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Perry Mason Season 7 Episodes
Season 7 Episode Guide
30 Episodes 1963 - 1964
Episode 1
The Case of the Nebulous Nephew
Thu, Sep 26, 196352 mins
Ernest Stone has enlisted the help of John Brooks in a scam he has planned against two aging relatives, Sophia and Nineveh Stone. Brooks is to show up at the Stone's home and tell them he is a good friend and one-time shipmate of their nephew, Caleb Stone IV who was born out of wedlock and given to an orphanage when he was very young. The idea is that Brooks will demonstrate detailed knowledge of the house, the family and so on, so as to suggest he is the real Caleb Stone IV but always deny that he is. The elderly aunts are soon convinced that he is their long-lost relative and approach Perry Mason to change their will in Brooks' favor. Perry, realizing that John Brooks may be a scam, tries to delay them as he investigates Brooks. Brooks grows to like the old ladies and tells Ernest Stone that he wants out of the scam. When Ernest is found dead, John Brooks is charged with murder and Perry defends him.
Episode 2
The Case of the Shifty Shoebox
Thu, Oct 3, 196360 mins
John 'Uncle Flick' Flickinger breaks into the office of the Honer and Downing Trucking Company and, during a fight, a gun goes off. As he escapes, he throws a gun over the fence, where it is later found and hidden in a shoebox by Miles, the foster nephew of Flick and his sister, Sylvia Thompson. Sylvia, branch bookkeeper for the trucking company, tells co-owner Joe Downing that $4,000 is missing from the office but both Downing and the other owner, Frank Honer, believe much more money has been disappearing from the branch in recent months and are particularly suspicious of Bill Sheridan, the branch manager, with whom she has also been romantically involved. Panicking over Honer and Downing's suspicions, Sylvia, while looking for Miles, opens the shoebox in which Miles had placed the gun, but the box happens to be empty. Still, Sylvia is charged with murder after Downing is killed and she is seen running from the scene, and Perry defends her. Perry's bond with Miles may be a key to solving the case.
Episode 3
The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito
Thu, Oct 10, 196360 mins
When Banning Grant is injured in what may not be an accident at an abandoned gold mine, he has Sandy Bowen ask Perry to come to his aid in the town of Gold Gulch. Perry is told by Grant that a mining company in which he was once a major owner is making shady deals for mining properties including deals with Bowen who is known to salt mines. Most of the town residents have shares in the company and depend on dividends from it to help live. He asks Perry to undo a deal between the company and Bowen but Perry is turned down. Grant tells Perry he wanted the property since he found the lost Bolder mine on the property. After someone shoots at Grant, Perry calls Paul to act as a weekend prospector who has found the mine to take the heat off Grant. Paul succeeds but when he returns to his camp, he hears shots and finds the head of the company, James Bradisson, shot nearby. Perry has to help try to solve the case during a very informal coroner's inquest where the dirty laundry of Gold Gulch is revealed.
Episode 4
The Case of the Deadly Verdict
Thu, Oct 17, 196360 mins
Perry Mason has lost a murder trial and his client, Janice Barton, has been sentenced to death in the gas chamber for murdering her Aunt Amanda. Perry holds little hope for the appeal process as he can find no errors in the trial and his client was caught by Burger lying about her actions that night on the stand. She refuses to tell Perry the truth. Furthermore, her life has been a chain of unfortunate incidents involving the death of a boyfriend in Italy and her sister being paralyzed after a car accident. Perry keeps digging with no luck until he learns there had been a prescription mix up. The aunt had been given an old prescription. She was poisoned when she was given her medicine which was always done by Janice. He learns the reason why Janice lied about her actions the night of the murder but it is of no help. Adding pressure is the fact that the appeals for Janice are all denied. Paul visits Brazil to see the family member, Dr. Andrew Barton, who was Amanda's doctor, but he has passed away working with the natives.
