The BEST episodes directed by Arthur Marks
#1 - The Case of the Fiery Fingers
Perry Mason - Season 1 - Episode 31
When wealthy Louise Gordon is poisoned to death her nurse is charged with the crime. Perry does some digging and discovers that the first wife of the victim's husband also died of poisoning. Is the husband really the culprit or could it be someone else?
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#2 - The Case of the Lame Canary
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 30
Ruth Prescott wants to divorce Walter Prescott so that she can be with her true love, Jimmy MacLaine. After a brush with death, Ruth becomes convinced that Walter is trying to kill her rather than give her the divorce. Walter then turns up dead and the police are convinced that Ruth shot him but Perry, as usual, doesn't think so. A lame canary and unusual bruises on the victim hold the keys to the puzzle.
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#3 - The Case of the Calendar Girl
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 24
A building contractor is charged with the murder of a wealthy political Mr.fix-it.
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#4 - Find Loretta Lynn
The Dukes of Hazzard - Season 2 - Episode 18
When Loretta Lynn detours through Hazzard County, she stops at the Boar's Nest where she is kidnapped by a trio mini-band who demand $1136.15 ransom.
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#5 - The Case of the Prodigal Parent
Perry Mason - Season 1 - Episode 36
Lorraine Stevens is fighting off the advances of the owner of the import-export company where she works, Philip Larkin. Later that evening she is asked to pick up something at the Alcorn Jewelers store. The owner is unaware of what she is to pick up and suggests she make a phonecall to find out. She calls Philip Larkin and while the phone rings we see Philip Larkin dead in his home. Standing over him is Joseph Harrison who wipes off his fingerprints from the telephone and leaves. When his fingerprints are found on the gun case of the murder weapon he is accused of the murder.
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#6 - The Case of the Duplicate Daughter
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 26
A mixed up mess awaits Perry as he struggles to put all the pieces together. Blackmail, murder, a boyfriend who spent the night, all add up to one great case.
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#7 - The Case of the Caretaker's Cat
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 19
Wealthy Peter Baxter decides to test the loyalty of his heirs. He pretends to change his will cutting them all out and leaving his entire estate to groundskeeper, James Hing. Hing is then supposed to burn down Baxter's house and Baxter would substitute a medical cadaver for his own body. If any of the heirs contested the will, they would be disinherited. Hing does as he is instructed. He burns down the house but the body discovered inside is really that of Peter Baxter. Perry tries to sort through this muddled mess and arrive at the truth.
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#8 - The Case of the Frantic Flyer
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 12
A double cross, a double murder, a plane crash, missing money, and yet another innocent widow charged with crimes she didn't commit are the elements of this case.
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#9 - The Case of the Witless Witness
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 28
A judge is accused of murdering a government witness who planned to expose him as a crook. The question though, is is he a crook.
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#10 - The Case of the Spanish Cross
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 28
Young Jimmy Morrow can't seem to catch a break. Already on probation for car theft he's charged with stealing a valuable Spanish cross and killing its owner. Perry feels sorry for the kid and decides to take the case.
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#11 - The Case of the Shifty Shoe-Box
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 2
John Flickenger pulls off a carefully planned robbery without a hitch - until his young nephew finds the gun used in the heist.
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#12 - The Case of the Lover's Leap
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 23
The victim of a swindle finds his trouble multiplying when he's accused of murder.
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#13 - The Case of the Bedeviled Doctor
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 22
Dr. David Craig discovers that tapes of conversations with his psychiatric patients are missing and being used for blackmail purposes. When the suspected thief and blackmailer, Mark Douglas, turns up murdered, the good doctor is charged with the crime.
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#14 - The Case of the Lurid Letter
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 10
A young widowed high school English teacher in a small town is accused via letter of making passes and more towards some of her male students. But a small town is small town and it seems that all the key figures are involved somehow, the principal, the lawyer, the doctor, the local barkeep, and of course the oldest boy, who's really more of a man, in the high school.
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#15 - The Case of the Singing Skirt
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 18
The Big Barn is a legal gambling casino run by George Anclitis. Things are going well at the Big Barn until George's second banana, Slim Marcus, botches a crooked card game and is exposed for cheating. Slim's girlfriend, Vivan Ennis, is then killed and George plants a gun and marijuana on Betty Roberts, one of the girls who works at the club. Betty knows quite a bit about the shady activities going on at The Big Barn so George decides to feed her to the wolves in order to take the heat off himself. It's then up to Perry to try and extricate Betty from her predicament.
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#16 - The Case of the Ancient Romeo
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 28
Perry and Della go out for a night at the theatre to see Perry's actor friend, Steve Brock, perform as Paris in Romeo and Juliet. The lights mysteriously go out during the dueling scene between Romeo and Paris and when the lights are restored the audience is shocked to see that leading man Franz Lachman, playing Romeo, has been stabbed to death. When Steve is accused of the murder Perry decides to have the cast re-enact the final scene that was played before Lachman's death.
