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Almost anyone is capable of a crime under certain circumstances.
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Episode 1
Tyrannical company president Hartley Bassett returns home after being presumed dead for two years. His first act is to fire Peter Dawson which makes Dawson the prime suspect when Bassett is found dead with two bullet holes in him.
Directed by Richard KinonWritten by Maurice ZimmGuest stars Robert Redford, Bert Freed, George E. Stone, Hal Smith, Philip Ober, Lee Miller, Jonathan Hole, Frank Wilcox
Episode 2
Perry defends Richard Hammond who is charged with killing his former girlfriend by running over her with his car.
Directed by William D. RussellGuest stars Renee Godfrey, Vinton Hayworth, Willis Bouchey, George E. Stone, Nan Peterson, Fred Graham, Walter Reed, Lee Miller
Episode 3
Jim Ferris is having an affair with his uncle's bored young wife. They concoct a scheme to finagle $80,000.00 from the uncle by faking a kidnapping. Things go horribly wrong when secretary Betty Wilkins, acting as a go-between, is charged with the murder of Jim Ferris.
Directed by Charles F. HaasWritten by Edward J. LaksoGuest stars Kenneth Tobey, George E. Stone, Sue Randall, S. John Launer, Howard Petrie, William Campbell, James Anderson, Tyler McVey
Episode 4
Perry is accused of obstructing justice in this case when he defends a woman who had previously faked her own suicide by running her empty car off a cliff. It seems as though the police found the body of another woman in the wreckage.
Directed by Arthur MarksGuest stars Alan Baxter, Connie Hines, Harry Townes, Andrea King, Michael Fox
Episode 5
An heiress to a cosmetics company is charged with the murder of the company's owner.
Directed by James SheldonGuest stars Patricia Breslin, George E. Stone, John Lupton, Nelson Leigh, Whit Bissell, Joe Maross, Rita Lynn, Lee Miller
Episode 6
When a man accused of a murder is freed from prison upon newly discovered eyewitness testimony, it starts a chain reaction of blackmail and murder.
Guest stars Coleen Gray, Stephen Talbot, Marguerite Chapman, Max Showalter, Dean Harens, Paul Langton, Richard Gaines, Hal Taggart
Episode 7
A circus clown is charged with the murder of its part owner when a gun is slipped to him during a gun act.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglenWritten by Sam NeumanGuest stars Kenneth Tobey, Robert Clarke, Margaret Hayes, Lillian Bronson, Ken Curtis, Douglas Henderson, Jon Lormer
Episode 8
Washed up pianist David Carpenter is knocked out and pushed over a cliff for insurance money. Carpenter's beautiful protege, Donna Ross, immediately comes under suspicion by the police.
Directed by László BenedekGuest stars George E. Stone, Kathie Browne, Virginia Field, Donald Foster, Robert Karnes, Jon Lormer
Episode 9
Perry's fishing trip to Scotland is interrupted by seven year old Peggy Smith. Peggy is living at a boarding school and searching for her identity since she has no idea who her real parents are. After searching into the matter, Perry comes to believe that Peggy is the daughter of Clark Lawson and Margaret Jeffers Lawson. Margaret was the daughter of wealthy Courtney Jeffers who disowned her after she eloped with Clark. Both parents died shortly after Peggy was born. Jeffers, a mean and miserable old man, has his heart warmed after meeting Peggy and changes his will to leave everything to her. The next day, he is found dead, killed by a blow from a poker.
Guest stars John Banner, Nelson Leigh, Fred Essler, Francis X. Bushman, Eleanor Audley, Robert Karnes, Margaret Field, Jeanette Nolan
Episode 10
Lester Martin's life takes a horrible turn for the worse when a man breaks into his apartment, forces him at gun-point to drink half a bottle of Scotch, and then drives him into the country. Lester's circumstances then go from awful to good grief when he's charged with the murder of his step-father who was trying to takeover the family boat company.
Directed by Arthur MarksGuest stars Regis Toomey, George E. Stone, Michael Fox, Jeanne Baird, S. John Launer, Dorothy Adams, Lurene Tuttle, Bruce Gordon
Episode 11
Ann Farwell is miserable over the separation of her parents. Things aren't made any better when her father starts seeing Rita Conover, a scheming woman half his age. When Rita turns up dead both Ann and her mother think the other committed the crime which causes Perry great difficulty in defending the ranch hand who's been charged.
Directed by László BenedekGuest stars Corey Allen, Willis Bouchey, George E. Stone, Sarah Seegar, Richard Deacon, Elen Willard, Reba Waters, Bill Idelson
Episode 12
A suburban town mayor's secretary is accused of murdering the mayor's wife, who was engaging in blackmail to further her husband's career.
