7.6/10310 votes#1 - The Case of the Missing Button
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1964
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
7.7/10272 votes#2 - The Case of the Paper Bullets
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1964
Mason is caught in the middle when a romance develops between two members of rival political families.
Director: Arthur Marks
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
7.0/10295 votes#3 - The Case of the Scandalous Sculptor
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1964
Mona Harvey is the principal stockholder in a publishing company run by her uncle, Everett, and the wife of an eccentric sculptor named Hannibal Harvey who is being blackmailed. Unable to get at any money due to Mona's absence, Hannibal has ditzy model Bonnie Dunbar write a blackmail note to Mona's uncle. Everett gets the money out of petty cash and sends it to Bonnie. In the meantime, Mona returns, finds Bonnie's blackmail note, and decides to pay the model a visit. So does Hannibal. Without seeing each other, husband and wife both discover Bonnie's dead body. Mona gets arrested for the murder but she fears that Hannibal might be the real killer.
Director: Jack Arnold
Writer: Philip Saltzman
8.3/10278 votes#4 - The Case of the Sleepy Slayer
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1964
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
7.3/10281 votes#5 - The Case of the Betrayed Bride
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/1964
A recently widowed women becomes tangled in a web of suspicion when she hastily remarries.
Director: Arthur Marks
Writer: John Elliotte
8.1/10273 votes#6 - The Case of the Nautical Knot
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1964
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
7.9/10341 votes#7 - The Case of the Bullied Bowler
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1964
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
7.5/10279 votes#8 - The Case of a Place Called Midnight
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1964
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
8.0/10269 votes#9 - The Case of the Tragic Trophy
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1964
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
8.4/10277 votes#10 - The Case of the Reckless Rockhound
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/1964
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
8.2/10256 votes#11 - The Case of the Latent Lover
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 12/3/1964
An investment broker tops off a series of peculiar actions by commandeering a taxi to rob a bank.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: Samuel Newman
8.3/10272 votes#12 - The Case of the Wooden Nickels
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 12/10/1964
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
8.2/10284 votes#13 - The Case of the Blonde Bonanza
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 12/17/1964
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
8.6/10275 votes#14 - The Case of the Ruinous Road
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 12/31/1964
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
7.1/10260 votes#15 - The Case of the Frustrated Folk Singer
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 1/7/1965
Uninterested in her recently inherited fortune, an aspring singer is easy prey for a sinister agent.
Director: Arthur Marks
Writer: John Elliotte
7.5/10290 votes#16 - The Case of the Thermal Thief
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 1/14/1965
Attorney Ken Kramer comes to the aid of an alleged thief accused of stealing a $50,000 necklace.
Director: Jack Arnold
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
7.9/10258 votes#17 - The Case of the Golden Venom
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 1/21/1965
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
8.3/10285 votes#18 - The Case of the Tell-Tale Tap
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1965
Balancing private investigation with legal gymnastics, Mason tries to iron out a case of embezzlement and murder.
Director: Arthur Marks
Writer: Samuel Newman
7.6/10261 votes#19 - The Case of the Feather Cloak
Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 2/11/1965
In Hawaii to handle an investigation for a hotel chain, Mason and Drake uncover a murder.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: Jonathan Latimer
8.3/10276 votes#20 - The Case of the Lover's Gamble
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 2/18/1965
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
7.6/10296 votes#21 - The Case of the Fatal Fetish
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 3/4/1965
Burger tries to head off trouble when his young assistant falls for an unscrupulous woman.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Samuel Newman
6.7/10294 votes#22 - The Case of the Sad Sicilian
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 3/11/1965
Paulo Porro is a charming young man from Sicily with a clever scam for ingratiating himself with Italian-American families. But when he tries his charms on Enrico Bacio, Paulo runs into a problem. It seems as though there was bad blood between the Porro and Bacio clans back in Sicily. Bacio even believes that Paolo has come to kill him. When Bacio is later found with a file lodged in his neck, Paolo is blamed for the murder.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: Milton Krims
8.2/10281 votes#23 - The Case of the Murderous Mermaid
Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 3/18/1965
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
8.2/10275 votes#24 - The Case of the Careless Kitten
Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 3/25/1965
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
7.9/10242 votes#25 - The Case of the Deadly Debt
Season 8 Episode 25 - Aired 4/1/1965
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
The Best Episodes of Perry Mason Season 8
Every episode of Perry Mason Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Perry Mason Season 8!
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
Genres:MysteryDramaCrime
Network:CBS
Season 8 Ratings Summary
"The Case of the Missing Button" is the best rated episode of "Perry Mason" season 8. It scored 7.6/10 based on 310 votes. Directed by Richard Donner and written by Jonathan Latimer, it aired on 9/24/1964. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Case of the Paper Bullets".