Season 2

1958-1959

40. The Case of the Corresponding Corpse - 9/20/58

George Beaumount was supposidely killed 3 years

ago, but he missed his plane and let his wife

  collect the $90,000 insurance policy.

Ruth WhittakerJoan Camden (defendant)
Glenn McKayWilliam Ching
George Hartley BeaumontRoss Elliott (victim)
JudgeLillian Bronson

41. The Case of the Lucky Loser - 9/27/58

Ted Balfour has been found quilty, but his

granfather hires Perry to take the

case, he finds out that the victim

was not run over but shot.

Harriet BalfourPatricia Medina
Lawrence BalfourBruce Bennett (victim)
Theodore BalfourTyler MacDuff (defendant)
Judge CadwellMorris Ankrum

42. The Case of the Pint-Sized Client - 10/4/58

A 14 year old boy needs legal advice about a

large sum of money that he has found. 

Shortly after the boy's grandfather

is charged with murder.

Anthony RenziEduardo Ciannelli (defendant)
Nicky RenziBobby Clark
Frank AndersonJames Anderson (victim)
Charles HaysRobert P. Lieb
JudgeRaymond Greenleaf

43. The Case of the Sardonic Sergeant - 10/11/58

Perry's client is dead and he defends the accused man.

Helen LessingLori March
Major Frank LessingJohn Archer (victim)
Master Sergeant William Smith alias Private Anthony CusickHarry Jackson
Sergeant Joseph DexterPaul Picerni (defendant)

44. The Case of the Curious Bride - 10/18/58

Rhoda Reynolds is troubled about the legality of

her marriage and goes to Perry for advice.

She soon finds herself accused

of her husband's murder.

Rhoda ReynoldsChristine White (defendant)
Carl ReynoldsCasey Adams
Arthur KaneMichael Emmet (victim)
JudgeS. John Launer

45. The Case of the Buried Clock - 11/1/58

Dr.Blane is suspected of killing his blackmailing son-in-law.

Doctor BlaneDon Beddoe (defendant)
Jack HardistyFred Wayne (victim)
District Attorney Darwin HalePaul Fix
Philip StragueCharles Cooper
Judge NorwoodJamie Forster

46. The Case of the Married Moonlighter - 11/8/58

Danny Harrison's wife gets Perry to help

her husband after he drives a drunk

friend home and the man is found

murdered the next day.

Danny HarrisonArthur Franz (defendant)
Luke HickeyJesse White
Eileen HarrisonAnne Sargent
Frank CurranStacy Harris (victim)
Judge CarwellRichard Gaines

47. The Case of the Jilted Jockey - 11/15/58

Tic Barton is approached by his wife and she threatens

to divorce him if he doesn't throw a race.

Francis "Tic" BartonBilly Pearson (defendant)
John Woodruff "Johnny" StarrDon Durant (victim)
Edward "Eddie" DavisJoe di Reda
Judge CarterKenneth MacDonald

48. The Case of the Purple Woman - 11/22/58

Evelyn Girard is arrested for the murder of her husband

after quarelling with him about a painting.

Milo GerardGeorge MacReady (victim)
Evelyn GirardBethel Leslie (defendant)
HubbleRobert H. Harris
JudgeEdwin Jerome

49. The Case of the Fancy Figures - 12/13/58

Just out of jail Charles Brewster gets himself

involved in a murder charge.

Jonathan HyettFrank Silvera
Martin EllisWilliam Phipps (defendant)
Charles BrewsterRalph Clanton (victim)
JudgeS. John Launer

50. The Case of the Perjured Parrot - 12/20/58

A parrot is the only witness to a murder.

Coroner Andy TempletEdgar Buchanan
Ellen Monteith Wallman SabinJody Lawrence (defendant)
Fred BascombRobert E. Griffin
Edward LangleyJoseph Kearns
Arthur SabinMaurice Manson (victim)

51. The Case of the Shattered Dream - 1/3/59

Hugo Werner is posing a diamond cutter, crosses

the wrong person and gets himself killed.

Sarah WernerOsa Massen (defendant)
Virginia TrentVirginia Vincent
Hans Breel/Hugo WernerKurt Kreuger (victim)
Adolph Van BeersLudwig Stossel
JudgeLillian Bronson

52. The Case of the Borrowed Brunette - 1/10/59

The dead body of a girl hired to pose as Helen Van Proyen

is found in the real womans apartment and

the girl's aunt is charged with the murder.

Agnes NultySheila Bromley (defendant)
Grant ReynoldsJohn Stephenson
Melvin SlaterJoe De Santis (victim)
Judge BatesMorris Ankrum

53. The Case of the Glittering Goldfish - 1/17/59

Jack Huxley claims that he owns the cure for

gill fever that Tom Wyatt discovered. 

Wyatt is killed and Huxley is tried

for the murder.

Darrell MetcalfeCecil Kellaway
Donna SherwoodMay Wynn
Tom WyattJohn Hudson (defendant)
Jackson HuxleyMurvyn Vye (victim)
JudgeS. John Launer
Harry TillerRusty Lane

54. The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll - 1/24/59

A woman posing as someone else kills a

man with an ice pick in self defense.

Senator Harriman BaylorBarton MacLane
Carl DavisRobert Bray (victim)
Mildred CrestRuta Lee (defendant)
Marjory DavisBetty Lou Gerson
JudgeRichard Gaines

55. The Case of the Fraudulent Foto - 2/7/59

D.A. Brander Harris is blackmailed and

then charged with murder.