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#17 - The Case of the Curious Bride
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 5
Rhoda Reynolds is charged with murdering her blackmailing ex-husband, Arthur Kane. At the trial, Perry moves the proceedings to the room in which Kane was murdered in order to re-enact the fatal night.
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#18 - The Case of the Loquacious Liar
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 10
Lester Martin's life takes a horrible turn for the worse when a man breaks into his apartment, forces him at gun-point to drink half a bottle of Scotch, and then drives him into the country. Lester's circumstances then go from awful to good grief when he's charged with the murder of his step-father who was trying to takeover the family boat company.
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#19 - The Case of the Nebulous Nephew
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 1
Con artist John Brooks comes up with a new twist to convince Sophia and Ninevah Stone that he's the rightful heir to their fortune. Perry ends up reluctantly defending Brooks when he's charged with murder.
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#20 - The Case of the Fifty-Millionth Frenchman
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 19
A Frenchman is giving money to an old lady love from his hometown, unaware that she's sharing the cash with her husband. When hubby turns up murdered guess who gets charged with the crime?
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#21 - The Case of the Absent Artist
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 23
Cartoonist Pete Manders is elated when the owner of the comic strip "Zingy" offers to sell him the strip for a song. Pete is less than elated when he learns that his girlfriend Leslie is running away to Europe with Gabe Phillips, the strip owner. When Phiilips is murdered, Pete is charged with the crime and retains Perry's services. Investigating the case, Perry soon discovers that the deceased Phillips was leading a double life.
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#22 - The Case of the Married Moonlighter
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 7
A moonlighting school teacher is charged with the murder of a male acquaintence he had taken home after the acquaintence had earlier raised a disturbance at his night job at a cafe.
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#23 - The Case of the Dodging Domino
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 5
Phil Schuyler is a two bit songwriter who comes to a bad end on Halloween night. Someone enters his bungalow while Phil is taking a bath and tosses an electric heater into his tub thus turning him into a crispy critter. Damian White, husband of a famous musical comedy star, was seen entering the bungalow around the approximate time of the murder by an eyewitness. But what about all the trick or treaters?
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#24 - The Case of the Poison Pen-Pal
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 20
A casual pen pal relationship leads to insider information and murder.
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#25 - The Case of the Resolute Reformer
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 14
Perry represents a citizen's group in hearings on a proposed aqueduct to be named after county engineer William Harper Caine. Perry gets a stop work order until a section of the proposed location can be checked for an underground spring. Eventually, Caine needs Perry's help when he's accused of murdering Roger Quigley, the project's chief contractor.
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#26 - The Case of the Borrowed Brunette
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 13
Eva Martell is hired out of numerous candidates by Melvin Slater to impersonate a woman named Helen Reynolds. Eva is paid extremely well and given a nice apartment to live in with her Aunt Agnes as long as she continues with her impersonation. Both Eva and her aunt suspect a rat and seek Perry's advice. Then Melvin Slater turns up dead in the apartment.
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#27 - The Case of the Glamorous Ghost
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 19
Eleanor Corbin pleads amnesia after police find her running and screaming through the woods near her apartment building. Her loss of memory is of little help to her when she is later charged with murder.
#28 - The Case of the Corresponding Corpse
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 1
Perry receives a telephone call from George Beaumont, a man who supposedly died in a plane crash nearly three years before. In reality, Beaumont missed the plane and after hearing about the accident decided to disappear leaving wife Laura with his life insurance money. Since then, Beaumont has been cavorting with girlfriend Ruth Whittaker and living under an alias. He has grown tired of this life and wants to return home but someone cuts short his return by sticking a letter opener in his back. Ruth is then charged with the murder.
#29 - The Case of the Fraudulent Foto
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 16
A District Attorney is charged with the murder of a chairman of the bids committee to a defectively built hospital whom he is investigating for a series of bribes being passed around.
#30 - The Case of the Crying Comedian
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 5
Comic Charlie Hatch learns that the woman he loved and lost, Anne Gilrain, has escaped from a sanitarium to which she was forced to commit herself by her husband, Tom. When Tom Gilrain is murdered, Charlie is afraid that Anne did the deed and sets himself up as a likely suspect to protect her. Perry arrives on the scene to try and free Charlie from his abysmal stupidity.
#31 - The Case of the Gallant Grafter
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 15
Corporate intrigue is the backdrop of this episode when embezzling accountant Robert Doniger is murdered and Edward Nelson is charged with his murder.
#32 - The Case of the Antic Angel
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 26
A recovering alcoholic takes to the bottle after he sees his wife, who's supposedly been dead for five years. Then she turns up dead for real and he's arrested for her murder.
