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This is a list of episodes for ''[[Perry Mason (1957 TV series)|Perry Mason]]'', an American [[legal drama]] series that aired on [[CBS]] television for nine seasons (September 21, 1957 – May 22, 1966). The [[Perry Mason|title character]], portrayed by [[Raymond Burr]], is a fictional Los Angeles [[criminal defense lawyer]] who originally appeared in detective fiction by [[Erle Stanley Gardner]]. Many episodes are based on [[Perry Mason bibliography|novels and short stories]] written by Gardner, with some stories having been adapted more than once.

==Series overview==
<onlyinclude>{{Series overview
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| episodes1 = 39
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| end1 = {{End date|1958|6|28}}

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| episodes3 = 26
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| end3 = {{End date|1960|6|11}}

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| episodes4 = 28
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| end4 = {{End date|1961|6|10}}

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| episodes5 = 30
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| end5 = {{End date|1962|5|26}}

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| end6 = {{End date|1963|5|16}}

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| end7 = {{End date|1964|5|21}}

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| end8 = {{End date|1965|5|13}}

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==Episodes==
===Season 1 (1957–58)===
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 |EpisodeNumber = 1
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1
 |Title = [[The Case of the Restless Redhead]]
 |DirectedBy = [[William D. Russell (director)|William D. Russell]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Russell S. Hughes]]
 |Aux2 = 1954 novel
 |OriginalAirDate ={{Start date|1957|9|21}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = Perry defends a waitress accused of killing a con man. Cast: [[Whitney Blake]] (Evelyn Bagby), [[Vaughn Taylor (actor)|Vaughn Taylor]] (Lewis Boles), [[Grandon Rhodes]] (Judge Kippen)<ref name="PM Show Book">{{cite book |last1=Kelleher |first1=Brian |last2=Merrill |first2=Diana |year=1987 |chapter=Episode Guide, The First Season |chapter-url=http://www.perrymasontvshowbook.com/pmb_c900.htm |title=The Perry Mason TV Show Book |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/89 89–104] |isbn=978-0312006693 |url=https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/89}}</ref>{{Rp|89}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 2
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2
 |Title = The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = [[Laurence Marks (American writer)|Laurence Marks]], Gene Wang
 |Aux2 = 1936 novel
 |OriginalAirDate ={{Start date|1957|9|28}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = Perry represents a sleepwalking businessman in a divorce case and must also defend him when the man's stepbrother and business partner is murdered. Cast: John McNamara (Peter Cole), [[John Archer (actor)|John Archer]] (Frank Maddox), [[Darryl Hickman]] (Steve Harris),<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|90}} [[Hillary Brooke]] (Doris Cole)<ref name="CTVA 1"/>{{efn|After seeing this episode, Erle Stanley Gardner wrote Gail Patrick Jackson: "I don't think I have ever seen a better show at any time on television than 'Sleepwalker's Niece' last Saturday night. I was so darned excited at how perfect it was I just couldn't settle down afterwards.—It had the suspense, intrigue and everything else one looks for and doesn't find in most plays and I kept wondering how on earth you ever chose every single actor so they were perfectly cast.—I saw the first one so imperfectly on a motel TV set that this is really my first one and I'm still thrilled whenever I think of it, and mentally say, 'Thank you, Gail, for everything you've done.'"<ref>{{cite book |last=Hughes |first=Dorothy B. |author-link=Dorothy B. Hughes |date=1978 |title=Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case of the Real Perry Mason |location=New York |publisher=William Morrow and Company, Inc. |page=249 |isbn=978-0688032821}}</ref>}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 3
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3
 |Title = The Case of the Nervous Accomplice
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = [[Stirling Silliphant]]
 |Aux2 = 1955 novel
 |OriginalAirDate ={{Start date|1957|10|5}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = A woman's attempts to win back her unfaithful husband result in her being framed for the murder of the head of a real estate development company. Cast: [[Margaret Hayes]] (Sybil Granger), [[Greta Thyssen]] (Roxy Howard), [[Morris Ankrum]] (Judge Hoyt)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|90}}<ref name="Davidson S1"/>
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 4
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4
 |Title = The Case of the Drowning Duck
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = I. C. Ward
 |Aux2 = 1942 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1957|10|12}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = Perry Mason, Della Street and Paul Drake head to a small town to defend a young man who is charged with poisoning a blackmailer. Cast: [[Nolan Leary]] (Judge Harry Meehan), [[Gary Vinson]] (Marv Adams)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|90}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 5
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5
 |Title = The Case of the Sulky Girl
 |DirectedBy = [[Christian Nyby]]
 |WrittenBy = Harold Swanton
 |Aux2 = 1933 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1957|10|19}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = An impetuous niece who demands her trust fund be released comes to Perry Mason for help. Cast: [[Olive Sturgess]] (Frances Celane), [[Brian G. Hutton]] (Rod Gleason), [[William Schallert]] (Graves)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|91}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 6
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6
 |Title = The Case of the Silent Partner
 |DirectedBy = [[Christian Nyby]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Donald S. Sanford]]
 |Aux2 = 1940 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1957|10|26}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = The owner of a lucrative orchid business is charged with murder after her husband loses shares in the company to a sleazy ex-con in a poker game. Cast: [[Peggy Maley]] (Lola Florey), [[Anne Barton (actress)|Anne Barton]] (Mildred Kimber)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|91}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 7
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 7
 |Title = The Case of the Angry Mourner
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = Francis Cockrell
 |Aux2 = 1951 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1957|11|2}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = There's no rest for Perry Mason.  While on vacation at his remote cabin, a woman in the area is charged with murdering a playboy. Cast: [[Sylvia Field]] (Belle Adrian), [[Barbara Eden]] (Carla Adrian), [[Paul Fix]] (District Attorney), [[Joan Weldon]] (Marion Keats)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|91–92}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 8
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 8
 |Title = The Case of the Crimson Kiss
 |DirectedBy = [[Christian Nyby]]
 |WrittenBy = Joel Murcott, [[Walter Doniger]], Milton Geiger
 |Aux2 = 1948 story
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1957|11|9}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = When a lipstick print is found on the forehead of a murder victim, Mason's client is charged with the crime, even though she and her roommate were poisoned and unconscious at the time.  Cast: [[Jean Willes]] (Anita Bonsal), [[Sue England]] (Fay Allison), [[Frances Bavier]] (Louise Barlow)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|92}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 9
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 9
 |Title = The Case of the Vagabond Vixen
 |DirectedBy = [[Christian Nyby]]
 |WrittenBy = I. C. Ward
 |Aux2 = 1948 novel{{efn|Title changed from Gardner's original, ''The Case of the Vagabond Virgin''|name="Vagabond"}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1957|11|16}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = A film mogul discovers that a pretty hitchhiker may be trying to blackmail him.  And he has other worries...he's just been charged with murdering his rival. Cast: [[Robert Ellenstein]] (John Addison), [[Paul Cavanagh]] (Edgar Ferrell), [[Barbara Pepper]] (Martha Dale)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|92–93}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 10
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 10
 |Title = The Case of the Runaway Corpse
 |DirectedBy = [[Christian Nyby]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Malvin Wald]], Jack Jacobs
 |Aux2 = 1954 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1957|11|23}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = Perry defends a wife suspected of killing her husband with arsenic, but the corpse disappears under the eyes of a doctor only to reappear miles away in a freshly dug grave. Cast: [[June Dayton]] (Myrna Davenport), [[John Stephenson (actor)|John Stephenson]] (Ed Davenport)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|93}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 11
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 11
 |Title = The Case of the Crooked Candle
 |DirectedBy = [[Christian Nyby]]
 |WrittenBy = Robert Tallman
 |Aux2 = 1944 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1957|11|30}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = A real-estate developer is found murdered on his houseboat shortly after he is suspected of being a bigamist. Cast: [[Nancy Gates]] (Martha Bradford), [[Whit Bissell]] (Larry Sands), [[Doris Singleton]] (Rita Bradford)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|93}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 12
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 12
 |Title = The Case of the Negligent Nymph
 |DirectedBy = [[Christian Nyby]]
 |WrittenBy = Richard Grey
 |Aux2 = 1950 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1957|12|7}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = While on a fishing trip, Perry Mason pulls a beautiful woman out of the ocean.  In her possession is a note she found, intended for her employer, accusing him of killing his rich relative.  Cast: [[Peggie Castle]] (Sally Fenner), [[Joan Banks]] (Karen Alder)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|94}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 13
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 13
 |Title = The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink
 |DirectedBy = [[Ted Post]]
 |WrittenBy = Laurence Marks, [[Ben Starr (American producer)|Ben Starr]]
 |Aux2 = 1952 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1957|12|14}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = Perry and Della's visit to a restaurant is interrupted when a waitress is shot at.  After they hide her mink, they discover it contains a pawn ticket that may hold the key to a past murder.  Cast: [[Robert Osterloh]] (Morey Allen), Kay Faylen (Dixie Dayton), [[Douglas Kennedy (actor)|Douglas Kennedy]] (Sergeant Jaffrey)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|94}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 14
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 14
 |Title = The Case of the Baited Hook
 |DirectedBy = [[Christian Nyby]]
 |WrittenBy = Richard Grey
 |Aux2 = 1940 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1957|12|21}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = Perry receives a phone call by a strange man saying someone has been murdered and he has $2,000 for a retainer and half of a $10,000 bill that will serve to introduce Perry's mysterious client. Cast: Judith Braun (Carol Stanley), [[Geraldine Wall]] (Abigail Leeds), [[Mary Castle]] (Enid Shaw)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|94–95}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 15
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 15
 |Title = The Case of the Fan-Dancer's Horse
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = Stirling Silliphant
 |Aux2 = 1947 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1957|12|28}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = After a car accident, Perry Mason finds some fans and shoes that belong to a fan dancer. He places an ad that several people mistake for a missing horse. A fan dancer shows  up, but so does her husband...dead. Cast: [[Susan Cummings (actress)|Susan Cummings]] (Lois Fenton Callender), [[Hugh Sanders]] (John Callender),<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|101}} [[Judy Tyler]] (Cherie Chi-Chi)<ref name="CTVA 1"/>
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 16
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 16
 |Title = The Case of the Demure Defendant
 |DirectedBy = [[László Benedek|Laslo Benedek]]
 |WrittenBy = Ben Brady, Richard Grey
 |Aux2 = 1956 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|1|4}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = A young woman confesses to her psychiatrist on tape under a truth serum that she poisoned her uncle. Police believe Perry is responsible for evidence that has been tampered with and planted. Cast: [[Christine White (actress)|Christine White]] (Nadine Marshall), [[Clem Bevans]] (Captain Hugo),<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|95}} Alexander Campbell (Martin Wellman)<ref name="CTVA 1"/>
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 17
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 17
 |Title = The Case of the Sun Bather's Diary
 |DirectedBy = Ted Post
 |WrittenBy = Gene Wang
 |Aux2 = 1955 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|1|11}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = A woman's trailer was stolen as she was sunbathing, and inside, it contained her diary, which has the truth about a bank heist her father was convicted of. She asks for Perry's help. Cast: [[Susan Morrow]] (Arlene Dowling), [[Carl Betz]] (Dr. Ralph Chandler),<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|96}} [[Gertrude Michael]] (Helen Rucker), [[Ralph Moody (actor)|Ralph Moody]] (George L. Ballard), [[Peter Leeds]] (Bill Emory)
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 18
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 18
 |Title = The Case of the Cautious Coquette
 |DirectedBy = Laslo Benedek
 |WrittenBy = Leo Townsend, Gene Wang
 |Aux2 = 1949 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|1|18}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = A woman is being threatened and blackmailed by her husband so she consults Perry.  The husband later ends up dead. Cast: [[Virginia Gregg]] (Sheila Cromwell), [[Kipp Hamilton]] (Elaine Barton), [[James Seay]] (Ross Hollister), Harry Jackson (Harry Pitkin)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|96}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 19
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 19
 |Title = The Case of the Haunted Husband
 |DirectedBy = [[Lewis Allen (director)|Lewis Allen]]
 |WrittenBy = Gene Wang
 |Aux2 = 1941 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|1|25}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = Della convinces Perry to take a case of a girl who was in a car accident and was framed for stealing the car and killing the driver of a truck. Two murders later and Perry is still trying to prove her innocence. Cast: [[Karen Steele]] (Doris Stephanak), [[Patricia Hardy]] (Claire Olger), [[John Hubbard (actor)|John Hubbard]] (Michael Greeley)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|96}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 20
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 20
 |Title = The Case of the Lonely Heiress
 |DirectedBy = Laslo Benedek
 |WrittenBy = Donald S. Sanford
 |Aux2 = 1948 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|2|1}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = An heiress looks for the con man who swindled her sister through a lonely hearts magazine which lead to her sister's death. The heiress finds Charles Barnaby, who winds up dead and she is charged with his murder. Cast: [[Anna Navarro]] (Delores Coterro), [[L. Q. Jones]] (Charles Baker), [[Kathleen Crowley]] (Marilyn Cartwright), [[Gail Kobe]] (Margo)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|97}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 21
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 21
 |Title = The Case of the Green-Eyed Sister
 |DirectedBy = [[Christian Nyby]]
 |WrittenBy = Richard Grey
 |Aux2 = 1953 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|2|8}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = A woman comes to Perry for help because her ailing father is being blackmailed by a private investigator for embezzling. She is afraid if her fiancé finds out, he'll end their engagement. Cast: [[Virginia Vincent]] (Harriet Bain), [[Robin Hughes (actor)|Robin Hughes]] (Addison Doyle), [[James Bell (actor)|James Bell]] (Jeremiah Hosiah Stanley), [[Morris Ankrum]] (Judge)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|97}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 22
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 22
 |Title = The Case of the Fugitive Nurse
 |DirectedBy = Laslo Benedek
 |WrittenBy = Al C. Ward, Gene Wang
 |Aux2 = 1954 novel {{efn|Also filmed in 1968 as "The Case of the Vanishing Victim" for episode #258}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|2|15}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = A physician's wife is arrested for drugging her husband, apparently causing him to crash his private plane and perish. He later turns up alive and living in Mexico, after the dead man's true identity is revealed. Cast: [[Bethel Leslie]] (Janet Morris), [[Dabbs Greer]] (David Kirby), [[Jeanette Nolan]] (Angela Kirby),<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|97–98}} [[Shepperd Strudwick]] (Dr. Morris), [[Maxine Cooper]] (Gladys Strome), [[Woodrow Chambliss]] (Phil Reese)<ref name="CTVA 1"/>
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 23
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 23
 |Title = The Case of the One-Eyed Witness
 |DirectedBy = [[Christian Nyby]]
 |WrittenBy = Robert C. Dennis
 |Aux2 = 1950 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|2|22}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = A woman is being blackmailed and hires Perry after seeing him at a French restaurant. When the supposed blackmailer and her husband are killed, she is charged with their murders. Cast: [[Angie Dickinson]] (Marian Fargo), [[Luis van Rooten]] (Samuel D. Carlin), [[Paul Picerni]] (Charles Gallagher), [[Dorothy Green (actress)|Dorothy Green]] (Diana Maynard)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|98}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 24
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 24
 |Title = The Case of the Deadly Double
 |DirectedBy = [[Andrew V. McLaglen]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Sam Neuman]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|3|1}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = Perry defends the brother of a woman whose purse contains his gun. She says that in her nightmare she saw her husband shot. Perry must prove the nightmare was real. Cast: [[Constance Ford]] (Helen Reed), [[Denver Pyle]] (Robert Crane), [[Murray Hamilton]] (John Davis Hale),<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|98–99}} [[Abraham Sofaer]] (Dr. Daniel Maitland)<ref name="CTVA 1"/>
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 25
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 25
 |Title = The Case of the Empty Tin
 |DirectedBy = Andrew V. McLaglen
 |WrittenBy = Seeleg Lester
 |Aux2 = 1941 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|3|8}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = A woman attempting to claim an inheritance from a man she believes was her father is accused of murdering the original beneficiary who accused her of being a fraud. Cast: Toni Gerry (Doris Hocksley Jackson), [[Warren Stevens]] (Alan Neil), Anthony Jochim (Elston Carr), [[Olive Deering]] (Rebecca Gentrie)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|99}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 26
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 26
 |Title = The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife
 |DirectedBy = [[Anton M. Leader]]
 |WrittenBy = Stanley Niss
 |Aux2 = 1945 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|3|15}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = Perry defends an old wartime buddy who is framed for the murder of the husband of the woman with whom he is accused of having an affair. Cast: [[Phyllis Avery]] (Marion Shelby), [[Stewart Bradley (actor)|Stewart Bradley]] (Frank Lawton), Tom Palmer (Scott Shelby), [[Claude Akins]] (Detective Sgt. Phillip Dix)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|99}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 27
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 27
 |Title = The Case of the Desperate Daughter
 |DirectedBy = [[Arthur Hiller]]
 |WrittenBy = Gene Wang
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|3|22}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = A teenage girl is having a fling with a shady East German who is an acquaintance of her stepmother. He is later murdered and the teen has been diagnosed with global amnesia. Cast: [[Gigi Perreau]] (Doris Bannister), [[Robert F. Simon]] (Edward Bannister), [[Werner Klemperer]] (Stefan Riker), [[Osa Massen]] (Lisa Bannister)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|99–100}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 28
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 28
 |Title = The Case of the Daring Decoy
 |DirectedBy = Anton M. Leader
 |WrittenBy = Seeleg Lester
 |Aux2 = 1957 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|3|29}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = A secretary who has been spying on an oil executive, is found murdered by the executive, who takes the gun. The star witness in the case is an elevator operator who identifies the suspect by their shoes. Cast: [[H.M. Wynant]] (Daniel Conway), [[Jack Weston]] (Fred Calvert), [[Jacqueline Scott]] (Amelia Armitage), [[Pamela Duncan (actress)|Pamela Duncan]] (Rose Calvert),<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|100}} [[Johnny Mack Brown]] (Warner Griffith), [[Marie Windsor]] (Linda Griffith)<ref name="CTVA 1"/>
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 29
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 29
 |Title = The Case of the Hesitant Hostess
 |DirectedBy = [[Christian Nyby]]
 |WrittenBy = Al C. Ward
 |Aux2 = 1953 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|4|5}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = A woman winds up dead after blackmailing a man. Perry's client is charged with the murder, and he has to depend on the murdered woman's friend to assist in the defense, but she double-crosses him at every turn. Cast: [[Karen Sharpe]] (Inez Kaylor), [[Fred Sherman (actor)|Fred Sherman]] (Albert Sanders), [[June Vincent]] (Martha Rayburn), [[Les Tremayne]] (Frederick Archer III), [[Fay Roope]] (Judge)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|100–101}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 30
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 30
 |Title = The Case of the Screaming Woman
 |DirectedBy = Andrew V. McLaglen
 |WrittenBy = Dick Stenger, Gene Wang
 |Aux2 = 1957 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|4|26}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = A nurse visits Perry for advice, but does not listen. She later confesses to the police to killing a columnist who was using a book stolen from a doctor to blackmail him into giving her a baby to be her own. Cast: [[Josephine Hutchinson]] (Leona Walsh), [[Marian Seldes]] (Mary K. Davis), [[Ruta Lee]] (Connie Cooper), [[Karin Booth]] (Susan Marshall)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|101}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 31
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 31
 |Title = The Case of the Fiery Fingers
 |DirectedBy = [[Arthur Marks]]
 |WrittenBy = Laurence Marks
 |Aux2 = 1951 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|5|3}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = A woman believes her husband is having an affair and will not allow him into her room. Only her cousin and nurse may see her. When she dies of arsenic poisoning, her nurse is charged with murder. Cast: [[Mary LaRoche]] (Victoria Braxton), [[Edward Norris]] (George Gordon), Lenore Shanewise (Nora Mae Quincy),<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|101}}[[Fay Spain]] (Charlotte Lynch), [[Charles Lane (actor, born 1905)|Charles Lane]] (Dr. Williams)<ref name="CTVA 1">{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://ctva.biz/US/Legal/PerryMason_01_%281957-58%29.htm |title=Perry Mason, Season 1 (CBS) (1957–58) |publisher=Classic TV Archive |access-date=2015-04-13}}</ref>
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 |EpisodeNumber = 32
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 32
 |Title = The Case of the Substitute Face
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = Francis Cockrell
 |Aux2 = 1938 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|5|10}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = A wife is accused of shooting and pushing her bank accountant husband overboard on a cruise; complicated by the fact that he mysteriously "acquired" $100,000 in cash prior to the trip.  When the bank reports no funds missing, Perry is determined to link the cryptic source of the $100,000 to the true motive for murder.  Cast: [[Lurene Tuttle]] (Anna Houser), [[Joan Tabor]] (Evelyn Whiting), [[Theodore Newton (actor)|Theodore Newton]] (Carl Houser)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|101–102}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 33
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 33
 |Title = The Case of the Long-Legged Models
 |DirectedBy = Anton M. Leader
 |WrittenBy = Seeleg Lester
 |Aux2 = 1958 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|5|17}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = A gambler is murdered by a man who tries to collect a debt from the dead man's daughter. He is then murdered and the daughter is charged. Cast: [[Peggy McCay]] (Stephanie Falkner), [[Alix Talton]] (Eva Elliott), [[Joe De Santis]] (George Castle), [[Lyle Talbot]] (Michael Garvin Sr.)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|102}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 34
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 34
 |Title = The Case of the Gilded Lily
 |DirectedBy = Andrew V. McLaglen
 |WrittenBy = Richard Grey, Gene Wang
 |Aux2 = 1956 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|5|24}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = Perry defends his office building's owner when he is charged with the murder of a man blackmailing him over his new wife's past. Cast: [[Peggy Knudsen]] (Sheila Bowers), [[Barbara Baxley]] (Enid Griffin), [[Mari Aldon]] (Anne Brent), [[Grant Withers]] (Charles Stewart Brent), [[Richard Erdman]] (Arthur Binney), [[Wally Brown]] (Harry Mitchell)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|102}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 35
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 35
 |Title = The Case of the Lazy Lover
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = Francis Cockrell
 |Aux2 = 1947 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|5|31}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = While moving his car in his driveway, the homeowner finds an unconscious acquaintance and it appears his stepdaughter struck the man as she was pulling into the driveway. A cover-up ensues which results in murder. Cast: [[Harry Townes]] (Robert Fleetwood), [[James Bell (actor)|James Bell]] (P. E. Overbrook), [[Yvonne Craig]] (Patricia Faxon), [[Neil Hamilton (actor)|Neil Hamilton]] (Bertrand Allred)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|103}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 36
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 36
 |Title = The Case of the Prodigal Parent
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Seeleg Lester, Gene Wang
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|6|7}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = When a man is killed, his stepfather, who was recently divorced from the man's mother, is charged with the crime. His ex-wife asks Perry to defend him and then she disappears. Cast: [[Virginia Field]] (Irene Collaro), [[Fay Wray]] (Ethel Harrison), [[John Hoyt]] (Joseph Harrison), [[Herbert Rudley]] (George Durrell), [[Nancy Kulp]] (Sarah Winslow)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|103}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 37
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 37
 |Title = The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde
 |DirectedBy = Roger Kay
 |WrittenBy = Gene Wang
 |Aux2 = 1944 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|6|14}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = A woman arrives at Perry's office with a black eye. She is concerned about her boss' grandson. The woman's former roommate is murdered and Perry's client is charged. Cast: [[Whitney Blake]] (Diana Reynolds), [[Irene Hervey]] (Helen Bartlett), [[R.G. Armstrong]] (Matthew Bartlett), [[Phyllis Coates]] (Norma Carter), [[Rachel Ames|Judith Ames]] (Marian Shaw)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|103–104}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 38
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 38
 |Title = The Case of the Terrified Typist
 |DirectedBy = Andrew V. McLaglen
 |WrittenBy = Robert C. Dennis, [[Philip MacDonald]], Ben Brady
 |Aux2 = 1956 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|6|21}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = A terrified typist rushes into Perry's office pretending to be a temp, as the office of the diamond importers on the floor above Perry's office has been invaded and a partner killed. Another partner is charged with the crime. Cast: [[Alan Marshal (actor)|Alan Marshal]] (James Kincaid), [[Joanna Moore]] (Patricia Taylor),<ref name="CTVA 1"/> [[Ben Wright (English actor)|Ben Wright]] (Walter Lumis), [[Jack Raine]] (George Baxter),<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|101}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 39
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 39
 |Title = The Case of the Rolling Bones
 |DirectedBy = Roger Kay
 |WrittenBy = Gene Wang
 |Aux2 = 1939 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|6|28}}
| LineColor = 41466c |ShortSummary = A man is forcibly placed in a mental sanitarium.  Perry takes the case and wins the man's freedom on a writ of habeas corpus. Before the writ can be served, the man escapes and is charged with murder. Cast: [[Edgar Stehli]] (Daniel Reed), [[Arthur Space]] (Willard Scott), [[Richard Gaines]] (Judge Treadwell), [[Morris Ankrum]] (Judge Morrisey)<ref name="PM Show Book"/>{{Rp|104}}
}}
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===Season 2 (1958–59)===
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{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 40
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1
 |Title = The Case of the Corresponding Corpse
 |DirectedBy = [[Arthur Marks]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Don Brinkley]], Gene Wang
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|9|20}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = A man who faked his death is being blackmailed. He wants Perry to help him return his wife, but he is found dead and the woman he had a relationship with is charged with his murder. Cast: Joan Camden (Ruth Whittaker), [[Vaughn Taylor (actor)|Vaughn Taylor]] (Harry Folsom), [[Jeanne Cooper]] (Laura Beaumont), [[William Ching]] (Glenn McKay), [[Ross Elliott]] (George Hartley Beaumont), [[Lillian Bronson]] (Judge)<ref name="PM Show Book 2">{{cite book |last1=Kelleher |first1=Brian |last2=Merrill |first2=Diana |year=1987 |chapter=Episode Guide, The Second Season |chapter-url=http://www.perrymasontvshowbook.com/pmb_c901.htm |title=The Perry Mason TV Show Book |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/105 105–117] |isbn=978-0312006693 |url=https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/105 }}</ref>{{Rp|105}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 41
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2
 |Title = The Case of the Lucky Loser
 |DirectedBy = [[William D. Russell (director)|William D. Russell]]
 |WrittenBy = Seeleg Lester
 |Aux2 = 1957 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|9|27}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = Perry is hired to defend a man who faces a murder charge for shooting a man after pleading guilty of vehicular manslaughter in the same death. Cast: [[Patricia Medina]] (Harriet Balfour), [[Bruce Bennett]] (Lawrence Balfour), [[Heather Angel (actress)|Heather Angel]] (Florence Ingle), [[Douglas Kennedy (actor)|Douglas Kennedy]] (Steven Boles), [[Richard Hale]] (Addison Balfour), [[Woodrow Chambliss]] (Fred Haley)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 42
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3
 |Title = The Case of the Pint-Sized Client
 |DirectedBy = [[Buzz Kulik]]
 |WrittenBy = Herman Epstein
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|10|4}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = A teenage boy seeks Perry's legal help after finding the loot from a robbery. His grandfather is later charged with grand theft and murder. Cast: [[Nita Talbot]] (Iris Anderson), [[Elisha Cook, Jr.]] (Art Crowley), [[Bobby Clark (juvenile actor)|Bobby Clark]] (Nicky Renzi)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 43
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4
 |Title = The Case of the Sardonic Sergeant
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|10|11}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = An Army sergeant is accused of murdering a payroll officer. Cast: [[John Dehner]] (Major Lewis), [[Paul Picerni]] (Sgt. Joseph Dexter),  [[BarBara Luna]] (Rikki Stevens), [[Kevin Hagen]] (Sgt. Burke)<ref name="CTVA 2" />
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 44
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5
 |Title = The Case of the Curious Bride
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = [[Jonathan Latimer]]
 |Aux2 = 1934 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|10|18}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = A woman is blackmailed for a past indiscretion which she would like to keep from her husband and his overbearing father. When the blackmailer turns up dead, the woman is charged with his murder. Cast: [[Christine White (actress)|Christine White]] (Rhoda Reynolds), [[Max Showalter|Casey Adams]] (Carl Reynolds), [[John Hoyt]] (Philip Reynolds), [[Peggy Maley]] (Edna Freeman), [[S. John Launer]] (Judge)<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|106}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 45
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6
 |Title = The Case of the Buried Clock
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = Francis Cockrell
 |Aux2 = 1943 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|11|1}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = A man steals $100,000 from the bank where he works. While investigating, Drake discovers the man's father-in-law rifling through his home and the man found dead. Cast: [[Don Beddoe]] (Doctor Blane), [[Fredd Wayne]] (Jack Hardisty), [[June Dayton]] (Sue Hardisty), [[Paul Fix]] (District Attorney), [[Charles Cooper (actor)|Charles Cooper]] (Philip Strague)<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|106–107}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 46
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 7
 |Title = The Case of the Married Moonlighter
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Stanley Niss, Gene Wang
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|11|8}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = A schoolteacher holds a second job at a diner. When a man who flashed a wad of cash is robbed and killed, the schoolteacher is charged with the crime. Cast: [[Arthur Franz]] (Danny Harrison), [[Jesse White (actor)|Jesse White]] (Luke Hickey), [[Anne Sargent]] (Eileen Harrison), [[Stacy Harris]] (Frank Curran)<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|107}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 47
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 8
 |Title = The Case of the Jilted Jockey
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = [[Bob Leach|Robert Warnes Leach]], Seeleg Lester
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|11|15}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = A jockey's wife tries to persuade him to throw a race for a gambler with whom she is having an affair. When the gambler is killed, the jockey is charged with murder. Cast: [[Billy Pearson]] (Tic Barton), [[Barbara Lawrence]] (Gloria Barton), [[June Vincent]] (Victoria Bannion), [[Don Durant]] (Johnny Starr), [[Kenneth MacDonald (American actor)|Kenneth MacDonald]] (Judge Carter)<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|107}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 48
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 9
 |Title = The Case of the Purple Woman
 |DirectedBy = [[Gerd Oswald]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Leslie Edgley|Robert Bloomfield]], Gene Wang
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|12|6}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = An art collector has bought a famous painting, but the painting may be a forgery and the art dealer's wife consults Perry regarding the suspected fraud. Cast: [[George Macready]] (Milo Gerard), [[Bethel Leslie]] (Evelyn Girard), [[Robert H. Harris]] (Aaron Hubble), [[Doris Singleton]] (Doris Andrews)<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|108}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 49
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 10
 |Title = The Case of the Fancy Figures
 |DirectedBy = [[Arthur Hiller]]
 |WrittenBy = Barry Trivers, Gene Wang
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|12|13}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = A man is serving time for embezzlement, a charge he denies. New evidence emerges that casts doubt on his conviction so his wife consults Perry. Cast: [[Frank Silvera]] (Jonathan Hyett), [[Joan Banks]] (Valerie Brewster), [[William Phipps (actor)|William Phipps]] (Martin Ellis), [[Ralph Clanton]] (Charles Brewster), [[S. John Launer]] (Judge)<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|108}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 50
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 11
 |Title = The Case of the Perjured Parrot
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = Marion Cockrell
 |Aux2 = 1939 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1958|12|20}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = The only witness to a man's murder is a parrot who keeps repeating the suspect's name. Cast: [[Edgar Buchanan]] (Andy Templet), [[Jody Lawrance]] (Ellen Monteith), [[Fay Baker]] (Stephanie Sabin), [[Robert Griffin (actor)|Robert E. Griffin]] (Fred Bascomb), [[Frank Ferguson]] (Sheriff Barnes), [[Joseph Kearns]] (Edward Langley), [[Maurice Manson]] (Arthur Sabin), voice of [[Mel Blanc]]<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|108–109}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 51
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 12
 |Title = The Case of the Shattered Dream
 |DirectedBy = [[Andrew V. McLaglen]]
 |WrittenBy = Robert Bloomfield, Seeleg Lester
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|1|3}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = A diamond cutter convinces a woman to let him sell her diamond. He sells the diamond, but swindles the diamond's owner out of her share and he later turns up dead. Cast: [[Osa Massen]] (Sarah Werner), [[Virginia Vincent]] (Virginia Trent), [[Kurt Kreuger]] (Hugo Werner), [[Ludwig Stössel]] (Adolph Van Beers)<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|109}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 52
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 13
 |Title = The Case of the Borrowed Brunette
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Seeleg Lester
 |Aux2 = 1946 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|1|10}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = An attractive brunette poses as another woman. She takes the job and is chaperoned by her Aunt. The women find the man who hired them dead and are charged with murder. Cast: [[Margaret Field|Maggie Mahoney]] (Eva Martell), [[Sheila Bromley]] (Agnes Nulty), [[John Stephenson (actor)|John Stephenson]] (Grant Reynolds), [[Joe De Santis]] (Melvin Slater), [[Morris Ankrum]] (Judge Bates)<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|109}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 53
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 14
 |Title = The Case of the Glittering Goldfish
 |DirectedBy = [[Gerd Oswald]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Milton Krims]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|1|17}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = A team discovers a cure for gill fever and as they plan to market the product, they find that a man has bought the business and owns all their patents and intellectual property. The man is murdered and one of the team is charged with the crime. Cast: [[Cecil Kellaway]] (Darrell Metcalfe), [[May Wynn]] (Donna Sherwood), [[John Hudson (actor)|John Hudson]] (Tom Wyatt), [[Jacqueline Scott]] (Sally Wilson), [[Gage Clarke]] (Frederick Rollins), [[Murvyn Vye]] (Jackson Huxley)<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|110}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 54
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 15
 |Title = The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = [[Jonathan Latimer]]
 |Aux2 = 1958 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|1|24}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = Framed for embezzlement by her fiance, a woman decides to flee. While traveling, she picks up another woman who causes them to have a car accident. The woman who caused the accident is killed, so the fleeing woman assumes her identity, but finds she has walked into a scandal. Cast: [[Barton MacLane]] (Senator Harriman Baylor), [[Robert Bray]] (Carl Davis), [[Ruta Lee]] (Mildred Crest), [[Betty Lou Gerson]] (Marjory Davis),<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|110}} [[Eve McVeagh]] (Laura Richards), [[Helene Stanley]] (Fern Driscoll)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 55
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 16
 |Title = The Case of the Fraudulent Foto
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Lawrence L. Goldman, Seeleg Lester
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|2|7}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = The D.A. is investigating graft in a hospital project. The woman he meets with to obtain proof disrobes and kisses him as a photographer takes a picture. It is sent to a political fixer who is murdered. Cast: [[Hugh Marlowe]] (Brander Harris), [[Carole Mathews]] (Leora Mathews), [[Wilton Graff]] (Cleveland Blake), [[Bartlett Robinson]] (Marshall Scott), [[Kenneth MacDonald (American actor)|Kenneth MacDonald]] (Judge), [[Herbert Anderson (actor)|Herbert Anderson]] (Eugene Milton)<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|110–111}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 56
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 17
 |Title = The Case of the Romantic Rogue
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = Gene Wang
