Almost anyone is capable of a crime under certain circumstances.
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.
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.
Air date: 1962-09-27
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: Perry and the team investigate the murder of an antiquarian bookseller with an interest in forgery.
Air date: 1962-10-04
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1962-10-11
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1962-10-18
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: A company bookkeeper's wife is charged with the murder of a female employee who had been blackmailing her.
Air date: 1962-10-25
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1962-11-01
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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?
Air date: 1962-11-08
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1962-11-15
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1962-11-29
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1962-12-06
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1962-12-13
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1962-12-20
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: A wealthy woman is confronted by two girls who claim to be the daughters she was forced to abandon 20 years before.
Air date: 1963-01-03
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: A chronic shoplifter later finds herself charged with murder. Her niece hires Perry for the defense.
Air date: 1963-01-10
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: A young girl searching for the father she has never seen seeks Mason's help when she's charged with murder.
Air date: 1963-01-17
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: On trial: the estranged wife of a professor who's written a lurid novel.
Air date: 1963-01-31
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1963-02-07
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: Professor Lindley is in a pit of trouble when he tries to help a kid dodge a murder rap.
Air date: 1963-02-14
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: Columnist Elihu Laban is hit with a murder rap when his efforts to obtain secret papers backfire.
Air date: 1963-02-28
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: Attorney Sherman Hatfield is sought out by a blackmail-plagued industrialist.
Air date: 1963-03-07
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: Mason goes to the dogs when his defense of a murder suspect hinges on a surprise witness.
Air date: 1963-03-14
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: Mason's client: a man declared legally dead.
Air date: 1963-03-21
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: In a case woven with one woman's lies a politician and a murder are entagled.
Air date: 1963-04-04
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: The victim of a swindle finds his trouble multiplying when he's accused of murder.
Air date: 1963-04-11
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: A promoter's plan to frame his wife and business partner for embezzlement fails, but they're arrested anyway for his murder.
Air date: 1963-04-18
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: Mason is hired by a sculptor charged with murdering the overbearing mother of his model.
Air date: 1963-05-02
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: The ex-wife of an author who has written a lurid expose and is murdered.
Air date: 1963-05-09
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: A jealous husband is teased into a tizzy after being led on by his sister's lies.
Air date: 1963-05-16
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: A judge is accused of murdering a government witness who planned to expose him as a crook.