District Attorney Brander HarrisHugh Marlowe (defendant)
Marshall ScottBartlett Robinson (victim)
Cleveland BlakeWilton Graff
JudgeKenneth MacDonald

56. The Case of the Romantic Rogue - 2/14/59

There are a couple of forgotten missing people

that hold the key to solving the case.

Helen Harvey ChandlerMarion Ross (defendant)
Harry C. WestAlbert Linville
Irene WallaceJean Willes (victim)
JudgeFrederic Worlock

57. The Case of the Jaded Joker - 2/21/59

Charlie Goff is killed after he double-crosses

a struggling comedian.

Danny RossFrankie Laine
BuzzieBobby Troup
Freddie GreenWalter Burke (defendant)
Charles GoffHarry Jackson (victim)
JudgeS. John Launer

58. The Case of the Caretaker's Cat - 3/7/59

James Hing claims that his boss instructed him to

burn his house down, but Baxter's

body is found in the house and Hing

is charged with his murder.

James HingBenson Fong (defendant)
Kenneth BaxterJohn G. Agar
John HilliardRaymond Bailey
JudgeBarney Biro
Peter BaxterAnthony Jochim (victim)

59. The Case of the Stuttering Bishop - 3/14/59

An Austrailian Bishop wants to award

an inheritance to a woman.

Bishop Arthur MalloryVaughn Taylor (victim #2)
Carol DelaneyRebecca Welles (defendant)
Phillip BurroughsJonathan Kidd
Charles BurroughsCarl Benton Reid (victim #1)
JudgeMorris Ankrum

60. The Case of the Lost Last Act - 3/21/59

The last act of a play is missing and everyone

believes that it will reveal

who the murderer is.

Ernest RoyceJerome Cowan (victim)
Frank BrooksStacy Harris (defendant)
Michael DwightRobert McQueene
JudgeRichard Gaines

61. The Case of the Bedeviled Doctor - 4/4/59

Mark Douglas steals a tape to blackmail a doctor

and involves his sister, the doctor's nurse.

Doctor David CraigDick Foran (defendant)
Mark DouglasBarry McGuire (victim)
Barbara HeywoodAndrea King
JudgeFrederic Worlock

62. The Case of the Howling Dog - 4/11/59

Clinton Forbes is killed along with a howling

dog that may have known too much.

Evelyn Cartright ForbesAnn Rutherford (defendant)
Thelma BrentFintan Mayler
Polly Cartright ForbesElaine Edwards (victim #1)
Arthur CartrightRobert Ellenstein (victim #2)
Clinton ForbesJohn Holland (victim #3)
JudgeS. John Launer

63. The Case of the Calendar Girl - 4/18/59

Perry takes pictures in order to prove that his

client couldn't have possibly

been the murderer.

Dawn ManningDolores Donlon
George AndrewsJohn Anderson (defendant)
Frank FettridgeDean Harens
Wilfred BordenGeorge Neise (victim)
JudgeRichard Gaines

64. The Case of the Petulant Partner - 4/25/59

Harry Bright's business partner's wife ends up dead.

Although there is circumstantial evidence

against him Perry take the case.

Harry BrightR. G. Armstrong (defendant)
Walter "Salty" SimsFrancis J. McDonald
Margaret Roper ClarkNan Leslie (victim)
Bill ShayneWilliam Swan
JudgeJamie Forster

65.The Case of the Dangerous Dowager - 5/9/59

Sylvia Oxman wants to pay off some IOU's

that could hurt her chances of getting

custody of her child, but the man that

has them is killed before

she can pay him off.

Danny BarkerRobert Strauss (victim)
Sylvia Benson OxmanPatricia Cutts (defendant)
Robert BensonBarry Atwater
Old lady gamblerEllen Corby
Doctor Ralph CaldwellKing Calder
JudgeFrederic Worlock
Walter CobbJoey Faye

66. The Case of the Deadly Toy - 5/16/59

A boy whose favorite toy is a real gun

may have killed his own father.

Claire AllisonMala Powers (defendant)
Ralph JenningsMax Adrian
Martin SelkirkDennis Patrick (victim)
Katherine CollinsNancy Kulp
JudgeMorris Ankrum

67. The Case of the Spanish Cross - 5/30/59

Jimmy Morrow is first charged with the theft

of a jeweled Spanish Cross and then murder.

Miriam BakerJosephine Hutchinson
Jimmy Morrow, Jr.Peter Miles (defendant)
Curtis RunyanDonald Randolph (victim)
JudgeRichard Gaines

68. The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom - 6/13/59

A private detective uses Perry's terrace

as an exit but later the man's ex-wife that

she claimed she works for is murdered.

Ed GarvinHarry Ellerbe (defendant)
Lorrie GarvinBetsy Jones Moreland
Helen Bynum, alias Virginia ColfaxJoan Tabor
Ethel Carlton GarvinK. T. Stevens (victim)
George DenbyThomas Browne Henry
Frank LivesayNeil Hamilton
FilomenaRosa Turich
JudgeRobert Lynn

69. The Case of the Lame Canary - 6/27/59

A lame canary convinces Perry that

his client is innocent.

Harry JonsonJames Philbrook
Ruth PrescottStacy Graham (defendant)
Walter PrescottWilliam Kendis (victim)
JudgeS. John Launer