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|2|14}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = A man gives a woman his mother's cameo as an engagement gift, but the woman finds out that he is a con man and she is later charged in the murder of a con woman that had tried to work with her former beau. Cast: [[Marion Ross]] (Helen Harvey), [[Peggy Maley]] (Margo Lawrence), [[Jean Willes]] (Irene Wallace), [[Frederick Worlock|Frederic Worlock]] (Judge)<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|111}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 57
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 18
 |Title = The Case of the Jaded Joker
 |DirectedBy = Gerd Oswald
 |WrittenBy = Milton Krims
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|2|21}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = A fading funnyman has been promised a television show.  The executive who promised him the show double-crosses him and pitches the show to another talent instead. Cast: [[Frankie Laine]] (Danny Ross), [[Bobby Troup]] (Buzzie), [[Walter Burke]] (Freddie Green),<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|111–112}} [[Mary LaRoche]] (Lisa Hiller), [[Martha Vickers]] (Sheila Hayes)<ref name="CTVA 2">{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://ctva.biz/US/Legal/PerryMason_02_%281958-59%29.htm |title=Perry Mason, Season 2 (CBS) (1958–59) |website=Classic TV Archive |access-date=2015-04-14}}</ref>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 58
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 19
 |Title = The Case of the Caretaker's Cat
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = [[Richard Macaulay]], Seeleg Lester
 |Aux2 = 1935 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|3|7}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = A man decides to test his heirs' loyalties and he pretends to change his will to leave his estate to his caretaker, who is supposed to burn down the man's house with a medical cadaver in it. Cast: [[Benson Fong]] (James Hing), [[John Agar]] (Kenneth Baxter), [[Maxine Cooper]] (Edith Devoe), [[Judy Lewis]] (Winifred Oakley), [[Raymond Bailey]] (John Hilliard), [[Bill Erwin]] (A.J. Nelson)<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|112}}<ref name="CTVA 2"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 59
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 20
 |Title = The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = Gene Wang
 |Aux2 = 1936 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|3|14}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = A bishop searches for a young woman who may be the heiress to a $1,000,000 estate. He is beaten by a man and his henchman to try to persuade him to drop the search. Cast: [[Vaughn Taylor (actor)|Vaughn Taylor]] (Bishop Arthur Mallory), [[Rebecca Welles]] (Carol Delaney), [[Joan Vohs]] (Janice Burroughs), [[Carl Benton Reid]] (Charles Burroughs)<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|112–113}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 60
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 21
 |Title = The Case of the Lost Last Act
 |DirectedBy = Gerd Oswald
 |WrittenBy = Milton Krims
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|3|21}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = An ex-gangster decides to pull out of a play an author is basing on a real-life, mob-related killing. His threatening request to the playwright is recorded so when the playwright is murdered, he is charged with the murder. Cast: [[Jerome Cowan]] (Ernest Royce), [[Stacy Harris]] (Frank Brooks), [[Robert McQueeney]] (Michael Dwight), [[Richard Gaines]] (Judge)<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|113}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 61
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 22
 |Title = The Case of the Bedeviled Doctor
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Gene Wang
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|4|4}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = A doctor records his patients' sessions on tape and when one of his patients reveals an affair on one of the tapes, the patient's wife goes to a mobster to buy a copy of the tape from the brother of the doctor's nurse. Cast: [[Dick Foran]] (Dr. David Craig), [[Andrea King]] (Barbara Heywood), [[Frederick Worlock|Frederic Worlock]] (Judge)<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|9113}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 62
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 23
 |Title = The Case of the Howling Dog
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = Seeleg Lester
 |Aux2 = 1934 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|4|11}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = A divorced woman escapes a sanitarium to retrieve money stolen by her ex-husband who is now married to her brother's ex-wife. Her brother handles the problem, but decides he wants his ex back.  When the ex-husband is found murdered, the woman is charged with the crime. Cast: [[Ann Rutherford]] (Evelyn Forbes), [[Fintan Meyler]] (Thelma Brent), [[Robert Ellenstein]] (Arthur Cartright),<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|114}} [[Gregory Walcott]] (Bill Johnson), [[Vito Scotti]] (Joseph D'Amato)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 63
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 24
 |Title = The Case of the Calendar Girl
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Seeleg Lester
 |Aux2 = 1958 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|4|18}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = A contractor meets with a political strongman about resolving the inspection problems on the job. As he leaves, the contractor sideswipes a car, throwing a young woman into the driveway. Cast: [[Dolores Donlon]] (Dawn Manning), [[John Anderson (actor)|John Anderson]] (George Andrews), [[Dean Harens]] (Frank Fettridge), [[George N. Neise]] (Wilfred Borden)<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|114}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 64
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 25
 |Title = The Case of the Petulant Partner
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = Milton Krims, Gene Wang
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|4|25}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = Partners are at odds with each other over one partner's marriage to a gold digger. Perry is consulted, who advises dissolving the partnership. When the alleged gold digger is killed, the husband's partner is charged with murder. Cast: [[R. G. Armstrong]] (Harry Bright), [[Will Wright (actor)|William H. Wright]] (Chuck Clark), [[Francis McDonald]] (Salty Sims), [[Geraldine Wall]] (Nell Gridley), [[Nan Leslie]] (Margaret Clark),<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|114–115}} [[Myron Healey]] (Howard Roper)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 65
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 26
 |Title = The Case of the Dangerous Dowager
 |DirectedBy = Buzz Kilik
 |WrittenBy = Milton Krims
 |Aux2 = 1937 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|5|9}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = A compulsive gambler meets with a casino man to repay her IOUs. Her husband wishes to acquire them as evidence in a suit for custody of their son. The casino man is killed with the woman's gun and she is charged with murder. Cast: [[Robert Strauss (actor)|Robert Strauss]] (Danny Barker), [[Patricia Cutts]] (Sylvia Oxman), [[Barry Atwater]] (Robert Benson),<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|115}} [[Ellen Corby]] (Old Lady Card Player)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 66
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 27
 |Title = The Case of the Deadly Toy
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = Seeleg Lester
 |Aux2 = 1959 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|5|16}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = A woman contacts Perry for help after a man sends her threatening letters and assaults her boyfriend. When the man is found shot, she is charged the crime. Cast: [[Mala Powers]] (Claire Allison), [[Max Adrian]] (Ralph Jennings), [[Dennis Patrick]] (Martin Selkirk), [[Jennifer Howard (actress)|Jennifer Howard]] (Lorraine Selkirk Jennings), [[Nancy Kulp]] (Katherine Collins)<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|115–116}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 67
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 28
 |Title = The Case of the Spanish Cross
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = [[Robert J. Shaw]], Gene Wang
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|5|30}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = A young delinquent with a criminal record for grand theft is believed to have stolen a jeweled cross owned by his boss. When his boss is found dead, the young man is charged and Perry defends him. Cast: [[Josephine Hutchinson]] (Miriam Baker), [[Peter Miles (American actor)|Peter Miles]] (Jimmy Morrow Jr.), [[Donald Randolph]] (Curtis Runyan), [[Richard Gaines]] (Judge)<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|116}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 68
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 29
 |Title = The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = Milton Krims
 |Aux2 = 1949 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|6|13}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = A lovely blonde hops over the wall onto Perry's office terrace. When he confronts her, she says she is the secretary next door. Next door, the majority stockholder of the business is in a proxy fight with his ex-wife. Cast: [[Betsy Jones-Moreland]] (Lorrie Garvin), [[Joan Tabor]] (Helen Bynum), [[K. T. Stevens]] (Ethel Garvin), [[Thomas Browne Henry]] (George Denby), [[Neil Hamilton (actor)|Neil Hamilton]] (Frank Livesey)<ref name="PM Show Book 2"/>{{Rp|116}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 69
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 30
 |Title = The Case of the Lame Canary
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Seeleg Lester
 |Aux2 = 1937 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|6|27}}
| LineColor = 69ad88 |ShortSummary = A man tries to extort his wife for all of her money to give her a divorce. As she leaves, a truck almost runs her down and instead crashes into a car and injures the occupant. The woman runs to a friend for support, but when she returns home, she finds her husband dead. Cast: [[James Philbrook]] (Harry Jonson), [[Susan Cummings (actress)|Susan Cummings]] (Margaret Swaine), [[William Kendis]] (Walter Prescott), [[Berry Kroeger]] (Ernest Wray), [[S. John Launer]] (Judge)}}
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===Season 3 (1959–60)===
{{Episode table |background=#c3949a |overall=5 |season=5 |title=23 |director=16 |writer=20 |aux2=9 |aux2T= [[Perry Mason bibliography|{{black|Based on}}]] |prodcode=17 |airdate=14 |country=US |dontclose = y}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 70
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1
 |Title = The Case of the Spurious Sister
 |DirectedBy = [[Arthur Marks]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Maurice Zimm]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|10|3}}
 |ProdCode = 171-81
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = A couple have marital trouble because of the wife's compulsive gambling. After her husband cuts off her funds and leaves town, she blackmails her former husband and his wife. Cast: [[Karl Weber (actor)|Karl Weber]] (Bruce Chapman), [[Mary LaRoche]] (Grace Norwood),<ref>[https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=&p=1&item=T82:0365 "Perry Mason: The Case of the Spurious Sister – Cast"] The Paley Center for the Media archive database. Retrieved 1 January 2021.</ref> [[Peggy Knudsen]] (Marie Chapman), [[James Seay]] (Ralph Hibberly), [[S. John Launer]] (Judge)<ref name="PM Show Book 3">{{cite book |last1=Kelleher |first1=Brian |last2=Merrill |first2=Diana |year=1987 |chapter=Episode Guide, The Third Season |chapter-url=http://www.perrymasontvshowbook.com/pmb_c902.htm |title=The Perry Mason TV Show Book |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/117 117–127] |isbn=978-0312006693 |url=https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/117}}</ref>{{Rp|117}} 
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 71
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2
 |Title = The Case of the Watery Witness
 |DirectedBy = [[Richard Kinon]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Jackson Gillis]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|10|10}}
 |ProdCode = 171-85
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = A detective questions a movie actress whether she gave birth 25 years earlier to a daughter who was put up for adoption. Cast: [[Fay Wray]] (Lorna Thomas), [[Douglas Dick]] (Fred Bushmiller), [[Malcolm Atterbury]] (Dennis Briggs), [[Lester Vail]] (Tony Raeburn), [[John Bryant (actor)|John Bryant]] (George Clark), [[Charles J. Conrad]] (Judge),<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|117–118}} [[Ned Glass]] (Mr. Smith)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 72
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3
 |Title = The Case of the Garrulous Gambler
 |DirectedBy = [[Walter Grauman]]
 |WrittenBy = Gene Wang
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|10|17}}
 |ProdCode = 171-83
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = When a poker player is caught cheating, a scuffle ensues and a gun goes off leaving the poker player dead. Cast: [[Dick Foran]] (Steve Benton), [[Paula Raymond]] (Doris Shackley), [[Steve Brodie (actor)|Steve Brodie]] (Ben Wallace)<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|118}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 73
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4
 |Title = The Case of the Blushing Pearls
 |DirectedBy = [[Richard Whorf|Richard B. Whorf]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Jonathan Latimer]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|10|24}}
 |ProdCode = 171-82
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = A man has a woman arrested for switching his wife's string of expensive blush pearls, but offers to absolve her if she breaks off her relationship with his son. Her uncle who made the pearls is later murdered. Cast: [[Nobu McCarthy]] (Mitsou Kamuri), [[Christine White (actress)|Christine White]] (Alice Carson), [[George Takei]] (Toma Sakai),<ref name="CTVA 3">{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://ctva.biz/US/Legal/PerryMason_03_%281959-60%29.htm |title=Perry Mason, Season 3 (CBS) (1959–60) |website=Classic TV Archive |access-date=2015-04-13 }}</ref> [[Ralph Dumke]] (Hudson Nichols), [[Rollin Moriyama]] (Ito Kamuri)<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|118}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 74
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5
 |Title = The Case of the Startled Stallion
 |DirectedBy = [[William D. Russell (director)|William D. Russell]]
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|10|31}}
 |ProdCode = 171-86
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = A woman marries a disabled man "John Brant", but the bridegroom is really an actor. Through a series of crafty moves, the real John Brant has gained control of everything the woman and her brother have inherited. Cast: [[Paul Richards (actor)|Paul Richards]] (Earl Mauldin), [[Elliott Reid]] (Terry Blanchard), [[Trevor Bardette]] (John Brant), [[Patricia Hardy]] (Jo Ann Blanchard),<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|118–119}} [[Don Dillaway]] (Charley Cass)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 75
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6
 |Title = The Case of Paul Drake's Dilemma
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= Al C. Ward |t= Jackson Gillis}}
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|11|14}}
 |ProdCode = 171-88
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = Perry finds himself defending Paul against a charge of murder. It all began when a man hit a pedestrian walking on the side of the road and kills him. He hires Paul to payoff the widow. Cast: [[Bruce Gordon (American actor)|Bruce Gordon]] (Frank Thatcher), [[Dean Harens]] (Tad Dameron), [[Jennifer Howard (actress)|Jennifer Howard]] (Judith Thatcher), [[Sheila Bromley]] (Mrs. Colin), [[Kenneth MacDonald (American actor)|Kenneth MacDonald]] (Judge)<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|119}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 76
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 7
 |Title = The Case of the Golden Fraud
 |DirectedBy = [[Herbert Hirschman]]
 |WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= Robert C. Dennis|t= Robert C. Dennis & Maurice Zimm}}
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|11|21}}
 |ProdCode = 171-89
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = A woman hires someone to bug her apartment to make a bogus tape as a joke. She asks a man over to explain an investment prospectus. He discovers the bug and makes threatening remarks, but the woman blames it on her husband. Cast: [[Arthur Franz]] (Richard Vanaman), [[June Dayton]] (Frances Vanaman), [[Neil Hamilton (actor)|Neil Hamilton]] (Henry Noble), [[Patricia Huston]] (Doris Petrie), [[Joyce Meadows]] (Sylvia Welles)<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|119}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 77
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 8
 |Title = The Case of the Bartered Bikini
 |DirectedBy = [[Arthur Hiller]]
 |WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= Jerome Ross & Jackson Gillis|t= Jackson Gillis}}
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|12|5}}
 |ProdCode = 171-91
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = A model is charged with murdering a fashion designer after trying to recover documents showing they had an affair. She was also found with drawings of new fashions which were being stolen from the company to make knockoffs. Cast: [[June Vincent]] (Madge Wainwright), [[Terry Huntingdon]] (Kitty Wynne), [[Stephen Bekassy]] (Rick Stassi),<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|120}} [[John Anderson (actor)|John Anderson]] (Bud Ferrand), [[Bill Idelson|William Idelson]] (Ellis)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 78
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 9
 |Title = The Case of the Artful Dodger
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= Robert C. Dennis|t= Robert C. Dennis & Jackson Gillis}}
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|12|12}}
 |ProdCode = 171-90
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = A man's aunt comes to Los Angeles to find out why he won't pay her the monthly stipend. He is scheming to cheat other people out of their money at the same time he comes into his full inheritance. Cast: [[William J. Campbell (actor)|William J. Campbell]] (Allen Sheridan), [[Patricia Donahue (actress)|Patricia Donahue]] (Joyce Fulton), [[Lurene Tuttle]] (Sarette Winslow), [[Jerome Cowan]] (Victor Latimore), [[Peter Leeds]] (Lou Caporale), [[Nelson Leigh]] (Judge)<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|120}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 79
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 10
 |Title = The Case of the Lucky Legs
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = [[Leslie Edgley|Robert Bloomfield]]
 |Aux2 = 1934 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1959|12|19}}
 |ProdCode = 171-84
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = A woman's boyfriend accuses a show's producer of running a bogus contest after his girlfriend as "Lucky Legs". She goes to Hollywood anyway and disappears followed by the producer's murder. Cast: [[John Archer (actor)|John Archer]] (James R. Brandbury),<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|120–121}} [[Jeanne Cooper]] (Thelma Bell),<ref name="CTVA 3"/> [[Douglas Evans (actor)|Douglas Evans]] (Frank Patton)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 80
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 11
 |Title = The Case of the Violent Village
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= Sam Elkin |t= Sam Elkin & Seeleg Lester}}
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|1|2}}
 |ProdCode = 171-92
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = A man returns from a year in prison for vehicular manslaughter of the sheriff's daughter. His wife forgives him, although the people of the town despise him. He is then charged when the sheriff's other daughter is killed. Cast: [[Barton MacLane]] (Sheriff Eugene Norris), [[Ann Rutherford]] (Judith Thurston), [[Jacqueline Scott]] (Kathi Beecher), [[Bart Burns]] (Norm Thurston)<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|121}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 81
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 12
 |Title = The Case of the Frantic Flyer
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= [[Leslie Edgley|Robert Bloomfield]] |t= Robert Bloomfield & Seeleg Lester}}
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|1|9}}
 |ProdCode = 171-87
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = A man and his mistress plan to rob a company, blame the owner's son, and then fake the man's death. The woman schemes with another man to do a double-cross. Plans go amiss and the owner's wife is charged with murder. Cast: [[Patricia Barry]] (Janice Atkins), [[Simon Oakland]] (Harold Walters), [[Rebecca Welles]] (Carol Taylor), [[James Bell (actor)|James Bell]] (Zachary Davis), [[Richard Gaines]] (Judge)<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|121}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 82
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 13
 |Title = The Case of the Wayward Wife
 |DirectedBy = [[Walter Grauman]]
 |WrittenBy = William O'Farrell
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|1|23}}
 |ProdCode = 171-93
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = Walking down the street, a cynical, crippled ex-POW Korean War veteran Arthur Poe is shocked to see a book about the war displayed, 'written' by Ben Sutton who was with him in the war. The book is a bestseller, but is actually based on a [stolen] diary the veteran kept in the war. At the end in a [[twist ending]] Poe reveals a shocking secret. Cast: [[Marshall Thompson]] (Arthur Poe), [[Bethel Leslie]] (Sylvia Sutton), [[Frank Maxwell]] (Harry Scott Wilson), [[Madlyn Rhue]] (Marian Ames),<ref name="CTVA 3"/> [[Richard Shannon (actor)|Richard Shannon]] (Ben Sutton),<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|121–122}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 83
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 14
 |Title = The Case of the Prudent Prosecutor
 |DirectedBy = [[Robert Ellis Miller]]
 |WrittenBy = Jackson Gillis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|1|30}}
 |ProdCode = 171-95
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = Perry takes on the case of a man who is referred to him by none other than D.A. Hamilton Burger. The D.A. officially removes himself from anything to do with the case. Cast: [[J. Pat O'Malley]] (Jefferson Pike), [[Ruta Lee]] (Vita Culver), [[Walter Coy]] (Denver Leonard),<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|122}} [[Dabbs Greer]] (Hal Kirkwood), [[Frank Albertson]] (Duck Hunter)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 84
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 15
 |Title = The Case of the Gallant Grafter
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Sy Salkowitz
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|2|6}}
 |ProdCode = 171-96
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = The CEO of a company is in a proxy fight with another officer with a bad reputation. The CEO is forced to grant his wife a divorce to get her proxies and his opponent has the books checked which turns up a huge theft and a murder. Cast: [[Herbert Rudley]] (Edward Nelson), [[Phillip Terry]] (Robert Doniger),<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|122}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 85
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 16
 |Title = The Case of the Wary Wildcatter
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = Robert Bloomfield
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|2|20}}
 |ProdCode = 171-94
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = A man is caught on camera killing his wife by pushing her over a cliff in a car. The photographer blackmails the man as the man cons others by overselling ownership in a wildcat well. The con man is murdered himself. Cast: [[Douglas Kennedy (actor)|Douglas Kennedy]] (Lucky Sterling), [[Barbara Bain]] (Madelyn Terry), [[Byron Palmer]] (Charles Houston), [[Lori March]] (Paula Wallace)<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|122–123}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 86
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 17
 |Title = The Case of the Mythical Monkeys
 |DirectedBy = Gerald Mayer
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = 1959 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|2|27}}
 |ProdCode = 171-97
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = A novelist sends her secretary to pick up a package at a remote cabin, but in the rain her car becomes stuck. At the cabin, a man denies knowing anything about the package, but allows her to dry off. He then disappears and she finds a body. Cast: [[Beverly Garland]] (Mauvis Meade), [[Louise Fletcher]] (Gladys Doyle), [[Joan Banks]] (Viola Pedley Manley), [[Norman Fell]] (Casper Pedley),<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|123}} [[Bill Erwin]] (Morrison Findlay)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 87
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 18
 |Title = The Case of the Singing Skirt
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Jackson Gillis
 |Aux2 = 1959 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|3|12}}
 |ProdCode = 171-98
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = A man pays a casino manager $60,000 to settle his losses and the only witness to the game is the singing cigarette girl. When the man's wife is killed, the cigarette girl is charged. Cast: [[Joan O'Brien]] (Betty Roberts), [[H. M. Wynant]] (Slim Marcus)<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|123–124}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 88
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 19
 |Title = The Case of the Bashful Burro
 |DirectedBy = Robert Ellis Miller
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|3|26}}
 |ProdCode = 171-100
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = Perry, while looking for a witness, runs into a young couple working a gold mine. Their neighbor wants to buy the property, but they refuse to sell. When the neighbor is murdered, the young owner is charged. Cast: [[Ray Stricklyn]] (Gerald Norton), [[Ben Wright (English actor)|Ben Wright]] (Crawford Wright), [[Hugh Sanders]] (Ken Bascombe), [[Wendell Holmes (actor)|Wendell Holmes]] (District Attorney Williams)<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|124}}  William Talman receives billing in this episode, but does not appear.  He was temporarily let go from the series after the filming of this episode had been completed, and would be absent for this and the following five episodes.  He would return for "The Case of the Irate Inventor" only because it (and the three subsequent ''Perry Mason'' episodes, spilling into season 4) had been filmed prior to this one. 
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 89
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 20
 |Title = The Case of the Crying Cherub
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|4|9}}
 |ProdCode = 171-104
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = When a Matisse painting is stolen from a museum, the finger is pointed at an assistant in the museum whose boyfriend is an artist. The man's estranged wife tries to blackmail the museum owner, but is murdered after a fight. Cast: [[Joe Maross]] (David Lambert), [[Mala Powers]] (June Sinclair),<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|124}} Carmen Phillips (Liza Carson Lambert), [[Isabel Randolph]] (Mrs. Vandercord)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 90
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 21
 |Title = The Case of the Nimble Nephew
 |DirectedBy = Richard Kinon
 |WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= Sy Salkowitz |t= Sy Salkowitz & Seeleg Lester}}
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|4|23}}
 |ProdCode = 171-105
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = A developer sets up a trap to catch one of his nephews who he suspects of stealing information. When the trap catches no one, but the information leaks, he turns to Perry who finds the thief dead in a garage. Cast: [[Will Wright (actor)|William H. Wright]] (Adam Thompson), [[Bert Convy]] (Harry Thompson), [[Crahan Denton]] (Frank Jarrett)<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|125}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 91
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 22
 |Title = The Case of the Madcap Modiste
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = Harold Swanton
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|4|30}}
 |ProdCode = 171-106
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = A fashion designer on live TV negates a deal her husband brokered with another firm. Later, before their fashion show, she drinks some champagne provided by her husband and shortly falls to the floor saying she was poisoned by him. Cast: [[John Conte (actor)|John Conte]] (Charles Pierce), [[Marie Windsor]] (Flavia Halliday Pierce), [[Leslie Parrish]] (Hope Sutherland),<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|125}} [[David White (actor)|David White]] (Henry De Garmo)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 92
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 23
 |Title = The Case of the Slandered Submarine
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|5|14}}
 |ProdCode = 171-107
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = Perry defends a submariner in military court of two murders, one of them being his wife and the second victim an officer. Cast: [[Hugh Marlowe]] (Commander James Page), [[Robert F. Simon]] (Anthony M. Beldon), [[Jack Ging]] (Seaman Robert Chapman), [[Mort Mills]] (Barry Scott), [[Robert H. Harris]] (Gordon Russell), [[Edward Platt]] (Commander Driscoll),<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|125–126}} [[Ann Robinson]] (Vivian Page), [[Herb Vigran]] (Ernest Pritchard)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 93
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 24
 |Title = The Case of the Ominous Outcast
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Hiller
 |WrittenBy = Jackson Gillis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|5|21}}
 |ProdCode = 171-108
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = A man travels to Outcast to thank a man who donated to the orphanage where he was raised. When the man he came to thank is murdered, he is charged with the crime. Cast: [[Robert Emhardt]] (J. J. Flaherty), [[Jeremy Slate]] (Bob Lansing), [[Margaret Hayes|Maggie Hayes]] (Vivian Bell), [[Denver Pyle]] (Tom Quincy),<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|126}} [[Walter Burke]] (James Blackburn), [[Irene Tedrow]] (Amy Douglas)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 94
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 25
 |Title = The Case of the Irate Inventor
 |DirectedBy = Gerald Mayer
 |WrittenBy = Francis Rosenwald & Marianne Moser
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|5|28}}
 |ProdCode = 171-101
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = An inventor thinks his wife is having an affair so he leaves for three months to work on his aircraft anti-collision device. When he returns home, he finds his locked workshop in flames and his wife inside, dead from a gunshot wound. Cast: [[Kasey Rogers]] (Lois Langley), [[Kenneth MacDonald (American actor)|Kenneth MacDonald]] (Judge)<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|126}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 95
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 26
 |Title = The Case of the Flighty Father
 |DirectedBy = William D. Russell
 |WrittenBy = Jackson Gillis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|6|11}}
 |ProdCode = 171-102
 |LineColor = c3949a 
 |ShortSummary = After funeral services for a woman, her daughter meets a man who claims to be her father. The family head is blind and cannot identify the man. Cast: [[Hayden Rorke]] (Jay Holbrooke), [[Francis X. Bushman]] (Lawrence King),<ref name="PM Show Book 3"/>{{Rp|126–127}} [[Tom Fadden]] (Gus Nickels)
}}
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===Season 4 (1960–61)===
{{Episode table |background=#6F9FA4 |overall=5 |season=5 |title=23 |director=16 |writer=20 |aux2=9 |aux2T= [[Perry Mason bibliography|{{black|Based on}}]] |prodcode= |airdate=14 |country=US |dontclose = y}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 96
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1
 |Title = The Case of the Treacherous Toupée
 |DirectedBy = [[Richard Kinon]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Maurice Zimm]]
 |Aux2 = 1935 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|9|17}}
 |ProdCode = 171-103
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = An executive who has been "missing" for two years returns on the day of an important stockholders' meeting and ends up being slain. Cast: [[Philip Ober]] (Peter Dawson), [[Thomas B. Henry]] (Hartley Bassett), [[Robert Redford]] (Richard Hart), [[Nelson Olmsted]] (Arthur Colemar), [[Frank Wilcox]] (Judge)<ref name="PM Show Book 4">{{cite book |last1=Kelleher |first1=Brian |last2=Merrill |first2=Diana |year=1987 |chapter=Episode Guide, The Fourth Season |chapter-url=http://www.perrymasontvshowbook.com/pmb_c903.htm |title=The Perry Mason TV Show Book |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/127 127–138] |isbn=978-0312006693 |url=https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/127}}</ref>{{Rp|127}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 97
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2
 |Title = The Case of the Credulous Quarry
 |DirectedBy = [[William D. Russell (director)|William D. Russell]]
 |WrittenBy = Sy Salkowitz
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|9|24}}
 |ProdCode = 171-99
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = A shady lawyer, a client facing a murder charge and a woman demanding a payoff help complicate this case for Mason. Cast: [[Vinton Hayworth]] (Marvin Claridge), [[Walter Reed (actor)|Walter Reed]] (Alexander Hill), [[Willis Bouchey]] (Judge)<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|127–128}} Willam Talman is temporarily fired from the series after this episode, returning next after a break of 13 episodes in "The Case of the Fickle Fortune".
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 98
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3
 |Title = The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker
 |DirectedBy = [[Charles F. Haas|Charles Haas]]
 |WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= Edward J. Lasko|t= [[Jackson Gillis]]}}
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|10|1}}
 |ProdCode = 171-110
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = Perry is hired by a harassed business executive who wants to rid himself of a larcenous, freeloading nephew. Cast: [[William Campbell (actor)|William Campbell]] (Jim Ferris), [[June Dayton]] (Alice Gorman), [[Sue Randall]] (Betty Wilkins), [[James Anderson (American actor)|James Anderson]] (Stan Piper)<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|128}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 99
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4
 |Title = The Case of the Singular Double
 |DirectedBy = [[Arthur Marks]]
 |WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= Milton Gelman |t= Seeleg Lester}}
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|10|8}}
 |ProdCode = 171-109
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = Perry is hired by a distressed girl who assumed the identity of a non-existent cousin to report her own disappearance as a suspected suicide. Cast: [[Harry Townes]] (A.D.A. Grosvenor Cutter), [[Connie Hines]] (Lucy Stevens/Carole Morgan), [[Arch Johnson]] (John Ruskin), [[Andrea King]] (Catherine Locke), [[Mary Webster (American actress)|Mary Webster]] (Marjorie Rals)<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|128}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 100
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5
 |Title = The Case of the Lavender Lipstick
 |DirectedBy = [[James Sheldon]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Jonathan Latimer]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|10|15}}
 |ProdCode = 171-111
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = Perry takes the case of a female chemist accused of slaying her employer when planted evidence is found to indicate that she had sold secret formulas to a rival cosmetics firm. Cast: [[Joe Maross]] (A.D.A. Ernest Helming), [[Patricia Breslin|Pat Breslin]] (Karen Lewis), [[Dabbs Greer]] (Charles Knudsen), [[Whit Bissell]] (Max Pompey)<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|128–129}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 101
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6
 |Title = The Case of the Wandering Widow
 |DirectedBy = [[William F. Claxton]]
 |WrittenBy = Robert C. Dennis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|10|22}}
 |ProdCode = 171-112
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = Perry is hired by a woman who is being blackmailed by a long-missing witness in the six-year-old murder of her husband. Cast: [[Coleen Gray]] (Lorraine McClaine Kendall), [[Dean Harens]] (Riley Morgan), [[Marguerite Chapman]] (Faye Donner), [[Max Showalter|Casey Adams]] (Burt Stokes),<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|129}} [[Stephen Talbot]] (Jimmie Kendall), [[Bob Carson|Robert Carson]] (Prison Warden)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 102
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 7
 |Title = The Case of the Clumsy Clown
 |DirectedBy = [[Andrew V. McLaglen]]
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|11|5}}
 |ProdCode = 171-113
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = Perry is hired by a circus clown to untangle a case of bigamy and head off a threat of blackmail. Cast: [[Chana Eden]] (Lisa Franklin), [[Douglas Henderson (actor)|Douglas Henderson]] (Felix Heidemann), [[Margaret Hayes|Maggie Hayes]] (Joyce Gilbert), [[Walter Sande]] (Judson Curtis), [[Robert Clarke]] (Gerald Franklin),<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|129}} [[Ken Curtis]] (Tim Durant). First episode of the series where the judge is a woman.
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 103
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 8
 |Title = The Case of the Provocative Protégé
 |DirectedBy = [[Laslo Benedek]]
 |WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= Herman Epstein|t= Herman Epstein & Seeleg Lester}}
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|11|12}}
 |ProdCode = 171-115
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = Perry is hired by a distinguished concert pianist's widow to determine whether the musician's fatal plunge of a cliff was suicide or murder. Cast: [[Virginia Field]] (Anita Carpenter), [[Robert Lowery (actor)|Robert Lowery]] (Andrew Collis), [[Kathie Browne]] (Donna Ross).<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|129–130}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 104
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 9
 |Title = The Case of the Nine Dolls
 |DirectedBy = William F. Claxton
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|11|19}}
 |ProdCode = 171-116
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = A little girl's plaintive request for help in learning who she is leads Perry into an international quest and a murder trial. Cast: [[Margaret Field|Maggie Mahoney]] (Linda Osborne), [[Jeanette Nolan]] (Martha Benson), [[Gage Clarke]] (Edgar Benson), [[Francis X. Bushman]] (Courtney Jeffers),<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|130}} [[John Banner]] (A. Tobler), [[Eleanor Audley]] (Headmistress Lorimer)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 105
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 10
 |Title = The Case of the Loquacious Liar
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = [[Michael Morris (screenwriter)|Michael Morris]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|12|3}}
 |ProdCode = 171-114
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = A man is out to take control of the company once owned by his new wife's late husband. He is found murdered and his wife's son is charged with the crime. Cast: [[Bruce Gordon (American actor)|Bruce Gordon]] (Judson Bailey), [[Lurene Tuttle]] (Emma Bailey), [[Wynn Pearce]] (Lester Martin), [[Regis Toomey]] (Sam Crane),<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|130}} [[Dorothy Adams]] (Wilma Stone), [[George E. Stone]] (Court Clerk)<ref name="CTVA 4">{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://ctva.biz/US/Legal/PerryMason_04_%281960-61%29.htm |title=Perry Mason, Season 4 (CBS) (1960–61) |website=Classic TV Archive |access-date=2015-04-13}}</ref> 
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 106
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 11
 |Title = The Case of the Red Riding Boots
 |DirectedBy = Laslo Benedek
 |WrittenBy = Harold Swanton
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|12|10}}
 |ProdCode = 171-117
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = Everyone is against a man marrying, especially his daughter. When his fiancée is murdered, the family tries to cover for one another. Cast: [[Corey Allen]] (Rennie Foster), [[Frank Maxwell]] (Joe Dixon), [[John Archer (actor)|John Archer]] (Burt Farwell), [[Richard Deacon (actor)|Richard Deacon]] (Wilmer Beaslee)<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|131}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 107
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 12
 |Title = The Case of the Larcenous Lady
 |DirectedBy = James Sheldon
 |WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= Sy Salkowitz |t= Seeleg Lester}}
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1960|12|17}}
 |ProdCode = 171-118
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = When an important government job is offered to a man, his wife will go to any lengths to help her husband get the job including putting her own illegal activities on hold and resorting to blackmail which ends with murder. Cast: [[Ellen Drew]] (Julia Webberly), [[Louise Fletcher]] (Susan Connolly), [[Robert Brown (US actor)|Robert Brown]] (Frank Sykes), [[Patricia Huston]] (Mona Henderson), [[Edward Platt]] (Tom Stratton)<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|131}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 108
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 13
 |Title = The Case of the Envious Editor
 |DirectedBy = Laslo Benedek
 |WrittenBy = [[Milton Krims]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|1|7}}
 |ProdCode = 171-119
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = A new CEO has taken over control of a declining magazine with the intent to change it over the objections of the founder's son. CEO Fletcher, brazen and unlikeable, is murdered; and the attractive wife of the founder's son, Alyce, is charged. Cast: [[Philip Abbott]] (Edmond Aitken), [[James Coburn]] (Donald Fletcher), [[Barbara Lawrence]] (Lori Stoner), [[Jennifer Howard (actress)|Jennifer Howard]] (Milly Nash), [[Vinton Hayworth]] (Wendell Harding), [[Sara Shane]] (Alyce Aitken)<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|131–132}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 109
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 14
 |Title = The Case of the Resolute Reformer
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|1|14}}
