TCOT Podcast Episode 046 - Paul Drake’s Dilemma

 

TCOT Podcast Episode 046 - Paul Drake’s Dilemma 

Season 3 - Episode 6

Originally aired - November 14, 1959

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 an episode from season 3 that is one of April's favorite.

Police Lt: Tragg

DA: Burger

Guest Stars:

Vanessa Brown - only ep of PM/56 roles from 1944 -1991 including MSW/Red Skelton Show/Jane in Tarzan and the Slave Girl/Dallas

Donna Kress


Bruce Gordon - 3 eps of PM/132 roles from 1948 -1984 including Here’s Lucy/28 eps of The Untouchables/Peyton Place/The Lucy Show/Get Smart/Ironside/

Frank Thatcher


Robert P. Lieb - 2 eps of PM/101 roles from 1946 -1999 including The Graduate/8 eps of Hazel/My 3 Sons/Alfred Hitchcock

Joe Marsden

(as Robert Lieb)



Basil Ruysdael (81) - only ep of PM/41 roles from 1929 -1960 including Blackboard Jungle/Father Knows Best/

Henry W. Dameron


Dean Harens - 4 eps of PM/94 roles from 1944 -1977 including Gunsmoke/Death Valley Days/Beverly Hillbillies/Mannix/Shaft

Tad Dameron


Simon Scott - 5 eps of PM/143 roles from 1952 -1985 including 83 eps Trapper John/9 eps of Mod Squad and Mod Squad Returns/5 eps of Ironside/Dragnet

Charles Dameron


Jennifer Howard - 5 eps of PM/15 roles from 1948 -1962 including Twilight Zone/Married Samual Goldwyn/passed in 1993

Judith Thatcher


Sheila Bromley - 5 eps of PM/158 roles from 1930 -1975 including I Love Lucy/Alfred Hitchcock/Hazel/Petticoat Junction/Adam-12

Mrs. Colin


Robert Cornthwaite - 5 eps of PM/187 roles from 1950 -2005 including Cheers/Beauty and the Beast/MSW/Batman/Get Smart/Andy Griffith/War of the Worlds/

Anders


Kenneth MacDonald

Judge


Norman Leavitt

Ballistics Expert


Ralph Moody

Jacob Wiltzy


Robert Bice

Private Detective


James T. Callahan

Police Officer Wilson (as James Callahan)

William Hughes

2nd Policeman


George E. Stone

Court Clerk

Anne Bellamy

Margo

(as Ann Bellamy)

Steve Stevens

Paper Boy

John George

Courtroom Spectator

(uncredited)

Joe Ploski

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

            Perry’s Office Window View 

Fashion

Cars

D

Cigarettes

Money Translation

Dick Tracy photo!

Dee Spills the Tea:

Who dressed Della?

Della Street wore outfits that were typical of the time between 1957 and 66: figure-hugging, feminine and always covering her knees. Upon the insistence of executive producer Gail Patrick Jackson, Della did not follow every trend when the 60s introduced new hemlines every year and thus stressed the classy elegance Street established. With her limited collection of clothes, Della often changed her outfits by combining her blouse or sweater with another skirt. Her trademark look can be pinned down to waist shirt dresses (including one with her embroidered initials), pencil skirts, cardigans and blouses that embellished her neck with a bow. In the first season, Della was also constantly running around on mules which she later replaced with a classy pair of heels. As an accessory, Della often wore a pearl necklace or a charm bracelet on her left wrist while her little finger frequently showed the presence of a simple ring, matching her boss’ on his own hand. From time to time, Della was also seen wearing a necklace with a pendant showing her initials, long before Carrie Bradshaw made it fashionable for a whole new generation.

Next Week’s Episode:

Season 6 Episode 5 The Case of the Hateful Hero

 

TCOT Podcast Episode 045 - Violent Vest

 

TCOT Podcast Episode 045 - Violent Vest

Season 4 - Episode 24

Originally aired - April 29, 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 an episode we decided to do because the actors were interesting. 

Police Lt: Tragg

DA: Burger

Guest Stars:

Erik Rhodes(55)- only ep of PM/37 roles from 1934 -1962 (passed in 1990) including several Roger’s & Astaire movies/musicals

Herman Albright


Robert Harrow - only ep of PM/2 roles from 1961 -1962 including

Young Man

 

Dorothy Green- 3 eps of PM/123 roles from 1953 -1997 including Benson/Fish/Ironside/Gunsmoke/Bonanza/The Munsters/Marcus Welby/Y&R

Ida Albright


Myrna Fahey- 4 eps of PM/55 roles from 1954 -1985 including Imitation of Life/34 eps Father of the Bride- Bride/Batman/passed at 40 cancer

Fahey became the subject of death threats while dating baseball great Joe DiMaggio in 1964. The FBI determined the threats came from a patient at the Agnews Developmental Center, a mental hospital in San Jose, California. Apparently the patient could not bear to see DiMaggio with anyone other than Marilyn Monroe, who died in 1962.

Grace Halley


Joe Cronin - 3 eps of PM/12 roles from 1958 -2017 including Dr Kildare/Loretta Young Show

Buddy Frye


Hayden Rorke- 3 eps of PM/151 roles from 1943 -1985 including Lone Ranger/ Burns and Allen/Andy Griffith-Hollywood/Dr Kildare/Dr Bellows - I Dream of Jeannie

Walter Caffrey


Sonya Wilde SA - 2 eps of PM/10 roles from 1960 -1962 including Bonanza/Lead in I Passed for White/Bonanza/Death Valley Days

In 1962, Wilde married the banker Jake Butcher, having met him on New Year's Eve 1961 on a blind date.[4] He later became a politician, before spending seven years in prison for fraud.[5] They had four children.[6]

Following her husband's 1985 20-year jail term for bank fraud (he served seven years), Wilde went to court in 1986 to try to keep the family's $675,000 home in the exclusive Sweetwater Club subdivision just outside Orlando.[6]

Joy Lebaron


Rosemary Eliot - only ep of PM/14 roles from 1959 -1980 including Danny Thomas Show/Bewitched

Vicky Dolan


Frank Jenks - 2 eps of PMcab driver in DD)/202 roles started in silent films in 1933. Passed away at the age of 59 in May 1962.

