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The Best Episodes of Perry Mason

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    Perry Mason Season 1 Episode 1 - The Case of the Restless Redhead
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - The Case of the Restless Redhead

    S1:E1

    Perry drives to the scene of a shooting and finds the police recovering the body of Harry Merrill from a car that went over the side of a mountain. MerriIl has a bullet in his body and a pillowcase over his head. Meanwhile, Perry's client, Evelyn Bagby, claims she was chased by a hooded man in a car near the same cliff that day. She fired two shots at the man's car to scare him off, and now the police want her for murder.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Russell S. Hughes

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  2. Perry Mason Season 1 Episode 7 - The Case of the Angry Mourner
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - The Case of the Angry Mourner

    S1:E7

    Carla Adrian is having trouble fending off amorous neighbor Mark Cushing. When another neighbor hears a shot and a woman's scream, then witnesses Carla's Mother, Belle Adrian, in Mark Cushing's cabin—it's not long before the police discover Cushing’s body and arrest Mrs. Belle Adrian.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Francis M. Cockrell

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  3. Perry Mason Season 1 Episode 8 - The Case of the Crimson Kiss
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - The Case of the Crimson Kiss

    S1:E8

    In a few day’s time, Fay Allison is getting married to Dane Grover. Her roommate, Anita Bonsal, is having a clandestine affair with a married man, Carver Clement. Fay Allison is later accused of Clement’s murder when the police find her fingerprints on a glass in his apartment.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 1 - The Case of the Corresponding Corpse
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - The Case of the Corresponding Corpse

    S2:E1

    Perry receives a telephone call from George Beaumont, a man who supposedly died in a plane crash nearly three years before, and later ends up actually dead.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 5 - The Case of the Curious Bride
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - The Case of the Curious Bride

    S2:E5

    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.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Perry Mason Season 9 Episode 18 - The Case of the Golfer's Gambit
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - The Case of the Golfer's Gambit

    S9:E18

    Chick Farley is a low rent, semi-talented golf pro at an exclusive country club. He now mooches off his wife's money and occasionally blackmails members of the country club in order to keep his position. One night, ole Chick discovers that someone has been stealing from the pro shop. He calls club member Hamilton Burger at his home to inform him of the theft. While on the phone, somebody takes a sand wedge and bashes in Chick's skull. Chick is no great loss to humanity but, as usual, the wrong man is charged with the crime.

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Perry Mason Season 9 Episode 4 - The Case of the Cheating Chancellor
    9.5/10(2 votes)

    #7 - The Case of the Cheating Chancellor

    S9:E4

    Perry returns to his college alma mater to receive an award but there's no rest for the weary when he's called upon to defend Van Fowler for the murder of a professor.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Lawrence L. Goldman

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  8. Perry Mason Season 1 Episode 24 - The Case of the Deadly Double
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - The Case of the Deadly Double

    S1:E24

    When Robert Crane is charged with the murder of his sister's estranged husband, Perry needs the testimony of sister Helen Reed to clear him of the charge. Unfortunately for all concerned, Helen suffers from multiple personality disorder.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Sam Neuman

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  9. Perry Mason Season 9 Episode 1 - The Case of the Laughing Lady
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - The Case of the Laughing Lady

    S9:E1

    Carla Chaney is caught seemingly red-handed at the scene of the murder of her ex-boyfriend. Perry agrees to take the case pro bono after three other attorneys drop out. Carla's only hope is an unseen woman she claims was also present at the scene. According to Carla, this woman had a sinister laugh.

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Orville H. Hampton

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  10. Perry Mason Season 9 Episode 2 - The Case of the Fatal Fortune
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - The Case of the Fatal Fortune

    S9:E2

    A fortune teller gives a series of accurate predictions regarding a woman's future. But something goes wrong when she's charged with murdering her new husband.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:William Bast

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  11. Perry Mason Season 9 Episode 3 - The Case of the Candy Queen
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - The Case of the Candy Queen

    S9:E3

    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.

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Perry Mason Season 9 Episode 5 - The Case of the Impetuous Imp
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - The Case of the Impetuous Imp

    S9:E5

    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.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Perry Mason Season 9 Episode 6 - The Case of the Carefree Coronary
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - The Case of the Carefree Coronary

    S9:E6

    The Safeline Insurance Company notices an increase in heart attacks among their policy holders. The company suspects fraud and hires Perry and Paul to investigate. When Paul goes undercover as a construction worker, he almost doesn't survive the assignment.

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Orville H. Hampton

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  14. Perry Mason Season 9 Episode 7 - The Case of the Hasty Honeymooner
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - The Case of the Hasty Honeymooner

    S9:E7

    An old Army buddy of restauranteur Terrence Clay, Lucas Tolliver, arrives in California from Oklahoma to meet the woman he was matched up with by a computer dating service. The woman, Miliicent Barton, is supposedly a rich widow. Lucas has money too having inherited it from his previous wife who died under mysterious circumstances. This doesn't prevent Millie from marrying Lucas but she dies at a party after drinking poisoned lemonade supposedly provided to her by Lucas. This one is a tough row to hoe for Perry.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Perry Mason Season 9 Episode 8 - The Case of the Twelfth Wildcat
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - The Case of the Twelfth Wildcat

    S9:E8

    Burt Payne owns 10% of a professional football team. His rich wife, Ellen, owns the remainder. Knowing that he's washed up and needing some quick cash, Burt tries to sell his share of the team to a group of investors and even gets a down payment from them. Ellen, however, is opposed to the deal. Then, after she meets with one of the potential buyers aboard a train, Burt is apparently killed in an explosion.

