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#209: The Case of the
Drifting Dropout
Original Airdate: 05/07/64

Summary Edit

From The Perry Mason TV Show Book
Barry Davis, a college-dropout-turned-drifter, has problems keeping steady employment. Mayoral candidate/junk dealer Mort Lynch, once a friend of Barry's uncle, feels he owes the kid a favor and gives him a job.

Barry is still negative on meaningful labor, however. He quits his new job but quickly gets another, working as a reporter for a newspaper publisher who has a grudge against Mort Lynch. But when in the course of his reporting Barry learns that his uncle was a crook, he grows despondent. Things get worse when someone crushes Mort's skull with a monkey wrench, which is found in Barry's car.

Credits Edit

Cast

Cynthia Pepper as Annalee Fisher
Malcolm Atterbury as Dell Harper
Carl Reindel as Barry Davis
Vaughn Taylor as Sanford Harper
Natalie Norwick as Miss Standish
Ted de Corsia as Mort Lynch
Neil Hamilton as Grove Dillingham
Blair Davis as Prosecutor
Harry Holcombe as Judge
House Peters, Jr. as Plainclothesman
Don Haggerty as Police Chief
Alex Montoya as Neighbor
Seamon Glass as Officer

Trivia Edit

Paul examines a counterfeit $10 bill. Later, Perry looks over the plate used by the counterfeiters. Oops! Maybe not. See here. Submitted by Markus Raab, 3/8/03.

Additional information regarding the the printing plate has come to light! Use the link above to see it. Submitted by Roger Kirk, 1/1/04, and Charles Richmond, 6/6/04.

Location: Much if not all of the beach scenes were shot at Leo Carrillo State Beach in Malibu, CA. The final scene has them parked on the beach access road with PCH (barely visible)running horizontally and Mulholland Highway bisecting it in the background. Submitted by Eric Cooper and Linda Shockley 23 July 2010.

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