TCOT Podcast Episode 082 - Blushing Pearls

TCOT Podcast Episode 082 - Blushing Pearls 

 

Season 3 - Episode 4

Originally aired - October 24, 1959

Japan's surrender at the end of World War II was a result of multiple factors, including the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet Union's declaration of war, and the devastating impact of the war on the Japanese mainland. The surrender ceremony took place on September 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, officially ending the war in Asia. 

 

The Case of the Podcast is a Perry Mason Fan Podcast. We love and enjoy episodes from a tv show from the late 1950’s and early 1960. It’s so old, it was filmed in Black & White.

 

This is an episode from season 3 that we are choosing at random using a random number generator. We will be choosing our episodes this way season by season. We’re excited by this new process which will give each season a chance to shine.

 

Police Lt: Tragg

 

DA: Burger

Guest Stars:

Nobu McCarthy - 2 eps of PM/60 roles from 1954 - 2004 including Love Boat/Different Strokes/Batman/Karate Kid II

Mitsou Kamuri

 

Christine White - 3 eps of PM(Demure Defendant)/60 roles from 1951 -1976 including Twilight Zone/Father Knows Best/Alfred Hitchcock/The Frank Sinatra Show

Alice Carson

 

Benson Fong - 4 eps of PM/86 roles from 1936 -1986 including Kung Fu/Ironside/7 eps M3 Sons/Charlie Chan movies 

Itsubi Nogata

 

George Takei - only ep of PM/220 roles from 1955 -2022 including Hot in Cleveland/Futurama/BBT/Chico and the Man/Twilight Zone/Godzilla

Toma Sakai

 

Steven Terrell SA - only ep of PM/56 roles from 1951 -1957 including Ozzie & Harriet/Bonanza/Father Knows Best/Dragnet

Grove Nichols (as Steve Terrell)

 

Angela Greene - only ep of PM/106 roles from 1944 -1976 including Alfred Hitchcock/Tess Truehart in Dick Tracy

Thelma Nichols

 

Ralph Dumke - 2 eps of PM(Substitute Face)/95 roles from 1937 -1960 including Andy Griffith/Dennis the Menace/Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Hudson Nichols

 

John Gallaudet

Municipal Judge

 

Joe Di Reda - 3 eps of PM/89 roles from 1947 -1963 including General Hospital/Andy Griffith/Gunsmoke/Love Me Tender

Edgar Beals

(as Joe De Reda)

 

Rollin Moriyama - 2 eps of PM/52 roles from 1941 -1981 including McHale’s Navy/Flying Leathernecks w/John Wayne/

Ito Kamuri

 

John Barclay

Judge

 

Bill Walker - only ep of PM/191 roles from 1946 -1984 including The Wiz/Good Times/Twilight Zone/Porgy and Bess/To Kill a Mockingbird/What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?/Amos n Andy/Harlem Globetrotters 1951

Watchman

 

Leah Waggner

Maid

(as Lia Waggner)

 

Toma Wilde

Detective

(as Tom Wilde)

Jack Carol

Technician

 

Martha Wentworth - 3 eps of PM(Runaway Corpse - Motel Manager)/101 roles from 1936 -1963 including Dragnet/A Tree Grows in Brooklyn/Cartoon voices in the ‘30’s

Landlady

 

Sam Harris

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Flower Parry

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Time Capsule: 

Furniture/Design

 

Perry’s Office Window View 

 

Fashion

Cars

Cigarettes

Money Translation

Adjusted for inflation, $250,000 in 1959 is equal to $2,730,147 in 2025.

 

$35 in 1959 is equivalent to $386.64

 

$300 in 1959 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $3,314.07 today

Dee Spills the Tea:

One of the few black people you’ll ever see on PM – William Walker – Five interesting facts

1. William Walker was the grandson of slaves.
2. Best known as Rev. Sykes in To Kill a Mockingbird.
3. Gregory Peck won an academy award for his portrayal of the attorney Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. In his acceptance speech, he singled out Walker for his contribution to the film.
4. Walker was most proud of his membership in the Screen Actors Guild, where he served on the board for over 20 years.  He boasted about being “speaking cousins” with Ronald Reagan who served as SAG president. In 1953 with Reagan at his side, Walker pleaded with a gathering of Hollywood producers to hire more black actors.
5. He was quoted as saying “I had a lot of arguments with directors. Most of them knew nothing about how a Negro feels, how he lives, what he thinks.”

