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The Worst Episodes of Perry Mason

Every episode of Perry Mason ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Perry Mason!

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

Lowest Rated Episodes Summary

The worst episode of "Perry Mason" is "The Case of the Sad Sicilian", rated 6.7/10 from 290 user votes. It was directed by Jesse Hibbs and written by Milton Krims. "The Case of the Sad Sicilian" aired on 3/11/1965 and is rated 0.3 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "The Case of the Scandalous Sculptor".

  • The Case of the Sad Sicilian
    6.7/10 290 votes

    #1 - 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

  • The Case of the Scandalous Sculptor
    7.0/10 292 votes

    #2 - 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

  • The Case of the Frustrated Folk Singer
    7.0/10 254 votes

    #3 - 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

  • The Case of the Two-Faced Turnabout
    7.1/10 326 votes

    #4 - The Case of the Two-Faced Turnabout

    Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 2/14/1963

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

    Director: Arthur Marks

    Writer: N/A

  • The Case of the Fugitive Fraulein
    7.1/10 269 votes

    #5 - The Case of the Fugitive Fraulein

    Season 9 Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/1965

    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.

    Director: Arthur Marks

    Writer: Jonathan Latimer

  • The Case of the Avenging Angel
    7.1/10 269 votes

    #6 - The Case of the Avenging Angel

    Season 9 Episode 22 - Aired 3/13/1966

    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.

    Director: Jerry Hopper

    Writer: Lawrence L. Goldman

  • The Case of the Betrayed Bride
    7.3/10 280 votes

    #7 - 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

  • The Case of the Runaway Racer
    7.3/10 236 votes

    #8 - The Case of the Runaway Racer

    Season 9 Episode 10 - Aired 11/14/1965

    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.

    Director: Jesse Hibbs

    Writer: Sy Salkowitz

  • The Case of the Devious Delinquent
    7.4/10 264 votes

    #9 - The Case of the Devious Delinquent

    Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1963

    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.

    Director: Irving J. Moore

    Writer: N/A

  • The Case of the Fifty-Millionth Frenchman
    7.4/10 300 votes

    #10 - The Case of the Fifty-Millionth Frenchman

    Season 7 Episode 19 - Aired 2/20/1964

    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?

    Director: Arthur Marks

    Writer: Robert C. Dennis

  • The Case of the Careless Kidnapper
    7.4/10 263 votes

    #11 - The Case of the Careless Kidnapper

    Season 7 Episode 27 - Aired 4/30/1964

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

    Director: Jesse Hibbs

    Writer: Robb White

  • The Case of the Twice-Told Twist
    7.4/10 421 votes

    #12 - The Case of the Twice-Told Twist

    Season 9 Episode 21 - Aired 2/27/1966

    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.

    Director: Arthur Marks

    Writer: Ernest Frankel, Orville H. Hampton

  • The Case of the Tsarina's Tiara
    7.4/10 218 votes

    #13 - The Case of the Tsarina's Tiara

    Season 9 Episode 23 - Aired 3/20/1966

    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.

    Director: Harmon Jones

    Writer: Ernest Frankel, Orville H. Hampton

  • The Case of the Desperate Daughter
    7.5/10 404 votes

    #14 - The Case of the Desperate Daughter

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/22/1958

    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.

    Director: Arthur Hiller

    Writer: Donald S. Sanford

  • The Case of the Injured Innocent
    7.5/10 291 votes

    #15 - The Case of the Injured Innocent

    Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1961

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

    Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

    Writer: N/A

  • The Case of the Greek Goddess
    7.5/10 270 votes

    #16 - The Case of the Greek Goddess

    Season 6 Episode 25 - Aired 4/18/1963

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

    Director: Jesse Hibbs

    Writer: Robert Presnell Sr.

  • The Case of the Floating Stones
    7.5/10 275 votes

    #17 - The Case of the Floating Stones

    Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1963

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

    Director: Don Weis

    Writer: Robert C. Dennis

  • The Case of a Place Called Midnight
    7.5/10 278 votes

    #18 - 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

  • The Case of the Thermal Thief
    7.5/10 282 votes

    #19 - 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

  • The Case of the Clumsy Clown
    7.6/10 337 votes

    #20 - The Case of the Clumsy Clown

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1960

    A circus clown is charged with the murder of its part owner when a gun is slipped to him during a gun act.

    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

    Writer: Sam Neuman

  • The Case of the Cowardly Lion
    7.6/10 302 votes

    #21 - The Case of the Cowardly Lion

    Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 4/8/1961

    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.

    Director: Arthur Marks

    Writer: N/A

  • The Case of the Meddling Medium
    7.6/10 330 votes

    #22 - The Case of the Meddling Medium

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1961

    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.

    Director: Arthur Marks

    Writer: N/A

  • The Case of the Melancholy Marksman
    7.6/10 252 votes

    #23 - The Case of the Melancholy Marksman

    Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 3/24/1962

    Ted Chase discovers that his bitchy second wife, Irene, might have killed his first wife and contemplates revenge but someone else gets to Irene first. In his defense of Ted, Perry discovers that Irene's past was even more sordid and corrupt than previously believed.

    Director: Jerry Hopper

    Writer: N/A

  • The Case of the Angry Astronaut
    7.6/10 277 votes

    #24 - The Case of the Angry Astronaut

    Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 4/7/1962

    Astronaut Matthew Heller is suspected of killing his old service rival, General Addison Brand, after Brand is put in charge of the astronaut program.

    Director: Francis D. Lyon

    Writer: N/A

  • The Case of the Playboy Pugilist
    7.6/10 293 votes

    #25 - The Case of the Playboy Pugilist

    Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1962

    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