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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S03E01 The Case of the Spurious Sister
October 3 · 53min find the promo
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Bruce Chapman returns home early from a business trip to find that his wife, Marie, wants a divorce. Chapman is shocked at this turn of events because just before he left on his trip he thought he had found the strangled body of Marie in his office. But if Marie is still alive, who was the dead woman in the office?
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S03E02 The Case of the Watery Witness
October 10 · 52min find the promo
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Lorna Thomas is a has-been actress who once gave up her baby for adoption and lived to regret it. George Clark discovers that his wife might be Lorna's long-lost daughter and begins to see dollar signs.
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S03E03 The Case of the Garrulous Gambler
October 17 · 53min find the promo
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Larry Benton is a hard luck guy. When he gets in an argument in a poker game and knocks Mike Granger out cold, his "friends" inform him that Granger is dead. Unbeknownst to Larry, the entire scenario is a scam to shake him down for money. Ring leader, Johnny Clay, ends up dead.
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S03E04 The Case of the Blushing Pearls
October 24 · 51min find the promo
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Mitsuo Kamuri has been seeing a great deal of Grover Nichols, son of wealthy businessman Hudson Nichols. Nichols doesn't approve of his son's relationship, and when Mitsuo is "caught" with a string of valuable pearls belonging to Mrs. Nichols, he agrees to drop all charges provided she stops seeing his son. Things then get even more complicated when Mitsuo's uncle is found murdered.
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S03E05 The Case of the Startled Stallion
October 31 · 53min find the promo
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Wealthy rancher John Brant forecloses on Jo Ann Blanchard's mortgage and takes possession of her prized stallion. Jo Ann goes to Perry for help in getting the horse back but soon needs Perry's aid in getting her off a murder charge she is arrested for killing Brant.
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S03E06 The Case of Paul Drake's Dilemma
November 14 · 52min find the promo
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Frank Thatcher is involved in a hit-and-run accident but does not report it. He uses Paul Drake to take care of the aftermath of the incident. Later, Thatcher is found dead in the same apartment with Paul, after he wakes up—and Paul’s accused of the murder.
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S03E07 The Case of the Golden Fraud
November 21 · 52min find the promo
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Richard Vanaman is up for a promotion at his investment firm but is sabotaged and framed for murder.
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S03E08 The Case of the Bartered Bikini
December 5 · 52min find the promo
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Wally Dunbar seeks Perry's help in securing ownership of his new summer line of swimwear but the sketches are stolen and worse yet, chief designer Rick Stassi is murdered. Wally's girlfriend, Kitty Wynne, who was being blackmailed by Stassi goes to trial for his murder.
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S03E09 The Case of the Artful Dodger
December 12 · 53min find the promo
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Allen Sheridan has more enemies than you can shake a stick at—and he's due to inherit the healthy sum of $162,000.00. When Allen turns up dead, his cousin Sarette becomes the prime suspect.
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S03E10 The Case of the Lucky Legs
December 19 · 52min find the promo
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Marjorie Cluny wins a contest for best looking legs sponsored by Frank Patton of Stellar Productions. Her prize is a trip to Hollywood and a role in Patton's next picture. Unfortunately, there was fine print in Marjorie's contract and her Hollywood career lasts only two days. Patton is then found stabbed to death with a woodcarving instrument . Marjorie disappears and becomes the leading suspect.
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S03E11 The Case of the Violent Village
January 2 · 51min find the promo
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Perry goes on a fishing trip in a small Sierra Nevada town with his old friend, Sheriff Gene Norris but, as usual, manages to get sidetracked into another murder case when Phil Beecher returns from jail.
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S03E12 The Case of the Frantic Flyer
January 9 · 53min find the promo
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A double cross, a double murder, a plane crash, missing money, and yet another innocent widow charged with crimes she didn't commit are the elements of this case.
