole the surveyor's report and took out the lease. Tyson says, yes, he had to find Amos and settle. He got Farrell to buy the riverfront property knowing that Judy would fight and that Amos would be found. Yes, he murdered Starkey and Amos whom he had overheard blackmailing Judy. He planted the bomb at the golf course. // [7-8] As Lambert, Mason, Drake, Gideon and Street observe, Farrell admits that the property is Judy's and she’s been compensated adequately. She is now his partner. No, she says, the land is her mothers. But Mason says her mother wanted it in both names. “Mother, what am I going to do with you?” she queries, as she leans over and kisses her. [8-8 end credits] [50:46]

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SHOW DATE

BOOK DATE/ORDER

CBS TAPE/DVD

139

Shapely Shadow

6 Jan 62

ESG '60-63

22193/ 23-35231

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Lt Tragg

Ray Collins

Cole B Troy

Robert Rockwell

Carlotta Theilman

Dorothy Green

Janice Wainwright

Elaine Devry

Mrs Theilman

Barbara Lawrence

David Gideon

Karl Held

Morley Theilman

George Neise

Fred Carlyle

James Callahan

Judge

Willis Bouchey

Henry Battle

Ray Hemphill

Lt Sophia

John Dennis

Autopsy Surgeon

John Zaremba

Moulage Man

Hal Smith

Newsdealer

William McLean

Meteorologist

Austin Green

Dudley Roberts

Ollie O'Toole

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Water Company Official

Olan Soulé

Smitty

Phil Arnold

Drake's operative

(Silent, uncredited)

Matron

(Silent, uncredited)

Produced by Art Seid Directed by Christian Nyby Teleplay by Jackson Gillis

[7-12/1-8 Title credits](2-1) [2-8] (2-2) (Morley L) Theilman is dictating to Janice (Wainwright) a letter concerning loyalty in voting. He tells her to not keep a copy and to destroy her notes. He is testy. Mrs Theilman calls regarding dinner downtown, but Mr has "stepped out." Janice is solicitous, tries, again to get Theilman to have coffee. He says that she'll make a wonderful mother someday, kisses her, then sends her out to type. In the outer office, Fred (Carlyle) is waiting and he asks questions. (Cole B) Troy enters. He says that he has to get back to Bakersfield, leaves. Fred asks what she found in the waste basket. Theilman comes out and tells Fred to leave. then cautions Janice about her poor handling of men. He then sends her out to get him a suitcase. // [3-8](2-3) Janice comes to Perry Mason with a suitcase she bought for Theilman that afternoon. She wants to open it, thinking it has money and that Theilman is being blackmailed. Mason wonders if his wife would notice her if she put on lipstick, and she offers that she'd be fired. She shows Mason a blackmail note made of cut letters. The return envelope is from A B Vidal. She was instructed to take the suitcase, now heavy, to the Union Station and put it into a specific numbered box, or one next it, and mail the key to the return address. Mason has Della Street make a receipt for $1.00, so he can represent Miss Wainwright. Mason opens the case. It is loaded with twenty-dollar bills. Della is told to get a tape recorder to record bill numbers. / The women take a taxi to t Union Station where Della closely observes Janice put the suitcase in the locker, then mails the key. / Paul Drake and David Gideon are lunching. David thinks Drake could spot A B Vidal, making Drake ask for his retainer in advance. / Perry is dictating to Della when Janice phones Perry. Theilman has disappeared and the police have just left her. His wife reported it. Drake comments on how beautiful women walk into his office . . . but Mason says that she wasn't so beautiful, which is what interested him. / In Union Station Smitty removes the lock and Drake and Mason find the locker empty. David Gideon reports that Janice has disappeared. / Mason joins the second Mrs Theilman at her house. She says she saw a note in her husband's pocket that indicated to her that he was being blackmailed (as described, the same note Wainwright showed Mason). She has learned not to disturb her husband who divorced his first wife, Carlotta, because she wouldn't leave him alone and because she had gone to pot, gaining maybe 40 pounds. He went to Bakersfield about 3 to see Cole B Troy, then phoned about 8 to tell her not to wait up. / Drake questions Troy, who says he couldn't see Theilman in the morning in Los Angeles because he was busy. Then Theilman drove up to Bakersfield in the afternoon to complete some business transactions, most related to a development in Palmdale that didn't pan out, and they went to dinner. He left about 9. Cole explains how, when Morley left, he was followed by a woman, a shapely shadow. / At the Las Vegas railroad station, a Drake operative thinks he recognizes Janice, though she has changed her looks to be her beautiful self, from a photo. / Paul reports to Perry and Della that Janice has been found. Della offers that she's waiting for the City of Los Angeles to arrive with Morley L T on it. / Della has a taxi waiting at the Las Vegas railroad station. She and Perry observe Janice meet Carlotta Theilman and her brother, Henry Battle. Mason intercepts them, then confronts Janice. She gives him money, which Theilman told her to take from his desk. He stayed in Palmdale overnight and is driving to meet them. It has to do with stock. She spoke to Morley just after talking with Mason. He told her to spend some time in the beauty shop. Lieutenant Tragg and a policeman join them to ask about the murder of Morley L Theilman. // [4-8](2-4) Lt Tragg introduces Lt Sophia of the Las Vegas police, who takes Janice into custody. / Mason asks Carlotta Theilman why she came to Las Vegas. She notes how she's lost weight and wanted to get her husband back. She'd been getting letters and phone calls from people wanting to buy her stock. She suggested to Morley that they meet where they honeymooned, Las Vegas. Again, Lt Tragg and Lt Sophia arrive, take away Mrs Theilman. / Drake shows Mason and Street crime photos. Theilman was shot with a .38. The current wife was "Day Dawns," legally Agnes Baker Vidal. Tire tracks made after the murder are of Janice Wainwright's car. Drake is certain that she's the shapely shadow Troy saw in Bakersfield with Theilman. Della then reveals that Janice told Tragg everything, the suitcase, the numbered bills. / In court D A Hamilton Burger lays out his case. A meteorologist testifies to a five a m rain shower. The moulage man testifies to the identity of tire tracks at the crime scene with those of Wainwright's car. Mason goes after the autopsy surgeon tooth and nail, for he investigated only at 7:30 the evening after the murder. The crime occurred between midnight and five in the morning, but maybe as late as eleven. Wasn't he influenced by the police finding the tire tracks into limiting the time span? Didn't he write an article in the “Journal of Forensics” stating that it is almost impossible to set an accurate time if the death occurred more than six hours before it was investigated? Theilman's company assistant bookkeeper testifies that only Janice, Theilman's secretary, would know about the withdrawal of large sums of money from his private account. She followed Theilman like a slave and he often kissed her. The judge sustains mason’s objective. Mrs Theilman says that she knew Janice was in love with her husband; objected to and sustained. She thought a blackmailer used A B Vidal as a return address to impress upon her husband that he knew all about her when she was Day Dawns. Mason asks what in her background could the blackmailer use? She says, "nothing, absolutely nothing." // [5-8](2-5) Cole first says he watched both Theilman, then the shapely shadow, together, then looked between the two who were separated by twenty feet as she followed him, them more at her, then didn't think about his answer, which Mason notes is under oath. He looks a fool. Couldn't the shape as easily have been that of Miss Street, or of either of Theilman's wives, instead of Wainwright? Carlotta says that Morley didn’t indicate to her that Janice would be with him. Taxi driver Dudley Roberts states that he received one of the numbered twenty dollar bills from Della Street. He's belligerent. Tragg testifies that the blackmail note could be constructed from the headlines of two Los Angeles newspaper s (the ever-present Chronicle and the Bulletin)of the day before the murder. A newsdealer testifies that Wainwright twice bought copies of the two newspapers on the day in question. / Janice is pleased with how the trial has gone, but Mason says that he's only thrown sand in their eyes. Everything points to her. She went to the beauty parlor, next her apartment. Her car could have been taken without her knowing only then, but not out of the locked lot after it rained except by her. Everything can be explained by her, or a dead man. She says she'd get all mixed up on the stand and they'd never believe her. The matron takes her out, and Mason once again looks at the photos of the tire tracks. // [6-8](2-6) Recalled, Carlotta testifies that she cannot remember if she paid the taxi driver with a twenty. The man who called her before she went to Las Vegas identified himself as A B Vidal. She didn't recognize the voice, but was certain Morley was giving him instructions. She was then sent an envelope with twenty-dollar bills to pay her way to Las Vegas in order to meet with Morley. Burger stops her as she leaves the stand t ask why she never mentioned the bills. “You never asked me” she responds, with a smile. Mason confounds Burger by resting his defense without putting on a case, saying that he's ready to move on to arguments. The judge smiles at Mason’s adept trapping of the D A. This has the effect of denying Burger any rebuttal evidence. Della informs janice that Mason is gambling and, no, she won’t have to go on the stand. Burger counters by waiving his opening argument. Mason points out that, “in a case depending upon circumstantial evidence, if there is any reasonable hypothesis other than that of guilt upon which the evidence can be explained,” acquittal is mandatory. Mason reviews. Morley Theilman was in a fight to retain control of one of his companies. His only hope was to obtain stock held by his former wife. For secrecy, the deal had to be cash. Putting it under A B Vidal meant that his current wife would own it and he would, therefore, control it. Because he thought he'd been discovered, he created a false blackmail scheme. When Carlotta demanded to see her, he sent her the twenty-dollar bills, one of which ended up in the hands of a taxi driver. As to the murder, Mason shows a blow-up of the house photo. A new hose at a house not used in a year. All the murder had to do was drive Janice's car up while she was in the beauty parlor, leave tracks in the ground now hard since the rain, then turn the water on to soften the ground. This explains all the circumstantial evidence. Mason demands a verdict of acquittal. Burger claims that Mason has surpassed himself with a story that is pure poppycock. Burger states that the water has been turned off for over a year. Mason charges judicial misconduct. Burger is stating facts not in evidence, it should be a mistrial. Burger is outraged, says that he can have a water company person there within the hour. The judge agrees, then Mason withdraws his mistrial request. / A Water Company official testifies that the water was turned off a year ago, but was turned back on the day of the murder. The requester was Cole B Troy who now confesses. // [7-8](2-7) Mason is kissed by Wainwright. Della says Troy must have been cheating her boss a long time. Troy made up the story about the shapely shadow. As Drake tries to learn about the shapely shadows, by escorting Janice to dinner, she is met by Henry Battle, who takes her away. “And that explains that” chides Della. 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140

Captain's Coins

13 Jan 62

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Carter Farraday

Don Beddoe

Della Street

Barbara Hale

(Sid) Garth

Henry Beckman

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Jane Weeks

Allison Hayes

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Henry Cosgrove

Lauren Gilbert

Philip Andrews

Jeremy Slate

Judge

Morris Ankrum

Evans

Arthur Franz

Photographer

Eddie Quillan

Evelyn Farraday

Joan Patrick

Charles Noymann

Tom Palmer

Nickolas Trevelian

Jay Novello

Sailor

Will J White

Ben Farraday

Herbert Rudley

Mrs Ionescu

Tafa Lee

Lt Anderson

Wesley Lau

(Sgt Brice

Lee Miller)

Edward Farraday

Parley Baer

Produced by Art Seid Directed by Arthur Marks Teleplay by Adrian Gendot

[8-12/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] In port Phil(ip) Andrews goes aboard the ship Mariposa of the Farraday line where he is greeted by Evans. He's looking for Evelyn Farraday, niece of Ben Farraday. Evans informs Phil that Ben flew over to Honolulu to join the ship. Evans suggests that Phil meet Evelyn on the dock. Ben caused Phil to lose his job and he doesn't want that to happen to him. In an office, Ben is asking why the reports she's brought aboard weren't forwarded to Honolulu. Phil enters, asks to see Evelyn and Ben graciously offers her the afternoon off and the company car. He invites Phil to join them at a reception where Nickolas Trevelian will show his coins. Phil notes that Evelyn is from the "have not" side of the family and he's not so welcome but Ben says they should settle that. On deck, Phil informs Evelyn that he got the teaching job. As they leave the ship they meet Trevelian, and Evelyn informs him that the insurance floater on his coin collection has been issued. Phil asks Trevelian to join them in celebrating their setting their wedding date. An unidentified man has been observing. / The trio comes out of a restaurant. Phil goes to get the car and sees the unidentified man leaving. He tries to stop him and is knocked out. // [3-8] Carter (Farraday) brings more work and coffee to Jane (Weeks). Jane gets a call from Evelyn for Ben, which she switches through. Evelyn tells Ben that Phil was unconscious for a while during which someone searched the company car. Carter listens unknown on another line. Evelyn suggests that the company car was used to smuggle something past customs, since customs never searched it when she went on and off the dock. Ben checks a pouch, then tells Evelyn not to notify the authorities. He wants no publicity. Back at Evelyn's, Phil is so sure something is wrong, given the way "uncle" Ben is behaving. / (Henry) Cosgrove explains to Phil and Evelyn that he's preparing a special exhibit on the Farradays for the east wing of the museum. Phil asks if they've found any new information on the family. He wrote an article recently. Cosgrove notes that Jonathan Farraday single-handedly saved a Malay king's son in an earthquake. The Malay State's Commemorative coin, actually a medal, of 1871 commemorates the event. / Phil and Evelyn tell Perry Mason, Della Street and Paul Drake that a letter from cousin Thomas Farraday, who was with Jonathan, indicated that an arrangement that would make them all rich. It was a partnership with Jonathan that was not honored when cholera killed Thomas on the return trip. Mason has the will of the commodore Farraday which includes a discretionary trust in the name of a Judge Benjamin Penner for the purpose of correcting inequities between the have and have not members of the family. Phil asks if the stock in that trust could go to Carter and Evelyn instead of Ben and Edward Farraday. Drake reports that the investigations have turned up no evidence of the partnership or other fraud. The aunt, Mrs Wilson, who received a letter proving the partnership remembered it word for word, but it was lost. Phil found it, then had it proven a fraud, so Ben made sure he lost his job. Phil declares that he'll prove he didn't forge the letter, and the have not Farradays should have the stock. / Ben suggests to Edward that they might dump the whole thing in Judge Penner's hands. Edward doesn't like Ben's high-handed decisions. Trevelian's knock interrupts them. Ben warns Edward that they’ve both stuck their necks out pretty far. / Jane tells Phil of the phone call she overheard threatening exposure of either Carter or him. Evelyn tells Carter that she's worried about Phil's coming to the party. Phil rushes out of Ben's office, past them. Edward goes in, finds Ben dead, with the pouch he had earlier on the floor and coins scattered around. / Phil explains to Mason and Lieutenant Anderson that he was sitting in Ben's office when he saw a man looking in the window, the same one who slugged him the night before, so he rushed out to get him. Trevelian is brought in to identify his coins. He states that they were in the purser’s safe. The Malay States Commemorative is gone. // [4-8] Drake and Mason are with Evans, who says that Ben brought his own personal steward aboard, Sid Garth (the “unidentified man” ). Mason tells Drake to check the past two weeks of everyone and personally tail Trevelian. If the medal had Thomas, not Jonathan, then everything changes. / Cosgrove tells Street that a photograph was made of the coins, and Ben demanded to see them. Then Ben demanded that nothing on the medal be released. Della asks for photos of Thomas and Jonathan. Trevelian has also asked for a set of copies. / Weeks tells Mason and Evelyn that she got tickets for Ben and Sid Garth to Honolulu. Ben became excited when Cosgrove phoned. When he got a photo, he went to a photo studio, then came back and ordered the tickets. Edward arrives to take over Ben's duties. Mason asks him if he was shown the medal by Ben, and gets brushed off. / The photographer at the studio tells Mason about the photo of a man holding coins in a display case. He made an enlargement, of a medal with a man who had a handlebar mustache. Farraday looked at it, burned it. Carter Farraday came in later and was also interested in the photo. / Perry and Della drive to Ben Farraday's. Drake greets them. He's watching Trevelian who is inside, having earlier been to the museum. Trevelian joins them with the photo of himself and the coins. / They get the photographer to make an enlargement, and compare it with photos of Jonathan and Thomas. It is the latter. Lieutenant Anderson with Sergeant Brice comes in, having followed them, to say that he's arresting Mason's client. // [5-8] In court (Charles) Noymann testifies that he fired the defendant after it was prove the article was false. Carter tells D A Hamilton Burger that the coin shows Thomas, which gives him a claim on full partnership. Trevelian says that it was only shortly after Ben boarded the ship in Honolulu that he contacted him about the photo. He was interested in one item, the medal. It was then removed from the safe by the purser and he looked at it and was informed that it was purchased from the Ionescu estate in Hong Kong. Edward says that he left Ben at 9:15, returned at 9:45 when Philip ran out. At 9 Ben had told him that the medal couldn't hurt them now, and Andrews would get what was coming to him at the party. The Far East Coin Company, says Mrs Ionescu, denied ever having or selling the medal and the certificate of authenticity she has is a forgery. She identifies Andrews as a second man, other than Trevelian, who was interested in the medal. / Burger asks Mason if he plans to put on a defense. Edward Farraday wants to sail with his ship the next day, but can’t if Mason intends to continue the trial. Mason says he has no current plan to put on a defense. / Phil admits going to the Malay States and Hong Kong. Mason points out that the prosecution will claim that, like his magazine article, he is manufacturing evidence including planting the fake medal in the Ionescu collection, and other events to fool Judge Penner. // [6-8] Garth testifies that he stole the coins and hid them in the company car to get them off the dock. When he tried to recover the coins outside the restaurant, they were not in the car or on Andrews. Mason elicits that blackmail was the only purpose for stealing the coins. Mason suggests that the coins were removed and taken to Ben's stateroom before the car left the dock. Evelyn testifies that, while they were shopping with Trevelian, Phil was alone only once, when there was no place to park at the restaurant. A sailor testifies that Andrews came aboard at 2 o'clock looking for the purser. Weeks says that Phil was stunned when she told him that she'd heard over the phone that Ben was going to expose the second fraud within six months. Evans says that Edward went into Ben's stateroom a bit after 9:00 and left it about 9:15. Andrews entered at 9:40 and left at 9:45. Edward returned at that time. There is no other way in or out which he could not observe. Mason recalls Trevelian who insists that he never questioned the medal's authenticity. Mason notes an authoritative newsletter which gives a test for Malay medals and Trevelian is unaware of the mark that would authenticate the Malay Commemorative Medal. Burger has no redirect and asks the judge to bind the defendant over. He is outraged when Mason says that he still has witnesses to examine. The judge calls a recess. / Della arrives with information, and a phone call from Paul lets Perry announce that "we've just about solved the riddle of the Captain's Coins.” / Carter admits following Ben to the photographer, then telling old friend Sid Garth to keep an eye on the coins so that the medal wouldn't get lost. Mason asserts that he paid to have the letter forged, then he steered Andrews to it. Mason explains that the killer knew of the importance of the medal, saw the coin pouch put in the car, retrieved it, put it back in the stateroom with the medal removed. Then that eve Carter confronted Ben with his demands for its return. Mason asks Edward why he was in a rush to sail to Hong Kong. Wasn't it to pay off his accomplice? Mason reveals that just as Ben flew to Honolulu to intercept Trevelian, so Edward flew to Hong Kong. He placed something in the Ionescu files that would make the coin, like the letter, appear to be a forgery, the only way to discredit the value of the authentic medal. Mason notes that, by describing a mark which would authenticate the medal, he made it necessary for the murderer to retrieve it aboard ship and to check it. Everyone was being watched but only Evans went aboard. He then went to a bus depot locker where, Mason states, the police will find the medal. Evans says that Ben demanded the medal, as if he were so much dirt, and he wouldn't take it, fought, and killed him. // [7-8] The usual group in Mason's office, the legal trio, the client and his girl. Of course, Evans saw "only" Phil go in, but didn't include himself. He knew where the coins were and could get to them any time they were in the safe. Della hands Evelyn (and Phil) a gift from Trevelian and uncle Carter, the Malay Commemorative Medal. “That face launched a thousand ships!” exclaims Paul Drake. [8-8 end credits] [50:51]

