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#212: The Case of the
Missing Button
Original Airdate: 09/24/64

Summary Edit

From The Perry Mason TV Show Book
Or maybe "The Case of Button, Button, Who's Got The Button?"

Janice and Dirk Blake are divorced. They are presently firing opening rounds in a custody battle over their daughter Button, who has inherited $4 million from her grandfather.

Dirk takes the low road and hides Button aboard a boat owned by Vince Rome. But Perry and Paul manage to locate the girl. The case then goes to court, and the judge awards temporary custody of Button to her cousins, Lois and Roger Gray. But Vince Rome has a plan--involving no less than theft, blackmail, and hints of illicit sex--to cut himself in on the $4 million pie. When Dirk learns of this scheme, he goes to the boat and fights with Rome. A gun goes off and Rome is hit. The next day his body is found, but Dirk swears Rome was alive when he left. Perry believes him.

Credits Edit

Cast

Julie Adams as Janice Blake
Ed Nelson as Dirk Blake
Claire Wilcox as Button Blake
Dee Hartford as Lois Gray
Anthony Eisley as Vince Rome
Otto Kruger as Judge Norris
Alan Baxter as Roger Gray
Lysa D'Anjou as Naomi Sutherland
Mike Mazurki as Cully Barstow
Stanley Adams as Pancho Morado
David Macklin as Mike Sommers
Charles Irving as Judge Blanchard
Ruth Packard as Miss Smithers
Garland Thompson as Lab Expert
Pitt Herbert as Coroner's Physician
Jean MacRae as Woman At Motel
Robert Riordan as Janice's Lawyer
Joe Dominguez as Bartender
Lee Miller as Sgt. Brice
Richard Geary as Scuba Diver

Trivia Edit

Location: The early scene where Perry and Paul walk down a ramp to a dock on their way to the Blue Nymph sailboat was filmed near the Alamitos Bay Marine Bureau building. See here. Submitted by D. A Supernaw, 3/17/05.

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