 |ProdCode = 171-120
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = A drunken playboy is in a hit-and-run accident and his attempt to help the victim by buying his property puts his father in a compromised situation. Cast: [[John Hoyt]] (William Harper Caine), [[James Westerfield]] (Roger Quigley), [[Phillip Terry]] (Lawrence Kent)<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|132}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 110
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 15
 |Title = The Case of the Fickle Fortune
 |DirectedBy = Laslo Benedek
 |WrittenBy = Glenn P. Wolfe & Sol Stein
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|1|21}}
 |ProdCode = 171-121
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = While conducting an inventory of a home whose owner died, a tax official comes across $153,000 in old currency hidden under a drawer. The money is stolen from his briefcase so he consults Perry. Cast: [[Vaughn Taylor (actor)|Vaughn Taylor]] (Ralph Duncan), [[Liam Sullivan]] (Lloyd Farrell), [[Virginia Christine]] (Helen Duncan). William Talman returns as Hamilton Burger in this episode after being absent from the prior 13 episodes. He is absent from the following two episodes and returns again in "The Case of the Angry Dead Man".
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 111
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 16
 |Title = The Case of the Waylaid Wolf
 |DirectedBy = [[Gene Fowler Jr.]]
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = 1960 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|2|4}}
 |ProdCode = 171-122
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = A playboy has a steno work late, sabotages her car, and then offers her a ride along with dinner. He detours them to a Malibu beach house where he makes advances and she runs away and takes his car, but he is found dead later. Cast: [[Rebecca Welles]] (Edith Bristol),<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|133}} [[Andra Martin]] (Arlene Ferris), [[Barry Atwater]] (George Albert)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 112
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 17
 |Title = The Case of the Wintry Wife
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|2|18}}
 |ProdCode = 171-123
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = A woman refuses to give her husband a divorce. His new invention gives him financial independence so his request for a divorce causes his wife to plan the destruction of the invention and his girlfriend. Cast: [[June Vincent]] (Laura Randall), [[Alan Hewitt]] (Bruce Sheridan), [[Marianne Stewart]] (Phyllis Hudson),<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|133}} [[Barney Phillips]] (Mr. Johnson)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 113
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 18
 |Title = The Case of the Angry Dead Man
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Michael Morris
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|2|25}}
 |ProdCode = 171-124
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = Perry defends a woman accused of murdering her husband who has shown up after previously faking his own death. Cast: [[Gloria Talbott]] (Eve Nesbitt), [[Edward Binns]] (Lloyd Castle), [[Les Tremayne]] (Willard Nesbitt), [[Gordon Jones (actor)|Gordon Jones]] (Deputy Gillis), [[James Millhollin]] (Ben Otis),<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|134}} [[Frank Ferguson]] (Prof. Laiken). William Talman returns as Hamilton Burger after being absent from the prior two episodes.
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 114
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 19
 |Title = The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= Adrian Gendot |t= Adrian Gendotand & Samuel Newman}}
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|3|11}}
 |ProdCode = 171-125
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = A family's jewels are all the family has left and their son needs to sell them, but the manager at the jewelry store refuses to allow the sale. The son is charged with the manager's murder after the jewels are stolen. Cast: [[John Conte (actor)|John Conte]] (Karl Addison), [[Jack Ging]] (James Kincannon), [[Berry Kroeger]] (Edgar Whitehead),<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|134}} [[Geraldine Wall]] (Mrs. Cartwright)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 115
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 20
 |Title = The Case of the Barefaced Witness
 |DirectedBy = Laslo Benedek
 |WrittenBy = Robert C. Dennis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|3|18}}
 |ProdCode = 171-126
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = When a man released after being jailed for embezzling from his bank, a girl he knows returns to their hometown to have him clear her name. Cast: [[Paul Fix]] (Jonathan Hale), [[Malcolm Atterbury]] (Alfred Needham), [[Adam West]] (Don Southern)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 116
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 21
 |Title = The Case of the Difficult Detour
 |DirectedBy = John Peyser
 |WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= Sy Salkowitz |t= Sy Salkowitz & Samuel Newman}}
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|3|25}}
 |ProdCode = 171-127
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = A construction company is set to finish a road project on time when the owner learns he has trespassed, forcing a shutdown and bankruptcy. After learning he was swindled, the owner goes after the swindler who is found murdered. Cast: [[Jeff York]] (Pete Mallory), [[Jason Evers]] (Stuart Benton), [[Suzanne Lloyd]] (Sheila Benton),<ref name="CTVA 4"/> [[Mort Mills]] (Police Sgt. Ben Landro), [[Neil Hamilton (actor)|Neil Hamilton]] (Jim Ames)<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|135}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 117
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 22
 |Title = The Case of the Cowardly Lion
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|4|8}}
 |ProdCode = 171-128
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = A man is accused of killing a dentist helping treat a lion. The man's girlfriend working at the zoo had been sponsored to enter the US from Germany by the dentist who has a mysterious background. Cast: [[Fred Beir]] (Tony Osgood), [[Phyllis Coates]] (Frieda Crawson), [[Leslie Bradley]] (Dr. Walther Braun),<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|136}} [[Betty Lou Gerson]] (Trudie Braun), [[Paul Birch (actor)|Paul Birch]] (Security Officer Frank Crawford), [[Eddie Quillan]] (Bookkeeper Abner Keller), [[Bill Quinn]] (First Judge)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 118
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 23
 |Title = The Case of the Torrid Tapestry
 |DirectedBy = [[John English (film director)|John English]]
 |WrittenBy = Bob Mitchell
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|4|22}}
 |ProdCode = 171-129
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = A man is framed for burning an art collection in Brazil. After five years in prison, he returns to Los Angeles where he plots revenge. Cast: [[Conrad Nagel]] (Nathan Claver),<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|136}} [[Paula Raymond]] (Brenda Larkin), [[Robert H. Harris]] (Claude Demay), [[John Holland (actor, born 1908)|John Holland]] (Leonard Voss)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 119
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 24
 |Title = The Case of the Violent Vest
 |DirectedBy = [[Lewis Allen (director)|Lewis Allen]]
 |WrittenBy = Robert C. Dennis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|4|29}}
 |ProdCode = 171-130
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = A man, who has a crush on the model he handles for an agency, asks his wife for a divorce when her gambling debts become too much. He is murdered and the model is charged with the crime. Cast: [[Myrna Fahey]] (Grace Halley Frye), [[Hayden Rorke]] (Walter Caffrey), [[Sonya Wilde]] (Joy Lebaron),<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|136}} [[Erik Rhodes (actor, born 1906)|Erik Rhodes]] (Herman Albright), [[Dorothy Green (actress)|Dorothy Green]] (Ida Albright), [[Barbara Pepper]] (Mrs. Diamond)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 120
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 25
 |Title = The Case of the Misguided Missile
 |DirectedBy = John Peyser
 |WrittenBy = Sol Stein & Glenn P. Wolfe
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|5|6}}
 |ProdCode = 171-132
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = An Air Force Major, who supervises missile development, is looking to leave the Air Force. When an investigator is found murdered after looking into launch failures, the Major is charged. Cast: [[Bruce Bennett]] (Dan Morgan), [[Simon Oakland]] (Captain Caldwell), [[Robert Rockwell]] (Major Jerry Reynolds),<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|136–137}} [[Richard Arlen]] (Dr. Harrison), [[William Schallert]] (Dr. Bradbury)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 121
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 26
 |Title = The Case of the Duplicate Daughter
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = 1960 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|5|20}}
 |ProdCode = 171-131
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = A man hires Perry to investigate a female private detective he believes is blackmailing his wife. The woman is later found murdered and the man is charged as she was killed in his shop. Cast: [[Don Dubbins]] (Hartley Elliott), [[Walter Kinsella (actor)|Walter Kinsella]] (Carter Gilman), [[Willis Bouchey]] (Judge)<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|137}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 122
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 27
 |Title = The Case of the Grumbling Grandfather
 |DirectedBy = [[Bernard L. Kowalski]]
 |WrittenBy = Jackson Gillis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|5|27}}
 |ProdCode = 171-133
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = A grandfather tries to warn his grandson to stay away from a woman who was the secretary to the boy's dead uncle. When the secretary's husband is found dead, the grandson is charged. Cast: [[Patricia Barry]] (Dorine Hopkins), [[Otto Kruger]] (J.J. Gideon), [[Carl Held|Karl Held]] (David Gideon), [[Frances Rafferty]] (Sue Franks), [[Gavin MacLeod]] (Lawrence Cumminger),<ref name="PM Show Book 4"/>{{Rp|137}} [[Fifi D'Orsay]] (Woman Witness), [[Dub Taylor]] (Stroller)<ref name="CTVA 4"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 123
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 28
 |Title = The Case of the Guilty Clients
 |DirectedBy = Lewis Allen
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|6|10}}
 |ProdCode = 171-134
 |LineColor = 6F9FA4 
 |ShortSummary = A man's aircraft company is betting on the success of a new plane, but after it crashes in a test flight, attention becomes focused on the test pilot who is found murdered. Cast: [[Lisa Gaye]] (Lola Bronson), [[Charles Bateman (actor)|Charles Bateman]] (Jeff Bronson), [[Guy Mitchell]] (Bill Ryder), [[Faith Domergue]] (Conception O'Higgins),<ref name="Davidson S4">{{cite book |last=Davidson |first=Jim |year=2014 |chapter=The First TV Series (1957–1966); Season 4 (1960–1961) |title=The Perry Mason Book: A Comprehensive Guide to America's Favorite Defender of Justice |type=[[e-book]] |asin=B00OOELV1K}}</ref>{{Rp|19553}} [[Ben Wright (English actor)|Ben Wright]] (Clarence Keller)
}}
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===Season 5 (1961–62)===
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{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 124
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1
 |Title = The Case of the Jealous Journalist
 |DirectedBy = [[John English (film director)|John English]]
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|9|2}}
 |ProdCode = 171-135
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = After the death of a newspaper publisher, the failing company is split between two families. One of the families is led by a man who is engaged to marry a step-niece who owns the tiebreaker shares. She is later found murdered. Cast: [[Irene Hervey]] (Grace Davies), [[Linden Chiles]] (Joseph Davies), [[Denver Pyle]] (Tilden Stuart), [[Frieda Inescort]] (Hope Quentin)<ref name="PM Show Book 5">{{cite book |last1=Kelleher |first1=Brian |last2=Merrill |first2=Diana |year=1987 |chapter=Episode Guide, The Fifth Season |chapter-url=http://www.perrymasontvshowbook.com/pmb_c904.htm |title=The Perry Mason TV Show Book |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/138 138–149] |isbn=978-0312006693 |url=https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/138 }}</ref>{{Rp|138}} 
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 125
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2
 |Title = The Case of the Impatient Partner
 |DirectedBy = [[Arthur Marks]]
 |WrittenBy = Adrian Gendot
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|9|16}}
 |ProdCode = 171-136
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A man returns after a business trip to find one of his plants burned. When his partner is found murdered, he is charged with the crime. Cast: [[Ben Cooper]] (Frank Wells), [[Leslie Parrish]] (Vivian Ames), [[Wesley Lau]] (Amory Fallon)<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|138–139}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 126
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3
 |Title = The Case of the Missing Melody
 |DirectedBy = [[Bernard L. Kowalski]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Jonathan Latimer]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|9|30}}
 |ProdCode = 171-139
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = Polly Courtland leaves Eddy King at the altar but refuses to say why. He asks Perry, a friend of her family, to find out why, but Perry has little luck. When Eddy learns that someone blackmailing Polly is murdered, he tries to help her. Cast: [[Constance Towers]] (Jonny Baker), [[James Drury]] (Eddy King), [[Bobby Troup]] (Bongo White), [[Jo Morrow]] (Polly Courtland), [[Andrea King]] (Enid Markham), [[Walter Burke]] (Jack Grabba), [[Crahan Denton]] (Templeton Courtland), music composed by [[Barney Kessel]]<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|139}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 127
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4
 |Title = The Case of the Malicious Mariner
 |DirectedBy = [[Christian Nyby]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Robert Leslie Bellem]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|10|7}}
 |ProdCode = 171-142
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A man signs onto a freighter that nearly sinks until he takes command when the captain is hurt. The captain is furious with him for dumping the cargo. The captain is later found murdered. Cast: [[Edward Binns]] (Charles Griffin), [[Roy Roberts]] (Arthur Janeel), [[Lee Farr]] (Jerry Griffin), [[Karl Held]] (David Gideon), [[Max Showalter|Casey Adams]] (Frank Logan), [[Robert Armstrong (actor)|Robert Armstrong]] (Captain Bancroft), [[Bob Carson|Robert Carson]] (Capt. Lansing)<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|139–140}}<ref name="CTVA 5">{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://ctva.biz/US/Legal/PerryMason_05_%281961-62%29.htm |title=Perry Mason, Season 5 (CBS) (1961–62) |website=Classic TV Archive |access-date=2015-04-13}}</ref>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 128
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5
 |Title = The Case of the Crying Comedian
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Robert C. Dennis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|10|14}}
 |ProdCode = 171-137
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A comedian has 'made it big'.  He wants to protect his girlfriend who had married a man who confined her to a sanitarium. After threatening to kill the man, the husband is found murdered and the comedian is charged. Cast: [[Tommy Noonan]] (Charlie Hatch), [[Jackie Coogan]] (Elwood P. 'Gunner' Grimes), [[Gloria Talbott]] (Anne Gilrain), [[Sue Ane Langdon]] (Rowena Leach), [[Liam Sullivan]] (Thomas H. Gilrain)<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|138}}<ref name="CTVA 5"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 129
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6
 |Title = The Case of the Meddling Medium
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|10|21}}
 |ProdCode = 171-140
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A cousin moves into the family home when his ability to communicate with the dead son of the matriarch gets her interest. When he is murdered, Perry must contend with whether his client has ESP. Cast: [[Virginia Field]] (Sylvia Walker), [[Kent Smith]] (Dr. Arthur Younger), [[Mary LaRoche|Mary La Roche]] (Helen Garden), [[Sonya Wilde]] (Bonnie Craig), [[James Forrest (actor)|James Forrest]] (Phillip Paisley), Dr. [[Andrija Puharich]] (Himself)<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|140}}<ref name="CTVA 5"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 130
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 7
 |Title = The Case of the Pathetic Patient
 |DirectedBy = Bernard L. Kowalski
 |WrittenBy = [[Maurice Zimm]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|10|28}}
 |ProdCode = 171-141
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A doctor is accused of malpractice. His wife's ex-boyfriend tells him to settle, but ends up murdered. Cast: [[Skip Homeier]] (Dr. Wayne Edley), [[Frank Cady]] (Joe Widlock/Hiram Widlock), [[Virginia Gregg]] (Mrs. Osborn), [[Mort Mills]] (Police Sgt. Ben Landro), [[Ed Kemmer|Edward Kemmer]] (Leslie Hall), [[Percy Helton]] (Asa Cooperman),<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|140}} [[Wayne Heffley]] (Grif Roland)<ref name="CTVA 5"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 131
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 8
 |Title = The Case of the Traveling Treasure
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = [[Robb White]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|11|4}}
 |ProdCode = 171-143
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A man has a contract to take a party to kelp beds near Mexico each weekend. The party lead canceled, but suddenly decides to go. Perry is called when the party lead is found murdered. Cast: [[Jeff York]] (Capt. Scot Cahill), [[Lisa Gaye]] (Rita Magovern), [[Arch Johnson]] (Karl Magovern), [[Vaughn Taylor (actor)|Vaughn Taylor]] (Prof. Sneider)<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|141}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 132
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 9
 |Title = The Case of the Posthumous Painter
 |DirectedBy = Bernard L. Kowalski
 |WrittenBy = Richard Grey
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|11|11}}
 |ProdCode = 171-144
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = An artist decides to fake his suicide to increase the value of his paintings. His wife leaves the country so he is able to finish his work. She returns only to be charged with his murder. Cast: [[Stuart Erwin]] (Austin Durrant), [[George Macready]] (Dr. Vincent Kenyon), [[Lori March]] (Edna Culross), [[Britt Lomond]] (Jack Culross), [[James Griffith]] (Walter Hutchings)<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|141}}<ref name="CTVA 5"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 133
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 10
 |Title = The Case of the Injured Innocent
 |DirectedBy = Bernard L. Kowalski
 |WrittenBy = Paul Franklin
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|11|18}}
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A man is putting money behind the development of a rotary engine. The test driver deliberately crashes the car and later ends up dead. Cast: [[John Conte (actor)|John Conte]] (Kirby Evans), [[Frank Maxwell]] (Mooney), [[Audrey Dalton]] (Kate Eastman), [[Alejandro Rey]] (Vincent Danielli), [[Jess Barker]] (Walter Eastman), [[Linda Lawson (actress)|Linda Lawson]] (Erin Mooney), [[Raymond Bailey]] (Dr. Bell)<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|141–142}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 134
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 11
 |Title = The Case of the Left-Handed Liar
 |DirectedBy = [[Jerry Hopper]]
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|11|25}}
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = An ex-jock works at Health House and is engaged to a woman whose guardian owns it. The guardian is murdered and the ex-jock is blamed. Cast: [[Ed Nelson]] (Ward Nichols), [[Leslie Parrish]] (Veronica Temple), [[Les Tremayne]] (Bernard Daniels), [[Dabbs Greer]] (Buzz Farrell)<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|142}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 135
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 12
 |Title = The Case of the Brazen Bequest
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Robert Leslie Bellem
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|12|2}}
 |ProdCode = 171-148
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A doctor is preparing to accept a large gift when a woman from his past makes a drunken appearance. He learns a donor's aide is behind her appearance and when the aide is found dead, the doctor is charged with the crime. Cast: [[Alan Hewitt]] (Dr. Marcus Tate), [[Karl Weber (actor)|Karl Weber]] (Charles Cromwell), [[Mort Mills]] (Police Sgt. Ben Landro), [[Strother Martin]] (Pete Gibson), [[Will Wright (actor)|Will Wright]] (James Vardon)<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|142}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 136
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 13
 |Title = The Case of the Renegade Refugee
 |DirectedBy = Bernard L. Kowalski
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|12|9}}
 |ProdCode = 171-147
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A reporter reveals he is looking for an escaped Nazi among the executives of an aerospace company. The reporter is later killed. Cast: [[Dick Foran]] (Harlan Merrill), [[Paul Lambert (actor)|Paul Lambert]] (Lawrence Vander), [[John Sutton (actor)|John Sutton]] (Clifton Barlow), [[Ronald Long]] (Arthur Hennings), [[Jennifer Howard (actress)|Jennifer Howard]] (Winifred Dunbrack), [[Denver Pyle]] (Emery Fillmore)<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|142}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 137
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 14
 |Title = The Case of the Unwelcome Bride
 |DirectedBy = Gilbert L. Kay
 |WrittenBy = [[Helen Nielsen]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|12|16}}
 |ProdCode = 171-138
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A man is the son of a successful investment manager who is disappointed his son has led a wasted life. When his son is found murdered with his wife standing over the body holding a knife, she is charged with murder. Cast: [[Diana Millay]] (Sue Ellen Frazer), [[DeForest Kelley|De Forest Kelley]] (Peter Thorpe), [[Alan Hale Jr.|Alan Hale]] (Lon Snyder)<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|143}}<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|title=Perry Mason Takes On "Case Of Unwelcome Bride" |work=The Times-Mail |date=December 9, 1961 |location=Bedford, Indiana |page=12 |via = [[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> 
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 138
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 15
 |Title = The Case of the Roving River
 |DirectedBy = Jerry Hopper
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1961|12|30}}
 |ProdCode = 171-149
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A woman is involved in a land dispute that her stepfather can help with, but he needs $10,000. When the package with the money she delivers explodes, she is charged. Cast: [[Sarah Marshall (British actress)|Sarah Marshall]] (Judy Bryant), [[Bruce Bennett]] (Matt Lambert), [[Paul Fix]] (Prosecutor), [[Philip Ober]] (Harvey Farrell), [[June Vincent]] (Chloris Bryant), [[J. Pat O'Malley]] (Seth Tyson), [[Harry Carey Jr.]] (District Ranger Frank Deane), [[Robert Lowery (actor)|Robert Lowery]] (Amos Bryant)<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|143}}<ref name="CTVA 5"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 139
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 16
 |Title = The Case of the Shapely Shadow
 |DirectedBy = [[Christian Nyby]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Jackson Gillis]]
 |Aux2 = 1960 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|1|6}}
 |ProdCode = 171-150
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A secretary becomes concerned when she learns her boss is being blackmailed. Perry advises her to follow through with her instructions, but it results in her being charged with murder. Cast: [[Robert Rockwell]] (Cole B. Troy), [[Dorothy Green (actress)|Dorothy Green]] (Carlotta Theilman), [[Elaine Devry]] (Janice Wainwright), [[Barbara Lawrence]] (Agnes Theilman), [[George N. Neise]] (Morley L. Thielman)<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|143–144}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 140
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 17
 |Title = The Case of the Captain's Coins
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Adrian Gendot
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|1|13}}
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A man is charged with murder after already being accused of fraud. Cast: [[Jeremy Slate]] (Philip Andrews), [[Jay Novello]] (Nickolas Trevelian), [[Herbert Rudley]] (Ben Farraday), [[Parley Baer]] (Edward Farraday), [[Henry Beckman]] (Sid Garth), [[Eddie Quillan]] (Photographer)<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|144}}<ref name="CTVA 5"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 141
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 18
 |Title = The Case of the Tarnished Trademark
 |DirectedBy = Jerry Hopper
 |WrittenBy = [[Oliver Crawford]] & Maurice Zimm
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|1|20}}
 |ProdCode = 171-152
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A man who has built a furniture business around old-world craftsmanship is fulfilling his dream to sell the shop and using the proceeds to build a children's hospital. However, the buyer is a con man who is murdered. Cast: [[Karl Swenson]] (Axel Norstaad), [[Osa Massen]] (Lisa Pedersen), [[Marie Windsor]] (Edith 'Edie' Morrow), [[Malcolm Atterbury]] (J. Maigret), [[Dennis Patrick]] (Martin Somers),<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|144}} [[Morgan Woodward]] (Carl Pedersen), [[Edward Norris]] (Sam Hadley)<ref name="CTVA 5"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 142
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 19
 |Title = The Case of the Glamorous Ghost
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = 1955 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|2|3}}
 |ProdCode = 171-153
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A woman is found in a park and says she has amnesia, but her story makes no sense. She supposedly eloped with a man who is found dead in the same park. Cast: [[Mary Murphy (actress)|Mary Murphy]] (Eleanor Corbin), [[Jeanne Cooper]] (Ethel Belan), [[Douglas Dick]] (Walter Richey), [[Coleen Gray]] (Olga Corbin), [[Vinton Hayworth]] (Homer Corbin)<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|144–145}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 143
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 20
 |Title = The Case of the Poison Pen-Pal
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Maurice Zimm
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|2|10}}
 |ProdCode = 171-154
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A man's aunt is murdered after she investigates a company leak that may involve her nephew's old secretary. The secretary travels to San Francisco to see the aunt and ends up charged with her murder due to pen-pal letters. Cast: [[Everett Sloane]] (District Attorney), [[Patricia Breslin]] (Karen Ross), [[Joan Tompkins]] (Florence Holman), [[Kathryn Givney]] (Wilma Gregson),<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|145}}<ref name="CTVA 5"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 144
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 21
 |Title = The Case of the Mystified Miner
 |DirectedBy = [[Francis D. Lyon]]
 |WrittenBy = Jackson Gillis
 |Aux2 = 1962 novel{{efn|Title changed from Gardner's original, ''The Case of the Spurious Spinster''}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|2|24}}
 |ProdCode = 171-155
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A secretary tries to help her boss' employer who comes to town to check the books, but digs herself deeper into trouble. She is charged with murder when another company employee is found dead. Cast: [[Kathie Browne|Kathie Brown]] (Susan Fisher), [[Josephine Hutchinson]] (Amelia Corning), [[Carlos Rivas (actor)|Carlos Rivas]] (Alfredo Gomez), [[Sheila Bromley]] (Elizabeth Dow),<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|145}}<ref name="CTVA 5"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 145
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 22
 |Title = The Case of the Crippled Cougar
 |DirectedBy = [[Jesse Hibbs]]
 |WrittenBy = Bob Mitchell
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|3|3}}
 |ProdCode = 171-156
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A man was crippled in an oil well accident. He and his partner set a devious trap for the person he blames for the accident, but when his partner is murdered, he is charged with the crime. Cast: [[Bill Williams (actor)|Bill Williams]] (Mike Preston), [[John Howard (American actor)|John Howard]] (Hugh Jamison), [[Mort Mills]] (Police Sgt. Ben Landro), [[Noah Keen]] (Harlow Phipps), [[John Bryant (actor)|John Bryant]] (Arnold Keith)<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|146}}<ref name="CTVA 5"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 146
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 23
 |Title = The Case of the Absent Artist
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Robert C. Dennis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|3|17}}
 |ProdCode = 171-157
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A man is given a chance to buy the cartoon strip he works on, however, when he learns his girlfriend is going to leave with the seller, he is enraged and charged when the seller is murdered. Cast: [[ZaSu Pitts]] (Daphne Whilom), [[Mark Roberts (actor)|Mark Roberts]] (Otto Gervaert/Gabe Philips), [[Richard Erdman]] (Charles Montrose), [[Victor Buono]] (Alexander Glovatski), [[Wynn Pearce|Wynne Pearce]] (Pete Manders), [[Lane Bradford]] (Det. Arnold Buck), [[Bill Zuckert]] (Judge), [[Barney Phillips]] (Mr. Newburgh), [[Arlene Sax]] (Fiona Cregan) <ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|146}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 147
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 24
 |Title = The Case of the Melancholy Marksman
 |DirectedBy = Jerry Hopper
 |WrittenBy = Robb White
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|3|24}}
 |ProdCode = 171-158
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A man appears to be losing his grip on reality. His first wife committed suicide and his second wife is destroying his life, but he can't divorce her due to a prenup. When she is murdered, he is charged. Cast: [[Paul Richards (actor)|Paul Richards]] (Ted Chase), [[Jeff Donnell]] (Sylvia Dykes), [[Mari Blanchard]] (Irene Chase), [[William Schallert]] (Len Dykes), [[Ann Rutherford]] (Ellen Chase), [[Peter Baldwin (director)|Peter Baldwin]] (Tony Benson),<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|146–147}} [[Jesse White (actor)|Jesse White]] (Cecil)<ref name="CTVA 5"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 148
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 25
 |Title = The Case of the Angry Astronaut
 |DirectedBy = Francis D. Lyon
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|4|7}}
 |ProdCode = 171-159
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A man is having problems doing his job as a test astronaut. The problems become worse when a new man taking over is the general who fired him from another program. Cast: [[James Coburn]] (General Addison Brand), [[Robert Bray]] (Mitch Heller), [[Steve Brodie (actor)|Steve Brodie]] (Eddie Lewis), [[Paula Raymond]] (Terry Faye), [[John Marley]] (Matthew Owen)<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|147}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 149
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 26
 |Title = The Case of the Borrowed Baby
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|4|14}}
 |ProdCode = 171-160
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = Perry and Della find a baby in his office. Perry finds another man is also trying to sell information about the baby. When he is found dead, the mother looks to be guilty. Cast: [[Hugh Marlowe]] (Jarvis Baker), [[Maria Palmer]] (Florence Wood), [[Corey Allen]] (Lester Menke), [[Kaye Elhardt]] (Ginny Talbot)<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|147}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 150
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 27
 |Title = The Case of the Counterfeit Crank
 |DirectedBy = Jerry Hopper
 |WrittenBy = Robert Leslie Bellem
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|4|28}}
 |ProdCode = 171-161
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A man's business is suffering from someone embezzling. His nephew decides to have him declared incompetent. The nephew is later found murdered. Cast: [[Otto Kruger]] (August Dalgran), [[Jeanette Nolan]] (Martha Blair), [[Don Dubbins]] (Kenneth Dalgran), [[Connie Hines]] (Sandra Dalgran), [[John Larkin (actor, born 1912)|John Larkin]] (Jay Fenton), [[Burt Reynolds]] (Chuck Blair), [[John Hubbard (actor)|John Hubbard]] (Joseph Tayback)<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|147–148}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 151
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 28
 |Title = The Case of the Ancient Romeo
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = [[True Eames Boardman|True Boardman]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|5|5}}
 |ProdCode = 171-162
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = An actress takes over the part of Juliet in a theater company's show. One of the members is upset when his girlfriend loses the part. He is charged when the theater company owner is killed. Cast: [[Jeff Morrow]] (Franz Lachman), [[Rex Reason]] (Steve Brock), [[Harry von Zell]] (Phil Scharf), [[Patricia Huston]] (Claire Adams), [[Antoinette Bower]] (Ellen Carson), [[K. T. Stevens]] (Margit Bruner), [[Robert Cornthwaite (actor)|Robert Cornthwaite]] (Carl Bruner)<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|148}}<ref name="CTVA 5"/><ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|title="Case of the Ancient Romeo" on "Perry Mason" |work=The Times-Mail |date=April 1962 |location=Bedford, Indiana |page=13 |via = [[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 152
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 29
 |Title = The Case of the Promoter's Pillbox
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Peter Martin
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|5|19}}
 |ProdCode = 171-163
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A man wants to be a screenwriter instead of a pharmacist. When his script is stolen by a producer, he steals his script back. When he tries to put it back, he stumbles upon the producer's dead body. Cast: [[Geraldine Brooks (actress)|Geraldine Brooks]] (Miriam Waters), [[Dianne Foster]] (Nelly Lawton), [[Ben Cooper]] (Davis Crane), [[Linden Chiles]] (Herbert Simms), [[John Lasell]] (Charlie Cory), [[Edmon Ryan]] (Jerome Stokes), [[Geraldine Wall]] (Mrs. Simms)<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|148–149}}<ref name="CTVA 5"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 153
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 30
 |Title = The Case of the Lonely Eloper
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Robert C. Dennis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|5|26}}
 |ProdCode = 174-164
 |LineColor = c59a78 
 |ShortSummary = A woman is nearly 21, but her guardian's wife infantilizes her so she has a youngster's personality. She plans to elope after her birthday, but she's charged when her aunt is murdered and diamonds are stolen. Cast: [[John Dall]] (Julian Kirk), [[Jana Taylor]] (Merle Telford), [[Joan Staley]] (Gina Gilbert),<ref name="PM Show Book 5"/>{{Rp|138}} [[Billy Halop]] (Corbett)<ref name="CTVA 5"/>
}}
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===Season 6 (1962–63)===
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{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 154
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1
 |Title = The Case of the Bogus Books
 |DirectedBy = [[Arthur Marks]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Jonathan Latimer]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|9|27}}
 |ProdCode = 2229-168
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A woman works at a relative's bookstore. When a book is found missing, she is fired. When the owner is murdered, she is charged with the crime. Cast: [[Phyllis Love]] (Ellen Carter), [[Adam West]] (Pete Norland), [[Woodrow Parfrey]] (Herbert Pickson)<ref name="PM Show Book 6">{{cite book |last1=Kelleher |first1=Brian |last2=Merrill |first2=Diana |year=1987 |chapter=Episode Guide, The Sixth Season |chapter-url=http://www.perrymasontvshowbook.com/pmb_c905.htm |title=The Perry Mason TV Show Book |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/149 149–161] |isbn=978-0312006693 |url=https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/149}}</ref>{{Rp|149}} 
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 155
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2
 |Title = The Case of the Capricious Corpse
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|10|4}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-165
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A woman and her boyfriend are concerned what will happen to a home for disabled children when Carleton Gage dies. When they find one of the heirs dead, the boyfriend concocts an idea that backfires when his girlfriend is charged with murder. Cast: [[Lori March]] (Olive Omstead), [[Jan Shepard]] (Joane Proctor)<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|150}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 156
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3
 |Title = The Case of the Playboy Pugilist
 |DirectedBy = [[Francis D. Lyon]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Helen Nielsen]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|10|11}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-169
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A man is hired as trainer for a fighter and ends up is in the middle of a blackmail scheme and charged with murder. Cast: [[Gary Lockwood]] (Davey Carroll), [[Dianne Foster]] (Lori Richards), [[Robert Armstrong (actor)|Robert Armstrong]] (Jimmy West), [[Dolores Michaels]] (Jo Sands), [[Mark Roberts (actor)|Mark Roberts]] (Tod Richards), [[Mort Mills]] (Police Sgt. Ben Landro)<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|150}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 157
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4
 |Title = The Case of the Double-Entry Mind
 |DirectedBy = [[Allen H. Miner]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Jackson Gillis]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|10|18}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-170
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = Perry's friend is in a strained marriage so she asks him for his help. When the woman who took her job is murdered, she is charged as her husband tries to preserve the money he embezzled from the company where they worked. Cast: [[Stuart Erwin]] (Clem P. 'Sandy' Sandover), [[Virginia Christine]] (Beth Sandover), [[Kathleen Hughes]] (Lita Krail)<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|150–151}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 158
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5
 |Title = The Case of the Hateful Hero
 |DirectedBy = [[Jesse Hibbs]]
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|10|25}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-166
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A lieutenant has a cousin who is moving from the beat to a patrol car partnered with the lieutenant's old friend. The friend is killed when they respond to a burglary and when the security guard is killed later, the cousin is charged. Cast: [[Richard Davalos|Dick Davalos]] (James Anderson), [[Leonard Stone]] (Jerel Leland), [[Jeanette Nolan]] (Erna Norden), [[Mabel Albertson]] (Carrie Wilson), [[Sue England]] (Fleta York), [[William Boyett]] (Otto Norden)<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|150–151}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 159
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6
 |Title = The Case of the Dodging Domino
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Charles Lang
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|11|1}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-171
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A man married an actress who has an offer to return to work that involves a great song that she recognizes which has been plagiarized multiple times. Cast: [[Ellen Burstyn]] (Mona Winthrope White), [[Lloyd Corrigan]] (Rudy Mahlsted), [[Robert H. Harris]] (Jerry Janda), [[David Hedison]] (Damian White), [[Eddie Firestone]] (Leonard Buckman), [[James Forrest (actor)|James Forrest]] (Phil Schuyler),<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|151}} [[Maureen Arthur]] (Vera Jordan)<ref name="CTVA 6">{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://ctva.biz/US/Legal/PerryMason_06_%281962-63%29.htm |title= Perry Mason, Season 6 (CBS) (1962–63) |website=Classic TV Archive |access-date=2015-04-13}}</ref>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 160
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 7
 |Title = The Case of the Unsuitable Uncle
 |DirectedBy = Francis D. Lyon
 |WrittenBy = Robert C. Dennis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|11|8}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-167
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A merchant seaman arrives in the U.S. with his mate to visit the mate's brother and his family. When the mate is murdered, the merchant seaman is charged. Cast: [[Sean McClory]] (Harry Fothergill), [[Liam Sullivan]] (Richard W. 'Dickie' Durham), [[Howard Smith (actor)|Howard Smith]] (Frank Warden), [[Barbara Parkins]] (Paula Durham),<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|151–152}} [[Anna Lee]] (Crystal Durham), [[Harvey Korman]] (George Coleman - Bartender)<ref name="CTVA 6"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 161
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 8
 |Title = The Case of the Stand-In Sister
 |DirectedBy = Allen H. Miner
 |WrittenBy = [[Robert Leslie Bellem]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|11|15}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-173
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A man is caught in a trap when his brother wants the money he put in a trust fund for his daughter. The manager of the trust fund tries to blackmail the man about it and is murdered. Cast: [[R. G. Armstrong]] (John Gregory), [[Peter Whitney]] (Stefan 'Big Steve' Jahnchek), [[Peter Mamakos]] (Nick Paolo), [[Susan Seaforth Hayes|Susan Seaforth]] (Helen Gregory), [[Steven Geray]] (Franz Moray),<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|529}} [[Meg Wyllie]] (Margaret Stone)<ref name="CTVA 6"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 162
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 9
 |Title = The Case of the Weary Watchdog
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|11|29}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-172
