Perry Mason (1957 TV series)

Perry Mason
File:Perry Mason Title Screen.png Title screen
Genre	Legal drama Mystery fiction
Based on	Characters created by Erle Stanley Gardner
Developed by	Paisano Productions
Starring	Raymond Burr Barbara Hale William Hopper William Talman Ray Collins
Theme music composer	Fred Steiner
Opening theme	"Park Avenue Beat"
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	9
No. of episodes	271 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Gail Patrick Jackson
Producer(s)	Ben Brady Herbert Hirschman Seeleg Lester Arthur Marks Art Seid
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	52 minutes
Production company(s)	CBS Television in association with Paisano Productions Filmed by TCF Television Productions, Inc.
Distributor	CBS Films, Inc.
Release
Original network	CBS
Picture format	Black-and-white Color television (one episode)
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	September 21, 1957 (1957-09-21) – May 22, 1966 (1966-05-22)
Chronology
Followed by	The New Perry Mason (1973–74) Perry Mason television films (1985–1995)

Perry Mason is an American legal drama series originally broadcast on CBS television from September 21, 1957, to May 22, 1966. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. Many episodes are based on stories written by Gardner.

Perry Mason was Hollywood's first weekly one-hour series filmed for television, and remains one of the longest-running and most successful legal-themed television series. During its first season, it received a 10th Primetime Emmy Award nomination as Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Dramatic Series, and it became one of the five most popular shows on television. Raymond Burr received two Emmy Awards for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and Barbara Hale received an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of Mason's confidential secretary Della Street. Perry Mason and Burr were honored as Favorite Series and Favorite Male Performer in the first two TV Guide Award readers' polls. In 1960, the series received the first Silver Gavel Award presented for television drama by the American Bar Association.

Perry Mason has aired in syndication in the United States and internationally ever since its cancellation, and the complete series has been released on Region 1 DVD. A 2014 study found that Netflix users rate Raymond Burr as their favorite actor, with Barbara Hale number seven on the list.

The New Perry Mason, a 1973 revival of the series with a different cast, was poorly received and ran for 15 episodes. In 1985, Burr returned to play Mason in a successful series of Perry Mason television films airing on NBC. A total of 30 films were made; Burr starred in 26 of them before his death in 1993.

Plot

Perry Mason is a distinguished criminal-defense lawyer practicing in Los Angeles, California, most of whose clients have been wrongly charged with murder. Each episode typically follows a formula. The first half of the show introduces a prospective murder victim and several people, including Mason's client, who have strong motives to commit murder. Once the crime has been committed, Mason, his chain smoking private investigator Paul Drake, and his secretary Della Street investigate the case in parallel with the unimaginative and incompetent police detective (Lt. Arthur Tragg in the early years), who arrests Mason's client largely on circumstantial evidence, and district attorney Hamilton Burger, who prosecutes the innocent suspect.

In the second half, Mason spars with Burger in the courtroom, either during the trial or the preliminary hearing, in which the district attorney is required to produce just enough evidence to convince the judge that the defendant should be bound over for trial. As the courtroom proceedings advance, Mason often finds the case going against him, so outside the courtroom, either Mason himself or Paul and even Della pursue further leads. As the investigation or examination progresses, Mason and sometimes Burger uncover the morally ugly or even illegal conduct of some of the witnesses or participants, thus complicating the moral and legal intrigue of the case.

Eventually, some detail uncovered or remark made inside or outside the courtroom gives Mason the clue he needs to enter into the line of questioning that causes the surprise perpetrator, whether on the stand or not, to break down and confess to the crime and admit to the appalling truth of the motive. With the exception of one episode, Mason's client is always found to be innocent of the charge through the confession of another, and at no time are Mason's clients ever declared not guilty, nor do the police or the district attorney offer an apology for nearly destroying the reputations and lives of Mason's innocent clients. In the closing scene or epilogue, Paul and Della, and sometimes Burger and Tragg, ask Mason what gave him the clue he needed; after Mason explains, he or someone else makes a humorous remark.

Cast and characters

Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) and Della Street (Barbara Hale) in "The Case of the Corresponding Corpse" (1958)

• Perry Mason – played by Raymond Burr – defense attorney.
• Della Street – played by Barbara Hale – Mason's confidential secretary.
• Paul Drake – played by William Hopper – Mason's private investigator.
• Hamilton Burger – played by William Talman – district attorney. Absent for parts of seasons 3 and 4.
• Lieutenant Arthur Tragg – played by Ray Collins – a police homicide detective and lead police official on the series. He appeared in all but a handful of episodes in seasons 1–3. Illness forced him to appear in fewer and fewer episodes in later seasons: nineteen episodes in season 4, eleven episodes in season 5, nine episodes in season 6, and three episodes in season 7. Collins continued to be billed in every episode through the end of season 8, though he did not appear after midway through season 7.
• Lieutenant Anderson – played by Wesley Lau – another police homicide detective and lead police official on the series, known as Andy to his friends. Anderson started appearing in the fall of 1961 when Ray Collins began to reduce his participation in the show due to illness, and gradually became more prominent. Seen in seasons 5–8.
• Lieutenant Steve Drumm – played by Richard Anderson – another police homicide detective and lead police official on the series, who appeared in the final season.

Recurring smaller roles

• Dr. Hoxie – autopsy surgeon (medical examiner) played by Michael Fox, seen in seasons 1 through 7, Fox also played other small roles in season 9
• Police Sgt. Ben Landro - a homicide lead detective, played by Mort Mills. Seen infrequently (and never seen in an episode with Tragg, Anderson or Drumm), Landro appeared in a total of 7 episodes during seasons 4, 5, 6 and 8.
• Sgt. Brice – a police officer, played by Lee Miller, who often accompanies Tragg, Anderson or Drumm (but never Landro). Seen throughout the series run. Miller also played other bit roles in seasons 1 and 2.
• Terrance Clay – owner of the upscale "Clay's Grill" where Perry, Paul, Della (and sometimes Burger and/or Drumm) frequently gather in the final (ninth) season, usually during the story's epilogue. Played by Dan Tobin.
• Gertrude "Gertie" Lade – Mason's frequently mentioned but rarely seen receptionist, played by Connie Cezon. Seen mostly in seasons 1 and 2, with one appearance in season 4, and then four consecutive episodes in season 7.
• Court clerk – frequently seen, but rarely heard from, during courtroom procedures. Seen in seasons 2 through 6, and played by George E. Stone.
• Judges – A rotating pool of judges were seen. The judges were not always consistently named, and were frequently not given a name at all, only being referred to as "your honor". Seen most frequently judging Perry's cases were S. John Launer (33 episodes, 1958-1966), Kenneth MacDonald (32 episodes, 1957-1966), Willis Bouchey (23 episodes, 1960-1966), Morris Ankrum (22 episodes, 1957-1964), John Gallaudet (20 episodes, 1959-1966), Grandon Rhodes (16 episodes, 1957-1966), and Richard Gaines (14 episodes, 1958-1961).

Production

Background

Gail Patrick Jackson, executive producer of Perry Mason (1961)

After a series of Warner Bros. films and a radio series he despised, author Erle Stanley Gardner refused to license his popular character Perry Mason for any more adaptations (the radio series would, without the Mason character, be adapted for television as the long-running crime soap opera The Edge of Night). His literary agent was advertising executive Thomas Cornwell Jackson, who had, in 1947, married actress Gail Patrick. She had studied law before she went to Hollywood "for a lark" and appeared in more than 60 feature films including My Man Godfrey (1936), Stage Door (1937), and My Favorite Wife (1940). She stopped acting in 1948, started a family, and began to talk to Gardner about adapting the Perry Mason stories for a television series.

"We kept talking about what kind of a series he'd want and how much creative control he needed," Gail Patrick told journalist James Bawden in 1979. "I just think he came to trust me and I'd kept up my contacts in show business."

Gardner regarded Perry Mason's personal life as irrelevant and wanted the series to concentrate on crime and Mason's fight for the underdog. "You must remember," Patrick said, "Erle was in love with the law and its finer points."

Patrick, her husband, and Gardner formed a production company, Paisano Productions, of which she was president. When she first tried to sell Perry Mason to CBS, the network wanted it to be a live hour-long weekly program. "That would have been impossible—it would have killed the actor playing Perry," Patrick said. "And I Love Lucy had taught the value of filmed reruns." Paisano Productions absorbed the costs for a filmed pilot.

In February 1956, CBS announced its new series, Perry Mason, anticipating it would begin that fall. The network obtained the rights to 272 stories by Gardner, including Perry Mason and 11 other principal characters. The rights were purchased from Paisano Productions, which would film the series in association with CBS and own a 60% interest in the films.

Perry Mason was Hollywood's first hour-long weekly series filmed for television. Gail Patrick Jackson was its executive producer. "We were the first bona fide law show and we spent two years preparing Perry for the television bar," Patrick said.

Casting

Gail Patrick Jackson was immersed in auditions throughout 1956. The role of Perry Mason proved to be the hardest to cast. Richard Carlson, Mike Connors, Richard Egan, William Holden, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr., were considered. In early April, Fred MacMurray and CBS were reportedly in the midst of negotiations, and columnist Hedda Hopper wrote that Cornwell Jackson had postponed a two-month vacation in Hawaii, hoping to get the series ready by September or October. In mid-June, Hopper reported that the Jacksons had left on their annual trip, after stating that Perry Mason would not be ready for TV that fall.

"We couldn't afford a big star," Patrick later said. Among the hundreds of actors she saw audition in April 1956 was Raymond Burr, who initially read for the role of district attorney Hamilton Burger. Patrick had been impressed with Burr's courtroom performance in the 1951 film, A Place in the Sun, and told him he was perfect for the title role in Perry Mason, but at least 60 pounds overweight. Over the next month, Burr went on a crash diet. When he returned, he tested as Perry Mason, and was chosen from a field of 50 finalists. By July 1956, word was out that Burr had the role, and an announcement was made at the beginning of August.

William Hopper also auditioned as Mason, but was cast as private detective Paul Drake. Patrick recalled, "When Bill Hopper came in to read for Paul Drake he blurted out, 'You hate my mother.' And that was Hedda Hopper. Well, I disliked what she stood for, but 'hate' is something else—and anyway he was perfect as Drake, and we got him."

Barbara Hale was still prominent in feature films, but had a young family and wished to avoid going away on long periods of location shooting. Patrick said that Hale telephoned about the role of Della Street.

Patrick had an actor in mind for the Los Angeles district attorney. "I'd seen a brilliant little movie, The Hitch-Hiker, and had to have William Talman as Burger—and he never disappointed us," Patrick said. Later asked about how he felt about Burger losing to Mason week after week, Talman said, "Burger doesn't lose. How can a district attorney lose when he fails to convict an innocent person? Unlike a fist or gun fight, in court you can have a winner without having a loser. As a matter of fact, Burger in a good many instances has joined Mason in action against unethical attorneys, lying witnesses, or any one else obstructing justice. Like any real-life district attorney, justice is Burger's main interest."

"Ray Collins came on board as Lt. Arthur Tragg," Patrick said. "He was such a wonderful actor—beautiful voice, trained in radio's Mercury Theatre. We overlooked the fact that on an actual police force, he would probably be long retired." Collins was 68 at the time the series debuted.

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  Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) and Hamilton Burger (William Talman)

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  Paul Drake (William Hopper) and Perry Mason (Raymond Burr)

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  Paul Drake (William Hopper) and Della Street (Barbara Hale), with cop Frank Sully in "The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde " (1958)

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  Lt. Arthur Tragg (Ray Collins)

Each episode's casting interviews were conducted by Gail Patrick Jackson, producer Ben Brady, and the director. Episodes typically employed 10 featured players in addition to the principal cast and extras. Numerous actors famous for past and future roles in film and television made guest appearances on the show.

"Many were people I'd worked with in movies," said Gail Patrick Jackson. "They were grateful and delivered on time—and powerfully. … Gloria Henry, Vaughn Taylor, Hillary Brooke, John Archer, Morris Ankrum, Don Beddoe, Fay Wray, Olive Blakeney, Paul Fix, Addison Richards. We also had newcomers like Darryl Hickman, Barbara Eden. The trick was to only use them once a year. People like Fay Wray came back several times, but as other characters."

Patrick made it a point to hire her Hollywood acting contemporaries whenever possible. Some were semiretired and financially well-off, but still enjoyed performing. Character actor George E. Stone was impoverished, and for years he appeared on Perry Mason regularly in minor roles until his health made it impossible for him to work any longer. Patrick went to considerable lengths to find a part for an actress who had become paralyzed on one side; she played with her good side toward the camera.

"This isn't being the least altruistic," Patrick said. "They are all fine performers and bring to the shows something interesting and vital—even when they only have one line."

Perry Mason also drew on the distinguished West Coast radio pool. Working steadily in radio since the 1940s, Raymond Burr was a leading player on the West Coast and in 1956 was the star of CBS Radio's Fort Laramie. Noted for his loyalty and consciousness of history, Burr went out of his way to employ his colleagues. Some 180 radio celebrities appeared on Perry Mason during the first season alone.

Writing

The production staff of Perry Mason worked at being technically correct and responsive to an audience that included lawyers and judges. Producer Ben Brady practiced law in New York before entering show business; story editor Gene Wang graduated from law school in Florida; and executive producer Gail Patrick Jackson studied law for two years before becoming an actress.

Many episodes are based on novels and short stories by lawyer-turned-writer Erle Stanley Gardner. Only two of the 69 Perry Mason novels Gardner published before January 1963 were not adapted for the series. All but three episodes in the first season were adapted from Gardner's stories. In season two, 14 of the 39 episodes came from Gardner originals. With the backlist exhausted, later seasons presented between one and five episodes drawn from Gardner stories, with occasional remakes of earlier adaptations. By the summer of 1958, Patrick was already supervising the work of 31 writers who were developing original scripts based on Gardner's characters.

"Funny thing about writers," Patrick told TV Guide. "A lot of them think they'll improve on Erle. Most of them find out they can't even duplicate him."

Writers submitted a draft script, which was reviewed for continuity, narrative content, and legal error by Patrick and Wang. A revised draft was then forwarded to Gardner, who would respond with a detailed brief indicating particular changes required to conform with the law. Gardner closely supervised the scripts throughout the run of the series, and continued to write new Perry Mason novels.

By 1961, the strictures of the Perry Mason formula led Writer's Digest to declare, "This show has the reputation among writers as being the hardest one in Hollywood to work for."

Filming

Pilot

A test film, "The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink", ultimately aired December 14, 1957, as the 13th episode of the first season. The pilot was filmed October 3–9, 1956, after Raymond Burr completed a movie in Havana and made a two-week tour of military hospitals in the West Indies.

"'The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink' is written and directed very much like a noir B-feature of the period, from its stylishly dramatic opening to its violent climax," wrote film scholar Thomas Leitch. He noted that the pilot film "provides a fascinating laboratory for the formula, since it combines trademark elements that would become long-running features of the series with others that would be swiftly abandoned." The episode was directed by Ted Post, whose camera movement, use of deep space, and film noir stylings were softened or absent in subsequent episodes. Laurence Marks and Ben Starr adapted Erle Stanley Gardner's 1952 novel, retaining all its plot features and characters.

In her TV column in early November 1956, journalist Eve Starr reported, "Word is seeping down from CBS brass that its hour-long Perry Mason pilot film is a whooping success, so much so that the show will be held back until a good time period can be found for it next season."

On November 30, 1956, Gardner wrote Gail Patrick Jackson:

"I can't get over the feeling that I had sitting there watching that pilot film. … As I saw the manner in which your ideas, your tact and persistence had gradually changed the approach and resulted in a highly polished, finished product I was tremendously proud of you and of my association with you. I think that you saw possibilities in Raymond Burr which no one else saw. I think that you developed those possibilities and I think you have inspired not only the cast but the producers and directors. I think we are on the trail of a highly successful presentation."

Series

The series began filming in April 1957. Each episode was budgeted at $100,000, the equivalent of $842,536 today. Filming took place on Stage 8 at the 20th Century-Fox studios near Western Avenue and Sunset Boulevard (where the show's production offices were located) and at CBS Studio Center, with at least one location in each episode. Burr had lost 100 pounds, but continued to lose weight when filming began: "I just don't have time to eat," he said.

"Every six days Burr stars in what almost amounts to a full-length feature movie," wrote syndicated columnist Erskine Johnson. "He's in 98 percent of all the scenes."

