TCOT Podcast Episode 030 - Hasty Honeymooner

TCOT Podcast Episode 030 - Hasty Honeymooner

Season 9 - Episode 7

Originally aired - Oct 24, 1965

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 the 7th episode from season 9 that we are choosing to go season by season. We’re excited by this new process which will give each season a chance to shine.



Police: Lee Miller

Sgt. Brice


Robert Colbert SA - 2 eps of PM as Snell/86 roles from 1957 - 1995 including Y&R/Mannix and Frasier

District Attorney Carl Snell

Guest Stars:

Noah Beery Jr.  - 1920 7 years old 

Tony Claus (as Noah Beery)

Circus Boy

TV Series (1956 - 1958)

# 7.2 1956-1957 49eps 2eps of PM/Rockford Files

Lucas W. Tolliver (as Noah Beery)

Richard Evans - only ep of PM/88 roles from 1958 - 2007 including Star Trek/Peyton Place/Mod Squad/Lots of Westerns

Larry Dunlap

Cathy Downs

Millicent Barton aka Millicent Barton Tolliver


Strother Martin - 4 eps of PM/175 roles from 1950 - 1980 including Lassie/I Love Lucy/The Sons of Katie Elder/Gilligan’s Island/Cool Hand Luke Lots of Westerns

Roy Hutchinson



Dan Tobin - 16 eps of PM 15 as T. Clay/128 roles from 1942 - 1977 western

Terrance Clay


K.T. Stevens - 3 eps of Perry Mason Ancient Romeo/68 roles from 1921 as Baby Gloria Wood (born in 1919) to 1994 last role Carina, Carina/Days of our Lives and Y&R

Alice Munford


Hugh Marlowe - 6 ep PM/Another World

1964-1982 1926eps Jim Matthews

/The Day the Earth Stood Still - Gort! Klaatu barada nikto! Klaatu barada nikto!

Guy Munford


Mark Tapscott

Police Sgt. Woodward


Al Checco

Medical Examiner


William Keene

Judge


Thom Carney

Salesman


Lee Miller

Sgt. Brice


Ralph Brooks

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)


Philo McCullough

Party Guest (uncredited)

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

Fashion

Cars

Cigarettes

Larry smoked in Bank and Government office

Money Translation

$100 a  week for eggs = $1000 now

Dee Spills The Tea

At the time of this episode, Hugh Marlowe (who played Guy Munford) and K.T. Stevens (Alice Munford) were actually married in real life. They were married between 1946 and 1968 and had two sons.

Next Week on the TCOT Podcast Episode 31 - Cautious Coquette Season 1 Episode 18 

TCOT Podcast Episode 029 - Golden Venom

TCOT Podcast Episode 029 - Golden Venom

Season 8 - Episode 17

Originally aired - Jan 21, 1965 

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 the 17 episode from season 8 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 :

Mort Mills - 8 eps of PM 7 as Sgt. Landro/150 roles from 1951-1973 a lot of Westerns like Gunsmoke, Bonanza in the Big Valley/2 eps of Ironside/Mod Squad, Mission Impossible and the cop in Psycho

Police Sgt. Ben Landro

DA: Burger

Guest Stars:

Frances Reid - 2 eps of PM/67 roles from 1937 Alice Horton in Days 1965-2007/passed at 95

Lucille Forrest


Lee Philips - 2 eps of PM/54 roles from 1952-1975/Director 72 from 1963-1995 including Waltons/Medical Center/Doris Day/Room 222/

Kevin Lawrence


Cal Bartlett SA - only ep of PM/80 roles from 1963 through today working every few years

Joe Sullivan


Frank Ferguson - 4 eps of PM handwriting expert in angry deadman/339 roles from 1940-1976 including Peyton Place/My Friend Flicka/Lone Ranger/Petticoat Junction/Lassie/Last role Little House on the Prairie

Walter Coffee


Noah Beery Jr. - 1920 7 years old

Tony Claus (as Noah Beery)

Circus Boy

TV Series (1956 - 1958)

# 7.2 1956-1957 49eps

Joey, the Clown (as Noah Beery)


Carole Wells SA - National Velvet tv series 58 episodes 1991/2019

Mirna Decker Lawrence



Arthur Malet - only ep PM/142 roles from 1956-1998 including Mary Poppins/Columbo/

Ralph Day


Kenneth MacDonald

Judge


Richard Reinauer

Doctor

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

Fashion

Cars

Cigarettes

Money Translation

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

Dee Spills the Tea

The actor who played Tony Claus was listed in the credits as Noah Beery, But this is actually Noah Beery, Jr. His father was a silent film star who died in 1946. Many times a man will drop the Jr. after his father dies and I guess this is what Noah did. His other appearance on PM, also involved serving a poisoned drink at a cocktail party where Noah Beery appears as the defendant. The case of the Hasty Honeymooner.

