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The Best Episodes of Perry Mason Season 5

Every episode of Perry Mason Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Perry Mason Season 5!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 16 - The Case of the Shapely Shadow
    8.8/10(409 votes)

    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.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 13 - The Case of the Renegade Refugee
    8.6/10(402 votes)

    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.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 14 - The Case of the Unwelcome Bride
    8.5/10(394 votes)

    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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  4. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 19 - The Case of the Glamorous Ghost
    8.5/10(409 votes)

    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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  5. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 21 - The Case of the Mystified Miner
    8.5/10(354 votes)

    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.

    Director:Francis D. Lyon
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 1 - The Case of the Jealous Journalist
    8.4/10(391 votes)

    S5:E1

    The drowning death of a newspaper executive during a fishing trip sets off all kinds of repercussions at the newspaper itself.

    Director:John English
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 9 - The Case of the Posthumous Painter
    8.4/10(365 votes)

    S5:E9

    Artist Jack Culross fakes his own suicide and sees the sales of his paintings go through the roof. His only problem was that he forgot to inform his wife Edna of the scheme. After Edna sees a completed painting of Jack's that she knows he didn't finish while he was "alive" she gets wise. Edna manages to track down her "deceased" husband but they fight and she knocks him down. Then he's found dead. Edna must stand trial for murder.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 23 - The Case of the Absent Artist
    8.3/10(399 votes)

    S5:E23

    Cartoonist Pete Manders is elated when the owner of the comic strip "Zingy" offers to sell him the strip for a song. Pete is less than elated when he learns that his girlfriend Leslie is running away to Europe with Gabe Phillips, the strip owner. When Phiilips is murdered, Pete is charged with the crime and retains Perry's services. Investigating the case, Perry soon discovers that the deceased Phillips was leading a double life.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 26 - The Case of the Borrowed Baby
    8.3/10(348 votes)

    S5:E26

    A baby who mysteriously appears in Perry's office has a rare St. Christopher medal, which could help identify the baby's parents. If only the suspected father wasn't dead.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Jonathan Latimer

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  10. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 11 - The Case of the Left-Handed Liar
    8.2/10(367 votes)

    S5:E11

    Health club instructor Ward Nichols wants to marry the daughter of his employer, Bernard Daniels, but Ward's estranged wife, Veronica, is pressuring him for money and claiming to be pregnant. Things blow up in everyone's face when Bernard is found crunched with a dumbbell at the club. Perry, as usual, arrives on the scene to get at the truth.

    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 27 - The Case of the Counterfeit Crank
    8.2/10(362 votes)

    S5:E27

    A crazy man (or is he?), his dead nephew and a military base are tangled up in a confusing Perry Mason episode.

    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 3 - The Case of the Missing Melody
    8.1/10(375 votes)

    S5:E3

    Perry and Della attend the wedding of Polly Courtland to Eddy King. The ceremony is halted at the altar when Polly begins screaming, "No! No!" and hurriedly exits the church. It seems as though Polly had spotted slimy George Sherwin holding an envelope containing photos of her younger sister checking into a Las Vegas hotel with a musician named Bongo White. Sherwin plans to ruin Polly and her family's reputation unless she gives up Eddy for him. Sherwin's plan comes a cropper when he's found shot to death. Eddy King is arrested for the crime.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 4 - The Case of the Malicious Mariner
    8.1/10(346 votes)

    S5:E4

    During a terrible storm at sea, First Officer Jerry Griffin dumps a million dollars worth of goods into the sea in order to lessen the chances of his cargo freighter sinking. Once on shore, Jerry is hauled before a maritime court which holds him responsible for the loss of the cargo. Captain Bancroft's testimony can clear Jerry but he is murdered before he can give it. Now Jerry stands accused of that crime too. Perry and Paul try to set things right once again.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 8 - The Case of the Traveling Treasure
    8.1/10(359 votes)

    S5:E8

    Perry and Paul are all set to go deep see fishing on a boat owned by their friend, Scott Cahill, but when Cahill's regular customer wants the boat for the weekend they have to charter another. Later, Perry gets word that the Coast Guard has boarded Cahill's vessel looking for stolen gold. They found some of the bullion and the corpse of Karl McGovern. An autopsy reveals that McGovern was killed with a fatal dose of digitalis. Scott Cahill is charged with murder when the police theorize that he and the dead man were partners in stealing the gold. Writer: Robb White

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 15 - The Case of the Roving River
    8.1/10(346 votes)

    S5:E15

    Perry is hired to help settle a land dispute in the Manzana Valley but the key witness is blown up by a homemade bomb. As usual, Perry's client is accused of the crime.