"I had no life outside of Perry Mason," Burr recalled. "And that went on 24 hours a day, six days a week. I never went home at night. I lived on the lot. I got up at 3 o'clock every single morning to learn my lines for that day, and sometimes I hadn't finished until 9 o'clock. I had a kitchen, bedroom, office space, sitting room—all of that—on every lot I ever worked on."

Thirty-nine episodes were filmed in the first year. "Ray had key lines written on his shirt sleeve cuffs," said Gail Patrick Jackson.

Directors included Laslo Benedek, Jesse Hibbs, Arthur Marks, Christian Nyby, and William D. Russell. Some, including Lewis Allen and Richard Donner, had or would have notable directing credits in feature films. Many episodes incorporated the essential elements of film noir.

"The crew is giving it the best of Hollywood's techniques," Burr told columnist Erskine Johnson. The crew included veterans including art director Lewis Creber, make-up artist Mel Berns, cinematographer Frank Redman, editor Richard Cahoon and sound mixer Harry M. Leonard.

All but one of the episodes in the series were filmed in black-and-white. The episode "The Case of the Twice-Told Twist", an episode heavily influenced by Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, was the sole exception.

Locations

The Superior Oil Company Building in Los Angeles, used for exteriors of the fictional Brent Building where Perry Mason's offices were located (2008)

Perry Mason is set in Los Angeles; interior scenes were filmed on the 20th Century-Fox Western Avenue studio lot, and most exteriors were filmed at Fox Studios in Westwood, California, or the Movie Ranch in Malibu Canyon. Later episodes in the series were filmed at Jim Henson Company Lot in Hollywood.

In the early years of the series, filming would be done on location in and around Culver City and a few downtown locales. In one episode, Drake gets out of a car on Wilshire Boulevard and goes into an apartment building; in the distant background, the lights and cameras from the set filming an episode of Peter Gunn are visible. Numerous establishing shot are used, including the iconic Civic Center, Los Angeles, the Hall of Justice building and the Los Angeles County Court House which is now the Stanley Mosk Courthouse. All of these buildings are still standing.

Mason's offices are in the Brent Building, Suite 904, phone MAdison 5–1190. Although the Brent Building is fictional, the series used the entrance and exterior of the former Superior Oil Company Building, a modern architecture structure in downtown Los Angeles completed in 1956. The building was registered in 2003 as a historical landmark and is now Standard Hotels.

Scattered throughout the run were episodes that would take place beyond Burger's jurisdiction as Los Angeles County District Attorney. In 1960, when William Talman, who played Hamilton Burger, was suspended for allegedly violating the morals clause in his contract, several assistant prosecutors were seen in court. Talman had attended a party at which he was charged with having engaged in indecent activities. He was later acquitted, and largely through the efforts of Burr, Talman was reinstated to the show.

Music

The show's theme music is one of the most recognizable in television. Composer Fred Steiner set out to write a theme that would project the two primary aspects of Mason's character—sophistication and toughness. "The piece he came up with, titled 'Park Avenue Beat', pulsed with the power of the big city and the swagger of a beefy hero played to perfection by actor Raymond Burr," wrote The Los Angeles Times. Described by Steiner as "a piece of symphonic R&B", the Perry Mason theme heard at the opening and end credits became the composer's best-known work. American music icon Madonna would use samples from theme as part of her performance on "White Heat" during her 1987 concert tour, Who's That Girl World Tour.

Much of the incidental music was drawn from the CBS-TV Music Library. This included music by Bernard Herrmann, who went uncredited since the cues were stock music that was edited into the score. Herrmann's music has been identified in the following episodes: "The Case of the Restless Redhead", "The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece", "The Case of the Nervous Accomplice", The Case of the Drowning Duck", "The Case of the Silent Partner", "The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife", "The Case of the Calendar Girl", "The Case of the Spurious Sister" and "The Case of the Mythical Monkeys". Production records show Herrmann's music being used in 100 episodes, through "The Case of the Tandem Target" (Season 7, Episode 29).

Cancellation

Gail Patrick Jackson (left) and Erle Stanley Gardner speak with Hollywood columnist Norma Lee Browning during filming of the last Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Final Fade-Out" (1966)

Perry Mason aired Saturday nights for its first five seasons, outdrawing competition including the first two seasons of NBC's Bonanza. Bonanza jumped to number two in the Nielsen ratings when it moved to Sunday nights in 1961. In 1962, CBS moved Perry Mason to Thursday nights, where it easily won the ratings for its time slot.

"CBS just got plain cocky," said executive producer Gail Patrick Jackson. "It irritated the suits to no end that Sundays at 8 was The Ed Sullivan Show with his huge rating, and then everybody switched to NBC's Bonanza. William S. Paley would rant about this every time we met." Patrick continued:

Then, for the September '65 season he floored me by telling the affiliates we'd be going Sundays at 9 with a mandate to demolish Bonanza. Just like that. He finally let me shoot in color but we never had a chance. We improved ratings for CBS but Bonanza was the leader and Paley simply cancelled us completely in 1966. After nine seasons and 271 episodes we were dust."

The network gave no particular reason for the cancellation. "CBS figures we are worn out," Patrick told The New York Times in November 1965. "But this season the show is getting more mail than ever before and so is Raymond."

Burr had wanted to leave Perry Mason after five years, but was always persuaded to extend his contract. Network executives implored him to stay for a tenth season, to be filmed in color. "They shot one show in color and I said 'no'," Burr recalled, "and they gave me such a big thing, talked about my loyalty and all that, and they guaranteed the quality of the show and said, 'Let's go off with a big bang.' This was all of the people at CBS." Burr agreed to do the tenth season. Three weeks after the meeting, he picked up the trade papers and read that the series had been cancelled.

The last episode of the series, "The Case of the Final Fade-Out", was filmed April 12–19, 1966. Set in a TV film studio where two murders occur, the last show offered the entire production crew an opportunity to appear on camera. Most of the behind-the-scenes personnel in the episode had been with the show the entire nine years. Patrick made a cameo appearance herself, and persuaded Erle Stanley Gardner to make his acting debut as the judge who presides over the second trial.

Other adaptations

Main article: Perry Mason § Adaptations

Preceding the 1957 series, a series of movies were made in the 1930s, as well as a radio show that started airing in 1943.

At least three series have been made about the Perry Mason character after the cancellation of the 1957 series, including a series of television film for NBC, starting with Perry Mason Returns in 1985, featuring the two then-surviving cast members, Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale.

Other attempts include a short-lived 1973 series, also at CBS, and more recently, a 2020 HBO series.

Episodes

Main article: List of Perry Mason episodes

This is a list of episodes for Perry Mason, an American legal drama series that aired on CBS television for nine seasons (September 21, 1957 – May 22, 1966). 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. Many episodes are based on novels and short stories written by Gardner, with some stories having been adapted more than once.

Season 1

CBS Home Entertainment released the first season of Perry Mason on Region 1 DVD in 2006.

#		Episode title	Director	Teleplay	Source	Air date
1	1-1	"The Case of the Restless Redhead"	William D. Russell	Russell S. Hughes	1954 novel	September 21, 1957 (1957-09-21)
Cast: Whitney Blake (Evelyn Bagby), Vaughn Taylor (Lewis Boles), Grandon Rhodes (Judge Kippen)
2	1-2	"The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece"	William D. Russell	Laurence Marks, Gene Wang	1936 novel	September 28, 1957 (1957-09-28)
Cast: John McNamara (Peter Cole), John Archer (Frank Maddox), Darryl Hickman (Steve Harris), Hillary Brooke
3	1-3	"The Case of the Nervous Accomplice"	William D. Russell	Stirling Silliphant	1955 novel	September 28, 1957 (1957-09-28)
Cast: Margaret Hayes (Sybil Granger), Greta Thyssen (Roxy Howard), Morris Ankrum (Judge)
4	1-4	"The Case of the Drowning Duck"	William D. Russell	I. C. Ward	1942 novel	October 12, 1957 (1957-10-12)
Cast: Nolan Leary (Judge Harry Meehan), Gary Vinson (Marv Adams)
5	1-5	"The Case of the Sulky Girl"	Christian Nyby	Harold Swanton	1933 novel	October 19, 1957 (1957-10-19)
Cast: Olive Sturgess (Frances Celane), Brian G. Hutton (Rod Gleason)
6	1-6	"The Case of the Silent Partner"	Christian Nyby	Donald S. Sanford	1940 novel	October 26, 1957 (1957-10-26)
Cast: Peggy Maley (Lola Florey), Anne Barton (Mildred Kimber)
7	1-7	"The Case of the Angry Mourner"	William D. Russell	Francis Cockrell	1951 novel	November 2, 1957 (1957-11-02)
Cast: Sylvia Field (Belle Adrian), Barbara Eden (Carla Adrian), Paul Fix (District Attorney), Joan Weldon (Marion Keats)
8	1-8	"The Case of the Crimson Kiss"	Christian Nyby	Joel Murcott, Walter Doniger, Milton Geiger	1948 story	November 9, 1957 (1957-11-09)
Cast: Jean Willes (Anita Bonsal), Sue England (Fay Allison), Frances Bavier (Louise Barlow)
9	1-9	"The Case of the Vagabond Vixen"	Christian Nyby	I. C. Ward	1948 novel	November 16, 1957 (1957-11-16)
Cast: Robert Ellenstein (John Addison), Paul Cavanagh (Edgar Ferrell)
10	1-10	"The Case of the Runaway Corpse"	Christian Nyby	Malvin Wald, Jack Jacobs	1954 novel	November 23, 1957 (1957-11-23)
Cast: June Dayton (Myrna Davenport), John Stephenson (Ed Davenport)
11	1-11	"The Case of the Crooked Candle"	Christian Nyby	Robert Tallman	1944 novel	November 30, 1957 (1957-11-30)
Cast: Nancy Gates (Martha Bradford), Whit Bissell (Larry Sands), Doris Singleton (Rita Bradford)
12	1-12	"The Case of the Negligent Nymph"	Christian Nyby	Richard Grey	1950 novel	December 7, 1957 (1957-12-07)
Cast: Peggie Castle (Sally Fenner), Joan Banks (Karen Alder)
13	1-13	"The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink"	Ted Post	Laurence Marks, Ben Starr	1952 novel	December 14, 1957 (1957-12-14)
Cast: Robert Osterloh (Morey Allen), Kay Faylen (Dixie Dayton), Douglas Kennedy (Sergeant Jaffrey)
14	1-14	"The Case of the Baited Hook"	Christian Nyby	Richard Grey	1940 novel	December 21, 1957 (1957-12-21)
Cast: Judith Braun (Carol Stanley), Geraldine Wail (Abigail Leeds)
15	1-15	"The Case of the Fan-Dancer's Horse"	William D. Russell	Stirling Silliphant	1947 novel	December 28, 1957 (1957-12-28)
Cast: Susan Cummings (Lois Fenton Callender), Hugh Sanders (John Callender), Judy Tyler
16	1-16	"The Case of the Demure Defendant"	Laslo Benedek	Ben Brady, Richard Grey	1956 novel	January 4, 1958 (1958-01-04)
Cast: Christine White (Nadine Marshall), Clem Bevans (Captain Hugo), Alexander Campbell (Martin Wellman)
17	1-17	"The Case of the Sun Bather's Diary"	Ted Post	Gene Wang	1955 novel	January 11, 1958 (1958-01-11)
Cast: Susan Morrow (Arlene Dowling), Carl Betz (Dr. Ralph Chandler)
18	1-18	"The Case of the Cautious Coquette"	Laslo Benedek	Leo Townsend, Gene Wang	1949 novel	January 18, 1958 (1958-01-18)
Cast: Virginia Gregg (Sheila Cromwell), Kipp Hamilton (Elaine Barton), James Seay (Ross Hollister), Harry Jackson (Harry Pitkin)
19	1-19	"The Case of the Haunted Husband"	Lewis Allen	Gene Wang	1941 novel	January 25, 1958 (1958-01-25)
Cast: Karen Steele (Doris Stephanak), Patricia Hardy (Claire Olger), John Hubbard (Michael Greeley)
20	1-20	"The Case of the Lonely Heiress"	Laslo Benedek	Donald S. Sanford	1948 novel	February 1, 1958 (1958-02-01)
Cast: Anna Navarro (Delores Coterro), L. Q. Jones (Charles Baker), Kathleen Crowley (Marilyn Cartwright)
21	1-21	"The Case of the Green-Eyed Sister"	Christian Nyby	Richard Grey	1953 novel	February 8, 1958 (1958-02-08)
Cast: Virginia Vincent (Harriet Bain), Robin Hughes (Addison Doyle), James Bell (Jeremiah Hosiah Stanley), Morris Ankrum (Judge)
22	1-22	"The Case of the Fugitive Nurse"	Laslo Benedek	Al C. Ward, Gene Wang	1954 novel	February 15, 1958 (1958-02-15)
Cast: Bethel Leslie (Janet Morris), Dabbs Greer (David Kirby), Jeanette Nolan (Angela Kirby), Shepperd Strudwick, Maxine Cooper
23	1-23	"The Case of the One-Eyed Witness"	Christian Nyby	Robert C. Dennis	1950 novel	February 22, 1958 (1958-02-22)
Cast: Angie Dickinson (Marian Fargo), Luis van Rooten(Samuel D. Carlin), Paul Picerni (Charles Gallagher)
24	1-24	"The Case of the Deadly Double"	Andrew V. McLaglen	Samuel Newman	TBA	March 1, 1958 (1958-03-01)
Cast: Constance Ford (Helen Reed), Denver Pyle (Robert Crane), Murray Hamilton (John Davis Hale), Frank Jenks, Abraham Sofaer, George E. Stone
25	1-25	"The Case of the Empty Tin"	Andrew V. McLaglen	Seeleg Lester	1941 novel	March 8, 1958 (1958-03-08)
Cast: Toni Gerry (Doris Hocksley Jackson), Anthony Jochim (Elston Carr), Olive Deering (Rebecca Gentrie)
26	1-26	"The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife"	Anton M. Leader	Stanley Niss	1945 novel	March 15, 1958 (1958-03-15)
Cast: Phyllis Avery (Marion Shelby), Stewart Bradley (Frank Lawton), Tom Palmer (Scott Shelby)
27	1-27	"The Case of the Desperate Daughter"	Arthur Hiller	Gene Wang	TBA	March 22, 1958 (1958-03-22)
Cast: Gigi Perreau (Doris Bannister), Werner Klemperer (Stefan Riker), Osa Massen (Lisa Bannister)
28	1-28	"The Case of the Daring Decoy"	Anton M. Leader	Seeleg Lester	1957 novel	March 29, 1958 (1958-03-29)
Cast: H.M. Wynant (Daniel Conway), Jack Weston (Fred Calvert), Pamela Duncan (Rose Calvert), Johnny Mack Brown, Marie Windsor
29	1-29	"The Case of the Hesitant Hostess"	Christian Nyby	Al C. Ward	1953 novel	April 5, 1958 (1958-04-05)
Cast: Fred Sherman (Albert Sanders), June Vincent (Martha Rayburn), Les Tremayne (Frederick Archer III), Fay Roope (Judge)
30	1-30	"The Case of the Screaming Woman"	Andrew V. McLaglen	Dick Stenger, Gene Wang	1957 novel	April 26, 1958 (1958-04-26)
Cast: Josephine Hutchinson (Leona Walsh), Marian Seldes (Mary K. Davis), Ruta Lee (Connie Cooper)
31	1-31	"The Case of the Fiery Fingers"	Arthur Marks	Laurence Marks	1951 novel	May 3, 1958 (1958-05-03)
Cast: Mary La Roche (Victoria Braxton), Lenore Shanewise (Nora Mae Quincy), Fay Spain
32	1-32	"The Case of the Substitute Face"	William D. Russell	Francis Cockrell	1938 novel	May 10, 1958 (1958-05-10)
Cast: Lurene Tuttle (Anna Houser), Theodore Newton (Carl Houser)
33	1-33	"The Case of the Long-Legged Models"	Anton M. Leader	Seeleg Lester	1958 novel	May 17, 1958 (1958-05-17)
Cast: Peggy McCay (Stephanie Falkner), Alix Talton (Eva Elliott), Joe De Santis (George Castle)
34	1-34	"The Case of the Gilded Lily"	Andrew V. McLaglen	Richard Grey, Gene Wang	1956 novel	May 24, 1958 (1958-05-24)
Cast: Mari Aldon (Anne Brent), Grant Withers (Charles Stewart Brent), Richard Erdman (Arthur Binney)
35	1-35	"The Case of the Lazy Lover"	William D. Russell	Francis Cockrell	1947 novel	May 31, 1958 (1958-05-31)
Cast: James Bell (P. E. Overbrook), Yvonne Craig (Patricia Faxon), Neil Hamilton (Bertrand Allred)
36	1-36	"The Case of the Prodigal Parent"	Arthur Marks	Seeleg Lester, Gene Wang	TBA	June 7, 1958 (1958-06-07)
Cast: Fay Wray (Ethel Harrison), John Hoyt (Joseph Harrison), Herbert Rudley (George Durrell)
37	1-37	"The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde"	Roger Kay	Gene Wang	1944 novel	June 14, 1958 (1958-06-14)
Cast: Whitney Blake (Diana Reynolds), Phyllis Coates (Norma Carter), Judith Ames (Marian Shaw)
38	1-38	"The Case of the Terrified Typist"	Andrew V. McLaglen	Robert C. Dennis, Philip MacDonald, Ben Brady	1956 novel	June 21, 1958 (1958-06-21)
Cast: Alan Marshal (James Kincaid), Jack Raine (George Baxter), Joanna Moore (Patricia Taylor)
39	1-39	"The Case of the Rolling Bones"	Roger Kay	Gene Wang	1939 novel	June 28, 1958 (1958-06-28)
Cast: Edgar Stehli (Daniel Reed), Arthur Space (Willard Scott), Morris Ankrum (Judge Morrisey)

Season 2

CBS Home Entertainment released the second season of Perry Mason on Region 1 DVD in 2007.