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SHOW DATE

141

Tarnished Trademark

20 Jan 62

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Floyd Chapman

Francis De Sales

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Judge

S John Launer

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Salesman

Tommy Farrell

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Motel Manager (Mr Watson)

William Tracy

Axel Norstaad

Karl Swenson

Policeman (Lars)

Thom Carney

Lisa Pedersen

Osa Massen

Ramsey

Don Dillaway

Edie Morrow

Marie Windsor

Clerk

Robert Ball

Maigret

Malcolm Atterbury

Bartender

Stafford Repp

Latham Reed

Phillip Terry

Secretary

Lisa Davis

Lt Anderson

Wesley Lau

Attendant

James Hansen

Martin Somers

Dennis Patrick

1st Workman

Frank Hagney

Carl Pedersen

Morgan Woodward

2nd Workman

Harry Strang

Sam Hadley

Edward Norris

Foreman (Parker)

Ted White

Produced by Arthur Marks Directed by Jerry Hopper Teleplay by Oliver Crawford & Maurice Zimm

[9/12/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] After 30 years bachelor Axel Norstaad of Danish Furniture is speaking about his dream. He announces a children's hospital. Edie Morrow says Norstaad is selling his shop and trademark. Axel introduces Martin Somers as the new owner. (Sam) Hadley, the losing bidder for the company, has sour grapes over the deal. Somers has the necessary $50,000 check, so Hadley cannot stop the sale. Throughout, Lisa Pedersen has been a bystander. // [3-8](Latham) Reed is showing his drawing of the children's hospital to Axel and Edie. He's been in South America and this plan represents his opportunity to get back in the construction business. Edie hasn't put a deposit on the land because she awaits Somers replacing his check with a certified one. / Lisa and Carl (Pedersen) waken Axel. Somers has canceled the monthly order for wood from Carl. He's buying cheap spruce and hemlock elsewhere. Axel says he'll talk to Somers. A phone call from Chicago (Ramsey) informs Axel that a salesman is taking orders that allow retail to undercut his costs. / Somers complains to Parker, the foreman, that he has no pieces to show to salesmen. Axel bursts in, complains about the cheapening of his trademark. He breaks some furniture that looks like his design, but is not so underneath. Somers brandishes his cane and orders Axel out. He has his secretary get Latham Reed on the phone. / Axel asks a clerk for Edie Morrow, but she is out. / Axel argues with Carl and Lisa. / Perry Mason receives a call from Axel who demands the attorney cancel his appointments so that he can see him first thing. Mason tells Della Street not to call back. / Axel and Lisa are walking at night. They find the "Future site of children's hospital" sign on the ground and the property marked sold. He goes to Maigret, who says the property is sold to a shoe company. He couldn't wait when Somers' check bounced. Maigret tried all day to reach his Beverly Hills friend, the promoter of the project, but all he got was messages that she was out. Well, her car was parked two hours ago at the Windmill Inn. / A salesman at the motel calls for Lars, a policeman, because a radio has been turned on loud in #3 all eve. They find Somers, dead. // [4-8] Mason and Street hear the radio announcement of Somers’ death the following morning. Mason goes to Axel's where he is greeted by Lisa. Then Axel apologizes for not canceling his appointment, introduces Lieutenant Anderson, then abruptly dismisses Mason. / Mason joins Della at a restaurant, and they join Floyd Chapman who is awaiting Lt Anderson. He informs them that Somers called him to file an injunction against Norstaad, whom Mason says he represents, to prevent future acts of violence and to put a tail on Latham Reed who made off with a certified check for $50,000. Chapman goes off with Lt Anderson. / Mason follows Norstaad into his shop. Axel is on the phone trying to reach Edie. He tries again to get rid of Mason, but calms down and admits to breaking furniture and being worried that he cannot reach Morrow. / Back at his office, Mason is met by Hadley who hopes that he can now gain the trademark and expand the business. / Paul Drake reports to Mason that Somers was almost bankrupt. On the strength of his getting the Norstaad trademark his suppliers, who got long-term contracts, loaned him money but not the full $50,000. To stall for time, he wrote a personal check. He then had time to get the cash for a certified check. As to the $200,000 due in four months, he planned to flood the market with cheap imitations and again use the trademark to raise the needed money. By the time the trademark was worthless six months later, he'd have made a killing. Latham Reed is Edie Morrow's ex-husband. Mason gets a call from Lisa. She informs him that Axel is gone, having left after getting a phone call from Morrow, from whom he also got a call in the morning. / Mason and Drake go hunting Edie. They get a lead from a motel manager. / Reed tells Mason that he remembers nothing since three the previous day when he, an alcoholic who had not touched a drop for three years, was given alcohol in a lemonade by Somers. When Edie found him, he had $7,000, not $50,000. Drake rushes in but he’s not found Edie. / Axel meets Edie at Nellie's Barbecue. He is ushering her to his car just as Mason and Drake catch up with them, only to be followed by Lt Anderson. Axel won't let them take Edie, but it is he whom they arrest. // [5-8] In court District Attorney Hamilton Burger asks Carl Pedersen about Norstaad's anger. Axel loves animals but threw a cup at a cat. Pedersen lost the account at a bad time, for he'd just fixed up his sheds and bought a new supply of hardwoods. Reed says Somers contacted him in hopes that he'd get Edie's help in controlling Axel. Norstaad did not know he was Edie's former husband, and he was afraid that if Axel learned of his past, he'd never get the contract for the hospital. He recommended Edie. Did he tell Axel that Edie's car was only a quarter paid for, the extravagant apartment where the committee met was rented only the day after they met and her fur coat was borrowed? Axel objects! Somers knew of his past life. He cannot recall cashing the certified check. Maigret says that Axel was at his house about nine. When he left he was running in the direction of the motel. The motel bartender says, when he was told that they had left, Axel demanded to know where Somers and Edie were and then charged off, about 9:10. Lisa Pedersen says that she was the entire office force. Burger forces her to admit that she saw Axel light a match to something in the old pot bellied stove, even though it was not cold. How many bids were there, asks Mason. Fifteen. Who besides Axel saw them? Edie Morrow. Lt Anderson identifies a cloth burnt in the stove. It is identical to a two-pair set of pants owned by Axel, one of which is missing, and it has blood of the decedent on it. The salesman testifies that he saw Axel running from Somers’ cabin. // [6-8] Norstaad tells Mason that he went after Somers, but found him dead, getting blood on his pant leg while bending over him. Mason says that he's lying to protect Morrow. / Drake reports that the certified check has not yet been cashed. Other checks are coming in on the account that cannot be paid, since the bank has to cover the certified check. Somers planted the $7,000 on Reed, so that it would look like he'd cashed the check. Two airline tickets to Copenhagen in Edie Morrows name were reserved the day before the murder. On the day the bids were closed, Somers had already turned out pilot models of his line. / Back in court Morrow tells Burger that she saw Somers in hopes of finding Reed, so that she could go to Norstaad and explain everything. Somers would give her more time if Axel left him alone. Mason asks about the airline tickets. They were Somers gift for her to take Axel to Denmark on their honeymoon. But Axel has never spoken of anything but furniture to her, and she doesn't know if he feels as she does. / Hadley went to Somers about 6:30, having heard that the cabinet shop might be closed. He wanted to hire some of the workmen, and Somers said that the shop would be closed the next day. He told Somers Axel would blow his top. Mason asks where and how he met Somers. In the parking lot. Lisa says Axel made long distance calls to Mason, then Hadley, about eight. There was no answer at Hadley's. He now admits that he drove up to the valley and met Somers at the motel. The judge says that the matter of perjury is up to Burger. Mason now asks Lisa Pedersen why her brother would spend money on improvements when he didn't know who would own the company? Mason forces her to admit that she told Carl she'd fix it so Somers would get the bid, because Axel Norstaad was stupid to sell "her" shop. What of the shoe company that wanted the property and had already bought the property next door, on which the hospital was to be built? Mason coaches her until Maigret speaks up and admits that it was he who promised to get the land, and Somers was going to close the plant anyway, but he demanded more and more money to pay off the checks he'd kited. He'd made a killing on the land, but he had to make a final killing. // [7-8] Perry and Della have come to see off Axel and Edie. As the two leave, Della comments that it is a shame that Axel had to wait so long to get married. Mason notes that's a leading question from his legal secretary. [8-8 end credits] [50:53]

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142

Glamorous Ghost

3 Feb 62

ESG '55-46

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Lt Tragg

Ray Collins

Eleanor Corbin

Mary Murphy

Ethel Belan

Jeanne Cooper

Suzanne Granger

Ziva Rodann

Sadie Hepner

Merry Anders

Walter Richey

Douglas Dick

Lt Anderson

Wesley Lau

Olga Jordan (Corbin)

Coleen Gray

Homer Corbin

Vinton Hayworth

Judge

Kenneth MacDonald

Dr Oberon

Jon Lormer

Boy

Jan Stine

Girl

Judee Morton

Policeman

Don McGover

Court Clerk George E Stone

Produced by Arthur Marks & Art Seid Directed by Arthur Marks Teleplay by Samuel Newman

