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The Best Episodes of Perry Mason Season 4

Every episode of Perry Mason Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Perry Mason Season 4!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 1 - The Case of the Treacherous Toupee
    7.8/10(440 votes)

    #1 - The Case of the Treacherous Toupee

    S4:E1

    Tyrannical company president Hartley Bassett returns home after being presumed dead for two years. His first act is to fire Peter Dawson which makes Dawson the prime suspect when Bassett is found dead with two bullet holes in him.

    Director:Richard Kinon
    Writer:Maurice Zimm

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  2. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 2 - The Case of the Credulous Quarry
    8.3/10(375 votes)

    #2 - The Case of the Credulous Quarry

    S4:E2

    Perry defends Richard Hammond who is charged with killing his former girlfriend by running over her with his car.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 3 - The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker
    8.6/10(441 votes)

    #3 - 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.

    Director:Charles F. Haas
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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  4. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 4 - The Case of the Singular Double
    8.0/10(364 votes)

    #4 - The Case of the Singular Double

    S4:E4

    Perry is accused of obstructing justice in this case when he defends a woman who had previously faked her own suicide by running her empty car off a cliff. It seems as though the police found the body of another woman in the wreckage.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 5 - The Case of the Lavender Lipstick
    8.1/10(384 votes)

    #5 - The Case of the Lavender Lipstick

    S4:E5

    An heiress to a cosmetics company is charged with the murder of the company's owner.

    Director:James Sheldon
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 6 - The Case of the Wandering Widow
    8.1/10(365 votes)

    #6 - The Case of the Wandering Widow

    S4:E6

    When a man accused of a murder is freed from prison upon newly discovered eyewitness testimony, it starts a chain reaction of blackmail and murder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 7 - The Case of the Clumsy Clown
    7.6/10(387 votes)

    #7 - The Case of the Clumsy Clown

    S4:E7

    A circus clown is charged with the murder of its part owner when a gun is slipped to him during a gun act.

    Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
    Writer:Sam Neuman

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  8. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 8 - The Case Of The Provocative Protégé
    8.0/10(375 votes)

    #8 - The Case Of The Provocative Protégé

    S4:E8

    Washed up pianist David Carpenter is knocked out and pushed over a cliff for insurance money. Carpenter's beautiful protege, Donna Ross, immediately comes under suspicion by the police.

    Director:László Benedek
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 9 - The Case of the Nine Dolls
    8.7/10(501 votes)

    #9 - 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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  10. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 10 - The Case of the Loquacious Liar
    8.1/10(359 votes)

    #10 - The Case of the Loquacious Liar

    S4:E10

    Lester Martin's life takes a horrible turn for the worse when a man breaks into his apartment, forces him at gun-point to drink half a bottle of Scotch, and then drives him into the country. Lester's circumstances then go from awful to good grief when he's charged with the murder of his step-father who was trying to takeover the family boat company.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 11 - The Case of the Red Riding Boots
    7.9/10(359 votes)

    #11 - The Case of the Red Riding Boots

    S4:E11

    Ann Farwell is miserable over the separation of her parents. Things aren't made any better when her father starts seeing Rita Conover, a scheming woman half his age. When Rita turns up dead both Ann and her mother think the other committed the crime which causes Perry great difficulty in defending the ranch hand who's been charged.

    Director:László Benedek
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 12 - The Case of the Larcenous Lady
    8.0/10(394 votes)

    #12 - The Case of the Larcenous Lady

    S4:E12

    A suburban town mayor's secretary is accused of murdering the mayor's wife, who was engaging in blackmail to further her husband's career.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 13 - The Case of the Envious Editor
    8.2/10(389 votes)

    #13 - The Case of the Envious Editor

    S4:E13

    Slimy publishing tycoon Donald Fletcher buys controlling interest in a respectable but financially troubled publishing house. Fletcher turns things upside down by turning the publications into scandal sheet featuring photographs of scantily clad women. Edmond Aitken, whose family once owned the publishing house, wants to oust Fletcher but Perry tells him he has no legal basis on which to do so. Not to worry. Fletcher is found murdered in his apartment but the prime suspect is Aitken's wife, Alyce, whom Fletcher had been blackmailing over lurid photos Alyce made during her younger days.

    Director:László Benedek
    Writer:Milton Krims

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  14. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 14 - The Case of the Resolute Reformer
    7.9/10(353 votes)

    #14 - The Case of the Resolute Reformer

    S4:E14

    Perry represents a citizen's group in hearings on a proposed aqueduct to be named after county engineer William Harper Caine. Perry gets a stop work order until a section of the proposed location can be checked for an underground spring. Eventually, Caine needs Perry's help when he's accused of murdering Roger Quigley, the project's chief contractor.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Samuel Newman

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  15. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 15 - The Case of the Fickle Fortune
    8.4/10(351 votes)

    #15 - The Case of the Fickle Fortune

    S4:E15

    Ralph Duncan is a civil servant whose job is to inventory the estates of wealthy decedants. One day, he returns home with $153,000.00 worth of old greenbacks he discovered while going through a recently deceased old woman's home. Duncan took the money on a lark and was planning to return it the next day but his shifty cousin decides to purloin the bundle. Duncan is then accused of theft and later murder.

