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The Best Episodes of Perry Mason

Every episode of Perry Mason ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Perry Mason!

The Best Episodes of Perry Mason

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  1. Background image for The Case of the Final Fadeout
    9.0/10(613 votes)

    #1 - The Case of the Final Fadeout

    S9:E30

    A nasty actor with a lot of enemies is murdered. Perry gets his accused killer off the hook but then HE turns up dead and an aging, eccentric actress is blamed for that one. Are there two murderers on the loose or are both the work of one person?

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  2. Background image for The Case of Paul Drake's Dilemma
    8.9/10(444 votes)

    #2 - The Case of Paul Drake's Dilemma

    S3:E6

    Frank Thatcher is involved in a hit-and-run accident but does not report it. He uses Paul Drake to take care of the aftermath of the incident. Later, Thatcher is found dead in the same apartment with Paul, after he wakes up—and Paul’s accused of the murder.

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  3. Background image for The Case of the Nebulous Nephew
    8.9/10(442 votes)

    #3 - The Case of the Nebulous Nephew

    S7:E1

    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.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown
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  4. Background image for The Case of the Deadly Verdict
    8.9/10(505 votes)

    #4 - The Case of the Deadly Verdict

    S7:E4

    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?

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Unknown
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  5. Background image for The Case of the Weary Watchdog
    8.8/10(413 votes)

    #5 - The Case of the Weary Watchdog

    S6:E9

    Della asks Perry for $25,000 for her friend Janet Brent, who is being blackmailed. Edward Franklin, an employee of Janet's husband, has staged compromising photos of her in a motel. At a party, Janet confronts Franklin and hits him with a small statue of a "weary watchdog." The police arrest Della when they find her driving Janet's car from the scene of the argument. Franklin is dead, struck three times on the head with the statue. Perry defends Janet knowing that if he loses, Della will go to prison as an accessory.

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Unknown
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  6. Background image for The Case of the Nine Dolls
    8.7/10(491 votes)

    #6 - The Case of the Nine Dolls

    S4:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for The Case of the Shapely Shadow
    8.7/10(378 votes)

    #7 - The Case of the Shapely Shadow

    S5:E16

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  9. Background image for The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink
    8.6/10(641 votes)

    #8 - The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink

    S1:E13

    Restrauteur Morey Allen, a friend of Perry and Della's, has a problem: his waitress, Dixie Dayton, was struck by a car while fleeing the restaurant after spotting a man stalking her. The only item she left behind was a moth-eaten mink. When the stalker is found murdered, Morey and Dixie both eventually get arrested for the murder. The case also ties in with the murder of a young policeman several months before.

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown
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  10. Background image for The Case of the Wayward Wife
    8.6/10(403 votes)

    #9 - The Case of the Wayward Wife

    S3:E13

    Ben Sutton is listed as the author of a best-selling book describing his experiences in a Korean POW camp. When the real author is released from an Army hospital, Sutton is slain before he can tell the truth and his widow is arrested for the murder.

    Writer:Unknown
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  11. Background image for The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker
    8.6/10(435 votes)

    #10 - The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker

    S4:E3

    Jim Ferris is having an affair with his uncle's bored young wife. They concoct a scheme to finagle $80,000.00 from the uncle by faking a kidnapping. Things go horribly wrong when secretary Betty Wilkins, acting as a go-between, is charged with the murder of Jim Ferris.

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  12. Background image for The Case of the Nervous Neighbor
    8.6/10(305 votes)

    #11 - The Case of the Nervous Neighbor

    S7:E18

    Mason's client: an amnesia victim on trial for the murder of her husband.

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  13. Background image for The Case of the Ruinous Road
    8.6/10(297 votes)

    #12 - The Case of the Ruinous Road

    S8:E14

    The foundations of a large company are shaken when the chief engineer uncovers evidence of budget tampering.

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  14. Background image for The Case of the Carefree Coronary
    8.6/10(302 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.

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  15. Background image for The Case of the Sausalito Sunrise
    8.6/10(292 votes)

    #14 - 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.

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  16. Background image for The Case of the Screaming Woman
    8.5/10(516 votes)

    #15 - The Case of the Screaming Woman

    S1:E30

    Gossip columnist Mary K. Davis is found murdered and it seems there is no shortage of suspects.

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  17. Background image for The Case of the Lucky Loser
    8.5/10(478 votes)

    #16 - The Case of the Lucky Loser

    S2:E2

    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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  18. Background image for The Case of the Prudent Proecutor
    8.5/10(397 votes)

    #17 - The Case of the Prudent Proecutor

    S3:E14

    DA Hamilton Burger asks Perry to defend an old friend who once saved his life in a boating accident ten years before. The old friend of Burger's is now facing a murder charge.

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  19. Background image for The Case of the Renegade Refugee
    8.5/10(374 votes)

    #18 - The Case of the Renegade Refugee

    S5:E13

    A journalist is murdered while tracking an ex-Nazi war criminal who may be posing as an executive at a company called Space Associates, Ltd.

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  20. Background image for The Case of the Unwelcome Bride
    8.5/10(368 votes)

    #19 - The Case of the Unwelcome Bride

    S5:E14

    Wealthy Walter Frazer has always blamed his daughter-in-law Sue Ellen for his son Gregson's failures. You can only imagine how he feels when Sue Ellen is accused of Gregson's murder.

    Director:Gilbert Kay
    Writer:Unknown
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  21. Background image for The Case of the Glamorous Ghost
    8.5/10(381 votes)

    #20 - The Case of the Glamorous Ghost

    S5:E19

    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.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown
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  22. Background image for The Case of the Mystified Miner
    8.5/10(320 votes)

    #21 - The Case of the Mystified Miner

    S5:E21

    Mason tries to clear his young, naive woman client, a corporate executive secretary, as a twisting and wheeling plot of murder, kidnapping, and embezzlement unfolds.

    Writer:Unknown
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  23. Background image for The Case of the Witless Witness
    8.5/10(334 votes)

    #22 - The Case of the Witless Witness

    S6:E28

    A judge is accused of murdering a government witness who planned to expose him as a crook.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown
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  24. Background image for The Case of the Antic Angel
    8.5/10(297 votes)

    #23 - The Case of the Antic Angel

    S7:E26

    A recovering alcoholic takes to the bottle after he sees his wife, who's supposedly been dead for five years. Then she turns up dead for real and he's arrested for her murder.

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  25. Background image for The Case of the Haunted Husband
    8.4/10(544 votes)

    #24 - The Case of the Haunted Husband

    S1:E19

    Claire Olger, a hitchhiker, is picked up by Michael Greeley. He loses control of the car and has an accident due to his being intoxicated. Eventually, her friend, Doris Stephanak, asks Perry Mason to help. When Perry is unable to contact Claire at her hotel, he goes there and finds Michael Greeley dead in her room.

    Director:Lewis Allen
    Writer:Unknown
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  26. Background image for The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom
    8.4/10(376 votes)

    #25 - The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom

    S2:E29

    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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Best Episodes Summary

"The Case of the Final Fadeout" is the best rated episode of "Perry Mason". It scored 9/10 based on 613 votes. Directed by Jesse Hibbs and written by Orville H. Hampton, Erle Stanley Gardner, Ernest Frankel, it aired on 5/22/1966. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Case of Paul Drake's Dilemma".