TCOT Podcast Episode 011 - Festive Felon

 Thursday March 30, 2023

TCOT Podcast Episode 011 - Festive Felon

Season 7 Episode 9

Originally aired November 28, 1963

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.

Be aware that this podcast contains lots of spoilers. As a matter of fact, it might be best to watch the episode before you listen in. We’ll tell you the next episode at the end of our session.

Episodes of PM we are discussing in this episode:

Borrowed Baby

Common Thread:

Fear of having Illegitimate children

Guest Stars:

Ray Collins 7/11/65

Lt. Tragg (credit only)

Wesley Lau - The new Tragg

Lt. Anderson

Anne Barton - 4 eps of PM

Bebe Brent

Elisabeth Fraser - 3 eps of PM/ patch of blue 

Eloise Brent

Jeff Morrow - 3 eps of PM

Lawton Brent

Ray Stricklyn - Bashful Burro with EF

Reed Brent

Gilbert Green - ST - 3 eps of PM

Chester Brent

John Howard -  4 eps of PM

Justin Grover

Anne Seymour -  2 eps of PM 4 eps of Ironside 

Hetty Randall

Sherry Jackson - ST - SA

Madeline Randall

Jon Hall

Max Randall

Kathie Browne - ST

Carla Eden

Nelson Leigh

Judge

Michael Fox

Dr. Hoxie

Marshall Reed

Policeman

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

Hetty’s kitchen old fashioned iron board almost the same

Fashion

Madeleine’s suit 

Cars

Cigarettes

Money Translation

Perry and Della’s love life (or lack thereof)

Spilling the behinds-the-scenes tea on our favorite secretary: 3 facts about Della!

A few theatrical coincidences: one we’ve talked about 

Hale's son William Katt played Paul Drake’s son and Paul Drake, Jr. was a detective. He played  alongside Hale in nine of the Perry Mason TV movies from 1985 to 1988.

Then Hale guest-starred on Katt's series, The Greatest American Hero and played his mother in the 1982 episode, "Who's Woo in America". She also played his mother in a movie the 1978 movie Big Wednesday.

She won the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Continuing Character) in a Dramatic Series in 1959.

Hale guest-starred in "Murder Impromptu", a 1971 episode of Ironside, Burr's first post-Perry Mason series. She played a character named Marsha Connell. She did not play Della in this one.

TCOT Podcast - Episode 010 - Duplicate Daughter

Thursday, March 23, 2023

TCOT Podcast - Episode 010 - Duplicate Daughter 

Season 4 Episode 26

Originally aired May 20, 1961

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.

I’m April

And I’m Dee

Be aware that this podcast contains lots of spoilers. As a matter of fact, it might be best to watch the episode before you listen in. We’ll tell you the next episode at the end of our session.

Episodes of PM we are discussing in this section:

Borrowed Baby

Common Thread:

Kaye Elhardt

Guest Stars:

Kaye Elhardt

Muriell Gilman

Walter Kinsella

Carter Gilman

Joyce Mackenzie

Nancy Gilman

Anne Helm

Glamis Barlow

Don C. Harvey

Vegas Sheriff

Don Dubbins - 7 eps of PM last 3 as DA Vincent 

Hartley Elliott

Michael Fox - 25 eps PM

Dr. Hoxie

Willis Bouchey

Judge

George Selk

Maurice Fellows - key maker

Dick Whittinghill

Glenn McCoy

Nelson Olmsted - 4 eps of PM

Cartman Jasper

Harlan Warde - 5 eps of PM

Alan Connors  - Paul’s associate 

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

The father has a newspaper stand on the table to hold the newspaper.

Fashion

Della's beautiful necklace with matching clip on earrings

Nancy & Dee have great taste in necklaces

Cars

Lots of convertibles

Cigarettes

Smoking at the breakfast table

Money Translation

$10,000 in 1961 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $100,615.38 today

Perry and Della’s love life (or lack thereof)

Tara says Raymond Burr’s hair was short in Moth Eaten Mink because he had done “Affair in Havana”

You never know what influence a TV show can have on a person’s life.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayer has admitted the impact the show had on her. When she appeared for her confirmation hearings in July 2009, she said she was inspired by watching Perry Mason as a child, saying that it ignited the passion she had as a prosecutor. Then, In her 2013 memoir she wrote of the show’s influence while growing up in a Bronx housing project. She liked Perry but was also fond of Burger saying he was a good loser and more committed to the truth than in winning the case.

 

So this show impacted the life of a Supreme Court Judge. Go Perry !

TCOT Podcast - Episode 009 - Borrowed Baby

Thursday, March 16, 2023

TCOT Podcast - Episode 009 - Borrowed Baby

Season5 Episode 26

Originally aired Episode aired Apr 14, 1962

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.

I’m April

And I’m Dee

Be aware that this podcast contains lots of spoilers. As a matter of fact, it might be best to watch the episode before you listen in. We’ll tell you the next episode at the end of our session.

Episodes of PM we are discussing in this section:

The Case of the Festive Felon

Common Thread:

Annulled Marriages

Guest Stars:

Nellie Burt - 

Mrs. Holly Cosgrove

Hugh Marlowe - he was in NN

Jarvis Baker

Joan Petrone - 2ep PM/35 (still alive)

Lenora Graves

Maria Palmer

Florence Wood

Kaye Elhardt - 3 eps PM including Duplicate Daughter 

Ginny Talbot

Corey Allen director 

Lester Menke

Gregory Morton - 6 eps PM/

Dr. Paul Hogarthy

Sara Taft - 69

Mrs. Leander (Dolly) Kerrick

El Brendel

Court Manager

Charles Thompson

Antique Car Man

Kenneth MacDonald

Judge

Ed Stoddard

Gun Clerk

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

Fireplace in restaurant Is that crackerbarrel?

Wicker baby cradle my new grand nephew’s cradle rocks, swings, has a warmer and tickles his toes

Jenny shows up at the nursing home. There is an old fashion water bubbler with a bucket hanging below it.

Fashion

Della’s necklace in the opening scene is three chains combined with large pearls in the middle I would definitely wear that today

Cars

The car driven by Mrs. Kerrick (Sara Taft) appears to be an actual working model of a Detroit Electric, which was an electric car produced by the Anderson Electric Car Company in Detroit, Michigan. The company built 13,000 electric cars from 1907 to

1939. The same car can be seen in Love Me to Death (1959).

No baby seat though 

Cigarettes

Jenny was smoking in apartment

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