#33 - The Case of the Captain's Coins
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 17
Historian Phillip Andrews tries to make a case that his fiancee, Evelyn Faraday, is entitled to a share of a shipping company fortune. Phillip then finds himself accused of murdering the company's top man.
#34 - The Case of the Borrowed Baby
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 26
A baby who mysteriously appears in Perry's office has a rare St. Christopher medal, which could help identify the baby's parents. If only the suspected father wasn't dead.
#35 - The Case of the Spurious Sister
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 1
Bruce Chapman returns home early from a business trip to find that his wife, Marie, wants a divorce. Chapman is shocked at this turn of events because just before he left on his trip he thought he had found the strangled body of Marie in his office. But if Marie is still alive, who was the dead woman in the office?
#36 - The Case of the Angry Dead Man
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 18
Willard Nesbitt faked his drowning death in a boating accident so his wife could collect the double indemnity life insurance money. Nesbitt thought he had only a short time to live anyway. When Nesbitt's crooked business partner, James Castle, illegally cuts "widow" Eve Nesbitt out of a protitable deal he must rise from the dead to warn her. Then someone kills the "dead man" for good. The police smell insurance fraud and Eve Nesbitt is their number one suspect.
#37 - The Case of the Betrayed Bride
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 5
A recently widowed women becomes tangled in a web of suspicion when she hastily remarries.
#38 - The Case of the Wooden Nickels
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 12
Drake gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to act as courier in the sale of a rare Confederate coin.
#39 - The Case of the Capricious Corpse
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 2
Carleton Gage, a major financial supporter of an orphanage, wants to keep it open but lapses into a coma and later assumes room temperature. Gage's assclown nephew, George, wants to close the orphanage and he is being secretly aided by Ernest Demming. Joane Proctor, Carleton's sister-in-law, wants to keep the orphanage open but her good intentions are complicated by the murder of Demming.
#40 - The Case of the Fugitive Fraulein
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 12
In this change of pace episode Perry and Della travel behind the Iron Curtain and get involved in a murder case which ends up being tried in an East German court.
#41 - The Case of the Travelling Treasure
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 8
Perry and Paul are all set to go deep see fishing on a boat owned by their friend, Scott Cahill, but when Cahill's regular customer wants the boat for the weekend they have to charter another. Later, Perry gets word that the Coast Guard has boarded Cahill's vessel looking for stolen gold. They found some of the bullion and the corpse of an assclown named Karl McGovern. An autopsy reveals that McGovern was killed with a fatal dose of digitalis. Scott Cahill is charged with murder when the police theorize that he and the dead man were partners in stealing the gold. Writer: Robb White
#42 - The Case of the Impatient Partner
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 2
Paint manufacturer Amory Fallon suspects that his partner Ned Thompson is behind a mysterious fire and explosion.
#43 - The Case of the Wintry Wife
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 17
Inventor Walter Randall wants a divorce from his cold-blooded wife Laura in order to be with Phyllis Hudson. Laura decides to get back at Walter by blackmailing one of his assistants into building a bomb that will destroy Walter's underwater sounding invention. While checking on the bomb in the warehouse, Laura is discovered by Phyllis and takes advantage of the situation by knocking her rival out. Phyllis manages to survive the explosion but she is later charged with Laura's murder.
#44 - The Case of a Place Called Midnight
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 8
In an offbeat case, Mason becomes involved in international intrigue wheh he travels to Switzerland to meet a friend's future daughter-in-law.
#45 - The Case of the Skeleton's Closet
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 26
The ex-wife of an author who has written a lurid expose and is murdered.
#46 - The Case of the Nervous Neighbor
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 18
Mason's client: an amnesia victim on trial for the murder of her husband.
#47 - The Case of the Telltale Tap
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 18
Balancing private investigation with legal gymnastics, Mason tries to iron out a case of embezzlement and murder.
#48 - The Case of the Fatal Fortune
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 2
A fortune teller gives a series of accurate predictions regarding a woman's future. But something goes wrong when she's charged with murdering her new husband.
#49 - The Case of the Two-Faced Turn-A-Bout
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 18
Columnist Elihu Laban is hit with a murder rap when his efforts to obtain secret papers from a foreign minister backfire.
#50 - The Case of the Cowardly Lion
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 22
Hilde Fursten and Tony Osgood work at the San Diego Zoo. When a new baby monkey is found missing, Hilde Fursten is blamed by Dr. Walther Braun, a visiting dentist. Boris Zelbowski also works at the zoo and is dating Frieda Crawson, Dr. Braun's nurse. That evening, Dr. Braun arrives at the zoo to perform oral surgery on a lion and is found dead in the lion's cage. Tony Osgood is accused of the murder when a witness sees someone wearing Tony's blue sportcoat near the lion's cage at the time.