TCOT Podcast Episode 015 - Substitute Face

  Friday, April 28, 2027

TCOT Podcast Episode 015 - Substitute Face

Season 1, Episode 32

Originally Aired - May 10, 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.

Common Thread:

Cruise

Housekeeping:

In Nine Dolls, April was trying to think of the episode where Paul was going on vacation and Perry put him to work. It was the Singular Double.


Guest Stars:


Theodore Newton - only EP of PM/acted in a lot of small rolls/passed away at the tender age of 58

Carl Houser


Maurice Wells - 5 eps of PM

Andrew Dale


Barbara Collentine - passed last year at 97/ 46 roles over 44 years inc 6 eps of MTS

Marta Lawrence (as Bobbie Collentine)


Maureen Cassidy - SA/24 roles from 1954-1961

Laura Houser


Lurene Tuttle - 6 eps of PM/this was her first/ 189 spanning over 50 years inc MSW, Psycho and 48 eps of Julia

Eliza Chambers

Main Results

Description

Chambers was the wife of Sheriff Al Chambers in Fairvale. She told Lila Crane that she helped Norman Bates pick out the dress his mother was buried in. It was periwinkle blue, she recalled.

Anna Houser


Joan Tabor - 2 eps of PM/died at 36 of accidental medication overdose

Evelyn Whiting


Ralph Dumke - 2eps of PM/Blushing Pearls

Roland Carter


Donald Lawton - Only ep of PM/48 roles from 51 to 69 lived to 1990,

Daniel James


Gavin Gordon -

Capt. Walters


Noel Drayton - 4 eps of PM Family Affair

Purser


Frank Wilcox -

Judge Romley




Stanley Farrar

Accountant

Bill Quinn

Christopher Walsh (as William Quinn)


Don Anderson

Bartender / Courtroom Spectator





Fun Stuff:


Furniture/Design


Old fashioned dictating machine with cylinder

DICTAPHONE DICTATION MACHINE 1935 / PERFECT WORKING CONDITION


Fashion


Nurse in courtroom turtleneck shirt with double strand of pearls over neck


In the inseam, Della is wearing a shirt dress with a scarf, not it at the neck


Cars




Cigarettes




Money Translation


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


Next Week:

Singular Double



Earl Stanley Gardner described Hamilton Burger as a a broad-shouldered, thick-necked individual with a close-cropped moustache".Asked 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? Burger did defeat Mason twice on the television series: in "The Case of the Terrified Typist" (episode 1-38), and in "The Case of the Deadly Verdict" (episode 7–4),[