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S03E13 The Case of the Wayward Wife
January 23 · 53min find the promo
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Ben Sutton is listed as the author of a best-selling book describing his experiences in a Korean POW camp. When the real author is released from an Army hospital, Sutton is slain before he can tell the truth and his widow is arrested for the murder.
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S03E14 The Case of the Prudent Prosecutor
January 30 · 52min find the promo
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DA Hamilton Burger asks Perry to defend an old friend who once saved his life in a boating accident ten years before. The old friend of Burger's is now facing a murder charge.
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S03E15 The Case of the Gallant Grafter
February 6 · 53min find the promo
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Corporate intrigue is the backdrop of this episode, when embezzling accountant Robert Doniger is murdered and Edward Nelson is charged with his murder.
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S03E16 The Case of the Wary Wildcatter
February 20 · 53min find the promo
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Charles Houston cleverly gets away with killing his wife by making it look like she died in a car accident. Then a wildlife photographer shows up with the murder on film, and Charles discovers that his sister-in-law has squandered all the profits from his oil well.
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S03E17 The Case of the Mythical Monkeys
February 27 · 51min find the promo
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Author Mauvis Meade sends her secretary, Gladys Doyle, out to a mountain cabin to pick up a package. Gladys gets lost and her car gets stuck in the mud. She then walks to a cabin looking for help and encounters a mysterious man who appears to know her. While Gladys freshens up, the man leaves and Gladys discovers a dead body.
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S03E18 The Case of the Singing Skirt
March 12 · 52min find the promo
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The Big Barn is a gambling casino run by George Anclitis. Things are going well at the Big Barn, until George's second banana, Slim Marcus, botches a crooked card game and is exposed for cheating. Slim's girlfriend, Vivan Ennis, is then murdered.
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S03E19 The Case of the Bashful Burro
March 26 · 53min find the promo
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Perry arrives in the gold mining town of Placer City looking for an old prospector to subpoena for testimony. He then get involved in a murder case when one of the participants in a barroom fight is found killed and the other is accused of the crime.
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S03E20 The Case of the Crying Cherub
April 9 · 51min find the promo
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A valuable Matisse painting is stolen from a museum. When the thief is found murdered museum employee June Sinclair and her boyfriend David Lambert are charged with the crime.
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S03E21 The Case of the Nimble Nephew
April 23 · 52min find the promo
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Mason is sought out by land tycoon Adam Thompson, who suspects one of his nephews of rifling the house safe. The twist? The land tycoon's next in command is found dead, after it's found out that he was the one stealing the secrets.
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S03E22 The Case of the Madcap Modiste
April 30 · 53min find the promo
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After one of the biggest names in fashion is poisoned after embarassing her husband on TV, the husband is not rightly the prime suspect.
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S03E23 The Case of the Slandered Submarine
May 14 · 53min find the promo
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Commander Jerome Burke is assisting the police in the investigation of the murder of a café singer. Later, Commander James Page is found dead in the captain's quarters of the Navy submarine, MORAY. Robert Chapman, a sailor who was married to the deceased singer, is accused of both murders.
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S03E24 The Case of the Ominous Outcast
May 21 · 52min find the promo
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When a notorious bank robber's son returns to his hometown it seems as though everyone is interested in missing loot supposedly hidden by the man's father. This leads to murder. Perry comes to the rescue once again.
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S03E25 The Case of the Irate Inventor
May 28 · 53min find the promo
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James Frazer wants a divorce and his cheating wife refuses to give him one. She's also stealing the plans to his invention in order to bait her engineer lover into staying around. Frazer leaves town for three months in order to cool down, but on the night of his return he finds his wife murdered in his office—and he has the only key to a unique, burglar-proof lock that he invented.
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S03E26 The Case of the Flighty Father
June 11 · 53min find the promo
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18 year-old Trudy's mother has died leaving her $10 million and suddenly men claiming to be her long-lost father are coming into town. The only one who could identify the real father, a blind uncle, is killed, but by who?