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#177: The Case of the
Elusive Element
Original Airdate: 04/11/63

Summary Edit

From The Perry Mason TV Show Book
This is another story of partners who don't trust each other. Austin Lloyd and Dwight Garrett are partners in a reliability testing firm. But Garrett wants out when he learns that Lloyd is swindling, a large aerospace company.

Faced with the dissolution of the partnership and knowing that his wife Bonnie is in love with Garrett, Lloyd plans to fake a poisoning attempt on his life, making it look as though Garrett and Bonnie tried to kill him so they could run away to Mexico. But Lloyd really does die. Perry is convinced that Garrett is innocent.

Credits Edit

Cast

Gloria Talbott as Bonnie Lloyd
Gerald Mohr as Austin Lloyd
Douglas Henderson as Dwight Garrett
George Macready as Roscoe Pearce
Douglas Dick as Ned Chase
Ronald Long as Myron Baker
Elaine Devry as Terry Clover
S. John Launer as Judge
Jon Lormer as Autopsy Surgeon
Tommy Farrell as Robert Fordney
Billy Halop as Man
Ollie O'Toole as Grocery Clerk
Ray Dannis as Radio Salesman
Michael Harris as Sgt. Bruce
Guy Standing III as Airline Clerk
Harry Fleer as Bank Teller

Trivia Edit

In the office, after the first scene in court, Perry reveals some poetic depth and doth quote "I am a little world made cunningly of elements." This is from Holy Sonnet V by John Donne. Submitted by Steve Fox, 12/22/04.

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