#		Episode title	Director	Teleplay	Source	Air date
40	2-1	"The Case of the Corresponding Corpse"	Arthur Marks	Don Brinkley, Gene Wang	TBA	September 20, 1958 (1958-09-20)
Cast: Joan Camden (Ruth Whittaker), William Ching (Glenn McKay), Ross Elliott (George Hartley Beaumont), Lillian Bronson (Judge)
41	2-2	"The Case of the Lucky Loser"	William D. Russell	Seeleg Lester	1957 novel	September 27, 1958 (1958-09-27)
Cast: Patricia Medina (Harriet Balfour), Bruce Bennett (Lawrence Balfour), Tyler MacDuff (Theodore Balfour), Morris Ankrum (Judge)
42	2-3	"The Case of the Pint-Sized Client"	Buzz Kulik	Herman Epstein	TBA	October 4, 1958 (1958-10-04)
Cast: Eduardo Ciannelli (Anthony Renzi), Bobby Clark (Nicky Renzi), James Anderson (Frank Anderson), Elisha Cook, Jr., Nita Talbot
43	2-4	"The Case of the Sardonic Sergeant"	William D. Russell	Samuel Newman	TBA	October 11, 1958 (1958-10-11)
Cast: Lori March (Helen Lessing), John Archer (Major Frank Lessing), Paul Picerni (Sergeant Joseph Dexter), John Dehner, Kevin Hagen
44	2-5	"The Case of the Curious Bride"	Arthur Marks	Jonathan Latimer	1934 novel	October 18, 1958 (1958-10-18)
Cast: Christine White (Rhoda Reynolds), Casey Adams (Carl Reynolds), (Peter Cole), Michael Emmet (Arthur Kane), S. John Launer (Judge)
45	2-6	"The Case of the Buried Clock"	William D. Russell	Francis Cockrell	1943 novel	November 1, 1958 (1958-11-01)
Cast: Don Beddoe (Doctor Blane), Fredd Wayne (Jack Hardisty), Paul Fix (District Attorney), Charles Cooper (Philip Strague)
46	2-7	"The Case of the Married Moonlighter"	Arthur Marks	Stanley Niss, Gene Wang	TBA	November 8, 1958 (1958-11-08)
Cast: Arthur Franz (Danny Harrison), Jesse White (Luke Hickey), Anne Sargent (Eileen Harrison), Stacy Harris (Frank Curran)
47	2-8	"The Case of the Jilted Jockey"	William D. Russell	Robert Warnes Leach, Seeleg Lester	TBA	November 15, 1958 (1958-11-15)
Cast: Billy Pearson (Tic Barton), Don Durant (Johnny Starr), Joe di Reda (Eddie Davis), Kenneth MacDonald (Judge Carter)
48	2-9	"The Case of the Purple Woman"	Gerd Oswald	Robert Bloomfield, Gene Wang	TBA	December 6, 1958 (1958-12-06)
Cast: George Macready (Milo Gerard), Bethel Leslie (Evelyn Girard), Robert H. Harris (Aaron Hubble), Edwin Jerome (Judge)
49	2-10	"The Case of the Fancy Figures"	Arthur Hiller	Barry Trivers, Gene Wang	TBA	December 13, 1958 (1958-12-13)
Cast: Frank Silvera (Jonathan Hyett), William Phipps (Martin Ellis), Ralph Clanton (Charles Brewster), S. John Launer (Judge)
50	2-11	"The Case of the Perjured Parrot"	William D. Russell	Marion Cockrell	1939 novel	December 20, 1958 (1958-12-20)
Cast: Edgar Buchanan (Coroner Andy Templet), Jody Lawrence (Ellen Sabin), Robert E. Griffin (Fred Bascomb), Joseph Kearns (Edward Langley), Maurice Manson (Arthur Sabin), voice of Mel Blanc
51	2-12	"The Case of the Shattered Dream"	Andrew V. McLaglen	Robert Bloomfield, Seeleg Lester	TBA	January 3, 1959 (1959-01-03)
Cast: Osa Massen (Sarah Werner), Virginia Vincent (Virginia Trent), Kurt Kreuger (Hugo Werner), Ludwig Stössel (Adolph Van Beers)
52	2-13	"The Case of the Borrowed Brunette"	Arthur Marks	Seeleg Lester	1946 novel	January 10, 1959 (1959-01-10)
Cast: Sheila Bromley (Agnes Nulty), John Stephenson (Grant Reynolds), Joe de Santis (Melvin Slater), Morris Ankrum (Judge Bates)
53	2-14	"The Case of the Glittering Goldfish"	Gerd Oswald	Milton Krims	TBA	January 17, 1959 (1959-01-17)
Cast: Cecil Kellaway (Darrell Metcalfe), May Wynn (Donna Sherwood), John Hudson (Tom Wyatt), Murvyn Vye (Jackson Huxley)
54	2-15	"The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll"	William D. Russell	Jonathan Latimer	1958 novel	January 24, 1959 (1959-01-24)
Cast: Barton MacLane (Senator Harriman Baylor), Robert Bray (Carl Davis), Ruta Lee (Mildred Crest), Betty Lou Gerson (Marjory Davis)
55	2-16	"The Case of the Fraudulent Foto"	Arthur Marks	Lawrence L. Goldman, Seeleg Lester	TBA	February 7, 1959 (1959-02-07)
Cast: Hugh Marlowe (Brander Harris), Bartlett Robinson (Marshall Scott), Wilton Graff (Cleveland Blake), Kenneth MacDonald (Judge)
56	2-17	"The Case of the Romantic Rogue"	William D. Russell	Gene Wang	TBA	February 14, 1959 (1959-02-14)
Cast: Marion Ross (Helen Harvey), Albert Linville (Harry West), Jean Willes (Irene Wallace), Frederic Worlock (Judge)
57	2-18	"The Case of the Jaded Joker"	Gerd Oswald	Milton Krims	TBA	February 21, 1959 (1959-02-21)
Cast: Frankie Laine (Danny Ross), Bobby Troup (Buzzie), Walter Burke (Freddie Green), Harry Jackson (Charles Goff), Martha Vickers
58	2-19	"The Case of the Caretaker's Cat"	Arthur Marks	Richard Macaulay, Seeleg Lester	1935 novel	March 7, 1959 (1959-03-07)
Cast: Benson Fong (James Hing), John Agar (Kenneth Baxter), Raymond Bailey (John Hilliard), George E. Stone
59	2-20	"The Case of the Stuttering Bishop"	William D. Russell	Gene Wang	1936 novel	March 14, 1959 (1959-03-14)
Cast: Vaughn Taylor (Bishop Arthur Mallory), Rebecca Welles (Carol Delaney), Carl Benton Reid (Charles Burroughs)
60	2-21	"The Case of the Lost Last Act"	Gerd Oswald	Milton Krims	TBA	March 21, 1959 (1959-03-21)
Cast: Jerome Cowan (Ernest Royce), Stacy Harris (Frank Brooks), Robert McQueene (Michael Dwight), Richard Gaines (Judge)
61	2-22	"The Case of the Bedeviled Doctor"	Arthur Marks	Gene Wang	TBA	April 4, 1959 (1959-04-04)
Cast: Dick Foran (Dr. David Craig), Barry McGuire (Mark Douglas), Andrea King (Barbara Heywood), Frederic Worlock (Judge)
62	2-23	"The Case of the Howling Dog"	William D. Russell	Seeleg Lester	1934 novel	April 11, 1959 (1959-04-11)
Cast: Ann Rutherford (Evelyn Forbes), Fintan Mayler (Thelma Brent), Elaine Edwards (Polly Forbes), Robert Ellenstein (Arthur Cartright)
63	2-24	"The Case of the Calendar Girl"	Arthur Marks	Seeleg Lester	1958 novel	April 18, 1959 (1959-04-18)
Cast: Dolores Donlon (Dawn Manning), John Anderson (George Andrews), Dean Harens (Frank Fettridge), George N. Neise (Wilfred Borden)
64	2-25	"The Case of the Petulant Partner"	William D. Russell	Milton Krims, Gene Wang	TBA	April 25, 1959 (1959-04-25)
Cast: R. G. Armstrong (Harry Bright), Francis McDonald (Salty Sims), Nan Leslie (Margaret Clark), William Swan (Bill Shayne)
65	2-26	"The Case of the Dangerous Dowager"	Buzz Kilik	Milton Krims	1937 novel	May 9, 1959 (1959-05-09)
Cast: Robert Strauss (Danny Barker), Patricia Cutts (Sylvia Oxman), Barry Atwater (Robert Benson)
66	2-27	"The Case of the Deadly Toy"	William D. Russell	Seeleg Lester	1959 novel	May 16, 1959 (1959-05-16)
Cast: Mala Powers (Claire Allison), Max Adrian (Ralph Jennings), Dennis Patrick (Martin Selkirk), Nancy Kulp (Katherine Collins)
67	2-28	"The Case of the Spanish Cross"	Arthur Marks	Robert J. Shaw, Gene Wang	TBA	May 30, 1959 (1959-05-30)
Cast: Josephine Hutchinson (Miriam Baker), Peter Miles (Jimmy Morrow Jr.), Donald Randolph (Curtis Runyan), Richard Gaines (Judge)
68	2-29	"The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom"	William D. Russell	Milton Krims	1949 novel	June 13, 1959 (1959-06-13)
Cast: Harry Ellerbe (Ed Garvin), Betsy Jones-Moreland (Lorrie Garvin), Joan Tabor (Helen Bynum), Thomas Browne Henry (George Denby), K. T. Stevens (Ethel Garvin)
69	2-30	"The Case of the Lame Canary"	Arthur Marks	Seeleg Lester	1937 novel	June 27, 1959 (1959-06-27)
Cast: James Philbrook (Harry Jonson), Stacy Graham (Ruth Prescott), William Kendis (Walter Prescott), S. John Launder (Judge), Biff Elliot

Season 3

CBS Home Entertainment released the third season of Perry Mason on Region 1 DVD in 2008.

#		Episode title	Director	Teleplay	Source	Air date
70	3-1	"The Case of the Spurious Sister"	Arthur Marks	Maurice Zimm	TBA	October 3, 1959 (1959-10-03)
Cast: Karl Weber (Bruce Chapman), Peggy Knudsen (Marie Chapman), James Seay (Ralph Hibberly), S. John Launer (Judge)
71	3-2	"The Case of the Watery Witness"	Richard Kinon	Jackson Gillis	TBA	October 10, 1959 (1959-10-10)
Cast: Fay Wray (Lorna Thomas), Douglas Dick (Fred Bushmiller), Lester Vail (Tony Raeburn), John Bryant (George Clark), Charles J. Conrad (Judge)
72	3-3	"The Case of the Garrulous Gambler"	Walter Grauman	Gene Wang	story	October 17, 1959 (1959-10-17)
Cast: Dick Foran (Steve Benton), Steve Brodie (Ben Wallace), Gordon Wynn (Mike Granger)
73	3-4	"The Case of the Blushing Pearls"	Richard B. Whorf	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	October 24, 1959 (1959-10-24)
Cast: Nobu McCarthy (Mitsou Kamuri), Ralph Dumke (Hudson Nichols), Rollin Mariyama (Ito Kamuri), George Takei
74	3-5	"The Case of the Startled Stallion"	William D. Russell	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	October 31, 1959 (1959-10-31)
Cast: Paul Richards (Earl Mauldin), Trevor Bardette (John Brant), Patricia Hardy (Jo Ann Blanchard)
75	3-6	"The Case of Paul Drake's Dilemma"	William D. Russell	Jackson Gillis	TBA	November 14, 1959 (1959-11-14)
Cast: Bruce Gordon (Frank Thatcher), Robert Lieb (Joe Marsden), Kenneth MacDonald (Judge), Ann Bellamy (Margo)
76	3-7	"The Case of the Golden Fraud"	Herbert Hirschman	Robert C. Dennis, Maurice Zimm	TBA	November 21, 1959 (1959-11-21)
Cast: Arthur Franz (Richard Vanaman), Neil Hamilton (Henry Noble), Alex Gerry (Elliot Hale), Joyce Meadows (Sylvia Welles)
77	3-8	"The Case of the Bartered Bikini"	Arthur Hiller	Jackson Gillis	TBA	December 5, 1959 (1959-12-05)
Cast: June Vincent (Madge Wainwright), Terry Huntingdon (Kitty Wynne), Stephen Bekassy (Rick Stassi)
78	3-9	"The Case of the Artful Dodger"	Arthur Marks	Robert C. Dennis, Jackson Gillis	TBA	December 12, 1959 (1959-12-12)
Cast: William J. Campbell (Allen Sheridan), Patricia Donahue (Joyce Fulton), Lurene Tuttle (Sarette Winslow), Nelson Leigh (Judge)
79	3-10	"The Case of the Lucky Legs"	William D. Russell	Robert Bloomfield	1934 novel	December 19, 1959 (1959-12-19)
Cast: Douglas Evans (Frank Patton), John Archer (James R. Brandbury), Lisabeth Hush (Marjorie Brandbury), Jeanne Cooper
80	3-11	"The Case of the Violent Village"	William D. Russell	Sam Elkin, Seeleg Lester	TBA	January 2, 1960 (1960-01-02)
Cast: Ray Hamphill (Phil Beecher), Barton MacLane (Sherrif Eugene Norris), Bart Burns (Norm Thurston), Ina Victor (Charlotte Norris)
81	3-12	"The Case of the Frantic Flyer"	Arthur Marks	Robert Bloomfield, Seeleg Lester	TBA	January 9, 1960 (1960-01-09)
Cast: Simon Oakland (Harold Walters), Rebecca Welles (Carol Taylor), James Bell (Zachary Davis), Richard Gaines (Judge)
82	3-13	"The Case of the Wayward Wife"	Walter Grauman	William O'Farrell	TBA	January 23, 1960 (1960-01-23)
Cast: Marshall Thompson (Arthur Poe), Bethel Leslie (Sylvia Sutton), Richard Shannon (Ben Sutton), Madlyn Rhue
83	3-14	"The Case of the Prudent Prosecutor"	Robert Ellis Miller	Jackson Gillis	TBA	January 30, 1960 (1960-01-30)
Cast: J. Pat O'Malley (Jefferson Pike), Ruta Lee (Vita Culver), Walter Coy (Denver Leonard)
84	3-15	"The Case of the Gallant Grafter"	Arthur Marks	Sy Salkowitz	TBA	February 6, 1960 (1960-02-06)
Cast: Charles Aldman (Arthur Siddons), Herbert Rudley (Edward Nelson), Phillip Terry (Robert Doniger)
85	3-16	"The Case of the Wary Wildcatter"	William D. Russell	Robert Bloomfield	TBA	February 20, 1960 (1960-02-20)
Cast: Barbara Bain (Madelyn Terry), Byron Palmer (Charles Houston), Doughlas Kennedy (Lucky Sterling), Lori March (Paula Wallace)
86	3-17	"The Case of the Mythical Monkeys"	Gerald Mayer	Jonathan Latimer	1959 novel	February 27, 1960 (1960-02-27)
Cast: Beverly Garland (Mauvis Meade), Louise Fletcher (Gladys Doyle), Joan Banks (Viola Pedley Manley), (Norman Fell (Casper Pedley)
87	3-18	"The Case of the Singing Skirt"	Arthur Marks	Jackson Gillis	1959 novel	March 12, 1960 (1960-03-12)
Cast: Joan O'Brien (Betty Roberts), H. M. Wynant (Slim Marcus), Jeanne Moody (Vivian Ennis)
88	3-19	"The Case of the Bashful Burro"	Robert Ellis Miller	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	March 26, 1960 (1960-03-26)
Cast: Ray Stricklyn (Gerald Norton), Ben Wright (Crawford Wright), Hugh Sanders (Ken Bascombe), Howard Wendell (District Attorney)
89	3-20	"The Case of the Crying Cherub"	William D. Russell	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	April 9, 1960 (1960-04-09)
Cast: Joe Maross (David Lambert), Mala Powers (June Sinclair), Carmen Philips (Liza Carson Lambert)
90	3-21	"The Case of the Nimble Nephew"	Richard Kinon	Sy Salkowitz, Seeleg Lester	TBA	April 23, 1960 (1960-04-23)
Cast: Bert Convy (Harry Thompson), Crehan Denton (Frank Jarrett), Linda Leighton (Ellen Foster
91	3-22	"The Case of the Madcap Modiste"	William D. Russell	Harold Swanton	TBA	April 30, 1960 (1960-04-30)
Cast: Marie Windsor (Flavia Halliday Pierce), John Conte (Charles Pierce), Dorothy Neumann (Leona Durant), Leslie Parrish (Hope Sutherland)
92	3-23	"The Case of the Slandered Submarine"	Arthur Marks	Samuel Newman	TBA	May 14, 1960 (1960-05-14)
Cast: Hugh Marlowe (Commander James Page), Jack Ging (Seaman Robert Chapman), Robert H. Harris (Gordon Russell), Edward Platt (Commander Driscoll)
93	3-24	"The Case of the Ominous Outcast"	Arthur Hiller	Jackson Gillis	TBA	May 21, 1960 (1960-05-21)
Cast: Robert Emhardt (J. J. Flaherty), Jeremy Slate (Bob Lansing), Denver Pyle (Tom Quincy), Henry Norell (Frederick Bell)
94	3-25	"The Case of the Irate Inventor"	Gerald Mayer	Francis Rosenwald, Marianne Moser	TBA	May 28, 1960 (1960-05-28)
Cast: Tom Coley (James Frazer), Kasey Rogers (Lois Langley), Ce Ce Whitney (Thelma Frazer), Kenneth MacDonald (Judge)
95	3-26	"The Case of the Flighty Father"	William D. Russell	Jackson Gillis	TBA	June 11, 1960 (1960-06-11)
Cast: Ann Benton (Trudy Holbrook), Hayden Rorke (Jay Holbrooke), Francis X. Bushman (Lawrence King)

