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#227: The Case of the
Thermal Thief
Original Airdate: 01/14/65

Summary Edit

From The Perry Mason TV Show Book
This is another unusual episode. It finds Perry away in Europe on business, and movie star Barry Sullivan playing his friend, lawyer Ken Kramer.

Kramer has a strange case on his hands. A woman named Lola hired him to bail out a female thief named Maxine, who had stolen a $50,000 necklace from Lola's stepsister, Amy Reid. Amy happens to be the widow of a prominent yachtsman who drowned in the Catalina Channel four years before. Lola's motive for freeing Maxine is to learn where she got the combination to Amy's safe. Members of Amy's household think Lola was in on the robbery, and so do the police after they discover Maxine shot to death in a children's playground.

Ken doesn't agree. He believes Maxine knew Amy's husband before he drowned.

Credits Edit

Cast

Barry Sullivan as Ken Kramer
Bettye Ackerman as Amy Reid
Burt Metcalfe as Jeff Mills
Kathie Browne as Lona Upton
Robert Strauss as Pete Kamboly
Richard Eastham as Roland Canfield
Nina Shipman as Maxine Nichols
Joyce Van Patten as Fay Gilmer
Noel Drayton as Mr. Costelni
Dick Whittinghill as Barman
Irene Martin as First Girl
Mimi Dillard as Second Girl
Mark Tapscott as First Officer
John Hart as Dion
Don Lynch as Third Officer
Harlan Warde as Desk Sergeant
Joan Sudlow as Stella (Maid)
Lee Miller as Sgt. Brice

Trivia Edit

Anomaly: Joyce Van Patten, listed as Fay Gilmer, is called Gilmore by several people.

S. John Launer plays the judge but is not credited even though he has lines. Submitted by daveb, date unknown.

The yacht featured in the Dion home movie still exists! Read more here. Submitted by D. A. Supernaw, 2/8/07.

Location: A swimming pool next to a marina is seen in the home movies of Dion near the beginning of this episode. This is at the Long Beach Yacht Club at 6201 Appian Way. See here. Submitted by D. A. Supernaw, 4/26/05. Updated 2/11/07.

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