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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 1 - The Case of the Corresponding Corpse
    8.0/10(428 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 2 - The Case of the Lucky Loser
    8.5/10(485 votes)

    #2 - 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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 3 - The Case of the Pint-Sized Client
    8.3/10(480 votes)

    #3 - The Case of the Pint-Sized Client

    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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  4. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 4 - The Case of the Sardonic Sergeant
    8.0/10(430 votes)

    #4 - The Case of the Sardonic Sergeant

    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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  5. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 5 - The Case of the Curious Bride
    8.0/10(421 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 2 Episode 6 - The Case of the Buried Clock
    7.8/10(404 votes)

    #6 - The Case of the Buried Clock

    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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  7. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 7 - The Case of the Married Moonlighter
    7.8/10(396 votes)

    #7 - The Case of the Married Moonlighter

    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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  8. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 8 - The Case of the Jilted Jockey
    7.7/10(394 votes)

    #8 - The Case of the Jilted Jockey

    S2:E8

    Jockey Tic Barton is in a mess of trouble. First he's fired when his horse loses a fixed race and then he's charged with murder after confronting Johnny Starr, the man actually responsible for the fix. And, oh yes, Tic's wife was having an affair with the murder victim. It's up to Perry to set things right.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 9 - The Case of the Purple Woman
    8.2/10(436 votes)

    #9 - The Case of the Purple Woman

    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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  10. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 10 - The Case of the Fancy Figures
    7.9/10(384 votes)

    #10 - The Case of the Fancy Figures

    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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  11. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 11 - The Case of the Perjured Parrot
    8.0/10(455 votes)

    #11 - The Case of the Perjured Parrot

    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 12 - The Case of the Shattered Dream
    7.8/10(396 votes)

    #12 - The Case of the Shattered Dream

    S2:E12

    Sarah Werner asks Perry to find her husband, Hugo Werner, who ran off with her inheritance. Hugo, now using the name Hans Breel, is now working on a gem scam but his scheme backfires when he is murdered and Sarah is charged with the crime.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 13 - The Case of the Borrowed Brunette
    8.0/10(391 votes)

    #13 - The Case of the Borrowed Brunette

    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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  14. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 14 - The Case of the Glittering Goldfish
    8.0/10(422 votes)

    #14 - The Case of the Glittering Goldfish

    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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  15. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 15 - The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll
    8.3/10(412 votes)

    #15 - The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll

    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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  16. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 16 - The Case of the Fraudulent Foto
    8.0/10(406 votes)

    #16 - The Case of the Fraudulent Foto

    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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  17. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 17 - The Case of the Romantic Rogue
    8.1/10(433 votes)

    #17 - The Case of the Romantic Rogue

    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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  18. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 18 - The Case of the Jaded Joker
    7.8/10(395 votes)

    #18 - The Case of the Jaded Joker

    S2:E18

    Charles Goff is an advertising executive who promised comedian Danny Ross he would pitch him for a new show in return for an introduction with the president of a large big-budget advertiser. Danny does his part but learns from Goff's secretary that Goff landed the deal without him. When Charles Goff is found dead in his office the next morning, Danny's friend, Freddie Green, is accused of the murder.

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:Milton Krims

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  19. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 19 - The Case of the Caretaker's Cat
    8.2/10(401 votes)

    #19 - The Case of the Caretaker's Cat

    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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  20. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 20 - The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
    8.0/10(400 votes)

    #20 - The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

    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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  21. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 21 - The Case of the Lost Last Act
    8.0/10(393 votes)

    #21 - The Case of the Lost Last Act

    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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  22. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 22 - The Case of the Bedeviled Doctor
    8.0/10(378 votes)

    #22 - The Case of the Bedeviled Doctor

    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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  23. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 23 - The Case of the Howling Dog
    8.4/10(417 votes)

    #23 - The Case of the Howling Dog

    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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  24. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 24 - The Case of the Calendar Girl
    8.1/10(395 votes)

    #24 - The Case of the Calendar Girl

    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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  25. Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 25 - The Case of the Petulant Partner
    7.8/10(368 votes)

    #25 - The Case of the Petulant Partner

    S2:E25

    Harry Bright and Chuck Clark were once best friends and business partners until Margaret entered the picture. Margaret was a much younger woman on the make who entranced Chuck into marrying her. When Margaret is found shot to death, Harry is arrested for the crime but the more Perry digs into the victim's past the more convoluted things get.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Milton Krims

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Case of the Corresponding Corpse" is the best rated episode of "Perry Mason" season 2. It scored 8/10 based on 428 votes. Directed by Arthur Marks and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/20/1958. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "The Case of the Lucky Loser".