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#40: The Case of the
Corresponding Corpse
Original Airdate: 09/20/58

Summary Edit

From The Perry Mason TV Show Book
Perry gets a phone call from George Hartley Beaumont, a man who supposedly died in a plane crash over the Atlantic nearly three years before. Actually, George missed that plane and decided to take advantage of the accident to disappear, letting his wife collect the $90,000 insurance policy. Meanwhile George has been living incognito with his girlfriend, Ruth Whittaker.

George grows tired of life-on-a-limb and wants to return home. His plans are cut short, however, when someone buries a letter opener in his back.

Perry defends Ruth when she's arrested for the murder.

Credits Edit

Cast

Joan Camden as Ruth Whittaker
Vaughn Taylor as Harry Folsom
Jeanne Cooper as Laura Beaumont
William Ching as Glenn McKay
Ross Elliott as George Beaumont
Owen Cunningham as Jonah Whittaker
Lillian Bronson as Judge
Herbert C. Lytton as Mr. Corby
Martha Wentworth as Mrs. Lyle
Joan Staley as Roberta Quinn
Gil Frye as Reporter
Jack Gargan as Court Clerk

Trivia Edit

CARS: 1958 Cadillac convertible, black, top down (Mason), 1958 Chevrolet Delray 4dr sedan, black & white (Police), 19?? Packard ambulance. From The Cars by Greg Cockerill.

+For some reason the courtroom is flip flopped in this episode. The witness box is to the judge's right, not left and Perry and Della sit to the judge's left instead of right.

+First episode where Della wears a pendant with the initials D S in script.

+First episode where Lillian Bronson plays a judge. She had appeared the season before in TCOT Sulky Girl as a housekeeper.

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