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = Della is on the hook to Perry for $25,000 and also may go to prison for helping a friend charged with murder. Perry must not only prove his client innocent, but his trusted secretary as well. Cast: [[Mala Powers]] (Janet Brent), [[Doris Dowling]] (Zaneta Holmes), [[John Dall]] (Edward Franklin), [[Keye Luke]] (C. C. Chang),<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|152–153}} [[Philip Ahn]] (James Wong), [[Robert Carson (actor)|Robert Carson]] (Commodore Galen Holmes),<ref name="CTVA 6"/> [[James Hong]] (Dean Chang)
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 163
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 10
 |Title = The Case of the Lurid Letter
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|12|6}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-174
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = On vacation, Perry decides to help a woman who had been kind to him. She is a widowed high-school teacher who is accused of inappropriate behavior with some of her senior students. Cast: [[Mona Freeman]] (Jane Wardman), [[Edgar Buchanan]] (Judge Edward Daley), [[Robert Rockwell]] (Everett Rixby), [[Ann Doran]] (Cornelia Slater), [[Chris Alcaide]] (Gus Wiler)<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|153}}<ref name="CTVA 6"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 164
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 11
 |Title = The Case of the Fickle Filly
 |DirectedBy = Allen H. Miner
 |WrittenBy = Robert and Esther Mitchell
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|12|13}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-175
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A woman is upset her uncle sold her prize horse after her dad died. Given a chance to get her horse back, she is interrupted by the man who bought the horse. The man is later found dead. Cast: [[Jim Davis (actor)|Jim Davis]] (George Tabor), [[Mort Mills]] (Police Sgt. Ben Landro), [[Joan Freeman (actress)|Joan Freeman]] (Jennifer Wakeley),<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|153–154}} [[Jennifer Howard (actress)|Jennifer Howard]] (Madelon Haines Shelby), [[Strother Martin]] (Joe Mead)<ref name="CTVA 6"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 165
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 12
 |Title = The Case of the Polka-Dot Pony
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Robert C. Dennis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|12|20}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-176
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A woman is contacted by a man who believes he can put her in contact with the mother who abandoned her. When the man is murdered, she is charged. Cast: [[Jesse White (actor)|Jesse White]] (Bert Renshaw), [[Virginia Field]] (Angela Renshaw Fernaldi), [[Ben Cooper]] (James Grove), [[Melinda Plowman]] (Maureen Thomas), [[Byron Foulger]] (Leverett Thomas/Pop)<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|154}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 166
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 13
 |Title = The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Jackson Gillis
 |Aux2 = 1938 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|1|3}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-177
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A man's aunt is shoplifting and diamonds are missing from her uncle's business. When her aunt is charged with murdering a diamond agent, Perry is needed. Cast: [[Margaret O'Brien]] (Virginia Trent), [[Lurene Tuttle]] (Sarah Breel), [[Leonard Nimoy]] (Pete Chennery),<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|154}}<ref name="CTVA 6"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 167
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 14
 |Title = The Case of the Bluffing Blast
 |DirectedBy = Allen H. Miner
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|1|10}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-178
| LineColor = 2f3324 |ShortSummary = A woman is looking for her father only to find he has been dead for several years. His death occurred with suspicions that he was murdered. Cast: [[Bill Williams (actor)|Bill Williams]] (Floyd Grant), [[Frank Overton]] (Deputy D.A. Nelson Taylor), [[Peter Breck]] (Clay Elliot), [[Antoinette Bower]] (Linda Blake), [[Frank Ferguson]] (Sheriff Orville Ramsey), [[Ralph Manza]] (Dr. Lieberson), [[Bill Zuckert]] (Judge)<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|154–155}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 168
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 15
 |Title = The Case of the Prankish Professor
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Robert C. Dennis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|1|17}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-179
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A professor's estranged wife is accused of murdering her husband shortly after he stages a fake shooting in one of his classes. Cast: [[Constance Towers]] (Esther Metcalfe), [[Patricia Breslin]] (Laura Hewes), [[Barry Atwater]] (Professor Ronald Hewes), [[Kent Smith]] (Dr. Curtis Metcalfe), [[Don Dubbins]] (Ned Bertell), [[Joyce Van Patten]] (Sally Sheldon), [[Barbara Pepper]] (Mrs. Williamson), [[John Bryant (actor)|John Bryant]] (Mike Estridge)<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|155}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 169
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 16
 |Title = [[The Case of Constant Doyle]]
 |DirectedBy = Allen H. Miner
 |WrittenBy = Jackson Gillis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|1|31}}
 |ProdCode = 171-163
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = After the death of her husband and partner, a woman takes on a case involving a young man who knew her husband. She asks for Perry's help. Cast: [[Bette Davis]] (Constant Doyle), [[Michael Parks]] (Cal Leonard), [[Peggy Ann Garner]] (Letty Arthur), [[Frances Reid]] (Miss Liza Givney), [[Neil Hamilton (actor)|Neil Hamilton]] (Fred McCormick)<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|155–156}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 170
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 17
 |Title = The Case of the Libelous Locket
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|2|7}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-180
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A woman turns to her law professor when she thinks she killed a man. She is charged with murder so the professor defends her. Cast: [[Michael Rennie]] (Professor Edward Lindley), [[Ruta Lee]] (Vivian Cosgrave), [[Harry von Zell]] (Sidney Hawes), [[Carlos Romero (actor)|Carlos Romero]] (Paul Perez)<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|156}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 171
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 18
 |Title = The Case of the Two-Faced Turnabout 
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|2|14}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-182
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A political refugee from the Balkans hopes to obtain papers from a leader who supposedly committed suicide. When the seller is killed, the refugee is charged. Cast: [[Hugh O'Brian]] (Bruce Jason), [[Lisa Gaye]] (Alyssa Laban), [[Trevor Bardette]] (Garrett Richards), [[Abraham Sofaer]] (Elihu Laban), [[Robert F. Simon]] (Philip Hillman), [[Werner Klemperer]] (Ulric Zenas)<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|157}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 172
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 19
 |Title = The Case of the Surplus Suitor
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Robert C. Dennis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|2|28}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-183
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A woman is deciding between two beaus who are also after a franchise from her uncle. Her problems grow when her uncle is first blackmailed and then murdered and she is charged with the crime. Cast: [[Walter Pidgeon]] (Sherman Hatfield), [[Joyce Bulifant]] (Hollis Wilburn), [[Carl Benton Reid]] (John Wilburn), [[Linden Chiles]] (Vernon Elliott), [[Andrea King]] (Jean Crewe), [[Hayden Rorke]] (Gage McKinney), music by [[Van Cleave|Nathan Van Cleave]]<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|157}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 173
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 20
 |Title = The Case of the Golden Oranges
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|3|7}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-184
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A woman agrees to sell her grandfather's orange orchard to a developer for mall parking. When the developer is shot, she is charged. Cast: [[Natalie Trundy]] (Sandra Keller), [[Arch Johnson]] (Gerald Thornton), [[Lee Van Cleef]] (Edward Doyle)<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|157}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 174
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 21
 |Title = The Case of the Lawful Lazarus
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = [[True Eames Boardman|True Boardman]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|3|14}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-185
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A man has returned home after 10 years as his wife is dying and he wants to ensure his children have a good home with a woman instead of the family patriarch. When the patriarch is shot, the man is charged. Cast: [[David McLean (actor)|David McLean]] (Trevor Harris), [[Maria Palmer]] (Nora Kasner), [[Irene Hervey]] (Jill Garson), [[Philip Bourneuf]] (Edgar Thorne)<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|157–158}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 175
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 22
 |Title = The Case of the Velvet Claws
 |DirectedBy = [[Harmon Jones]]
 |WrittenBy = Jackson Gillis
 |Aux2 = 1933 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|3|21}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-186
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A woman is caught in a photo leaving an illegal gambling club with a politician. Fearing she will be blackmailed, she asks Perry for help. Cast: [[Patricia Barry]] (Eva Belter), [[Wynn Pearce]] (Carl Griffin), [[Virginia Gregg]] (Mrs. Vickers), [[Anna-Lisa]] (Norma Vickers), [[Richard Webb (actor)|Richard Webb]] (George C Belter),<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|158}}<ref name="CTVA 6"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 176
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 23
 |Title = The Case of the Lover's Leap
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = [[Robb White]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|4|4}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-187
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A man is handling the finances in a real estate deal. He supposedly commits suicide, but the man he has been working with on the deal is charged with his murder. Cast: [[Julie Adams]] (Valerie Comstock), [[John Conte (actor)|John Conte]] (Roy Comstock), [[Carleton Carpenter]] (Peter Brent), [[Richard Jaeckel]] (Willie), [[Marvin Miller (actor)|Marvin Miller]] (F. J. Weatherby)<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|158}}<ref name="CTVA 6"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 177
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 24
 |Title = The Case of the Elusive Element
 |DirectedBy = Harmon Jones
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|4|11}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-188
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = In an attempt to save himself, a con-artist tries to frame a man for his murder, but the murder becomes real. Cast: [[Gerald Mohr]] (Austin Lloyd), [[Gloria Talbott]] (Bonnie Lloyd),  [[Douglas Henderson (actor)|Douglas Henderson]] (Dwight Garrett), [[Douglas Dick]] (Ned Chase)<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|158–159}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 178
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 25
 |Title = The Case of the Greek Goddess
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= Robert Presnell, Sr.|t= [[Arthur E. Orloff|Arthur Orloff]] & Robert Presnell, Sr. & [[Maurice Zimm]]}}
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|4|18}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-189
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A sculptor returns from Greece with a beautiful model and her supposed mother. He becomes irritated when the mother interferes with his attempts to court the (much younger) model. When the mother is killed, he is charged. Cast: [[John Larkin (actor, born 1912)|John Larkin]] (John Kenyon), [[John Anderson (actor)|John Anderson]] (Dan O'Malley), [[George Kennedy]] (George Spengler), [[Faith Domergue]] (Cleo Grammas)<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|159}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 179
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 26
 |Title = The Case of the Skeleton's Closet
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|5|2}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-190
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A woman is deeply worried that ex-husband will publish a trashy novel because of its effect on their daughters. When she visits him, she is heard threatening to kill him. Cast: [[Peggy McCay]] (Margaret Layton), [[Frank Aletter]] (Harry Collings), [[Michael Pate]] (Richard Harris), [[Dabbs Greer]] (Jack Tabor)<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|159–160}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 180
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 27
 |Title = The Case of the Potted Planter
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Robert C. Dennis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|5|9}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-191
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A man bought a small-town radio station on a recommendation from his friend, who is married to the owner. Her husband believes the rumors about her infidelity, so when he is murdered, the man is charged. Cast: [[Constance Ford]] (Frances), [[Diane Brewster]] (Andrea Walden), [[Paul Fix]] (District Attorney Hale), [[Mark Goddard]] (Roy Mooney), [[Robert Bray]] (Martin Walden), [[Joe Maross]] (Nelson Tarr), [[Harry Lauter]] (Chris Hearn)<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|149}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 181
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 28
 |Title = The Case of the Witless Witness
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= Marshall Houts & Samuel Newman|t= Samuel Newman}}
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|5|16}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-192
 |LineColor = 2f3324 
 |ShortSummary = A judge has been nominated to run for Lt. Governor, however, he is soon forced to turn it down when he's accused of fraud and murdering the witness against him. Cast: [[Robert Middleton]] (Judge Daniel Redmond), [[David White (actor)|David White]] (Victor Kendall), [[Jackie Coogan]] (Gus Sawyer), [[Steve Brodie (actor)|Steve Brodie]] (Quinn Torrey), [[Florida Friebus]] (Marian Lamont), [[Vaughn Taylor (actor)|Vaughn Taylor]] (Martin Weston)<ref name="PM Show Book 6"/>{{Rp|160–161}}
}}
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===Season 7 (1963–64)===
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{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 182
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1
 |Title = The Case of the Nebulous Nephew
 |DirectedBy = [[Arthur Marks]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Jonathan Latimer]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|9|26}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-1203
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A man arrives at the home of two sisters saying he knew a nephew who was declared illegitimate as a youth. Due to his recall of facts, they think he is really their nephew. Cast: [[Beulah Bondi]] (Sophia Stone), [[Mark Roberts (actor)|Mark Roberts]] (Wayne Jameson), [[Hugh Marlowe]] (Ernest Stone),<ref name="PM Show Book 7">{{cite book |last1=Kelleher |first1=Brian |last2=Merrill |first2=Diana |year=1987 |chapter=Episode Guide, The Seventh Season |chapter-url=http://www.perrymasontvshowbook.com/pmb_c906.htm |title=The Perry Mason TV Show Book |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/161 161–172] |isbn=978-0312006693 |url=https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/161}}</ref>{{Rp|161}} [[Ivan Dixon]] (Caleb Stone), [[Meg Wylie]] (Ninevah Stone), [[Irene Tedrow]] (Sister Theresa)<ref name="CTVA 7">{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://ctva.biz/US/Legal/PerryMason_07_%281963-64%29.htm |title=Perry Mason, Season 7 (CBS) (1963–64) |website=Classic TV Archive |access-date=2015-04-13}}</ref> 
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 183
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2
 |Title = The Case of the Shifty Shoe-Box
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = [[Jackson Gillis]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|10|3}}
 |ProdCode = 1205
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A woman works at a trucking company and looks after a young boy and her brother. A robbery attempt and murder have the woman charged with the murder. Cast: [[Constance Ford]] (Sylvia Thompson), [[Benny Baker]] (John Flickinger), [[Bill Mumy|Billy Mumy]] (Miles Jefferson), [[Denver Pyle]] (Frank Honer), [[Joseph Sirola]] (Bill Sheridan), [[Ray Teal]] (Joe Downing), [[Diane Ladd]] (Miss Frances)<ref name="Davidson S7"/>{{Rp|24713}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 184
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3
 |Title = The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = 1943 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|10|10}}
 |ProdCode = 1206
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = Perry learns that con artists have been selling phony gold mines so to find out who's responsible, Paul disguises himself as a prospector. Cast: [[Arthur Hunnicutt]] (Sandy Bowen), [[Russell Collins]] (Banning Grant), [[Kathleen Crowley]] (Lillian Bradisson), [[Robert J. Wilke]] (Deputy Sheriff Connors), [[Strother Martin]] (Gerald Sommers), [[Ann Doran]] (Nell Wyatt)<ref name="Davidson S7"/>{{Rp|24795}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 185
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4
 |Title = The Case of the Deadly Verdict
 |DirectedBy = [[Jesse Hibbs]]
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|10|17}}
 |ProdCode = 1208
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = Perry loses a case when his client is convicted of murdering her aunt and is subsequently sentenced to death. After the verdict, Perry continues to investigate to try to find the real killer. Cast: [[Julie Adams]] (Janice Barton), [[Joan Tompkins]] (Emily Green), [[Erin O'Brien-Moore]] (Letitia Simmons), [[Jan Shepard]] (Paulette Niven), [[Steve Franken|Stephen Franken]] (Christopher Barton), [[Lee Bergere]] (Dr. Charles Nivens)<ref name="Davidson S7">{{cite book |last=Davidson |first=Jim |year=2014 |chapter=The First TV Series (1957–1966); Season 7 (1963–1964) |title=The Perry Mason Book: A Comprehensive Guide to America's Favorite Defender of Justice |type=[[e-book]] |asin=B00OOELV1K }}</ref>{{Rp|24612}} In 1997, [[TV Guide]] ranked this episode number 51 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=June 28, 1997 |title=Special Collector's Issue: 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time |magazine=[[TV Guide]] }}</ref>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 186
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5
 |Title = The Case of the Decadent Dean
 |DirectedBy = [[Earl Bellamy]]
 |WrittenBy = Joseph P. Lamont & Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|10|24}} 
 |ProdCode = 1207
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A man runs a prep school, and is running into a string of problems at the school that endanger its future. Eventually, he finds that his so-called friend is the cause and is accused of killing him, twice. Cast: [[Milton Selzer]] (Dr. Aaron Stuart), [[Lloyd Corrigan]] (Harvey Forrest), [[H. M. Wynant]] (Tobin Wade)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|162}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 187
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6
 |Title = The Case of the Reluctant Model
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = 1962 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|10|31}}
 |ProdCode = 2228-1201
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = An aspiring artist and model becomes embroiled in a lawsuit about whether a painting is a fake. When a man is found dead in her shower, she is charged. Cast: [[John Larkin (actor, born 1912)|John Larkin]] (Otto Olney), [[Robert Brown (American actor)|Robert Brown]] (Goring Gilbert), [[Joanna Moore]] (Grace Olney), [[Margaret Hayes]] (Leslie Rankin), [[John Dall]] (Colin Durant)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|162–163}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 188
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 7
 |Title = The Case of the Bigamous Spouse
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Jackson Gillis
 |Aux2 = 1961 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|11|14}}
 |ProdCode = 1210
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = An encyclopedia saleswoman has moved in with her friend and her new husband. She spots a picture in a customer's home and realizes her friend's husband is a bigamist. When he is found dead, she is the prime suspect. Cast: [[Pippa Scott]] (Gwynn Elston), [[Patrick McVey]] (George Belding Baxter), [[Karl Swenson]] (Corley Ketchum), [[Michael Conrad]] (Felton Grimes), [[Allan Melvin|Allan J. Melvin]] (Carl Jasper)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|163}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 189
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 8
 |Title = The Case of the Floating Stones
 |DirectedBy = [[Don Weis]]
 |WrittenBy = Robert C. Dennis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|11|21}}
 |ProdCode = 1202
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A woman is in Hong Kong after her grandfather's death.  He had left her a small fortune in diamonds, but they are missing. She trails two men by ship to San Francisco where she is caught leaving the office of one them who is stabbed. Cast: [[Victor Maddern]] (Gilbert Tyrell), [[Irene Tsu]] (Juli Eng), [[Joyce Jameson]] (Lorraine Iverson), [[James Hong]] (Louis Kew)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|163–164}}<ref name="CTVA 7"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 190
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 9
 |Title = The Case of the Festive Felon
 |DirectedBy = Earl Bellamy
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|11|28}}
 |ProdCode = 1209
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = Before a woman dies, she leaves a certified check to her nurse which the family and their lawyer try to hide and contest. Perry is hired to obtain the check and then defend her daughter who is charged with killing the lawyer. Cast: [[Jon Hall (actor)|Jon Hall]] (Max Randall), [[Sherry Jackson]] (Madeline Randall), [[Kathie Browne]] (Carla Eden), [[John Howard (American actor)|John Howard]] (Justin Grover)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|164}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 191
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 10
 |Title = The Case of the Devious Delinquent
 |DirectedBy = Irving J. Moore
 |WrittenBy = [[Robb White]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|12|5}}
 |ProdCode = 1211
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A young man has returned to live with his grandfather after his parents were killed. His grandfather has high hopes for his grandson, but his grandson seems to have fallen in with a hoodlum who blackmails him. Cast: [[David Winters (choreographer)|David Winters]] (Charles 'Chick' Montana), [[Virginia Christine]] (Edith Summers), [[Otto Kruger]] (Timothy Balfour Sr.), [[Barton MacLane]] (Harold Minter), [[Frances Rafferty]] (Miss Adler),<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|164}}<ref name="CTVA 7"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 192
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 11
 |Title = The Case of the Bouncing Boomerang
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = [[Arthur E. Orloff|Arthur Orloff]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|12|12}}
 |ProdCode = 1212
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A man and his wife have a rural ranch with a big mortgage. The wife wants to leave, but no one wants to pay enough until a rich Texan says it is what he wants. When she is killed, her husband is charged. Cast: [[Rod Cameron (actor)|Rod Cameron]] (Grover Johnson), [[Diana Millay]] (Eula Johnson), [[Paul Picerni]] (Walter Jeffries), [[Alan Hale Jr.|Alan Hale]] (Nelson Barclift)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|164–165}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 193
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 12
 |Title = The Case of the Badgered Brother
 |DirectedBy = Earl Bellamy
 |WrittenBy = Bob and Esther Mitchell
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|12|19}}
 |ProdCode = 1204
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A man has a chance to inherit half of his father's chain of stores with his brother. His chance depends on an exclusive dress brand, but his brother spoils his plans. Cast: [[Robert Harland]] (Todd Baylor), [[Nancy Kovack]] (Carla Rinaldi), [[Patricia Blair]] (Nicolai Wright), [[Peter Walker (actor)|Peter Walker]] (Martin Baylor), [[L. Q. Jones]] (Edward Lewis)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|165}}<ref name="CTVA 7"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 194
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 13
 |Title = The Case of the Wednesday Woman 
 |DirectedBy = Irving J. Moore
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|1|2}}
 |ProdCode = 1215
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = After a man is released from prison, he is charged with killing a detective who is looking for a missing diamond. Cast: [[Phillip Pine]] (Philip Stewart), [[Marie Windsor]] (Mrs. Helen Reed), [[John Hoyt]] (Thomas Webber), [[Michael Pate]] (Jack Mallory), [[Ralph Manza]] (Amos Elwell)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|165}}<ref name="CTVA 7"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 195
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 14
 |Title = The Case of the Accosted Accountant
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Albert A. Vail & Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|1|9}}
 |ProdCode = 1213
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A vice president of a company is in a fight with his father-in-law over the future of the business. He thinks his father-in-law is embezzling. When his father-in-law is murdered, he is seen throwing away the weapon. Cast: [[Richard Anderson]] (Edward Lewis), [[Murray Matheson]] (B. K. Doran), [[Gail Kobe]] (Gertrude Lewis), [[Lynn Bari]] (Sylvia Cord), [[Robert Armstrong (actor)|Robert Armstrong]] (Phil Jenks)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|166}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 196
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 15
 |Title = The Case of the Capering Camera
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|1|16}}
 |ProdCode = 1214
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A model confronts a photographer about returning negatives used for blackmail. When she pulls his own gun to threaten him, he is shot by someone outside. Cast: [[Margo Moore]] (Judith Blair), [[Paula Raymond]] (Katherine Ames), [[Byron Palmer]] (Harper Green), [[Karyn Kupcinet]] (Penny Ames)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|166}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 197
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 16
 |Title = The Case of the Ice-Cold Hands
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Jackson Gillis
 |Aux2 = 1962 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|1|23}}
 |ProdCode = 1217
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A woman comes to Perry wanting him to redeem bets at the horse track for her. When he does, he learns her brother is wanted for embezzlement. Cast: [[Joyce Bulifant]] (Nancy Banks), [[Richard Davalos|Dick Davalos]] (Rodney Banks), [[Dabbs Greer]] (Larsen Halstead), [[Arch Johnson]] (Marvin Fremont), [[Phyllis Coates]] (Inez Fremont), [[Paul Bryar]] (Burdette)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|166}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 198
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 17
 |Title = The Case of the Bountiful Beauty
 |DirectedBy = Irving J. Moore
 |WrittenBy = Robb White
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|2|6}}
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A woman unwittingly wrote a very successful book that is based on true stories her boyfriend told her about his step-mother. The stepmother tries to force a big payment and turns up murdered. Cast: [[Sandra Warner]] (Stephanie Carew), [[Ryan O'Neal]] (John Carew), [[Douglas Fowley]] (Rubin Cason), [[John van Dreelen]] (Gideon Long), [[Maxwell Reed]] (Chet Worth)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|166–167}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 199
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 18
 |Title = The Case of the Nervous Neighbor
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|2|13}}
 |ProdCode = 1219
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A man hires Paul to find his mother. Paul does, but she is wanted for murdering her husband. Cast: [[Paul Winchell]] (Henry Clement), [[Richard Rust]] (Charles Fuller), [[Jeanne Cooper]] (Mary Browne), [[Katherine Squire]] (Vera Hargrove), [[Sheila Bromley]] (Alice Fuller Bradley)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|167}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 200
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 19
 |Title = The Case of the Fifty-Millionth Frenchman
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= Robert C. Dennis|t= Robert C. Dennis & Jackson Gillis & Samuel Newman}}
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|2|20}}
 |ProdCode = 1216
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A man has loaned $5,000 to a woman to get away from her abusive husband. When the money is not repaid, he tracks down her husband only to be ignored by him. The husband is then murdered. Cast: [[David McCallum]] (Phillipe Bertain), [[Jacques Bergerac]] (Armand Rovel), [[Roxane Berard]] (Ninette Rovel), [[Jackie Coogan]] (Ron Litten), [[Coleen Gray]] (Linda Sutton)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|167–168}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 201
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 20
 |Title = The Case of the Frightened Fisherman
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|2|27}}
 |ProdCode = 1220
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A man and his partner have developed a new antibiotic.  A competitor wants to buy the company. He discovers his wife is helping the competitor. When she is run down, he is charged. Cast: [[Mala Powers]] (Helen Bradshaw), [[Connie Gilchrist]] (Mrs. Pennyworth), [[Lee Farr]] (Randolph James), [[Marian Collier (actress)|Marian Collier]] (Natalie James), [[Stacy Keach Sr.|Stacy Keach]] (Police Lt. Gibson)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|168}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 202
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 21
 |Title = The Case of the Arrogant Arsonist
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|3|5}}
 |ProdCode = 1221
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A retired fire chief owns a warehouse that is burned by an arsonist and kills a manager. A TV reporter accuses him of setting the fire and he hires Perry to sue for slander. He is charged with murder when the reporter is killed. Cast: [[Tom Tully]] (Carey York), [[Frank Aletter]] (Tommy Towne),<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|168}} [[Russell Thorson]] (Farrell Moorefield)<ref name="CTVA 7"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 203
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 22
 |Title = The Case of the Garrulous Go-Between
 |DirectedBy = Irving J. Moore
 |WrittenBy = [[Philip Saltzman]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|3|12}}
 |ProdCode = 1222
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A man is concerned for a woman who hired him to find a man and visits a fortuneteller regularly. He finds the fortuneteller has been partners with the woman's landlord in scams in the past and when the landlord turns up murdered, she is charged. Cast: [[Sue Randall]] (Amy Scott), [[Lori March]] (Madame Zillia), [[Jacques Aubuchon]] (Victor Bundy)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|169}}<ref name="CTVA 7"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 204
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 23
 |Title = The Case of the Woeful Widower
 |DirectedBy = Irving J. Moore
 |WrittenBy = Jackson Gillis
 |Aux2 = 1951 novel{{efn|Title changed from Gardner's original, ''The Case of the Fiery Fingers''}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|3|26}}
 |ProdCode = 1223
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = Perry defends two clients: a housekeeper for theft and the stepsister of the murder victim who stands to inherit her estate. Cast: [[Jerry Van Dyke]] (James Douglas), [[Harry Townes]] (Newton Bain), [[Nancy Gates]] (Mary Douglas), [[Joan Banks|Joan Lovejoy]] (Nellie Conway), [[Shirley Mitchell]] (Elizabeth Bain)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|169}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 205
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 24
 |Title = The Case of the Simple Simon
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Robert C. Dennis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|4|2}}
 |ProdCode = 1224
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = An actress with a traveling four-person show has a young man come forward claiming to be her son she put up for adoption. She asks Perry to help turn him away. Cast: [[Victor Buono]] (John Sylvester Fossette), [[Virginia Field]] (Ramona Carter),<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|169–170}} [[Tom Conway]] (Guy Penrose), [[James Stacy]] (Scott Everett)<ref name="CTVA 7"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 206
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 25
 |Title = The Case of the Illicit Illusion
 |DirectedBy = Irving J. Moore
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|4|9}}
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A woman visits her friend to see why she feels like she is losing her sanity. She can't remember things, which is affecting her work. When an associate of her husband is killed, she is charged with the crime. Cast: [[Mona Freeman]] (Rosanne Ambrose), [[Keith Andes]] (Dr. Jesse Young), [[Ron Randell]] (Hubert Ambrose), [[Rebecca Welles]] (Leslie Eden)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|170}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 207
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 26
 |Title = The Case of the Antic Angel
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Robert C. Dennis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|4|16}}
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A recovering alcoholic thinks he sees his dead wife leaving a bar. The experience causes him to start drinking and he contacts Perry because she died in a plane crash. Cast: [[Michael Ansara]] (Vince Kabat), [[George Tobias]] (Sidney Falconer), [[Peter Breck]] (William Sherwood), [[Richard Erdman]] (Harry Niles)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|170}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 208
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 27
 |Title = The Case of the Careless Kidnapper
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Robb White
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|4|30}}
 |ProdCode = 1227
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A doctor comes home to learn that his son has been kidnapped and his wife accidentally killed a boy that was involved. He tries to cover for his wife. Cast: [[Tom Lowell|Thomas Lowell]] (David Pelham), [[Marilyn Erskine]] (Susan Pelham), [[Burt Metcalfe]] (John Lanthrop), [[Peter Hobbs (actor)|Peter Hobbs]] (Dr. Gregory Pelham), [[Ron Gans|Ron Kennedy]] (Joe Velvet)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|170–171}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 209
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 28
 |Title = The Case of the Drifting Dropout
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Jackson Gillis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|5|7}}
 |ProdCode = 1228
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A young man has been working for a partner of his dead uncle. Fed up, he quits and is hired to investigate his uncle and the former boss who is murdered. Cast: [[Cynthia Pepper]] (Annalee Flaher), [[Malcolm Atterbury]] (Dell Harper), [[Carl Reindel]] (Barry Davis), [[Vaughn Taylor (actor)|Vaughn Taylor]] (Sanford Harper), [[Ted de Corsia]] (Mort Lynch), [[Neil Hamilton (actor)|Neil Hamilton]] (Grove Dillingham)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|171}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 210
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 29
 |Title = The Case of the Tandem Target
 |DirectedBy = Irving J. Moore
 |WrittenBy = Robert C. Dennis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|5|14}}
 |ProdCode = 1229
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A club singer hoping to save enough to marry his girl hopes to inherit money from her dead father. But her stepfather is standing in the way of both events. He is charged when the stepfather is murdered. Cast: [[Philip Ober]] (Sumner Hodge/Adrian Hodge), [[Ann Rutherford]] (Mona Hodge), [[Lonny Chapman]] (Jack Tailey), [[Paul Carr (actor)|Paul Carr]] (Con Bolton), [[Pat Priest (actress)|Pat Priest]] (Sally Young)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|171}}<ref name="CTVA 7"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 211
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 30
 |Title = The Case of the Ugly Duckling
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Richard Landau
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|5|21}}
 |ProdCode = 1230
 |LineColor = c4bb92 
 |ShortSummary = A woman can inherit her deceased father's toy company empire if she marries by her next birthday. Her uncle has tried to introduce her to men. He is later found dead after arguing with her. Cast: [[Anne Whitfield]] (Alice Trilling), [[Constance Towers]] (Natalie Graham), [[Reginald Gardiner]] (Albert Charity), [[Max Showalter]] (Talbot Sparr)<ref name="PM Show Book 7"/>{{Rp|172}}
}}
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===Season 8 (1964–65)===
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{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 212
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1
 |Title = The Case of the Missing Button
 |DirectedBy = [[Richard Donner|Richard D. Donner]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Jonathan Latimer]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|9|24}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A man is in a tug of war with his wife over their daughter. He feels she is an unfit mother. He is charged with murder when the man he asks to obtain info to be used to fight his wife is killed. Cast: [[Julie Adams]] (Janice Blake), [[Ed Nelson]] (Dirk Blake), [[Anthony Eisley]] (Vince Rome), [[Otto Kruger]] (Judge Norris)<ref name="PM Show Book 8">{{cite book |last1=Kelleher |first1=Brian |last2=Merrill |first2=Diana |year=1987 |chapter=Episode Guide, The Eighth Season |chapter-url=http://www.perrymasontvshowbook.com/pmb_c907.htm |title=The Perry Mason TV Show Book |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/172 172–185] |isbn=978-0312006693 |url=https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/172 }}</ref>{{Rp|172}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 213
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2
 |Title = The Case of the Paper Bullets
 |DirectedBy = [[Arthur Marks]]
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|10|1}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A man is running for senator, but his teenage sister has fallen for his opponent's stepson. When the stepson is murdered, the man's wife is charged. Cast: [[Richard Anderson]] (Jason Foster), [[Lynn Loring]] (Susan Foster), [[Ford Rainey]] (Senator Randolph Cartwell), [[Patrick McVey]] (Harry Mardig), [[Jan Shepard]] (Margaret Foster), [[Arthur Space]] (Edgerton Cartwell), [[Stewart Moss]] (David Cartwell)<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|173}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 214
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3
 |Title = The Case of the Scandalous Sculptor
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|10|8}}
 |DirectedBy = [[Jack Arnold (director)|Jack Arnold]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Philip Saltzman]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = While a woman is away, her husband tries to get access to $10,000 to pay a blackmailer. He uses his model to concoct his own blackmail scheme, but it backfires when the model is murdered and his wife is charged with it. Cast: [[June Lockhart]] (Mona Stanton Harvey), [[Stuart Erwin]] (Everett Stanton), [[Sue Ane Langdon]] (Bonnie Dunbar), [[Sean McClory]] (Hannibal Harvey), [[Carlos Romero (actor)|Carlos Romero]] (Nonno Volente)<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|173}}
}}  
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 215
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4
 |Title = The Case of the Sleepy Slayer
 |DirectedBy = [[Jesse Hibbs]]
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|10|15}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A secretary for the old curmudgeon has been promised $50,000. When his boss is killed, his niece is accused as she shot him. But he was dead beforehand, so his secretary is charged. Cast: [[Phyllis Hill]] (Rachel Gordon), [[Hugh Marlowe]] (Dr. Lambert), [[Gigi Perreau]] (Phyllis Clover), [[Richard Hale]] (Abner Gordon),<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|174}}<ref name="CTVA 8">{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://ctva.biz/US/Legal/PerryMason_08_%281964-65%29.htm |title=Perry Mason, Season 8 (CBS) (1964–65) |website=Classic TV Archive |access-date=2015-04-13}}</ref>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 216
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5
 |Title = The Case of the Betrayed Bride
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = John Elliotte
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|10|22}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A woman trails her husband to the USA from France as he left her and illegally married a wealthy heiress. When he is killed, she is charged. Cast: [[Annie Fargé|Anne Farge]] (Marie Claudel Dubois), [[Dianne Foster]] (Elaine Meacham), [[Michael Forest]] (Pierre Dubois), [[Jeanette Nolan]] (Nellie Meacham Dubois), [[Guy Stockwell]] (Jimmy Meacham), [[John Larkin (actor, born 1912)|John Larkin]] (Todd Meacham), [[Jacques Aubuchon]] (Roger Brody),<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|172}} [[Neil Hamilton (actor)|Neil Hamilton]] (Victor Billings)<ref name="CTVA 8"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 217
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6
 |Title = The Case of the Nautical Knot
