Pete Manders has his ups and downs. He's been offered "Zingy," a popular comic strip for a song, but finds out the reason the purchase price is so low is to appease him for the loss of his "lovebird," Leslie, who's flying the coop. She's running away with previous "Zingy" owner, Gabe Philips, a man with two private and separate identities.

Mutual suspicions of embezzlement between a man and his father-in-law lead up to a confrontation at a lake resort to which Paul and Perry have been invited. The expected argument never happens, though; the father-in-law has a letter opener plunged into his back, the son-in-law is charged with the murder, and Perry has another client to save.

A night at the theater proves fatal. The lights mysteriously go out during the dueling scene between Romeo and Paris. When the lights come back on, the audience is shocked to see that the leading man playing Romeo has been stabbed to death. Perry's actor friend, Steve Brock, is accused of the murder, so the lawyer goes behind the scenes to investigate the cast of characters.

Mitchell Heller, an overworked astronaut, is marked as a murder suspect after his worst enemy, Major General Addison Brand is murdered. The police figure Heller had motive since Brand stole his job and his girlfriend, and was suspected of stealing his valuable invention. Perry believes Heller is innocent, and now he must figure out how a dead man can talk.

Willard Nesbitt is dead and he wants to keep it that way. He supposedly drowned in a boating accident. But it's almost a moot point - his doctors had told him he only had a short time to live anyway.

Peter ("The Big Valley") Breck plays William Sherwood, an ex-boozehound struggling to stay on the wagon. He loses the battle one night when he sees not a pink elephant, but Ruth, his dead wife, walking with another man. Later, Sherwood gets a spooky call from Ruth and agrees to meet her. When she doesn't appear, Sherwood gets nervous and thirsty and is soon bombed. Outside the bar, he finds his wife in a car, and this time she's really dead.

I know, it's only rock 'n roll, but Perry gets involved with a wealthy industrialist and the young, no-talent singer he imports from England with hopes of starting the boy's career. Blackmail and murder get in the way, though, and Perry must defend the British Invader when his shady promoter is iced.

When retired fire chief Carey York is accused by TV reporter Tommy Towne of burning his own warehouse, he contacts Perry, who tells Towne to broadcast a retraction or face a whopping $1.5 million slander suit. Towne eventually goes on the air to admit his first charge was incorrect, sort of . . .

Devious Allen Sheridan, soon to inherit $162,000, has just as many enemies as dollar bills. Since he's hurt a lot of people, and owes money to many more, when he turns up dead (murder weapon: an ashtray) his killer could be anyone.

A dispute between two brothers over the ownership of a successful chain of women's clothes stores ends up with a Pair of scissors sticking out of the back of one and the other charged with his murder.

Tryon Laboratories hires the Drake Detective Agency to protect their latest formulas. In spite of Paul's best efforts, there is a leak in security and some top-secret information is stolen. One night, Borace Lehigh, an undercover agent working for Dr. Stanton, the head of the company, calls from the lab to say he knows the identity of the spy. Both Stanton and Paul rush to the lab and find Lehigh dead, floating in a vat of water.

The town's former bank president returns from prison after being convicted of embezzling $33,750, money that was never found. A former client of Paul's asks him for the second time to try and locate the loot. Perry becomes involved and later, after Paul finally does find the money and a body the lawyer travels to the town to help his detective friend straighten the whole thing out.

Dr. David Craig is in big trouble. Some of his tapes of conversations with his psychiatric patients are missing, and being used for blackmail. After a brief consultation with good friend Perry Mason, Craig decides to drop the issue. But Craig has been covering for Edith, his nurse and the woman he loves, while she in turn has been protecting her brother from the mob. When Edith's brother Mark is murdered, the good doctor is arrested for the crime.

Nellie had left for the continent with her first husband, who died suddenly during the trip. Nellie's new husband is a very young, very handsome Frenchman named Pierre. Her family immediately hates him, suspecting that he has married Nellie for her money. As part of a bizarre scheme to get rid of Pierre, the family hires a young French maid. But, unknown to them, the maid, Marie, is actually Pierre's jilted wife.

Felton Grimes doesn't have both oars in the water, or so his wife's best friend, Gwynn Elston, thinks. It seems that the oddball Felton is often out of town on business, so much so that his wife Nell has asked Gwynn to move in with her. Gwynn does so and soon likes her new home and her job selling encyclopedias door to door. But she doesn't like Felton. When he's home, he's constantly trying to put the move on Gwynn. One day on the job, Gwynn is astonished to see Felton's picture in someone else's house.

