Season 5
(1961)
Cast
as Perry Mason
as Della Street
as Paul Drake
as Hamilton Burger
as Lieutenant Tragg
Episodes
The Case of the Jealous Journalist 0.0
September 2, 1961
The drowning death of a newspaper executive during a fishing trip sets off all kinds of repercussions at the newspaper …
The Case of the Impatient Partner 0.0
September 16, 1961
Paint manufacturer Amory Fallon suspects that his partner Ned Thompson is behind a mysterious fire and explosion.
The Case of the Missing Melody 0.0
September 30, 1961
Perry and Della attend the wedding of Polly Courtland to Eddy King. The ceremony is halted at the altar when Polly begi…
The Case of the Malicious Mariner 0.0
October 7, 1961
During a terrible storm at sea, First Officer Jerry Griffin dumps a million dollars worth of goods into the sea in orde…
The Case of the Crying Comedian 0.0
October 14, 1961
Comic Charlie Hatch learns that the woman he loved and lost, Anne Gilrain, has escaped from a sanitarium to which she w…
The Case of the Meddling Medium 0.0
October 21, 1961
Phony psychic Phillip Paisley meets a grisly death when an elevator that has been tampered with crashes. In the climact…
The Case of the Pathetic Patient 0.0
October 28, 1961
Perry finds himself defending Dr. Wayne Edley who has been accused of committing two murders.
The Case of the Traveling Treasure 0.0
November 4, 1961
Perry and Paul are all set to go deep see fishing on a boat owned by their friend, Scott Cahill, but when Cahill's regu…
The Case of the Posthumous Painter 0.0
November 11, 1961
Artist Jack Culross fakes his own suicide and sees the sales of his paintings go through the roof. His only problem was…
The Case of the Injured Innocent 0.0
November 18, 1961
A really weird courtroom confession scene highlights this episode about the murder of a race car driver.
The Case of the Left-Handed Liar 0.0
November 25, 1961
Health club instructor Ward Nichols wants to marry the daughter of his employer, Bernard Daniels, but Ward's estranged …
The Case of the Brazen Bequest 0.0
December 2, 1961
Charles Cromwell, the president-elect of Euclid College, worries that some less than stellar moments from his past will…
The Case of the Renegade Refugee 0.0
December 9, 1961
A journalist is murdered while tracking an ex-Nazi war criminal who may be posing as an executive at a company called S…
The Case of the Unwelcome Bride 0.0
December 16, 1961
Wealthy Walter Frazer has always blamed his daughter-in-law Sue Ellen for his son Gregson's failures. You can only imag…
The Case of the Roving River 0.0
December 30, 1961
Perry is hired to help settle a land dispute in the Manzana Valley but the key witness is blown up by a homemade bomb. …
The Case of the Shapely Shadow 0.0
January 6, 1962
Naive secretary Janice Wainwright carries out boss Morley Thielman's orders and places a briefcase containing more than…
The Case of the Captain's Coins 0.0
January 13, 1962
Historian Phillip Andrews tries to make a case that his fiancee, Evelyn Faraday, is entitled to a share of a shipping c…
The Case of the Tarnished Trademark 0.0
January 20, 1962
Axel Norstaad sells his much respected furniture trademark to Martin Somers, described by some as the slide trombone of…
The Case of the Glamorous Ghost 0.0
February 3, 1962
Eleanor Corbin pleads amnesia after police find her running and screaming through the woods near her apartment building…
The Case of the Poison Pen-Pal 0.0
February 10, 1962
A casual pen pal relationship leads to insider information and murder.
The Case of the Mystified Miner 0.0
February 24, 1962
Mason tries to clear his young, naive woman client, a corporate executive secretary, as a twisting and wheeling plot of…
The Case of the Crippled Cougar 0.0
March 3, 1962
Mike Preston is a bitter man who despises Hugh Jamison because he mistakenly believes Jamison stole $100,000 from him a…
The Case of the Absent Artist 0.0
March 17, 1962
Cartoonist Pete Manders is elated when the owner of the comic strip "Zingy" offers to sell him the strip for a song. Pe…
The Case of the Melancholy Marksman 0.0
March 24, 1962
Ted Chase discovers that his bitchy second wife, Irene, might have killed his first wife and contemplates revenge but s…
The Case of the Angry Astronaut 0.0
April 7, 1962
Astronaut Matthew Heller is suspected of killing his old service rival, General Addison Brand, after Brand is put in ch…
The Case of the Borrowed Baby 0.0
April 14, 1962
A baby who mysteriously appears in Perry's office has a rare St. Christopher medal, which could help identify the baby'…
The Case of the Counterfeit Crank 0.0
April 28, 1962
A crazy man (or is he?), his dead nephew and a military base are tangled up in a confusing Perry Mason episode.
The Case of the Ancient Romeo 0.0
May 5, 1962
Perry and Della go out for a night at the theatre to see Perry's actor friend, Steve Brock, perform as Paris in Romeo a…
The Case of the Promoter's Pillbox 0.0
May 19, 1962
Aspiring screenwriter Herbert Simms submits his first teleplay to producer Charlie Corby who tries to use the manuscrip…
The Case of the Lonely Eloper 0.0
May 26, 1962
Merle Telford is a naive and maladjusted young woman who is about to turn 21 and receive a substantial inheritance. She…