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = [[Robert Leslie Bellem]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|10|29}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A nurse is tending to a man in Mexico. When his brother appears saying there are problems with their uncle, he decides to return to L.A. and marry his nurse, but the uncle is killed and the nurse is charged. Cast: [[Anne Whitfield]] (Joanna Monford Scott), [[Lisa Gaye]] (Pamela Blair), [[Arline Judge]] (Emmalou Schneider), [[Whit Bissell]] (Laurence Barlow)<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|174–175}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 218
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 7
 |Title = The Case of the Bullied Bowler
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|11|5}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = Paul's friend and his brother are fighting the matron of their town to keep their bowling alley open. She uses a health outbreak as an excuse to close it, but the county health inspector is murdered and Paul's friend is charged. Cast: [[Mike Connors]] (Joe Kelly), [[Anne Seymour (actress)|Anne Seymour]] (Bonnie Mae Wilmet aka The Duchess), [[Milton Selzer]] (Dr. Max Taylor), [[Robert Harland]] (Bill Jaris), [[Jeff Donnell]] (Rose Carol),<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|175}} [[Patricia Morrow]] (Marla Carol)<ref name="CTVA 8"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 219
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 8
 |Title = The Case of a Place Called Midnight
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = [[Jackson Gillis]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|11|12}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = While in Europe, Perry makes a side trip, meeting the girlfriend of a family friend who's in the Army. When an officer is murdered, his friend is suspected. Cast: [[Gerald Mohr]] (Alan Durfee), [[Harry Townes]] (Col. Owens), [[Robert Emhardt]] (Frank Appleton), [[Werner Klemperer]] (Police Inspector Hurt), [[Jim Davis (actor)|Jim Davis]] (Captain Joe Farrell), [[Ivan Triesault]] (Dr. Franz Kleinman)<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|175–176}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 220
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 9
 |Title = The Case of the Tragic Trophy
 |DirectedBy = Richard D. Donner
 |WrittenBy = [[Mann Rubin]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|11|19}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A movie producer returns from Mexico supposedly engaged to an aspiring actress. In reality, she is trying to clear her father who the producer claimed worked drunk on a film. Cast: [[Richard Carlson (actor)|Richard Carlson]] (Anthony Fry), [[Mimsy Farmer]] (Kathy James), [[Patricia Huston]] (Lydia Lawrence), [[John Fiedler]] (Howard Stark)<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|176}}<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|title=Movie Starlet Accused of Murder on 'Perry Mason' |work=The Daily Herald |date=November 16, 1964 |location=Provo, Utah |page=22 |via = [[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 221
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 10
 |Title = The Case of the Reckless Rockhound 
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = [[Robb White]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|11|26}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A woman has kept a small mine functioning based on diamonds she found herself. When her dead husband's ex-partner returns, he wants half the diamonds, but instead is killed. Cast: [[Audrey Totter]] (Reba Burgess), [[Bruce Bennett]] (Malone), [[Elisha Cook Jr.|Elisha Cook]] (Reelin' Pete), [[Ben Johnson (actor)|Ben Johnson]] (Kelly), [[Jeff Corey]] (Carl Bascom),<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|172}} [[Ted de Corsia]] (Chief Polek)<ref name="CTVA 8"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 222
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 11
 |Title = The Case of the Latent Lover
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|12|3}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A man is the head of the probation department so when his friend's husband is arrested, he agrees to help by asking to have him examined. The husband says the man is having an affair with his wife so when she is killed he is charged. Cast: [[Lloyd Bochner]] (Eric Pollard), [[Jason Evers]] (Roy Galen), [[Douglass Dumbrille]] (Judge Alder)<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|177}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 223
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 12
 |Title = The Case of the Wooden Nickels
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|12|10}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A woman asks Paul to complete a secretive deal for her uncle involving the sale of a rare coin. Paul follows the instructions, but finds himself at the uncle's shop where he stumbles into the woman over a man shot to death. Cast: [[Will Kuluva]] (Homer Doubleday), [[Phyllis Love]] (Minerva Doubleday), [[Murray Matheson]] (Howard Hopkins), [[Walter Burke]] (Gerald Kelso), [[Jack Betts|Hunt Powers]] (George Parsons)<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|172}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 224
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 13
 |Title = The Case of the Blonde Bonanza
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Jackson Gillis
 |Aux2 = 1962 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|12|17}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A friend of Della's has quit her job when a man signed her to a modeling contract that Perry discovers allows the agent to take half of any money she comes into. When the agent is murdered, she is charged. Cast: [[Mary Ann Mobley]] (Dianne Adler), [[Michael Constantine]] (Dillard), [[Bruce Gordon (American actor)|Bruce Gordon]] (George Adler), [[Vaughn Taylor (actor)|Vaughn Taylor]] (Montrose Foster), [[Paul Gilbert (actor)|Paul Gilbert]] (Harrison Boring), [[Ruth Warrick]] (Mrs. Winlock)<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|177–178}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 225
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 14
 |Title = The Case of the Ruinous Road
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Robert and Esther Mitchell
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|12|31}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A junior engineer for a construction firm that is having cost issues, is uncovering issues with boss. The boss frames the junior engineer for embezzling. The boss is murdered with the junior engineer seen leaving the scene. Cast: [[Grant Williams (actor)|Grant Williams]] (Quincy Davis), [[Barton MacLane]] (Archer Osmond), [[Allen Case]] (Adam Conrad), [[Bert Freed]] (Joe Marshall)<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|178}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 226
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 15
 |Title = The Case of the Frustrated Folk Singer
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = John Elliotte
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|1|7}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A woman arrives in Los Angeles to start a singing career. She is spotted by an agent who signs the naive girl to a contract. When he is killed, she is charged. Cast: [[Gary Crosby (actor)|Gary Crosby]] (Jazbo Williams), [[Bonnie Jones]] (Amy Jo Jennings), [[Mark Goddard]] (Lester Crawforf), [[Robert H. Harris]] (Harry Bronson), [[Richard Garland]] (Lionel Albright), [[Joyce Meadows]] (Audrey Stemple), [[Lee Meriwether]] (Natalie Graham)<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|178–179}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 227
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 16
 |Title = The Case of the Thermal Thief
 |DirectedBy = Jack Arnold
 |WrittenBy = Robert C. Dennis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|1|14}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A woman is tired of hearing her half-sister memorialize her dead husband so when a woman arrives to return Lona's purse, she takes in her as a friend. The woman who returned the purse steals a necklace and is murdered. Cast: [[Bettye Ackerman|Betty Ackerman]] (Amy Reid), [[Barry Sullivan (actor)|Barry Sullivan]] (Ken Kramer), [[Kathie Browne]] (Lola Upton), [[Richard Eastham]] (Roland Canfield)<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|179}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 228
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 17
 |Title = The Case of the Golden Venom
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Jackson Gillis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|1|21}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A woman returns home after a year in Europe and her husband died a year earlier and her son was killed before that. She believes her son was murdered and wants revenge. However, she is charged with killing the man she thinks did it. Cast: [[Lee Philips]] (Kevin Lawrence), [[Noah Beery Jr.|Noah Beery]] (Tony Claus), [[Frances Reid]] (Lucille Forrest), [[Frank Ferguson]] (Walter Coffee), [[Mort Mills]] (Police Sgt. Ben Landro), [[Arthur Malet]] (Ralph Day)<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|179}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 229
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 18
 |Title = The Case of the Telltale Tap
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|2|4}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A rising accountant works at a company where the CEO's secretary has fallen in love with him. When she learns he loves the niece of the CEO, she turns on him. After they have argued, she is found murdered. Cast: [[Linden Chiles]] (Clyde Darrell), [[Roland Winters]] (Archer Bryant), [[Jeanne Bal]] (Vera Wynne), [[H. M. Wynant]] (Glen Holman)<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|179–180}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 230
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 19
 |Title = The Case of the Feather Cloak
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|2|11}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = While in Hawaii to check on property for a hotel development, Perry is asked to help a woman who owns a critical piece of property. Her fiancé breaks their engagement and is murdered. Cast: [[Jon Hall (actor)|Jon Hall]] (Police Lt. Kia), [[David Opatoshu]] (Prof. Gustave Heller), [[John van Dreelen]] (Jarvis Logan), [[Michael Dante]] (Douglas Kelland), [[Wende Wagner]] (Anona Gilbert), [[Joyce Jameson]] (Dolly Jameson),<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|180}} [[Keye Luke]] (Choy)<ref name="CTVA 8"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 231
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 20
 |Title = The Case of the Lover's Gamble
 |DirectedBy = [[Harry Harris (director)|Harry Harris]]
 |WrittenBy = Jackson Gillis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|2|18}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A woman is offered the chance to live with her professor and his wife, who is recovering from an accident. She becomes suspicious that he may try to harm his wife who is set to inherit $2,000,000. When he is murdered, she is charged. Cast: [[Harold Peary|Hal Peary]] (Freddy Fell), [[Maggie Blye|Margaret Bly]] (Betty Kaster), [[Donald Murphy (actor)|Donald Murphy]] (Dr. Philip Stark), [[Joan O'Brien]] (Jill Fenwick), [[June Dayton]] (Frances Stark)<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|180–181}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 232
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 21
 |Title = The Case of the Fatal Fetish
 |DirectedBy = Charles R. Rondeau
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|3|4}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = The assistant D.A. to Burger has a girlfriend with expensive tastes. She is disliked by his mother and becomes a tool to make it look like the assistant D.A. is messing with a legal case. He's seen over her body stabbed with his mother's prop. Cast: [[Fay Wray]] (Mignon Germaine), [[Karen Steele]] (Carina Wileen), [[Alan Hewitt]] (Curt Ordway), [[Gary Collins (actor)|Gary Collins]] (Larry Germaine), [[Lynn Bari]] (Ruth Duncan), [[Douglas Kennedy (actor)|Douglas Kennedy]] (Brady Duncan), [[Richard Devon]] (Attorney Neil Howard), [[James Griffith]] (Jack Randall)<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|181}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 233
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 22
 |Title = The Case of the Sad Sicilian
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = [[Milton Krims]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|3|11}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = An Italian is seeing the sights and getting around by visiting Italian families. He visits the Bacio family which stirs up a family feud. The elder Bacio is killed and he is charged. Cast: [[Margo (actress)|Margo]] (Serafina Bacio), [[Nico Minardos]] (Giangiacomo Bacio), [[Anthony Caruso (actor)|Anthony Caruso]] (Enrico Bacio), [[Fabrizio Mioni]] (Paulo Porro), [[Dabbs Greer]] (Dodson)<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|181–182}}<ref name="CTVA 8"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 234
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 23
 |Title = The Case of the Murderous Mermaid
 |DirectedBy = [[Robert Sparr]]
 |WrittenBy = Mann Rubin
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|3|18}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = Paul meets an aspiring actress who is game for stunts that will get her recognized. When she agrees to fill in for a famous female swimmer who is too ill to swim, the stunt blows up with the woman dead and she is charged. Cast: [[Patrice Wymore]] (Victoria Dawn), [[Bill Williams (actor)|Bill Williams]] (Charlie Shaw), [[Jean Hale]] (Reggie Lansfield)<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|172}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 235
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 24
 |Title = The Case of the Careless Kitten
 |DirectedBy = [[Vincent McEveety]]
 |WrittenBy = Jackson Gillis
 |Aux2 = 1942 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|3|25}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A woman is living with her aunt. She receives a call one night from a man claiming to be her aunt's husband who has been missing for 10 years. Perry goes with her to meet him, but they find another man dead. Cast: [[Louise Latham]] (Matilda Shore), [[Allan Melvin]] (Thomas Link), [[Julie Sommars]] (Helen Kendall)<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|182}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 236
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 25
 |Title = The Case of the Deadly Debt
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Robert C. Dennis
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|4|1}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A Los Angeles cop resigns when a mobster he is investigating contacts his family after his dad dies. The cop is seen by Perry leaving a dead man's cabin. Cast: [[Chris Robinson (American actor)|Chris Robinson]] (Carl Talbert), [[Robert Quarry]] (Danny Talbert), [[Allison Hayes]] (Stella Radom), [[Sheila Bromley]] (Mrs. Talbert)<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|182–183}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 237
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 26
 |Title = The Case of the Gambling Lady
 |DirectedBy = Richard D. Donner
 |WrittenBy = Jonathan Latimer
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|4|8}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A man owns a novelty company and is divorcing his wife who has developed a gambling habit. She becomes involved in a scheme to pass chips at Nevada casinos with evidence her husband made them. When she is murdered, he is charged. Cast: [[Peter Breck]] (Pete Warren), [[Jesse White (actor)|Jesse White]] (Tony Cerro), [[Ruta Lee]] (Irene Prentiss), [[Myrna Fahey]] (Myrna Warren)<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|183}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 238
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 27
 |Title = The Case of the Duplicate Case
 |DirectedBy = [[James Goldstone]]
 |WrittenBy = Philip Saltzman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|4|22}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A retired baseball player who is now working as a shoe insert salesman and his wife is an accountant at a store. After a fire in her office, she is murdered and her husband is charged. Cast: [[Martin West (actor)|Martin West]] (Herbert Cornwall), [[Susan Bay]] (Millie Cornwall), [[Steve Ihnat]] (Charlie Parks), [[Douglass Dumbrille]] (Judge)<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|183}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 239
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 28
 |Title = The Case of the Grinning Gorilla
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Jackson Gillis
 |Aux2 = 1952 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|4|29}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = Perry helps a woman after Della buys the diary of a girl who committed suicide. Her ex-boss has been telling people she is a thief so she sued him. Perry must rescue her from a gorilla trapping her with her dead boss. Cast: [[Victor Buono]] (Nathan Fallan), [[Charlene Holt]] (Helen Cadmus), [[Lurene Tuttle]] (Josephine Kempton), [[Gavin MacLeod]] (Mortimer Hershey),<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|184}}<ref name="CTVA 8"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 240
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 29
 |Title = The Case of the Wrongful Writ
 |DirectedBy = [[Richard Kinon]]
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|5|6}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A man is approached by someone claiming to be a government agent asking him to use his father's export business to help in a secret project. When the agent is murdered, he is charged. Cast: [[James Shigeta]] (Ward Toyama), [[Philip Abbott]] (Harry Grant), [[Peter Whitney]] (Capt. Otto Varnum), [[Bobby Troup]] (Smitty), [[Katherine Squire]] (Esther Norden), [[Douglas Henderson (actor)|Douglas Henderson]] (Frank Jones),<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|184}} [[Nobu McCarthy]] (Sally Choshi)<ref name="CTVA 8"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 241
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 30
 |Title = The Case of the Mischievous Doll
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Jackson Gillis
 |Aux2 = 1963 novel
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|5|13}}
| LineColor = a0c7d6 |ShortSummary = A woman bursts into Perry's office so he can verify who she is. She won't give details, but says she is mixed up in some scheme. Della spots a gun in her purse. When the man who hired her is killed, she is charged. Cast: [[Ben Cooper]] (Clyde Jasper),<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|184–185}} [[Marge Redmond]] (Henrietta Hull)<ref name="CTVA 8"/>
}}
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===Season 9 (1965–66)===
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{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 242
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1
 |Title = The Case of the Laughing Lady
 |DirectedBy = [[Jesse Hibbs]]
 |WrittenBy = [[Orville H. Hampton]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|9|12}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = A woman is in jail awaiting her trial for murder. She has fired or lost multiple attorneys, so Perry is given her case. She tells him about proof of her innocence, but even Perry has a hard time believing her story. Cast: [[Constance Towers]] (Leona Devore), [[Jean Hale]] (Carla Chaney), [[John Abbott (actor)|John Abbott]] (Dr. Durwood Tobey), [[Bernard Fox (actor)|Bernard Fox]] (Peter Stange),<ref name="PM Show Book 9">{{cite book |last1=Kelleher |first1=Brian |last2=Merrill |first2=Diana |year=1987 |chapter=Episode Guide, The Ninth Season |chapter-url=http://www.perrymasontvshowbook.com/pmb_c908.htm |title=The Perry Mason TV Show Book |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/185 185–198] |isbn=978-0312006693 |url=https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/185 }}</ref>{{Rp|185}} [[John Dall]] (Roan Daniel), [[Allison Hayes]] (Cho Sin)<ref name="CTVA 9">{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://ctva.biz/US/Legal/PerryMason_09_%281965-66%29.htm |title=Perry Mason, Season 9 (CBS) (1965–66) |website=Classic TV Archive |access-date=2015-04-13}}</ref>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 243
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2
 |Title = The Case of the Fatal Fortune
 |DirectedBy = [[Arthur Marks]]
 |WrittenBy = [[William Bast]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|9|19}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = A fortune teller tells a woman that she will get married, but it will end tragically. She later marries her boss who is a client and good friend of Perry's. A few weeks later he dies from an apparent case of poisoning. Cast: [[Julie Adams]] (Patricia L. Kean), [[Lee Philips]] (Gordon Evans), [[Jesse White (actor)|Jesse White]] (Max Armstead), [[Ford Rainey]] (Dr. Fisher), [[Nan Martin]] (Beth Fuller)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|185–186}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 244
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3
 |Title = The Case of the Candy Queen
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Orville H. Hampton, [[Robb White]]
 |Aux2 = 1940 novel{{efn|Title changed from Gardner's original, ''The Case of the Silent Partner''}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|9|26}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = A woman falls for a gambler. When her secret candy recipe is stolen, a casino owner is killed and she is charged. Cast: [[Nancy Gates]] (Claire Armstrong), [[Patricia Smith (actress)|Patricia Smith]] (Wanda Buren), [[John Archer (actor)|John Archer]] (Harry Arnold)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|186}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 245
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4
 |Title = The Case of the Cheating Chancellor
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Lawrence Louis Goldman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|10|3}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = A man is an instructor at Perry's alma mater. He is working on his PhD and the person he is working with is taking advantage of him by claiming credit for their combined work. Cast: [[Louise Latham]] (Shirley Logan), [[Barry Atwater|G. B. Atwater]] (Dr. Stuart Logan), [[Lee Meriwether]] (Evelyn Wilcox), [[Adrienne Ellis]] (Myra Finlay), [[Stacy Keach Sr.|Stacy Keach]] (Judge)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|186}}<ref name="CTVA 9"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 246
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5
 |Title = The Case of the Impetuous Imp
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = William Bast
 |Aux2 = 1950 novel{{efn|Title changed from Gardner's original, ''The Case of the Negligent Nymph''}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|10|10}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = A woman is assisted from the water after stealing a message in a bottle from her dead aunt's home. She believes the man her aunt married murdered her. Perry must first defend her for theft, but when the man is killed, she is charged. Cast: Bonnie Jones (Diana Carter), [[Hanna Hertelendy|Hanna Landy]] (Helga Dolwig), [[Richard Webb (actor)|Richard Webb]] (Addison Powell)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|186–187}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 247
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6
 |Title = The Case of the Carefree Coronary
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Orville H. Hampton
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|10|17}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = Perry is called in to investigate why an insurance company is near bankruptcy due to excessive claims. He calls in a claimant who appears to be healthy, but dies when forced to come in for an exam, putting Perry in the hot seat. Cast: [[Bruce Bennett]] (Reve Watson), [[Benny Baker]] (Jerry Ormond), [[Whit Bissell]] (Dennison Groody), [[Hal Baylor]] (Jack David), [[Shirley Mitchell]] (Marilyn David), music by [[Leigh Harline]]<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|187}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 248
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 7
 |Title = The Case of the Hasty Honeymooner
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = Ernest Frankel, Orville H. Hampton, John Elliotte
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|10|24}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = A man asks Perry for a will for his wife-to-be. When a dating service contacts Perry about the man, Perry looks deeper into his history. Cast: [[Noah Beery Jr.|Noah Beery]] (Lucas Tolliver), [[K.T. Stevens]] (Alice Munford), [[Hugh Marlowe]] (Guy Munford), [[Cathy Downs]] (Millicent Barton Tolliver), [[Strother Martin]] (Roy Hutchinson)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|187–188}}}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 249
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 8
 |Title = The Case of the 12th Wildcat
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Ernest Frankel
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|10|31}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = A woman is the primary owner of a football team. Her husband owns ten percent. He was a successful college player, but is now a drunk gambler. When he is killed, she is charged. Cast: [[Mona Freeman]] (Ellen Payne), [[Bill Williams (actor)|Bill Williams]] (Burt Payne), [[Regis Toomey]] (Andy Grant), [[John Conte (actor)|John Conte]] (Judson Warner), [[Karl Swenson]] (Unk Hazekian), and cameo appearances by [[Los Angeles Rams]] players [[Don Chuy]], [[Roman Gabriel]], [[Cliff Livingston]], [[Marlin McKeever]], [[Bill Munson]] and [[Joe Scibelli]]<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|188}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 250
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 9
 |Title = The Case of the Wrathful Wraith
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = [[Henry Farrell]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|11|7}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = Perry successfully defends a woman when she is charged with killing her husband. It appears she killed him again when it turns out he was still alive. Cast: [[Gene Lyons (actor)|Gene Lyons]] (Ralph Balfour), [[Geraldine Wall]] (Mrs. Stallman)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|188–189}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 251
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 10
 |Title = The Case of the Runaway Racer
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Sy Salkowitz
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|11|14}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = A race car driver is in a new partnership. After the fact, he asked Perry to look it over and he discovers problems. When he has an accident in a test car, it starts a series of events leading to the murder of his partner. Cast: [[Anthony Caruso (actor)|Anthony Caruso]] (Harvey Rettig), [[Michael Constantine]] (Pappy Ryan), [[Gavin MacLeod]] (Dan Platte)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|189}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 252
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 11
 |Title = The Case of the Silent Six
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = William Bast
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|11|21}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = A woman is beaten within an inch of her life while her neighbors sit and do nothing. Her brother runs to the apartment to check on his sister and is knocked unconscious as a man is killed. Cast: [[Skip Homeier]] (Police Sgt. Dave Wolfe), [[Dianne Foster]] (Linda Blakely), [[Cyril Delevanti]] (Craig Jefferson), [[Chris Noel]] (Susan Wolfe)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|189}}<ref name="CTVA 9"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 253
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 12
 |Title = The Case of the Fugitive Fraulein
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = [[Jonathan Latimer]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|11|28}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = Perry is asked to help get a scientist's granddaughter out of East Germany so she can live with her mother's parents. A go-between is murdered during negotiations and the scientist's wife is charged so Perry defends her in East Germany. Cast: [[Susanne Cramer]] (Gerta), [[Jeanette Nolan]] (Emma Ritter), [[Ronald Long]] (Franz Hoffer)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|190}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 254
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 13
 |Title = The Case of the Baffling Bug
 |DirectedBy = [[Vincent McEveety]]
 |WrittenBy = Orville H. Hampton
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|12|12}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = A doctor works for a company developing a new secret process. The company hires Paul to ensure security for a meeting, but the details leak. The doctor had worked for the competition so when a man is killed in his lab, he is charged. Cast: [[Grant Williams (actor)|Grant Williams]] (Dr. Todd Meade), [[Bryan O'Byrne|Byron O'Byrne]] (Borace Lehigh), [[Mary Treen]] (Bess)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|190}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 255
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 14
 |Title = The Case of the Golden Girls
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Orville H. Hampton, Ernest Frankel
 |Aux2 = 1940 novel{{efn|name="Vagabond"}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|12|19}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = A man picks up a young lady hitchhiking which results in being blackmailed by her. He is part owner of a storied men's club, but a new co-owner is changing the format. When the new owner is killed, he is charged and the hitchhiker is a key witness. Cast: [[Philip Bourneuf]] (Victor Montalvo), [[Victoria Vetri|Angela Dorian]] (Debbie Conrad), [[Jean Engstrom]] (Corinne Richland), [[George N. Neise|George Neise]] (Stacey Garnett)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|190–191}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 256
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 15
 |Title = The Case of the Bogus Buccaneers
 |DirectedBy = [[Arthur Hiller]]
 |WrittenBy = Henry Farrell
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|1|9}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = An ex-con is given a job playing a TV pirate giving gifts to selected viewers. He arrives at an address where an angry woman answers wanting her money. He fights to leave and an eye witness identifies him as her killer. Cast: [[Rhodes Reason]] (Martin Eldridge), [[Patricia Cutts]] (Ann Eldridge), [[Kathleen Crowley]] (Grace Elders Knapp)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|191}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 257
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 16
 |Title = The Case of the Midnight Howler
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = [[Robert E. Kent]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|1|16}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 258
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 17
 |Title = The Case of the Vanishing Victim
 |DirectedBy = [[Harmon Jones]]
 |WrittenBy = Ernest Frankel, Orville H. Hampton
 |Aux2 = 1954 novel{{efn|Title changed from Gardner's original, ''The Case of the Fugitive Nurse''; filmed under the original title  in 1958 as episode #22 }}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|1|23}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = A woman is charged with poisoning her husband when he is killed in a plane he was piloting. Cast: [[Lisa Gaye]] (Laraine Keely), [[Jeanne Cooper]] (Miriam Fielding), [[George D. Wallace|George Wallace]] (Stacey Fielding), [[Richard Erdman]] (Jud Bennett),<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|192}} <ref name="CTVA 9"/>
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 259
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 18
 |Title = The Case of the Golfer's Gambit
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Orville H. Hampton
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|1|30}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = An aspiring pro at a golf club must contend with the current pro who was kicked off the professional circuit for his behavior. The current pro is killed with the inspiring pro's club after threatening him with blackmail. Cast: [[Carl Reindel]] (Danny Bright), [[Harry Townes]] (Erwin Brandt), [[Dennis Patrick]] (Chick Farley), [[Gertrude Flynn]] (Rosalind/Mrs. Hedrick)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|192}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 260
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 19
 |Title = The Case of the Sausalito Sunrise
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Ernest Frankel, Orville H. Hampton
 |Aux2 = 1952 novel{{efn|Title changed from Gardner's original, ''The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink''}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|2|13}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = A cop discovers an art dealer is selling a stolen painting. When the cop is found dead in the gallery, Perry defends the dealer and an employee, and Paul must pose as a truck driver to uncover the real fencing operation. Cast: [[Francine York]] (Bobbi Dane), [[Donald Murphy (actor)|Donald Murphy]] (Francis Clune), [[Allan Melvin]] (Bert Kannon), [[Peter Mamakos]] (Olaf Deering)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|193}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 261
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 20
 |Title = The Case of the Scarlet Scandal
 |DirectedBy = [[Jerry Hopper]]
 |WrittenBy = Kenneth M. Rosen
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|2|20}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = A woman's boyfriend is charged with killing his sponsor. Perry and Paul decide to investigate. Based on their findings, he is freed and the woman is charged instead. Cast: [[Will Hutchins]] (Donald Hobart), [[Luana Patten]] (Cynthia Perkins), [[Mala Powers]] (Elaine Bayler), [[Richard Devon]] (Ed Kesko), [[Connie Gilchrist]] (Natasha)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|193}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 262
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 21
 |Title = The Case of the Twice-Told Twist
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Samuel Newman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|2|27}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = A teenager in a car-stripping gang is caught after Perry's car is stripped. Perry sees something good in the teen, giving him a second chance. When a ringleader of the gang is stabbed to death, the teen is charged. Only episode of the series filmed in color; characters inspired by those in ''[[Oliver Twist]]''. Cast: [[Victor Buono]] (Ben Huggins), [[Lisa Seagram]] (Robin Spring)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|194}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 263
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 22
 |Title = The Case of the Avenging Angel
 |DirectedBy = Jerry Hopper
 |WrittenBy = Lawrence Louis Goldman
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|3|13}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = Perry is hired to help foster the career of singer and the man hiring Perry wants his name kept secret. Perry contacts a man to do the job, but his actions cause Perry to regret it. Cast: [[Richard Carlson (actor)|Richard Carlson]] (Clete Hawley), [[Sue Ane Langdon|Sue Ann Langdon]] (Dotty Merrill), [[Lurene Tuttle]] (Henny McLeod), [[Chick Chandler]] (Riff Lawler)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|194}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 264
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 23
 |Title = The Case of the Tsarina's Tiara
 |DirectedBy = Harmon Jones
 |WrittenBy = Ernest Frankel, Orville H. Hampton
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|3|20}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = Perry takes a client with questionable jewelry to another client in the building to have the jewelry appraised. A partner in the jewelry business is later found with a dead body in the trunk of his car. Cast: [[Virginia Field]] (Madame Sonya Galinova), [[Leonid Kinskey]] (Vyacheslav Gerznov), [[Wesley Addy]] (Joachim DeVry), [[Carlos Romero (actor)|Carlos Romero]] (Ricardo Arena)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|194–195}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 265
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 24
 |Title = The Case of the Fanciful Frail
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Ernest Frankel, Orville H. Hampton
 |Aux2 = 1958 novel{{efn|Title changed from Gardner's original, ''The Case of the Footloose Doll''}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|3|27}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = A woman thinks she is about to be married, but finds herself accused of stealing money from her company. On the run, she changes identities with another woman who dies in an accident. When her fiancé is killed, she is charged. Cast: [[Pippa Scott]] (Ethel Andrews), [[Barry Kelley]] (Mr. Park Milgrave), [[Arch Johnson]] (Frank Carruthers), [[Coleen Gray]] (Martha Erskine), [[Jack Betts|Hunt Powers]] (Bruce Strickland)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|195}}
}}
{{#invoke:Episode list|list
 |EpisodeNumber = 266
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 25
 |Title = The Case of the Unwelcome Well
 |DirectedBy = Harmon Jones
 |WrittenBy = Ernest Frankel, Orville H. Hampton
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|4|3}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = A small-time oil operator is working for an oil tycoon. When the tycoon decides to delay for 10 years the production of an oil field that the operator discovered, he is murdered. Cast: [[Wendell Corey]] (Jerome Klee), [[Les Tremayne]] (Harry Lannon), [[James Best]] (Allan Winford), [[Gloria Talbott]] (Minna Rohan)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|195}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 267
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 26
 |Title = The Case of the Dead Ringer
 |DirectedBy = Arthur Marks
 |WrittenBy = [[Jackson Gillis]]
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|4|17}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = Perry loses a patent case for a woman whose father had died. A missing letter would prove her case, but the other side used a sailor who looks like Perry to implicate him in bribery. Only episode in which [[Raymond Burr]] plays a dual role. Cast: Raymond Burr (Grimes), [[Indus Arthur]] (Barbara Kramer), [[Arlene Martel]] (Sandra Dunkel)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|195–196}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 268
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 27
 |Title = The Case of the Misguided Model
 |DirectedBy = Jerry Hopper
 |WrittenBy = Ernest Frankel, Orville H. Hampton
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|4|24}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = An ex-boxer tries to protect his girlfriend and thinks he accidentally killed a man. He tells Perry, but refuses to go to the police. When another man is arrested for the murder, Perry is caught in a bind. Cast: [[Mary Ann Mobley]] (Sharon Carmody), [[Paul Lukather]] (Dennis 'Duke' Maronek), [[James Griffith]] (Jake Stearns),<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|196}}<ref name="CTVA 9"/>
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 269
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 28
 |Title = The Case of the Positive Negative
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Robert E. Kent
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|5|1}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = A general has been asked by a group to head an anti-corruption committee by the governor. However, compromising pictures arrive showing the general's wife. Cast: [[Brian Donlevy]] (Major General Roger Brandon), [[Dabbs Greer]] (Bill Cotton), [[Simon Scott (actor)|Simon Scott]] (Stanley Overton), [[Ted de Corsia]] (George Emory)<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|196–197}}
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 270
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 29
 |Title = The Case of the Crafty Kidnapper
 |DirectedBy = Jerry Hopper
 |WrittenBy = William Bast
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|5|15}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = After an incident at a party, a man goes outside to drive a drunken man home. The driver is arrested for shooting the drunk who is dead. The case is difficult to solve due to a baby's kidnapping. Cast: [[Gary Collins (actor)|Gary Collins]] (Alex Tanner), [[Cloris Leachman]] (Gloria Shine), [[Douglas Henderson (actor)|Douglas Henderson]] (Greg Stanley),<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|197}} [[Anne Whitfield]] (Patricia Tanner), [[Pat Priest (actress)|Pat Priest]] (Norma Fenn), [[Walter Burke]] (Adams)<ref name="CTVA 9"/>
}}
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 |EpisodeNumber = 271
 |EpisodeNumber2 = 30
 |Title = The Case of the Final Fade-Out
 |DirectedBy = Jesse Hibbs
 |WrittenBy = Ernest Frankel, Orville H. Hampton
 |Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
 |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1966|5|22}}
| LineColor = c2bab8 |ShortSummary = A man has become a major star. At the last moment, he tells his producer that he won't be signing a new contract. The man and his producer are killed, giving Perry two clients back-to-back. Cast: [[James Stacy]] (Barry Conrad), [[Estelle Winwood]] (Winnifred Glover), [[Jackie Coogan]] (Pete Desmond), [[Denver Pyle]] (Jackson Sidemark), [[Dick Clark]] (Leif Early), [[Gerald Mohr]] (Andy Rubin), [[Marlyn Mason]] (Erna Landry), [[Kenneth MacDonald (American actor)|Kenneth MacDonald]] (First judge), [[William Tannen (actor)|William Tannen]] (Frank), Perry Mason creator [[Erle Stanley Gardner]] (Second judge, uncredited), and cameo appearances by executive producer [[Gail Patrick|Gail Patrick Jackson]] and other production crew<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|197–198}}
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==Notable episodes==
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"The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink" (episode 1–13) was the pilot film for the ''Perry Mason'' series. It was filmed October 3–9, 1956,<ref name="Davidson S1">{{cite book |last=Davidson |first=Jim |year=2014 |chapter=The First TV Series (1957–1966); Season 1 (1957–1958) |title=The Perry Mason Book: A Comprehensive Guide to America's Favorite Defender of Justice |type=[[e-book]] |asin=B00OOELV1K }}</ref>{{Rp|10023}} more than a year before it aired.<ref name="Leitch"/>{{Rp|23}}<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|last=Cole |first=I. G. |date=July 20, 1956 |title=TV News |newspaper=[[Lawton Constitution]]}}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|last=Hopper |first=Hedda |date=September 15, 1956 |title=Hedda Hopper Writes from Hollywood |newspaper=Altoona Mirror}}</ref> Written and directed like a [[film noir]] [[B movie|second feature]],<ref name="Leitch"/>{{Rp|25}} it was a hit with CBS executives and earned the series a good time slot for the 1957–58 season.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|last=Starr |first=Eve |date=November 4, 1956 |title=Inside TV |newspaper=[[Pasadena Star-News]]}}</ref>

