Perry Mason

The Worst Episodes of Perry Mason

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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.
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  1. 6.7/10(300 votes)

    #1 - The Case of the Sad Sicilian

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    S8:E22

    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.

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    Director:Jesse Hibbs
  2. 7.0/10(303 votes)

    #2 - The Case of the Scandalous Sculptor

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    S8:E3

    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.

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  3. 7.1/10(341 votes)

    #3 - The Case of the Two-Faced Turnabout

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    S6:E18

    Columnist Elihu Laban is hit with a murder rap when his efforts to obtain secret papers backfire.

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    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:N/A
  4. 7.1/10(264 votes)

    #4 - The Case of the Frustrated Folk Singer

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    S8:E15

    Uninterested in her recently inherited fortune, an aspring singer is easy prey for a sinister agent.

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  5. 7.1/10(282 votes)

    #5 - The Case of the Fugitive Fraulein

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    S9:E12

    In this change of pace episode Perry and Della travel behind the Iron Curtain and get involved in a murder case which ends up being tried in an East German court.

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  6. 7.1/10(277 votes)

    #6 - The Case of the Avenging Angel

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    S9:E22

    Perry must defend a goofy, untalented British kid whom someone thinks has the talent to be a pop singer but in reality couldn't get in the door of American Idol. Then someone bumps off a shady promoter and the would be pop idol gets blamed.

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  8. 7.3/10(278 votes)

    #7 - The Case of the Devious Delinquent

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    S7:E10

    Three teens cruise Hollywood Boulevard in a cool convertible lookin' for kicks! A liquor store goes down and the blackmail and plot twists begin. Lies and more lies and it's going from bad to worse for young Timmy Balfour who soon discovers that there's every bit as much delinquency from the adults when he's charged with murder.

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    Writer:N/A
  9. 7.3/10(290 votes)

    #8 - The Case of the Betrayed Bride

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    S8:E5

    A recently widowed women becomes tangled in a web of suspicion when she hastily remarries.

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  10. 7.3/10(254 votes)

    #9 - The Case of the Runaway Racer

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    S9:E10

    Test driver Pete Griston cracks up one of ace car builder Pappy Ryan's vehicles. Pappy accuses Havey Rettig of tampering with the car and files charges against Rettig and Griston. Then Rettig is killed and Griston is found standing groggily over the body.

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    Director:Jesse Hibbs
  11. 7.4/10(312 votes)

    #10 - The Case of the Fifty-Millionth Frenchman

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    S7:E19

    A Frenchman is giving money to an old lady love from his hometown, unaware that she's sharing the cash with her husband. When hubby turns up murdered guess who gets charged with the crime?

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  12. 7.4/10(271 votes)

    #11 - The Case of the Careless Kidnapper

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    S7:E27

    A kidnapping hoax leads to murder when the ransom note gets into the wrong hands.

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    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Robb White
  13. 7.4/10(229 votes)

    #12 - The Case of the Tsarina's Tiara

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    S9:E23

    Imagine Gerard Van Ness's surprise when a long-lost tiara worth a fortune turns up in his hands. Imagine Perry and Della's surpise when the body of a jewel thief turns up in a trunk delivered to their building. Needless to say, Van Ness gets blamed for the death and it's up to Perry and company to save the day.

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  14. 7.5/10(427 votes)

    #13 - The Case of the Desperate Daughter

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    S1:E27

    Stefan Riker has come from Germany seeking the woman posing as Lisa Bannister and she believes he can cause her to be deported back to Germany. Attempting to help her stepmother, Doris Bannister pretends to be romantically interested in Stefan Riker. During the next few months Stefan Riker receives money and gifts from Doris and seems satisfied. However one night he is murdered and Doris Bannister is accused of murder because her fingerprints are found on a ladder outside of Riker's apartment.

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  15. 7.5/10(306 votes)

    #14 - The Case of the Injured Innocent

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    S5:E10

    A really weird courtroom confession scene highlights this episode about the murder of a race car driver.

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  16. 7.5/10(277 votes)

    #15 - The Case of the Lawful Lazarus

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    S6:E21

    Mason's client: a man declared legally dead.

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    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:N/A
  17. 7.5/10(285 votes)

    #16 - The Case of the Greek Goddess

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    S6:E25

    Mason is hired by a sculptor charged with murdering the overbearing mother of his model.

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  18. 7.5/10(285 votes)

    #17 - The Case of the Floating Stones

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    S7:E8

    Julie Eng needs Perry's help when some precious stones her grandfather left her turn up missing.

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    Director:Don Weis
  19. 7.5/10(282 votes)

    #18 - The Case of a Place Called Midnight

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    S8:E8

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

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  20. 7.5/10(297 votes)

    #19 - The Case of the Thermal Thief

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    S8:E16

    Attorney Ken Kramer comes to the aid of an alleged thief accused of stealing a $50,000 necklace.

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  21. 7.5/10(444 votes)

    #20 - The Case of the Twice-Told Twist

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    S9:E21

    Perry plays Mr. Brownlow to young Lenny Beale who's involved with a gang of teenage car strippers. Lenny wants to quit the gang but when his boss, Bill Sikes, turns up murdered the police theorize that Lenny killed him in revenge for Sikes shooting his girlfriend.

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  22. 7.6/10(521 votes)

    #21 - The Case of the Sulky Girl

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    S1:E5

    Fran Celane feels her uncle, Edward Norton, is too restrictive as the executor of her father's spendthrift trust. He also wants her to wait 18 months until her 25th birthday before she gets married. Arthur Crinston, Edward Norton's attorney, arrives to meet with Mr. Norton but is told to return at 11pm. When he returns, they meet for a few minutes and as he is leaving, Mr. Norton asks him to take his secretary, Donald Graves, to pick up some papers. As they drive away, Mr. Graves looks back at the house and sees someone attack Edward Norton. They return to find Edward Norton dead and Rodney Gleason, Fran's fiance, is identified as the assailant. Rodney Gleason is accused of the murder.

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  23. 7.6/10(354 votes)

    #22 - The Case of the Clumsy Clown

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    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.

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  24. 7.6/10(317 votes)

    #23 - The Case of the Cowardly Lion

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    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.

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    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:N/A
  25. 7.6/10(350 votes)

    #24 - The Case of the Meddling Medium

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    S5:E6

    Phony psychic Phillip Paisley meets a grisly death when an elevator that has been tampered with crashes. In the climactic scene Perry sets up another fantastic demonstration to prove his client innocent and expose the real culprit.

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    Director:Arthur Marks
    Writer:N/A
  26. 7.6/10(274 votes)

    #25 - The Case of the Tarnished Trademark

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    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.

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    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:N/A

Worst Episodes Summary

"The Case of the Sad Sicilian" is the worst rated episode of "Perry Mason". It scored 6.7/10 based on 300 votes. Directed by Jesse Hibbs and written by Milton Krims, it aired on 3/11/1965. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Case of the Scandalous Sculptor".