 

 

Where Do They Go From Here?: 

Mitsu and Toma are together. Does Grove marry Alice and take over the business? Mr. Nagoto should go to jail.

 

Next Week’s Episode: 

Fickle Fortune Season 4, Episode 15

 

 

TCOT Podcast Episode 081 - Fraudulent Foto

 

TCOT Podcast Episode 081 - Fraudulent Foto

Season 2 - Episode 16

Originally aired - February 7, 1959

The Case of the Podcast is a Perry Mason Fan Podcast. We love and enjoy episodes from a tv show from the late 1950’s and early 1960. It’s so old, it was filmed in Black & White.

 

This is an episode from season 2 that we are choosing at random using a random number generator. We will be choosing our episodes this way season by season. We’re excited by this new process which will give each season a chance to shine.

 

Police Lt: Tragg

 

DA: Burger

Guest Stars:

Hugh Marlowe- 6 eps of PM(Sleep Slayer(Dr)/Hasty Honeymoon/Borrowed Baby/Nebulous Nephew /69 roles from 1964-1982 including 

Andy Griffith/Another World

/The Day the Earth Stood Still/Meey Me in St Louis with Judy Garland

Brander Harris

Carole Mathews 94 - 2 eps of PM(Deadly Double-secretary)/started out as a dancer/100 roles from 1935 -1978 including Alfred Hitchcock/General Hospital 

Leora Mathews 

Wilton Graff - 3 eps of PM(Singular Double)/140 roles from 19xx -1961 including Wagon Train/A Star is Born/Ben Casey 

Cleveland Blake

June Clayworth 87 - only ep of PM/28 roles from 1930 -1961 including Wagon Train 

Eva Scott 

Mark Roberts- 8 eps of PM(Silent Partner/NN/Naughtical Knot/Pugilist Playboy)/133 roles from (1921) 1938 -2003 including MSW/General Hospital/Rockford Files/Ironside/World of Giants/Ma and Pa Kettle/Barnaby Jones

James Castleton

Bartlett Robinson - 6 eps of PM/151 roles from 1948 -1982 including Green Acres/Ironside/Andy Griffith/Twilight Zone

Marshall Scott 

Carol Nugent SA - only ep of PM/42 roles from 1943 -1968 including Family Affair/Ma and Pa Kettle

Helen Preston

Peter Brocco - only ep of PM/308 roles from 19xx -1991 including One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest/Ironside/Bewitched/Twilight Zone 

Theophile Duclerc 

Kenneth MacDonald

Judge

(as Kenneth R. MacDonald)

Herbert Anderson

Eugene Milton

Francis De Sales - 6 eps of PM/174 roles from 1959 -1978 including Rabbit Test/Barnaby Jones/The Rookies/Columbo/Bod Squad/DOOL/ Green Acres

George Fairbanks

 Nancy Millard

Switchboard Operator

Irving Mitchell

Autopsy Surgeon

Arline Hunter

Receptionist

Franklyn Farnum

Restaurant Patron / Grand Juryman (uncredited)

 

Time Capsule:

 

Furniture/Design

 

Perry’s Office Window View 

Fashion

 

We talked about glasses last time.  I do have glasses just like Brander Harris

 

Cars

Cigarettes

Money Translation

$500  = $5000

$25,000 = over $2 Million

Dee Spills the Tea:

In 1943 Bartlett Robinson who played Marshall Scott was the first actor of several performers who provided the radio voice of Perry Mason.

Where Do They Go From Here?:

Jimmy, Leora and Leclerc are fired. Eva and Helen are living their best life and Brander is happy.

Email:

The Terrified Typist first intrigued me when I heard on a television advertisement that Perry Mason actually lost a case. I was determined to find out which episode contained this blight on an otherwise perfect record! When I first watched it, I really enjoyed the first tense minutes, when Mrs. Taylor in disguise is caught and then flees into the building, hiding in sight in Masons law office. I was then on the edge of my seat when the guilty verdict is delivered. I really liked the unique twist of a defendant in disguise. I enjoy when Hamilton Burger loses his temper a little after being bested by a Mason legal trap and this one was a great meltdown when the real Jefferson shows up.