In four episodes adapted from Erle Stanley Gardner novels — "The Case of the Silent Partner" (episode 1–6), "The Case of the Baited Hook" (episode 1–14), "The Case of the Velvet Claws" (episode 6-22)<ref name="Leitch"/>{{Rp|70–71}} and "The Case of the Careless Kitten" (episode 8-24)<ref name="Davidson"/>{{Rp|28992}} — the cases are solved without ever going into the courtroom. "Although Gardner's Mason had often maneuvered so successfully on his clients' behalf that they never had to appear in court", wrote film scholar Thomas Leitch, "television episodes without such scenes are highly unusual."<ref name="Leitch">{{cite book |last=Leitch |first=Thomas |title=Perry Mason |publisher=Wayne State University Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zLi1H936-1kC&q=television+episodes+without+such+scenes+are+highly+unusual |year=2005 |location=Detroit |isbn=978-0814331217}}</ref>{{Rp|70–71}}

"The Case of the Terrified Typist" (episode 1-38), "The Case of the Witless Witness" (episode 6-28) and the much-hyped "The Case of the Deadly Verdict" (episode 7–4){{efn|Gail Patrick Jackson released teasers to the press about ""The Case of the Deadly Verdict", which begins with Perry Mason's client being convicted and sentenced to death. "Presumably this is the first time in six years that Mason, played by Raymond Burr, has been called upon to register surprise", wrote ''The New York Times''.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|last=Adams |first=Val |date=September 8, 1963 |title=Astounding Event! Perry Mason Client Is Found Guilty—Other Items |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E07E6DE143BE033A0575BC0A96F9C946291D6CF |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2015-05-20 }}</ref>}} are episodes in which Perry Mason loses cases in some form or manner.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kelleher |first1=Brian |last2=Merrill |first2=Diana |title=The Perry Mason TV Show Book |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |date=1987 |chapter=The History of the Show: Perry Mason Loses Case! |chapter-url=http://www.perrymasontvshowbook.com/pmb_c209.htm |page=[https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/19 19] |isbn=978-0312006693 |url=https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/19}}</ref> He has implicitly lost a capital case in "The Case of the Desperate Daughter" (episode 1-27); Mason and Della Street are first seen preparing a last-minute appeal for a "Mr. Hudson" who has an impending date with the gas chamber.<ref>"The Case of the Desperate Daughter" (Season 1, Episode 27) at 11:03.</ref>