Perry drives to the scene of a shooting and finds the police recovering the body of Harry Merrill from a car that went over the side of a mountain. Merrill has a bullet in his body and a pillowcase over his head. This is a coincidence, because Perry's client, Evelyn Bagby, claims she was chased by a hooded man in a car near the same cliff that day. She fired two shots at the man's car to scare him off, and now the police want her for murder.

In this episode Perry must defend a man with a motive. Peter Cole walks in his sleep and has been found more than once roaming the house, unaware of his actions. One night, he was even found standing over someone's bed holding a knife. Now he's been accused of stabbing a man who was attempting to extort money from him and block the progression of his divorce. Cole hires Perry to handle his difficult defense.

In this episode, Sybil Granger hires Perry to help her buy stock in her husband's oil company on the sly. Sybil wants some control of the company's action with hopes of forcing hubby's latest squeeze, Roxy Howard, out of the company and the picture altogether.

Chem student Marv Adams is popular for his drowning-duck trick. He can make a duck sink in water with a special chemical solution. Marv is about to go to court for a new trick: poisoning Donald Briggs.

Rod Gleason and Frances Celane have been secretly married for five years and are expecting a child. Frances doesn't want this to be known until she secures her million-dollar trust fund from Uncle Norton. Norton is holding out until the girl is twenty-five.

Mildred Kimber gets mixed up with some "bad seeds" who try to con her weak-willed husband out of her rare orchid business via a fixed poker game. When a couple of these jokers are poisoned, Mil is sent to the slammer.

There's trouble in Bear Valley. Carla Adrian, played by Barbara Eden ("I Dream of Jeannie"), gets her blouse ripped by a wheelchair-bound water skiier who gets fresh. Later, when the masher is found shot dead, Adrian's mother, Belle (Sylvia Field, aka Mrs. Wilson on "Dennis the Menace"), is arrested for the crime. Luckily for her, Perry is vacationing nearby.

A jealous woman, bitter over her roommate's impending marriage to her former boyfriend, attempts to pin a murder on the roomie. Perry and Della are the first to find the murdered man, an act that gets them in very hot water with Tragg and the police.

A Hollywood producer hires Perry to get him out of trouble when a foxy girl the mogul picked up hitchhiking turns out to be not only a blackmailer but also a witness to a murder the producer may have committed.

Ed Davenport accuses his wife, Myrna, of poisoning him. He also claims to have a letter from Myrna's dead uncle that says she poisoned him, too. Myrna consults Perry, but when they learn that Davenport is in the hospital, dying of arsenic poisoning, Perry works fast to cover for Myrna.

A double life and a double wife plagued Joe Bradford. Wife number 1, Martha Bradford, is surprised when she goes to get her hair done and discovers there is another Mrs. Bradford. Later, when Joe Bradford is found bludgeoned to death, Tragg arrests Martha Bradford.

Perry and Paul pull a beautiful woman out of the ocean. Not surprisingly, she is fleeing from the scene of a murder. But Perry can't resist this mermaid's tale, even after Tragg arrests her for the murder.

Morey Allen's restaurant is a regular eating spot for Perry and Della. But on this night, Morey has a problem: One of his waitresses has been struck by a car while fleeing the steak house after spotting a man stalking her. She's left behind a mink coat, which hints that she might be one of those enterprising waitresses who "mingle with the guests" after hours. If word of this gets to the press, Morey will be ruined. When the man who frightened the waitress in the first place is found murdered, Morey and the waitress are strong suspects.

First, Perry gets $2,000 in cash and one half of a $10,000 bill as a retainer in case his services are needed to defend a mysterious, veiled woman. Then, in one of the most macabre scenes ever on the show, he finds a wide-eyed corpse in a closet. But Perry's got a miserable cold and would rather be in bed.

Returning to L.A., Perry and Della witness an auto accident. The Mexican woman who was driving the overturned vehicle leaves behind some high-heeled shoes and ostrich feathers.

Nadine Marshall confesses to all the details of a murder while under a drug-aided hypnosis session with her doctor. The doctor seeks Perry's advice on what to do with the recording of Nadine's confession.