 

I have seen all nine seasons but tend to stick to the ones based on the books as I find the plots more complex and engaging. This episode was a solid book adaptation.

Thanks for the episode walkthrough. Looking forward to more!

Kevin 

Next Week’s Episode:

Season 3 Episode 4 - Blushing  Pearls

 

TCOT Podcast Episode 080 - Terrified Typist

TCOT Podcast Episode 080 - Terrified Typist

Season 1 - Episode 38

Originally aired - Jun 21, 1958

The Case of the Podcast is a Perry Mason Fan Podcast. We love and enjoy episodes from a tv show from the late 1950’s and early 1960. It’s so old, it was filmed in Black & White. 

This is an episode from season 1 that we after receiving an email from Kevin. We will be choosing our next episode from season two, this way season by season. We’re excited by this new process which will give each season a chance to shine.

 

In 1958, the diamond industry in South Africa remained a dominant force in the global diamond market. 

South Africa, along with other African countries, dominated diamond production in the late 1950s, accounting for over 98% of world output. South Africa was the world's top producer by value until 1960. 

 

Police Lt: Tragg

 

DA: Burger

Guest Stars:

Frankie Darro - 2 eps of PM/188 roles from 1924 -1975 including Ten Commandments/Addams Family/Batman

Elevator Operator



Alan Marshal - only ep of PM/41 roles from 1936 -1960 including Alfred Hitchcock/Tom, Dick and Harry

James Kincaid Alias Duane Jefferson (as Alan Marshall)



Joanna Moore - 2 eps of PM/89 roles from 1956 -1980 including Gunsmoke/Andy Griffith Andy’s Rich GF/Alfred Hitchcock/Bewitched

Patricia Taylor



Joan Elan - only ep of PM/25 roles from 1951 -1957 including Maverick/Have Gun Will Travel

Mrs. Lumis



Ben Wright - 3 eps of PM/209 roles from 1936 -1989 including Untouchables/Twilight Zone/Muriny on the Bounty/Ironside

Walter Lumis



Connie Cezon

Gertie



Jack Raine - only ep of PM/127 roles from 1927 -1971 including Bedknobs and Broomsticks/Father Knows Best/Les Miserable

George Baxter



Kenneth MacDonald

Judge

(as Kenneth R. MacDonald)



Harold Dyrenforth

Henrich

(as Harald Dyrenforth)



Hank Patterson

Jack Gilly

Jack Gargan

Court Clerk



James Stone

Jury Foreman



Boyd 'Red' Morgan

Muscleman

(as Red Morgan)



Steve Carruthers - 10 eps of PM/337 roles from 1926 -1975 including All in the Family/The Jeffersons/Maude(party guest)/Imitation of Life

Duane Jefferson



Frank Green

Suspect (uncredited)

 

Time Capsule:

Furniture/Design

 

Perry’s Office Window View

 

Fashion

 

Hats

 

Cars

Cigarettes

 

Money Translation

 

$500,000 in 1958 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $5,532,854.67 today,

Dee Spills the Tea:

Joanna Moore led an interesting albeit difficult life. When she was 7 her parents and younger sister were involved in a fatal car accident; her mother and sister died immediately; her father a year later. She was then adopted by a local wealthy family.

She married Ryan O’Neal in 1963 and was the mother of academy award winning actress Tatum O’Neal.

In the early 60s, she lost her hearing and had to read lips. An operation restored her hearing in 1962.

Beginning in 1970 Moore began a downward spiral. She checked into a hospital for psychiatric treatment; then she was arrested for drunk driving and lost custody of her two children. By the late 70s, she was being financially supported by Tatum. Despite treatment she continued to be addicted to drugs and alcohol and she was arrested five times for DUI during the 80s. She died of lung cancer in 1997 at the age of 63.

 

Where Do They Go From Here? 

Mr and Mrs Loomis and Kincaid goes to jail. Mr & Mrs Taylor live happily ever after.

 

Next Week’s Episode: 

Season 2, Episode 16 - Fraudulent Foto

TCOT Podcast Episode 079 - Demure Defendant

Season 1 - Episode 16
Originally aired - January 4, 1958

Email:
Really enjoying revisiting the old Perry Mason episodes with you. Looking forward to my favorite The Terrified Typist
Kevin

The Case of the Podcast is a Perry Mason Fan Podcast. We love and enjoy episodes from a tv show from the late 1950’s and early 1960. It’s so old, it was filmed in Black & White.