Guest stars Robert Brown, Ellen Drew, Christopher Dark, Edward Platt, William Boyett, Louise Fletcher, Arthur Franz, Patricia Huston
Episode 13
Slimy publishing tycoon Donald Fletcher buys controlling interest in a respectable but financially troubled publishing house. Fletcher turns things upside down by turning the publications into scandal sheet featuring photographs of scantily clad women. Edmond Aitken, whose family once owned the publishing house, wants to oust Fletcher but Perry tells him he has no legal basis on which to do so. Not to worry. Fletcher is found murdered in his apartment but the prime suspect is Aitken's wife, Alyce, whom Fletcher had been blackmailing over lurid photos Alyce made during her younger days.
Directed by László BenedekWritten by Milton KrimsGuest stars James Coburn, Philip Abbott, George E. Stone, Paul Lambert, Virginia Carroll, Dave Willock, S. John Launer, Vinton Hayworth
Episode 14
Perry represents a citizen's group in hearings on a proposed aqueduct to be named after county engineer William Harper Caine. Perry gets a stop work order until a section of the proposed location can be checked for an underground spring. Eventually, Caine needs Perry's help when he's accused of murdering Roger Quigley, the project's chief contractor.
Directed by Arthur MarksWritten by Samuel NewmanGuest stars Hardie Albright, Diana Millay, Richard Eastham, Bert Stevens, James Westerfield, Byron Palmer, John Hoyt, Phillip Terry
Episode 15
Ralph Duncan is a civil servant whose job is to inventory the estates of wealthy decedants. One day, he returns home with $153,000.00 worth of old greenbacks he discovered while going through a recently deceased old woman's home. Duncan took the money on a lark and was planning to return it the next day but his shifty cousin decides to purloin the bundle. Duncan is then accused of theft and later murder.
Directed by László BenedekGuest stars Cathy O'Donnell, Connie Cezon, George E. Stone, Liam Sullivan, Philip Ober, Vaughn Taylor, Virginia Christine, Michael Fox
Episode 16
Womanizing playboy Loring Lamont has his sights set on Arlene Ferris, his father's shapely secretary. He lures her to his beachfront bachelor pad with seduction on his mind. Arlene slaps the rotter and flees taking Loring's car back into town. Things then go from awful to good grief for poor Arlene. After her departure someone stabs Loring to death and she's suspect number one.
Directed by Gene Fowler Jr.Written by Jonathan LatimerGuest stars George E. Stone, Benson Fong, Rebecca Welles, Elizabeth Harrower, Andra Martin, Robert Karnes, Lee Miller, Morris Ankrum
Episode 17
Inventor Walter Randall wants a divorce from his cold-blooded wife Laura in order to be with Phyllis Hudson. Laura decides to get back at Walter by blackmailing one of his assistants into building a bomb that will destroy Walter's underwater sounding invention. While checking on the bomb in the warehouse, Laura is discovered by Phyllis and takes advantage of the situation by knocking her rival out. Phyllis manages to survive the explosion but she is later charged with Laura's murder.
Directed by Arthur MarksGuest stars Barney Phillips, Willis Bouchey, George E. Stone, Michael Fox, Robert Karnes
Episode 18
Willard Nesbitt faked his drowning death in a boating accident so his wife could collect the double indemnity life insurance money. Nesbitt thought he had only a short time to live anyway. When Nesbitt's crooked business partner, James Castle, illegally cuts "widow" Eve Nesbitt out of a protitable deal he must rise from the dead to warn her. Then someone kills the "dead man" for good. The police smell insurance fraud and Eve Nesbitt is their number one suspect.
Directed by Arthur MarksGuest stars Gordon Jones, Carol Ohmart, Naomi Stevens, Edward Binns, Wally Brown, Gloria Talbott, Frank Ferguson, Les Tremayne
Episode 19
Crooked jewelry store owner Karl Addison learns that he needs an operation which will temporarily blind him. Addison makes plans to rob his own store knowing that his sightlessness will provide him with a perfect alibi. Things go wrong when someone kills the scheming Addison and steals the already pinched jewels. James Kincannon enlists Perry's aid when he's charged with the crime.
Directed by Arthur MarksGuest stars Benny Rubin, Nelson Leigh, George E. Stone, Merry Anders, Alexander Lockwood, George Macready, Jack Ging, John Conte
Episode 20
The setting in this episode is a small California town where because of a festival all men must wear beards. Paul Drake travels there to try to locate missing money which a former bank president embezzled. Paul eventually finds the money but he also finds a dead body as well. Perry arrives on the scene in order to straighten things out.