Episode 5
The Case of the Decadent Dean
Thu, Oct 24, 196360 mins
Dr. Aaron Stuart, headmaster of a private school, has been hoping to receive an endowment, but has been frustrated by repeated problems, such as complaints from students' parents, missing materials, employees not being paid, and top students failing tests because they never received the necessary materials. He learns that his assistant dean, Tobin Wade, has been responsible for the sabotage. Stuart also learns Wade came to his house, got his wife to start drinking again, after a year of sobriety, and drove her out to a resort. Stuart confronts Wade by a cliff at the resort and, in a struggle, Wade falls over into the ocean. Stuart goes to the police and signs a confession to manslaughter. But Perry challenges the confession at the preliminary hearing on the grounds that there is no body and no proof that Wade was killed. Then, after one of his teachers calls him and tells him she saw Wade alive, Stuart is arrested for murder, standing over Wade's body.
Episode 6
The Case of the Reluctant Model
Thu, Oct 31, 196360 mins
Art student Maxine Lindsay, as the guest of her mentor, art dealer Colin Durant, attends a reception aboard the yacht of millionaire Otto Olney, who is unveiling his newest purchase, a $130,000 Gauguin. When Durant confides that the painting is a fake, Maxine becomes involved in a complicated series of deceptions. Soon gallery owner Leslie Rankin threatens Maxine. Perry Mason is consulted by Rankin wanting to sue Durant. Perry suggests instead that the owner sue to keep Rankin's name and business out of the news to which Rankin and Olney agree. When Durant confronts Perry at dinner, Perry realizes he has been had. In trying to track down Maxine, Perry and Della go to her apartment but the manager says she has moved out. Hearing the shower running, Della looks for Maxine but finds Durant shot laying in the shower. A beatnik artist who uses Maxine as a model is accused of painting a fake which he does not deny as it is in his apartment. A gun turned in from the lockers at the bus station where Maxine was seen is Maxine's pistol and the fatal weapon.
Episode 7
The Case of the Bigamous Spouse
Thu, Nov 14, 196360 mins
Gwynn Elston, a door-to-door encyclopedia saleswoman, is staying at the home of her friend, Nell Grimes. While making a sale at another house, she discovers that Nell's husband, Felton Grimes, has another wife, who knows him as Frank Gillette. She lets it slip that she knows about this when Grimes makes a pass at her, and then goes to Perry because she thinks Grimes may have tried to poison her to keep her quiet. She then thinks she is being followed when she goes back to the home of Grimes' other wife. Though Gwynn starts to believe she may be overreacting, Perry learns that there really was strychnine in the drink Grimes had given her. When Grimes is found dead in the yard of Mrs. Gillette's neighbor, Gwynn is charged with his murder and Perry defends her. To solve the mystery, Perry looks into the mystery of Grimes' father, who died only two days earlier.
Episode 8
The Case of the Floating Stones
Thu, Nov 21, 196360 mins
Juli Eng, in Los Angeles, learns from her grandfather, in Hong Kong, by telephone, that he has just bought a small fortune in diamonds. He dies of natural causes so, when Juli arrives for the reading of his will, she looks for the diamonds but they are nowhere to be found. She contacts her lawyer, Perry, in Los Angeles and is convinced they were stolen by Tudor Sherwin. In fact, the manager of her grandfather's Los Angeles office, Ralph Iverson, is the thief. Iverson is taking a ship back to the USA and partners with a professional thief and smuggler, Gilbert Terrell, to smuggle the diamonds into the United States. Juli is able to get on the same ship with Sherwin and Iverson at the last minute by taking a pilot boat to the ship after it had left the dock. U.S. Customs are on the lookout for Tyrell, thanks to a shipboard snoop and Perry, but they can find nothing when he arrives. When Iverson is literally stabbed in the back and found by Perry as Juli leaves Iverson's office, Juli is charged with murder and Perry defends her.
