Cast: A novelist sends her secretary to pick up a package at a remote cabin, but in the rain her car becomes stuck. Cast: A young woman confesses to her psychiatrist on tape under a truth serum that she poisoned her uncle. When he is murdered, his wife is charged. 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. The problems become worse when a new man taking over is the general who fired him from another program. Paul Drake 16 episodes, 2020-2023 Shea Whigham . "The Case of the Desperate Daughter" (Season 1, Episode 27) at 11:03. After a fire in her office, she is murdered and her husband is charged. Philip Reynolds (1 Episode), Darwin Norland (1 Episode), Thomas Webber (1 Episode), Joseph Harrison (1 Episode), William Harper Caine (1 Episode) Bill Erwin Morrison Findlay (1 Episode), Autopsy Surgeon (1 Episode), Counterman (1 Episode), A.J. 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. Cast: Perry, while looking for a witness, runs into a young couple working a gold mine. Cast: 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. The father-son duo will be major parts of Season 2. The woman who caused the accident is killed, so the fleeing woman assumes her identity, but finds she has walked into a scandal. When the gambler is killed, the jockey is charged with murder. After five years in prison, he returns to Los Angeles where he plots revenge. Cast: A secretary who has been spying on an oil executive, is found murdered by the executive who takes the gun. When he confronts her, she says she is the secretary next door. He fights to leave and an eye witness identifies him as her killer. TV Shows. Paul Drake William Talman. She supposedly eloped with a man who is found dead in the same park. Cast: 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. She is disliked by his mother and becomes a tool to make it look like the assistant D.A. Cast: A woman is blackmailed for a past indiscretion which she would like to keep from her husband and his overbearing father. Cast: "The Case of the Fifty-Millionth Frenchman". Learn more about the returning and new characters in the Perry Mason Season 2 gallery, below. The current pro is killed with the inspiring pro's club after threatening him with blackmail. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. Joining Rhys Perry, Rylances Della, and Chalks Paul in Season 2 are Diarra Kilpatrick (bumped to series regular), Eric Lange, Justin Kirk, Katherine Waterston, Hope Davis, Fabrizio Guido, Peter Mendoza, Mark OBrien, Paul Raci, Jen Tullock, Jon Chaffin, Onahoua Rodriguez, Jee Young Han, Sean Astin, Tommy Dewey, Shea Whigham, Wallace Langham, and Jack Eyman. Cast: 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. Cast: An aspiring artist and model becomes embroiled in a lawsuit about whether a painting is a fake. She tells him about proof she didn't commit the murder, but even Perry has a hard time believing her story. Cast: A woman unwittingly wrote a very successful book that is based on true stories her boyfriend told her about his step-mother. Cast: Witness 2 is accountant Bernie Oseransky. Brooks speaks among the crowd at a McCutcheon soup kitchen. The first male guest star was actor Sam McMurray, who voiced a worker at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in "Homer's Odyssey", the . Kilpatricks Clara (Pauls wife) is caring for her new baby in Season 2 and has moved in with her brothers family to help matters. The woman's former roommate is murdered and Perry's client is charged. Cast: A man is framed for burning an art collection in Brazil. After her husband cuts off her funds and leaves town, she blackmails her former husband and his wife. Cast: An Army sergeant is accused of murdering a payroll officer. After a car accident, Perry Mason finds some fans and shoes that belong to a fan dancer. [26]:194, "The Case of the Dead Ringer" (episode 9-26) features Burr in a unique dual role, playing Mason and his doppelgnger, a grizzled seadog hired to impersonate and discredit him. Cast: A man tries to extort his wife for all of her money to give her a divorce. The son is charged with the manager's murder after the jewels are stolen. "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. While charming and eager to prove himself, Brooks questions whether he has the talent to achieve the same level of success as his father. Cast: A man who faked his death is being blackmailed. Rio Diablo. She spots a picture in a customer's home and realizes her friend's husband is a bigamist. The man is murdered and one of the team is charged with the crime. She asks Perry to help turn him away. Cast: 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. [28]:23[29][30] Written and directed like a film noir second feature,[28]:25 it was a hit with CBS executives and earned the series a good time slot for the 195758 season. officially removes himself from anything to do with the case. Cast: 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. Cast: On vacation, Perry decides to help a woman who had been kind to him. Cast: A secretary becomes concerned when she learns her boss is being blackmailed. Cast: A man wants to be a screenwriter instead of a pharmacist. Perry Mason 16 episodes, 2020-2023 Juliet Rylance . Cast: A woman is deciding between two beaus who are also after a franchise from her uncle. Cast: A man has a contract to take a party to kelp beds near Mexico each weekend. [51] The other three special episodes are "The Case of the Libelous Locket" (episode 617) starring Michael Rennie; "The Case of the Two-Faced Turnabout" (episode 618) starring Hugh O'Brian; and "The Case of the Surplus Suitor" (episode 619) starring Walter Pidgeon. A beat cop with a knack for detective work, Chalks Paul is an outlier, with the added challenge of having to navigate an extremely race-conscious city and a downright oppressive police department. Cast: A teenage boy seeks Perry's legal help after finding the loot from a robbery. She is spotted by an agent who signs the naive girl to a contract. Perry sees something good in the teen, giving him a second chance. The script called for her to say, "I wouldn't take that show if they begged me. Perry finds another man is also trying to sell information about the baby. Cast: A woman is involved in a land dispute that her stepfather can help with, but he needs $10,000. Cast: Perry loses a patent case for a woman whose father had died. Perry Mason Barbara Hale. When a dating service contacts Perry about the man, Perry looks deeper into his history. Look into the eyes of this Perry Mason guest star to recall this show where she plays a TV mom: The Donna Reed Show Happy Days Leave It to Beaver Nearly a decade before he became known as a cast member on this show, we saw the actor below get a pep talk from Perry: Hawaii Five-O Magnum, P.I. An actress searching for her long-lost son is implicated in the murder of a drama critic; guests James Stacy, Victor Buono. Cast: A schoolteacher holds a second job at a diner. He discovers the bug and makes threatening remarks, but the woman blames it on her husband. Given a chance to get her horse back, she is interrupted by the man who bought the horse. Davis plays Camille Nygaard, an exemplary and elegant business leader who becomes a companion for Della.