Perry gets a phone call from a woman with some bare facts. Arlene Dowling was sunbathing when her house trailer and all her belongings were stolen. She's calling, wrapped in nothing more than a towel, from a golf course.

A double murder, a hit-and-run driver, a secret marriage, and a missing witness keep Perry very busy.

Hitchhiker Claire Olger is charged with grand theft auto and manslaughter when the driver of the car she's riding in hits a truck, killing the truck driver, then flees the scene, leaving Claire to take the blame.

We catch Paul reading a copy of Lonely Hearts Calling magazine in his office. He's "on duty," hired to investigate an ad placed by Marilyn Cartwright who is looking for male companionship. Or so she says. The heiress is really looking for the con man who drove her sister to suicide.

Perry displays one of his cleverest tricks when he passes a magnet over an incriminating tape recording and erases it. It's too bad that his client, Harriet Bain, has to go and get herself arrested for murder anyway, after all that trouble.

Janet Morris is arrested for poisoning her doctor-husband just before he flew to his death in his private plane. However, further investigation reveals that the dead man in the plane is not Dr. Morris after all, but one David Kirby. Dr. Morris is alive and well and living it up incognito in Mexico with his girlfriend.

Della and Perry make an attempt at dinner in a romantic French restaurant only to be interrupted by business as usual. Perry gets a phone call and an envelope containing $500 from a mysterious woman. She wants him to make an exchange for her - the money for some documents.

Actress Constance Ford plays a dual role of sorts as a troubled woman living a double life. Helen Reed, a mild-mannered housewife by day, turns into Joyce Martel, a roaring harlot by night. Perry needs Joyce Martel's testimony to clear her brother of a murder rap. Helen Reed informs Perry that she can only recall her other half, Joyce, when her psychiatrist puts her under hypnosis.

A deceased war veteran's estate and his long-lost daughter set the scene for murder and deceit. Perry must set the facts straight and help the daughter, Doris Hocksley, regain her identity and fortune.

It looks like a case of murder and the eternal triangle. Frank Lawton is an old war buddy of Perry's who has come out of the woodwork needing to be cleared of the shooting death of his boss, Scott Shelby.

Lisa Bannister is ready to kill herself after Stefan Riker (played by Werner KlempererColonel Klink of "Hogan's Heroes") arrives in the United States from East Germany. He knows that Lisa is the daughter of the head of the Communist party in that country and has been in the United States illegally.

Perry is attending a bar association dinner when Daniel Conway approaches him to say he's just found his rival's secretary, dead. Conway is sure he is being framed for murder. He's involved in a vicious proxy war with Warner Griffith over Cal-Texas Exploration.

Perry offers to defend a man free of charge because he knows the guy is still hurting over the accidental death of his wife and kids eight years ago. It pays off when Perry turns up a heroin- smuggling ring at the Danceland Ballroom.

Columnist and socialite Mary K. Davis gets herself killed. Was it her shrill voice that prompted someone to do her in? Or was it something the columnist said? Maybe her politician-husband didn't appreciate her refusal to give him a divorce. Or perhaps that doctor didn't like it when Mary threatened to expose his illegal baby-selling scheme.

A nurse is accused of poisoning a wealthy woman but Perry suspects the dead woman's husband instead. Why? Because the man's first wife died of a poisoning also.

The scene opens with that beautiful shot of Perry and Della on board a luxury liner returning from a case in Vancouver. The dreamy-eyed vision of the two looking out over the ocean is broken by a desperate woman in need of help. Perry must defend her for the murder of her husband. He starts by investigating that "strange man" on board who was in a wheelchair, his face wrapped in bandages.

Glenn Falkner owned a small motel in Las Vegas but fell prey to the gambling tables. When he wouldn't pay up, bigtime thug George Castle shot him. Now Falkner's daughter is alone and she must deal with dad's debts and George Castle's designs on her newly inherited land.

Charles Stewart Brent, the owner of Perry's office building, unfairly takes the rap for a murder to cover for his young wife, Anne. Charles has known her for only two weeks, but has already been threatened by a blackmailer to expose her "tainted" past. Now he suspects her of murder, but loves her too much to see her in jail.

When a man named Bertrand Allred is found dead in a car at the bottom of a cliff, the evidence points to his wife Lucille . . . sort of. There is also Allred's business associate, Bob Fleetwood, Fleetwood's girlfriend, even the old buck who lived near the murder scene--all of them suspicious.