Episode 9
The Case of the Festive Felon
Thu, Nov 28, 196360 mins
Just prior to her death, family matriarch Bebe Brent leaves her nurse, Hetty Randall, a certified check for $1 million. She entrusted the check to her lawyer, Justin Grover, but Hetty never received it. Hetty's daughter, Madeline, asks Perry Mason to look into it after learning about it when she overheard her mother and uncle discuss it. Madeline learns the truth from her fiancé, Reed Brent, Bebe's nephew, and she quickly makes an appointment to see Grover and find out what he is up to when he offers to tell her what is going on. When Grover is killed in a house fire that same night and Madeline is caught by the police leaving the house with Grover briefcase containing the check, Madeline is charged with murder and Perry defends her. Perry wants to know why Bebe would have left such a large sum to a nurse, but Hetty refuses to tell him.
Episode 10
The Case of the Devious Delinquent
Thu, Dec 5, 196352 mins
Tim Balfour has returned from Italy after his parents were killed in a car accident. His artistic father left the family years before due to his bad boy actions. Tim Balfour finds himself in trouble after he gets involved with Chick Montana and another boy who rob a store. Chick tells Tim they hit the owner too hard and it'll cost $200 to make it all go away. When Tim goes to pay Chick he thinks he may have hit a man but can't find him. Chick now tells him he wants $2000 to make things go away. Tim knows it's a shakedown but he has few options open to him. He's only recently started living with his wealthy grandfather, Timothy Sr., but his father had abandoned the family years ago. As a result, the old man is still a bit frosty towards him while his father's brother, his uncle Luke, is downright hostile. About the only person who is nice to him is the family housekeeper Edith Summers. When Chick is killed, Tim is charged with murder and Perry Mason defends him.
Episode 11
The Case of the Bouncing Boomerang
Thu, Dec 12, 196360 mins
Eula Johnson wants her husband Grover to sell the 1000 acres they've bought. Their real estate agent, Willard Hupp, hasn't had much luck in finding them a buyer but Grover is less than keen to dispose of the property for too low a price. They suddenly seem to have struck gold when an affable and apparently wealthy Texan, Nelson Barclift, offers them a ridiculously high amount for the property. His untimely death in a car accident, in which the body is burned and recognized only by a dental bridge, causes Grover to see Perry about the future of the property as Barclift still owes them $190,000. Since Perry has a buyer for the property, he agrees to help clear up the estate. It's all a scam of course, cooked up by Eula, to get an insurance policy paid off after an untimely death. She becomes upset, however, when Sidney Weplo shows up saying he is related to Barclift and possibly a heir. Insurance investigator Walter Jeffries has been looking into the highly suspicious claim. When Eula is found strangled, it's Grover who is charged with murder and Perry Mason defends him.
Episode 12
The Case of the Badgered Brother
Thu, Dec 19, 196360 mins
After their father's death, Martin Baylor and his estranged brother, Todd, hear their father's recorded will. He leaves Martin ownership and control of all of the women's department stores that he owns, as Martin expected, but offers Todd the management of the home store, if he wishes it, and half ownership of the entire chain if he can show a substantial annual profit in one year with the home store. This upsets Martin, as Todd had left home due to a disagreement over mismanagement and Martin expected sole ownership with no conditions. Todd at first rejects the offer but changes his mind after seeing Joseph Rinaldi's fashion designs. He decides to sell only Rinaldi designs at his store, but then learns that Martin has an exclusive contract with Rinaldi, which Rinaldi's niece, and Todd's old girlfriend, Carla, had inadvertently talked her uncle into signing. Todd also learns that Martin intends to squeeze him out and sell the entire chain of stores. Todd angrily rushes over to Martin's office. The security guard, seeing Todd use the stairs instead of the elevator, follows Todd and over-hears some angry words and sounds of a struggle. When he gets to Martin's office, he find Martin on the floor with a pair of scissors in his back and a stunned Todd lying next to him with his bloody hand next to the scissors. Todd is charged with Martin's murder and Perry defends him.
