Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) es un abogado experto en complejos casos de asesinato. Casi todos los capítulos siguen el mismo formato: el cliente de Perry Mason es acusado de homicidio. Mason, con la ayuda de su inseparable secretaria Della Street (Barbara Hale) y del investigador Paul Drake (William Hopper), analiza los más pequeños detalles para hallar al verdadero culpable y probar la inocencia de su cliente.
Fecha de emisión: 1962-09-27
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: Perry and the team investigate the murder of an antiquarian bookseller with an interest in forgery.
Fecha de emisión: 1962-10-04
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: Carleton Gage, a major financial supporter of an orphanage, wants to keep it open but lapses into a coma and later assumes room temperature. Gage's nephew, George, wants to close the orphanage and he is being secretly aided by Ernest Demming. Joane Proctor, Carleton's sister-in-law, wants to keep the orphanage open but her good intentions are complicated by the murder of Demming.
Fecha de emisión: 1962-10-11
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Fecha de emisión: 1962-10-18
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: A company bookkeeper's wife is charged with the murder of a female employee who had been blackmailing her.
Fecha de emisión: 1962-10-25
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: Young cop Jimmy Anderson, cousin of Lt. Anderson, and veteran Otto Norden come across a robbery at the Wilson Plastics Company while on patrol one night. A shooting occurs and Otto is killed. Evidence then points to Jimmy as having been an accomplice in the burglary and he is suspended from the police force. Then the night watchman at Wilson Plastics, a disgraced ex-cop, is found strangled to death. Lt. Anderson then asks Perry to look into things and defend Jimmy against all charges.
Fecha de emisión: 1962-11-01
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: Phil Schuyler is a two bit songwriter who comes to a bad end on Halloween night. Someone enters his bungalow while Phil is taking a bath and tosses an electric heater into his tub thus turning him into a crispy critter. Damian White, husband of a famous musical comedy star, was seen entering the bungalow around the approximate time of the murder by an eyewitness. But what about all the trick or treaters?
Fecha de emisión: 1962-11-08
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: An unscrupulous uncle, who is in reality the father of his niece, returns home from the sea seeking money from the sale of oil leases on his land. When the uncle is found murdered, his shipmate is charged with the crime.
Fecha de emisión: 1962-11-15
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: Two brothers at separate times have claimed the same young girl as their daughter. One brother owns a fleet of tuna boats; the other is a mobster. Then banker Franz Moray reveals that $100,000 due to the girl via a trust fund has been mishandled. When Moray is found murdered Perry steps in and discovers an old family secret.
Fecha de emisión: 1962-11-29
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: Della asks Perry for $25,000 for her friend Janet Brent, who is being blackmailed. Edward Franklin, an employee of Janet's husband, has staged compromising photos of her in a motel. At a party, Janet confronts Franklin and hits him with a small statue of a "weary watchdog." The police arrest Della when they find her driving Janet's car from the scene of the argument. Franklin is dead, struck three times on the head with the statue. Perry defends Janet knowing that if he loses, Della will go to prison as an accessory.
Fecha de emisión: 1962-12-06
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: A young widowed high school English teacher in a small town is accused via letter of making passes and more towards some of her male students. But a small town is small town and it seems that all the key figures are involved somehow, the principal, the lawyer, the doctor, the local barkeep, and of course the oldest boy, who's really more of a man, in the high school.
Fecha de emisión: 1962-12-13
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: When Jennifer is alone after her father's heart attack, her only friend is her filly Tiger Lily. She's penniless until a present from her late father is dropped in her lap, but it turns out that the present is worthless, although Brad Shelby did pay $50,000 in order to capitalize on it.
Fecha de emisión: 1962-12-20
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: A wealthy woman is confronted by two girls who claim to be the daughters she was forced to abandon 20 years before.
Fecha de emisión: 1963-01-03
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: A chronic shoplifter later finds herself charged with murder. Her niece hires Perry for the defense.
Fecha de emisión: 1963-01-10
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: A young girl searching for the father she has never seen seeks Mason's help when she's charged with murder.
Fecha de emisión: 1963-01-17
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: On trial: the estranged wife of a professor who's written a lurid novel.
Fecha de emisión: 1963-01-31
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: Recently widowed attorney Constant Doyle comes to the aid of a young man charged with breaking into a factory and assaulting the night watchman. Later, she has to clear the young man of a murder charge as well as clear the reputation of her late husband.
Fecha de emisión: 1963-02-07
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: Professor Lindley is in a pit of trouble when he tries to help a kid dodge a murder rap.
Fecha de emisión: 1963-02-14
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: Columnist Elihu Laban is hit with a murder rap when his efforts to obtain secret papers backfire.
Fecha de emisión: 1963-02-28
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: Attorney Sherman Hatfield is sought out by a blackmail-plagued industrialist.
Fecha de emisión: 1963-03-07
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: Mason goes to the dogs when his defense of a murder suspect hinges on a surprise witness.
Fecha de emisión: 1963-03-14
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: Mason's client: a man declared legally dead.
Fecha de emisión: 1963-03-21
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: In a case woven with one woman's lies a politician and a murder are entagled.
Fecha de emisión: 1963-04-04
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: The victim of a swindle finds his trouble multiplying when he's accused of murder.
Fecha de emisión: 1963-04-11
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: A promoter's plan to frame his wife and business partner for embezzlement fails, but they're arrested anyway for his murder.
Fecha de emisión: 1963-04-18
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: Mason is hired by a sculptor charged with murdering the overbearing mother of his model.
Fecha de emisión: 1963-05-02
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: The ex-wife of an author who has written a lurid expose and is murdered.
Fecha de emisión: 1963-05-09
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: A jealous husband is teased into a tizzy after being led on by his sister's lies.
Fecha de emisión: 1963-05-16
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: A judge is accused of murdering a government witness who planned to expose him as a crook.