Season 4

CBS Home Entertainment released the fourth season of Perry Mason on Region 1 DVD in 2009.

#		Episode title	Director	Teleplay	Source	Air date
96	4-1	"The Case of the Treacherous Toupée"	Richard Kinon	Maurice Zimm	TBA	September 17, 1960 (1960-09-17)
Cast: Philip Ober (Peter Dawson), Thomas B. Henry (Hartley Bassett), Robert Redford (Richard Hart), Nelson Olmsted (Arthur Colemar), George E. Stone
97	4-2	"The Case of the Credulous Quarry"	William D. Russell	Sy Salkowitz	TBA	September 24, 1960 (1960-09-24)
Cast: John Conwell (Richard Hammond), Walter Reed (Alexander Hill), Willis Bouchey (Judge)
98	4-3	"The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker"	Charles Haas	Jackson Gillis	TBA	October 1, 1960 (1960-10-01)
Cast: William Campbell (Jim Ferris), Sue Randall (Betty Wilkins), James Anderson (Stan Piper)
99	4-4	"The Case of the Singular Double"	Arthur Marks	Seeleg Lester	TBA	October 8, 1960 (1960-10-08)
Cast: Connie Hines (Lucy Stevens), Arch Johnson (John Ruskin), Mary Webster (Marjorie Rals)
100	4-5	"The Case of the Lavender Lipstick"	James Sheldon	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	October 15, 1960 (1960-10-15)
Cast: Patricia Breslin (Karen Lewis), Dabbs Greer (Charles Knudsen), Whit Bissell (Max Pompey)
101	4-6	"The Case of the Wandering Widow"	William F. Claxton	Robert C. Dennis	TBA	October 22, 1960 (1960-10-22)
Cast: Coleen Gray (Lorraine McClaine Morgan), Dean Harens (Riley Morgan), Casey Adams (Burt Stokes)
102	4-7	"The Case of the Clumsy Clown"	Andrew V. McLaglen	Samuel Newman	TBA	November 5, 1960 (1960-11-05)
Cast: Douglas Henderson (Felix Heidemann), Walter Sande (Judson Curtis), Robert Clarke (Gerald Franklin)
103	4-8	"The Case of the Provocative Protégé"	Laslo Benedek	Herman Epstein, Seeleg Lester	TBA	November 12, 1960 (1960-11-12)
Cast: Virginia Field (Anita Carpenter), Gregory Morrow (David Carpenter), Kathie Browne (Donna Ross)
104	4-9	"The Case of the Nine Dolls"	William F. Claxton	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	November 19, 1960 (1960-11-19)
Cast: Maggie Mahoney (Linda Osborne), Jeanette Nolan (Martha Benson), Laurie Perreau (Linda Smith), Francis X. Bushman (Courtney Jeffers)
105	4-10	"The Case of the Loquacious Liar"	Arthur Marks	Michael Morris	TBA	December 3, 1960 (1960-12-03)
Cast: Bruce Gordon (Judson Bailey), Wynn Pearce (Lester Martin), Regis Toomey (Sam Crane), Lurene Tuttle, George E. Stone
106	4-11	"The Case of the Red Riding Boots"	Laslo Benedek	Harold Swanton	TBA	December 10, 1960 (1960-12-10)
Cast: Corey Allen (Rennie Foster), Frank Maxwell (Joe Dixon), Shirley Ballard (Rita Conover), Richard Deacon (Wilmer Beaslee)
107	4-12	"The Case of the Larcenous Lady"	James Sheldones	Seeleg Lester	TBA	December 17, 1960 (1960-12-17)
Cast: Louise Fletcher (Susan Connolly), Robert Brown (Frank Sykes), Patricia Huston (Mona Henderson), Edward Platt (Tom Stratton)
108	4-13	"The Case of the Envious Editor"	Laslo Benedek	Milton Krims	TBA	January 7, 1961 (1961-01-07)
Cast: Philip Abbott (Edmond Aitken), James Coburn (Donald Fletcher), Barbara Lawrence (Lori Stoner), Sara Shane (Alyce Nash Aitken)
109	4-14	"The Case of the Resolute Reformer"	Arthur Marks	Samuel Newman	TBA	January 14, 1961 (1961-01-14)
Cast: John Hoyt (William Harper Caine), James Westerfield (Roger Quigley), Phillip Terry (Lawrence Kent)
110	4-15	"The Case of the Fickle Fortune"	Laslo Benedek	Glenn P. Wolfe, Sol Stein	TBA	January 21, 1961 (1961-01-21)
Cast: Vaughn Taylor (Ralph Duncan), Liam Sullivan (Lloyd Farrell), Helen Brown (Mrs. Hollister)
111	4-16	"The Case of the Waylaid Wolf"	Gene Fowler Jr.	Jonathan Latimer	1960 novel	February 4, 1961 (1961-02-04)
Cast: Andra Martin (Arlene Ferris), Tony Travis (Loring Lamont), Barry Atwater (George Albert), Rebecca Welles (Edith Bristol)
112	4-17	"The Case of the Wintry Wife"	Arthur Marks	Samuel Newman	TBA	February 18, 1961 (1961-02-18)
Cast: June Vincent (Laura Randall), Alan Hewitt (Bruce Sheridan), Marianne Stewart (Phyllis Hudson)}
113	4-18	"The Case of the Angry Dead Man"	Arthur Marks	Michael Morris	TBA	February 25, 1961 (1961-02-25)
Cast: Gloria Talbott (Eve Nesbitt), Les Tremayne (Willard Nesbitt), James Millhollin (Ben Otis)
114	4-19	"The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff"	Arthur Marks	Adrian Gendot, Samuel Newman	TBA	March 11, 1961 (1961-03-11)
Cast: John Conte (Karl Addison), Jack Ging (James Kincannon), Berry Kroeger (Edgar Whitehead)
115	4-20	"The Case of the Barefaced Witness"	Laslo Benedek	Robert C. Dennis	TBA	March 18, 1961 (1961-03-18)
Cast: Paul Fix (Jonathan Hale), Malcolm Atterbury (Alfred Needham), Adam West (Don Southern), Enid James (Iris McKay)
116	4-21	"The Case of the Difficult Detour"	John Peyser	Sy Salkowitz, Samuel Newman	TBA	March 25, 1961 (1961-03-25)
Cast: Jeff York (Pete Mallory), Jason Evers (Stuart Benton), Joe di Reda (Phil Edwards), Neil Hamilton (Jim Ames), Suzanne Lloyd
117	4-22	"The Case of the Cowardly Lion"	Arthur Marks	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	April 8, 1961 (1961-04-08)
Cast: Carol Rossen (Hilde Fursten Braun), Fred Beir (Tony Osgood), Leslie Bradley (Dr. Walther Braun)
118	4-23	"The Case of the Torrid Tapestry"	John English	Bob Mitchell	TBA	April 22, 1961 (1961-04-22)
Cast: Robert H. Harris (Claude Demay), John Holland (Leonard Voss), Conrad Nagel (Nathan Claver)
119	4-24	"The Case of the Violent Vest"	Lewis Allen	Robert C. Dennis	TBA	April 29, 1961 (1961-04-29)
Cast: Myrna Fahey (Grace Halley Frye), Hayden Rorke (Walter Caffrey), Sonya Wilde (Joy Lebaron)
120	4-25	"The Case of the Misguided Missile"	John Peyser	Sol Stein, Glenn P. Wolfe	TBA	May 6, 1961 (1961-05-06)
Cast: Bruce Bennett (Dan Morgan), Simon Oakland (Captain Caldwell), Robert Rockwell (Major Jerry Reynolds), William Schallert, James Sikking
121	4-26	"The Case of the Duplicate Daughter"	Arthur Marks	Samuel Newman	1960 novel	May 20, 1961 (1961-05-20)
Cast: Don Dubbins (Hartley Elliott), Walter Kinsella (Carter Gilman), Willis Bouchey (Judge)
122	4-27	"The Case of the Grumbling Grandfather"	Bernard L. Kowalski	Jackson Gillis	TBA	May 27, 1961 (1961-05-27)
Cast: Patricia Barry (Dorine Hopkins Montgomery), Karl Held (David Gideon), Fred Coby (Tony Montgomery), Gavin MacLeod (Lawrence Cumminger), Otto Kruger, Frances Rafferty, Fifi D'Orsay, Dub Taylor
123	4-28	"The Case of the Guilty Clients"	Lewis Allen	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	June 10, 1961 (1961-06-10)
Cast: Guy Mitchell (Bill Ryder), Lisa Gaye (Concepcion O'Higgins), Charles Bateman (Jeff Bronson), Faith Domergue

Season 5

CBS Home Entertainment released the fifth season of Perry Mason on Region 1 DVD in 2010.