[10-12/1/8 Title credits] [2-8] A boy and a girl are kissing in a convertible after dark. At a distance a woman in white motions to the car. The horn scares her away. A policeman comes after her, then another two. She faints. / A policeman asks her name. She doesn't know it. // [3-8] Perry Mason, Della Street and Paul Drake listen to "Miss Corbin" (which is what Mason calls her; she is Olga Jordan) and her story of the glamorous ghost seen naked in Sierra Vista Park. It is her exhibitionist sister, Eleanor Corbin, who gets amnesia whenever she's in trouble. About two weeks ago Eleanor ran away with Douglas Hepner, a charmer and nasty heel. Two weeks ago she got a wire saying that they were on the way to Yuma to get married. She wants Mason to go to the hospital when she identifies her sister, then straighten out her problem, so that her father, a wholesale jeweler, won't be troubled. / In General Hospital Eleanor wakes and recognizes Olga, then is introduced to Della and Paul. She asks the day. Tuesday. The third? No, Tuesday the 17th. She remembers a car accident. Drake calls Eleanor's doctor and asks him if Eleanor can be taken to a private sanitarium. She says no, she’s Mrs Doug Hepner. / (Homer) Corbin gets the doctor's report over the phone, then tells Drake to do whatever he needs to. Neither Olga nor Homer knows anything that Hepner does for a living. They met him on a boat three months earlier. A phone call provides Drake with Doug’s mother Sadie's phone number in Salt Lake City. He calls her on a speaker phone, so that everyone can hear. Sadie Hepner says that she spoke with someone Douglas said that he was going to marry, but more recently she spoke to him from Barstow and he was with another girl named Suzanne. She asks who he is, and when Drake identifies himself as a private detective she hangs up. She's a young woman, who has answered the phone with an old woman's voice. They recognize "Suzanne" Granger, a well-known artist who was also on the boat. / A desk clerk (Walter Richey) behaves officiously. Granger is not in. While Drake writes a note, the clerk phones 210, which Della sees in her compact mirror. The clerk tells them Granger's room is 208. Drake and Della drive around the block, go up the service elevator to 210 where they are admitted by Ethel Belan. She has a double apartment overlooking Sierra Vista Park. The person she shares it with has been out of town two weeks. Drake tricks her into admitting that it is Eleanor by asking about her raincoat. He pays a week's owed rent, $25, and gets a receipt. She asks, since Eleanor has amnesia, who told him she lived there? “You did,” answers Drake. They take Eleanor's things with them. Back in the car they wonder why Eleanor would wear a raincoat, go to the park and remove it to expose herself. Della nearly cuts herself with her hand in Eleanor's face cream for buried in the cream are diamonds. . . . everywhere. They spot Granger going in to the building. Drake instructs Della to register in a hotel and put the diamonds in the hotel safe. / He goes to 208 where Suzanne Granger tells him why she is not Mrs Douglas Hepner. She didn't like his describing her to his mother as if she were a purchase. She claims Eleanor Corbin had cut into some of her paint tubes. Then she sees police in the park. / Lieutenant Tragg says "murdered, shot in the back of the head." Lieutenant Anderson identifies the victim as Douglas Hepner. // [4-8] Drake reports that there is no record of marriage in Yuma or any accident involving Hepner. Sadie Hepner is a beautiful 27 years old! Hepner's "job" was sailing luxury liners, getting in good with wealthy women and reporting to customs. Eleanor, her sister and her father were just returning from a jewel buying trip. Mason notes that blackmail might provide more than the 20% custom's reward, just as Tragg and Anderson enter with warrants including one for the arrest of Eleanor. / District Attorney Hamilton Burger opens the courtroom proceedings by stating the prosecution’s case. The coroner's physician (Dr Oberon) testifies for Burger that the body had been dead over 24 hours. Lt Anderson describes what he found in Hepner's pockets, then that he found a gun buried fifty feet from the decedent. It was the murder weapon and belonged to Eleanor Corbin. / In jail Eleanor is uncooperative when confronted by Mason, Drake, Street and both Olga and Homer Corbin. The others leave and Mason has Drake empty his pockets. He has more than was found on Hepner, which worries Mason. Hepner had an apartment that he didn't use. Drake says that a man's shirt was among Eleanor's things and it may have a laundry mark. / Mason has had keys made from wax impressions of the keys in Hepner's pocket. Drake has checked the laundry. They are at the apartment of the shirt owner. His apartment is ransacked. / Back in court Belan claims that Eleanor thought Granger had stolen her boyfriend. Shown an apartment plan, Belan notes that Eleanor demanded the room adjacent to Granger's apartment. She identifies the murder weapon as having been in Eleanor's purse. She also says that Eleanor called her from a hospital and told her that she'd been pretending to have amnesia for the past two weeks. / Mason confronts Eleanor, who now admits that she didn't have amnesia. She admits to Perry that her gallivanting in the park was to get attention and have someone follow her to Doug's body. They were working together on something important. She thought she could say a man killed Doug and assaulted her. She went to Ethel's and got her raincoat, then went back to the park but got scared when the police found her. // [5-8] Mason defers his cross examination, wanting to see a diagram of the rooms first. Desk clerk Walter Richey authenticates the ground plan of 208 and 210. When Mason asks if he called 210 while Drake was there, he cannot remember. After Mason proves that she has little knowledge of guns, Belan remembers the call. Burger continues on redirect. She also saw Eleanor in her room counting gems. Mason examines Belan on her knowledge of diamonds, emeralds and rubies, at ten feet distance. It is absurd to claim they were authentic. Mason recalls Dr Oberon and shows him a photo of Hepner's right arm with two obvious punctures. He claims that Hepner was held captive and injected with morphine and demands that the body be exhumed. / The judge has denied Mason's request, but Drake informs the attorney that one of the other keys in Hepner's pocket opens the apartment across the hall, which is occupied by Miss Sadie "Payson." The woman who answers Mason's knock responds to "Miss Hepner?" // [6-8] Back in court Suzanne Granger tells Burger that she dated Doug a few times and always saw the door to 210 ajar. One time she went over and found Eleanor there. On the 15th she threatened to kill her and Doug with a revolver that looked like the murder weapon if she stole him away. Richey overheard that conversation. Richey confirms Granger's statement. He was in Granger's apartment during this and had to hide in her closet when she returned. For the defense, Mason calls Sadie Payson (Hepner). She says that she was partners with Doug in recovering smuggled gems. She explains how. When he called "mother," she'd check the baggage and, if significant jewels were found, she'd appear as a customs agent and Doug would "buy her off." He'd found that Suzanne Granger smuggled gems in her paint tubes. They got Eleanor to watch Suzanne from the adjacent apartment and report her comings and goings to Doug. When Doug called from Barstow with Suzanne, she went through her apartment with a fine tooth comb and found nothing. He was calling, with Eleanor's gun in hand, from the apartment of the other person he suspected, Ethel Belan. Mason shows the one difference in the apartments, a closet that was 3 feet shorter in Belan's. Hepner hid the jewels that he found in Eleanor's cosmetics. Mason pours gems out of a small envelope that he has in his brief case. He says that, when they couldn't find the gems, they drugged Hepner, then shot him with Eleanor's gun. It was her accomplice, Richey, who killed Hepner. Richey tries to escape the courtroom. He shouts at Sadie, why? Her response; "Douglas Hepner was my husband. I loved him." // [7-8] Perry gives Paul a check from the Corbins that is a small fortune to him. He saved Eleanor from the gas chamber. Della asks if she could sue for the scratch that she got when she found the gems? No, she's getting the 20% finder's fee from the customs department. Her check is larger than Paul's. She offers to buy dinner, Paul can leave the tip. [8-8 end credits] [50:53]

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143

Poison Pen-Pal

10 Feb 62

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Matt Clark

Harry Jackson

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Inspector Wade

Paul Genge

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Judge

John Litel

District Attorney

Everett Sloan

Sandra Gregson

Chrystine Jordan

Karen Ross

Patricia Breslin

Jill Thatcher

Diane Mountford

Peter Gregson

Douglas Henderson

Autopsy Surgeon

Richard St John

Carl Holman

Bert Freed

Surgeon

Walter Kelly

Lee Gregson

Wright King

First Officer

Marshall Reed

Florence Holman

Joan Tompkins

Mrs (Doris)Thatcher

Diana Darrin

Wilma Gregson

Kathryn Givney

Woodfern

John McKee

Agnes

Naomi Stevens

Court Clerk

Sherry Hall

Ben Willoughby

Charles Cooper

Nurse

Kathy Huber

Produced by Art Seid Directed by Arthur Marks Teleplay by Maurice Zimm

[5-10/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] At Cannery row in San Francisco, Wilma Gregson asks Peter (Gregson) for details on the merger between Gregson Canneries and Superbrands. Carl (Holman) says that they are 65,000 shares short of the 50% needed that they must transfer at $9 a share. Stock opened today at $10. Five minutes ago it was at $12. The third of the Gregsons (Lee) comments that they are bankrupt if the merger goes through, and if it doesn't. 30 years and stock varied not a point, why now, asks Peter. He fired secretary Karen Ross under pressure. Wilma asks which of the four broke trust and leaked the merger? She tells Peter that he will go to Chicago, the Superbrands office, today, despite his protests that he has important appointments. / Young Sandra (Gregson) is brought a wicker basket of food for a sailboat outing with dad by Agnes when (Florence) Holman arrives to take Sandra to her dancing class. She offers that their men are wedded to the job and kept so by aunt Wilma. Sandra is certain that this time her daddy will keep his promise. // [3-8] Peter apologizes to Sandra for not being able to go sail boating. He finds a half-finished note to pen-pal Jill (Thatcher) which mentions the company. Sandra admits that she told Jill of her daddy being president and of a merger, though she doesn't know what the word means. Jill says that her mother has a real smart friend and she asked when the merger would happen. Agnes warns Peter that he'll miss the plane. / At the San Francisco airport the competition, Ben Willoughby, greets Peter. Both are Chicago-bound. Peter phones Acme Detective Agency's Mr Woodfern, who is asked to find "my mother's friend." Woodfern says he can reach a top notch Los Angeles agency. / Sandra gives him the address of Jill over the phone. / Jill is writing when Matt Clark arrives to take Doris Thatcher out. He notes that she's always writing her pen-pal and he's promised to take her to San Francisco for a visit some day. She thinks that she shouldn't show him more letters, or should write Sandra for permission. He suggests that she should forget it. The trio head out and Doris leaves Jill with Karen Ross. Paul Drake has watched, now checks the name on the house. / Later, Karen walks to a neighbor's, yet later comes out. She has noticed Drake watching. Two policemen join them, and she says that he broke in and stole letters. / Perry Mason, with Della Street and Paul Drake present, tells Karen Ross he'd trust Drake any time. She says that he broke into her place about four. Della notices that they were in touch with him then. He knows that he has letters from San Francisco, which proves to her all she wanted to know, since he won't reveal who hired him. Mason offers her his services and she refuses. / Agnes welcomes Peter home and tells him that Wilma has locked Sandra in her room. The detective couldn't reach him in Chicago so she, thinking it was company business, put him in touch with Wilma! Sandra tells daddy that Wilma took the letters and hit her. He storms out, runs to her house and there finds aunt Wilma groaning on the floor. He calls for an ambulance. // [4-8] Karen Ross catches Mason at his San Francisco hotel, with a Los Angeles Chronicle headline indicating Wilma Gregson is in a coma. / In a taxi, Karen explains how Gregson Canneries developed a process for frozen foods for which other companies, especially Ben Willoughby, would give a fortune. When Lucy Gregson, Peter's wife, was killed in an auto crash, the specifications for the process were with her, though they were supposed to be locked in a safe. She put them there on Lucy's instructions, supposedly relayed from Peter, but Wilma said that she stole them when she learned Peter never phoned. She helped Peter with his alcoholic wife, thus was seen as close to him. Wilma called her regarding the letters, so she came to San Francisco to reason with her and warn her to leave her alone. She did, and was asked to return at eleven, at which time there were police cars and an ambulance there. When Mason asks what if Wilma regains consciousness and names her assailant, Karen says she hopes she does. / Peter tells Paul and Perry that Superbrands has dropped the merger and both Carl and Lee plus Wilma knew this. The stock is now back at $9. Mason learns from Sandra that Jill's friend is Matt Clark, a pilot for an air freight company. She likes Karen, thinks daddy doesn't, but he tells her that he does. / Drake finds Matt Clark half drunk, grounded. He accuses him of buying low, selling high. / When Karen visits, Sandra is overjoyed. Karen asks for the letters which Sandra has told Mason Wilma has, but Sandra runs out to get them. / Drake reports on Karen Ross’s car being impounded. A surgeon announces the death of Wilma Gregson. Florence tells Carl that he won't "have to jump up and run because she clears her throat." Mason and Drake observe as Lee makes sarcastic poetry. Peter gets a call from Karen; Sandra's gone. / Inspector Wade brings Sandra from Wilma's back to Peter, with Karen, Agnes, Perry and Paul. He says Sandra found what they couldn't, a batch of letters. What they found in Karen's apartment and car makes it necessary for her to come to headquarters. // [5-8] In court Florence Holman testifies that Karen came to Wilma’s after nine and there was a confrontation. The autopsy surgeon states to the District Attorney that a candelabrum that he's shown is the murder weapon. Lee says it was a gift he gave aunt Wilma the afternoon of the murder. He tells Mason that he had it made up by an old duffer at Lake Tahoe, his favorite recreation spot. Wasn't he over his head in gambling debt? Objected to. Well, didn't she talk of firing him? Yes, she did fire him. Wade says that Karen's rented car had a bloodstain on the accelerator that matched the type of the victim. A shoe, found in Ross's apartment, has the same blood in the instep. / In judge’s chambers the court clerk swears in Sandra, who testifies that, when she ran to Wilma's house, she saw Karen drive off. // [6-8] Karen admits to Perry that she got back to the house before eleven and found Wilma lying on the floor. She left, then returned only to find the ambulance there. / Clark testifies that he got a call from Holman. He couldn't reach him, but his secretary said it was about stock. He bought only $4000 worth of Gregson Canneries. He'd read the pen-pal letters, as did Karen Ross. Peter says that he fired Ross at Wilma's insistence. The district attorney shows Peter the pen-pal letters. He is asked to read part of one. In it Jill says that she got her address from Karen Ross. Another asks about the merger, and who is Willoughby? Willoughby admits getting a phone call from Wilma an hour before her murder. Yes, Karen Ross came up in the discussion. Mason asks if he went to Chicago to discuss the merger with Superbrands. None of Mason's business. Isn't this what he also told Wilma? Yes. Holman says Wilma was on the phone with Willoughby when he came in. He left about 10:30. Mason cross-examines. Holman started with the company in the clean-up crew, rose to manager, was considered for president. Mason asserts that Wilma told him he'd never be president, not even any longer clean-up crew. Mason reads a telegram from a banker that indicates Wilma has removed Peter as president and fired Lee and Carl as of 10:40. Florence testifies that Carl returned at 10:45. Mason says this is an alibi not just for him, who was seen at a bar at 11:45 in Oakland, but her. Clark tried to reach the house up to 11:30 and got no answer. She schemed and planned, got Carl a job, and eventually got him up to general manager. It was she who acted as Karen in calling to get the plans into the car. She leaked the news of the merger. She bought stock, sold it at a profit. But Wilma caught on and threatened to send her to jail. // [7-8] Ross isn't certain that she's wakened from the bad dream, yet. She perks up when Sandra and Peter join them. Peter is taking her to Las Vegas to get married, while Sandra goes with Mason, Drake and Street to Catalina. [8-8 end credits] [50:53]

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TITLE

SHOW DATE

BOOK YEAR/ORDER

CBS TAPE/DVD

144

Mystified Miner cf Spurious Spinster

24 Feb 62

ESG '61-64

15057/9-28611

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Lt Tragg

Ray Collins

Susan Fisher

Kathie Brown

Amelia Corning

Josephine Hutchinson

Alfredo Gomez

Carlos Rivas

Endicott Campbell

Bartlett Robinson

Elizabeth Dow

Sheila Bromley

Lt Anderson

Wesley Lau

Judge

John Gallaudet

Sophia Elliot

Stanja Lowe

Cindy Hastings

Louise Lorimer

Carleton Campbell

Patrick Thompson

Ken Lowry

Michael Harvey

Carlotta Jackson

Helen Brown

Maid

Maidie Norman

Myrton Abert

Robert J Stevenson

Station Attendant

Lenny Geer

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Autopsy Surgeon

Pitt Herbert

Boy No. 1

Howard Redman

Boy No. 2

Martin Dean

Boy No. 3

Christian Pasques

[Sgt Brice

Lee Miller]

