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#4: The Case of the
Drowning Duck
Original Airdate: 10/12/57

Summary Edit

From The Perry Mason TV Show Book
Chem student Marv Adams is popular for his drowning-duck trick. He can make a duck sink in water with a special chemical solution. Marv is about to go to court for a new trick: poisoning Donald Briggs. Perry believes that Adams is innocent but he must bust two cases in one to prove it. The key evidence lies in finding out the truth about the murder case that sent Adams's father to the gas chamber eighteen years before.

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Credits Edit

Cast

Carol Kelly as Lois Reed
Noland Leary as Judge Meeham
Victor Sutherland as Clyde Waters
Carolyn Craig as Helen Waters
Don Beddoe as George Norris
Paula Winslow as Martha Norris
Gary Vinson as Marv Adams
Harry Landers as Donald Briggs
Olive Blakeney as Mrs. Adams
Rusty Lane as Chief Glass
Tom London as Cabbie
Phillip Tonge as Cortland
Joseph Forte as Dr. Creel
Helen Hatch as Secretary
Clifford Botelho as Pedro

Trivia Edit

CARS: 1957 Cadillac convertible, black w/ black & white int., top down (Mason). From The Cars by Greg Cockerill.

In the scene where Paul and Della drive out to find Marv's mother, you can see Mason's convertible with Della in the passenger side and someone with dark hair driving coming down the road towards the camera, but when the car pulls up to the house it is still Mason's convertible but it has Della and Paul driving.

+Paula Winslowe makes the first of two appearances on Perry, (the other was as a judge in TCOT Unsuitable Uncle). Paula Winslowe is best known as Peg Riley, Chester Riley's wife in the long running radio show, The Life of Riley. Submitted by PaulDrake33.

+Watch the scene where Marv Adams is carrying the duck and the bottle of chemicals to the water trough. When Marv begins his journey the bottle has a cap on top, but when he get ready to do the trick the cap has disappeared. Submitted by PaulDrake 33.

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