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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- Seasons
- 9
- Episodes aired
- 271
- Latest aired
- S09E30
- Total runtime
- 9d 18h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 September 1957 – June 1958 39 episodes
- Season 2 September 1958 – June 1959 30 episodes
- Season 3 October 1959 – June 1960 26 episodes
- Season 4 September 1960 – June 1961 28 episodes
- Season 5 September 1961 – May 1962 30 episodes
- Season 6 September 1962 – May 1963 28 episodes
- Season 7 September 1963 – May 1964 30 episodes
- Season 8 September 1964 – May 1965 30 episodes
- Season 9 September 1965 – May 1966 30 episodes
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S02E01 The Case of the Corresponding Corpse
September 20 · 52min find the promo
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Perry receives a telephone call from George Beaumont, a man who supposedly died in a plane crash nearly three years before, and later ends up actually dead.
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S02E02 The Case of the Lucky Loser
September 27 · 52min find the promo
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Perry has all kinds of troubles in this one when a murder brings him into the tangled financial and personal affairs of the wealthy Balfour family.
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S02E03 The Case of the Pint-Sized Client
October 4 · 52min find the promo
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Robbers lift a bundle from the Hargrove Finance Company and Frank Anderson is murdered in the aftermath. Anthony "Pop" Renzi is identified as one of the robbers and charged with both the robbery and the murder. Perry sets out to clear him of both charges.
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S02E04 The Case of the Sardonic Sergeant
October 11 · 52min find the promo
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Major Frank Lessing, a payroll officer on an Army base, is found murdered and Sgt. Joseph Dexter is charged with the crime. The case hinges on a payroll robbery committed in the Phillippines years before. It seems as though some of the bills from that robbery were turning up on the base.
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S02E05 The Case of the Curious Bride
October 18 · 52min find the promo
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Rhoda Reynolds is charged with murdering her blackmailing ex-husband, Arthur Kane. At the trial, Perry moves the proceedings to the room in which Kane was murdered in order to re-enact the fatal night.
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S02E06 The Case of the Buried Clock
November 1 · 52min find the promo
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Slimy Jack Hardisty embezzles $100,000.00 from his father-in-law, Dr. Blane. The greedy Hardisty then tries to blackmail the good doctor for more. Perry is hired by Dr. Blane to put an end to Hardisty's machinations but before he can swing into action the rogue turns up dead.
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S02E07 The Case of the Married Moonlighter
November 8 · 52min find the promo
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A moonlighting school teacher is charged with the murder of a male acquaintence he had taken home after the acquaintence had earlier raised a disturbance at his night job at a cafe.
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S02E08 The Case of the Jilted Jockey
November 15 · 52min find the promo
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Jockey Tic Barton is in a mess of trouble. First he's fired when his horse loses a fixed race and then he's charged with murder after confronting Johnny Starr, the man actually responsible for the fix. And, oh yes, Tic's wife was having an affair with the murder victim. It's up to Perry to set things right.
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S02E09 The Case of the Purple Woman
December 6 · 52min find the promo
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An art collector, Rufus Varner, is told by a reputable art critic that one of his most prized art paintings "The Purple Woman" is a forgery. Varner visits the art dealer from whom he purchased the painting, Milo Girard. Later, Milo Girard is found dead in his office.
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S02E10 The Case of the Fancy Figures
December 13 · 52min find the promo
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Martin Ellis is sent to jail for stealing the sum of $300,000.00. Ellis is later exonerated thanks to evidence discovered by his wife and the real thief, Charles Brewster, is arrested for the theft. Brewster manages to get out of jail on bail but later turns up dead. Ellis is charged with the killing.
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S02E11 The Case of the Perjured Parrot
December 20 · 52min find the promo
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The courtroom action in this episode takes place at a coroner's inquest as a parrot holds the key to freeing suspect Ellen Sabin from blame in the murder of her husband.
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S02E12 The Case of the Shattered Dream
January 3 · 52min find the promo
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Sarah Werner asks Perry to find her husband, Hugo Werner, who ran off with her inheritance. Hugo, now using the name Hans Breel, is now working on a gem scam but his scheme backfires when he is murdered and Sarah is charged with the crime.
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S02E13 The Case of the Borrowed Brunette
January 10 · 52min find the promo
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Eva Martell is hired out of numerous candidates by Melvin Slater to impersonate a woman named Helen Reynolds. Eva is paid extremely well and given a nice apartment to live in with her Aunt Agnes as long as she continues with her impersonation. Both Eva and her aunt suspect a rat and seek Perry's advice. Then Melvin Slater turns up dead in the apartment.
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S02E14 The Case of the Glittering Goldfish
January 17 · 52min find the promo
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Rollins and Wyatt have discovered a cure for gill fever. As they plan to market the product, they find that Jack Huxley has bought the aquarium business and owns all patents and intellectual property. Huxley is murdered; Wyatt is charged.
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S02E15 The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll
January 24 · 52min find the promo
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Two troubled women, Millie Crest and Fern Driscoll, switch identities. Millie, posing as Fern, stabs shady private eye Carl Davis in the arm in self-defense. Davis then turns up dead from poisoning of the stab wound to his arm. Millie then gets Perry to help her in return for a 38 cent retainer.
