The Best Episodes of Perry Mason Season 6

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: N/A

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

Director: Arthur Marks

Writer: N/A

A young widowed high school English teacher in a small town is accused via letter of making passes and more towards some of her male students. But a small town is small town and it seems that all the key figures are involved somehow, the principal, the lawyer, the doctor, the local barkeep, and of course the oldest boy, who's really more of a man, in the high school.

Director: Arthur Marks

Writer: N/A

A promoter's plan to frame his wife and business partner for embezzlement fails, but they're arrested anyway for his murder.

Director: Harmon Jones

Writer: N/A

Perry and the team investigate the murder of an antiquarian bookseller with an interest in forgery.

Director: Arthur Marks

Writer: N/A

Young cop Jimmy Anderson, cousin of Lt. Anderson, and veteran Otto Norden come across a robbery at the Wilson Plastics Company while on patrol one night. A shooting occurs and Otto is killed. Evidence then points to Jimmy as having been an accomplice in the burglary and he is suspended from the police force. Then the night watchman at Wilson Plastics, a disgraced ex-cop, is found strangled to death. Lt. Anderson then asks Perry to look into things and defend Jimmy against all charges.

Director: Jesse Hibbs

Writer: N/A

A chronic shoplifter later finds herself charged with murder. Her niece hires Perry for the defense.

Director: Arthur Marks

Writer: N/A

On trial: the estranged wife of a professor who's written a lurid novel.

Director: Jesse Hibbs

Writer: Robert C. Dennis

Mason goes to the dogs when his defense of a murder suspect hinges on a surprise witness.

Director: Arthur Marks

Writer: N/A

The ex-wife of an author who has written a lurid expose and is murdered.

Director: Arthur Marks

Writer: N/A

Recently widowed attorney Constant Doyle comes to the aid of a young man charged with breaking into a factory and assaulting the night watchman. Later, she has to clear the young man of a murder charge as well as clear the reputation of her late husband.

Director: Allen H. Miner

Writer: N/A

A jealous husband is teased into a tizzy after being led on by his sister's lies.

Director: Jesse Hibbs

Writer: N/A

A company bookkeeper's wife is charged with the murder of a female employee who had been blackmailing her.

Director: Allen H. Miner

Writer: N/A

A wealthy woman is confronted by two girls who claim to be the daughters she was forced to abandon 20 years before.

Director: Jesse Hibbs

Writer: N/A

A young girl searching for the father she has never seen seeks Mason's help when she's charged with murder.

Director: Allen H. Miner

Writer: N/A

The victim of a swindle finds his trouble multiplying when he's accused of murder.

Director: Arthur Marks

Writer: N/A

An unscrupulous uncle, who is in reality the father of his niece, returns home from the sea seeking money from the sale of oil leases on his land. When the uncle is found murdered, his shipmate is charged with the crime.

Director: Francis D. Lyon

Writer: Robert C. Dennis

Two brothers at separate times have claimed the same young girl as their daughter. One brother owns a fleet of tuna boats; the other is a mobster. Then banker Franz Moray reveals that $100,000 due to the girl via a trust fund has been mishandled. When Moray is found murdered Perry steps in and discovers an old family secret.

Director: Allen H. Miner

Writer: N/A

When Jennifer is alone after her father's heart attack, her only friend is her filly Tiger Lily. She's penniless until a present from her late father is dropped in her lap, but it turns out that the present is worthless, although Brad Shelby did pay $50,000 in order to capitalize on it.

Director: Allen H. Miner

Writer: N/A

Attorney Sherman Hatfield is sought out by a blackmail-plagued industrialist.

Director: Jesse Hibbs

Writer: N/A

Carleton Gage, a major financial supporter of an orphanage, wants to keep it open but lapses into a coma and later assumes room temperature. Gage's nephew, George, wants to close the orphanage and he is being secretly aided by Ernest Demming. Joane Proctor, Carleton's sister-in-law, wants to keep the orphanage open but her good intentions are complicated by the murder of Demming.

Director: Arthur Marks

Writer: N/A

Phil Schuyler is a two bit songwriter who comes to a bad end on Halloween night. Someone enters his bungalow while Phil is taking a bath and tosses an electric heater into his tub thus turning him into a crispy critter. Damian White, husband of a famous musical comedy star, was seen entering the bungalow around the approximate time of the murder by an eyewitness. But what about all the trick or treaters?

Director: Arthur Marks

Writer: N/A

Professor Lindley is in a pit of trouble when he tries to help a kid dodge a murder rap.

Director: Arthur Marks

Writer: N/A

In a case woven with one woman's lies a politician and a murder are entagled.

Director: Harmon Jones

Writer: N/A

Boxing trainer Jimmy West thinks he's finally found a championship contender in Davey Carroll. Unfortunately, Davey has a hard time keeping it in his pants and his tangled love life leads to Jimmy being charged with murder.

Director: Francis D. Lyon

Writer: Helen Nielsen