Produced by Art Seid Directed by Francis D Lyon Teleplay by Jackson Gillis

[6-10/1-8 Title credits](1-1) [2-8](1-2) Young Carleton Campbell runs into a Los Angeles office shouting that the pirates are coming. He gives his treasure, a shoe, box to the secretary, (Susan) Fisher. Governess Elizabeth Dow follows a few steps behind. Miss Amelia Corning is arriving from South America tomorrow, Sunday, which is why Susan is busy working today. After Dow leaves Susan finds packets of hundred dollar bills in the box. Carleton changed his treasure box, unbeknown, with his dad's box. Susan places Carleton's box in the company safe and sends Carleton out. She tries to phone Endicott Campbell at the country club. Her other phone rings . . . it is Amelia Corning announcing that she has arrived early and expects “to be met, right now!.” // [3-8](1-3) At the airport Susan tells Amelia that she tried to locate Endicott. Amelia tests her, suggesting she take ten dollar bills from a wallet opening to hundred dollar bills, which Susan properly notes, so Amelia thinks they'll get along. / At the office Amelia asks about the Mojave Monarch. There are no other records in the office, for the others are in Mojave with Ken Lowry. Amelia forcefully reminds Susan that she, not Campbell, is the Corning Company. She says that she's taking the checks with her to the hotel because she thinks they are evidence of forgery or embezzlement. She asks about the shoe box and Susan claims it is hers. Amelia then comments that she's meeting Susan's boss in the evening and she intends to “be quite ready for him.” She sends Susan out to get a briefcase to carry the records. / Susan gets a call from Campbell who doesn't believe her when she says his son brought $200,000 to the office. Campbell calls her a liar. She protests that she was only trying to protect him. / At the attorney’s office, Susan tells Perry Mason and Della Street about the box of money, but there are no witnesses. She's worried about irregularities. She and her rock hound boyfriend found the Mojave Monarch deserted. / Mason and Fisher are met at the hotel by Campbell. He says that there is no such box in the safe. Mason asks who his witnesses are and points out that the Department of Internal Revenue doesn't like hearing about large sums of cash. / At the hotel room a maid says Corning checked out at seven, taking two heavy brief cases with her. / Paul Drake joins Mason at breakfast and reports that Amelia went to the train station and then vanished with the Corning Company records. / Drake has found the real Amelia Corning at the airport, as Mason expected, and she is dressing down Drake’s operative. // [4-8](1-4) Della worries about Susan. Susan and Mason have met the real Amelia, who was nice and won't press charges. Mason tells Della to send Paul on a trip to Mojave. / At the Mojave Monarch mine Drake accuses Ken Lowry of being the problem with the mine. He has a $30,000 monthly payroll and no one to pay it to. Lowry says that he was hired over a year ago, then the vein collapsed. A long-distance call from Corning in South America said that, for tax purposes, she couldn't afford to close the mine. He'd take his salary out after cashing the company check, send the remaining cash back to "Corning Affiliated" at a post office box in Los Angeles. Two hours earlier Campbell called him and told him to keep quiet but he intends to tell plenty of people. / Mason goes to Amelia's where he is met by her companion, Sophia Eliot, and Alfredo Gomez (who is from South Pasadena, not South America), the overseas shipping clerk for Corning Company. Mason gets a call . . . Della reports that Susan Fisher has disappeared. She was wearing a man's hat. / Mason and Street catch up with Fisher in the man's hat. She says she was told to rent a car, drive it 3/10 of a mile past a certain gas station up Sky Mountain Road, then walk back and get a can of gasoline. Miss Corning wanted to get to the car assured that she wasn't followed. Susan waited until 7:30 for Miss Corning’s taxi to show up. Della tells her that she's gullible. She responds that Miss Corning was so nice and wasn’t holding her responsible for the company’s problems. Perry instructs her to go inside and lock her door. / Then Della and Perry drive to the place where the rental car was waiting. They first find the gasoline can that Susan threw away. Then they find the missing company books, soaked in gasoline, and a dead Ken Lowry. / Lieutenant Anderson doesn't believe Mason just stumbled on all this. / Della keeps the mechanic busy while Mason phones Drake (she admits to being 42). She pumps him on the woman he gave the gasoline can to. The girl had red hair, not blonde. It is not Susan. / Drake goes to the car rental place. / Drake reports to finding the rental car and having a lab technician go over it. / Mason takes the rental car to a drive-in, offers $20 to some kids to fix a tire that he's let the air out of. The boys push the car to the curb to fix it. // [5-8](1-5) Lieutenant Tragg is at Della's desk when Mason arrives. She's at headquarters, as is Fisher. Tragg warns Mason that if he's wiped even one fingerprint off the car . . . Joe calls Tragg. The car is covered with fingerprints! Tragg announces that he’s booking Susan for murder in the first degree. / In court the autopsy surgeon tells D A Hamilton Burger that the rock the district attorney is holding is the murder weapon. $207,563.85 was sent Lowry, says Campbell. Miss Corning dealt by phone with Lowry. He says that Susan told him that a box contained nearly $200,000. She was practically his financial assistant and knew Lowry well. Miss Dow told him that Lowry had tried to get in touch with him later, but he never did. He saw no shoe box in the safe. Dow says she saw Carleton carrying the shoe box but she saw only a pair of shoes in it. Only the boy's father was near the car before they drove off. Sophia calls Amelia a whirling Dervish, so she’s not worried where she might be. Then Alfredo says Lowry called and didn’t want to be blamed for things. (Myrton) Abert tells Burger that his investigation of the car for Drake revealed Fisher's and Lowry's fingerprints. Carlotta Ames Jackson, maid at the hotel, saw a lady in a man's hat helping a lady in a wheelchair into a car. Mason discredits her testimony by showing that the police coached her by showing her photos before the lineup and had conversations with her maybe ten times before she was convinced of her identification. / Paul is telling Perry and Della that he thinks Susan is guilty, probably of two murders. A call was placed to Lowry by a "Miss Smith" from a public phone booth around the corner from Susan's. Mason notes that there is a 30 mile discrepancy in the rental car mileage. // [6-8](1-6) Mason recalls Campbell over the objections of D A Burger. How did the box get into his son's possession? Why did he take his son where he couldn't be questioned Saturday afternoon, and why wasn't he available the next day? Before any answer, Drake gives Mason a note. The judge grants Mason a two-hour recess. / Tragg, Anderson and Sergeant Brice with Mason and Drake go to the apartment of the car rental agency's typist, which is around the corner from Fisher's apartment. Cindy Hastings answers. She was the false Corning wearing a disguise. In another room, they find the real Amelia Corning, drugged. Miss Dow, Cindy's accomplice, walks in, only to be confronted by Lt Tragg. // [7-8](1-7) Everyone is in Mason's office. Cindy made the calls to Lowry. Amelia says that she took the box when she sent Susan out to get the brief case. Cindy kidnapped Amelia at the railroad station but then a call from Lowry indicated that wasn't enough. Lowry couldn't be bought off. Campbell, says Susan, was a good businessman. Mason counters, how could he be? He didn't believe his own secretary (the camera frames Della with Susan). Amelia announces that she'll fire him. [8-8 end credits](1-8) [50:51] (50:32)

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SHOW DATE

145*

Crippled Cougar

2 Mar 62

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Arnold Keith

John Bryant

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Elliot Dunbar

Simon Scott

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Paula Hamilton

Abbagail Shelton

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Watchman

Tom Fadden

Mike Preston

Bill Williams

Judge

Willis Bouchey

Hugh Jamison

John Howard

Girl (Airline's Counter)

Shary Marshall

Lydia Reynolds

Rita Lynn

Grace Keith

Florence Wyatt

Sgt Ben Landro

Mort Mills

Deputy (Wilson)

Joe Benson

Harlow Phipps

Noah Keen

Produced by Art Seid Directed by Jesse Hibbs Teleplay by Peter Martin

[7-10/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A cougar climbs a mountain. A man sights through the telescope of his rifle and fires. He and another man are met by Mike (Preston). Gunman Hugh Jamison and son-in-law Arnold Keith are bawled out by Mike, who calls them selfish and yellow. "The mighty hunter crippled a mountain lion. . . . Crippling is Jamison's specialty.” Mike, who limps, goes hunting for the crippled cougar. // [3-8] Mike is target practicing with a small pistol. Lydia (Reynolds) answers the phone. It is Harlow Phipps. Mike falls when he tries to get up, berates Lydia when she tries to help. / Phipps, joined at the well by Mike, is sure that they have oil. In the company office they agree to get rid of the crew and cap the well themselves. / Elliot Dunbar is waiting with Lydia for Mike He picks up Mike’s pistol, then admits his interest to Lydia. Mike returns and orders Dunbar to pay off the crew and Phipps, whom he's fired, because the well is dry. / Della Street admires Mike's gift of a cougar skin. He wants to sell off half of his land and leases. Perry Mason says it is not like him to hedge his bets. A fire seven years ago burned $50,000 in cash and $50,000 in registered securities. Mike believes that Jamison stole the money and started the fire to cripple him. Mason notes that not a single security has been cashed. 1000 acres at $50 an acre . . . Mike wants to sell it as a block. / Jamison and Keith are discussing Phipps's attempt to borrow $50,000. Keith suggests, to find out what is behind this, that Phipps has been keeping company with a Paula Hamilton at the bank. / Paula and Phipps are dancing. He needs money. / Arnie is making out with Paula, but she doesn't know what Harlow is in to. / Keith is watching Harlow when Jamison arrives. He sends him home and joins Harlow at dinner. Harlow lost $5000 in the fire, every cent he had, and he calls Jamison a midget. Harlow, almost drunk, says that he'll be bigger and higher than Jamison and Preston together. Lydia sees the two. Arnold convinces Hugh that he capped a gusher without Mike knowing it. Harlow offers the 1000 acres for $5000 cash, but Hugh wants to go to the well for proof. He's warned that Mike will kill him for what he did to him if he's found there. Jamison plans to meet him at 9:30. / At 10:05 Mike gets a call from Harlow demanding that he get there now. As Lydia walks in, Mike says that if Harlow is pulling something on him he'll kill him. A call from an airline's sales girl lets Mike know that Harlow was trying to get a ticket to Honolulu for tomorrow. Mike rushes out. / Outside the mining office, a watchman sees Mike speed by. / The watchman heads to the office where, inside, he finds Phipps dead and the phone line cut. // [4-8] Dunbar tells Sergeant Ben Landro that he got there ten minutes before Mike, who says he drove to the well, then to Phipps’s apartment, then home. Deputy Wilson is told to get Mike's .25 pistol from his glove compartment. Sgt Landro wants to know the contents of the phone call from Phipps. The deputy reports that there's no gun in the car. / In jail Mike asserts that Jamison killed Phipps. / Jamison admits to Mason that his last visit with Phipps was at dinner, where borrowing money was the subject. Jamison finds it strange that Phipps was at the well, that Preston went there. No, he didn't give Phipps his exploration money. / At the Derrick City Bank Mason asks Keith if anyone tried to borrow $50,000. Phipps was turned down. Mason tricks him into admitting that Jamison also came to borrow. / Paula Hamilton admits to Paul Drake that she drove Phipps out to the well the previous night. He never called, so she never returned to pick him up. She knows nothing about Jamison, but is lying. At the well area Mason and Paul Drake say hello to Landro, who admits that there is oil. They then go to the office. Drake picks up a love note from Harlow. The gun that the watchman saw has not been found. / Preston tells Mason that half of Derrick City had bought in when they raised the $100,000 to buy the option before it ran out. Preston's sure Jamison has the stolen securities. He's the only one besides himself who knows they were in the burned building. All he needs to get out of his current financial trouble is $50,000 to buy proven oil-producing land. Mason tells him how the D A and jury will see the situation, then asks where his .25 automatic is. / Perry butts in on Lydia as Elliot is about to kiss her good night. They have been grocery shopping. Inside Paul explains that a "Mrs Hathaway" called ballistics expert "Beasley" to find out how to perform a ballistics test. Could he compare bullets from a murder with photos? Drake has traced the call to this house. Della produces a pillow with two bullet holes. Mason asks for the gun. She says that it was in Mike's glove compartment, then admits that she loves Mike and gives Mason the gun and two bullets. Drake says he can get a comparison test. / Drake calls with the test results. The bullets do not match. // [5-8] In court District Attorney Hamilton Burger is told by the watchman that, since the phone was out, he had to go ten miles to get the sheriff. When he got back the gun was gone. He saw Preston drive off. Reynolds says that she took the gun while Landro was questioning Preston. She tells of the two phone calls. The airline sales girl testifies to Preston's abusive response to her telling him that Phipps had tried to get a ticket to Honolulu. Paula Hamilton tells of Harlow's claiming that he'd fix Mike Preston when his deal goes through. She tells Mason that Arnie tried to get information of what Phipps was doing. She admits Jamison came to her, asked her not to mention son-in-law Arnie to his daughter. Did Harlow, whom she was going to marry, give her gifts, such as a gun? Did she know that he asked for only one ticket to Honolulu? Did she then accuse Phipps and shoot him? Sergeant Ben Landro identifies the murder bullet. He then states that the gun given him by Mason fired an identical bullet. // [6-8] Drake reports that the bullets fired by Lydia do not match, but the murder bullet and test bullets do. Phipps did buy a ticket with the proviso that it could be rewritten to another. He did buy a .25 automatic. Dunbar owns a dummy company. Della reports that pulling the plug on a phone sounds just like hanging up. Mason tells Paul to check out the dummy company and get a .25 automatic, a second murder weapon. / Jamison tells Burger that Phipps offered to let him in on an oil deal but didn't mention that the leases were held by Preston. Yes, he wanted a loan, because things happen fast in the oil business. Mike shouts out to Jamison that he's a liar and he didn't want to share. The judge says that the court won’t tolerate such outbreaks. Mason jumps to Mike’s defense, then challenges Jamison’s willingness to invest on core samples and forms. He admits to meeting Phipps at 9:30. He left at 9:50 after agreeing to advance Harlow $5000 and the money for the lease. Keith says that Jamison offered as security a first mortgage on his wife's home! His wife, Grace, testifies that her father gave her the house, free and clear, on their wedding. Dunbar admits that the turnover in crew on the well was very large. Mason exposes his dummy corporation, which sold equipment to the company that was never delivered, for which checks were signed by Dunbar. When he heard that the well was to be closed, didn't he realize he'd written one too many checks? Didn’t he fight with Phipps? Mason takes the supposed murder weapon, gives it to Landro, who says, since no cartridges were found, it was identified by barrel markings. Mason has Landro exchange the barrels of the murder gun and his new gun. Now there are two murder weapons. When Mason points out that he switched guns when he helped Lydia bring groceries to the house, Dunbar says that he wanted to get even with Preston, but didn't kill Harlow. Mason agrees. It was someone who tried to use the only thing he had, $50,000 in securities he stole seven years earlier, namely Keith. The banker admits that he gave Phipps the securities not knowing he'd recognize some of them as his own. Phipps went into a rage and he grabbed the gun, but didn't mean to kill him. // [7-8] Mason, Street, Drake, Lydia and Mike are outside the courtroom. So Preston has learned that it was Keith who started the fire. Jamison joins them, says he suspected his son-in-law, but didn't want to hurt his daughter. Mike almost falls and Lydia catches him. This time he doesn't chew her out, and they walk out arm-in-arm. [8-8 end credits] [50:55]

