Season 4, Episode 7
Originally Aired - November 5, 1960
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.
Episodes of PM we are discussing in this episode:
Common Thread:
The Perry Pod Podcast:
Guest Stars:
Chana Eden 1 ep of PM/33 roles from 1958 to 1964, 2 in 1980 passed in 2019
Lisa Franklin
Douglas Henderson - 6 eps of PM/Manchurian Candidate
Felix Heidemann
Henderson committed suicide via carbon monoxide poisoning on April 5, 1978.
Kenneth Tobey
Deputy D.A. Jack Alvin
Margaret Hayes 4 ep PM - 2nd interesting wife. Ominous Outcast 88 roles starting in 1940-1965
Passed at age 60
Jovce Gilbert (as Maggie Hayes)
Walter Sande - only ep of PM/272 roles 1938-1972 including Gunsmoke & DD Show
Judd Curtis
Willard Sage - 3 eps PM/95 roles 1951-1974 westerns like Bonanza, DVDays, Gunsmoke and Hogan’s Heroes
Heart attack 51
Tony Gilbert
Robert Clarke - 2 eps of PM/171 roles including MSW
Jerry Franklin
Ken Curtis - only PM/306 eps of Gunsmoke as Festus
Tim Durant
Lillian Bronson - 4 eps of PM 3 times as judge/188 roles from 1940’s to 1975 including Spencer’s Mountain
Judge and the winner on The Andy Griffith Show episode the Beauty Contest
Jon Lormer
Autopsy Surgeon
Fun Stuff:
Furniture/Design
Fashion
Cars
Cigarettes
Smoking in the circus
Money Translation
$180,000 = almost $2 million
Perry and Della’s love life (or lack thereof)
Dee spills the tea: Were any of the actors really injured?
In 1965, during season 8, in four consecutive episode Raymond Burr wore a cast or sling on his arm and shoulder. Sometimes the sling was visible and sometimes the arm was hidden under his suit coat. He claimed he was injured in a helicopter crash on one of his many tours of Vietnam to entertain the troops.
Author Jim Davidson wrote “The Perry Mason Book: A Comprehensive Guide to America’s Favorite Defender of Justice” which you can get in a Kindle edition from Amazon.
He discovered that the truth is somewhat different. He writes that the injury - a torn bicep tendon - occurred on a beach in Hawaii, not Viet Nam, and there was no helicopter involved. Burr had a history of telling a few tall tales, and apparently, this was one of them.
During season 2, specifically, episode 17, the Romantic Rogue you’ll notice that Hamilton Burger is wearing a cast and ambling about on crutches. Just before this episode was shot, William Talman injured his right leg; it’s disputed whether it was a broken leg or a simple injury. It was right before taping and the writers had no choice but to work this into the script. I would dispute it was a broken leg since he only wore crutches that one episode, but who knows?
If you have any further information about either of these injuries, let us know.
And that the tea for today!
Next week will be:
The Case of the Final Fade-Out
Season 9 Episode 30
Originally Aired May 22, 1966
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