#		Episode title	Director	Teleplay	Source	Air date
124	5-1	"The Case of the Jealous Journalist"	John English	Samuel Newman	TBA	September 2, 1961 (1961-09-02)
Cast: Linden Chiles (Joseph Davies), Denver Pyle (Tilden Stuart), Claire Griswold (Kerry Worden), James D. Nielson (Don)
125	5-2	"The Case of the Impatient Partner"	Arthur Marks	Adrian Gendot	TBA	September 16, 1961 (1961-09-16)
Cast: Ben Cooper (Frank Wells), Leslie Parrish (Vivian Ames), Wesley Lau (Amory Fallon)
126	5-3	"The Case of the Missing Melody"	Bernard L. Kowalski	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	September 30, 1961 (1961-09-30)
Cast: Constance Towers (Jonny Baker), James Drury (Eddy King), Bobby Troup (Bongo White), music composed by Barney Kessel
127	5-4	"The Case of the Malicious Mariner"	Christian Nyby	Robert Leslie Bellem	TBA	October 7, 1961 (1961-10-07)
Cast: Roy Roberts (Arthur Janeel), Lee Farr (Jerry Griffin), Robert Armstrong (Captain Bancroft), Casey Adams, Edward Binns, Karl Held
128	5-5	"The Case of the Crying Comedian"	Arthur Marks	Robert C. Dennis	TBA	October 14, 1961 (1961-10-14)
Cast: Tommy Noonan (Charlie Hatch), Jackie Coogan (Gunner Grimes), Liam Sullivan (Tom Gilrain), Gloria Talbott, Sue Ane Langdon
129	5-6	"The Case of the Meddling Medium"	Arthur Marks	Samuel Newman	TBA	October 21, 1961 (1961-10-21)
Cast: Mary LaRoche (Helen Garden), Sonya Wilde (Bonnie Craig), James Forrest (Phillip Paisley), Dr. Andrija Puharich (Himself), Kent Smith
130	5-7	"The Case of the Pathetic Patient"	Bernard L. Kowalski	Maurice Zimm	TBA	October 28, 1961 (1961-10-28)
Cast: Skip Homeier (Dr. Wayne Edley), Virginia Gregg (Mrs. Osborn), Edward Kemmer (Leslie Hall), Frank Cady, Wayne Heffley, Percy Helton
131	5-8	"The Case of the Traveling Treasure"	Arthur Marks	Robb White	TBA	November 4, 1961 (1961-11-04)
Cast: Jeff York (Scot Cahill), Lisa Gaye (Rita Magovern), Arch Johnson (Karl Magovern), Tom Harkness (Judge)
132	5-9	"The Case of the Posthumous Painter"	Bernard L. Kowalski	Richard Grey	TBA	November 11, 1961 (1961-11-11)
Cast: Carol Rossen (Linda Burnside), Lori March (Edna Culross), Britt Lomond (Jack Culross), Stuart Erwin, George Macready
133	5-10	"The Case of the Injured Innocent"	Bernard L. Kowalski	Paul Franklin	TBA	November 18, 1961 (1961-11-18)
Cast: John Conte (Kirby Evans), Alejandro Rey (Vincent Danielli), Jess Barker (Walter Eastman)
134	5-11	"The Case of the Left-Handed Liar"	Jerry Hopper	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	November 25, 1961 (1961-11-25)
Cast: Ed Nelson (Ward Nichols), Leslie Parrish (Veronica Temple), Les Tremayne (Bernard Daniels)
135	5-12	"The Case of the Brazen Bequest"	Arthur Marks	Robert Leslie Bellem	TBA	December 2, 1961 (1961-12-02)
Cast: Alan Hewitt (Dr. Marcus Tate), Karl Weber (Charles Cromwell), William Allyn (Robert Haskell)
136	5-13	"The Case of the Renegade Refugee"	Bernard L. Kowalski	Samuel Newman	TBA	December 9, 1961 (1961-12-09)
Cast: Dick Foran (Philip Kuiper), Paul Lambert (Lawrence Vander), Ronald Long (Arthur Hennings)
137	5-14	"The Case of the Unwelcome Bride"	Gilbert L. Kay	Helen Nielsen	TBA	December 16, 1961 (1961-12-16)
Cast: Diana Millay (Sue Ellen Frazer), DeForest Kelley (Peter Thorpe), Alan Hale, Jr. (Lon Snyder)
138	5-15	"The Case of the Roving River"	Jerry Hopper	Samuel Newman	TBA	December 30, 1961 (1961-12-30)
Cast: Sarah Marshall (Judy Bryant), J. Pat O'Malley (Seth Tyson), Robert Lowery (Amos Bryant), Bruce Bennett, Philip Ober, Harry Carey, Jr.
139	5-16	"The Case of the Shapely Shadow"	Christian Nyby	Jackson Gillis	1960 novel	January 6, 1962 (1962-01-06)
Cast: Robert Rockwell (Cole B. Troy), Elaine Devry (Janice Wainwright), George Neise (Morley L. Thielman)
140	5-17	"The Case of the Captain's Coins"	Arthur Marks	Adrian Gendot	TBA	January 13, 1962 (1962-01-13)
Cast: Jeremy Slate (Philip Andrews), Herbert Rudley (Ben Farraday), Henry Beckman (Sid Garth), Parley Baer, Jay Novello
141	5-18	"The Case of the Tarnished Trademark"	Jerry Hopper	Oliver Crawford, Maurice Zimm	TBA	January 20, 1962 (1962-01-20)
Cast: Karl Swenson (Axel Norstaad), Malcolm Atterbury (Maigret), Dennis Patrick (Martin Somers), Marie Windsor, Osa Massen, Morgan Woodward, Don Dillaway
142	5-19	"The Case of the Glamorous Ghost"	Arthur Marks	Samuel Newman	1955 novel	February 3, 1962 (1962-02-03)
Cast: Mary Murphy (Eleanor Corbin), Jeanne Cooper (Ethel Belan), Douglas Dick (Walter Richey)
143	5-20	"The Case of the Poison Pen-Pal"	Arthur Marks	Maurice Zimm	TBA	February 10, 1962 (1962-02-10)
Cast: Patricia Breslin (Karen Ross), Joan Topkins (Florence Holman), Kathryn Givney (Wilma Gregson), Everett Sloane
144	5-21	"The Case of the Mystified Miner"	Francis D. Lyon	Jackson Gillis	1962 novel	February 24, 1962 (1962-02-24)
Cast: Kathie Browne (Susan Fisher), Sheila Bromley (Elizabeth Dow), Michael Harvey (Ken Lowry), Josephine Hutchinson, Carlos Rivas
145	5-22	"The Case of the Crippled Cougar"	Jesse Hibbs	Bob Mitchell	TBA	March 3, 1962 (1962-03-03)
Cast: Bill Williams (Mike Preston), Noah Keen (Harlow Phipps), John Bryant (Arnold Keith), John Howard
146	5-23	"The Case of the Absent Artist"	Arthur Marks	Robert C. Dennis	TBA	March 17, 1962 (1962-03-17)
Cast: Zasu Pitts (Daphne Whilom), Mark Roberts (Gabe Philips), Richard Erdman (Charles Montrose), Victor Buono (Alexander Glovatski), Wynn Pearce (Pete Manders), Bill Zuckert (Judge)
147	5-24	"The Case of the Melancholy Marksman"	Jerry Hopper	Robb White	TBA	March 24, 1962 (1962-03-24)
Cast: Paul Richards (Ted Chase), Mari Blanchard (Irene Benson Chase), Peter Baldwin (Tony Benson), Ann Rutherford, Jesse White
148	5-25	"The Case of the Angry Astronaut"	Francis D. Lyon	Samuel Newman	TBA	April 7, 1962 (1962-04-07)
Cast: James Coburn (Major General Addison Brand), Robert Bray (Mitchell Heller), John Marley (Matthew Owen)
149	5-26	"The Case of the Borrowed Baby"	Arthur Marks	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	April 14, 1962 (1962-04-14)
Cast: Maria Palmer (Florence Wood), Corey Allen (Lester Menke), Kaye Elhardt (Ginny Talbot)
150	5-27	"The Case of the Counterfeit Crank"	Jerry Hopper	Robert Leslie Bellem	TBA	April 28, 1962 (1962-04-28)
Cast: Otto Kruger (August Dalgran), Don Dubbins (Kenneth Dalgran), Connie Hines (Sandra Dalgran), John Larkin (Jay Fenton), Burt Reynolds (Chuck Blair)
151	5-28	"The Case of the Ancient Romeo"	Arthur Marks	True Boardman	TBA	May 5, 1962 (1962-05-05)
Cast: Jeff Morrow (Franz Lachman), Rex Reason (Steve Brock), Robert Cornthwaite (Carl Bruner), K. T. Stevens, Harry von Zell, Antoinette Bower
152	5-29	"The Case of the Promoter's Pillbox"	Jesse Hibbs	Peter Martin	TBA	May 19, 1962 (1962-05-19)
Cast: Linden Chiles (Herbert Simms), John Lasell (Charlie Cory), Edmon Ryan (Jerome Stokes), Ivan Dixon (Maurice Parness), Geraldine Brooks
153	5-30	"The Case of the Lonely Eloper"	Arthur Marks	Robert C. Dennis	TBA	May 26, 1962 (1962-05-26)
Cast: Jana Taylor (Merle Telford), Joan Staley (Gina Gilbert), Jorja Cutright (Olivia Langley), John Dall, Billy Halop

Season 6

CBS Home Entertainment released the sixth season of Perry Mason on Region 1 DVD in 2011.

#		Episode title	Director	Teleplay	Source	Air date
154	6-1	"The Case of the Bogus Books"	Arthur Marks	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	September 27, 1962 (1962-09-27)
Cast: Phyllis Love (Ellen Carter), Adam West (Pete Norland), Woodrow Parfrey (Herbert Pickson)
155	6-2	"The Case of the Capricious Corpse"	Arthur Marks	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	October 4, 1962 (1962-10-04)
Cast: Lori March (Olive Omstead), Jan Shepard (Joane Proctor), John Morley (Ernest Demming)
156	6-3	"The Case of the Playboy Pugilist"	Francis D. Lyon	Helen Nielsen	TBA	October 11, 1962 (1962-10-11)
Cast: Gary Lockwood (Davey Carroll), Robert Armstrong (Jimmy West), Dianne Foster (Lori Wilson Richards), Dolores Michaels (Jo Sands), Mark Roberts (Tod Richards)
157	6-4	"The Case of the Double-Entry Mind"	Allen H. Miner	Jackson Gillis	TBA	October 18, 1962 (1962-10-18)
Cast: Stuart Erwin (Sandy Sandover), Virginia Christine (Beth Sandover), Kathleen Hughes (Lita Krail)
158	6-5	"The Case of the Hateful Hero"	Jesse Hibbs	Samuel Newman	TBA	October 25, 1962 (1962-10-25)
Cast: Dick Davalos (Officer James Anderson), Leonard Stone (Jerel Leland), Jeanette Nolan, Mabel Albertson, William Boyett, Sue England
159	6-6	"The Case of the Dodging Domino"	Arthur Marks	Charles Lang	TBA	November 1, 1962 (1962-11-01)
Cast: Ellen Burstyn (Mona Winthrop), David Hedison (Damian White), Robert H. Harris (Jerry Janda), James Forrest (Phil Schuyler), Lloyd Corrigan, Maureen Arthur, Eddie Firestone
160	6-7	"The Case of the Unsuitable Uncle"	Francis D. Lyon	Robert C. Dennis	TBA	November 8, 1962 (1962-11-08)
Cast: Sean McClory (Harry Fothergill), Liam Sullivan (Dickie Durham), George Kane (Gil Simpson), Barbara Parkins (Paula Durham), Howard Smith, Anna Lee, Harvey Korman
161	6-8	"The Case of the Stand-In Sister"	Allen H. Miner	Robert Leslie Bellem	TBA	November 15, 1962 (1962-11-15)
Cast: R. G. Armstrong (John Gregory), Peter Mamakos (Nick Paolo), Steven Geray (Franz Moray), Peter Whitney, Susan Seaforth, Meg Wyllie
162	6-9	"The Case of the Weary Watchdog"	Jesse Hibbs	Samuel Newman	TBA	November 29, 1962 (1962-11-29)
Cast: Mala Powers (Janet Brent), John Dall (Edward Franklin), Keye Luke (C. C. Chang), Doris Dowling, Philip Ahn
163	6-10	"The Case of the Lurid Letter"	Arthur Marks	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	December 6, 1962 (1962-12-06)
Cast: Mona Freeman (Jane Wardman), Edgar Buchanan (Judge Edward Dally), Robert Rockwell (Everett Rixby), Chris Alcaide (Gus Wiley), Ann Doran
164	6-11	"The Case of the Fickle Filly"	Allen H. Miner	Robert and Esther Mitchell	TBA	December 13, 1962 (1962-12-13)
Cast: Lisabeth Hush (Roberta Harper), Jim Davis (George Tabor), Joan Freeman (Jennifer Wakeley), Bob McQuain (Brad Shelby), Strother Martin
165	6-12	"The Case of the Polka-Dot Pony"	Jesse Hibbs	Robert C. Dennis	TBA	December 20, 1962 (1962-12-20)
Cast: Jesse White (Bert Renshaw), Melinda Plowman (Maureen Thomas), Virginia Field (Angela Fernaldi)
166	6-13	"The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe"	Arthur Marks	Jackson Gillis	1938 novel	January 3, 1963 (1963-01-03)
Cast: Lurene Tuttle (Sarah Breel), Blair Davies (Austin Cullins), Leonard Nimoy (Pete Chennery), Margaret O'Brien
167	6-14	"The Case of the Bluffing Blast"	Allen H. Miner	Samuel Newman	TBA	January 10, 1963 (1963-01-10)
Cast: Bill Williams (Floyd Grant), Peter Breck (Clay Elliot), Antoinette Bower (Linda Blake)
168	6-15	"The Case of the Prankish Professor"	Jesse Hibbs	Robert C. Dennis	TBA	January 17, 1963 (1963-01-17)
Cast: Constance Towers (Esther Metcalf), Patricia Breslin (Laura Hewes), Barry Atwater (Professor Ronald Hewes), Joyce Van Patten (Sally Lawrence Sheldon)
169	6-16	"The Case of Constant Doyle"	Allen H. Miner	Jackson Gillis	TBA	January 31, 1963 (1963-01-31)
Cast: Bette Davis (Constant Doyle), Michael Parks (Cal Leonard), Frances Reid (Liza Givney) Neil Hamilton (Fred McCormick), Jerry Oddo (Steven Arthur)
170	6-17	"The Case of the Libelous Locket"	Arthur Marks	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	February 7, 1963 (1963-02-07)
Cast: Michael Rennie (Professor Edward Lindley), Ruta Lee (Vivian Cosgrave), Harry von Zell (Sidney Hawes), Patricia Manning (Janice Norland), Carlos Romero (Paul Perez)
171	6-18	"The Case of the Two-Faced Turnabout"	Arthur Marks	Samuel Newman	TBA	February 14, 1963 (1963-02-14)
Cast: Hugh O'Brian (Bruce Jason), Trevor Bardette (Garrett Richards), Abraham Sofaer (Elihu Laban), Werner Klemperer (Ulric Zenas)
172	6-19	"The Case of the Surplus Suitor"	Jesse Hibbs	Robert C. Dennis	TBA	February 28, 1963 (1963-02-28)
Cast: Walter Pidgeon (Sherman Hatfield), Joyce Bulifant (Hollis Wilburn), Carl Benton Reid (John Wilburn), Linden Chiles (Vernon Elliott), music by Nathan Van Cleave
173	6-20	"The Case of the Golden Oranges"	Arthur Marks	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	March 7, 1963 (1963-03-07)
Cast: Natalie Trundy (Sandra Keller), Arch Johnson (Gerald Thornton), Henry Norel (Courtney Osgood), Lee Van Cleef (Edward Doyle)
174	6-21	"The Case of the Lawful Lazarus"	Jesse Hibbs	True Boardman	TBA	March 14, 1963 (1963-03-14)
Cast: David McLean (Trevor Harris), Maria Palmer (Nora Kasner), Philip Bourneuf (Edgar Thorne)
175	6-22	"The Case of the Velvet Claws"	Harmon Jones	Jackson Gillis	1933 novel	March 21, 1963 (1963-03-21)
Cast: Wynn Pearce (Carl Griffin), Richard Webb (George C Belter), Patricia Barry, Virginia Gregg, Anna-Lisa
176	6-23	"The Case of the Lover's Leap"	Arthur Marks	Robb White	TBA	April 4, 1963 (1963-04-04)
Cast: John Conte (Roy Comstock), Carleton Carpenter (Peter Brent), Richard Jaeckel (Willie), Julie Adams
177	6-24	"The Case of the Elusive Element"	Harmon Jones	Samuel Newman	TBA	April 11, 1963 (1963-04-11)
Cast: Gerald Mohr (Austin Lloyd), Douglas Henderson (Dwight Garrett), Douglas Dick (Ned Chase)
178	6-25	"The Case of the Greek Goddess"	Jesse Hibbs	Arthur Orloff, Robert Presnell, Sr., Maurice Zimm	TBA	April 18, 1963 (1963-04-18)
Cast: John Larkin (John Kenyon), Faith Domergue (Cleo Grammas), John Anderson (Dan O'Malley), George Kennedy (George Spengler)
179	6-26	"The Case of the Skeleton's Closet"	Arthur Marks	Samuel Newman	TBA	May 2, 1963 (1963-05-02)
Cast: Michael Pate (Richard Harris), Peggy McCay (Margaret Layton), Frank Aletter (Harry Collings)
180	6-27	"The Case of the Potted Planter"	Jesse Hibbs	Robert C. Dennis	TBA	May 9, 1963 (1963-05-09)
Cast: Constance Ford (Frances Walden), Robert Bray (Martin Walden), Harry Lauter (Chris Hearn), Joe Maross (Nelson Tarr)
181	6-28	"The Case of the Witless Witness"	Arthur Marks	Samuel Newman	TBA	May 16, 1963 (1963-05-16)
Cast: Robert Middleton (Judge Daniel Redmond), Jackie Coogan (Gus Sawyer), David White (Victor Kendall), Florida Friebus (Marian Lamont), Vaughn Taylor (Martin Weston)

Season 7

CBS Home Entertainment released the seventh season of Perry Mason on Region 1 DVD in 2012.