Episode 13
The Case of the Wednesday Woman
Thu, Jan 2, 196460 mins
For some time now, Katherine Stewart has been visiting her husband Phillip every Wednesday in San Quentin prison who has been serving a year for involuntary manslaughter. He has been serving a term for killing his employer but for the last month, he has refused all visits from his wife. He is released on parole. Katherine consults Perry Mason and is at her wits end. She is now afraid that he will do something silly that sends him back to jail so she wants Perry to offer him a job on the east coast and get state approval for it. Jack Mallory, who contacts Katherine, is a private investigator looking into the theft of the valuable Jakarta diamond that disappeared at the same time Phillip Stewart was accused of his original crime. Phillip has managed to get his old job back with the firm Reed and Webber. Webber is buying out Mrs. Reed's part of the business and brought Phillip back to save the business which Reed nearly destroyed. When Mallory is found dead however, it's Phillip who is charged with murder and Perry defends him.
Episode 14
The Case of the Accosted Accountant
Thu, Jan 9, 196460 mins
Since his wife's death, wealthy industrialist B.K. Doran has been living the high life: expensive clothes, fine meals, exotic travel, and a very attractive lawyer/companion, Leslie Ross. His son-in-law Edward Lewis is concerned about bad business decisions, including the purchase of an obsolete plant in South America. He's also convinced that Doran has misappropriated company funds as well, and threatens to expose him at the next stockholders' meeting. Doran tells Lewis that he plans to resign at the meeting but in reality, on the advice of Ross, he is setting up Lewis to take the fall but Lewis neither believes nor trusts Doran. Lewis consults Perry Mason,who warns him to make sure his evidence of wrongdoing is solid. When Doran is killed, however, Lewis is charged with murder after being seen throwing the weapon into a pond. Perry defends him.
Episode 15
The Case of the Capering Camera
Thu, Jan 16, 196460 mins
Judith Blair is a photographer's model who agrees to a late-night photo session with Jacob Kadar who specializes in calendar photos. Jacob gets to use his cousin Karl's posh photo studios in the evenings but Judith is there for a very specific reason: to get the racy photos that Jacob has been using to blackmail her sister Penny. She pulls a gun on him but he insists that everything was stolen a month before and he has no idea who might be blackmailing her now. While arguing, someone behind a door shoots Jacob and Judith runs out of the studio after dropping the gun. She tells Perry Mason everything that happened but he learns from Lts. Tragg and Anderson that the death has been ruled a suicide. Perry is caught between between solicitor-client privilege and his duties as an officer of the court but his dilemma is resolved when Judith is arrested after a photo of her shows her holding the gun is developed by the police. Perry defends her in court.
Episode 16
The Case of the Ice-Cold Hands
Thu, Jan 23, 196452 mins
Nancy Banks hires Perry Mason to hold five $50 tickets she has from the local racetrack. The race hasn't been run yet and, should she win, she wants Perry to collect her winnings for her. Her horse comes in a winner and, when Perry and Della go to the track to collect the winnings, Perry is immediately accosted by Marvin Fremont and policeman Sgt. McClanahan, who claim that Nancy's brother, Rodney, stole the money from his business to buy the tickets and therefore the winnings are his. Perry isn't buying any of it and remains calm while Fremont accuses him of being a crooked lawyer. Rodney is in jail for stealing the money and, at Nancy's request, Perry arranges for his bail. Perry, however, is frustrated by his client's refusal to be honest with him. When Fremont is found murdered in her hotel room, however, it's Nancy who is charged with murder and Perry defends her. His work is made harder by a trick she read in a mystery novel and mentioned to several people earlier.
Episode 17
The Case of the Bountiful Beauty
Thu, Feb 6, 196452 mins
Young Deborah Dearborn has written a very successful novel which, she has only now learned, is based on the misdeeds of Stephanie Carew, stepmother of Deborah's boyfriend, John. Now that she knows, Deborah tells her agent, Ruben Cason, that she cannot sign the contract she had promised him to make a movie based on the book. When told of this, Gideon Long, the producer who planned to make the movie, decides to sue Cason and make his own deal with Deborah. But Stephanie comes to Deborah and threatens to sue her and ruin John unless she signs the contract with Long and pays her all of the proceeds from it. Mason advises Deborah not to sign. When he and Paul come to see Stephanie at her married lover's house, they find her drowned in the swimming pool. When the autopsy shows Stephanie was actually drowned in the ocean, Deborah is charged with her murder and Perry defends her.