Philip Larkin is found shot to death. His stepfather, Joseph Harrison, is the chief suspect. The two men quarreled over business and over a girl. In fact, a home movie shows the men fighting. Perry is called on to defend Harrison and delve into the family's strange lineage.

When Perry is visited by Diana Reynolds, a pretty blonde with a black eye and wearing an overcoat covering a bathrobe, the lawyer suspects he's in for an unusual case.

The office of a South African diamond company located in the same building as Perry's office is robbed and the suspect matches the description of a womean who spent some time working in Perry's office. This is just the beginning of a series of strange events that leads Perry into the courtroom defending Duane Jefferson for murder.

Perry defends Daniel Reed on a murder charge and against his nephew, who wants to put the old man away in an insane asylum.

Perry gets a phone call from George Hartley Beaumont, a man who supposedly died in a plane crash over the Atlantic nearly three years before. Actually, George missed that plane and decided to take advantage of the accident to disappear, letting his wife collect the $90,000 insurance policy.

A twisted plot ensues when Perry is hired to reopen a murder case after the defendant has already been declared guilty.

Big city action and back alley crime set the stage for this episode. A bundle is lifted from the Hargrove Finance Company and Frank Anderson is murdered in the aftermath. When old "Pop" Renzi is arrested for theft and murder, he retains Perry.

If Major Frank Lessing was murdered, then why did his wife, Helen, find a suicide note near his body? Helen hires Perry to defend Joseph Dexter against false charges, of killing her husband.

More courtroom tricks as Perry comes to Rhoda Reynolds's defense against charges of murdering Arthur Kane. He brings the trial right to the room where Kane was murdered to reenact the fatal night. Perry rigs a setup with an alarm clock and a doorbell to prove not all buzzers sound the same.

Dr. Blane's son-in-law Jack Hardisty embezzled $100,000 from the good doctor and is trying to blackmail him for more. Blane hires Perry to put a stop to Hardisty's misconduct. But before the lawyer can swing into action, Hardisty is found dead, and Perry must defend the doctor against a murder rap.

Perry doesn't want to get involved in a family dispute when a childhood friend, Eileen Harrison, seeks a divorce from her husband, Danny. Perry feels differently about defending Danny, though, when the man is framed for murder.

When racehorse Bright Magic loses a fixed race, jockey Tic Barton gets his walking papers. A little man with big problems, Tic confronts big shot Johnny Starr and they fight over who doped the horse. Johnny knocks Tic down and leaves the room. Two shots later, Tic finds Starr dead. The police have an eyewitness who saw Tic leave the apartment and the little guy is arrested for murder.

Cigar-smoking art collector Rufus Varner claims to own an original "Van Hooten". He's too embarrassed to admit he was sold a fake by art dealer Milo Gerard and Aaron Hubble, a burnt-out, boozed-up painter. Gerard's wife, Evelyn, suspects her husband will try to pin the fraud on her. She needs Perry's advice and later his courtroom expertise when Milo is murdered and she becomes the prime suspect.

After spending a few bitter years in jail for a crime he did not commit, Martin Ellis is exonerated, thanks to evidence that his wife received in the mail. Charles Brewster, the real thief, is justly sent to jail for stealing the $300,000 in question, but manages to get out on bail. When Brewster later turns up dead, guess who is the prime suspect?

Bigamy, a double-talking parrot, and a sprinkling of familiar faces spice up this episode. Watch for Edgar Buchanan (Uncle Joe on "Petticoat junction") as Coroner Andy Templet and Joseph Kearns (the perpetually hassled Mr. Wilson on "Dennis the Menace") as Edward Langley.

Sarah Werner (played by Osa Massen, in one of her several Mason appearances) comes to Perry crying poverty. She begs him to find her husband, Hugo Werner, who ran off with her inheritance. Leave it to Della to wonder out loud why such a poor woman would be wearing "Eternity," a perfume costing $150 an ounce.

Eva Martell gets a part, not on stage but impersonating Helen Reynolds, a woman she has never met. She is paid extremely well and given a beautiful apartment to live in with her Aunt Agnes as long as she continues the charade. Still, Eva suspects foul play in paradise, and seeks the advice of a good lawyer. Perry steps in and meets with the real Helen Reynolds, who swears she is not doing anything illegal, but cannot reveal her motives. That's fine until they find that dead body in her apartment...