    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 20 - The Case of the Poison Pen-Pal
    8.1/10(360 votes)

    S5:E20

    A casual pen pal relationship leads to insider information and murder.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 29 - The Case of the Promoter's Pillbox
    8.1/10(339 votes)

    S5:E29

    Aspiring screenwriter Herbert Simms submits his first teleplay to producer Charlie Corby who tries to use the manuscript as his own. Corby's scheme comes a cropper when he gets fatally whacked over the head with a whiskey bottle after a party. Herbert happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and is seen running from the scene of the crime. Guess who gets arrested for murder?

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 5 - The Case of the Crying Comedian
    8.0/10(366 votes)

    S5:E5

    Comic Charlie Hatch learns that the woman he loved and lost, Anne Gilrain, has escaped from a sanitarium to which she was forced to commit herself by her husband, Tom. When Tom Gilrain is murdered, Charlie is afraid that Anne did the deed and sets himself up as a likely suspect to protect her. Perry arrives on the scene to try and free Charlie from his abysmal stupidity.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 7 - The Case of the Pathetic Patient
    7.9/10(368 votes)

    S5:E7

    Perry finds himself defending Dr. Wayne Edley who has been accused of committing two murders.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 12 - The Case of the Brazen Bequest
    7.9/10(340 votes)

    S5:E12

    Charles Cromwell, the president-elect of Euclid College, worries that some less than stellar moments from his past will be exposed when Maisie Freitag arrives on the scene to make an unusual beguest to the college. Needless to say, murder eventually finds its way to the campus.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Robert Leslie Bellem

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  21. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 28 - The Case of the Ancient Romeo
    7.9/10(356 votes)

    S5:E28

    Perry and Della go out for a night at the theatre to see Perry's actor friend, Steve Brock, perform as Paris in Romeo and Juliet. The lights mysteriously go out during the dueling scene between Romeo and Paris and when the lights are restored the audience is shocked to see that leading man Franz Lachman, playing Romeo, has been stabbed to death. When Steve is accused of the murder Perry decides to have the cast re-enact the final scene that was played before Lachman's death.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 30 - The Case of the Lonely Eloper
    7.9/10(386 votes)

    S5:E30

    Merle Telford is a naive and maladjusted young woman who is about to turn 21 and receive a substantial inheritance. She plans to run away from her guardians and elope with Danny Pierce as soon as she receives her money. Yep, you guessed it already, Danny is a greedy schemer and Merle's supposed friend, Gina Gilbert, is his accomplice. Merle's guardians know of her plans and hire Paul Drake to keep Merle from fleeing on the night of her 21st birthday party. When a murder is committed during the party Merle becomes the prime suspect.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 17 - The Case of the Captain's Coins
    7.8/10(338 votes)

    S5:E17

    Historian Phillip Andrews tries to make a case that his fiancee, Evelyn Faraday, is entitled to a share of a shipping company fortune. Phillip then finds himself accused of murdering the company's top man.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 2 - The Case of the Impatient Partner
    7.7/10(372 votes)

    S5:E2

    Paint manufacturer Amory Fallon suspects that his partner Ned Thompson is behind a mysterious fire and explosion.

    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:Adrian Gendot

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  25. Perry Mason Season 5 Episode 18 - The Case of the Tarnished Trademark
    7.7/10(317 votes)

    S5:E18

    Axel Norstaad sells his much respected furniture trademark to Martin Somers, described by some as the slide trombone of the furniture business. Somers immediately begins stripping the company of its assets and churning out inferior products. Axel protests these developments vehemently and when Somers is found murdered he gets arrested for the crime. To complicate things, Axel is in love with Edie Morrow whom he suspects might be the actual killer.

    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"The Case of the Shapely Shadow" is the best rated episode of "Perry Mason" season 5. It scored 8.8/10 based on 409 votes. Directed by Christian Nyby and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/6/1962. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Case of the Renegade Refugee".