6.7/10294 votesLoading...#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
7.0/10294 votesLoading...#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
7.1/10331 votesLoading...#3 - 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
7.1/10261 votesLoading...#4 - 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
7.1/10275 votesLoading...#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
7.1/10274 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10281 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10247 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10265 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10306 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10267 votesLoading...#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
7.4/10224 votesLoading...#12 - 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: Orville H. Hampton, Ernest Frankel
7.5/10293 votesLoading...#13 - 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
7.5/10274 votesLoading...#14 - 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.
7.5/10278 votesLoading...#15 - 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
7.5/10279 votesLoading...#16 - 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
7.5/10287 votesLoading...#17 - 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
7.5/10438 votesLoading...#18 - 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: Orville H. Hampton, Ernest Frankel
7.6/10407 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.6/10341 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10307 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10336 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10266 votesLoading...#23 - The Case of the Tarnished Trademark
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 1/20/1962
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.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: N/A
7.6/10254 votesLoading...#24 - 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
7.6/10280 votesLoading...#25 - 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 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
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Case of the Sad Sicilian" is the worst rated episode of "Perry Mason". It scored 6.7/10 based on 294 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".