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#260: The Case of the
Sausalito Sunrise
Original Airdate: 02/13/66

Summary Edit

From The Perry Mason TV Show Book (Revised)
What more can happen to an innocent art dealer and his girlfriend? Francis Clune’s treasures are replaced with fakes before they even reach the gallery. His girlfriend Bobbi Dane has been kidnaped twice and run down by a car. Now Francis and Bobbi are arrested for a cop killing and the death of a hijacker.

They need Perry and Paul to fight back. Paul goes undercover to work the hijacking ring and gets himself arrested, and Perry almost gets shot confronting a killer no one would suspect. The familiar story is based on one of Gardner’s novels that was featured early in the Mason series.

Credits Edit

Opening

Starring Raymond Burr
in Erle Stanley Gardner’s
The Case of THE SAUSALITO SUNRISE
Based on The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink
Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman

Trailing

Directed by Jesse Hibbs
Written by Orville H. Hampton and Ernest Frankel
Arthur Marks \ Art Seid | Producers
Gail Patrick Jackson | Executive Producer
Ernest Frankel | Story Consultant
Orville H. Hampton | Associate Story Consultant
Raymond Burr as Perry Mason
Barbara Hale as Della Street
William Hopper as Paul Drake
William Talman as Hamilton Burger
Richard Anderson as Lt. Steve Drumm
Dan Tobin as Terrance Clay

Music | Richard Shores

Cast

Francine York as Bobbi Dane
Donald Murphy as Francis Clune
Mark Tapscott as Sgt. Deke Bradley
Allan Melvin as Bert Kannon
Peter Mamakos as Olaf Deering
Elisabeth Fraser as Estelle Paige
Richard Angarola as Campbell Boyd
Stanley Clements as Floyd Walters
Steve Conte as Mac
Paul Genge as Bud
Kenneth MacDonald as Judge
William Erwin as Counterman
Dirk Evans as Detective
Bebe Kelly as Nurse
Linda Burton as Student Nurse
Charles Cirillo as Waiter

Uncredited Actors
Don Anderson as Gallery Gala Guest, as Plainclothesman, and as Courtroom Spectator
William H. O’Brien as Diner Customer at Counter (from IMDb)
Lee Miller as Sgt. Brice

Crew

Director of Photography … John M. Nickolaus, Jr.
Art Direction … Lewis Creber
Assistant Director … Robert G. Stone
Film Editor … Richard W. Farrell
Casting … Harvey Clermont
Makeup … Irving Pringle
Hair Stylist … Annabell
Wardrobe Supervision … Bob Wolfe, Evelyn Carruth
Set Decoration … Carl Biddiscombe
Properties … Ray Thompson
Production Sound Mixer … Herman Lewis
Script Supervision … Marshall Schlom
Theme Composed by … Fred Steiner
Automobiles supplied by … Ford Motor Company

Perry Mason
Produced by the CBS Television Network in association with Paisano Productions

Trivia Edit

Anomaly: Elisabeth Fraser, listed as Estelle Paige, is identified as Estelle Gaige in three ways. Submitted by Lisa & Mack McLendon.

The painting “featured” in the scene where Perry confronts the murderer can also be seen in #146, TCOT Absent Artist, and #187, TCOT Reluctant Model. See the appearances here. Submitted by Leah, 1/29/2003.

Uncredited Actors: Don Anderson hits another three bagger in this episode. In the opening scene at the Clune Gallery, he’s among the crowd viewing the art. He wears his tux and dark-rimmed spectacles. Mid-episode, the glasses disappear when he’s the non-speaking one of two San Francisco plainclothesman who surprise Paul Drake at the bus depot parcel check. At the trial, his glasses reappear so he can better watch the action from the last row of the gallery on the defense side of the courtroom. Submitted by FredK, 28 December 2010.

There must have been something about actor Donald Murphy that just screamed “Art!” to the Mason team. In this episode he’s art gallery owner Francis Clune. In Episode #48, TCOT Purple Woman, he plays art critic Wayne Gordon. And in Episode #231, TCOT Lover’s Gamble, he’s philandering art professor Dr. Philip Stark. Submitted by FredK, 28 December 2010.

Sightings: Two favorite faces appear in the courtroom gallery today: Quiet Old Man #1 and “Miss Carmody.”

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