#		Episode title	Director	Teleplay	Source	Air date
182	7-1	"The Case of the Nebulous Nephew"	Arthur Marks	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	September 26, 1963 (1963-09-26)
Cast: Ron Starr (John Brooks), Mark Roberts (Wayne Jamison), Hugh Marlowe (Ernest Stone), Beulah Bondi, Irene Tedrow
183	7-2	"The Case of the Deadly Verdict"	Jesse Hibbs	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	October 3, 1963 (1963-10-03)
Cast: Julie Adams (Janice Barton), Joan Tompkins (Emily Green), Erin O'Brien-Moore (Letitia Simmons), Jan Shepard (Paulette Nivens), Stephen Franken (Christopher Barton), Lee Bergere (Dr. Charles Nivens)
184	7-3	"The Case of the Shifty Shoebox"	Arthur Marks	Jackson Gillis	TBA	October 10, 1963 (1963-10-10)
Cast: Constance Ford (Sylvia Thompson), Benny Baker (John Flickinger), Billy Mumy (Miles Jefferson), Denver Pyle (Frank Honer), Joseph Sirola (Bill Sheridan), Ray Teal (Joe Downing), Diane Ladd (Miss Frances)
185	7-4	"The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito"	Jesse Hibbs	Jonathan Latimer	1943 novel	October 17, 1963 (1963-10-17)
Cast: Arthur Hunnicutt (Sandy Bowen), Russell Collins (Banning Grant), Kathleen Crowley (Lillian Bradisson), Strother Martin (Gerald Sommers), Ann Doran (Nell Wyatt)
186	7-5	"The Case of the Decadent Dean"	Earl Bellamy	Joseph P. Lamont, Samuel Newman	TBA	October 24, 1963 (1963-10-24)
Cast: Milton Selzer (Dr. Aaron Stuart), Lloyd Corrigan (Harvey Forrest), H. M. Wynant (Tobin Wade)
187	7-6	"The Case of the Reluctant Model"	Jesse Hibbs	Jonathan Latimer	1962 novel	October 31, 1963 (1963-10-31)
Cast: Robert Brown (Goring Gilbert), John Dall (Colin Durant), Erin O'Donnell (Maxine Lindsay)
188	7-7	"The Case of the Bigamous Spouse"	Arthur Marks	Jackson Gillis	1961 novel	November 14, 1963 (1963-11-14)
Cast: Pippa Scott (Gwynn Elston), Patrick McVey (George Belding Baxter), Karl Swenson (Corley Ketchum), Michael Conrad (Frank Gillette)
189	7-8	"The Case of the Floating Stones"	Don Weis	Robert C. Dennis	TBA	November 21, 1963 (1963-11-21)
Cast: Irene Tsu (Juli Eng), Joyce Jameson (Lorraine Iverson), Jerry Oddo (Ralph Iverson), Victor Maddern
190	7-9	"The Case of the Festive Felon"	Earl Bellamy	Samuel Newman	TBA	November 28, 1963 (1963-11-28)
Cast: Sherry Jackson (Madeline Randall), Kathie Browne (Carla Eden), John Howard (Justin Grover), Jon Hall (Max Randall)
191	7-10	"The Case of the Devious Delinquent"	Irving J. Moore	Robb White	TBA	December 5, 1963 (1963-12-05)
Cast: John Washbrook (Tim Balfour), David Winters (Chick Montana), Virginia Christine (Edith Summers), Frances Rafferty (Miss Adler), Otto Kruger, Barton MacLane
192	7-11	"The Case of the Bouncing Boomerang"	Jesse Hibbs	Arthur Orloff	TBA	December 12, 1963 (1963-12-12)
Cast: Rod Cameron (Grover Johnson), Diana Millay (Eula Johnson), Paul Picerni (Walter Jeffries), Alan Hale (Nelson Barclift)
193	7-12	"The Case of the Badgered Brother"	Earl Bellamy	Bob and Esther Mitchell	TBA	December 19, 1963 (1963-12-19)
Cast: Robert Harland (Todd Baylor), Peter Walker (Martin Baylor), Patricia Blair, Nancy Kovack
194	7-13	"The Case of the Wednesday Woman"	Irving J. Moore	Samuel Newman	TBA	January 2, 1964 (1964-01-02)
Cast: Phillip Pine (Philip Stewart), Marie Windsor (Helen Reed), Michael Pate (Jack Mallory), John Hoyt
195	7-14	"The Case of the Accosted Accountant"	Arthur Marks	Albert A. Vail, Samuel Newman	TBA	January 9, 1964 (1964-01-09)
Cast: Richard Anderson (Edward Lewis), Murray Matheson (B. K. Doran), Robert Armstrong (Phil Jenks)
196	7-15	"The Case of the Capering Camera"	Jesse Hibbs	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	January 16, 1964 (1964-01-16)
Cast: Margo Moore (Judith Blair), Byron Palmer (Harper Green), Eric Felday (Jacob Kadar), last appearance of Ray Collins (Lt. Tragg)
197	7-16	"The Case of the Ice-Cold Hands"	Jesse Hibbs	Jackson Gillis	1962 novel	January 23, 1964 (1964-01-23)
Cast: Joyce Bulifant (Nancy Banks), Dick Davalos (Rodney Banks), Lisabeth Hush (Lorraine Lawton), Dabbs Greer (Marvin Fremont), Phyllis Coates (Inez Fremont), Paul Bryar (Burdette)
198	7-17	"The Case of the Bountiful Beauty"	Irving J. Moore	Robb White	TBA	February 6, 1964 (1964-02-06)
Cast: Sandra Warner (Stephanie Carew), Ryan O'Neal (John Carew), Zeme North (Deborah Dearborn), John van Dreelen (Gideon Long)
199	7-18	"The Case of the Nervous Neighbor"	Arthur Marks	Samuel Newman	TBA	February 13, 1964 (1964-02-13)
Cast: Paul Winchell (Henry Clement), Katherine Squire (Vera Hargrove), Sheila Bromley (Alice Fuller Bradley), Richard Rust (Charles Fuller)
200	7-19	"The Case of the Fifty-Millionth Frenchman"	Arthur Marks	Robert C. Dennis, Jackson Gillis, Samuel Newman	TBA	February 20, 1964 (1964-02-20)
Cast: David McCallum (Phillipe Bertain), Jacques Bergerac (Armand Rovel), Roxane Berard (Ninette Rovel)
201	7-20	"The Case of the Frightened Fisherman"	Arthur Marks	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	February 27, 1964 (1964-02-27)
Cast: Mala Powers (Helen Bradshaw), Connie Gilchrist (Mrs. Pennyworth), Lee Farr (Randolph James), Marian Collier (Natalie James)
202	7-21	"The Case of the Arrogant Arsonist"	Jesse Hibbs	Samuel Newman	TBA	March 5, 1964 (1964-03-05)
Cast: Tom Tully (Carey York), Frank Aletter (Tommy Towne), Ross Walker (Jeff York), Russell Thorson
203	7-22	"The Case of the Garrulous Go-Between"	Irving J. Moore	Philip Saltzman	TBA	March 12, 1964 (1964-03-12)
Cast: Sue Randall (Amy Scott), Lori March (Madame Zillia), Jacques Aubuchon (Victor Bundy) Mary Murphy
204	7-23	"The Case of the Woeful Widower"	Irving J. Moore	Jackson Gillis	1951 novel	March 26, 1964 (1964-03-26)
Cast: Jerry Van Dyke (James Douglas), Nancy Gates (Mary Douglas), Joan Lovejoy (Nellie Conway), Shirley Mitchell (Elizabeth Bain)
205	7-24	"The Case of the Simple Simon"	Arthur Marks	Robert C. Dennis	TBA	April 2, 1964 (1964-04-02)
Cast: Virginia Field (Ramona Carter), Victor Buono (John Sylvester Fossette), Sherwood Keith (Ogden G. Kramer), Tom Conway, James Stacy
206	7-25	"The Case of the Illicit Illusion"	Irving J. Moore	Samuel Newman	TBA	April 9, 1964 (1964-04-09)
Cast: Mona Freeman (Rosanne Ambrose), Keith Andes (Dr. Jesse Young), Rebecca Welles (Leslie Eden), Ron Randell (Hubert Ambrose)
207	7-26	"The Case of the Antic Angel"	Arthur Marks	Robert C. Dennis	TBA	April 16, 1964 (1964-04-16)
Cast: Michael Ansara (Vince Kabat), George Tobias (Sidney Falconer), Peter Breck (William Sherwood), Richard Erdman (Harry Niles), Janet Dey (Lynne Bowman)
208	7-27	"The Case of the Careless Kidnapper"	Jesse Hibbs	Robb White	TBA	April 30, 1964 (1964-04-30)
Cast: Thomas Lowell (David Pelham), Marilyn Erskine (Susan Pelham), Peter Hobbs (Dr. Gregory Pelham), Burt Metcalfe (John Lanthrop), Ron Kennedy (Joe Velvet)
209	7-28	"The Case of the Drifting Dropout"	Arthur Marks	Jackson Gillis	TBA	May 7, 1964 (1964-05-07)
Cast: Cynthia Pepper (Annalee Flaher), Malcolm Atterbury (Dell Harper), Carl Reindel (Barry Davis), Ted de Corsia (Mort Lynch), Neil Hamilton (Grove Dillingham)
210	7-29	"The Case of the Tandem Target"	Irving J. Moore	Robert C. Dennis	TBA	May 14, 1964 (1964-05-14)
Cast: Philip Ober (Sumner Hodge, Adrian Hodge), Paul Carr (Con Bolton), Lonny Chapman (Jack Tailey), Barney Biro (Judge), Ann Rutherford
211	7-30	"The Case of the Ugly Duckling"	Arthur Marks	Richard Landau	TBA	May 21, 1964 (1964-05-21)
Cast: Anne Whitfield (Alice Trilling), Constance Towers (Natalie Graham), Reginald Gardiner (Albert Charity), Max Showalter (Talbot Sparr)

Season 8

CBS Home Entertainment released the eighth season of Perry Mason on Region 1 DVD in 2012–13.

#		Episode title	Director	Teleplay	Source	Air date
212	8-1	"The Case of the Missing Button"	Richard D. Donner	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	September 24, 1964 (1964-09-24)
Cast: Julie Adams (Janice Blake), Ed Nelson (Dirk Blake) Claire Wilcox (Button Blake), Anthony Eisley (Vince Rome), Otto Kruger (Judge Norris)
213	8-2	"The Case of the Paper Bullets"	Arthur Marks	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	October 1, 1964 (1964-10-01)
Cast: Richard Anderson (Jason Foster), Lynn Loring (Susan Foster), Patrick McVey (Harry Mardig), Jan Shepard (Margaret Foster), Arthur Space (Edgerton Cartwell), Stewart Moss (David Cartwell)
214	8-3	"The Case of the Scandalous Sculptor"	Jack Arnold	Philip Saltzman	TBA	October 8, 1964 (1964-10-08)
Cast: June Lockhart (Mona Stanton Harvey), Stuart Erwin (Everett Stanton), Sean McClory (Hannibal Harvey), Sue Ane Langdon (Bonnie Dunbar)
215	8-4	"The Case of the Sleepy Slayer"	Jesse Hibbs	Samuel Newman	TBA	October 15, 1964 (1964-10-15)
Cast: Phyllis Hill (Rachel Gordon), John Napier (Bruce Jay), Richard Hale (Abner Gordon), Gigi Perreau. Hugh Marlowe
216	8-5	"The Case of the Betrayed Bride"	Arthur Marks	John Elliotte	TBA	October 22, 1964 (1964-10-22)
Cast: Ann Farge (Marie Claudel Dubois), Michael Forest (Pierre Dubois), Jeanette Nolan (Nellie Meacham Dubois), Neil Hamilton, Guy Stockwell, John Larkin, Jacques Aubuchon
217	8-6	"The Case of the Nautical Knot"	Jesse Hibbs	Robert Leslie Bellem	TBA	October 29, 1964 (1964-10-29)
Cast: Anne Whitfield (Joanna Monford Scott), Lisa Gaye (Pamela Blair), Henry Brandt (Rich Scott)
218	8-7	"The Case of Bullied Bowler"	Jesse Hibbs	Samuel Newman	TBA	November 5, 1964 (1964-11-05)
Cast: Mike Connors (Joe Kelly), Milton Selzer (Dr. Max Taylor), Robert Harland (Bill Jaris), Patricia Morrow, Anne Seymour
219	8-8	"The Case of a Place Called Midnight"	Arthur Marks	Jackson Gillis	TBA	November 12, 1964 (1964-11-12)
Cast: Gerald Mohr (Alan Durfee), Robert Emhardt (Frank Appleton), Werner Klemperer (Inspector Hurt), Jim Davis (Captain Joe Farrell), Ivan Triesault (Dr. Franz Kleinman)
220	8-9	"The Case of the Tragic Trophy"	Richard D. Donner	Mann Rubin	TBA	November 19, 1964 (1964-11-19)
Cast: Richard Carlson (Anthony Fry), Mimsy Farmer (Kathy James), John Fiedler (Howard Stark)
221	8-10	"The Case of the Reckless Rockhound"	Jesse Hibbs	Robb White	TBA	November 26, 1964 (1964-11-26)
Cast: Audrey Totter (Reba Burgess), Doug Lambert (Kinder), Jeff Corey (Carl Bascom), Bruce Bennett, Ben Johnson, Elisha Cook, Jr., Ted de Corsia
222	8-11	"The Case of the Latent Lover"	Jesse Hibbs	Samuel Newman	TBA	December 3, 1964 (1964-12-03)
Cast: Lloyd Bochner (Eric Pollard), Marion Moses (Sybil Pollard), Jason Evers (Roy Galen), Douglass Dumbrille (Judge Alder)
223	8-12	"The Case of the Wooden Nickels"	Arthur Marks	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	December 10, 1964 (1964-12-10)
Cast: Will Kuluva (Homer Doubleday), Phyllis Love (Minerva Doubleday), Murray Matheson (Howard Hopkins), Hunt Powers (George Parsons)
224	8-13	"The Case of the Blonde Bonanza"	Arthur Marks	Jackson Gillis	1962 novel	December 17, 1964 (1964-12-17)
Cast: Mary Ann Mobley (Dianne Adler), Michael Constantine (Dillard), Bruce Gordon (George Adler), Paul Gilbert (Harrison Boring)
225	8-14	"The Case of the Ruinous Road"	Jesse Hibbs	Robert and Esther Mitchell	TBA	December 31, 1964 (1964-12-31)
Cast: Grant Williams (Quincy Davis), Allen Case (Adam Conrad), Bert Breed (Joe Marshall), Barton MacLane (Archer Osmond)
226	8-15	"The Case of the Frustrated Folk Singer"	Arthur Marks	John Elliotte	TBA	January 7, 1965 (1965-01-07)
Cast: Gary Crosby (Jazbo Williams), Bonnie Jones (Amy Jo Jennings), Mark Goddard (Harry Bronson), Richard Garland (Lionel Albright), Lee Meriwether (Natalie Graham)
227	8-16	"The Case of the Thermal Thief"	Jack Arnold	Robert C. Dennis	TBA	January 14, 1965 (1965-01-14)
Cast: Barry Sullivan (Ken Kramer), Kathie Browne (Lola Upton), Richard Eastham (Roland Canfield), Betty Ackerman (Maxine Nichols)
228	8-17	"The Case of the Golden Venom"	Jesse Hibbs	Jackson Gillis	TBA	January 21, 1965 (1965-01-21)
Cast: Noah Beery, Jr. (Tony Claus), Frances Reid (Lucille Forrest), Arthur Malet (Ralph Day)
229	8-18	"The Case of the Telltale Tap"	Arthur Marks	Samuel Newman	TBA	February 4, 1965 (1965-02-04)
Cast: Linden Chiles (Clyde Darrell), Roland Winters (Archer Bryant), H. M. Wynant (Glen Holman), Jeanne Bal (Vera Wynne)
230	8-19	"The Case of the Feather Cloak"	Jesse Hibbs	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	February 11, 1965 (1965-02-11)
Cast: John van Dreelen (Jarvis Logan), Michael Dante (Douglas Kelland), Wende Wagner (Anona Gilbert), David Opatoshu, Keye Luke, Joyce Jameson, Jon Hall
231	8-20	"The Case of the Lover's Gamble"	Harry Harris	Jackson Gillis	TBA	February 18, 1965 (1965-02-18)
Cast: Elizabeth Perry (Frances Stark), Hal Peary (Freddy Fell), Margaret Blye (Betty Kaster), Donald Murphy (Dr. Philip Stark)
232	8-21	"The Case of the Fatal Fetish"	Charles R. Rondeau	Samuel Newman	TBA	March 4, 1965 (1965-03-04)
Cast: Fay Wray (Mignon Germaine), Karen Steele (Carina Wileen), Alan Hewitt (Curt Ordway), Gary Collins (Larry Germaine)
233	8-22	"The Case of the Sad Sicilian"	Jesse Hibbs	Milton Krims	TBA	March 11, 1965 (1965-03-11)
Cast: Fabrizio Mioni (Paulo Porio), Anthony Caruso (Enrico Bacio), Margo, Nico Minardos
234	8-23	"The Case of the Murderous Mermaid"	Robert Sparr	Mann Rubin	TBA	March 18, 1965 (1965-03-18)
Cast: Patrice Wymore (Victoria Dawn), Bill Williams (Charlie Shaw), Jean Hale (Reggie Lansfield)
235	8-24	"The Case of the Careless Kitten"	Vincent McEveety	Jackson Gillis	1942 novel	March 25, 1965 (1965-03-25)
Cast: Louise Latham (Matilda Shore), Julie Sommars (Helen Kendall), Allan Melvin (Thomas Link)
236	8-25	"The Case of the Deadly Debt"	Jesse Hibbs	Robert C. Dennis	TBA	April 1, 1965 (1965-04-01)
Cast: Chris Robinson (Carl Talbert), Gregory Morton (Steven Radom), Joan Huntington (Kitty Delaney), Robert Quarry (Danny Talbert)
237	8-26	"The Case of the Gambling Lady"	Richard D. Donner	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	April 8, 1965 (1965-04-08)
Cast: Peter Breck (Pete Warren), Myrna Fahey (Myrna Warren), Ruta Lee (Irene Prentiss)
238	8-27	"The Case of the Duplicate Case"	James Goldstone	Philip Saltzman	TBA	April 22, 1965 (1965-04-22)
Cast: Martin West (Herbie Cornwall), Steve Ihnat (Charlie Davis), Susan Bay (Millie Cornwall), Douglass Dumbrille (Judge)
239	8-28	"The Case of the Grinning Gorilla"	Jesse Hibbs	Jackson Gillis	1952 novel	April 29, 1965 (1965-04-29)
Cast: Lurene Tuttle (Josephine Kempton), Victor Buono (Nathan Fallan), Gavin MacLeod (Mortimer Hershey), Charlene Holt
240	8-29	"The Case of the Wrongful Writ"	Richard Kinon	Samuel Newman	TBA	May 6, 1965 (1965-05-06)
Cast: James Shigeta (Ward Toyama), Katherine Squire (Esther Norden), Douglas Henderson (Frank Jensen), Nobu McCarthy, Bobby Troup, Philip Abbott
241	8-30	"The Case of the Mischievous Doll"	Jesse Hibbs	Jackson Gillis	1963 novel	May 13, 1965 (1965-05-13)
Cast: Ben Cooper (Clyde Jasper), Mary Mitchell (Dorrie Ambler), Phil Arthur (Joe Billings), Allyson Ames (Rita Jasper), Marge Redmond

Season 9

CBS Home Entertainment released the ninth season of Perry Mason on Region 1 DVD in 2013.