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S02E16 The Case of the Fraudulent Foto
February 7 · 52min find the promo
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A District Attorney is charged with the murder of a chairman of the bids committee to a defectively built hospital whom he is investigating for a series of bribes being passed around.
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S02E17 The Case of the Romantic Rogue
February 14 · 52min find the promo
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An heiress to her uncle's fortune is charged with the murder of a female private investigator during a search for her missing uncle.
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S02E18 The Case of the Jaded Joker
February 21 · 52min find the promo
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Charles Goff is an advertising executive who promised comedian Danny Ross he would pitch him for a new show in return for an introduction with the president of a large big-budget advertiser. Danny does his part but learns from Goff's secretary that Goff landed the deal without him. When Charles Goff is found dead in his office the next morning, Danny's friend, Freddie Green, is accused of the murder.
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S02E19 The Case of the Caretaker's Cat
March 7 · 52min find the promo
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Wealthy Peter Baxter decides to test the loyalty of his heirs. He pretends to change his will cutting them all out and leaving his entire estate to groundskeeper, James Hing. Hing is then supposed to burn down Baxter's house and Baxter would substitute a medical cadaver for his own body. If any of the heirs contested the will, they would be disinherited. Hing does as he is instructed. He burns down the house, but the body discovered inside is really that of Peter Baxter. Perry tries to sort through this muddled mess and arrive at the truth.
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S02E20 The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
March 14 · 52min find the promo
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Bishop Arthur Mallory is met in his hotel room by Wallace Lang, an associate of a wealthy man named Charles Burroughs. He is warned through physical violence to stop looking for the real granddaughter of Charles Burroughs. Carol Delaney helps the bishop with his wounds and hears an incredible story that she may be the real granddaughter, Janice Burroughs. Carol is invited to meet Charles Burroughs and later the same night he is found dead.
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S02E21 The Case of the Lost Last Act
March 21 · 52min find the promo
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Playwright Ernest Royce is found shot to death in the same manner as a character in one of his unproduced plays. The play dealt with characters very close to real people and the real life murder of a New York underworld figure years before. Perry's client, Frank Brooks, is charged with Royce's murder and Perry must find the missing final act of the play in order to clear Brooks.
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S02E22 The Case of the Bedeviled Doctor
April 4 · 52min find the promo
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Dr. David Craig discovers that tapes of conversations with his psychiatric patients are missing and being used for blackmail purposes. When the suspected thief and blackmailer, Mark Douglas, turns up murdered, the good doctor is charged with the crime.
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S02E23 The Case of the Howling Dog
April 11 · 52min find the promo
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Evelyn Forbes escapes from a mental institution only to be charged with murder. The key to the case is a dog that continues to howl no matter what.
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S02E24 The Case of the Calendar Girl
April 18 · 52min find the promo
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A building contractor is charged with the murder of a wealthy political Mr.fix-it.
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S02E25 The Case of the Petulant Partner
April 25 · 52min find the promo
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Harry Bright and Chuck Clark were once best friends and business partners until Margaret entered the picture. Margaret was a much younger woman on the make who entranced Chuck into marrying her. When Margaret is found shot to death, Harry is arrested for the crime but the more Perry digs into the victim's past the more convoluted things get.
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S02E26 The Case of the Dangerous Dowager
May 9 · 52min find the promo
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Matilda Benson is a tough old broad who rules her children with an iron hand and the promises in her will. Her family then gets involved in a gambling scandal involving sinister nightclub owner Danny Barker. When Barker is found dead the scandal expands to include murder.
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S02E27 The Case of the Deadly Toy
May 16 · 52min find the promo
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Martin Selkirk is a major league rotter who wants Claire Allison in the worst way even though she's dating Dirk Benedict. Selkirk has Dirk's jaw broken and begins sending Claire threatening mail. Then Selkirk is murdered in his beach house and Claire is arrested for the crime. Perry takes the case and finds that the evidence points in the direction of Selkirk's five year old son. Or does it?
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S02E28 The Case of the Spanish Cross
May 30 · 52min find the promo
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Young Jimmy Morrow can't seem to catch a break. Already on probation for car theft he's charged with stealing a valuable Spanish cross and killing its owner. Perry feels sorry for the kid and decides to take the case.
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S02E29 The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom
June 13 · 52min find the promo
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Perry returns to his office late one night and finds an attractive woman climbing into his balcony window. She claims to be Virginia Colfax, the secretary of Ed Garvin who has an office next door to Perry's. Ms. Colfax says that she climbed into Perry's office in order to escape from Garvin's hot tempered wife but Perry later learns that Garvin is married to two women. Garvin and second wife Lorrie are sent to Mexico by Perry until he can clear up the matter but when Garvin's first wife, Ethel, is murdered there's an even bigger mess on the scene. And just who in the world is Virginia Colfax, the woman climbing in the window?
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S02E30 The Case of the Lame Canary
June 27 · 52min find the promo
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Ruth Prescott wants to divorce Walter Prescott so that she can be with her true love, Jimmy MacLaine. After a brush with death, Ruth becomes convinced that Walter is trying to kill her rather than give her the divorce. Walter then turns up dead and the police are convinced that Ruth shot him.