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#253: The Case of the
Fugitive Fraulein
Original Airdate: 11/28/65

Summary Edit

From The Perry Mason TV Show Book
Physicist Hans Ritter has been contacted by the Soviet Union and told that his six-year-old granddaughter is living in an East Berlin orphanage. If he'll return to East Germany and work for the Communists, little Elke will be released to Ritter's wife.

Perry agrees to negotiate for the scientist, but Ritter is overanxious and goes on ahead. Perry, Della, and Paul catch up with Ritter and get involved in a murder case behind the Iron Curtain. Now Perry has to defend Ritter's wife before an East German court, where the Communists don't play fair.

Berlin looks suspiciously much like L.A. in this episode. Note that just about every car shown is either a Mercedes-Benz or a Volkswagen.

Credits Edit

Cast

Susanne Cramer as Gerta
Jeanette Nolan as Emma Ritter
Gregory Morton as Wolfgang Stromm
Kevin Hagen as Samuel Carleton
Ronald Long as Franz Hoffer
Lilyan Chauvin as Matron
Wolfe Barzell as Prof. Hans Ritter
Eileen Baral as Elke
Barbara Morrison as Woman Magistrate
Peter Hellman as German Sergeant
Horst Ebersberg as German Border Guard
Hans Heyde as Guard at Courtroom
Charles Hradilac as 1st Associate Magistrate
George Perina as 2nd Associate Magistrate
Shony Alex Braun as Violinist

Trivia Edit

+Susanne Cramer, playing Gerta, and Kevin Hagen, playing Samuel Carleton, were in real life husband and wife when this episode was filmed. Submitted by PaulDrake 33. 25 August 2009.

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