TCOT Podcast Episode 039 - Dead Ringer

 

TCOT Podcast Episode 039 - Dead Ringer

Season 9 - Episode 26 Originally aired - April 17, 1966

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 from season 9 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: Steve Drum (Season 9) 26 eps of PM - 192 roles from 1947 - 1998 including MSW/The Fugitive/Columbo/5 eps of Ironside/1973 became Oscar Goldman Bionic Man & Woman Bionic Ever after /Fantasy Island

Richard Anderson


DA: Burger

Guest Stars:

Stewart Moss -2 eps of PM/ 74 roles from last 1964- 1983 including MSW/10 eps of Generations/8 eps Hogan’s Heroes/Ironside/Star Trek/The Fugitive

Dan Swanson


Oliver McGowan - 2 eps of PM/86 roles from last 1957- 1971 including Star Trek/Father Knows Best/77 Sunset Strip/Route 66/Hazel/Bewitched/Family Affair/My 3 Sons

Otis Swanson


Henry Beckman - 4 eps of PM/209 roles from last 1950- 2002 including X- Files/Booker/Quincy/Welcome Back, Kotter/Six Million Dollar Man/4 eps of Ironside/The Monkees/The Fugitive/Flash Gordon

William March


Anthony Jochim - 3 eps of PM/112 roles from 1948- 1971 including Star Trek

Makeup Man


Arlene Martel - 2 eps of PM/82 roles from 1958- 2013 including Star Trek /Colombo/Twilight Zone/Untouchables/I Dream of Jeannie/The Monkees/7 eps of Hogan’s Heroess

Sandra Dunkel


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

Terrance Clay


Indus Arthur - 2 eps of PM/8 roles from 1963 - 1971 including General Hospital/Dragnet/Wild Wild West/died in Los Angeles County in 1984 of complications from a brain tumor at age 43.

Barbara Kramer


Maurice Manson - 5 eps of PM/109 Roles from the 1948 - 1982 including Gunsmoke/Porgy and Bess/The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet/Alfred Hitchcock/Hazel and TJ Hooker

Jess Parkinson


Tom Palmer - 7 eps of PM/81 Roles from 1944 -1987 including Jack and the Fatman/Bewitched/Bonanza

Franklin Bates


Chet Stratton - 150 roles 1972 including Hogan’s Hero

Minister


Alan Fordney - 2 eps of PM/ roles from 1948- 1971

Harley


Grandon Rhodes

Judge No. 2

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Ed Prentiss

Judge No. 1

Roland La Starza

Bouncer

Mike De Anda

Mexican Worker

(as Mike Miguel De Anda)

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

            Perry’s Office Window View 

Fashion

Cars

Cigarettes

Money Translation

$7,000,000 in 1966 = $65,332,672.95 in 2023 

Dee Spills the Tea:

We touched on a number of subjects last week and we promised to get back to each of them. One of them was Raymond Burr’s weight.

Burr reportedly weighed over 12 pounds at birth. and was chubby throughout his childhood. He said in an interview "When you're a little fat boy in public school, or any kind of school, you're just persecuted something awful."

Raymond Burr was sixty pounds overweight when the producer wanted him for the part of Perry Mason. Burr was determined and went on a crash diet, losing the extra weight and landing the iconic role. He eventually gained all that weight back and when the series ended he weighed close to 300 pounds.

His weight was always an issue for him and it became a public relations problem when Johnny Carson began making jokes about him during his Tonight Show monologues. (The Tonight Show which now stars Jimmy Fallon, starred Johnny Carson from 1962-1992). It got so bad that Burr refused to appear as Carson's guest. He told Us Weekly: "I have been asked a number of times to do his show and I won't do it. If I went on I'd have some things to say, not just about the bad jokes he's done about me, but bad jokes he does about everybody who can't fight back because they aren't there.

Awwww, poor Ray!

Next Week’s Episode: The Fan Dancer’s Horse Season 1, Episode 15