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#106: The Case of the
Red Riding Boots
Original Airdate: 12/10/60

Summary Edit

From The Perry Mason TV Show Book (Revised)
Ann Farwell is distraught over her parents’ divorce. Matters are complicated for Ann when her father starts seeing Rita Conover, a woman not much older than herself.

When Rita is murdered, Ann and her mother each think the other one did it, even though their ranch hand is the accused. They cover for each other during the trial.

Richard Deacon, the long-suffering producer Mel Cooley of The Dick Van Dyke Show, plays Wilmer Beaslee in this episode.

Credits Edit

Opening

Starring Raymond Burr
in The Case of THE RED RIDING BOOTS
Based upon characters created by Erle Stanley Gardner

Barbara Hale as Della Street
William Hopper as Paul Drake
Ray Collins as Lt. Tragg

Trailing

Directed by Laslo Bendek
Written by Harold Swanton
Seeleg Lester | Producer
Gail Patrick Jackson | Executive Producer
Arthur Marks | Associate Producer
Produced by The CBS Television Network in association with Paisano Productions
Jackson Gillis | Story Consultant

Raymond Burr as Perry Mason
Barbara Hale as Della Street
William Hopper as Paul Drake
Ray Collins as Lt. Tragg

Cast

Corey Allen as Rennie Foster
H. M. Wynant as Deputy D.A. Sampson
Frank Maxwell as Joe Dixon
Elen Willard as Ann Farwell
Linda Leighton as Jill Farwell
John Archer as Burt Farwell
Shirley Ballard as Rita Conover
Willis B. Bouchey as Judge
Richard Deacon as Wilmer Beaslee
Sara Seegar as Miss Pennock
Reba Waters as Kathy Jergens
Bill Idelson as Autopsy Surgeon
George E. Stone as Court Clerk
Michael Harris as Deputy Sheriff

Uncredited Actors

Don Anderson as {	Sheriff’s Deputy
	Bailiff

Lee Miller as Sgt. Brice

Robert Wegner as {	Courtroom Spectator
	Bailiff

Crew

Art Seid, A.C.E. | Assistant to the Producer
Production Supervisor … Dewey Starkey
Director of Photography … Frank Redman, A.S.C.
Art Direction … Lewis Creber
Assistant Director … Robert G. Stone
Film Editor … Richard H. Cahoon, A.C.E.
Casting … Harvey Clermont
Makeup … Dave Grayson
Hair Stylist … Annabell, S.C.H.
Wardrobe Supervision … William Zacha, Evelyn Carruth
Set Decoration … Charles Q. Vassar
Sound Effects Editor … Gene Eliot, M.P.S.E.
Music Editor … Gene Feldman
Properties … Ray Thompson
Production Sound Mixer … Herman Lewis
Script Supervision … M.E.M. Gibsone
Sound … Glen Glenn Sound Co.
Titles and Opticals … Pacific Title

Perry Mason \ A Film Presentation
A CBS Television Network Production

Trivia Edit

Sightings: Distinguished Gentleman #1 and the Little Old Lady in a Hat grace the viewer with their presence in the courtroom gallery, along with the Quiet Old Man (#1) and “Miss Carmody”. Read more about them and other regulars on the Who Is That? page, and why we care! Submitted by gracep 10/27/2010.
+ Room for one more! We can see “Sasha Magaloff” when the D.A. and Mason are quarrelling over Rennie’s record. Submitted by gracenote 2/14/2011. + Distinguished Gentleman #1 is also one of the surprised bystanders who watch the police take Rennie away. Submitted by gracenote, 7/4/2011.

Uncredited Actors: Ryamond Burr’s stand-in, Lee Miller, appears as Sgt. Brice, walking in with Joe Dixon. Although Lt. Tragg addresses Brice (when he asks for Dixon’s statement), he has no lines (ergo no credit). Robert Wegner returns as a courtroom spectator, scowling silently as usual. Continuity: But then in a later part of the hearing he reemerges as a bailiff! Submitted by gracep, 10/28/2010.
+ Gracep is correct in spotting Don Anderson as the bailiff seated near the court clerk. He also escorts Joe Dixon out of court at the recess and sits outside the conference room as Mason and Dixon (hah!) talk. But Don is also one of the two sheriff’s deputies who stop Dixon's car and discover the body. His partner gets all the lines. Submitted by FredK, 3 Nov 2010.

Tonight’s episode is one of the few in which George E. Stone as the court clerk speaks! Submitted by gracep, 10/28/2010.

The tattersall vest worn by Wilmer Beaslee (Richard Deacon) appears to be the same one that was worn by a number of actors in various episodes, most notably Erik Rhodes in #119, “TCOT Violent Vest.” Submitted by FredK, 3 Nov 2010.

Comments Edit

This episode has one of the series’ strangest lines (and to my mind, one of the most amusing) near the beginning of the episode. As the decidedly callipygian Rita Conover, clad in tight pants, is shown walking away, Rennie compares her to a taffy machine! Must have something to do with the push-pull, back-and-forth nature of it all, but it’s odd no matter how you interpret it. Submitted by Ed Zoerner, 4/29/10.

+A hint that Ray Collins was not well at the time: he sits through most of his scenes. Submitted by Francis. 10 June 2011.

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