This is an episode from season 1 that we are choosing at random using a random number generator. We will be choosing our episodes this way season by season. We’re excited by this new process which will give each season a chance to shine.


Police Lt: Tragg

DA: Burger

Guest Stars:

Christine White - 3 eps of PM/60 roles from 1951 -1976 including Twilight Zone/Father Knows Best/Alfred Hitchcock/The Frank Sinatra Show
Nadine

Clem Bevans - only ep of PM/141 roles from 1935 -1962 including Twilight Zone/Harvey
Capt. Hugo

Fay Baker - 2 eps of PM/70 roles from 1946 -1965 including Burns and Allen/Hazel
Marian Newburn

Walter Coy - 4 eps of PM(Lavender Lipstick-rival)/145 roles from 1936 - 1974 including Hazel/Laasie/Wagon Train
Lester Newburn

Barry Atwater - 6 eps of PM(Prankish Professor)/116 roles from 1954-1978 including Loretta Young Show/Twilight Zone/Alfred Hitchcock/Dr. Kildare/Bewitched with Willie May
Dr. Denair

Sherwood Price - 2 eps of PM/57 roles from 1952 -1995 including Bonanza/Big Valley/Death Valley Days
John Locke

Alexander Campbell - only ep of PM/82 roles from 1933 -1957 including Burns and Allen/Maverick/Bonanza
Martin  Wellman

Connie Cezon(2004) - 17 eps of PM/25 roles from 1936(11) -1966 including Abbott and Costello/Death Valley Days/Three Stooges Movie/Rin Tin Tin
Gertie

Rickie Sorensen
Arthur Lindner

Lelani Sorenson
Small Girl
(as Leilani Sorensen)

Joseph Mell
Stand Owner (as Joe Mell)

Morris Ankrum
Judge

Maurice Manson - X eps of PM/X roles from 19xx -19xx including
Dr. Granby

Steven Geray - 2 eps of PM(Stand in Sister/204 roles from 1929 -1966 including Dick Van Dyke Show/I Dream of Jeannie/The Untouchables/Hazel/Superman/ Blondie
Dr Korbell

Paul Hahn
Ballistic's Man
Ashley Cowan
Messenger
John Mitchum
Operative

Time Capsule:

Furniture/Design

Perry’s Office 

Fashion

Cars

 

Money Translation

$18.20 = $202.25

Dee Spills the Tea

Here come the Judge! (5 Little known facts about the judge Morris Ankrum)
1.     He was born Morris Nussbaum, then used the name Stephen Morris and finally changed it to Morris Ankrum. Okay I give up. Why? It seems a strange stage name. I like Stephen Morris.
2.     He didn’t become an actor until he was in his 30s.
3.     He was an attorney and an economics professor before switching careers and becoming an actor.
4.     He was featured as a judge in 22 episodes of Perry Mason.
5.     His final appearance on Perry Mason was in the episode "The Case of the Sleepy Slayer." It aired in 1964, after Ankrum’s death.

Where Do They Go From Here?:

 Did Nadine and Marian both inherit? But of course Nadine and John Locke got married.

Next Week’s Episode: 

Season 1, Episode 38 - Terrified Typist

TCOT Podcast Episode 078 - Sausalito Sunrise

 TCOT Podcast Episode 078 - Sausalito Sunrise

Season 9 - Episode 19

Originally aired - February 13, 1966

The Case of the Podcast is a Perry Mason Fan Podcast. We love and enjoy episodes from a tv show from the late 1950’s and early 1960. It’s so old, it was filmed in Black & White.


This is an episode from season 9 that we are choosing at random using a random number generator. We will be choosing our episodes this way season by season. We’re excited by this new process which will give each season a chance to shine.



