The BEST episodes of Perry Mason season 7
Every episode of Perry Mason season 7, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Perry Mason season 7!
There are few actors so closely tied to a persona than Raymond Burr as Perry Mason. This long-running series was built upon Erle Stanley Gardner´s many novels about a brilliant defense lawyer and his staff, that solved many a crime with surprise witnesses and stern cross-examinations.It was the first mystery series to feature chalk or tape outlines to mark the spots where bodies were found. Filmed almost exclusively in the Los Angeles area, Raymond Burr had Gardner's seal of approval in the role. The cases were usually won by way of pivotal confessions of witnesses, solicited by Perry Mason (Burr's) surgeon-like examination or with last-minute, key evidence brought into the courtroom by private investigator, Paul Drake (William Hopper). Della Street (Barbara Hale), Perry´s faithful secretary, was always at Perry's side in the courtroom where hapless Hamilton Burger (William Tallman) was the Los Angeles District Attorney who never seemed to win. As to the myth that Perry Mason never lost, there were 2 episodes where it did occur... but you'll have to watch to find out.The show was revived in 1973-74, with other actors in the familiar roles (Monte Markham as Mason), and then again with the some of the original cast, in a string of feature length TV films from 1985 until Raymond Burr´s death in 1993.
#1 - The Case of the Shifty Shoe-Box
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/1963
John Flickenger pulls off a carefully planned robbery without a hitch - until his young nephew finds the gun used in the heist.
#2 - The Case of the Nebulous Nephew
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1963
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.
#3 - The Case of the Fifty-Millionth Frenchman
Season 7 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/20/1964
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?
#4 - The Case of the Deadly Verdict
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1963
Janice Barton is found guilty of the murder of her wealthy relative and sentenced to death. Can Perry find the evidence to clear her of the crime before the pellets in the gas chamber fall?
#5 - The Case of the Badgered Brother
Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/19/1963
Brothers Martin and Todd Baylor are feuding over ownership of a successful chain of clothing stores. Martin ends up with a knife sticking out of his back one night and Todd is charged with the murder.
#6 - The Case of the Ice-Cold Hands
Season 7 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/23/1964
Sweet but ditzy Nancy Banks wants Perry to cash a bundle of winning racing tickets for her. There's only one problem: her former employer claims the racing tickets as his own. Nancy then gets in even deeper feces when she's charged with her ex-employer's murder.
#7 - The Case of the Antic Angel
Season 7 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/16/1964
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.
#8 - The Case of the Reluctant Model
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1963
Crude but wealthy art connisseur Otto Olney throws a party to celebrate his purchasing a painting by famed artist Gauguin. Then a party guest, art expert Colin Durant, says that the painting is actually a fake. Olney then goes to Perry who decides to sue Durant for libel. Durant then claims he never said anything regarding the painting and the only witness, an art student named Maxine Lindsay, confirms his story. Perry then discovers the dead body of Austin Durant, fully clothed, in the shower of Maxine's apartment. Paul Drake then tracks down Maxine but the police are right behind him and they arrest her for murder. Guess who she hires to defend her?
#9 - The Case of the Capering Camera
Season 7 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/16/1964
Mystery clouds Mason's search for the murderer of a photographer who was shot while a model pointed a loaded gun at him but didn't pull the trigger.
#10 - The Case of the Tandem Target
Season 7 - Episode 29 - Aired 5/14/1964
Irma Hodge's wealthy step-father, Sumner Hodge, is withholding her inheritance because he dislikes her folksinger boyfriend, Con Bolton. When someone supposedly takes a shot at Sumner, he suggest to the police that Con is to blame. Then another attempt is made on Sumner's life which proves successful. His car goes over a cliff with him behind the wheel and an investigation reveals that the brake line had been severed. Witnesses then claim Con was fooling around with the brakes minutes before the crash and he's charged with murder.
#11 - The Case of the Nervous Neighbor
Season 7 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/13/1964
Mason's client: an amnesia victim on trial for the murder of her husband.
#12 - The Case of the Ugly Duckling
Season 7 - Episode 30 - Aired 5/21/1964
The deceased father of Alice Trilling left behind a strange will. His successful toy company would be left to her ONLY if Alice is married or engaged within a year's time. Until then, her wheelchair bound Uncle Harry and a board of directors will run the company. In searching for a husband, Alice has one major problem: she's coyote ugly and she's the first one to admit it. An artist begins a flirtation and after seeing a portrait he's painted of her, Alice begins to think she could find happiness with him. There's one problem though: nasty old Uncle Harry has been playing matchmaker behind the scenes for reasons of his own. Alice discovers her uncle's perfidity and pushes over his wheelchair. Quickly fleeing the scene, Alice is later arrested when Uncle Harry is found dead. Perry is retained as defense counsel but even he has a tough time in this one because Alice herself thinks she's guilty.
