The BEST episodes written by Erle Stanley Gardner
#1 - The Case of the Lucky Loser
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 2
Perry has all kinds of troubles in this one when a murder brings him into the tangled financial and personal affairs of the wealthy Balfour family.
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#2 - The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 29
Perry returns to his office late one night and finds an attractive woman climbing into his balcony window. She claims to be Virginia Colfax, the secretary of Ed Garvin who has an office next door to Perry's. Ms. Colfax says that she climbed into Perry's office in order to escape from Garvin's hot tempered wife but Perry later learns that Garvin is married to two women. Garvin and second wife Lorrie are sent to Mexico by Perry until he can clear up the matter but when Garvin's first wife, Ethel, is murdered there's an even bigger mess on the scene. And just who in the world is Virginia Colfax, the woman climbing in the window?
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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 - 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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#5 - 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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#6 - The Case of the Howling Dog
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 23
Evelyn Forbes escapes from a mental institution only to be charged with murder. The key to the case is a dog that continues to howl no matter what.
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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 Shapely Shadow
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 16
Naive secretary Janice Wainwright carries out boss Morley Thielman's orders and places a briefcase containing more than $100,000.00 in a train station locker. Then she waits for the arrival of Thielman's ex-wife but Lt. Tragg arrives instead with an arrest warrant for Janice on the charge of murdering her boss. It seems as though witness Fred Carlyle saw a woman's shapely shadow through the shades of Thielman's office window shortly before the murder occurred.Carlyle believes the silhuette belonged to Janice. Perry manages to get to the bottom of things once the courtroom proceedings begin.
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#9 - 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.
#10 - The Case of the Dangerous Dowager
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 26
Matilda Benson is a tough old broad who rules her children with an iron hand and the promises in her will. Her family then gets involved in a gambling scandal involving sinister nightclub owner Danny Barker. When Barker is found dead the scandal expands to include murder.
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#11 - The Case of the Velvet Claws
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 22
In a case woven with one woman's lies a politician and a murder are entagled.
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#12 - 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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#13 - The Case of the Mystified Miner
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 21
Mason tries to clear his young, beautiful client after a twisting and wheeling plot of murder, kidnapping, and embezzlement unfolds.
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#14 - 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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#15 - 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.
#16 - The Case of the Mischievous Doll
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 30
Dorrie Ambler breaks into Perry's office so he can verify who she is. She won't give details but says she is mixed up in some scheme. Della spots a gun in her purse. When the man who hired her is killed, she is charged. But, who is she?
#17 - The Case of the Ice-Cold Hands
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 16
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.
#18 - The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 15
Two troubled women, Millie Crest and Fern Driscoll, switch identities. Millie, posing as Fern, stabs shady private eye Carl Davis in the arm in self-defense. Davis then turns up dead from poisoning of the stab wound to his arm. Millie then gets Perry to help her in return for a 38 cent retainer.
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#19 - The Case of the Reluctant Model
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 6
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?
#20 - The Case of the Candy Queen
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 3
Things aren't going too good for the self-styled candy queen, Claire Armstrong, these days. Boyfriend Mark Chester steals her candy formula in order to pay back his gambling debts and Harry Arnold is blackmailing her. Then there's cousin Wanda. She'd like nothing better than to see Claire convicted when Arnold is murdered so that she can takeover the business.
#21 - The Case of the Deadly Toy
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 27
Martin Selkirk is a major league rotter who wants Claire Allison in the worst way even though she's dating Dirk Benedict. Selkirk has Dirk's jaw broken and begins sending Claire threatening mail. Then Selkirk is murdered in his beach house and Claire is arrested for the crime. Perry takes the case and finds that the evidence points in the direction of Selkirk's five year old son. Or does it?
#22 - The Case of the Grinning Gorilla
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 28
Perry helps Josephine Kempton after Della buys the diary of a girl who committed suicide. Her ex-boss has been telling people she is a thief so she sued. Perry has to rescue her from a gorilla trapping her with her dead boss.
#23 - The Case of the Lucky Legs
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 10
Marjorie Cluny wins a contest for best looking legs sponsored by Frank Patton of Stellar Productions. Her prize is a trip to Hollywood and a role in Patton's next picture. Unfortunately, there was fine print in Marjorie's contract and her Hollywood career lasts only two days. Patton is then found stabbed to death with a woodcarving instrument . Marjorie disappears and becomes the leading suspect.
#24 - The Case of the Waylaid Wolf
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 16
Womanizing playboy Loring Lamont has his sights set on Arlene Ferris, his father's shapely secretary. He lures her to his beachfront bachelor pad with seduction on his mind. Arlene slaps the rotter and flees taking Loring's car back into town. Things then go from awful to good grief for poor Arlene. After her departure someone stabs Loring to death and she's suspect number one.
#25 - The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 13
A chronic shoplifter later finds herself charged with murder. Her niece hires Perry for the defense.
#26 - The Case of the Careless Kitten
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 24
A frustrated Helen Kendall is living with her Aunt Matilda. She receives a call one night from a man claiming to be Matilda's husband, who has been missing for 10 years. Perry goes with her to meet him but they find another man - dead.
#27 - The Case of the Buried Clock
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 6
Slimy Jack Hardisty embezzles $100,000.00 from his father-in-law, Dr. Blane. The greedy Hardisty then tries to blackmail the good doctor for more. Perry is hired by Dr. Blane to put an end to Hardisty's machinations but before he can swing into action the rogue turns up dead. Dr. Blane is charged with the murder forcing Perry to do some intricate courtroom work involving a wildlife camera triggered by a buried clock which took misleading pictures of the actual killer.
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#28 - The Case of the Perjured Parrot
Perry Mason - Season 2 - Episode 11
The courtroom action in this episode takes place at a coroner's inquest as a parrot holds the key to freeing suspect Ellen Sabin from blame in the murder of her husband.
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#29 - The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 3
This case has nothing to do with mosquitos but rather a hidden mine that could lead to a fortune. Plus murder.
#30 - The Case of the Bigamous Spouse
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 7
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.
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#31 - The Case of the Woeful Widower
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 23
Certain that her employer is plotting to murder his wife, housekeeper Nellie Conway launches a counterattack.
#32 - The Case of the Impetuous Imp
Perry Mason - Season 9 - Episode 5
Perry rescues Diana Carter from the ocean in his boat and then must rescue her twice more in the courtroom. Once for jewel theft and once for murder.