The Best Episodes of Perry Mason Season 8

The foundations of a large company are shaken when the chief engineer uncovers evidence of budget tampering.

Director: Jesse Hibbs

Writer: Bob Mitchell, Esther Mitchell

Reba Burgess's control of her late husband's mining company is threatened when a man turns up with a partnership agreement—signed by Burgess before he died.

Director: Jesse Hibbs

Writer: Robb White

Abner Gordon threatens to press charges if his niece doesn't replace the money she lifted from his safe.

Director: Jesse Hibbs

Writer: Samuel Newman

Drake gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to act as courier in the sale of a rare Confederate coin.

Director: Arthur Marks

Writer: Jonathan Latimer

Balancing private investigation with legal gymnastics, Mason tries to iron out a case of embezzlement and murder.

Director: Arthur Marks

Writer: Samuel Newman

A woman turns to Mason when she becomes convinced that her boss is planning to murder his invalid wife.

Director: Harry Harris

Writer: Jackson Gillis

Perry is paid a visit by a Dorrie Ambler who wants him to verify her identity. Shady private eye Phil Arthur has been paying her to frequent certain places around town and Dorrie thinks it's because she bears a strong resemblance to madcap heiress Minerva Minden. After some digging, Perry finds out that Minerva might have been involved in a hit-and-run accident and it appears as though Dorrie is being used to prove that.

Director: Jesse Hibbs

Writer: N/A

A model fails to read the fine print when she signs a curious contract paying her $200 a week to gain weight for an assignment.

Director: Arthur Marks

Writer: N/A

Former swimming champion Victoria Dawn is now overweight, out of shape, and the owner of a chain of failing health spas. Desperate to regain some of her former glory she hires young actress Regina "Reggie" Lambert to impersonate her in a swim across the Catalina Channel to Los Angeles.

Director: Robert Sparr

Writer: Mann Rubin

Franklin Shore, supposedly dead for 10 years, telephones his niece, Helen, and gives her instructions on how to meet him. Then someone takes a shot at Helen's boyfriend and attempts to poison the "deceased's" wife, Matilda.

Director: Vincent McEveety

Writer: N/A

Pete Warren's estranged wife, Myrna, is killing time in Reno waiting for their divorce to go through. When Myrna gets involved in a counterfeit gambling chip scam, Pete makes the mistake of lying to protect her.

Director: Richard Donner

Writer: Jonathan Latimer

An unsuccessful salesman has a lot of explaining to do when he throws down his sample case in disgust—and large sums of money fall out.

Director: James Goldstone

Writer: Philip Saltzman

Mason is summoned when Harvey Scott's efforts to retain temporary control of the family mining company lead to murder.

Director: Jesse Hibbs

Writer: Robert Leslie Bellem

An investment broker tops off a series of peculiar actions by commandeering a taxi to rob a bank.

Director: Jesse Hibbs

Writer: Samuel Newman

Investigating the "other woman" in a betrothed man's life, Mason finds himself neck-deep in a murder mystery.

Director: Richard Donner

Writer: Mann Rubin

Attorney Joe Kelly agrees to represent Bill Jarvis, whose mother-in-law is trying to have his bowling alley shut down.

Director: Jesse Hibbs

Writer: Samuel Newman

A woman hires Mason to nullify a clause in her late husband's will that disinherits her if she reopens the investigation of her son's death.

Director: Jesse Hibbs

Writer: N/A

Police detective Danny Talbert's father dies from a heart attack caused by stress from the fact that he was into mobster Steve Radom for a $10,000 debt. Or so Danny believes. When Radom is killed with Danny's gun, Perry steps in to clear his name.

Director: Jesse Hibbs

Writer: Robert C. Dennis

Mason is caught in the middle when a romance develops between two members of rival political families.

Director: Arthur Marks

Writer: Jonathan Latimer

In Hawaii to handle an investigation for a hotel chain, Mason and Drake uncover a murder.

Director: Jesse Hibbs

Writer: Jonathan Latimer

Lawyer Ward Toyama, a friend of Perry's, gets caught up in an illegal gunrunning operation and murder on the high seas after being contacted by a man claiming to be an intelligence agent. It's up to Perry to clear his friend's name when he's accused of murder.

Director: Richard Kinon

Writer: Samuel Newman

A man's campaign to prove his estranged wife an unfit mother is interrupted when he's arrested for murder.

Director: Richard Donner

Writer: Jonathan Latimer

Burger tries to head off trouble when his young assistant falls for an unscrupulous woman.

Director: Charles R. Rondeau

Writer: Samuel Newman

Della buys the diary of a drowned woman at an auction and after reading the entries becomes convinced that the woman's death was not a suicide as was ruled at the time. This leads Perry into a case involving an eccentric millionaire, his two scheming assistants, and a kleptomaniac gorilla.

Director: Jesse Hibbs

Writer: N/A

In an offbeat case, Mason becomes involved in international intrigue wheh he travels to Switzerland to meet a friend's future daughter-in-law.

Director: Arthur Marks

Writer: Jackson Gillis