Perry Mason

• Title: Perry Mason – The Case of the Sulky Girl
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the courtroom of Perry Mason. Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) gets not one but two clients in “The Case of the Sulky Girl” when he’s hired first by a willful young woman (Olive Sturgess) looking to get under the thumb of her uncle (Raymond Greenleaf) and later her secret husband (Brian G. Hutton) who becomes the prime suspect when the uncle turns up dead. The episode offers a strong set-up with a witness to the crime as well as offering up the housekeeper (Lillian Bronson) as a strong red herring to the murder. Starting with the theory that his client is indeed innocent, Mason looks to unravel the facts which all seem to point to his guilt including a phone call to the police and the witness to the crime both of which he manages to weaken in the courtroom until eliciting a confession about what truly happened.

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• Title: Perry Mason – The Case of the Drowning Duck
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to the courtroom of Perry Mason. There are two crimes for Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) to solve in “The Case of the Drowning Duck,” a recent murder in the small California town and a murder from decades before which may have ended in a miscarriage of justice. Mason’s current client is a young man (Gary Vinson) whose mother was being blackmailed by a seedy private investigator (Harry Landers) who discovered the boy’s father was convicted for a murder decades before. Looking into original case, Mason sees several peculiarities which make him question not just what happened in the past but whether or not the town has the right person in custody this time around.

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• Title: Perry Mason – The Case of the Sleepwalker’s Niece
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the courtroom of Perry Mason. “The Case of the Sleepwalker’s Niece” has a little of everything. Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) is initially hired to help with a messy divorce when a busman’s unscrupulous partner (John Archer) conspires with the man’s soon-to-be ex-wife (Hillary Brooke) to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars. However, when a member of the household is killed in a way that resembles an earlier sleepwalking incident (one that opens the episode), Mason is soon defending his client (John McNamara) against murder charges.

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• Title: Perry Mason – The Case of the Restless Redhead
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to the courtroom of Perry Mason. Adapted from Earl Stanley Gardner’s novel of the same name, “The Case of the Restless Redhead” introduced Raymond Burr as defense attorney Perry Mason who became legendary for taking on clients in hopeless situations. Mason’s first client is Evelyn Bagby (Whitney Blake) who someone goes to a great deal of trouble to frame for murder in the opening scenes. Although Paul Drake (William Hopper) is present here, Mason’s loyal private detective, that doesn’t stop the lawyer from doing some snooping of his own in which he discovers a pair of identical handguns and the unlikely truth that his client’s bizarre story of someone planting a gun in her apartment and then frightening her enough to use it on the open road is actually true.

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