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#151: The Case of the
Ancient Romeo
Original Airdate: 05/05/62

Summary Edit

From The Perry Mason TV Show Book
A night at the theater proves fatal. The lights mysteriously go out during the dueling scene between Romeo and Paris. When the lights come back on, the audience is shocked to see that the leading man playing Romeo has been stabbed to death. Perry's actor friend, Steve Brock, is accused of the murder, so the lawyer goes behind the scenes to investigate the cast of characters.

Perry decides to have the cast reenact the final scene that was played before "Romeo's" death to upstage the killer. When the action begins, this play begins to look more like Macbeth than Romeo and Juliet.

Credits Edit

Cast

Jeff Morrow as Franz Lachman
Rex Reason as Steve Brock
Harry von Zell as Phil Scharf
Patricia Huston as Claire Adams
Antoinette Bower as Ellen Carson
Wesley Lau as Lt. Anderson
K. T. Stevens as Margit Bruner
Kendrick Huxham as Kelvin MacRae
Robert Cornthwaite as Carl Bruner
Willis Bouchey as Judge
Donald Curtis as Amos Martin
Stafford Repp as Shipping Agent
Rosemary Day as Helen Finney
Charles Stroud as Court Clerk

Trivia Edit

+Harry von Zell makes his first of two appearances here on Perry playing Phil Scharf. Harry von Zell was a prolific old time radio announcer, most notably for George Burns, following him to television. Harry von Zell will forever be remembered as the announcer who introduced the 31st President of the United States as Hoobert Heever. Submitted by PaulDrake 33. 12 August 2009.

The following commercials were shown during this episode's initial broadcast: Brought to you By (BTYB): Gleem Toothpaste commercial with Ken Wetherwax (Pugsly from the "Addams Family"); Prell Concentrate Shampoo; Loving Care hair color; Tarryton Cigarettes; Philips Milk of Magnesia; [Bayer card in credits] BTYB: Bayer and Philips Mike of Magnesia; CBS TV tag. Submitted by billp. 25 October 2009

Location: About 30 minutes in Perry and Paul visit Amos Martin. I think the rock formation when they drive up is of Upper Iverson Ranch. Since there was a similar scene in the previous episode #150 I am going to speculate that they filmed both at the same time to save money. If not that should have. Ha. Upper Iverson was used numerous times by Perry Mason as well as shows like Roy Rogers and many westerns. However, Perry's confrontation with Amos Martin seems to be shot in the studio and intercut with location footage. Submitted by Eric Cooper 5 May 2010.

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