Tom Wyatt has discovered a cure for a fatal fish disease called gill fever. It's worth a small fortune, so much so that Wyatt's boss, Jack Huxley, claims the formula, since it was made in his company. Wyatt disagrees and tells his story to Perry, flying into a rage in the process, saying Huxley doesn't have the right to live.

Perry accepts a thirty-eight-cent retainer from shapely Millie Crest, posing as Fern Driscoll, and played by the beautiful Ruta Lee. Unbeknownst to Perry, Millie has taken on this identity from the real Fern Driscoll (who is supposedly dead), to shield herself from a troubled past.

District Attorney Brander Harris of Waring County is the victim of smear tactics. A young woman lures him into being photographed in a compromising embrace with her. Later, Harris is implicated in the death of the manipulator, Marshall Scott.

Stacey Chandler intends to marry young heiress Helen Harvey (played by Marion Ross, Mrs. Cunningham on "Happy Days") for her money. That is, until he goes and falls in love with her. Stacey's old girlfriend, Irene, wants him back, along with a piece of the pie. Irene has the goods on Stacey and tries to put the finger on him. When she is murdered in the process, an innocent Helen Harvey is wrongly accused of the crime.

Frankie Laine, the singer of TV theme songs ("Rawhide"), made his acting debut in this story. He plays Danny Ross, a funny man with an unfunny problem. His agent, Charlie Goff, double-crossed him, and told the network that the comedian wasn't right for a big project that Danny had developed. Danny is mad and goes to Perry for help, accompanied by long-time friend Freddie Green. But since Danny had only an oral agreement with Goff, Perry has a tough job ahead of him. It becomes even tougher when Goff is found murdered.

Peter Baxter had a plan to test the loyalty of his heirs. First he would pretend to change his will, cutting all of them out and leaving the estate to his caretaker, James Hing. Then Hing was to burn down Baxter's house and Baxter would substitute a medical cadaver for his own body. If anyone contested the will, he or she would really be disinherited. Hing does as his employer planned, but the body found in the ashes is really that of Peter Baxter.

Carol Delaney was raised in an orphanage and never knew who her parents were. Charles Burroughs, is a multimillionaire whose only daughter ran away years ago, leaving a baby daughter in an orphanage before she died. When Bishop Mallory brings these two people together, he expects a joyous reunion.

When playwright Ernest Royce is found shot to death in much the same manner as a character in one of his unproduced plays, Perry is puzzled by coincidences. Royce's play dealt with characters very close to real people, and a murder very close to the real murder case of underworld figure Rick Valponi, who was killed in New York City twelve years before.

Perry preps Paul with a great description of a little brunette cookie who's missing, and asks if he knows where to look for her. Paul finds the woman in question. Her name is Evelyn Forbes and she's just escaped from an insane asylum. Later she's wanted for murder.

George Andrews needs Perry's help. Andrews has just been in a car accident after visiting political fix-it man Wilfred Borden. The next day, Wilfred Borden's murder is announced on the radio and the police bring in Andrews as the prime suspect, since he saw Borden just before his death. Perry suspects a setup and must find Dawn Manning, the girl Andrews swears was in the car accident with him.

Harry Bright and Chuck Clark were great friends and business partners until Chuck married Margaret. Harry didn't approve of the union since Margaret was only half Chuck's age and very much after his money. When Margaret is shot to death, Harry is sent to jail as a suspect.

Only the rich could have the problems that trouble the Benson family. Daddy is dead, and Matilda Benson rules her children with an iron fist and the promises in her will. Imagine the shock Matilda suffers when her little brood gets involved in a potential gambling scandal and later the unspeakable murder!

Martin Selkirk wants Claire Allison in a bad way. Claire isn't interested and is dating Dick Benedict instead. Selkirk decides to get Claire's undivided attention and has Benedict's jaw broken. Now Claire is terrified, especially since she's been receiving threatening mail.

Jimmy Morrow was trying to go straight after having been put on probation for car theft. Now he's faced with a bum rap for stealing a valuable Spanish treasure and killing the owner.

Perry returns to his office late one night and finds an attractive blonde climbing into his balcony window. She claims to be Virginia Colfax, Ed Garvin's secretary from next door. Virginia says that she climbed into Perry's office to escape Garvin's wife. But it seems Garvin is married to two women.