At least a couple of actors who appeared in episodes went onto have highly successful film careers. [[Robert Redford]] is amongst the supporting cast in “The Case of the Treacherous Toupee”, while [[Burt Reynolds]] features in “The Case of the Counterfeit Crank”.

William Talman (Hamilton Burger) was fired by CBS March 18, 1960, hours after he entered a not-guilty plea to misdemeanor charges related to his presence at a party that was raided by police.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|agency=Associated Press |date=March 14, 1960 |title=District Attorney of TV Show Is Arrested on Marijuana Charges |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XigjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5gQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4336,651477&dq=william+talman+arrested&hl=en |newspaper=[[Star-Banner]] |location=Ocala |access-date=2015-05-23}}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|agency=Associated Press |date=March 18, 1960 |title=Perry Mason's DA Foe Fired Without a Hearing |newspaper=[[Big Spring Herald]]}}</ref> The schedule was immediately juggled to minimize Talman's presence on the show.{{efn|The broadcast March 19, 1960, was a rerun of "The Case of the Perjured Parrot" (episode 2-11), in which Talman appears only in the title sequence.<ref name="Credulous Quarry">{{#invoke:cite|news|last=Jenkins |first=Betty |date=March 26, 1960 |title=Television Entertainment |newspaper=Dover Daily Reporter}}</ref>}}{{efn|On March 26, 1960, "The Case of the Bashful Burro" (episode 3-19) replaced the previously announced episode, "The Case of the Credulous Quarry", in which Talman appears.<ref name="Credulous Quarry"/>}} "The Case of the Crying Cherub" (episode 3-20) debuts a pared-down title sequence that omits Talman; he is credited only in the last four episodes he filmed before he was fired.{{efn|The four episodes Talman filmed before he was dropped by CBS are "The Case of the Irate Inventor" (episode 3-25), "The Case of the Flighty Father" (episode 3-26), "The Case of the Treacherous Toupée" (episode 4-1) and "The Case of the Credulous Quarry" (episode 4-2).}} Talman was defended by Gail Patrick Jackson,<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|last=Carroll |first=Harrison |author-link=Harrison Carroll |date=March 19, 1960 |title=Behind the Scenes in Hollywood |newspaper=The Brazil Daily Times |quote=We take the attitude, as our show does, that a man is innocent until proven guilty. }}</ref> Burr<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|last=Thomas |first=Bob |author-link=Bob Thomas (reporter) |date=April 9, 1960 |title=The Talman Case: 'Most Unfortunate' |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19600408&id=R-8gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=y3IFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1020,1110631&hl=en |newspaper=[[The Day (New London)|The Day]] |location=New London |access-date=2015-05-23}}</ref> and others, but even dismissal of the charges in June<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|title=Finally! Victory for Burger |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2C4_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=7FAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2225,3087005&dq=william+talman+adolph+alexander+i+don-t+approve+of+their+conduct&hl=en |newspaper=[[The Windsor Star]] |date=June 18, 1960 |access-date=2015-05-23 }}</ref> did not soften the network's position.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|last=Humphrey |first=Hal |date=August 7, 1960 |title=Tic Tac TV |newspaper=Hayward Sunday Review}}</ref> Patrick said that the role of Burger would not be recast, but that various actors would play assistant district attorneys.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|agency=United Press International |date=June 13, 1960 |title=Camera Angles |newspaper=[[Times Herald-Record|Middletown Daily Record]] }}</ref> CBS reinstated Talman only after Gardner himself weighed in, together with millions of viewers.{{efn|"In my book Bill Talman is a great artist", Erle Stanley Gardner wrote. "As far as I am personally concerned, I would like to see him back on the Perry Mason show. I think every member of Paisano Productions feels the same way that I do."<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|last=Humphrey |first=Hal |date=August 28, 1960 |title=Tic Tac TV |newspaper=Hayward Sunday Review}}</ref>}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kelleher |first1=Brian |last2=Merrill |first2=Diana |year=1987 |chapter=William Talman: TV's Hamilton Burger; Innocent as Charged |chapter-url=http://perrymasontvshowbook.com/pmb_c603.htm |title=The Perry Mason TV Show Book |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/67 67–74] |isbn=978-0312006693 |url=https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/67 }}</ref>{{Rp|71}} Talman went back to work December 9, 1960,<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|title=Talman Back On TV |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19601209&id=tpYeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gMwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5026,1682753&hl=en |newspaper=[[The Daytona Beach News-Journal|Daytona Beach Morning Journal]] |agency=Associated Press |date=December 9, 1960 |access-date=2015-05-23 }}</ref> and Burger first returned in "The Case of the Fickle Fortune" (episode 4–15).{{efn|In a May 2014 interview, Barbara Hale said that only by chance was she not at the same party where Talman was arrested.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BNwyhMdaBk  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/2BNwyhMdaBk| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Barbara Hale Interview with Alan K. Rode |date=May 8, 2014 |at=10:45 |website=Film Noir Foundation |publisher=YouTube |access-date=2015-05-23 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>}} Burger was not in the following two episodes and returns again in "The Case of the Angry Dead Man" (episode 4–18).