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SHOW DATE

146

Absent Artist

17 Mar 62

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Pete Manders

Wynne Pearce

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Leslie Lawrence

Pamela Curran

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Myer

Carl Don

Daphne Whilom

Zasu Pitts

Arnold Buck

Lane Bradford

Gabe Phillips

Mark Roberts

Judge

Bill Zuckert

Otto Gavaert

Mark Roberts

Newburgh

Barney Phillips

Charles (Monty) Montrose

Richard Erdman

Girl

Mabel Rea

Alexander Glovatski

Victor Buono

Court Clerk

Patrick Waltz

Harry Clark

Jay Barney

Agnew

Wes Bishop

Lt Anderson

Wesley Lau

Man

Marshall Kent

Fiona Cregan

Arline Sax

Woman

Ann Staunton

Produced by Art Seid Directed by Arthur Marks Teleplay by Robert C Dennis

[8-10/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] At night a lone man (Otto Gavaert) walks up the stairs from the beach near a pier at the seashore (we see him only in shadow for from behind, but mostly only his feet, never his face). Nearby two men, Myer and (Alexander) Glovatski argue art. Myer says Gavaert’s latest work is reputed a masterpiece. Glovatski repudiates him. Gavaert walks by, enters the Sea Bright Apt. Hotel, goes into his studio. He takes down a painting of a man on the beach. A can drops. Upstairs, a woman (Daphne Whilom) asks Fiona (Cregan) to go downstairs to see Otto, whom she’s heard. “Maybe it’s a bat flying around” comments Fiona. / Otto has wrapped the painting, "Day's catch," and addressed it to Mr Gabe Phillips. The women discovers his studio to be empty. Fiona says he'll never be back because "Day's catch" is gone. Holding a painter's knife, she says she'll find him and, when she does, she'll slit open his gullet. Out in the dark, Otto walks away with the painting. // [3-8] Gabe Phillips enters the Condor Arms House of Zingy, his cartoon studio, with the painting. Pete (Manders) teases Gabe, and is then offered Zingy for $10,000. Gabe is getting out of the “comic strip field” tonight at the party. He shows them “Day’s catch” as an example of what a good artist does. Pete says he’ll get the money “even if I have to rob a bank.” / A small group is observing the Gavaert. Monty suggests the painting “looks like the work of tow guys to me, Rembrandt and Picasso.” Pete tells his girl (Leslie Lawrence) that he'll make an honest woman of her but is interrupted by Gabe, who announces to the party crowd that he's retiring to Majorca. Perhaps he'll become another Otto Gavaert. Pete admits Perry Mason and Della Street. / Mason looks over the contract drawn up by Gabe, then tells Pete to leave. Then he asks if the sale will affect syndication. Pete may have to re-negotiate, but Zingy is in 205 papers. Mason asks to see the newspaper contract. He's concerned that a strip worth ten times its sale price is being given away. To a friend for whom he feels sorry, states Gabe, for it is a booby prize. Pete is celebrating when Mason says that he needs to talk with him. Leslie Lawrence then tells Pete that she's going away with Gabe. She goes to Gabe, pleads with him to leave right away. After he goes out she answers the phone, hears "Port Harmony." In the party room, Pete has hit Phillips, warns that he'll get him and stalks out. Della suggest that Mason could have stopped Pete’s punch. mason quotes Gabe’s retort to the punch, Pet “is entitled to one.“ Gabe goes back to Leslie and asks about the phone call. It was Otto Gavaert, something about meeting at the usual place. He grabs a gun, goes to his car and drives out, observed by Pete. / Myer and Glovatski see Gabe drive by in his Mercedes convertible. At the studio a voice tells Gabe to come in. Upstairs, Fiona and Daphne hear Otto and another man downstairs. Fiona says she will ”go have a pizza.” Outside Myer is observing Gabe's Mercedes convertible when there are two gun shots. He runs to Glovatski, who philosophically declares that it doesn't matter. Daphne returns to her room and looks at her own Gavaert. // [4-8] Della has tried to reach Pete and Leslie. At Gabe’s she gets Pete. / Mason informs Pete that Otto Gavaert owns the comic strip. Charles (“Monty”) Montrose, Gabe's tax man, bursts in. There are bills to pay and no cash. Even the office equipment has had only a down payment made. He paid cash for his car and couldn't take that with him. He heads to the garage while Mason tells Pete that he should arrange with the syndicators to continue the strip. Monty returns, frozen-faced. Mason heads down to the garage followed by Pete. They find Gabe, dead, possibly all night. / Drake goes to Leslie Lawrence and tells her that Gabe has been murdered. / Mason drives in his white Lincoln convertible with Drake to the beach, where the detective tells Mason that Lawrence says Gabe rushed out at 10:30. Port Harmony is a two hour's drive. / They find Miss Whilom sweeping outside the studio. She thinks that they are the police, but doesn't know why. She reports a big quarrel between Otto and another man. Then she heard two shots. She gives Mason a key to the studio. Mason tells her to call the police. He tells Drake that Gabe was shot only once. / The local policeman (Sgt Buck) finds blood on the studio floor. Mason and Buck exchange questions and information. As Mason leaves the studio, he finds a crowd waiting. Drake introduces him to Fiona Cregan, Otto's girl. Her description of the man who ran out of the studio fits Phillips. / Lieutenant Anderson doesn't believe Phillips went to Port Harmony, but Mason introduces him to Fiona who saw Gabe. / Andy shows Perry a gasoline receipt issued the night of the murder in Port Harmony, signed by Pete Manders. // [5-8] / In court the clerk swears in Fiona, who then identifies her man, Otto, who was also Gabe. Fiona tells the prosecutor (Harry Clark) that she only knew that Otto had another girl in Hollywood. She saw Otto come staggering out of the house after midnight. She didn't speak to him because he left her, and she didn't want to see him again. She cannot remember if she ever threatened his life. Sergeant (Arnold) Buck testifies to his taking over the case from the Los Angeles police. Montrose identifies Gabe's gun which was kept in a drawer in his desk, as all the cartoonists knew. He says that two airplane tickets had been issued, to Phillips and Lawrence. He had no knowledge that Gabe and Otto were one. Mason points out that the murder was of Otto, in his studio, not Gabe. Clark argues that the trial is to show Pete Manders killed Gabe Phillips. The judge says that they will proceed with the state's case. / Lawrence says it was awkward that Pete was saying they were engaged. Manders learned of this only the night before they were to leave, and that caused a fight. A gas station attendant testifies to Pete's buying gas about midnight in Port Harmony. Daphne says that she recognized Otto's voice, but not the other man of the quarrel. Otto said "Leslie," then came the shots. She tells Mason that she knew him “since he came to Port Harmony, about six years ago,” when he wasn't famous. Mason forces her to admit that she went outside and found Otto in his car already dead. She faints when asked to explain how a dead man could drive 120 miles to Hollywood. // [6-8] Della, Paul and Perry are discussing the case at dinner. Somebody in Port Harmony wanted the dead body to be Phillips, not Gavaert. Mason asks about tax records. / Whilom testifies to driving the deceased to Hollywood, tho she doesn't have a driver's license. Who was she protecting? Wasn't she protecting Cregan? Drake brings Mason papers about Gavaert who, he notes, was a slob. Glovatski admits he transported the body at Daphne's request. Mason wants to know what compelled him to do this. He says that Otto betrayed his talent, so he removed his body from the temple of the arts. Mason sees something in the list of items in the studio, given him by Drake, and stops questioning. The syndicate agent, Newburgh, says that they paid Gabe $100,000 to produce and manage the cartoon, and $40,000 royalty to Otto. As senior partner, Pete received $10,000 a year. If Pete took over he'd get $60,000. So one man actually got $140,000. Mason recalls Monty. Isn't it best to take deductions from a higher income? A list of deductions Gabe took includes Glovatski. Alexander says that it was only $500 with which to keep sculpture alive. Mason asserts that it was blackmail, since he knew of the double identity. Otto/Gabe said that his tax man would take care of it. Monty admits he set up the whole thing, but couldn't admit to tax fraud. What, asks Mason, happened when Gabe asked where all the money went that he expected to live on in Majorca? Monty confesses. // [7-8] Perry tells Della, and Pete that it was really both who were murdered. When Gabe asked for the money, Monty had to kill him. But artist Otto from Port Harmony was less likely to be connected to Monty than would be Gabe, says Drake, who has just joined them. Pete has been watching Fiona and thinks that he might return to Port Harmony some day. [8-8 end credits] [50:52]

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147

Melancholy Marksman

24 Mar 62

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CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Tony Benson

Peter Baldwin

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Cecil

Jesse White

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Charles Vale

Edward Ashley

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Mabel Richmond

Cindy Robbins

Ted Chase

Paul Richards

Judge

S John Launer

Sylvia Dykes

Jeff Donnell

(Ballistics) Expert (Charlie)

John Harmon

Irene Chase

Mari Blanchard

Doctor

John Straub

Len Dykes

William Schallert

Medical Examiner

Jon Lormer

Herman Dickson

William Schallert

Betty Chase

Betsy Hale

Ellen Chase

Ann Rutherford

Anne Chase

Shari Lee Bernath

Lt Anderson

Wesley Lau

(Sgt Brice

Lee Miller)

Produced by Art Seid Directed by Jerry Hopper Teleplay by Robb White

[5-10/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Gun store clerk (Len Dykes) is on the phone with Irene (Chase) when (Ted) Chase walks in. He asks for a water purifier which sends the clerk downstairs. Chase switches gun's from the wall putting one in his box. / Returning to their apartment, Ted finds no one home. He puts on an overcoat to go outside. / In the entry foyer at the elevator, Ted hears Dykes, who enters and goes up stairs. Then Ted takes the elevator to the White Star Advertising loft. He gets out the gun and sites blonde Irene in an apartment across the street. She looks out the window, then draws a thin curtain. A man joins, then embraces, her. // [3-8] Ted's two daughters, Betty and Anne, tell him that they won't come home to Irene, who is not their real mother. One suggests that he drown her. Ellen Chase tells him to divorce Irene. His marriage agreement is in the way. If he divorced, it would ruin the whole family including his parents. She suggests that he see her friend Perry Mason and then take a vacation. He sweats, gets dizzy, so should see a doctor. / Ted tells Perry Mason and Della Street that he doesn't think his first wife, Betty, committed suicide. She was fanatic about saving, writing replies to letters on the letters themselves, and so forth. He wants Mason to investigate her unfinished note. She also left a suicide note. Mason suggests that the coroner must have had his reasons for calling it suicide. / Irene comes to Dykes with an envelope, calls him Herman (Dickson). He says that they had agreed that when it was over it was over. She reminds him of a paper that she still has. He makes an impression of a key. She reminds him that he has an apartment for Dykes, not Dickson. He warns her she'll go too far and get killed. She leaves and he checks the key impression. / Cecil, the bartender, tells Irene that his wife's been sick which is why he let the insurance lapse. He'll take care of things in a week. She's not pressing for payment, just looking for her wandering husband. He's going away on a business trip and she makes sure Cecil is taking care of him. There are containers of vitamins on his shelf. / Len's wife (Sylvia) tells Ted on his return that his cousin Irene came by this evening, to tell her she'd be in real trouble if anything happened to him. He says that all he does is engrave pictures on rich men's guns. / Irene watches Ted pack. She then phones Tony (Benson). She wants to be with him. He tells her to be patient. Ted hears a weather report of thunder storms about midnight. Irene comes out and refuses Ted the divorce he wants. So he’ll hold her to the trust that gives the children everything. “Only if I die,” she retorts. / At the bar Ted tells Cecil to turn the radio off as a storm arrives. / He goes to the loft with his rifle. He sites Irene’s heart, pulls the trigger and hides the gun down a rooftop pipe. // [4-8] Ted is in a maudlin mood, meandering a monologue to Cecil. He hears of his wife's death over the radio at the bar at 2 a m. / Ted phones Ellen at 7 a m. She tells him that he should see Mason. He tells her that there will be a package for her at the post office. / Sergeant Brice and others are working over the crime scene. Lieutenant Anderson is informed by phone that the rifle has been found. Mason joins him. A ballistics expert, Charlie, has found the murder bullet. Andy got the call from a woman at 1:17. / Ellen says that her brother called from Mexico about 7 a m. He's good, kind, intelligent and not a murderer. Mason asserts that he's sick. She thinks he might be at the office this Sunday beating (Charles) Vale to the money and securities for her. / Mason finds Vale in the office. Vale expects to get full control of the company from its stockholders, since valuables have been stolen from the safe. Paul Drake arrives with the information that Irene Chase was formerly married to Tony Benson, but never told this to Chase. Benson has a sporting goods store with Len Dykes working for him. A week after Chase's first wife's suicide, Tony Benson divorced Irene. / Tony goes to Sylvia seeking Len. She says he didn’t get home until after one. Benson asks Dykes for the stock powers. Len gives Tony a key to a bus station locker. Tony reminds him that because she's dead, he's not purified. After Len leaves, Tony throws the key away. / Len goes to Tony's, uses a key to get in. He searches, hears a noise. Outside Drake and Mason arrive. They go up to Benson's and a met by Len. He tells them that Irene bought his divorce, like some people buy a loaf of bread, with the sporting goods store. Had she lived longer, she'd have owned Ted's company. He shows them a hundred thousand in stock and a release form Irene got Ted to sign giving him the proceeds of any sale. Mason notes that he also needs stock powers. She was going to get that, he says. Drake tells him that Len Dykes is Herman Dickson, who served two terms for forgery. In an adjoining room, Benson shows them Ted who is unconscious. // [5-8] A doctor says that he has only a small bump on his head and he's not drugged. Ted came to Benson's to see if he had the stock certificates, and was knocked out when he came into the room. He tells Mason of the nightmare he's been thru. What if, he asks, even if he didn't pull the trigger, he led someone else to the place who did? Lt Anderson joins them and thanks Chase for his willingness to cooperate. / In court the ballistics expert tells D A Hamilton Burger that a smashed 158 grain bullet is the same as that fired by the rifle he's shown. Mason elicits an admission that a 357 magnum uses the same weight bullet, so thousands of guns could have fired the bullet. Due to the trajectory, the decedent had to be sitting. The medical examiner states that the rifle could not have been close. Death was between eleven and midnight. The rifle could not have been fired within the room. Cecil testifies that Ted was drinking but not drunk. Sylvia Chase states that she saw Len Dykes, about 11:45, go up the stairs leading to the roof. She went looking for her husband and returned about one. Ellen Chase says she found Irene dead, but waited an hour to phone the police. She admits to Mason that she’s good with a pistol. Vale says Ted accused him and Irene of plotting to ruin his corporation. / Paul brings Perry a burnt corner of paper. It matches the lower right of a blank stock release Della brings him, and is signed “d Chase." Len says that he found the rifle missing the next day. Ted is an excellent shot. Mason, speaking to Dykes or Dickson, points out that he's twice convicted of forgery, a third would put him away. He shows the release and asks if he forged the signature. Burger rushes with an answer for Len, who can now say he was just fooling around. Then Mason shows the burnt corner. Was he just fooling around then? Didn't he have to find it, because if any one else did, he'd go to prison? Mason agrees to an overnight adjournment if he can recall the witness on perjury charges. // [6-8] Drake introduces Mabel Richmond to Perry. Irene, she says, came to her and got her to go to Catalina using her name. She got nervous when a guy named Smathers, who had dated her, asked questions, but he never came back. Drake gives Mason a lab analysis on radioactive iodine which is tasteless, colorless, odorless, and can reduce a human being to a vegetable. / Back in court Cecil testifies that he put vitamins in Ted's whiskey and soda as Irene suggested. He identifies as the container of vitamins a bottle that Mason shows him. Mason tells the judge that it contains radioactive iodine which was administered to Ted Chase regularly without his knowledge. The judge wants to have this looked in to, but Mason says that Burger has only one more witness, so he'd like to continue. Benson says he hired Dykes because he was a good engraver. When Len reported Ted's taking the rifle, he knew he'd pay for it. Mason, noting that Mabel Richmond is outside, asks if he didn't wonder why his wife had someone use her name, and where she was, or maybe he wanted to be able to blackmail Irene over the murder of Betty Chase? She later stole from Ted and was part of a forgery. Why should she do this unless forced to by him? He had the stolen stock certificates and the release. All he needed were the stock powers. He killed her because she would kill him. Burger again raises the issue of no powder or residue in the room which proves that the gun had to be outside the apartment. Mason jostles Tony Benson's right arm, with Benson grimacing and holding his arm. Mason says a doctor will find a bullet wound, and that's the powder burn. // [7-8] Drake and Street wrestle. The gun, he says, goes off and she falls dead. Lt Anderson joins them, asks Mason how he figured out the murder. Perry shows that the suicide note and the separate note found by Ted should be together. She was going to expose Irene. While Ted is on vacation with his children, Mason will run things, which puts Vale in his place. [8-8 end credits] [50:53]