Ruth Prescott wants to divorce her husband Walter so she can be with true love Jimmy MacLaine. After a brush with death, Ruth is convinced her husband is trying to kill her. When Walter turns up dead instead, the police believe Ruth shot him, but Perry doesn't think so.

Bruce Chapman returns home early from a business trip to find that his wife, Marie, wants a divorce. Chapman is upset and very surprised. Just before he had left for his trip, he thought he had found the strangled body of Marie in his office.

When George Clark finds out that his wife, Betty, may be the long-lost daughter of Lorna Thomas, he starts to see dollar signs floating in front of his eyes. He goes to see Perry, but learns that since Betty was legally given up for adoption, she has no chance of inheriting her mother's fortune.

Larry Benton, a born troublemaker, is in a real jam this time. When he knocks a man cold arguing over a poker hand, his "friends" inform him the guy is dead. Larry doesn't realize the thugs are lying.

Mitsou Kamuri has been seeing a great deal of Grove Nichols, son of wealthy businessman Hudson Nichols. But Hudson doesn't approve of his son's relationship. When the girl is "caught" with a string of valuable pearls belonging to Hudson's wife, the businessman agrees to drop all charges against her if stops seeing his son.

Wealthy but crippled rancher John Brant forecloses on Jo Ann Blanchard's mortgage and takes possession of her prize horse. Jo Ann goes to Perry for help; first, in getting the horse back, and second, when she's arrested for killing the rancher.

After putting the pressure on Frank Thatcher to confess to a hit and run accident, Paul dukes it out with him, is popped, goes down for the count, and wakes up to find Thatcher dead.

Richard Vanaman is in big trouble but nothing so big that Perry can't handle it. Vanaman is up for a promotion in his investment firm, but is sabotaged and framed for murder.

Wally Dunbar seeks Perry's help in securing ownership of his new summer line of swimwear. But the sketches are stolen, and worse yet, chief designer Rick Stassi is murdered. Dunbar's girlfriend goes to trial on suspicion of both crimes. Stassi had been blackmailing Kitty and the police think that is motive enough. Because Paul searched Kitty's car at one point, he makes an unusual appearance on the witness stand during the trial. Through it all, Dunbar stands by Kitty Wynne's side and even Perry is seen with a comforting arm around her during a trial break.

The story begins at a fifties-style beauty contest with a lineup of legs. Marjorie Cluny wins the contest, sponsored by Frank Patton of Stellar Productions. Her prize is a trip to Hollywood and a role in Patton's next picture. But alas, there was "fine print" in Marjorie's contract, and her "career" in Hollywood lasts all of two days. When Patton is found punctured with a woodcarving instrument, Marjorie disappears and becomes the leading suspect.

Perry is planning on a relaxing weekend in the Sierra town of Fawnskin, hunting with his old friend Sheriff Gene Norris, but he gets sidetracked into another murder case. The town is out for blood when Phil Beecher returns from jail. Phil did time for drunken driving and neglience in the car accident that killed Aggie, the sheriff's daughter. Aggie's sister Charlotte wants revenge, and frames Phil for robbery. When the scheme backfires, Charlotte herself is killed, and things look pretty grim for Phil.

A double cross, a double murder, a plane crash, and $130,000 in missing money lead Perry to yet another widow's defense.

Ben Sutton is listed as the author of the best-seller Ordeal, a book describing his experiences in a Korean prisoner-of-war camp. Sutton is already in deep with a blackmailer over the true authorship when the real author is released from an army hospital. Sutton is slain before he can tell the truth, and his widow arrested for the murder.

While duck-hunting, Hamilton Burger runs into Jeff Pike, an old friend who saved his life in a boating accident ten years before. Now Jeff is in trouble and wants Hamilton's advice. Jeff and his son are at odds with a man who is later murdered. Since the L.A. District Attorney's office has jurisdiction, Hamilton disqualifies himself and asks Perry to defend his friend.

An embezzling accountant is a battle fatality in a war for the control of a company and a woman.

Charles Houston thinks he's clever; he kills his wife and makes it look like a car accident. Freedom and fortune are his; that is, until a wildlife photographer shows up with the murder on film and Charles finds out the same day that his sister-in-law Paula has squandered all the profits on his oil well. The situation goes from bad to worse for Charles, especially when Paula is found locked in a room with his corpse.