Directed by László BenedekWritten by Robert C. DennisGuest stars Adam West, Josephine Hutchinson, Russ Conway, Malcolm Atterbury, Paul Fix, Roy Roberts, Enid Jaynes, Eloise Hardt
Episode 21
Contactor Pete Mallory is charged with the murder of a vacation resort developer.
Directed by John PeyserGuest stars Jeff York, Jason Evers, Michael Masters, Mort Mills, Bert Freed, Neil Hamilton, S. John Launer
Episode 22
Hilde Fursten and Tony Osgood work at the San Diego Zoo. When a new baby monkey is found missing, Hilde Fursten is blamed by Dr. Walther Braun, a visiting dentist. Boris Zelbowski also works at the zoo and is dating Frieda Crawson, Dr. Braun's nurse. That evening, Dr. Braun arrives at the zoo to perform oral surgery on a lion and is found dead in the lion's cage. Tony Osgood is accused of the murder when a witness sees someone wearing Tony's blue sportcoat near the lion's cage at the time.
Directed by Arthur MarksGuest stars Bert Remsen, O.Z. Whitehead, Ralph Manza, Paul Birch, Carol Eve Rossen, Eddie Quillan, Betty Lou Gerson, Bill Quinn
Episode 23
Hard luck Claude Demay was sent up for six years in prison for starting a fire in a warehouse containing the valuable Nathan Claver art collection. After his release, Demay devises a plan to expose the real criminal, Leonard Voss, and prove his innocence. He tediously weaves a perfect imitation of a valuable tapestry supposedly lost in the fire and barters this tapestry to Voss in exchange for an original Buddah statue. Demay knows that the statue will prove that the collection was not destroyed in the fire and will expose Voss as the real criminal. Unfortunately, Voss is murdered before the trade takes place and Demay is arrested for another crime he didn't commit.
Directed by John EnglishGuest stars Syd Saylor, Percy Helton, Conrad Nagel, Robert H. Harris, Paula Raymond
Episode 24
Advertising executive Herman Albright is in the wrong place at the wrong time wearing the wrong clothes. These mistakes cost poor Herman his life in a case of mistaken identity. Perry is called on to defend the fashion model charged with the crime. It seems as though Herman had been hitting on her for quite a while with no success.
Directed by Lewis AllenWritten by Robert C. DennisGuest stars Frank Jenks, Erik Rhodes, Sonya Wilde, George E. Stone, Bill Erwin, Myrna Fahey, Barbara Pepper, Hayden Rorke
Episode 25
Jerry Reynolds, an old war buddy of Perry's, is accused of killing an officer at Vandenburg Air Force Base during the investigation into some mysterious missile crashes.
Directed by John PeyserGuest stars Richard Arlen, Jeanne Bal, James B. Sikking, Med Flory, George N. Neise, Bruce Bennett, Robert Rockwell, Simon Oakland
Episode 26
A mixed up mess awaits Perry as he struggles to put all the pieces together. Blackmail, murder, a boyfriend who spent the night, all add up to one great case.
Directed by Arthur MarksGuest stars Anne Helm, Willis Bouchey, Kaye Elhardt, Michael Fox, Don Dubbins, Don C. Harvey, Dick Whittinghill, Harlan Warde
Episode 27
A young man has his head turned by, whatelse, a woman. In his haste to protect her, and her good name, the source of her pain turns up dead.
Directed by Bernard L. KowalskiWritten by Jackson GillisGuest stars Otto Kruger, Fifi D'Orsay, Dub Taylor, Frances Rafferty, Maura McGiveney, Gavin MacLeod
Episode 28
Lola and Jeff Bronson are going through a divorce and can't wait to be rid of each other until Bill Ryder sabotages Jeff's business and makes a play for Lola. Ryder is then found dead with three bullet holes in his body and Jeff and Lola are the two prime suspects. Now they battle to cover for each other .
Directed by Lewis AllenGuest stars Faith Domergue, Guy Mitchell, Lisa Gaye, Grandon Rhodes, Ben Wright, Charles Bateman, Barbara Stuart
Episode information updated Jul 23, 2026
Raymond BurrPerry Mason
Barbara HaleDella Street
William HopperPaul Drake
William TalmanHamilton Burger
Ray CollinsLieutenant Tragg
Connie CezonGertie
Willis BoucheyJudge
Nelson LeighJudge
CBSUnited States
TCF Television ProductionsUnited States
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