"The Case of the Counterfeit Crank" (episode 5-27) is a rare episode in which Perry Mason calls his own defendant to the witness stand.<ref name="Davidson S5">{{cite book |last=Davidson |first=Jim |year=2014 |chapter=The First TV Series (1957–1966); Season 5 (1961–1962) |title=The Perry Mason Book: A Comprehensive Guide to America's Favorite Defender of Justice |type=[[e-book]] |asin=B00OOELV1K}}</ref>{{Rp|21881}}

"The Case of the Weary Watchdog" (episode 6–9) is a rare episode that has a jury trial, a case goes to deliberations, Della Street testifies, Perry's own client testifies, Della Street will be charged as an accomplice and Perry sticks himself into another court proceeding to free his client.<ref name="IMDb The Case of Weary Watchdog">{{#invoke:cite|web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0673433/|title=IMDb; The Case of the Weary Watchdog|website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref>

In October 1962, Gail Patrick Jackson announced that four episodes from season six would feature special guest stars who would cover for Raymond Burr during his convalescence from surgery.{{efn|Burr was hospitalized in Los Angeles December 10, 1962, for major intestinal surgery.<ref name="Hill"/>}} ''Perry Mason'' fan [[Bette Davis]] began filming "The Case of Constant Doyle" (episode 6–16) December 12, 1962.<ref name="Bette Davis NYT">{{#invoke:cite|news|last=Adams |first=Val |date=October 30, 1962 |title=Bette Davis Hired for 'Perry Mason' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/10/30/archives/bette-davis-hired-for-perry-mason-four-others-to-replace-burr.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2015-05-23 }}</ref> The other three special episodes are "The Case of the Libelous Locket" (episode 6–17) starring [[Michael Rennie]]; "The Case of the Two-Faced Turnabout" (episode 6–18) starring [[Hugh O'Brian]]; and "The Case of the Surplus Suitor" (episode 6–19) starring [[Walter Pidgeon]].<ref name="Hill">{{cite book |last=Hill |first=Ona L. |date=February 9, 2012 |orig-year=1994 |title=Raymond Burr: A Film, Radio, and Television Biography |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland |page=71 |isbn=978-0786491377 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gmX_mIf32TAC&q=pidgeon}}</ref> To provide continuity, brief scenes were shot in Burr's hospital room that showed Mason speaking on the phone to each of the attorney friends who was managing his caseload while he was in Europe.<ref name="Hill"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kelleher |first1=Brian |last2=Merrill |first2=Diana |title=The Perry Mason TV Show Book |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |date=1987 |chapter=The History of the Show: Emmys and Actors |chapter-url=http://www.perrymasontvshowbook.com/pmb_c207.htm |page=[https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/18 18] |isbn=978-0312006693 |url=https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/18}}</ref>

"The Case of the Capering Camera" (episode 7–15), filmed in October 1963, marks the last appearance by Ray Collins as the irascible and often-incorrect Lt. Tragg.<ref name="Collins obit">{{#invoke:cite|news|agency=United Press International |date=July 12, 1964 |title=Ray Collins, Star on 'Perry Mason' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1965/07/12/archives/rayoolls-st-on-perry-wlason-tvs-lieut-tragg-diesat-75-also-on-stage.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=2015-05-14}}</ref> Although it was clear Collins would not return to work on the series, his name appeared in the opening title sequence through the eighth season, which ended in May 1965. Executive producer Gail Patrick Jackson was aware that Collins watched the show every week and did not wish to discourage him.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|last=Lowry |first=Cynthia |date=July 26, 1965 |title=N. Y. Thoroughly Edged Out by Hollywood as TV Capital; Perry's New Adversary |newspaper=[[Racine Journal Times]] |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> Collins died of emphysema July 11, 1965.<ref name="Collins obit"/>

When Burr was hospitalized for jaw surgery in 1964, special guest stars substituted for him in two episodes. The first, "The Case of the Bullied Bowler" (episode 8–7), was regarded as one of the best episodes of the season.<ref name="Lowry TV Changes">{{#invoke:cite|news|last=Lowry |first=Cynthia |date=January 1, 1965 |title=Barry Sullivan Subs on Perry Mason Show Jan. 14 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19650101&id=qWtPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-gQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4728,92043&hl=en |newspaper=Ocala Star-Banner |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> Taking place while Mason is in Europe, the episode stars [[Mike Connors]] as an attorney friend of Paul Drake.{{efn|Airing the following week, "The Case of a Place Called Midnight" (episode 8-8) plays off Mason's absence; set in Germany, it features no regular cast member other than Burr.<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|175}}}} Broadcast two months later, the second episode was "The Case of the Thermal Thief" (episode 8–16), starring [[Barry Sullivan (actor)|Barry Sullivan]].<ref name="Lowry TV Changes"/> These are the only two ''Perry Mason'' episodes in which Burr makes no appearance.<ref name="Davidson"/>{{Rp|26939}}

"The Case of the Fatal Fetish" (episode 8-21) is the first of four episodes in which Burr shows the effects of an injury suffered in January 1965 following his third visit to [[Military Assistance Command, Vietnam|U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam]]. He required surgery after tearing his shoulder tendons,<ref name="Davidson">{{cite book |last=Davidson |first=Jim |year=2014 |chapter=The First TV Series (1957–1966); Season 8 (1964–1965) |title=The Perry Mason Book: A Comprehensive Guide to America's Favorite Defender of Justice  |type=[[e-book]] |asin=B00OOELV1K}}</ref>{{Rp|33618}}<ref name="TVG 7-65">{{cite magazine |last=Whitney |first=Dwight |date=July 24, 1965 |title=Pleading His Case |url=http://www.perrymasontvseries.com/justine/tvguide_article_7_24_65.htm |magazine=[[TV Guide]] |pages=15–18 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kelleher |first1=Brian |last2=Merrill |first2=Diana |title=The Perry Mason TV Show Book |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |date=1987 |chapter=Raymond Burr as Perry Mason: A 'Complicated' and Generous Man |chapter-url=http://www.perrymasontvshowbook.com/pmb_c304.htm |page=[https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/35 35] |isbn=978-0312006693 |url=https://archive.org/details/perrymasontvshow00kell/page/35}}</ref> and wears a large plaster cast under his clothing in that episode{{efn|"I know you've been out of the office because of your accident, Mr. Mason", Mignon Germaine (Fay Wray) says at the beginning of Perry Mason's first scene in "The Case of the Fatal Fetish".<ref>"The Case of the Fatal Fetish" (Season 8, Episode 21) at 16:06.</ref>}} and in "The Case of the Sad Sicilian" (episode 8-22).{{efn|"How's your arm?" Hamilton Burger asks Mason in "The Case of the Sad Sicilian". "It hurts", Mason replies.<ref>"The Case of the Sad Sicilian" (Season 8, Episode 22) at 31:00.</ref>}} His right arm is in a sling in "The Case of the Murderous Mermaid" (episode 8-23){{efn|Paul Drake refers to Mason's sling while speaking to him on the phone in "The Case of the Murderous Mermaid".<ref>"The Case of the Murderous Mermaid" (Season 8, Episode 23) at 21:44.</ref>}} and "The Case of the Careless Kitten" (episode 8-24).<ref>"The Case of the Careless Kitten" (Season 8, Episode 24) at 7:54.</ref>{{efn|There was confusion and mystery about how Burr was injured. The press reported that he was hurt in a helicopter accident in Vietnam, but Gail Patrick Jackson privately shared with Erle Stanley Gardner that he was hurt after completing his tour of Southeast Asia, on the beach at [[Kauai]]. This was confirmed in 2011 by Robert Benevides.<ref name="Davidson"/>{{Rp|33621}}}}

"The Case of the Mischievous Doll" (episode 8-30) features the last appearance of [[Wesley Lau]] as Lt. Anderson.<ref name="PM Show Book 8"/>{{Rp|184–185}}

"The Case of the Twice-Told Twist" (episode 9-21) is the only episode of the series that was filmed in color.<ref name="PM Show Book 9"/>{{Rp|194}}

"The Case of the Dead Ringer" (episode 9-26) features Burr in a unique dual role, playing Mason and his [[doppelgänger]], a grizzled [[Sailor|seadog]] hired to impersonate and discredit him.<ref name="Davidson S9">{{cite book |last=Davidson |first=Jim |year=2014 |chapter=The First TV Series (1957–1966); Season 9 (1965–1966) |title=The Perry Mason Book: A Comprehensive Guide to America's Favorite Defender of Justice |type=[[e-book]] |asin=B00OOELV1K}}</ref>{{Rp|31925}}

"The Case of the Final Fade-Out" (episode 9-30), the last episode of the series, was filmed April 12–19, 1966.<ref name="Davidson S9"/>{{Rp|32188}} Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner makes his sole appearance as an actor, playing the judge presiding at the second trial. It was Gail Patrick Jackson's idea to give Gardner and other behind-the-scenes members of the production crew a chance to appear in uncredited cameos:<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|last=Adams |first=Val |date=April 24, 1966 |title=Good Loser Gets a Double Drubbing |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/04/24/archives/good-loser-gets-a-double-drubbing-a-good-loser.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2015-05-23}}</ref><ref name="Browning">{{#invoke:cite|news|last=Browning |first=Norma Lee |date=May 15, 1966 |title=It'll Be a Grand Finale for Perry |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1966/05/15/page/142/article/itll-be-a-grand-finale-for-perry |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |access-date=2015-05-13}}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|last=Browning |first=Norma Lee |date=May 24, 1966 |title=Perry Mason Cast Together for Finale |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1966/05/24/page/39/article/perry-mason-cast-together-for-finale |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |access-date=2015-05-13}}</ref>

<!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:Perry-Mason-Seid-Jacksons.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|"Who wants to be opposite ''[[Bonanza]]''?" Executive producer [[Gail Patrick|Gail Patrick Jackson]] with producer Art Seid and, behind the bar, her then-husband Thomas Cornwell Jackson, Erle Stanley Gardner's literary agent, in "The Case of the Final Fade-Out" (May 22, 1966).]] -->
* Witness 1 is prop man Ray Thompson.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Witness 2 is accountant Bernie Oseransky.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Witness 3 is Johnny Nickolaus, director of photography.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Witness 4 is electrician Bob Kaplan.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Assistant prop man John Ferry portrays director Phil Shields.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Assistant director Gordon Webb is the assistant director.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Second grip Wendell Jones is photographer Tad Wyman.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Script supervisor [[Marshall Schlom]] is Cliff, the script supervisor.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Sound engineer [[Herman Lewis]] plays the sound mixer.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* The second assistant director is Dave Marks, second assistant director and father of producer Arthur Marks.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Mill foreman Buck Jones appears as himself.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Construction coordinator Mickey Woods appears as himself.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Ann Bernaducci, secretary to producer Arthur Marks, plays the producer's secretary.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
*Costumer Evelyn Carruth (with her dog, Buff) is the costumer.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Assistant cameraman Dennis Dalzell is the assistant cameraman.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Camera operator Jack Woolf is the camera operator.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Key grip Harry Jones appears as himself.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Dimmer boy and practical Jim Lowery plays himself.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Gaffer Larry Peets plays himself.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Best boy Cece Lupton plays himself.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Film editor Dick Farrell is the cutter.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Hairdresser Annabell Levy appears as herself.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Makeup man Irving Pringle plays himself.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Director [[Jesse Hibbs]] is the man waxing the car.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* [[Barbara Hale]] plays a second role, a blonde starlet in sunglasses.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/><ref name="50th">{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/32898/perry-mason-50th-anniversary-edition/ |title=Perry Mason — 50th Anniversary Edition |last=Galbraith IV |first=Stuart |date=April 10, 2008 |website=[[DVD Talk]] |access-date=2015-05-13}}</ref>
* The man at her table who kisses her is producer [[Arthur Marks]].<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out">{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://www.classictvinfo.com/PerryMason/FinalFadeOut.htm |title=Who's Who in the Final Fade-Out |last=Davidson |first=Jim |date=November 2014 |website=Classic TV Info |access-date=2020-03-16}}</ref>
* Art director Lewis Creber is the man who interrupts them.
* Actor [[Mark Roberts (actor)|Mark Roberts]] is one of the men in the background.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Set decorator [[Carl Biddiscombe]] is one of the men in the background.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Bill Swan, executive assistant to Raymond Burr, is the piano player.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Executive producer [[Gail Patrick|Gail Patrick Jackson]] is seated at the bar, speaking to producer Art Seid.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Thomas Cornwell Jackson, Patrick's husband at the time, Erle Stanley Gardner's literary agent, and a partner in Paisano Productions, is the bartender.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Lester Salkow, Burr's agent, is the man talking to the bartender.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>
* Anne Nelson, vice president of business affairs for CBS Entertainment, is the barmaid.<ref name="Davidson Final Fade-Out"/>

The second murder victim is Jackson Sidemark, a producer whose name is an in-joke — a composite of the surnames of Paisano partners Gail Patrick Jackson and Thomas Cornwell Jackson ("Jackson") and producers Art Seid and Arthur Marks ("Sidemark").<ref name="Davidson S9"/>{{Rp|32323}}

The sequence in the bar was the last ''Perry Mason'' scene to be filmed. In her sole appearance in the series, Gail Patrick Jackson broke the rule against [[Ad libitum|ad libs]]. The script called for her to say, "I wouldn't take that show if they begged me. Who wants that time slot?" Instead she said, "I wouldn't take that show. Who wants to be opposite ''[[Bonanza]]''?"<ref name="Davidson S9"/>{{Rp|32296}} It is a final commentary on the tables being turned by the NBC series that ''Perry Mason'' had bested in the [[Nielsen ratings]] for its first two seasons.<ref name="Bawden">{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://www.classicimages.com/films_of_the_golden_ages/article_39f84018-cfc0-11e3-b0b4-001a4bcf887a.html |title=Dream Factory Time: Gail Patrick |last=Bawden |first=James |date=April 29, 2014 |website=Classic Images |access-date=2015-05-30 |archive-date=2015-07-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150726153835/http://www.classicimages.com/films_of_the_golden_ages/article_39f84018-cfc0-11e3-b0b4-001a4bcf887a.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
* ''[http://www.cbs.com/shows/perry_mason/video/ Perry Mason]'' at CBS.com
* {{IMDb episodes|0050051|Perry Mason}}

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