    Director:László Benedek
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 16 - The Case of the Waylaid Wolf
    8.1/10(329 votes)

    #16 - The Case of the Waylaid Wolf

    S4:E16

    Womanizing playboy Loring Lamont has his sights set on Arlene Ferris, his father's shapely secretary. He lures her to his beachfront bachelor pad with seduction on his mind. Arlene slaps the rotter and flees taking Loring's car back into town. Things then go from awful to good grief for poor Arlene. After her departure someone stabs Loring to death and she's suspect number one.

    Director:Gene Fowler Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 17 - The Case of the Wintry Wife
    8.2/10(338 votes)

    #17 - The Case of the Wintry Wife

    S4:E17

    Inventor Walter Randall wants a divorce from his cold-blooded wife Laura in order to be with Phyllis Hudson. Laura decides to get back at Walter by blackmailing one of his assistants into building a bomb that will destroy Walter's underwater sounding invention. While checking on the bomb in the warehouse, Laura is discovered by Phyllis and takes advantage of the situation by knocking her rival out. Phyllis manages to survive the explosion but she is later charged with Laura's murder.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 18 - The Case of the Angry Dead Man
    8.3/10(366 votes)

    #18 - The Case of the Angry Dead Man

    S4:E18

    Willard Nesbitt faked his drowning death in a boating accident so his wife could collect the double indemnity life insurance money. Nesbitt thought he had only a short time to live anyway. When Nesbitt's crooked business partner, James Castle, illegally cuts "widow" Eve Nesbitt out of a protitable deal he must rise from the dead to warn her. Then someone kills the "dead man" for good. The police smell insurance fraud and Eve Nesbitt is their number one suspect.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 19 - The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff
    8.0/10(334 votes)

    #19 - The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff

    S4:E19

    Crooked jewelry store owner Karl Addison learns that he needs an operation which will temporarily blind him. Addison makes plans to rob his own store knowing that his sightlessness will provide him with a perfect alibi. Things go wrong when someone kills the scheming Addison and steals the already pinched jewels. James Kincannon enlists Perry's aid when he's charged with the crime.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 20 - The Case of the Barefaced Witness
    8.1/10(375 votes)

    #20 - The Case of the Barefaced Witness

    S4:E20

    The setting in this episode is a small California town where because of a festival all men must wear beards. Paul Drake travels there to try to locate missing money which a former bank president embezzled. Paul eventually finds the money but he also finds a dead body as well. Perry arrives on the scene in order to straighten things out.

    Director:László Benedek
    Writer:Robert C. Dennis

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  21. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 21 - The Case of the Difficult Detour
    8.1/10(350 votes)

    #21 - The Case of the Difficult Detour

    S4:E21

    Contactor Pete Mallory is charged with the murder of a vacation resort developer.

    Director:John Peyser
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 22 - The Case of the Cowardly Lion
    7.6/10(344 votes)

    #22 - The Case of the Cowardly Lion

    S4:E22

    Hilde Fursten and Tony Osgood work at the San Diego Zoo. When a new baby monkey is found missing, Hilde Fursten is blamed by Dr. Walther Braun, a visiting dentist. Boris Zelbowski also works at the zoo and is dating Frieda Crawson, Dr. Braun's nurse. That evening, Dr. Braun arrives at the zoo to perform oral surgery on a lion and is found dead in the lion's cage. Tony Osgood is accused of the murder when a witness sees someone wearing Tony's blue sportcoat near the lion's cage at the time.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 23 - The Case of the Torid Tapestry
    8.4/10(338 votes)

    #23 - The Case of the Torid Tapestry

    S4:E23

    Hard luck Claude Demay was sent up for six years in prison for starting a fire in a warehouse containing the valuable Nathan Claver art collection. After his release, Demay devises a plan to expose the real criminal, Leonard Voss, and prove his innocence. He tediously weaves a perfect imitation of a valuable tapestry supposedly lost in the fire and barters this tapestry to Voss in exchange for an original Buddah statue. Demay knows that the statue will prove that the collection was not destroyed in the fire and will expose Voss as the real criminal. Unfortunately, Voss is murdered before the trade takes place and Demay is arrested for another crime he didn't commit.

    Director:John English
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 24 - The Case of the Violent Vest
    8.3/10(357 votes)

    #24 - The Case of the Violent Vest

    S4:E24

    Advertising executive Herman Albright is in the wrong place at the wrong time wearing the wrong clothes. These mistakes cost poor Herman his life in a case of mistaken identity. Perry is called on to defend the fashion model charged with the crime. It seems as though Herman had been hitting on her for quite a while with no success.

    Director:Lewis Allen
    Writer:Robert C. Dennis

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  25. Perry Mason Season 4 Episode 25 - The Case of the Misguided Missile
    8.0/10(355 votes)

    #25 - The Case of the Misguided Missile

    S4:E25

    Jerry Reynolds, an old war buddy of Perry's, is accused of killing an officer at Vandenburg Air Force Base during the investigation into some mysterious missile crashes.

    Director:John Peyser
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"The Case of the Treacherous Toupee" is the best rated episode of "Perry Mason" season 4. It scored 7.8/10 based on 440 votes. Directed by Richard Kinon and written by Maurice Zimm, it aired on 9/17/1960. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "The Case of the Credulous Quarry".