Thursday, August 10, 2023

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!

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