#		Episode title	Director	Teleplay	Source	Air date
242	9-1	"The Case of the Laughing Lady"	Jesse Hibbs	Orville H. Hampton	TBA	September 12, 1965 (1965-09-12)
Cast: Jean Hale (Carla Chaney), John Abbott (Dr. Durwood Tobey), Bernard Fox (Peter Stange), Constance Towers, John Dall
243	9-2	"The Case of the Fatal Fortune"	Arthur Marks	William Bast	TBA	September 19, 1965 (1965-09-19)
Cast: Julie Adams (Patricia L. Kean Armstead), Jesse White (Max Armstead), Ford Rainey (Dr. Fisher), Nan Martin (Beth Fuller)
244	9-3	"The Case of the Candy Queen"	Jesse Hibbs	Orville H. Hampton, Robb White	1940 novel	September 26, 1965 (1965-09-26)
Cast: Nancy Gates (Claire Armstrong), Patricia Smith (Wanda Buren), John Archer (Harry Arnold)
245	9-4	"The Case of the Cheating Chancellor"	Arthur Marks	Lawrence Louis Goldman	TBA	October 3, 1965 (1965-10-03)
Cast: G. B. Atwater (Dr. Stuart Logan), James Noah (Van Fowler), Louise Latham (Shirley Logan), Lee Meriwether (Evelyn Wilcox), Stacy Keach, Sr. (Judge)
246	9-5	"The Case of the Impetuous Imp"	Arthur Marks	William Bast	1950 novel	October 10, 1965 (1965-10-10)
Cast: Bonnie Jones (Diana Carter), Hanna Landy (Helga Dolwig), Richard Webb (Addison Powell)
247	9-6	"The Case of the Carefree Coronary"	Jesse Hibbs	Orville H. Hampton	TBA	October 17, 1965 (1965-10-17)
Cast: Benny Baker (Jerry Ormond), Whit Bissell (Dennison Groody), Hal Baylor (Jack B. David), music by Leigh Harline
248	9-7	"The Case of the Hasty Honeymoon"	Arthur Marks	Ernest Frankel, Orville H. Hampton, John Elliotte	TBA	October 24, 1965 (1965-10-24)
Cast: Noah Beery, Jr. (Lucas Tolliver), Hugh Marlowe (Guy Munford), Cathy Downs (Millicent Barton Tolliver)
249	9-8	"The Case of the 12th Wildcat"	Jesse Hibbs	Ernest Frankel	TBA	October 31, 1965 (1965-10-31)
Cast: Mona Freeman (Ellen Payne), Bill Williams (Burt Payne), John Conte (Judson Warner), Karl Swenson (Unk Hazekian), and cameo appearances by Los Angeles Rams players Don Chuy, Roman Gabriel, Cliff Livingston, Marlin McKeever, Bill Munson and Joe Scibelli
250	9-9	"The Case of the Wrathful Wraith"	Arthur Marks	Henry Farrell	TBA	November 7, 1965 (1965-11-07)
Cast: Marion Moses (Louise Selff), Gene Lyons (Ralph Balfour), John Hart (Jameson Selff)
251	9-10	"The Case of the Runaway Racer"	Jesse Hibbs	Sy Salkowitz	TBA	November 14, 1965 (1965-11-14)
Cast: Henry Brandt (Pete Griston), Anthony Caruso (Harvey Rettig), Michael Constantine (Pappy Ryan), Gavin MacLeod (Dan Platte)
252	9-11	"The Case of the Silent Six"	Jesse Hibbs	William Bast	TBA	November 21, 1965 (1965-11-21)
Cast: Skip Homeier (Sergeant Dave Wolfe), David Macklin (Ron Peters), Chris Noel (Susan Wolfe), Virginia Gregg
253	9-12	"The Case of the Fugitive Fraulein"	Arthur Marks	Jonathan Latimer	TBA	November 28, 1965 (1965-11-28)
Cast: Susanne Cramer (Gerta Palmer), Jeanette Nolan (Emma Ritter), Ronald Long (Franz Hoffer)
254	9-13	"The Case of the Baffling Bug"	Vincent McEveety	Orville H. Hampton	TBA	December 12, 1965 (1965-12-12)
Cast: Grant Williams (Dr. Todd Meade), Gilbert Green (Dr. Malcolm Stanton), Bryan O'Byrne (Borace Lehigh)
255	9-14	"The Case of the Golden Girls"	Jesse Hibbs	Orville H. Hampton, Ernest Frankel	1940 novel	December 19, 1965 (1965-12-19)
Cast: Philip Bourneuf (Victor Montalvo), Angela Dorian (Debbie Conrad), Jean Engstrom (Corinne Richland), George Neise (Stacey Garnett)
256	9-15	"The Case of the Bogus Buccaneers"	Arthur Hiller	Henry Farrell	TBA	January 9, 1966 (1966-01-09)
Cast: Rhodes Reason (Marvin Elders), Patricia Cutts (Ann Eldridge), Kathleen Crowley (Grace Elders Knapp)
257	9-16	"The Case of the Midnight Howler"	Jesse Hibbs	Robert E. Kent	TBA	January 16, 1966 (1966-01-16)
Cast: Myrna Fahey (Holly Andrews), Daniel J. Travanti (Barney Austin), Lee Patterson, Ian Wolfe
258	9-17	"The Case of the Vanishing Victim"	Harmon Jones	Ernest Frankel, Orville H. Hampton	1954 novel	January 23, 1966 (1966-01-23)
Cast: Jeanne Cooper (Miriam Fielding), Richard Erdman (Jud Bennett), John Goddard (Al Dolby), Lisa Gaye
259	9-18	"The Case of the Golfer's Gambit"	Jesse Hibbs	Orville H. Hampton	TBA	January 30, 1966 (1966-01-30)
Cast: Carl Reindel (Danny Bright), Dennis Patrick (Chick Farley), Alan Reed, Jr. (Jim Harrell), Gertrude Flynn (Mrs. Headrick)
260	9-19	"The Case of the Sausalito Sunrise"	Jesse Hibbs	Ernest Frankel, Orville H. Hampton	1952 novel	February 13, 1966 (1966-02-13)
Cast: Donald Murphy (Francis Clune), Mark Tapscott (Sergeant Deke Bradley), Francine York (Bobbi Dane), Peter Mamakos (Olaf Deering)
261	9-20	"The Case of the Scarlet Scandal"	Jerry Hopper	Kenneth M. Rosen	TBA	February 20, 1966 (1966-02-20)
Cast: Luana Patten (Cynthia Perkins), Mala Powers (Elaine Bayler), Will Hutchins (Donald Hobart)
262	9-21	"The Case of the Twice-Told Twist"	Jesse Hibbs	Samuel Newman	TBA	February 27, 1966 (1966-02-27)
Only episode of the series filmed in color; characters inspired by those in Oliver Twist Cast: Victor Buono (Benjamin Huggins), Kevin O'Neal (Lennie Beale), Lisa Seagram (Robin Spring), Scott Graham (Bill Sikes), Lisa Pera (Donna Reales)
263	9-22	"The Case of the Avenging Angel"	Jerry Hopper	Lawrence Louis Goldman	TBA	March 13, 1966 (1966-03-13)
Cast: Richard Carlson (Clete Hawley), Sue Ane Langdon (Dotty Merrill), Lurene Tuttle ((Metty McLeon), Martin Horsey (Sandy Chester)
264	9-23	"The Case of the Tsarina's Tiara"	Harmon Jones	Ernest Frankel, Orville H. Hampton	TBA	March 20, 1966 (1966-03-20)
Cast: Kendall Clark (Gerard Van Ness), Leonid Kinskey (Vyacheslav Gerznov), Fred Krone (Nils Dorow), Wesley Addy (Joachim DeVry)
265	9-24	"The Case of the Fanciful Frail"	Jesse Hibbs	Ernest Frankel, Orville H. Hampton	1956 novel	March 27, 1966 (1966-03-27)
Cast: Pippa Scott (Ethel Andrews), Barry Kelley (Park Milligan), Hunt Powers (Bruce Strickland)
266	9-25	"The Case of the Unwelcome Well"	Harmon Jones	Ernest Frankel, Orville H. Hampton	TBA	April 3, 1966 (1966-04-03)
Cast: Wendell Corey (Jerome Rice), Les Tremayne (Harry Lannon), James Best (Allen Winford)
267	9-26	"The Case of the Dead Ringer"	Arthur Marks	Jackson Gillis	TBA	April 17, 1966 (1966-04-17)
Only episode in which Raymond Burr plays a dual role Cast: Raymond Burr (Grimes), Indus Arthur (Barbara Kramer), Oliver McGowan (Otis Swanson)
268	9-27	"The Case of the Misguided Model"	Jerry Hopper	Ernest Frankel, Orville H. Hampton	TBA	April 24, 1966 (1966-04-24)
Cast: Mary Ann Mobley (Sharon Carmody), James Griffith (Jake Stearns), Paul Lukather
269	9-28	"The Case of the Positive Negative"	Jesse Hibbs	Robert E. Kent	TBA	May 1, 1966 (1966-05-01)
Cast: Brian Donlevy (General Roger Brandon), Simon Scott (Stanley Overton), Ted de Corsia (George Emory)
270	9-29	"The Case of the Crafty Kidnapper"	Jerry Hopper	William Bast	TBA	May 15, 1966 (1966-05-15)
Cast: Gary Collins (Alex Tanner), Cloris Leachman (Gloria Shine), Douglas Henderson (Greg Stanley), Anne Whitfield, Jay Novello
271	9-30	"The Case of the Final Fade-Out"	Jesse Hibbs	Ernest Frankel, Orville H. Hampton	TBA	May 22, 1966 (1966-05-22)
Cast: Dick Clark (Leif Early), James Stacy (Barry Conrad), Marlyn Mason (Erna Landry), Denver Pyle (Jackson Sidemark), Estelle Winwood (Winnifred Glover), Gerald Mohr (Andy Rubin), Jackie Coogan (Pete Desmond), William Tannen (Sandie Conrad), Maureen Crow (Addie), Margaret Shinn (Starlet Number One), Linda Burton (Starlet Number Two), Louis Elias (Sound Man Number One), Saul Carson (Sound Man Number Two), Lee Miller (Sergeant Brice), Kenneth MacDonald (First judge), Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner (Second judge, uncredited), and cameo appearances by executive producer Gail Patrick Jackson and other production crew

Notable episodes

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Special guest star Bette Davis and William Hopper in "The Case of Constant Doyle" (January 31, 1963)

Special guest star Walter Pidgeon in "The Case of the Surplus Suitor" (February 28, 1963)

"The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink" (episode 1-13) was the pilot film for the Perry Mason series. It was filmed October 3–9, 1956, more than a year before it aired. Written and directed like a film noir second feature, it was a hit with CBS executives and earned the series a good time slot for the 1957–58 season.

In four episodes adapted from Erle Stanley Gardner novels — "The Case of the Silent Partner" (episode 1-6), "The Case of the Baited Hook" (episode 1-14), "The Case of the Velvet Claws" (episode 6-22) and "The Case of the Careless Kitten" (episode 8-24) — the cases are solved without ever going into the courtroom. "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."

"The Case of the Terrified Typist" (episode 1-38), "The Case of the Witless Witness" (episode 6-28) and the much-hyped "The Case of the Deadly Verdict" (episode 7-4) are episodes in which Perry Mason loses cases in some form or manner. He has implicitly lost a capital case in "The Case of the Desperate Daughter" (episode 1-27); Mason and Della Street are first seen preparing a last-minute appeal for a "Mr. Hudson" who has an impending date with the gas chamber.

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. The schedule was immediately juggled to minimize Talman's presence on the show. "The Case of the Crying Cherub" (episode 3-20) debuts a pared-down title sequence that omits Talman; he is credited only in the four episodes he filmed before he was fired. Talman was defended by Gail Patrick Jackson, Burr and others, but even dismissal of the charges in June did not soften the network's position. Patrick said that the role of Burger would not be recast, but that various actors would play assistant district attorneys. CBS reinstated Talman only after Gardner himself weighed in, together with millions of viewers. Talman went back to work December 9, 1960, and Burger returned in "The Case of the Fickle Fortune" (episode 4-15).

In October 1962 Gail Patrick Jackson announced that four season-six episodes would feature special guest stars who would cover for Raymond Burr during his convalescence from surgery. Perry Mason fan Bette Davis began filming "The Case of Constant Doyle" (episode 6-16) December 12, 1962. The other three special episodes are "The Case of the Libelous Locket" (episode 6-17) starring Michael Rennie; "The Case of the Two-Faced Turnabout" (episode 6-18) starring Hugh O'Brian; and "The Case of the Surplus Suitor" (episode 6-19) starring Walter Pidgeon. To provide continuity, brief scenes were shot in Burr's hospital room that showed Mason speaking on the phone to each of the attorney friends who was managing his caseload while he was in Europe.

"The Case of the Capering Camera" (episode 7-15), filmed in October 1963, marks the last appearance by Ray Collins as the irascible Lt. Tragg.Although it was clear Collins would not return to work on the series, his name appeared in the opening title sequence through the eighth season, which ended in May 1965. Executive producer Gail Patrick Jackson was aware that Collins watched the show every week and did not wish to discourage him. Collins died of emphysema July 11, 1965.

When Burr was hospitalized for jaw surgery in 1964, special guest stars substituted for him in two episodes. The first, "The Case of the Bullied Bowler" (episode 8-7), was regarded as one of the best episodes of the season. Taking place while Mason is in Europe, the episode stars Mike Connors as an attorney friend of Paul Drake. Broadcast two months later, the second episode was "The Case of the Thermal Thief" (episode 8-16), starring Barry Sullivan. These are the only two Perry Mason episodes in which Burr makes no appearance.

"The Case of the Fatal Fetish" (episode 8-21) is the first of four episodes in which Burr shows the effects of an injury suffered in January 1965 following his third visit to U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam. He required surgery after tearing his shoulder tendons, and wears a large plaster cast under his clothing in that episode and in "The Case of the Sad Sicilian" (episode 8-22). His right arm is in a sling in "The Case of the Murderous Mermaid" (episode 8-23) and "The Case of the Careless Kitten" (episode 8-24).

"The Case of the Twice-Told Twist" (episode 9-21) is the only episode of the series that was filmed in color.

"The Case of the Dead Ringer" (episode 9-26) features Burr in a unique dual role, playing Mason and his doppelgänger, a grizzled seadog hired to impersonate and discredit him.

