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#170: The Case of the
Libelous Locket
Original Airdate: 02/07/63

Summary Edit

From The Perry Mason TV Show Book
Law professor Edward Lindley (Michael Rennie) believes that a good trial lawyer is a combination of jackass and parrot. Seriously, though, he has great respect for men like Perry Mason and gets some practical experience of his own when a student of his confesses to having killed a man.

Janice Norland claims to have killed a blackmailing dance instructor, Raul Perez, by hitting him with a poker. Lindley checks her story and finds no body. Since Perry is still unavailable, the law professor takes on Janice's case and winds up in court when Raul really is killed.

The police discover that Raul was using a radio-activated camera to gather blackmail material, a fact that works against Janice. One of those photos shows her standing over Raul's dead body. It's a curious case, made even stranger by the fact that Janice's mother was the real object of Raul's schemes.

Credits Edit

Cast

Michael Rennie as Prof. Edward Lindley
Patrice Wymore as Maureen Norland
Ruta Lee as Vivian Cosgrave
John Hoyt as Darwin Norland
Harry von Zell as Sidney Hawes
Patricia Manning as Janice Norland
Carlos Romero as Raul Perez
Dan Seymour as Pedro Dias
S. John Launer as Judge
Michael Fox as Physician
Nacho Galindo as Hotel Owner
John Harmon as Fingerprint Expert
Norman Leavitt as Technician
Robert Howard as Young Man
Paul Maxey as Plump Man
Jose Gonzales Gonzales as Taximan
Lee Miller as Sgt. Brice
Robert Koff as Male Student
Kathryn Hart as Maid

Trivia Edit

Anomaly: Carlos Romero, listed as Raul Perez, is called Reyo in the show.

Did you catch that line from Lt. Andy about "the Martian nine feet tall?" Could this be a reference to Michael Rennie's famous film The Day the Earth Stood Still? Submitted by Mitch English, 1/19/2005.

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