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#155: The Case of the
Capricious Corpse
Original Airdate: 10/04/62

Summary Edit

From The Perry Mason TV Show Book
When Carleton Gage lapses into a coma, two of his beneficiaries threaten to close the orphanage he supported.

Carleton's wife and sister-in-law plan to keep the orphanage open but their good intentions are complicated by Carleton's murder.

Credits Edit

Cast

John Howard as Dr. Guy Omstead
Jacques Aubuchon as George Gage
Lee Farr as Nicholas Blake
Lori March as Olive Omstead
Jan Shepard as Joane Proctor
Jean Engstrom as Claudia Demming
Dennis Rush as Timmy
Evelyn Ward as Nurse Evelyn King
John Pickard as Detective Boykins
Teru Shimada as Ito Kumagi
Willis Bouchey as Judge
June Ellis as Chambermaid
Herbert Patterson as Auto Engineer
Ed Stoddard as Police Chemist
Alex Bookston as Druggist
Richard Geary as Diver
Everett Glass as Carleton Gage
Gilbert Frye as Desk Clerk
John Morley as Ernest Demming
William Hines as Waiter

Trivia Edit

Comments Edit

Is the happy ending really appropriate here? Perry clears his client, of course, but in a way that it seems the inheritance should fall to the loathsome George Gage, who wants to close the children's foundation. So the cheerful softball game at the end here might be out of place! Submitted by Ed Zoerner, 4/25/09.

+Juvenile actor Dennis Rush makes his only Perry appearance here as Timmy. Dennis Rush is best known for his 8 appearances as Howie Pruitt, one of Opie Taylor's friends on the long running Andy Griffith Show. Submitted by PaulDrake 33. 24 November 2009.

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