Episode 18
The Case of the Nervous Neighbor
Thu, Feb 13, 196460 mins
Charles Fuller had hired Paul Drake to find his missing mother, Alice. Paul has found her and knows her story. The woman was found unconscious and half dead from exposure and a fractured skull in a field just outside Las Vegas some six months before. She's now living in Los Angeles but Paul also knows that the day she was found she was also responsible for killing her husband, William Bradley. She was upset as her son had lost a junior partnership because he was accused of embezzling funds from an account at the investment firm. Alice Bradley, as she was known, has lost her memory however and is living with a friend, Vera Hargrave, a nurse she met in the hospital. Lt. Anderson is also on her case and arrests her for having killed her husband. Perry Mason soon takes on her case. There were many witnesses to the murder but Perry manages to have the charges dismissed. The death of the man who received the junior partnership instead of Charles however, leads to Charles being charged with murder.
Episode 19
The Case of the Fifty Millionth Frenchman
Thu, Feb 20, 196460 mins
Phillipe Bertain has been seeing a married woman, Ninette Rovel, while her husband Armand is away working at a ski lodge. Using his savings from his bookstore job, Phillippe loans Ninette $5000 so that she can obtain a divorce. He also learns that Armand has been beating Ninette. Phillipe consults with Perry about helping Ninette obtain the divorce but when they call her, she refuses to get a divorce, telling Phillipe that Armand took the money. Phillipe heads to the ski lodge, where he attacks Armand after learning he used the money to buy partial ownership of the lodge, but Armand shakes him off. After becoming inebriated, Phillipe swipes Armand's coffee thermos to take it to him and confronts him again but is knocked out. When Armand is killed in a plane crash, it is discovered that he had barbiturates in his system. Phillipe is charged with the murder and Perry defends him, but wonders if Armand's murder is related to the lodge's previous owner's death in an avalanche.
Episode 20
The Case of the Frightened Fisherman
Thu, Feb 27, 196452 mins
Randolph James and Dr. Hans Lang have finally succeeded in developing a new antibiotic. Randolph's former employer, Hudson Bradshaw, head of a major drug company, wants to buy the rights to the antibiotic, but Randolph refuses to sell. Bradshaw threatens a suit against Lang-James Laboratories for pirating the idea for the drug from his company. Randolph learns that his unfaithful wife Natalie plans to sell her stock in Lang-James to Bradshaw. When she finds out that the stock may be worth three times as much after a loan was approved and production is about to start, she demands three times as much from Bradshaw as he had previously agreed to. After talking with Bradshaw's wife, Natalie is run down by a car resembling Randolph's station wagon. Randolph is charged with her murder and Perry defends him. To save his client Perry may have to locate two witnesses - a mysterious fisherman and his dog.
Episode 21
The Case of the Arrogant Arsonist
Thu, Mar 5, 196460 mins
When a warehouse belonging to retired former fire chief Carey York goes up in flames, killing the manager inside, muckraking talk show host Tommy Towne goes on the air and accuses York of setting the fire for insurance purposes. Fire starting materials were found in York's car at the fire. York and the current deputy fire chief go to Perry and ask him to represent him in a libel suit against Towne. Perry demands a retraction from Towne if he cannot prove his earlier accusation. However, when it is found that one of the items destroyed in the fire was a coil winding machine belonging to a business competitor of York's son Dorian, Towne in a prerecorded session instead publicly accuses York of starting the fire to save his son's business. Just after this accusation airs, Towne is found dead after going down a cliff in York's car. York is charged with arson and murder and Perry defends him by proving his innocence outside court.
