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#131: The Case of the
Travelling Treasure
Original Airdate: 11/04/61

Summary Edit

From The Perry Mason TV Show Book (Revised)
Perry is all set to go deep-sea fishing with Paul aboard the Viajero II, a fishing boat out of San Diego owned by Perry’s friend Scot Cahill. But when Cahill’s regular customer has the boat for the weekend, Perry has to charter another boat. Later, Perry gets a ship-to-shore phone call from Scot. The Coast Guard, acting on a tip, boarded the Viajero II looking for gold stolen from the Alchemy Mine. They found some bullion-and a dead man, Karl Magovern. Later, the autopsy reveals the stiff was killed with a fatal dose of digitalis. Worse, the police charge Scot with the murder, thinking he and the murdered man were partners in stealing the gold bullion.

Credits Edit

Trailing

Directed by Arthur Marks
Written by Robb White

“Perry Mason”
Art Seid | Producer
Gail Patrick Jackson | Executive Producer
Jackson Gillis | Associate Producer
Produced by The CBS Television Network in association with Paisano Productions
Samuel Newman | Story Consultant

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

Cast

Jeff York as Scot Cahill
Lisa Gaye as Rita Magovern
Arch Johnson as Karl Magovern
H. M. Wynant as Max
Vaughn Taylor as Prof. Sneider
Ron Kennedy as Ben Wylie
Jack Searl as Leon Ulrich
Addison Richards as Smith
Baynes Barron as Charlie Bender
Hardie Albright as Jones
Frank Gerstle as Allen
Richard Adams as Jaygee
Jim Drum as Ambulance Driver
Nacho Galindo as Mexican Bartender
Robert Whiting as Assistant
Gil Frye as Police Officer
Lee Miller as Sgt. Brice
Tony Miller as Second Seaman
Richard Geary as First Seaman
Tom Harkness as Judge
Lionel Dante as Watchman

Uncredited Actors:
Don Anderson as Captain Andrews
Frank Mills as Courtroom Spectator (from IMDb)

Crew

Technical Advisor … Cmdr. Robert C. Cannon, USCGR

Director of Photography … Robert G. Hager
Art Direction … Lewis Creber
Assistant Director … Gordon Webb
Film Editor … Richard H. Cahoon, A.C.E.
Casting … Harvey Clermont
Makeup … Irving Pringle
Hair Stylist … Annabell
Wardrobe Supervision … Ed McDermott, Evelyn Carruth
Set Decoration … Charles Q. Vassar
Properties … Ray Thompson
Production Sound Mixer … Herman Lewis
Script Supervision … M.E.M. Gibsone
Titles and Opticals … Pacific Title

Perry Mason \ A Film Presentation
A CBS Television Network Production

Trivia Edit

Watch the service ribbons on that Coast Guard lieutenant after he finds the victim on the fishing boat. Submitted by Tom Lewis, 11/17/2004.

Nearly positive about this…Perry and Paul are deep-sea fishing off the back of a boat. Perry gets a bite and we see a Marlin jumping and skipping across the water. That clip of the fish is from the Bogart/Bacall movie To Have and Have Not. By odd coincidence, we saw the episode and the movie on the same day! Submitted by email by Mike Fried, 11/8/2007. Posted by daveb 3/3/2008. A video clip and pictures can be found here.

Sightings: The Pencil Mustache Man appears in the courtroom sitting in the row behind Perry in the seat nearest the window. Submitted by Kenmore, 9/19/2010.
+ In a couple of cutaways to the coutroom gallery, we catch glimpses of the Little Old Lady in a Hat and of “Sasha Magaloff. Read more about all the favorite frequent faces. Submitted by gracenote, 6/17/2011.

Uncredited Actors: Don Anderson appears as Captain Andrews, the charter boat skipper recommended by Capt. Cahill when he has to cancel his charter with Perry and Paul. Capt. Andrews calls Mason to the radiophone to take Cahill’s call, but the voice was dubbed by another actor. Submitted by FredK, 3 Nov 2010.

The footage of Perry and Paul fishing off the stern of the boat and Don Anderson calling Perry to the phone [see above item] seems to have been lifted and reused in episode #229, TCOT Telltale Trap. Submitted by FredK, 15 Nov 2010.

Karl Magovern lives at 167 Carillo, a street near the triangle where San Vicente meets Olympic, just south of West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, a street with entertainment and talent agencies. But the addresses there do not include 167. Submitted by cgraul, 11/2/2011.

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