#13 - The Case of the Decadent Dean
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1963
Perry has to defend the dean of a prep school on charges of murdering a teacher who had been stealing, embezzling and blackmailing.
#14 - The Case of the Devious Delinquent
Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1963
Three JD teens cruise Hollywood Boulevard in a cool convertible lookin' for kicks! A liquor store goes down and the blackmail and plot twists begin. Lies and more lies and it's going from bad to worse for young Timmy Balfour who soon discovers that there's every bit as much delinquency from the adults when he's charged with murder.
#15 - The Case of the Festive Felon
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/1963
Wealthy but dying Bebe Brent gives the bulk of her estate to her loyal nurse. Needless to say, this act angers the remainder of the Brent clan and leads to a murder.
#16 - The Case of the Arrogant Arsonist
Season 7 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/5/1964
A fire chief wants to bring a libel suit against a reporter who accuses him of burning down his own warehouse. Things get even worse for the chief when he's charged with murder.
#17 - The Case of the Wednesday Woman
Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/2/1964
A wife's ears perk up when an insurance investigator informs her that he has proof that her husband was wrongfully convicted of the crime for which he is imprisoned. Then the insurance investigator turns up dead. Goings on in an elevator highlight this episode.
#18 - The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/1963
This case has nothing to do with mosquitos but rather a hidden mine that could lead to a fortune. Plus murder.
#19 - The Case of the Accosted Accountant
Season 7 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/9/1964
Edward Lewis's increasingly bitter arguments with his father-in-law make him the suspect when the old goat is murdered.
#20 - The Case of the Bigamous Spouse
Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/1963
Gwynn Elston's best friend, Nell Grimes, asks her to move in with her due to the fact that Nell's husband, Felton, is often out of town on business. Gwynn, who has a door-to-door sales job, is then astonished to see Felton's picture in someone else's house where he's known as Frank Gillette. Felton, who's really a nasty mother, tries to poison Gwynn, when she confronts him but she survives and runs to Perry for help. Then Felton is found shot to death and things go from awful to good grief for poor Gwynn--she gets arrested for the crime.
#21 - The Case of the Illicit Illusion
Season 7 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/9/1964
Mason is hired by a woman who is convinced, after a series of bizarre events, that she's crazy.
#22 - The Case of the Bouncing Boomerang
Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/1963
Grover Johnson manages somehow to talk his much younger bride Eula into living with him on a barren spread of ranch land. Needless to say, Eula hates it and can't wait to sell the property. Along comes wealthy Texas Nelson Barcliff who's ready, willing, and able to purchase the property. But is this big Texan really who he appears to be? Or is it just an elaborate real estate swindle cooked up by Eula? Either way, both Eula and Barcliff end up dead and Grover finds himself charged with Eula's murder.
#23 - The Case of the Bountiful Beauty
Season 7 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/6/1964
20 year old Deborah Dearborn has just written a best selling novel about a cold and calculating woman who bears a strong resemblance to her boyfriend's stepmother. Now Deborah is living at a beach house in Malibu and in the process of selling the rights to her book to a movie producer. Then the stepmother, Stephanie Carew, appears on the scene threatening to sue for libel. This throws a monkey wrench into the movie but when Stephanie's dead body is found floating in a swimming pool everyone assumes the death is accidental and champagne corks begin popping all-around because the blockbuster movie can proceed. Hold everything, says the coroner. His autopsy shows that Stephanie did not die in the swimming pool but in the ocean and that the cause of death was a blow on the head not drowning. Poor, little Deborah is charged with the crime.
#24 - The Case of the Frightened Fisherman
Season 7 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/27/1964
Chemist Randolph James has started a successful company to develop a new antibiotic but his former boss, Hudson Bradshaw, files suit claiming that James developed the formula while in his employ. James' wife, Natalie, then begins selling her stock to Bradshaw which would give him control of the new company. James vows to stop his wife at any cost and she turns up dead. James claims that he was fishing at the time the murder occurred but things go from awful to good grief when he can't find the fellow fisherman who can substantiate his story.
#25 - The Case of the Careless Kidnapper
Season 7 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/30/1964
A kidnapping hoax leads to murder when the ransom note gets into the wrong hands.