Next Week on TCOT Podcast we will discuss The Case of the Hasty Honeymooner Season 9 Episode 7

 

Shout Out to Jonathan of the Perry Pod Podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-perry-pod-a-companion-to-the-tv-classic-perry-mason/id1411719110

TCOT Podcast Episode 028 - Capering Camera

TCOT Podcast Episode 028 - Capering Camera 

Season 7 - Episode 15

Originally aired - Jan 16, 1964

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 the 15th episode from season seven 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:

Ray Collins this episode marks his last appearance

Lt. Tragg

Wesley Lau

Lt. Anderson

DA: Burger

Guest Stars:

Margo Moore - only PM/1 of 8 roles from 1959 - 1968

Judith Blair


Eric Feldary - only ep of PM died at 55 in horrific fire

Jacob Kadar


Kurt Kreuger - 2nd and last PM/71 roles from 1940-1978 passed in 2006 including Get Smart and Wonder Woman/Spy war movies/retired to luxury home rental business

Karl Kadar


Elaine Stewart - only PM last role of 29/redhead became game show Hostess

Irene Grey


Paula Raymond - 5 eps of PM/90 roles from 1938 (14)-1993

Katherine Ames


Edmon Ryan - 3 eps of PM/Days of Our Lives/Dr Kildare/Mod Squad

Lewis Ames


Mark Dempsey - 1 ep of PM/ Star Trek

Norman Ames


Karyn Kupcinet - 1 ep of PM/Andy Griffith Wakefield and Carters/4 eps of Hawaiian Eye/Six days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, her body was found at her home in West Hollywood, California. With her death officially ruled an unsolved homicide, and occurring so close to the assassination, her name became one of hundreds added to the multiplicity of theories that emerged after the assassination.

Penny Ames


Byron Palmer - 3 eps of PM/29 roles PM last role/worked with wife on cruise ship musicals passed in 2009

Harper Green


John Harmon

Fingerprint Expert


John Zaremba

Coroner's Physician


Grandon Rhodes

Judge


Len Hendry

Police Photographer

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

Fashion

Cars

Cigarettes

Money Translation

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

Dee spills the tea

This episode should have 'last' somewhere in its title. This is the last acting performance for many of the people on this episode.

Ray Collins (Lt Tragg) makes his last appearance as the hard nose detective. Even though his name continues as a regular he never appears in anymore of the "Perry Mason" shows.

Also the always beautiful Elaine Stewart (plays Irene Grey) soon marries and quits acting. She did two game shows in the 70's but never acts for a TV or film again.

Byron Palmer (plays Harper Green) was a singer in the 50's and was a guest actor on a few shows. However after this acting job he never works in front of the camera again.

And then you have the sad case of Karyn Kupcinet (plays Penny Ames). she was found dead in her apartment. In fact she was dead before this episode aired in January of 1964.

Next week we will be discussing 

The Case of the Golden Venom 

Season 8 Episode 17

TCOT Podcast Episode 027 - Ancient Romeo

 

Perry Mason - The Case of the Ancient Romeo 

Season 5 - Episode 28

Originally aired - May 5, 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.


This is the first episode from season five 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: Anderson Wesley Lau

DA: Burger

Guest Stars:

Jeff Morrow - 3 eps of PM FF/74 roles from 1950-1986 including 38 eps of Union Pacific 

Franz Lachman

Harry von Zell - 2 eps of PM/The George Burns and Gracie - 268eps

Phil Scharf


Patricia Huston - 4 eps of PM/53 roles from 1958 - 1996 including MSW/Days of Our Lives and General Hospital

Claire Adams


Rex Reason - only ep of PM/43 roles from 1952-1965 including starring in Man Without a Gun 51 eps

Steve Brock

Antoinette Bower SA - 2 eps of PM/83 roles from 1958-1992 including Murder victim in both MSW & Columbo by DVD/TO Star Trek/2 eps of Ironside