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148

Angry Astronaut

7 Apr 62

15052/12-28614

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Eddie Lewis

Steve Brodie

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Lt Anderson

Wesley Lau

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Terry Faye

Paula Raymond

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Matthew Owen

John Marley

Lt Tragg

Ray Collins

Bruce Young

Robert Casper

General Addison Brand

James Coburn

Gordon Kendall

Richard Grant

Mitch Heller

Robert Bray

(Jamison) Sewell

Ned Roberts

Linda Carey

Jeanne Bal

Judge

Tom Harkness

Bonnie Winslow

Patricia Donahue

Attendant

Richard Geary

Produced by Arthur Marks Directed by Francis D Lyon Teleplay by Samuel Newman

[6-10/1-8 Title credits](1-1) [2-8](1-2) At Winslow Aeronautics Matthew Owen tells (Gordon) Kendall that test pilot Mitch Heller won't be ready for another week. Dr (Linda) Carey says that the delay will be short. They show a film of Heller's endurance. Heller, who was under Major General Addison Brand, resigned and came to Winslow. They kept with Heller because his work was good, but Heller hides his resentment for Gen Brand. Kendall announces Brand as the new head of the project. // [3-8](1-3) Retired General Addison Brand is ranting about the six months that Project Moonstone is behind schedule when Mitch Heller enters. Wasn't president Kendall aware of the schedule? Didn't engineer Owen know that dozens of departments were at a standstill because one man could not perform his assigned duties? Yes, because they had to nurse along the only qualified test subject they had. Dr Carey is sure of her abilities to nurse the candidate along. Brand says that he can see Heller in many positions on the project, but not as the one riding the hardware. Brand taunts Heller into rising and almost striking him. / Eddie Lewis, company P R man, lectures Mitch, from whom he wants info. Linda tries to calm Mitch, who is having an asthma attack and who pleads for his special medicine. She injects him just as Paul Drake arrives. Mitch tells him that a drawing of a space console remote control valve he designed has been stolen. They are in a manila envelope. It is not registered or patented. Drake looks at the medicine bottle. It is distilled water. / Mitch drives to Bonnie (Winslow)’s lodge, with flowers. But General Brand, the new tenant, is being shown the place. / Mitch is in the test module. He can hear what is being said outside. The test starts and goes through stages 1, 2, 3 of noise and vibration. Brand arrives and is told by Owen that the test is to find the limits of endurance of the pilot. (Terry) Faye tells (Bruce) Young that she called the previous night to have him come to the General's for photographs. P R man Lewis had other plans, says Young. Brand tells her to fire Lewis. Brand looks at the test results and calls them erratic. He tells Faye to have the legal department sever Heller. / Mozart emanates from inside the Winslow lodge at night. A man knocks and "Heller" is told to come in. / A police car stops Heller who tells Lieutenant Anderson, with Lieutenant Tragg standing by, that he just came from Winslow's where he spoke to General Brand. / At the lodge Young says that he came out to take pictures at 8:45 when he found the place a shambles and Brand dead. Mitch says that he spoke to Brand at 9. They enter, to Beethoven's Eroica, and the place is as Young described it. // [4-8](1-4) Drake tells Perry Mason and Della Street that Heller bounced back from his asthma attack with and injection of distilled water, and he doesn't believe there ever were any plans. Further, widow Bonnie fell for Mitch after her husband's death, then for Brand when he arrived. Paul thinks Mitch is off his rocker, but he is a distinguished veteran and deserves the best. / In jail Mitch says that Brand was upstairs changing and they agreed to meet at a nearby restaurant. The police stopped him as he drove away, just after 9. Brand called him at 3, wanted him to stay on as director of testing. District Attorney Hamilton Burger arrives with Lieutenant Tragg. They want permission to have a psychologist test Heller. They've found the murder weapon, a pistol belonging to Heller. / Faye says Brand was dictating to her from the test at 2 until 6. There were no phone calls. She leaves. Lewis says Mitch’s revolver was kept in a locker at the plant. Kendall says that he’s been made the late Winslow’s replacement. He says that trouble began when Winslow started divorce proceedings against his wife. An agreement was prepared for the company to redeem Winslow stock, but the original was never found after his death. / While a test is run with Drake, Mason learns from Owen that Heller was not a tinkerer. Drake did better than Heller, but Dr Carey insists Mitch is not sick. / Mrs Winslow slips into the lodge at night, even tho supposedly guarded by a policeman who, however, is at the wrong door. She begins a search, but is interrupted by Drake. / Mason, Street and Drake want to know what she was looking for. Perhaps she has the redemption agreement, for which the company is legally bound to pay her $1 million. If it is destroyed, after probate of the estate, she could get $2 million. If someone else has it, extortion is possible. Tragg and Andy enter. The redemption agreement has been found, in the lodge fireplace partly burned, but protected in an envelope as described by Heller to Drake. // [5-8](1-5) In court Dr Carey tells Hamilton Burger that she agrees with the court psychologist that Heller is sane, but hated Brand. Faye, in love with Brand, testifies that everyone knew Heller hated the General. Kendall tells the value of the redemption agreement, $1 million, and Winslow died of a heart attack shortly after he and Bonnie signed. Heller was the one who reported the death, and the agreement was not there. Later, Bonnie got a typed note offering her the agreement for half a million. She told Brand, who said he'd get it and destroy it, because the man was from the air force. Andy reports the finding of the agreement inside Heller's envelope. Two photos, one by Young, the other by the police, are essentially the same. Young says Brand was dead by 9. Owen is asked to read part of a transcript made during the test in which Brand terminates Heller as test pilot. To which Heller commented, "I'll kill you, so help me, Brand." / Drake shouts at Mason, "I'll have no part of it" and walks out as a group witnesses the event. // [6-8](1-6) Burger sums up his case and calls for the defendant to be bound over for trial. For the defense, Mason calls Tragg, shows him a photo of Drake shouting in which the clock says 12:15. Mason says he was escorted elsewhere until 12:45. Impossible, says Tragg, he spoke to Mason at 12:30 when he was in the interview room, but Mason had gone to the washroom. Mason stages a test. Jamison Sewell imitates him, and Tragg is certain that it is Mason. / The defense demonstrates its reconstruction of the sequence of events. Young is asked why no furniture was broken if there was a lulu of a fight. The murderer shoots Brand, moves things to look like a fight, takes a Polaroid photo, the trade name of which is not used. Young arrives, sees the mess at 8:45 and leaves. The murderer now removes all evidence of a struggle or killing. Mitch Heller arrives to find the place neat, hears a voice that he thinks is the General's. He is told to go to the restaurant and meets the police on the way out. The murder has reset the place, using the photo to check. Mason has Young peel apart a Polaroid, revealing an aluminum strip. Andy's list of items found in the fireplace included an aluminum strip. Now to motive. Lewis was fired the same day as Heller and he also worked for Brand. He had the requisite envelope, sent to him by Heller when the P R man asked for information. Owen confirms that Lewis did know in advance of Brand's employment. Lewis calls him a liar. Mason asserts that Owen had been accused of holding the project Moonstone back. The entire project was mismanaged before the test results. Owen’s deliberate tampering with the equipment produced faulty results. He tried to steal Heller's invention. Brand also knew of the invention. He had to kill him and put the blame on Heller. // [7-8](1-7) Another test with a monkey. Heller is now chief of the testing section. Owen's ability to imitate voices was just the wrong skill needed, notes Drake, who then, noticing the reaction of the monkey to the test, ducks out of another test. [8-8 end credits](1-8 Production credits) (1-9 end credits) [50:53](50:33)

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149*

Borrowed Baby

14 Apr 62

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Dr Paul Hogathy

Gregory Morton

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Mrs Leander Kerrich

Sara Taft

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Lenora Graves

Joan Petrone

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Court Manager

El Brendel

Jarvis Baker

Hugh Marlowe

Antique Car Man

Charles Thompson

Florence Wood

Maria Palmer

Judge

Kenneth MacDonald

Lester Menke

Corey Allen

Gun Clerk

Ed Stoddard

Mrs Holly Cosgrove

Nellie Burt

Sgt Brice

Lee Miller

Ginny Talbot

Kaye Elhardt

Court Clerk

Charles Stroud

Produced by Art Seid Directed by Arthur Marks Teleplay by Jonathan Latimer

[7-10/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] It is nighttime in Los Angeles. Perry Mason and Della Street have enjoyed their evening’s dinner. Della sighs, and Mason asks why. She is pleased that they weren’t interrupted, but Mason says there is still work at the office. / Perry and Della return to the office only to find an abandoned baby. // [3-8] Paul Drake reads “Her name is Leander. Please, please, don’t let anybody, not even the police take me away.” The note includes the baby’s formula. Della, who is staying at a friends house, says she can take care of the baby. A St Christopher medal with an electric car on the back is the only other clue to the baby’s identity. Mrs (Holly) Cosgrove is vacuuming in an adjacent room. She comes in, sees the baby. She heard a woman hurrying out a half hour earlier. / The same night, the trio take the baby to Della’s temporary home. A car has followed them and its two occupants (one is Jarvis Baker, we will later learn) recognize the baby basket, but wonder if it is the right baby. / Mason phones Gertie for unusual phone calls. At 5:30 someone asked if Mason would be there that evening. Mason looks at the St Christopher medal. Amos Berry, an antique car man, should be consulted, suggests Drake. Perry and Paul leave, and Della muses, “where’s your mommy?” / Ginny Talbot is pacing the floor when Lester (Menke) arrives. He says that a long time ago he’d get her a kid, but she cut him out. He wants 50-50. She prefers to be left alone. When she goes to call the police, Lester reminds her of the story he could tell. She goes for a gun and they wrestle as Mrs Cosgrove arrives. She threatens him with an umbrella. He leaves, still “partners” with Ginny. Cosgrove reports that everything went as they planned. Ginny worries about the baby, but Mrs Cosgrove says that “he was havin’ the time of his young life.” / Della is sleeping when someone wakes her by opening the room windows. / A nearly deaf Amos Berry is introduced to Mason by Drake. He identifies the car as a Detroit Electric, one of only six built by Leander Kerrich, whose mother still lives. Mason gets a phone call from Della, who is scared. / They rush back to Della’s. In the bedroom, the baby’s basket is turned over and the window is open. But Della has the baby in a different room, and Leander is safe.// [4-8] Mason is driving his black Thunderbird with Drake to visit Mrs Kerrich. They see the Detroit Electric and are then met by her business manager, Jarvis Baker. Mason asks to see Mrs Kerrich “about her grandson.” / Mrs Kerrich finds Mason’s story somewhat incredible, then is shown the medal. It was her husband’s, then his son Lawrence’s. Lenora (Graves) ushers in Lester Menke, who has offered to find Lawrence’s son and the child’s wife. Virginia Talbot, says Graves, works as a nurse where Lawrence died and where Menke claims to have worked. Baker suggests Mason disassociate himself with the situation. Mason says no, leaves. Menke stalks out. Baker and Graves tell Mrs Kerrich they’ve explained how it is impossible for Lawrence to have had a baby. Outside, Menke catches Mason. He offers a deal, to which the attorney responds with a possible grand jury appearance. Perry instructs Paul to follow Lester. Graves is driven away. / Mrs Kerrich goes to see the baby in her Detroit Electric. She thinks Della is the mother until Della informs her otherwise. She leaves after saying how cruel this is and she never wants to see or hear of the baby again. / Ginny interrupts Dr Paul Hogathy kissing Florence (Wood). He suggests that she should return to work there, leaves. She tells Florence that she went to Yuma to see the doctor who delivered the baby but he was dead. She wanted proof that Leander was hers, because she was only half conscious at birth. Hogathy is listening to all this on his intercom. Now she wants to keep the baby, but he was never registered. Florence is the only one who really knows. Ginny promises to keep Florence out of the situation, tho she’s already spoken to Mason. Then the doctor lets Florence know that he’s heard, and he privately calls Jarvis Baker. / The trio, with Drake reporting, says that there is no record of Leander’s birth. Menke did work at the sanitarium where Kerrich died. Kerrich was a semi-invalid subject to blackouts after an airplane crash. Rumor suggests that Virginia Talbot and Kerrich married just before he died. Drake’s tail on Menke has found him visiting Talbot in a Hollywood bungalow. / Of course, Talbot’s door is not locked, and they find Menke, just shot. Talbot returns, followed by a man with a shotgun. // [5-8] In court D A Hamilton Burger argues that Talbot and Menke were partners and argued over the split. They planned to pawn off the borrowed baby as the son of Lawrence Kerrich. Sergeant Brice testifies to finding the murder weapon in Talbot’s purse and also finding the gun clerk who then identifies Mrs Cosgrove as the one who bought the gun four days before the murder. Cosgrove says that she got the gun for her because of strange people and a woman who came to take the baby away. She left the baby at Mason’s office because he was such a fine man. Berger comments that this disproves that “No man’s a hero to his cleaning woman.” Later, she found Ginny and Lester struggling when she got back to the bungalow.. When he left, he said that he and Ginny were still partners. A gun clerk testifies that it took six to nine minutes before he returned with his shotgun and saw Ginny running away like a scared rabbit. Florence Wood tells Burger that she drove Ginny and Lawrence across the Nevada line where they eloped. She told only one person, Dr Hogathy. He says that he was shocked. He reported it to Jarvis Baker, who then states that he had the marriage annulled, and told Virginia. / Ginny pours her soul and heart out to Mason. She just wanted to forget everything and wanted to give the baby up for adoption, but then . . . “we. . .I. . .” she slips, and Mason catches her. She doesn’t see Menke as being involved. Della brings Leander to Ginny. // [6-8] Back in court Baker tells Mason that he didn’t tell Mrs Kerrich about the marriage and annulment until recently. Wasn’t this self-serving, for he’d inherit if Lawrence remained unmarried. He learned of the baby, as did Mrs Kerrick, from Lenora Graves. She says that she got a call from Menke, then checked the time of the annulment, and of the death which was after the annulment. So then she told Ginny that she’d lose her baby if she persisted in trying to foist the baby off as Mrs Kerrich’s grandson. / At Della’s, Paul reports nothing much except that Hogathy is a Hungarian refugee, and he and Florence are in love. Back east, Menke was operating a black market baby adoption racket. In Yuma, he was seen hanging around Ginny’s cottage. On the day Ginny’s baby was born, the doctor was in Mazatlan, fishing. / Again in court, Hogathy admits that he’s a doctor only in Hungary. He only manages the sanitarium. Mason produces the sanitarium’s vital statistics. It shows Lawrence died at 3:15. Then, under ultraviolet light, it is 2:15. So Ginny is legally married to Lawrence. Graves admits to doing it to protect the family. She thought this would make any baby illegitimate. Mason says not so, so the time didn’t matter. Baker says that he didn’t know what Lenora had done. He admits to “watching” Della’s place. He found out that Florence Wood had visited Talbot often in Yuma. She put down a doctor’s name, one who conveniently died. Hogathy admits to delivering the baby when it came prematurely, which was illegal for him to do. Menke knew, and he paid him $6000, all he had. Mason accuses him of the murder, but Florence rushes forward to save him. She confesses. She was going to call the police on Menke. He drew the gun, they struggled and it went off. She ran out the back and has kept running, until now. Mrs Kerrich gives Virginia the St Christopher’s medal. // [7-8] Mason tells Drake that Menke was working every angle. Hogathy will be dealt with lightly by the medical board, he thinks. Ginny asks about Florence. Mason says she’s his newest client! Mrs Kerrich says they, meaning she, Ginny and Leander, must be getting home. As the Kerriches drive off in the Detroit Electric car, Della cries. She has lost the only baby she ever had! [8-8 end credits] [50:54]

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CBS TAPE

150

Counterfeit Crank

28 Apr 62

26312

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Dr Jackman

William Woodson

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Bertram Telford

Paul Langton

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Judge #1

Charles Irving

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Judge # 2

S John Launer

Lt Tragg

Ray Collins

Bank Teller

William Keene

August Dalgran

Otto Kruger

Joseph Tayback

John Hubbard

Martha Blair

Jeanette Nolan

Deputy Bowman

Russ Bender

Kenneth (Dalgran)

Don Dubbins

Judge #3

Barney Biro

Sandra (Dalgran)

Connie Hines

Deputy Turner

Paul McGuire

Jay Fenton

John Larkin

Joe Fanning

David Saber

Chuck Blair

Burt Reynolds

[Sgt Brice

Lee Miller]

