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#96: The Case of the
Treacherous Toupee
Original Airdate: 09/17/60

Summary Edit

From The Perry Mason TV Show Book
Robert Redford makes an early TV acting appearance as Richard Hart in this, the premiere episode of the Mason series' fourth season.

Hartley Basset returns from the dead after two years. A tyrannical company president, he isn't liked any better the second time around, a fact underscored when someone puts two bullets in him. Poor Peter Dawson was fired by Hartley on his return, making him Tragg's prime suspect. Perry has two witnesses lined up to testify that Dawson didn't do it. Hartley's stepson, Dick Hart (Redford), and his new wife, Teddi, both swear they saw a different assailant at the scene of the crime.

It's an open and shut case until Teddi and Dick disappear.

Credits Edit

Cast

Peggy Converse as Sybil Basset
Philip Ober as Peter Dawson
Bert Freed as Ken Woodman
Cindy Robbins as Teddi Hart
Thomas B. Henry as Hartley Basset
Robert Redford as Dick Hart
Nelson Olmsted as Arthur Colemar
Dee Arlen as Lorna Grant
Jonathon Hole as Stanley Roderick
Frank Wilcox as Judge
Lindsay Workman as Wilber Fenwick
Juney Ellis as Lucy
Rita Duncan as Flo
Hal Smith as Supper Club Owner
Len Hendry as Plainclothesman
George E. Stone as Court Clerk
Lee Miller as Sgt. Brice
Patricia Marlowe as Receptionist

Trivia Edit

Anomaly: Jonathan Hole, the actor, is listed as Jonathon Hole.

When the judge looks at his watch to dismiss the court, if you look closely, you'll see that he isn't wearing a watch! Submitted by Will Holman, 5/7/07.

Comments Edit

This episode is included the Perry Mason 50th Anniversary DVD. In Barbara Hale's introduction, she notes that it's based on Erle Stanley Gardner's novel The Case of the Counterfeit Eye, but a glass eye was considered to be too gruesome for TV. Hence the change to a toupee.

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