Mauvis Meade, author of the bestseller Chop the Man Down, sends her secretary out to a mountain cabin to pick up a package. Gladys gets lost and her car is stuck in the mud. She walks to a cabin looking for help and meets a mysterious man who seems to know her. While Gladys freshens up, the man leaves and Gladys finds a dead body.

When Slim's girlfriend is killed, Anclitis plants a gun and marijuana on Betty Roberts, one of the "skirts" that works for him. Betty knows too much and Anclitis wants to use her to take the heat off his club and his "boys." Perry takes Betty under his wing and goes to great lengths to put the real criminal where he belongs.

Gold mines and rodeos set the hard pace of life in Placer City. Perry is in town on business looking for an old prospector named Amos Catledge to subpoena for testimony. He saunters into the Gold Nugget Saloon and ends up stopping a fight. Later on, one of the antagonists is murdered and the other is accused of the crime. But when Perry goes looking for clues, all hands point to the same man he came to find originally, that old prospector.

When a valuable Matisse painting is stolen, and the thief winds up murdered, Perry must do double duty and defend a museum employee and her boyfriend.

When Adam Thompson tells his two nephews that a parcel of land will multiply five times in value when he develops it, he decides to test their honesty. He doesn't tell them where the land is. Instead, he locks a map of the parcel in his safe and sets up an infrared camera to photograph anyone opening the safe. The next morning, although the safe is unopened, someone buys the land before Adam can.

A madcap murder puts an end to high-fashion queen Flavia Halliday. Flavia gasps for her last breath after her husband Charles puts a glass of champagne to her lips. "Charles poisoned me" are her dying words to ever faithful companion Leona Durant as she fades away in Leona's arms.

Two murders, each involving the navy submarine USS Moray, lead Perry to defend a seaman from sinking in a sea of accusations and blackmail.

Perry must solve a bank robbery that happened in 1939 to free client Bob Lansing, a man who unfortunately is the spitting image of his outlaw father.

James Frazer has a motive for murder. He wants a divorce and his cheating wife won't give it to him. To top it off, she's been stealing the plans to his invention in order to bait her engineer boyfriend into sticking around.

When word gets out that Louisa Holbrook died leaving her eighteen-year-old daughter Trudy with $10 million, the door is left open for men claiming to be Trudy's long-lost father.

Hartley Basset returns from the dead after two years. A tyrannical company president, he isn't liked any better the second time around, a fact underscored when someone puts two bullets in him. Poor Peter Dawson was fired by Hartley on his return, making him Tragg's prime suspect. Perry has two witnesses lined up to testify that Dawson didn't do it. Hartley's stepson, Dick Hart (Redford), and his new wife, Teddi, both swear they saw a different assailant at the scene of the crime.

Perry must defend a man who besides being charged with killing his former girlfriend (by running over her with his car) has also fallen into the clutches of a dishonest attorney.

This episode features all the standard elements: a successful husband, his bored wife, the freeloading, bloodsucking nephew, an $80,000 robbery, a crooked accountant, and a naive secretary accused of murder.

Perry himself is accused of obstructing justice when a womanwho previously faked her own suicide by running her empty car off a cliffis accused of murdering the battered woman whom police found in the wreck.

When Karen Lewis is accused by her boss of selling secret lipstick formulas to a competitor, he agrees to forget the whole thing if she'll give him a tickle. She refuses, only to get wrapped up in murder when the owner of the company gets iced and Karen winds up as the prime suspect. The fact that Karen is the only one in the dead man's will appears to be the kiss of death, but Perry comes through and clears her of the smear.

When a man accused of killing a fellow golfer is freed from prison, the release starts a chain reaction of extortion and murder.

Murder as a three-ring circus. A famous clown named Felix is secretly married to a woman who is "pretending" to be married to the owner of the circus they both work for. When a struggle for control of the circus breaks out, the clown comes to Perry for advice.

A washed-up concert pianist is clubbed and pushed over a cliff for the insurance money. Perry must clear the pianist's protégé of any suspicion.

Peggy lives at a boarding school and is searching for her identity, since she has no idea who her real parents are. A search of birth records leads Perry to believe that Peggy is the daughter of Clark Lawson and Margaret Jeffers Lawson. Margaret was the daughter of wealthy Courtney Jeffers, a crotchety old man who disowned Margaret after she eloped. Margaret died shortly after Peggy was born. Jeffers relents when he sees Peggy and quickly embraces her, even changing his will to leave everything to her. The next day, Jeffers is found dead, killed with a poker.

