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The Best Episodes of Perry Mason Season 2

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 2 - The Case of the Lucky Loser
    8.6/10(525 votes)

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 23 - The Case of the Howling Dog
    8.4/10(442 votes)

    S2:E23

    Evelyn Forbes escapes from a mental institution only to be charged with murder. The key to the case is a dog that continues to howl no matter what.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 29 - The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom
    8.4/10(409 votes)

    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?

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 3 - The Case of the Pint-Sized Client
    8.3/10(514 votes)

    S2:E3

    Robbers lift a bundle from the Hargrove Finance Company and Frank Anderson is murdered in the aftermath. Anthony "Pop" Renzi is identified as one of the robbers and charged with both the robbery and the murder. Perry sets out to clear him of both charges.

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 15 - The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll
    8.3/10(443 votes)

    S2:E15

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 9 - The Case of the Purple Woman
    8.2/10(462 votes)

    S2:E9

    An art collector, Rufus Varner, is told by a reputable art critic that one of his most prized art paintings "The Purple Woman" is a forgery. Varner visits the art dealer from whom he purchased the painting, Milo Girard. Later, Milo Girard is found dead in his office.

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 19 - The Case of the Caretaker's Cat
    8.2/10(423 votes)

    S2:E19

    Wealthy Peter Baxter decides to test the loyalty of his heirs. He pretends to change his will cutting them all out and leaving his entire estate to groundskeeper, James Hing. Hing is then supposed to burn down Baxter's house and Baxter would substitute a medical cadaver for his own body. If any of the heirs contested the will, they would be disinherited. Hing does as he is instructed. He burns down the house, but the body discovered inside is really that of Peter Baxter. Perry tries to sort through this muddled mess and arrive at the truth.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 30 - The Case of the Lame Canary
    8.2/10(376 votes)

    S2:E30

    Ruth Prescott wants to divorce Walter Prescott so that she can be with her true love, Jimmy MacLaine. After a brush with death, Ruth becomes convinced that Walter is trying to kill her rather than give her the divorce. Walter then turns up dead and the police are convinced that Ruth shot him.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 4 - The Case of the Sardonic Sergeant
    8.1/10(459 votes)

    S2:E4

    Major Frank Lessing, a payroll officer on an Army base, is found murdered and Sgt. Joseph Dexter is charged with the crime. The case hinges on a payroll robbery committed in the Phillippines years before. It seems as though some of the bills from that robbery were turning up on the base.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 5 - The Case of the Curious Bride
    8.1/10(446 votes)

    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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  11. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 11 - The Case of the Perjured Parrot
    8.1/10(482 votes)

    S2:E11

    The courtroom action in this episode takes place at a coroner's inquest as a parrot holds the key to freeing suspect Ellen Sabin from blame in the murder of her husband.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 17 - The Case of the Romantic Rogue
    8.1/10(464 votes)

    S2:E17

    An heiress to her uncle's fortune is charged with the murder of a female private investigator during a search for her missing uncle.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 20 - The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
    8.1/10(424 votes)

    S2:E20

    Bishop Arthur Mallory is met in his hotel room by Wallace Lang, an associate of a wealthy man named Charles Burroughs. He is warned through physical violence to stop looking for the real granddaughter of Charles Burroughs. Carol Delaney helps the bishop with his wounds and hears an incredible story that she may be the real granddaughter, Janice Burroughs. Carol is invited to meet Charles Burroughs and later the same night he is found dead.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 24 - The Case of the Calendar Girl
    8.1/10(421 votes)

    S2:E24

    A building contractor is charged with the murder of a wealthy political Mr.fix-it.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 1 - The Case of the Corresponding Corpse
    8.0/10(460 votes)

    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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  16. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 13 - The Case of the Borrowed Brunette
    8.0/10(418 votes)

    S2:E13

    Eva Martell is hired out of numerous candidates by Melvin Slater to impersonate a woman named Helen Reynolds. Eva is paid extremely well and given a nice apartment to live in with her Aunt Agnes as long as she continues with her impersonation. Both Eva and her aunt suspect a rat and seek Perry's advice. Then Melvin Slater turns up dead in the apartment.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 14 - The Case of the Glittering Goldfish
    8.0/10(447 votes)

    S2:E14

    Rollins and Wyatt have discovered a cure for gill fever. As they plan to market the product, they find that Jack Huxley has bought the aquarium business and owns all patents and intellectual property. Huxley is murdered; Wyatt is charged.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 16 - The Case of the Fraudulent Foto
    8.0/10(433 votes)

    S2:E16

    A District Attorney is charged with the murder of a chairman of the bids committee to a defectively built hospital whom he is investigating for a series of bribes being passed around.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Seeleg Lester

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  19. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 21 - The Case of the Lost Last Act
    8.0/10(420 votes)

    S2:E21

    Playwright Ernest Royce is found shot to death in the same manner as a character in one of his unproduced plays. The play dealt with characters very close to real people and the real life murder of a New York underworld figure years before. Perry's client, Frank Brooks, is charged with Royce's murder and Perry must find the missing final act of the play in order to clear Brooks.

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 22 - The Case of the Bedeviled Doctor
    8.0/10(398 votes)

    S2:E22

    Dr. David Craig discovers that tapes of conversations with his psychiatric patients are missing and being used for blackmail purposes. When the suspected thief and blackmailer, Mark Douglas, turns up murdered, the good doctor is charged with the crime.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 28 - The Case of the Spanish Cross
    8.0/10(416 votes)

    S2:E28

    Young Jimmy Morrow can't seem to catch a break. Already on probation for car theft he's charged with stealing a valuable Spanish cross and killing its owner. Perry feels sorry for the kid and decides to take the case.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 7 - The Case of the Married Moonlighter
    7.9/10(423 votes)

    S2:E7

    A moonlighting school teacher is charged with the murder of a male acquaintence he had taken home after the acquaintence had earlier raised a disturbance at his night job at a cafe.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 10 - The Case of the Fancy Figures
    7.9/10(408 votes)

    S2:E10

    Martin Ellis is sent to jail for stealing the sum of $300,000.00. Ellis is later exonerated thanks to evidence discovered by his wife and the real thief, Charles Brewster, is arrested for the theft. Brewster manages to get out of jail on bail but later turns up dead. Ellis is charged with the killing.

    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 27 - The Case of the Deadly Toy
    7.9/10(423 votes)

    S2:E27

    Martin Selkirk is a major league rotter who wants Claire Allison in the worst way even though she's dating Dirk Benedict. Selkirk has Dirk's jaw broken and begins sending Claire threatening mail. Then Selkirk is murdered in his beach house and Claire is arrested for the crime. Perry takes the case and finds that the evidence points in the direction of Selkirk's five year old son. Or does it?

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Seeleg Lester

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  25. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 6 - The Case of the Buried Clock
    7.8/10(432 votes)

    S2:E6

    Slimy Jack Hardisty embezzles $100,000.00 from his father-in-law, Dr. Blane. The greedy Hardisty then tries to blackmail the good doctor for more. Perry is hired by Dr. Blane to put an end to Hardisty's machinations but before he can swing into action the rogue turns up dead.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Case of the Lucky Loser" is the best rated episode of "Perry Mason" season 2. It scored 8.6/10 based on 525 votes. Directed by William D. Russell and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/27/1958. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Case of the Howling Dog".