Don Morley

Michael King

Produced by Art Seid Directed by Jerry Hopper Teleplay by Robert Leslie Bellem

[8-10/1-8 Title credits]{3-10/1-9} [2-8]{2-9} August Dalgran is told by a bank teller that his bag is too small. So Dalgran removes a pack of bills and puts it in the teller’s handkerchief pocket. It is returned. Dalgran says that he’s willing to give up his nephew’s wife. / Secretary (Martha) Blair tells a caller that she'll take a message for (August) Dalgran just as partner (Jay) Fenton enters. She tells him that August has signed another letter "Napoleon B Santa Claus." Then August Dalgran comes in and calls for both (Don) Morley and Jay to give them Christmas cash in April. Fenton says that they must settle the desert acreage deal for $100,000, but August says it cost $200,000. If, in a few years, his brine well comes in . . . Fenton says they'll be in jail in a few years if they don't get $100,000 to close the Barlow deal. A trust fund to cover the deal, due in a week, is short. August won't sell the desert property. It is something all three have to agree on. They give him a letter agreeing to sell the desert property and buy the in-town Barlow property. He says that he'll sign it, just leave it. He throws the Christmas cash out the window to the street, many floors below, and laughs. // [3-8]{3-9} Kenneth is worried about his uncle Gus, who says everyone is entitled to a mistake. Ken's wife tells Gus that the judge is waiting. He threw $2000 to the street, causing a traffic jam./ To the judge, he pleads guilty, after trying twice to make a statement. When the judge finally allows him to speak he is lost. Don Morley comes to his aid, as partner, but Gus says that he never saw the man before. / Sandra and Ken argue about August. Fenton and Morley join them, looking for August, who hasn’t signed the agreement. / Sandra is surprised when Ken suggests a sanity hearing for August Dalgran. / Chuck Blair, Martha's son, tells Perry Mason that Dalgran was at a well that he's drilling recently and was completely rational. With Della Street present, Chuck says Dalgran put him through school and helped his mother when she was sick. / Senile psychosis is the diagnosis Dr Jackman assigns to Dalgran's behavior, which a few week's observation should confirm. The judge asks if Dalgran wants to question the witness, and he quotes Kipling. Mason steps forward, approaches the bench with the court attorney (whose name is not given). Any family member or friend can dispute the petition. Mason says he won't only if August asks him. August tells about wanting to throw money from the roof. He did it for her. "The other night, she was saying. . ." Mason reminds him that she's been dead ten years. / Mason tells Dalgran that Kenneth is temporary conservator for the two weeks he'll be under observation. Then he bawls Gus out for his act and for running away. Why? Gus then says that he gave Ben Hollingsworth $100,000 in securities of his own stocks and bonds. He wants Ben to sell and give the money to Perry, to take to the company. Mason says that, under the circumstances, this would violate the law unless Kenneth agrees. Gus says Kenneth would do anything for him, it is his wife. . . / Ken tells Perry that he already has an injunction against Ben to keep him from touching the stock. Then, Mason says, he won't take Gus's dream of a city in the desert from him. But the letter has already been sent the bank ordering sale of the acreage. / Gus doesn't want to believe Kenneth would do this, there's a mistake, but if he did, he'll kill him, which is witnessed by Dr Jackman, an orderly and Mason). / Della brings Mason relevant judicial books. Dr Jackman informs Mason that Dalgran has escaped. / A boy in a jalopy drops Dalgran off at a house (which looks suspiciously like the Winslow lodge of episode #148, Angry Astronaut), where he rings the bell. / Mrs Kenneth Dalgran opens the door, to Perry Mason. She just got back from a movie, and Ken's station wagon was gone. Drake's phone reveals that he couldn't find him. / Dalgran finds Chuck Blair. The well drilling has been shut down by Kenneth. Mason and Drake drive up. Dalgran says Kenneth wasn't at home. The sheriff drives up. Kenneth is found dead in the back of his station wagon. // [4-8]{4-9} In jail August suggests that the body was in the wagon when he borrowed it. He recites from the Ophelia mad scene after Mason notes that incompetence and insanity are not the same. / Mason is with Morley and Fenton. They argue the need for the downtown property as the reason for selling potentially more valuable desert property. The issue of the missing $100,00 is raised. Mason goes to his outer office to take a call from Drake, then asks Martha Blair to meet him after hours in order to go over the books. / Mason and Drake confront Sandra, who admits that she hated Ken in life, won't mourn him in death. Does she have the gun, a Walter .22, that Gus bought? Blair requested it to kill rattlesnakes up at the well. / Blair shows them a .45 automatic that he's had since the army. / Mason asks Martha about a holding company, Manzanita Realty, and she says that Kenneth took care of it. Drake calls to say that he has found nothing but a paper with a name written on it many times. Lieutenant Tragg and Sergeant Brice arrive to take the books. Lt Tragg says that a Mrs Farnham saw Dalgran put a body in the wagon at 11:00. // [5-8]{5-9} In court District Attorney Hamilton Burger recites the facts regarding Dalgran's saneness. Martha Blair states that she left the sanitarium at 9:30 and returned home to find an open door at 11:15. Fenton testifies that Dalgran stole $100,000 and used it to purchase land around that which he already owned by the company for himself under the name of Manzanita Realty. Morley says Dalgran knew there were no recoverable chemicals on the land. Blair says a government man, Joseph Tayback, surveyed the whole area for an airforce missile base. He got a letter from Dalgran which indicated that he knew this. Tayback says that they were negotiating by letters with Dalgran for the property, whose value goes up when a base locates in a region. / Drake tells Mason and Street that Kenneth wasn't as discrete as Sandra, who was involved with Don Morley. Someone inside Dalgran's was busy forging two names. // [6-8]{6-9} Burger argues before the court that none of the Dalgran partners knew of the windfall for the desert land and that August broke out of the sanitarium and killed Kenneth and therefore should be bound over for trial in Supreme Court. Mason calls Fenton for the defense. He asks Fenton if he is aware that some of the company's own funds are missing. Fenton is surprised. Martha says Kenneth stole $100,000. Gus doctored the books to make it look like he, not Kennie, had stolen the money, then used it to buy Gus's property for himself. She thinks that he forged the necessary endorsement. Morley admits that he loves Sandra and knew Ken had a report on them and had threatened to sue for divorce. He wanted Morley’s share of the company. Sandra didn't know about this. Sandra says she found a typed suicide note signed by August in Ken's coat, so she went to the sanitarium where Gus told her that he never made such a note. Dalgran now testifies that he went into the house, found Kenneth dead and an envelope under him containing the detective report on Sandra and Don. He put the body in the wagon, intending to bury it in the desert. He was wrong about Sandra, thought she'd killed Kennie because of the gun he bought for her, next the body. Kenneth forged August's name to letters to Tayback and on the purchase of land. As his heir, Kenneth would inherit the dummy corporation and all its land. Kenneth forged August's signature and Don Morley's, but not the one who found out about the scheme and became his partner, Fenton. Fenton testifies that he argued over killing Gus and Ken furiously accused him of stealing the suicide note. They struggled, and the gun went off, killing Kenneth. // [7-8]{7-9} Mason and Drake look over the future missile base, suggest the area should be Dalgran City. Gus is deeding his land to the Air Force for a base, and says it's alright with him if it is for his partners whom he now joins, Sandra and Don Morley. [8-8 end credits]{8-9} [50:54]{50:54}

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TITLE

SHOW DATE

CBS TAPE

151

Ancient Romeo

5 May 62

22196

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Margit Bruner

K T Stevens

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Kelvin MacRae

Kendrick Huxham

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Carl Bruner

Robert Cornthwaite

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Judge

Willis Bouchey

Franz Lachman

Jeff Morrow

Amos Martin

Donald Curtis

Steve Brock

Rex Reason

Shipping Agent

Stafford Repp

Phil Scharf

Harry von Zell

Helen Finney

Rosemary Day

Claire Adams

Patricia Huston

Court Clerk

Charles Stroud

Ellen Carson

Antoinette Bower

(Wayland

uncredited)

Lt. Anderson

Wesley Lau

Produced by Art Seid Directed by Arthur Marks Teleplay by True Boardman

[5-9/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] Claire Adams is on stage reciting Juliet’s lines from Shakespeares “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.” The Franz Lachman Repertory Company does not use a Juliet “who has not been trained by me, personallly”, says Franz Lachman. He's broke, notes his advance man (Phil) Scharf. The girl walked in with $1000 cash and a $10,000 check signed by Amos Martin, the hotel man. This is how they can open in L A. Franz gives in. Scharf notifies Adams, who notes that she brought $2000 cash. Scharf offers her a $500 finder’s fee. She only wants the part and knows that he held back $1000. He warns her that the company will not like her playing Juliet opposite Lachman's Romeo. // [3-8] Lachman welcomes his company of actors to the “most felicitous Los Angeles.” Then he introduces Adams as Juliet, which draws skepticism from the company members. Franz assigns leads lesser roles. Steve Brock protests and soon tells the company's Juliet (Ellen Carson) that Franz cannot do this to her. He then speaks to his old friend Claire Adams in Lachman's own words, but sarcastically, "the distinguished American actress." In his dressing room Lachman gives Brock the cash and check. Brock argues that he stayed on only to see Ellen Carson play Juliet, as Lachman had promised over a year ago, in Los Angeles. / Claire is reciting Juliet’s lines and takes an empty vial to her lips. Franz interrupts to point out to Kelvin (MacRae) that the company does “not rehearse with empty cups, empty vials, empty anything.” After Kelvin is berated, Brock enters and Franz asks Brock why he is hours late to rehearsal. Brock announces that the costumes are on the way from San Francisco. They continue rehearsal. Lachman taunts Brock in the scene where Romeo kills Paris. Franz calls out numbers wh ich determine the order and position of sword movements to complete the stage duel. / Margit Bruner taunts Adams who responds in kind; “Did Franz love you when you played Juliet?” Ellen knows why she stayed in the company and suggest to Margit she should have left with Carl long ago. Margit responds that she's still waiting for Franz to pay back Carl. / A shipping agent won't let the cartons, under bond, be opened. The stage man, Kelvin MacRae, let the Customs agent go because Franz couldn't be disturbed during rehearsal. Further, the payment was by check, which bounced. Brock hasn't enough cash left to pay. Franz sends Carl to the box office for cash, then advises Brock that the police will be interested in his doings. / During the performance Adams is forgetting lines. Perry Mason tells Della Street that the new Juliet is “not a Catherine Cornell.” Mason knows through the Navy the brother of Steve Brock. Backstage, Margit and Steve confer. Steve overhears Franz asking the police to be at the stage door at 11:30. Brock is told by Lachman that he'll have to answer to the police. This is then reiterated by Scharf. The duel scene finds Paris and Romeo in a private duel. Franz draws blood on Steve's cheek. “By the numbers?” challenges Steve. In a returnto the fight Franz falls and “Kill the lights” is heard. The curtain is rung down on a dark stage. Della and Perry head backstage and see Steve running out the stage door. On stage, a scream. Romeo is dead. // [4-8] Paul Drake and Mason find Ellen with Steve, who says that he learned about the stabbing only on the radio. His sword is missing. Mason agrees to help Steve but only if he’ll turn himself in. He agrees. / Lieutenant Anderson says that he is glad to cooperate with Mason. MacRae doesn’t remember who called “kill the lights.” He wonders about the missing sword. Carl Bruner says his only regret is that Franz borrowed his live’s savings and never paid him back. Margit denies any animosity to other Juliets. / Scharf tells Mason that Lachman liked “playing with girls without being called a sissy.” He insists Margit was one thing, while Ellen never let him get close, and Claire bought her way into the company with money. Amos was not Franz’s personal friend. /Claire says that she’s had bit parts until this big break. / Paul Drake tells Mason that he couldn’t reach Amos Martin but learned that several years earlier Amos was involved with a Las Vegas dancer named Claire. She disappeared about the time Martin’s wife dropped her divorce suit. Customs is interested in the costumes from South Africa. MacRae reports that a man gave him $100 to watch the show from backstage. When Steve ran out so did he. / At Nido Alto Ranch Drake and Mason are met by Martin, who orders them off the property. When Mason asks how long it takes his private plane to make Los Angeles, he calls on Wayland who picks up his rifle. Paul and Perry leave. / Helen Finney tells Drake that the check was drawn on a bank where Martin's account had been closed over a year. The check was mailed back to the theater company. / Kelvin MacRae informs Mason that he hasn't the authority to give him the letter, but Carl tells him to. MacRae gets the letter, which Lt Anderson intercepts and opens only to find that it is empty. Brock's sword, with blood on it, has been found. // [5-8] In court Ellen tells D A Hamilton Burger that Steve turned down a lucrative movie offer to stay with her. You, and he, were only "disappointed" when you lost your big chance, queries the D A. Mason asks her if she saw a man on the circular stairs offstage. Yes, but she did not see his face. Mrs Bruner recounts Ellen and Steve considering if he could do anything about her losing Juliet. She was prompting Juliet, so also cannot identify the man on the stairs. Bruner says that he and Brock were told of the company's financial plight. Tho he was the company manager, Steve took over from South Africa, because it was important to get to Los Angeles. He saw the man but cannot identify him. Burger asks if the unidentified man could have gotten from the stairs to Lachman, then out the door before Brock. No. Scharf identifies Martin as Adams's backer. He hollered "curtain." Claire says that she knew Martin five years earlier in Las Vegas. Brock was there at that time, too, and knew. Martin states that he did not write the check. Mason points out that Henry Wayland dropped him at Glendale at 7:40 and flew him out at 11:57. In between Martin insists that he was in his office. MacRae is questioned about a $2500 bank withdrawal. Mason then asks about a second visit to the bank and ask, why did MacRae rent a safety deposit box at the bank? Jewels. The jewels on the costumes coming from South Africa were real and being smuggled. He took one jewel, only one! That is what he told Lachman, and why Lachman was phoning the police. Instead of MacRae, Steve packed the costumes and shipped them to himself. // [6-8] Steve explains to Mason that he had new costumes made in Johannesburg, which is why he controlled their shipment. Other funds were for his and Ellen’s honeymoon. / The court is present at the theatre and has allowed a re-staging of the murder scene. Mason narrates. With Lachman on the floor, Brock turned, headed off stage right, bumping in to someone (but no one is there now) which caused him to drop his sword. He then bumped into a stage brace as he saw a light at the back door where someone was leaving, just before he rushed out. The judge calls Burger and Mason to the bench where he notes that this new element of the jewels might suggest a continuance. Of course, Mason knew of this, but not Burger says that he knew too but was saving it for superior court. Mason suggests there are three unanswered questions. “1. Who is the man who shouted ‘Kill the lights’? 2. Who did Steve pump into and 3. Who picked up his sword?” Mason now asks Adams about the man who phoned her and was the real check-writer. He was on the stairs. “He was there to pick up the smuggled jewels.” He was Henry Wayland, she admits. Drake plays Wayland, goes up the stairs, and everyone including Margit concurs that is where he was. Mrs Bruner was then, and is now, down right. Drake drops a tormentor curtain, which makes it impossible for her to see the stair. Mason now insists that she was elsewhere, in front of Scharf, further upstage. It was she that Steve bumped in to. It was, then, her husband Carl who shouted “put out the lights” (sic) and who picked up the sword, who . . . Carl confesses that he was partners with Franz who, for twenty years, heaped scorn on him. How could he let him live when he found out? He’d “kill him a thousand times!” // [7-8] Mason, Street and Drake explain to Steve and Ellen how Wayland blackmailed Martin and threatened Claire to keep her quiet. It was Margit who put the sword in Carl's hand and sent him out to do murder. Drake comments, "Like that Lady in Hamlet." Della corrects, "Macbeth, Paul , Macbeth." [8-8 end credits] [50:55]