Trouble breaks out when a man breaks into Lester Martin's apartment and forces Lester at gun-point to drink half a bottle of scotch and then drives him to the country. Thus begins a nightmarish journey for Lester, as he becomes involved in a kidnapping (his own), stock takeovers, and murder.

Ann Farwell is distraught over her parents' divorce. Matters are complicated for Ann when her father starts seeing Rita Conover, a woman not much older than herself. When Rita is murdered, Ann and her mother each think the other one did it, even though their ranch hand is the accused. They cover for each other during the trial.

A mayor's political career is jeopardized when his conniving wife goes too far. Cuckoo's Nest's Louise Fletcher plays the woman Perry must defend on a murder charge.

Donald Fletcher, a vulturish moneyman who, after buying into a respected but financially troubled publishing house, has turned it upside down by changing its conservative publications into scandal sheets featuring nude pictures of women. Edmond Aitken, whose family once controlled the publishing house, contacts Perry, only to learn that there isn't any legal basis to oust Fletcher.

This boozy, off-center episode has Perry rather unbelievably representing a citizen's group in hearings on a proposed aqueduct to be named after county engineer William Harper Caine. There is some question as to the acceptability of the proposed route, and Perry gets a stop work order until a section of Manzanita Canyon can be checked for an underground spring.

Ralph Duncan is an underpaid civil servant whose job is to inventory the estates of wealthy decedents. One day, he returns home with $153,000 in archaic greenbacks he discovered while going over the old Boden house. Ralph just wanted to impress his wife and he was going to take them back the next day. Too bad cousin Charley saw the bundle and decided to lift it. When Ralph is accused of theft, a charge of murder goes along with it.

Loring Lamont is a wealthy skirt-chaser whose latest target is yummy Arlene Ferris, his father's secretary. Lamont tricks her into coming to his beachfront "wolfs lair," on the pretext of having her do some extra typing for him. But after a pitcher of martinis, Lamont makes a move on her. She slaps him and flees, but the cad pursues her, forcing her to steal his car to get back to town.

Inventor Walter Randall wants a divorce. His wife Laura says no way. Walter is playing around with a sweet young thing named Phyllis Hudson. Laura gets back at him by blackmailing one of his assistants into building a time bomb that will destroy Walter's underwater sounding invention.

When a crooked jewelry store salesman learns that he needs an operation that will temporarily blind him, he plans to rob his own store, his sightlessness providing him the perfect alibi. But when someone kills him and steals the already-pinched jewels, a desperate young man is charged with the crime and contacts Perry to see him through.

Plans to build a vacation resort go wrong when someone engineers the death of the developer. Perry is called on to defend the construction worker charged with the crime.

This case involves nothing less than:

a) a stolen gorilla named Toto
b) a shady zoo dentist
c) a lion charged with murder
d) a zoo curator charged with murder
e) bigamy
f) international drug smuggling

Claude Demay was sent up for six years for starting a fire in a warehouse containing the valuable Nathan Claver art collection. Demay was framed, and devises a plan to expose the real criminal, Leonard Voss. He tediously weaves a perfect imitation of a Panamaker tapestry supposedly lost in the fire.

For Herman Albright it's a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, wearing the wrong clothes. Perry is called on to defend a pretty fashion model who's accused of murdering Herman, a typical would-be masher/ad exec.

Perry takes a step into the space age in this episode. He is called on to defend an old war buddy who is accused of killing an officer at Vandenberg Air Force Base during the investigation of some mysterious missile crashes.

A weird family affair featuring switched identities, extortion, and $2 millionleads to a murder that even has Perry confused.

David Gideon is in deep. His lying girlfriend has convinced him to raise $10,000 for her, supposedly to pay off her punch-drunk husband. But when hubby turns up stiff, David is arrested for murder. And why not? He was seen fighting with the soon-to-be-deceased man, who, it turns out, was most likely holding some damaging info on David's family.

Two girls from Argentina cause quite a stir in America. Lola Bronson, a real spitfire, and cousin Concepcion O'Higgins are in court to settle Lola's divorce from an American, Jeff Bronson. The couple are glad to be rid of each other until Bill Ryder sabotages Jeff's business by crashing one of his best airplanes and making a play for Lola.