The BEST episodes written by Jonathan Latimer
#1 - The Case of the Mythical Monkeys
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 17
Author Mauvis Meade sends her secretary, Gladys Doyle, out to a mountain cabin to pick up a package. Gladys gets lost and her car gets stuck in the mud. She then walks to a cabin looking for help and encounters a mysterious man who appears to know her. While Gladys freshens up, the man leaves and Gladys discovers a dead body.
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#2 - The Case of the Blushing Pearls
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 4
Mitsuo Kamuri has been seeing a great deal of Grover Nichols, son of wealthy businessman Hudson Nichols. Nichols doesn't approve of his son's relationship and when Mitsuo is "caught" with a string of valuable pearls belonging to Mrs. Nichols he agrees to drop all charges provided she stops seeing his son. Things then get even more complicated when Mitsuo's uncle, who had originally strung the pearls. is found murdered. The death has been made to look like hara-kiri but the police are not fooled.
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#3 - The Case of the Startled Stallion
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 5
Wealthy rancher John Brant forecloses on Jo Ann Blanchard's mortgage and takes possession of her prized stallion. Jo Ann goes to Perry for help in getting the horse back but soon needs Perry's aid in getting her off a murder charge she is arrested for killing Brant.
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#4 - The Case of the Nine Dolls
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 9
Perry's fishing trip to Scotland is interrupted by seven year old Peggy Smith. Peggy is living at a boarding school and searching for her identity since she has no idea who her real parents are. After searching into the matter, Perry comes to believe that Peggy is the daughter of Clark Lawson and Margaret Jeffers Lawson. Margaret was the daughter of wealthy Courtney Jeffers who disowned her after she eloped with Clark. Both parents died shortly after Peggy was born. Jeffers, a mean and miserable old man, has his heart warmed after meeting Peggy and changes his will to leave everything to her. The next day, he is found dead, killed by a blow from a poker.
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#5 - 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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#6 - 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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#7 - 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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#8 - The Case of the Deadly Verdict
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 4
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?
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#9 - The Case of the Lavender Lipstick
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 5
An heiress to a cosmetics company, innocently caught in the middle of a conspiracy to sabotage a cosmetics company, turns to Mason when she's accused of murdering the company's owner.
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#11 - The Case of the Feather Cloak
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 19
In Hawaii to handle an investigation for a hotel chain, Mason and Drake uncover a murder.
#12 - The Case of the Left-Handed Liar
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 11
Health club instructor Ward Nichols wants to marry the daughter of his employer, Bernard Daniels, but Ward's estranged wife, Veronica, is pressuring him for money and claiming to be pregnant. Things blow up in everyone's face when Bernard is found crunched with a dumbbell at the club. Perry, as usual, arrives on the scene to get at the truth.
#13 - The Case of the Missing Melody
Perry Mason - Season 5 - Episode 3
Perry and Della attend the wedding of Polly Courtland to Eddy King. The ceremony is halted at the altar when Polly begins screaming, "No! No!" and hurriedly exits the church. It seems as though Polly had spotted slimy George Sherwin holding an envelope containing photos of her younger sister checking into a Las Vegas hotel with a musician named Bongo White. Sherwin plans to ruin Polly and her family's reputation unless she gives up Eddy for him. Sherwin's plan comes a cropper when he's found shot to death. Eddy King is arrested for the crime.
#14 - The Case of the Bashful Burro
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 19
Perry arrives in the gold mining town of Placer City looking for an old prospector to subpoena for testimony. He then get involved in a murder case when one of the participants in a barroom fight is found killed and the other is accused of the crime.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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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#17 - 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?
#18 - The Case of the Capering Camera
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 15
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.
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#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - The Case of the Guilty Clients
Perry Mason - Season 4 - Episode 28
Lola and Jeff Bronson are going through a divorce and can't wait to be rid of each other until Bill Ryder sabotages Jeff's business and makes a play for Lola. Ryder is then found dead with three bullet holes in his body and Jeff and Lola are the two prime suspects. Now they battle to cover for each other .
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - The Case of the Gambling Lady
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 26
Peter Warren owns a novelty company and is divorcing his wife, who has developed a gambling habit. She becomes involved in a scheme to pass chips at Nevada casinos with evidence Peter made them. When she is murdered, Peter is charged.
#26 - 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.
#27 - The Case of the Golden Oranges
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 20
Mason goes to the dogs when his defense of a young murder suspect hinges on a surprise witness.
#28 - The Case of the Crying Cherub
Perry Mason - Season 3 - Episode 20
A valuable Matisse painting is stolen from a museum. When the thief is found murdered museum employee June Sinclair and her boyfriend David Lambert are charged with the crime.
#29 - The Case of the Libelous Locket
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 17
Professor Edward Lindley falls into a pit of trouble when he tries to help a young law student dodge a murder rap.
#30 - The Case of the Frightened Fisherman
Perry Mason - Season 7 - Episode 20
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.
#31 - The Case of the Missing Button
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 1
A man's campaign to prove his estranged wife an unfit mother is interrupted when he's arrested for murder.
#32 - The Case of the Paper Bullets
Perry Mason - Season 8 - Episode 2
Mason is caught in the middle when a romance develops between two members of rival political families.
#33 - The Case of the Bogus Books
Perry Mason - Season 6 - Episode 1
Perry and the team investigate the murder of an antiquarian bookseller with an interest in forgery.