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#248: The Case of the
Hasty Honeymooner
Original Airdate: 10/24/65

Summary Edit

From The Perry Mason TV Show Book
Lucas Tolliver has come to California from Oklahoma to meet the woman he was matched up with by a computer dating service. Lucas is pretending to be a poor country hick, but he really owns a great deal of property, including some oil wells. The rich widow he's matched up with agrees to marry him and the jubilant bridegroom asks his friend Terrence Clay for the name of a good lawyer.

Clay suggests Mason and Lucas asks him to draw up a will for his future bride, Millie Barton. Perry is suspicious of Lucas and has Paul check him out. It turns out that Lucas was married before and his previous wife died from eating poisonous wild greens and left him her fortune. It looks as though Lucas is setting up Millie, especially after she dies at a party after drinking poisoned lemonade that Lucas served her.

Credits Edit

Cast

Noah Beery as Lucas Tolliver
K. T. Stevens as Alice Munford
Hugh Marlowe as Guy Munford
Cathy Downs as Millicent Barton
Richard Evans as Larry Dunlap
Strother Martin as Roy Hutchinson
Robert Colbert as Carl Snell
Mark Tapscott as Sgt. Woodward
Al Checco as Medical Examiner
William Keene as Judge
Thom Carney as Salesman
Lee Miller as Sgt. Brice

Trivia Edit

The car that Lucas Tolliver (Noah Beery) drives to the ranch is not the same car that he parks in front of the house. Note the location of the side mirror in this side by side picture. Submitted by Gary Delozier, 1/9/02.

The reason the car is different (see above) is because that driving scene was lifted from #192, TCOT Bouncing Boomerang. Pictures here. Submitted by Adam Kamil, 8/2/07.

Hugh Marlowe and K. T. Stevens, who played Guy and Alice Munford, were married to each other in real life at the time of the show. Submitted by Mitch English, 5/8/05.

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