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Perry Mason - Season 2: Volume 1 (1958)
Starring: Raymond Burr, William Hopper Director: Jack Arnold Rating: Not Rated
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Perry Mason is an attorney who specializes in defending seemingly indefensible cases. With the aid of his secretary Della Street and investigator Paul Drake, he often finds that by digging deeply into the facts, startling facts can be revealed. Often relying on his outstanding courtroom skills, he often tricks or traps people into unwittingly admitting their guilt.
Episodes:
40. The Case of the Corresponding Corpse
Perry receives a telephone call from George Beaumont, a man who supposedly died in a plane crash nearly three years before. In reality, Beaumont missed the plane and after hearing about the accident decided to disappear leaving wife Laura with his life insurance money. Since then, Beaumont has been cavorting with girlfriend Ruth Whittaker and living under an alias. He has grown tired of this life and wants to return home but someone cuts short his return by sticking a letter opener in his back. Ruth is then charged with the murder.
41. The Case of the Lucky Loser
Perry has all kinds of troubles in this one when a murder brings him into the tangled financial and personal affairs of the wealthy Balfour family.
42. The Case of the Pint-Sized Client
Robbers lift a bundle from the Hargrove Finance Company and Frank Anderson is murdered in the aftermath. Anthony "Pop" Renzi is identified as one of the robbers and charged with both the robbery and the murder. Perry sets out to clear him of both charges.
43. The Case of the Sardonic Sergeant
Major Frank Lessing, a payroll officer on an Army base, is found murdered and Sgt. Joseph Dexter is charged with the crime. The case hinges on a payroll robbery committed in the Phillippines years before. It seems as though some of the bills from that robbery were turning up on the base.
44. The Case of the Curious Bride
Rhoda Reynolds is charged with murdering her blackmailing ex-husband, Arthur Kane. At the trial, Perry moves the proceedings to the room in which Kane was murdered in order to re-enact the fatal night.
45. The Case of the Buried Clock
Slimy Jack Hardisty embezzles $100,000.00 from his father-in-law, Dr. Blane. The greedy Hardisty then tries to blackmail the good doctor for more. Perry is hired by Dr. Blane to put an end to Hardisty's machinations but before he can swing into action the rogue turns up dead. Dr. Blane is charged with the murder forcing Perry to do some intricate courtroom work involving a wildlife camera triggered by a buried clock which took misleading pictures of the actual killer.
46. The Case of the Married Moonlighter
A moonlighting school teacher is charged with the murder of a male acquaintence he had taken home after the acquaintence had earlier raised a disturbance at his night job at a cafe.
47. The Case of the Jilted Jockey
Jockey Tic Barton is in a mess of trouble. First he's fired when his horse loses a fixed race and then he's charged with murder after confronting Johnny Starr, the man actually responsible for the fix. And, oh yes, Tic's wife was having an affair with the murder victim. It's up to Perry to set things right.
48. The Case of the Purple Woman
An art collector, Rufus Varner, is told by a reputable art critic that one of his most prized art paintings named "The Purple Woman" is a forgery. Varner visits the art dealer from whom he purchased the painting, Milo Girard. After he finds out the dealer knew it was a forgery, he realizes the news would damage his reputation as an art collector. At the Girard home, an artist Aaron Hubble, tells Evelyn Girard, the wife of the art dealer, that he painted a forgery of The Purple Woman for her husband. Milo Girard is found dead in his office the next morning and his wife Evelyn is charged with his murder.
49. The Case of the Fancy Figures
Martin Ellis is sent to jail for stealing the sum of $300,000.00. Ellis is later exonerated thanks to evidence discovered by his wife and the real thief, Charles Brewster, is arrested for the theft. Brewster manages to get out of jail on bail but later turns up dead. Ellis is charged with the killing.
50. The Case of the Perjured Parrot
The courtroom action in this episode takes place at a coroner's inquest as a parrot holds the key to freeing suspect Ellen Sabin from blame in the murder of her husband.
51. The Case of the Shattered Dream
Sarah Werner asks Perry to find her husband, Hugo Werner, who ran off with her inheritance. Hugo, now using the name Hans Breel, is now working on a gem scam but his scheme backfires when he is murdered and Sarah is charged with the crime.
52. The Case of the Borrowed Brunette
Eva Martell is hired out of numerous candidates by Melvin Slater to impersonate a woman named Helen Reynolds. Eva is paid extremely well and given a nice apartment to live in with her Aunt Agnes as long as she continues with her impersonation. Both Eva and her aunt suspect a rat and seek Perry's advice. Then Melvin Slater turns up dead in the apartment.
53. The Case of the Glittering Goldfish
An inventer of a cure for sick fish is charged with the murder of the purchaser of a pet fish store.
54. The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll
Two troubled women, Millie Crest and Fern Driscoll, switch identities. Millie, posing as Fern, stabs shady private eye Carl Davis in the arm in self-defense. Davis then turns up dead from poisoning of the stab wound to his arm. Millie then gets Perry to help her in return for a 38 cent retainer.
55. The Case of the Fraudulent Foto
A District Attorney is charged with the murder of a chairman of the bids committee to a defectively built hospital whom he is investigating for a series of bribes being passed around. |
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Starring:
Raymond Burr | William Hopper | Barbara Hale | William Talman | Ray Collins | Wesley Lau | George E. Stone | Lee Miller | ...more
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Directed By:
Jack Arnold | Allen H. Miner | Andrew V. McLaglen | Anton Leader | Arthur Hiller | Arthur Marks | Bernard L. Kowalski | Buzz Kulik | Christian Nyby | Don Weis | Earl Bellamy | Francis D. Lyon | Gerald Mayer | Gerd Oswald | Gilbert Kay | Harmon Jones | Irving J. Moore | James Goldstone | Jerry Hopper | Jesse Hibbs | John English | John Peyser | László Benedek | Lewis Allen | Richard Donner | Richard Whorf | Robert Ellis Miller | Robert Sparr | Roger Kay | Ted Post | Vincent McEveety | William D. Russell
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Genre:
Drama, Television/TV Series, Thriller/Suspense
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DVD Release Date:
June 19, 2007
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Format: Region 1
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Rating:
Not Rated
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Year:
1958
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Regional Coding:
R1:
Will only play on North American Region 1 or multi-region DVD players.
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Number of Discs:
4
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Subtitles:
English
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Screen Ratio:
Full Screen Edition - 1.33:1
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English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono) | |
Running Time:
773 minutes
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Studio:
Paramount
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UPC/Barcode Number:
097368515543
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Black & White: Yes
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Closed-Captioned: Yes
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