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TITLE

SHOW DATE

CBS TAPE

152

Promoter's Pillbox

19 May 62

24374

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Jerome Stokes

Edmon Ryan

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Judge

John Gallaudet

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Mrs Simms

Geraldine Wall

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Kelsey

James O'Hara

Miriam Waters

Geraldine Brooks

Alice

Danielle Aubrey

Nelly Lawton

Dianne Foster

Markett

Dan Seymour

Mike Flint

George Matthews

Autopsy Surgeon

Michael Fox

Davis(David) Crane

Ben Cooper

(Maurice) Parness

Ivan Dixon

Herbert Simms

Linden Chiles

Ethel Mowry

Kitty Kelly

Lt Anderson

Wesley Lau

Gustavson

Chuck Webster

Charlie Corby

John Lasell

Chico

George Conrad

Produced by Art Seid Directed by Jesse Hibbs Teleplay by Peter Martin

[6-9/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] A man wearing glasses hops on truck tailgate to get inside National Studios. He jumps off when well inside where he sees a sign "Shooting Corby Prods TV Pilot ‘Mr Nobody’” on Stage 1. / He rifles an empty office, steals script for “Mister Nobody written by Herbert Simms." Secretary Miriam (Waters) enters. She goes to dial the phone and the man (Simms) warns her not to, then leaves. Charlie (Corby), smoking, enters and is advised by Miriam of the interloper. He takes some pills, then dictates revisions to Act 3, Scene 2 “Mr Nobody.” Mike (Flint), director of “Mister NObody,” charges in and is sweet-talked on second unit and replacement footage. He says Rod Serling has new Act 3 in the mail. Mike leaves, placated. "Act 3, Scene 2. . . "// [3-8] David Crane drives into a parking space, then enters an office just as Corby finishes the rewrite. He reminds Corby that he provided the money for the show. He did it by introducing Corby to Nelly Lawton, whose jewels are the basis of a chattel mortgage with Woodfield Mortgage Company that covers the show. Further, the mortgage has not been recorded and, instead of the $68,000 the jewels are worth, it is $137,000. “Suppose it wasn’t a mistake” challenges Corby. When Miriam advises him over the phone that Nelly is on the line, he rushes Crane out, then discovers that Nelly is in L A and is demanding to see him. She has a new writer for him, Herbert Simms, who is sitting next to her, and has heard it all. / Nelly tells Charlie that Simms showed her a script. Did he steal it?Corby puts her off. She says a Mr (Jerome) Stokes at the mortgage company told her that the chattel mortgage was for $137,000. She muses over having to tell everybody about his hooking her into financing a film script that he stole from Herbert Simms. / Perry is with Herber Simms’s mother, who was with her husband helpful when the attorney “was a law student living in this neighborhood.” Mrs Simms tells Perry Mason that her son, Herbert, who no longer wants to be a pharmacist, told her that someone stole his “chance to make a million dollars.” Herbert enters, doesn’t want to talk about his writing. / Simms has phoned Lawton, who said there was nothing more she could do. He admits that he didn't register his script, get a return receipt, or have a carbon copy of the script. Sure, Corby still has it, he lies. Mason says that he'll get a court order impounding Corby's files, so that they can prove he has his script. Mason leaves. Herbert takes the script out of a drawer. / Flint catches Corby leaving the lot, challenges him with the fact that he scrimped all down the line on talent, sets and music. Corby reminds Flint of his drinking problem and Flint threatens him. As Charlie speeds away, Miriam calls out to no avail. She tells Mike that Stoke from the mortgage company is in his office. / On the set they are playing out the end of a scene from "Mister Nobody." Mike says "wrap it up" and "it's time to celebrate." He drinks. Miriam congratulates him. He asks where Charlie is. “Around.” Stokes asks for Corby and goes for a drink as Nelly enters. She goes to Miriam who says that she expected Charlie to come with her. Miriam retorts “And leave with you, judging by your ensemble.” Mike drags Charlie, who is holding a suitcase, into the crowd. He gives them a congratulatory speech. Everyone seems happy except Stokes who looks worried. / At night Mike, drunk, tells Miriam they have an invisible picture, Charlie's run off with all the money. She sees Simms running from the office. Inside, she and the police find Charlie, who mutters "Herbert, no, Simms," and dies. // [4-8] In jail Herbert tells Mason how he had to return the script before the files were impounded. He heard quarreling voices, so hid in the washroom. When he came out, he stumbled over Corby, ran. / Della Street admits Miriam Waters to Mason's inner office. She asks if Simms took Corby's pill box. No, they ought to investigate Nelly Lawton. She found some pills in the waste basket, which is about all he had left. Mason calls Dr Joe Walker to suggest a toxicologist report. / Mason meets Lawton with Crane. Nelly insinuates that Flint, Waters, herself and David disliked Charlie and gives reasons for each. She teases David with maybe even she has something to hide. / With the help of Gustavson, Mason catches the head of Woodfield Mortgage, Jerome Stokes, at the Eden Valley Motel. A note ties the appraiser, Al Bender, with Corby. He spoke to Corby, who put him off until later, never showed. He got a splitting headache from the one lousy drink that they gave him. The motel is as far as he got. He claims to be a sick man. / A landlady tells Paul Drake that Bender no longer lives there. / Bartender Chico says Al took off a couple of days earlier owing both his broker and ex-wife. / A wholesaler (Markett) tells Mason that Corby had to pay cash. He got a hundred thousand feet of raw stock, shipped seventy thousand of it, along with various equipment, to Spain to a dummy company. Corby never intended to finish “Mister Nobody.” / Drake cannot find Bender or the pill box. Andy (Lieutenant Anderson) walks in, says Corby had a touch of poison, arsenic trioxide, but died from a blow to the head. // [5-8] In court the autopsy surgeon assures Mason that Corby was killed by a blow to the head, not poison. Andy tells Hamilton Burger that the decedent's blood type was on the defendant who had a cut on his hand, and vice versa. Stokes says that he got the budget of "Mister Nobody" and it included $5,000 for Herbert Simms. He tells Mason that Mrs Lawton signed a blank loan request. Because the amount entered was twice real value, Bender never registered the agreement. When the picture was completed and sold, the full amount would be returned. Mason asks about his hobby, lithography, and if he uses a paper glaze. Yes, Neuman's Fixit. Mason notes that it contains arsenic trioxide. Lawton testifies that Simms told her he'd kill Charlie if not paid for his script. Lawton admits to being outside Corby's office after the party. She is a gardener. Her sprays, do they contain arsenic trioxide? Waters says Simms was never paid. "No, Herbie, no . . . Simms, don't" is what she and the guard heard Corby say as he died. She admits Corby was no saint, but she was only a secretary. She then defends Charlie, and admits that she suffers from an iron deficiency. Mason points out that the medicine she takes has arsenic trioxide in it. The judge interupts, but Berger says he understands Mason’s line of questioning. State inspector Maurice Parness says the Simms Pharmacy shows a shortage of arsenic trioxide. / Simms apologizes to Mason for the harm he’s done his mother, then explains how he fell and got glass and blood on his hands, then tells Mason that he used the arsenic to poison rats but forget to enter it in the books. // [6-8] Mason explains to Della the dying statement of Corby and how Burger will interpret it. Drake joins them. He has found Bender in Mexico City. / Back in court, Crane testifies that he met Lawton outside his office. They went to the sound stage looking for him. He got a $5,000 finders fee for bringing Lawton and Corby together. Drake gives Mason a note; "Bender." Mason asks Crane if he's ever had access to the Woodfield’s Holly;wood office. Stokes says he couldn't. Mason asks about his $85 to his travel agency, just the price of a one-way ticket to Mexico City. Mason says Bender didn't give the over valuation. He, Stokes, did, and he got an emetic to relieve himself of poisoning before staying at the Eden Valley Motel. Stokes was not poisoning Corby, Corby was poisoning him. Stokes now says that she told Corby that he was going to the police unless he could pay back half the money and rewrite the loan. Corby stalled him until half-way through a drink, when he felt sick. He switched drinks and, when Corby discovered it, he had to pick up a bottle and hit him. D A Burger asks for the note. Mason says he'll have to catch Bender first. Mason got Stokes on a bluff. Bender’s note; “tell my ex-wife she can go whistle ‘Dixie’" !! // [7-8] Della and Perry are with Herbert. Della is enjoying a sundae. The pill box was found in Stokes’s car. Mrs Simms brings in her chicken soup. Mason tells her that Rod Serling thinks Herbert has promise. She asks if she could meet him, the pharmacy is like Grand Central Station, and she has so many stories . . . [8-8 end credits] [50:51] . .

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SHOW DATE

153*

Lonely Eloper

26 May 62

CHARACTER

ACTOR

CHARACTER

ACTOR

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Howard Langley

Paul Tripp

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Corbett

Billy Halop

Paul Drake

William Hopper

Judge

Kenneth MacDonald

Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Margo Stevens

Carol Andreson

Danny Pierce

Jack Ging

Doctor Wales

John Zaremba

Julian Kirk

John Dall

Messenger

Ralph Reed

Merle Telford

Jana Taylor

Guest

Pepper Curtis

Gina Gilbert

Joan Staley

Doctor (Comstock

Maurice Wells

Olivia Langley

Jorja Curtright

Doctor's Wife (Mrs Comstock

Holly Harris

Lt Anderson

Wesley Lau

[Sgt Brice

Lee Miller]

Produced by Art Seid Directed by Arthur Marks Teleplay by Robert C Dennis

[7-9/1-8 Title credits] [2-8] At a Bel Aire (as we will later learn) mansion, a girl (Merle Telford) is sleep walking with her teddy bear. She is noticed by Aunt Olivia (Langley). Nest door, Julian (Kirk) is lying down on a porch lounger, listening to a classical string quartet, when Merle comes out of the house. He sees little cousin Merle approaching and makes up poetry for the sleep walker. He takes her back next door to Aunt Olivia, who is acting as court-appointed guardian, and who wakens her after they argue who should be the guardian. Julian threatens Aunt Olivia. // [3-8] Chauffeur Corbett admits (Gina) Gilbert. (Howard) Langley looks at her legs before speaking. He lights her cigarette. Her ambition is “to be able to sleep in to 11 o’clock every morning.” Olivia and Merle join them and Merle admires Gina's $14.95 dress, leaves with her. Olivia teases Howard over Gina's beauty, even more Margo Stevens. Does Howard think Merle is even mature enough to pick out her own movies? / At a fashion show Merle wishes she could buy dresses like the model’s. Danny Pierce joins Gina, whom he kisses, and Merle. Gina leaves them, at least she has a job, to do her photography. Danny takes Merle's hand and they confide in each other; she'll run away to San Francisco after her 21st birthday party on Saturday and he can go with her. Maybe she can't get money, but she can charge things. Gina returns, sees them laughing, almost cheek-to-cheek. / Corbett , the chauffeur, makes a phone call. / Olivia berates Merle over her behavior with Danny. Merle says she'll elope. Why can't she marry? Olivia says she should never marry, as she’s not well enough, and Danny “is just a cheap fortune hunter.” Merle says she hates Aunt Olivia, who then slaps her. Merle says that if Aunt Olivia tries to stop her, she'll kill her. Kirk and Corbett overhear this. / At night Danny joins Gina at the Village Motel. Ghe is registered as Lenore Adams and says "it's a dirty trick." The diamonds are worth $50,000, but Merle is worth a quarter of a million as soon as Uncle Howard decides she can handle it. It might be she who would run out on him were it not, as he notes, that the police in Chicago are looking for her. She is outraged, but then softens, and he mocks her. He notes what contacts she can make with her camera! He'll hit at 11 o'clock, and while the diamonds are getting there, she should check out. She's “just a reluctant old pro, trying to make a come-back.” says he. / Paul Drake in tuxedo informs Perry Mason and Della Street that he is going to a birthday party. He’s been hired to protect a wealthy niece from a fortune hunter. The gui is poor and previously married. “I must say, you do look dashing,” interrupts Della. / At the party Olivia greets Doctor and Mrs Comstock, then introduces them to buxom Margo. Merle takes Danny aside and sets 11 o'clock for their elopement. He puts a powder in his champagne glass. // [4-8] Gina says hello to Howard. Olivia is telling a story about a Swiss trip. Danny sets the spiked glass down, removes Olivia's. She drinks. Merle goes upstairs / At 10:45 Paul Drake arrives. Olivia tells him to watch Merle. She has a headache and is going to lie down. Danny follows, enters her room, where she has passed out. Downstairs, Julian sees Howard go to Margo in the garden. He then asks Drake if he's seen Margo, but Drake doesn't know her. Drake then asks where he might find Pierce. At the bar, says Julian. Pierce exits Olivia's, goes to the adjacent room to phone for a messenger service to pick up a package from Julian Kirk's for Miss Lenore Adams, as he puts the diamond necklace in an envelope. He leaves this room as Merle peers into the hall with her luggage, goes nest door to Kirk's, and is observed by Howard, who is seen necking with Margo. / The messenger receives the package at Kirk’s. / Drake finds Merle awaiting Danny. She can't elope, because the diamonds have been stolen. / Howard advises Merle that Olivia has been murdered. Julian puts his arm around her and she says that he warned her that “somebody would cut her throat.” / The messenger delivers the package into an outstretched hand. / Perry Mason gets Paul Drake's plea to be at the Langley's when Lieutenant Anderson forces the locks on Merle's luggage, to which he has the keys. / Lt Anderson thanks Sergeant Brice and sends him away. Mason arrives and gives Andy the suitcase keys, which were slipped to him in his hand shake with Paul. Neither case has the gems, but there is a bloody knife! Merle is concerned about the bloody pretty slip in which the knife is wrapped; "Aunt Olivia . . . never let me buy clothes like that." // [5-8] In court the doctor testifies for D A Hamilton Burger about the knife inflicting the wound, and to Mason that the deceased was not intoxicated, but had chloral hydrate, knock-out-drops, in her system. Langley admits that Olivia acted in his stead. Merle's estate is $250,000, plus the property including the diamonds. He says that “Merle doesn't understand the value of things?so his wife, not she, was wearing the diamonds. Burger asks about the two charged airline tickets, for the night of the murder, to San Francisco. Danny Pierce was to go with her. Didn't Olivia's opposition to this lead to arguments? Yes. The murder weapon belonged to him. Where was he, and with whom? He refuses to name the woman. Burger argues that Mason is using “his usual shotgun method.” Corbett testifies to seeing Merle leave Olivia's with something dark and something hidden. Pierce says that Olivia wouldn't let Merle see any men, not just him. He says that he met Merle by accident. Merle objects. It happened when Corbett went to sleep. Danny says that they met in tea rooms. Merle whispers to Mason that Danny couldn't have forgotten they met through Gina Gilbert. Mason examines him on his character, not for impeachment of testimony. Does he know a Jane Simmons? Yes, he was married to her, but she got a divorce. Mason looks over the spectators, asks for an adjournment. Burger offers that “the prosecution might exercise tolerance.” The judge admonished the D A in that the comment was “Uncalled for.” // [6-8] Della is upset that Merle never mentioned Gina earlier. Perry says that Danny was never divorced. Paul enters with news that Gina was nowhere near the party. Mason says Merle took the knife to protect her Uncle Howard to whom it belonged and on whom Olivia was ten times as hard as on her. Drake has discovered a messenger service picking up next door. / The messenger couldn't see the guy who gave him the package and saw only an arm and head wrapped in a towel at the delivery. Mason asks Della to get a subpoena; “Suppose the woman in that room maybe wasn’t naked.” / Back in court Mason asks Pierce if he stole the diamonds, put the drug in the glass, didn't plan to elope. Yes, he did plan to elope. Then he planned to commit bigamy? Who is Gina Gilbert. He hesitates. Burger objects. Julian Kirk inherited the property's cottage from his grandmother, while Merle got the bulk of the estate. He observed Olivia dominating Merle and also got information from Corbett. He admits that Merle said, “If you try to stop me, I;’ll kill you.” To Mason's questioning, he says that he saw Howard necking with Margo, who stands up and denies it. The judge admonishes her. It was dark, maybe he was wrong. Burger objects to Masons request to recall a witness, but the judge says Mason can only hurt his own case if Burger’s reason for objecting is right! Langley is recalled and Mason forces him to admit who he was with in the garden. It was Gina Gilbert. He never left the garden, but she did! In an outburst, Gina says that he never had to tell. // [7-8] Julian tells Perry and Paul that he knew Howard made a play for every woman he met, but he never knew about Gina. Mason and Drake explain that Gina went along with Danny because it gave her the opportunity to murder Olivia, thus getting control of Merle through Howard. The bare arm had Gina in her evening gown. Merle comes in with Della, in a new outfit. Julian suggests that she owes them “a very, very large encomium.” “What for, Julian?” “Thanks, for saving your life.” She says she was going to give them a big kiss, and does. [8-8 end credits] [50:55]

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