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#103: The Case of the
Provocative Protege
Original Airdate: 11/12/60

Summary Edit

From The Perry Mason TV Show Book
A washed-up concert pianist is clubbed and pushed over a cliff for the insurance money. Perry must clear the pianist's protégé of any suspicion.

Credits Edit

Cast

Virginia Field as Anita Carpenter
Robert Lowery as Andrew Collis
Kathie Browne as Donna Loring
Robert Karnes as Deputy D.A. Chamberlin
Charles D. Cooper as Eric Sturgis
Gregory Morton as David Carpenter
Harry Jackson as George Worthington
Donald Foster as James Gracie
Barry Cahill as Sgt. Binns
Morris Ankrum as Judge
Jon Lormer as Autopsy Surgeon
George E. Stone as Court Clerk
Cindy Courtland as Alice

Trivia Edit

Anomaly: Kathie Browne is listed as Donna Loring but is called Donna Ross. [Tom Rankin]

When Perry visits Donna just ahead of Tragg, she is playing a classical piece on the piano. Perry can't "quite place it." Later, Perry writes a note to Donna in jail and comments to Della that "I just remembered the title to a beautiful Beethoven overture." The title in the note looks like "Fidelis" but it's "Fidelio" (compare the "o" to the "s" above) as is confirmed in the closing scene. Now, Fidelio is an opera and does have an overture but isn't this an odd piece for piano solo? So what was Donna playing? Submitted by Steve Fox, 10/20/04.

In the office scene where Perry is dictating to Della from a book, when he says "California State Penal Code, section 1362, dealing in competency as evidence when witness uh...," he is speaking of an actual and appropriate section of the CSPC. Submitted by Steve Fox, 10/20/04.

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