Ellen Carson

K.T. Stevens - 3 eps of Perry Mason/68 roles from 1921 as Baby Gloria Wood (born in 1919) to 1994 last role Carina, Carina/Days of our Lives and Y&R

Margit Bruner

Kendrick Huxham - 1 ep/ British/Bewitched 

Kelvin MacRae

Robert Cornthwaite - 5 eps of PM/186 roles from -1996

Carl Bruner

Donald Curtis - only PM/128 roles from 1940 - 1967 including The Ten Commandments and mostly westerns

Amos Martin

Willis Bouchey- 23 eps PM as judge

Judge

Stafford Repp

Shipping Agent

Rosemary Day

Helen Finney

Charles Stroud

Court Clerk

Don Anderson

Henry Whalen (uncredited)

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

Knickknacks 

Fashion

Broaches 

Cars

Cigarettes

Cigarette girls

Money Translation

$100 in 1962 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $1,010.29 today

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

Were they on a date? Or was it work?


Dubbed "The First Lady of the Theatre" by a theatre critic, Cornell was the first performer to receive the Drama League Award, for Romeo and Juliet in 1935.

Dee spills the tea


In the final dinner scene, the wall behind Paul Drake in his close-up shots looks very different from what we can see of the restaurant background in the shots of the whole group at the table. During the first part of the wrap up scene, when paul is explaining about the smuggling, he is seated by himself with a plain wall behind him. Then when he says “wow, like that lady in Hamlet” he is seated between Perry and Della. Two totally different backgrounds. Obviously, this scene was filmed with two different sets at two different times.

You’ll want to go back and take a look.

That’s the tea!

TCOT Podcast Episode 026 - Angry Dead Man

TCOT Podcast Episode 026 - Angry Dead Man 

Season 4, Episode 18

Originally Aired - February 25, 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.

This is the random episode from season four 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.

Guest Stars:

G

loria Talbott - 4 eps of PM/121 roles from 1945 -1966 mostly westerns including A Tree Grows in Brooklyn passed in 2000

Eve Nesbitt


Karl Held SA - 1st of 10 eps of PM 9 as David Gideon/70 roles1960 - 2017 including Falcon Crest

Bruce Nesbitt

Gordon Jones - Ozzie and Harriet 

Deputy Gillis

Ray Montgomery - 2 eps of PM 5 years apart/

First Deputy

Les Tremayne - 8 eps of PM DA every season except 2/146 roles from 1950-1993 including War of the Worlds, North by Northwest, Edward Quartermaine GH and a slew of cartoons passed in 2003

Willard Nesbitt

https://youtu.be/nhRLaRLmqVU

Edward Binns - 2 eps of PM/183 roles from 1948-1988 including North by Northwest/12 Angry Men/Judgement at Nuremberg/passed 1990

Lloyd Castle

Carol Ohmart - only PM ep 53 roles from 1950-1974 including 

Jenny Bartlett

James Millhollin - 3 eps of PM

Ben Otis

Frank Ferguson

Prof. Laiken

Naomi Stevens

Fanny Werbler

Wally Brown - 3 eps of PM/

John Givney

Juney Ellis

Helen - Receptionist

Kenneth MacDonald

Judge

(as Kenneth R. MacDonald)

Phil Chambers

Anderson

Charles Stroud

Court Clerk

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

Fashion

Cars

Cigarettes

Money Translation

$75 = $780 in 2023

Sidenote: When did they start calling it the IRS? The Commissioner of Internal Revenue was created in 1862 to assess the nation’s first income tax to fund the American Civil War. The temporary measure expired a decade later. In 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment authorized Congress to impose a tax on income and led to the creation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. In 1953, the agency was renamed the Internal Revenue Service. Interesting that Della called it the Bureau. The Bureau of Internal Revenue is now named for the agency that assesses income tax in the Phillipines.

Dee Spills the Tea

The Nesbitt cabin on the lake should seem familiar to Perry and Della. According to billp, Perry stayed there in the TCOT Angry Mourner. It was also used in TCOT Watery Witness. it may have had some connection to the studio, cast or crew. Anyone notice that?


One goof: Lloyd Castle, on the stand, refers to Jenny Bartlett as Miss Barton. Did anyone notice that? Later, Perry correctly calls her Miss Bartlett.

Next week we week we will cover:

Season Five Episode 28

The Case of the Ancient Romeo