Episode 22
The Case of the Garrulous Go-Between
Thu, Mar 12, 196460 mins
Amy Scott is a naive young woman who goes to her neighbor, Madame Zillia, a fortuneteller, for advice. So why is Amy secretly tape recording their sessions? She has also hired Paul to help her find a man. Paul finds the young man in a bad part of town where he drops Amy. She refuses his help but he stays outside the bar, where the two exit fighting. He has figured out enough to know that she's in over her head and consults Perry on what he has found. Madame Zillia tells Amy something close to her is going to die. After Amy tries to confide in her talkative landlord, Victor Bundy, she finds her pet parrot dead. Afterwards, Madame Zillia visits Amy to tell her their visits must stop. Amy then goes to visit Victor in his apartment where she finds the landlord, himself, dead. Even more secrets and lies than usual must be revealed before Perry and Paul can save their client from a murder conviction. And play Cupid while they're at it.
Episode 23
The Case of the Woeful Widower
Thu, Mar 26, 196460 mins
A distraught Nellie Conway seeks Perry Mason's assistance when she thinks her employer, Newton Bain, is trying to kill his invalid wife. Certain that he's a killer, she has filched some of the pills to prove that they are poison. Mason finds this far-fetched and his doubts are confirmed when the lab reports show the pills to be plain old innocent aspirin. When Bain and his stepbrother-in-law James Douglas set up a sting to show that Conway was stealing jewelry, Mason appears as her attorney at the request of Mary Douglas, Mrs. Bain's stepsister, who arrived from Hawaii to ensure that justice is done. Mary visits Mason with a holographic will written by Elizabeth Bain that leaves the bulk of her estate to Mary., but Mason notices a missing period and says that could be a problem. Then Mary is accused of murdering Elizabeth and Mason must figure out if that's true.
Episode 24
The Case of the Simple Simon
Thu, Apr 2, 196452 mins
At the Los Angeles premiere for a traveling Shakespearean theater company, Perry Mason and Della Street go backstage to see his client, the show's star, Ramona Carver. She has been searching for the child she gave up for adoption years ago and Perry has investigated three young men to see if they might be the child. The latest is Douglas McKenzie, a young man who approached Ramona in Flagstaff, Arizona claiming to be her son. She gets him a job with the touring company but tells Perry that Douglas is out to get money from her and is not her son. She tries to pay him off with a check for $5,000 instead of leaving it to Perry to do his job but Douglas tears up the check. Perry has Paul follow Douglas who continues to follow the show to its next stop. When the company moves on to Santa Barbara, they fully expect a run-in with acerbic critic Ogden G. Kramer. When Kramer is found dead, Ramona is charged with murder and Perry has to uncover the true murderer.
Episode 25
The Case of the Illicit Illusion
Thu, Apr 9, 196460 mins
Perry Mason finds himself defending Rosanne Ambrose who is accused of murdering her husband Hubert's business associate, Kirk Cameron. Perry was actually representing her in her divorce from Hubert who, along with Cameron, may have swindled Rosanne and actually murdered a New York client. Rosanne is afraid that she may be unbalanced and seeks advice from her friend, Dr. Jesse Young. She's had memory lapses and has no recollection of having completed her most recent book or supposedly canceling all of the travel arrangements for her upcoming book tour. She comes home to find her husband's desk messed up but she is knocked out. When she recovers, everything is straightened. Dr. Young sends her a couple of prescriptions to help her sleep. Later, she visits the apartment of Kirk Cameron. She leaves after being hit on the head and in a daze. She uses the stairs where she passes out spilling her purse but awakes to find her purse neatly by her and the police at Cameron's apartment saying he committed suicide. In court, it's left to Perry to uncover the truth.