"The Case of the Final Fade-Out" (episode 9-30), the last episode of the series, was filmed April 12–19, 1966. Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner makes his sole appearance as an actor, playing the judge presiding at the second trial. It was Gail Patrick Jackson's idea to give Gardner and other behind-the-scenes members of the production crew a chance to appear in uncredited cameos:

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"Who wants to be opposite Bonanza?" Executive producer Gail Patrick Jackson with producer Art Seid and, behind the bar, husband Cornwell Jackson in "The Case of the Final Fade-Out" (May 22, 1966)

• Witness 1 is prop man Ray Thompson.
• Witness 2 is accountant Bernie Oseransky.
• Witness 3 is Johnny Nickolaus, director of photography.
• Witness 4 is electrician Bob Kaplan.
• Assistant prop man John Ferry portrays director Phil Shields.
• Assistant director Gordon Webb is the assistant director.
• Second grip Wendell Jones is photographer Tad Wyman.
• Script supervisor Marshall Schlom is Cliff, the script supervisor.
• Sound engineer Herman Lewis plays the sound mixer.
• The second assistant director is Dave Marks, second assistant director and father of producer Arthur Marks.
• Mill foreman Buck Jones appears as himself.
• Construction coordinator Mickey Woods appears as himself.
• Ann Bernaducci, secretary to producer Arthur Marks, plays the producer's secretary.
• Costumer Evelyn Carruth (with her dog, Buff) is the costumer.
• Assistant cameraman Dennis Dalzell is the assistant cameraman.
• Camera operator Jack Woolf is the camera operator.
• Key grip Harry Jones appears as himself.
• Dimmer boy and practical Jim Lowery plays himself.
• Gaffer Larry Peets plays himself.
• Best boy Cece Lupton plays himself.
• Film editor Dick Farrell is the cutter.
• Hairdresser Annabel Levy appears as herself.
• Makeup man Irving Pringle plays himself.
• Director Jesse Hibbs is the man waxing the car.
• Barbara Hale plays a second role, a blonde starlet in sunglasses.
• The man at her table who kisses her is producer Arthur Marks.
• Art director Lewis Creber is the man who interrupts them.
• Actor Mark Roberts is one of the men in the background.
• Set decorator Carl Biddiscombe is one of the men in the background.
• Bill Swan, executive assistant to Raymond Burr, is the piano player.
• Executive producer Gail Patrick Jackson is seated at the bar, speaking to producer Art Seid.
• Cornwell Jackson, Patrick's husband and a partner in Paisano Productions, is the bartender.
• Lester Salkow, Burr's agent, is the man talking to the bartender.
• Anne Nelson, vice president of business affairs for CBS Entertainment, is the barmaid.

The second murder victim is Jackson Sidemark, a producer whose name is an in-joke — a composite of the surnames of Paisano partners Gail Patrick Jackson and Cornwell Jackson ("Jackson") and producers Art Seid and Arthur Marks ("Sidemark").

The sequence in the bar was the last Perry Mason scene to be filmed. In her sole appearance in the series, Gail Patrick Jackson broke the rule against ad libs. The script called for her to say, "I wouldn't take that show if they begged me. Who wants that time slot?" Instead she said, "I wouldn't take that show. Who wants to be opposite Bonanza?" It is a final commentary on the tables being turned by the NBC series that Perry Mason had bested in the Nielsen ratings for its first two seasons.

External links

• Perry Mason at IMDb

When asked by a fan why Perry Mason won every case, Burr told her, "But madam, you see only the cases I try on Saturday."

Mason is known to have lost, in some form or manner, three cases—"The Case of the Terrified Typist", "The Case of the Witless Witness", and "The Case of the Deadly Verdict".

Mason also loses a civil case at the beginning of "The Case of the Dead Ringer", partly due to being framed for witness tampering. His staff and he then spend the rest of the episode trying to prove his innocence. They eventually do, and although this is not stated explicitly, the verdict of the civil case is presumably either overturned or declared a mistrial. In a July 15, 2009, interview on NPR's program All Things Considered, Barbara Hale claimed that all of Mason's lost cases were declared mistrials off the air.

Mason did lose, at least by inference, a capital case mentioned in the 1958 episode, "The Case of the Desperate Daughter". Mason and Della Street are first seen preparing a last-minute appeal for a "Mr. Hudson", who has an impending date with the gas chamber.

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  Ralph Clanton and Burr in the series premiere, "The Case of the Restless Redhead" (1957)

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  Burr and Kathleen Crowley in "The Case of the Lonely Heiress" (1958)

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  Burr and Joan O'Brien in "The Case of the Singing Skirt" (1960)

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  Robert Bray and Burr in "The Case of the Angry Astronaut" (1962)

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  Bette Davis and William Hopper in "The Case of Constant Doyle"

Broadcast

Broadcast history

Perry Mason aired on CBS from September 21, 1957, to May 22, 1966.

• Saturday at 7:30 p.m. ET September 21, 1957 – May 26, 1962 (Seasons 1–5)
• Thursday at 8 p.m. ET September 27, 1962 – May 16, 1963 (Season 6)
• Thursday at 9 p.m. ET September 26, 1963 – May 21, 1964 (Season 7)
• Thursday at 8 p.m. ET September 24, 1964 – May 13, 1965 (Season 8)
• Sunday at 9 p.m. ET September 12, 1965 – May 22, 1966 (Season 9)

Syndication

At the time of its cancellation, Perry Mason was or had been airing in 58 countries. The show was subtitled in Chinese (for Hong Kong viewers), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Flemish, Greek, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, and Swedish, and dubbed in Arabic, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Thai.

Perry Mason has been a staple in syndication, running for many years on local television stations (including WGN-TV in the 1990s when it was a Chicago-based superstation), TBS and on the Hallmark Channel. Originally, only 195 of the 271 episodes were available to stations. These episodes included all of the first six seasons (except the four Season 6 episodes in which Raymond Burr makes only brief appearances), four episodes of Season 7, and 14 episodes of the ninth and final season (including the final episode). It was not until the mid-1980s when TBS obtained the rights to the remaining episodes that all 271 Perry Mason episodes were seen in syndication.

Episodes broadcast in syndicated re-runs are usually heavily edited, to allow for more time for commercials.

The TV series is currently shown weekdays on Me-TV and FETV, as well as on local stations in various local markets. Portland, Oregon station KPTV first aired evening repeats of Perry Mason in 1966. In 1970, the station began the long tradition of showing reruns of Perry Mason weekdays during its noon time slot. This unprecedented run ended 42 years later, on September 3, 2012, when KPTV ceased broadcasting the show. It continued to be shown on KPDX, duopoly of KPTV, in the 8 AM time slot through September 12, 2014. The series was distributed by CBS Films, then Viacom Enterprises, Paramount Domestic Television and CBS Paramount Domestic Television, CBS Television Distribution, and now by CBS Media Ventures.

CBS posted full 60-minute episodes on its website from the first and second seasons for viewing.

Video on demand

A 2014 article in The Atlantic that examined how Netflix categorized nearly 77,000 different personalized genres found that Perry Mason star Raymond Burr was rated as the favorite actor by Netflix users. Barbara Hale was rated seventh. Christian I. Nyby II, the director of many of the television movies, and his father Christian Nyby, who directed many episodes of the TV series, led the list of directors. Todd Yellin, vice president of product innovation for Netflix and the person who designed the system, was at a loss to explain what journalist Alexis Madrigal called "this weird Perry Mason thing".

Reception

Raymond Burr and other cast members on the set of Perry Mason, from the front cover of Look magazine (October 10, 1961)

"Perry Mason was television's most successful and longest-running lawyer series," wrote TV historian Tim Brooks. "It remains, I think, the best detective series ever made for television," wrote film historian Jon Tuska. "The definitive portrayal, of course, was by former screen heavy Raymond Burr on the CBS series (1957–1966) in scripts faithfully based on Gardner's novels", wrote mystery writer Max Allan Collins.

Ratings

Season	Rank	Rating	Notes
1 – October 1957–April 1958	43	24.3
2 – October 1958–April 1959	19	27.5
3 – October 1959–April 1960	10	28.3
4 – October 1960–April 1961	16	24.9
5 – October 1961–April 1962	5	27.3
6 – October 1962–April 1963	23	22.4
7 – October 1963–April 1964	26	22.1
8 – October 1964–April 1965	38	20.7
9 – October 1965–April 1966	69	16.9

Awards

Emmy Awards

• 1958: Perry Mason was nominated as Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series at the 10th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 1959: Raymond Burr received the Emmy Award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series at the 11th Primetime Emmy Awards.
• 1959: Barbara Hale received the Emmy Award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series at the 11th Primetime Emmy Awards.
• 1959: William Hopper was nominated as Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series at the 11th Primetime Emmy Awards.
• 1960: Raymond Burr received a nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series (Lead or Support) at the 12th Primetime Emmy Awards.
• 1961: Raymond Burr received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series (Lead) at the 13th Primetime Emmy Awards.
• 1961: Barbara Hale was nominated for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series at the 13th Primetime Emmy Awards.
• 1961: Perry Mason was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing for Television at the 13th Primetime Emmy Awards.
• 1966: Perry Mason received an Emmy nomination for Individual Achievements in Electronic Production – Audio Engineering at the 18th Primetime Emmy Awards.

TV Guide Awards

• 1960: Perry Mason was honored as Favorite Series in TV Guide magazine's inaugural TV Guide Award readers poll.
• 1960: Raymond Burr received the first annual TV Guide Award for Favorite Male Performer, for Perry Mason.
• 1961: Perry Mason received the second annual TV Guide Award for Favorite Series.
• 1961: Raymond Burr received the second annual TV Guide Award for Favorite Male Performer, for Perry Mason.

Silver Gavel Award

• 1960: Perry Mason received the first Silver Gavel Award for television drama presented by the American Bar Association. Raymond Burr accepted the award for Paisano Productions.

Influence

In her Supreme Court nomination before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary in July 2009, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor prefaced her remarks on the role of the prosecutor by saying that she was inspired by watching Perry Mason as a child. "I was influenced so greatly by a television show in igniting the passion that I had as being a prosecutor, and it was Perry Mason", Sotomayor said. In her 2013 memoir the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States wrote of the show's influence on her while she was growing up in a Bronx housing project. She granted that the defense attorney was the show's hero, "but my sympathies were not entirely monopolized by Perry Mason. I was fond of Burger, the prosecutor, too. I liked that he was a good loser, that he was more committed to finding the truth than to winning his case. If the defendant was truly innocent, he once explained, and the case was dismissed, then he had done his job because justice had been served." She was particularly fascinated by the judge.

"There was a whole new vocabulary here," Sotomayor wrote. "And though I wasn't sure what every detail meant, I followed the gist of it. It was like the puzzles I enjoyed, a complex game with its own rules, and one that intersected with grand themes of right and wrong. I was intrigued and determined to figure it out."

Cultural references

Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) defends Jack Benny, on trial for murder, in an episode of CBS-TV's The Jack Benny Program (1961)

A Perry Mason parody titled "The Night That Perry Masonmint Lost a Case" appeared in the July 1959 issue of Mad magazine.

Raymond Burr made a guest appearance in an episode of The Jack Benny Program, titled "Jack on Trial for Murder" (November 5, 1961). He appears in character as Perry Mason in Benny's dream sequence about being tried for killing a rooster. Other Perry Mason cast include Grandon Rhodes as the process server, Frank Wilcox as the judge and George E. Stone as court clerk.

The character of Perry Mason was spoofed in an episode of the animated series The Flintstones, titled "Little Bamm-Bamm" (October 3, 1963). When the Rubbles try to adopt Bamm-Bamm Rubble they end up in court facing attorney "Perry Masonry, who's never lost a case".

The Blues Brothers recorded a cover version of Fred Steiner's Perry Mason TV series theme for the 1980 album, Made in America. It was later used in the 1998 film, Blues Brothers 2000, and released on the soundtrack album.

Perry Mason was satirized in a 1990 episode of the Australian sketch comedy series Fast Forward.

Ozzy Osbourne's 1995 album, Ozzmosis, opens with a track titled "Perry Mason". Released as a single, the song was the first to integrate the music of Perry Mason into what one reviewer described as a "bruising rocker … complete with an ominous excerpt from the classic TV show theme".

In the videogame Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, the system of saved data from courts, the MASON System, was named in reference to Perry Mason.

Home media

United States and Canada

CBS Home Entertainment has released all nine seasons of Perry Mason on Region 1 DVD. Each season was released in two-volume half-season sets because each season of Perry Mason contains considerably more material than a modern TV series. The first season of Perry Mason featured 39 episodes, Season 3 had 26 episodes, and all other seasons had either 28 or 30 episodes; this compares with 22 for a typical modern series. In addition, Perry Mason episodes are 50–53 minutes long, while a 2014 Nielsen study found that modern one-hour shows are shortened to accommodate 14 to 15 minutes of commercials.

The DVDs contain the original full-length version of each episode. Episodes broadcast in syndicated re-runs are usually heavily edited, to allow for more commercial time.

In April 2008, a special 50th anniversary DVD set was released with selected episodes from the then-unreleased Seasons 3–9. Barbara Hale, sometimes joined by director and producer Arthur Marks, provides an on-camera introduction to each episode. Bonus material includes the 1956 film tests of Burr and Hopper, just discovered in the CBS vaults; interviews with Hale, Marks, and CBS executive Anne Roberts Nelson; a short documentary about Erle Stanley Gardner; a cast appearance on Pantomime Quiz; a 1958 Person to Person segment in which Burr (at his home in Malibu) is interviewed by Charles Collingwood; two CBS News Nightwatch interviews of Burr by Charlie Rose; the anti-smoking public service announcement William Talman made on behalf of the American Cancer Society shortly before his death from lung cancer; and the first of the made-for-TV movies, Perry Mason Returns. Film historian Stuart Galbraith IV called the 50th anniversary set "a must-have … especially for its extra features".

Region 1 DVD releases

Title	Contents	Length	Release date
Perry Mason: Season 1, Volume 1	19 episodes	1,000 minutes	July 11, 2006
Perry Mason: Season 1, Volume 2	20 episodes	1,040 minutes	November 21, 2006
Perry Mason: Season 2, Volume 1	15 episodes	773 minutes	June 19, 2007
Perry Mason: Season 2, Volume 2	15 episodes	774 minutes	November 13, 2007
Perry Mason: 50th Anniversary Edition	12 episodes	714 minutes	April 8, 2008
Perry Mason: Season 3, Volume 1	12 episodes	624 minutes	August 19, 2008
Perry Mason: Season 3, Volume 2	14 episodes	728 minutes	December 2, 2008
Perry Mason: Season 4, Volume 1	16 episodes	831 minutes	June 9, 2009
Perry Mason: Season 4, Volume 2	12 episodes	623 minutes	December 8, 2009
Perry Mason: Season 5, Volume 1	15 episodes	764 minutes	April 20, 2010
Perry Mason: Season 5, Volume 2	15 episodes	773 minutes	November 16, 2010
Perry Mason: Season 6, Volume 1	14 episodes	710 minutes	October 4, 2011
Perry Mason: Season 6, Volume 2	14 episodes	709 minutes	November 22, 2011
Perry Mason: Season 7, Volume 1	15 episodes	759 minutes	August 21, 2012
Perry Mason: Season 7, Volume 2	15 episodes	758 minutes	October 23, 2012
Perry Mason: Season 8, Volume 1	15 episodes	773 minutes	November 27, 2012
Perry Mason: Season 8, Volume 2	15 episodes	772 minutes	January 15, 2013
Perry Mason: Final Season, Season 9, Volume 1	15 episodes	776 minutes	June 11, 2013
Perry Mason: Final Season, Season 9, Volume 2	15 episodes	778 minutes	August 13, 2013
Perry Mason: The Complete Series	271 episodes	13,965 minutes	October 4, 2016

International

Region 2 DVD releases

In Region 2, Paramount Home Entertainment has released the first three seasons in complete sets on DVD in the UK.

Region 4 DVD releases

In Region 4, Paramount Home Entertainment has released the first two seasons on DVD in Australia/New Zealand. These releases are similar to the Region 1 releases whereby each season has been released in two-volume sets.

Via Vision Entertainment re-released the series in Australia in 2019.

DVD name	Format	Ep #	Discs/Tapes	Region 4 (Australia)	Special Features	Distributors
Perry Mason Collection One (Seasons 1–3)	DVD	N/A	25	February 20, 2019	N/A	Via Vision Entertainment
Perry Mason Collection Two (Seasons 4–6)	DVD	N/A	23	April 3, 2019	None	Via Vision Entertainment
Perry Mason Collection Three (Seasons 7–9)	DVD	90	25	June 19, 2019	includes a bonus disc with new and vintage extras	Via Vision Entertainment

See also

• Perry Mason moment
• Perry Mason syndrome

Further reading

• Thomas Leitch, Perry Mason (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005)

External links

• Perry Mason at CBS.com
• Perry Mason at IMDb
• Perry Mason TV Series Wiki
• Perry Mason TV Showbook
• Perry Mason's Page