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Ernest Frankel

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  16. Perry Mason Season 9 Episode 9 - The Case of the Wrathful Wraith
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - The Case of the Wrathful Wraith

    S9:E9

    Louise Self must have broken a mirror. She has to stand trial for murdering her husband, Jamison, twice. Perry gets her off the hook the first time because the body was never found. Guess what? Jamison Self only faked his death and is still alive. When he ends up dead a second time it's deja vu all over again for poor Louise and Perry gears up for the second round.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Henry Farrell

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  17. Perry Mason Season 9 Episode 10 - The Case of the Runaway Racer
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - The Case of the Runaway Racer

    S9:E10

    Test driver Pete Griston cracks up one of ace car builder Pappy Ryan's vehicles. Pappy accuses Havey Rettig of tampering with the car and files charges against Rettig and Griston. Then Rettig is killed and Griston is found standing groggily over the body.

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Sy Salkowitz

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  18. Perry Mason Season 9 Episode 11 - The Case of the Silent Six
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - The Case of the Silent Six

    S9:E11

    Police Sergeant Dave Wolfe warns Joe Oliver to stay away from his kid sister, Susan. Now Susan's been beaten up in her apartment, Oliver has been shot to death, and Dave is being charged with murder.

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:William Bast

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  19. Perry Mason Season 9 Episode 12 - The Case of the Fugitive Fraulein
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - The Case of the Fugitive Fraulein

    S9:E12

    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.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Jonathan Latimer

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  20. Perry Mason Season 9 Episode 13 - The Case of the Baffling Bug
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - The Case of the Baffling Bug

    S9:E13

    Tryon Laboratories hires the Drake Detective Agency to protect their latest formulas. In spite of Paul's best efforts, there is a leak in security and some top-secret information is stolen. One night, Leigh, an undercover agent working for Dr. Scranton, the head of the company, calls to say he knows the identity of the spy. Scranton and Paul rush to the laboratory only to find Leigh dead, floating in a vat of water.

    Director:Vincent McEveety
    Writer:Orville H. Hampton

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  21. Perry Mason Season 9 Episode 14 - The Case of the Golden Girls
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - The Case of the Golden Girls

    S9:E14

    Victor Montalvo, co-owner of the Golden Bear Club, gives a ride to a sweet young thing named Debbie Conrad who later attempts to blackmail him by threatening to claim he took advantage of her. Debbie is working the scam with her boyfriend, Rick Durbin, and Montalvo decides to pay them off. But before he can make the payment his partner in the club is murdered.

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writers:Orville H. Hampton, Ernest Frankel

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  22. Perry Mason Season 9 Episode 15 - The Case of the Bogus Buccaneers
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - The Case of the Bogus Buccaneers

    S9:E15

    Aspiring actor Tony Polk lands a job on a popular TV program. Part of his job consists of dressing up in a buccaneer costume and delivering free gifts to viewers at their homes. Another actor and Tony trade lists and before too long he's up the creek. One of the women on the list is murdered with a buccaneer's hook, the one belonging to Tony, and a neighbor swears that Tony fought with the woman.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Henry Farrell

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  23. Perry Mason Season 9 Episode 16 - The Case of the Midnight Howler
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - The Case of the Midnight Howler

    S9:E16

    Barney Austin is the king of late night talk radio in Los Angeles. One night during his on-air rants, Barney gets a note to call his boss, Kevin Steele. While talking to Steele on the air, the audience hears Steele begin arguing with someone and then two shots ring out.

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Robert E. Kent

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  24. Perry Mason Season 9 Episode 17 - The Case of the Vanishing Victim
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - The Case of the Vanishing Victim

    S9:E17

    Dr. Stacey Fielding takes off for Salt Lake City on business. When his plane crashes, Veronal poisioning is found in the body. Miriam Fielding is arrested since the last thing the good doctor drank was whiskey from a flash she had given him. Upon further investigation, Miriam is cleared when it's discovered that the man who really perished in the crash was Al Dolby, the plane mechanic. But where is Dr. Fielding and who did the poisoning?

    Director:Harmon Jones
    Writers:Orville H. Hampton, Ernest Frankel

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  25. Perry Mason Season 9 Episode 19 - The Case of the Sausalito Sunrise
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - The Case of the Sausalito Sunrise

    S9:E19

    An art dealer and his girlfriend are arrested for a two murders related to a series of hijacks. Paul goes undercover to ferret out the hijacking ring and Perry finds himself staring face down the barrel of a gun pointed by a killer even he never considered.

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writers:Orville H. Hampton, Ernest Frankel

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Case of the Restless Redhead" is the best rated episode of "Perry Mason". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by William D. Russell and written by Russell S. Hughes, it aired on 9/21/1957. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Case of the Angry Mourner".