Police Lt: Steve Drumm


DA: Burger

Guest Stars:

Francine York - 2 eps of PM/127 roles from 1958 -2017 including The Family Man/Columbo/Ironside/Hazel/Nutty Professor/Batma/Gomer Pyle

Bobbi Dane


Donald Murphy - 3 eps of PM/50 roles from 1941 -1971 including Frankenstein’s Daughter/Loretta Young Show/Lord Love a Duck/Get Smart

Francis Clune


Mark Tapscott - 3 eps of PM(Hasty Honeymooner)/74 roles from 1957 -1984 including Mod Squad/Lassie

Sgt. Deke Bradley


Allan Melvin - 3 eps of PM/124 roles from 1959 -1994 including The Brady Bunch/cartoon characters including the Jetsons and the Smurfs/Archie Bunker’s place/All In the Family/Dick Van Dyke

Bert Kannon


Peter Mamakos - 3 eps of PM(Stand in Sister)/190 roles from 1949 -1990 including Daniel Boone/Mod Squad/Red Skelton/The Untouchables/The Lone Ranger

Olaf Deering


Elisabeth Fraser - 3 eps of PM(Eloise Brent Festive Felon)/X roles from 19xx -19xx including A Patch of Blue/

Estelle Paige


Richard Angarola - only ep of PM/80 roles from 1959 - 2005 including Mission Impossible/Ironside/Valley of the Dolls

Campbell Boyd


Stanley Clements - 2 eps of PM/133 roles from 1941 -1978 including Lone Ranger/Death Valley Days/Gomer Pyle

Floyd Walters


Steve Conte - only eps of PM/86 roles from 1950 -1987 including henchman number 2 in 3 episodes of Batman/deliveryman and two episodes of M3S/thug number two in an episode of Superman

Mac


Paul Genge - 4 eps of PM/58 roles from 1950 -1974 including Bonanza/Untouchables/North by Northwest

Bud


Kenneth MacDonald

Judge


Bill Erwin

Counterman

(as William Erwin)


Dirk Evans

Detective


Bebe Kelly

Nurse


Linda Burton

Student Nurse

Time Capsule:

Furniture/Design

      Perry’s Office Window View 

Fashion

Cars

Cigarettes

Money Translation

Next Week’s Episode: Demure Defendant - Season 1, Episode 16

TCOT Podcast Episode 077 - Gilded Lily

Season 1 - Episode 34

Originally aired - May 24, 1958

The Case of the Podcast is a Perry Mason Fan Podcast. We love and enjoy episodes from a tv show from the late 1950’s and early 1960. It’s so old, it was filmed in Black & White.

 

This is an episode picked by listener request. If you have an episode that you would like us to cover, you can write us at thatapril@gmail.com.

 

Caution, we will be talking about attempted suicide and we hope that this does not trigger or disturb any listeners. If you need to talk to someone, please contact suicide hotline.

 

Police Lt: Tragg

 

DA: Burger

Guest Stars:

Peggy Knudsen - 2 eps of PM/54 roles from 1946 -1962 including The Big Sleep/Burns and Allen/Ozzie and Harriet 

Sheila Bowers

 

Barbara Baxley - only ep of PM/77 roles from 1950 -1990 including Exorcist III/MSW(killer)/Twilight Zone/Alfred Hitchcock/East of Eden/Marcus Welby

Enid Griffin

 

Mari Aldon - only ep of PM/46 roles from 1946 -1968 including Bonanza/Bachelor Father

Anne Brent

 

Grant Withers - only ep of PM/218 roles from 1925 -1957 including Silent Movies & B movies like Mr Wong/Gunsmoke/Wagon Train/Laaie

Stewart Brent

 

Richard Erdman - 6 eps of PM(Lost Last Act(Press Agent)/177 roles from 1944 -2017 including 53 eps of Community/2 eps of MSW/6 Mil Man/Beverly Hillbillies/Gomer Pyle/Mayberry/Burns and Allen

Arthur Binney

 

Wally Brown - 3 eps of PM(Angry Dead Man Ins Investigator)/92 roles from 1942 -1962 including Bonanza/The Absent Minded Professor/I Married Joan

Harry Mitchell

 

Fay Roope

Judge Kyle

 

Alan Dexter

Dr. Cortley

 

Carleton Young

Dr. Parsons

 

Jack Gargan

Court Clerk

 

Jack Gargan

Court Clerk

Cy Malis

Garage Attendant

Max Wagner

Janitor

Don Anderson

Bartender (uncredited)

 

Lisa Gaye

Juror (uncredited)

Time Capsule:

 

Furniture/Design

 

            Perry’s Office Window View 

 

Fashion

Cars

Cigarettes

 

Money Translation

$30,000 in 1958 is worth $329,762.28 today

Next Week’s Episode: Season 9, Episode 19 Sausalito Sunrise