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#19: The Case of the
Haunted Husband
Original Airdate: 01/25/58

Summary Edit

From The Perry Mason TV Show Book
Hitchhiker Claire Olger is charged with grand theft auto and manslaughter when the driver of the car she's riding in hits a truck, killing the truck driver, then flees the scene, leaving Claire to take the blame.

Perry agrees to help Claire and eventually does locate the missing driver. Trouble is, he's dead. Burger drops the previous charges against Claire and files a new one: first degree murder. A second murder only complicates things more.

Credits Edit

Cast

Karen Steele as Doris Stephanak
Grant Richards as Jerry Heywood
Patricia Hardy as Claire Olger
Fredd Wayne as Tanner
Helen Westcott as Marcia Greeley
John Hubbard as Michael Greeley
Harlan Warde as Harold Hanley
Herb Vigran as Charlie (Bartender)
Sydney Smith as Judge
Jack Gargan as Court Clerk

Trivia Edit

CARS: 1957 Lincoln, 4dr sedan, black. From The Cars by Greg Cockerill.

"At the end of The Case of the Haunted Husband, Lt. Tragg moans, 'Oy gevalt' when Mason explains how he cracked the case. This a Yiddish expression that translates as a combination of amazing and awful." Any other examples of Yiddish in the series? Submitted by Rabbi Mayer Schiller, 7/23/07.

It rains in this show so we get a chance to view Perry's stylish raincoat. Note the handsome checked lining.

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