Episode 26
The Case of the Antic Angel
Thu, Apr 16, 196452 mins
William Sherwood, a recovering alcoholic, is flabbergasted when he sees his wife Ruth, who supposedly died in a plane crash a year ago, leaving a hotel. He has no chance to speak to her before she hops into a cab, but her date, Vince Kabat, arranges for her to phone him. William enters the hotel, goes straight to the bar, and starts drinking again until his AA sponsor, Harry Niles, arrives. When the call comes, she claims to be "Lynne Bowman," but William recognizes her voice and his belief that she's his wife is reinforced. She calls again and asks him to meet her at a bar, but she doesn't show and he starts drinking. When he leaves, he finds her dead in a car outside. When Lynne Bowman is found dead later, her sister, Maggie Malecki, identifies her as Ruth. The Medical Examiner determines that the woman was murdered and William Sherwood is arrested. Determining how and why Ruth Sherwood faked her death and lived a new life under an assumed identity is key to Perry identifying the true killer.
Episode 27
The Case of the Careless Kidnapper
Thu, Apr 30, 196452 mins
Perry Mason defends his friend and client Gregory Pelham against a murder charge. It all started when his son David saw him and David's mother Susan having a serious argument. A dejected David goes off and gets drunk with his friend Michael Da Vinci who has his own problems with his alcoholic mother, famed actress Mary Manning. Michael decides to teach David's parents a lesson by sending a ransom note, pretending that their son has been kidnapped. When Susan Pelham goes to deliver the ransom, she and Michael have an altercation and he falls from a great height. She flees thinking she has killed him, but when her husband goes to investigate, he finds another man dead and no sign of Michael. The dead man is identified as Joe Velvet, who had been blackmailing Gregory. D.A. Hamilton Burger thinks he has an open-and-shut case but Perry demonstrates that there's far more to the story.
Episode 28
The Case of the Drifting Dropout
Thu, May 7, 196460 mins
In Southern California, Perry Mason defends Barry Davis against charges that he killed his former boss, Mort Lynch. Barry is a mixed-up young man and he and Lynch had recently argued resulting in young Barry quitting his job. Barry's uncle had been an associate of Lynch long ago. Lynch was also running for Mayor and trying to shake up the local power structure in the town, controlled by Dell Harper who runs the local newspaper. Barry is hired by Dell to dig up dirt on Mort Lynch and specifically how he got the money to start in business in the first place. Barry learned from having hired Paul Drake to look into his uncle's background, that he was quite a crook. Barry then learned from the local insurance agent that Lynch received $40,000 from a life insurance policy on his uncle. Barry finds a plate for printing $10 bills in a tool case Lynch has. An old counterfeit 1940 $10 bill found on Lynch is the clue that points to blackmail and a motive for murder.
Episode 29
The Case of the Tandem Target
Thu, May 14, 196460 mins
Perry defends Con Bolton who is accused of killing his future step-father-in-law, Sumner Hodge. Hodge was a bombastic and demanding individual in both his personal and business lives. His step-daughter Irma hated him and Sumner was dead set against the marriage, even to the point of faking an assassination attempt to try and implicate Con. In addition, Irma is to inherit considerable money from her father's estate which Sumner is threatening to hold up. Even his twin brother Adrian Hodge admits that his brother is a dominating Napoleon. When Sumner is killed in a car accident - his brakes had been tampered with - Bolton is arrested. Bolton had been seen working under the car before Sumner left in it. Leo Lazaroff hated the man, believing Hodge stole an idea from his brother that made him lots of money. His business partner Jack Talley was also planning to end their business relationship and Sumner was in the process of buying him out.
Episode 30
The Case of the Ugly Duckling
Thu, May 21, 196460 mins
Prospective heiress Alice Trilling has very low self-esteem, seeing herself as ugly and unable to live up to her late father's expectations. Her father's perverse will requires her to marry before her next birthday or the family company, Trilling Toys, will be sold off. The business is being run by her uncle, Harry Trilling, who's been doing his best to get her to settle down but to no avail. Alice's emotions are best summed up by the the Angie doll, the company's best selling product which was created for Alice but exemplified a level of perfection she could never hope to achieve. Talbot Sparr is the company executive who actually made the doll and feels Harry Trilling is unsuitable to head the company, having blocked many of his ideas for new products. When Alice learns that Uncle Harry paid her new boyfriend to romance her, she confronts him. When Harry Trilling is found dead, Alice is arrested and Perry Mason defends her.