12 roles from 1933 - 1962 including Milton Berle/Red Skeleton

Walter Clemens the Bartender


Richard Gaines - 14 episodes as Judge

Judge


Barbara Pepper - 4 eps of PM Nosy neighbor in Prankish Professor /188 roles from 1933 -1969 including Mayberry RFD/Green Acres/Petticoat Junction/Burns and Allen/10 eps of I Love Lucy/Fat Lady in Danny Thomas Show/passed age 54 heart attack

Mrs. Diamond


Bill Erwin - 5 eps of PM(Mythical Monkeys)/252 roles from 1941 -19xx including The Danny Thomas Show/Andy Griffith/4 eps of Twilight Zone/Get Smart/Mannix/14 eps Gunsmoke/Jeffersons/ST:TNG/Home Alone

Superintendent


Sam Flint

Welkes

George E. Stone

Court Clerk

Flower Parry

Courtroom Spectator

(uncredited)

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

            Perry’s Office Window View 

Fashion

Cigarettes

Money Translation

$200 in 1961 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $2,118.34 today, an increase of $1,918.34 over 63 years.

Dee Spills the Tea:

NOBODY HAD A SPOUSE ON THE SHOW. BUT WHO WAS MARRIED IN REAL LIFE?

Burr was married in 1948 but the marriage only lasted a couple of months before they separated and later divorced in 1952. According to Wikipedia, Burr never married again despite his claims to the contrary. Burr said he married twice more but there is no evidence of any other marriages. Burr and Benevides were partners from 1960 until Burr’s death in 1993.

Ray Collins (Tragg) was married twice. He was married to his second wife in 1926 until he died in 1975 – almost 50 years.

Wiliam Hopper (Paul) was married twice. He was married during the filming of Mason, but there’s not much information about specific dates.

William Talman (Burger) was married three times and had nine children and step children from the marriages. He was married twice during the filming of Mason.

Barbara Hale (Della) was married to Bill Williams for 46 years until his death. She was married with three children when she started working on the show. Her husband Bill was an actor and he guest starred on Mason and performed the trifecta of roles on the show. He played the murderer once, the defendant once and the murder victim twice.

Next Week’s Episode:

The Case of Paul Drake’s Dilemma Season 3 Episode 6

TCOT Podcast Episode 044 - Captain’s Coins

 

TCOT Podcast Episode 044 - Captain’s Coins 

Season 5 - Episode 17

Originally aired - January 13, 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 an episode from season 5 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.

Shout out:

From group on Facebook:

Jenn

I really love that the 2 of you take your time discussing the episodes.

Police Lt: Wesley Lau

Lt. Anderson

DA: Burger

Guest Stars:

Jeremy Slate - 2 eps of PM Ominous Outcast/90 roles from 1952 -1992 including last movie Lawnmower Man in 1992 - passed in 2006

Chuck Wilson in OLTL for 20 years

In the 1970s, Slate was involved with feminist archaeologist Sally Binford. Their adventures in the sexual freedom movement were chronicled in Gay Talese's 1980 book Thy Neighbor's Wife.[5]

Philip Andrews


Arthur Franz - 5 eps of PM/152 roles from 1948 -1982 including 4 eps of Mod Squad/FBI/Mission Impossible /Room 222/Rich Man Poor Man

Evans


Joan Patrick SA - only ep of PM/18 roles from 1959 -1968 including Get Smart/I Dream of Jeannie

Evelyn Farraday


Herbert Rudley - 4 eps of PM/125 from 1938 -1983 including The Mothers in Law/That Girl/I Dream of Jeannie/

Ben Farraday


Jay Novello - only ep of PM/207 roles from 1930 -1977 including 3 eps of Family Affair/Bengazi/I Love Lucy/The Lucy Show/Andy Griffith/7 eps of McHale’s Navy/Mod Squad/Chico and the Man

Nickolas Trevelian



Parley Baer - 6 eps of PM/287 roles from 1950 -1996 including Fresh Prince of Bel Air/9 eps Bewitched/Mod Squad/Green Acres/Petticoat Junction/Hogan’s Heroes/Adams Family/Mayor Roy Stoner Andy Griffith Show/Star Trek Voyager/Y&R

Edward Farraday


Allison Hayes - 5 eps of PM/65 roles from 1954-1967 including Gomer Pyle/Untouchables/Bat Masterson

Jane Weeks


Don Beddoe - 3 eps of PM/306 roles from 1937 -1984 including Highway to Heaven/Several Blondie Movies/petticoat Junction/Ozzie and Harriet/Bewitched/Lassie

Carter Farraday


Henry Beckmane - 4 eps of PM/210 roles from 1950 -2002 including Flash Gordon/Twilight Zone/The Fugitive/Peyton Place/Munsters/Bewitched/Andy Griffith Show

Sidney L. Garth


Lauren Gilberte - 3 eps of PM/70 roles from 1945 -1974 including The Edge of Night/Bewitched/Ironside/Nanny and the Professor/I Spy/The Addams Family

Henry Cosgrove


Charles Noymann - 7 eps of PM/81 Roles from 1944 -1987 including Jack and the Fatman/Bewitched/Bonanza/laterCasting Director for Y&R/

Tom Palmer


Tafa Lee - only ep and only 3 roles/border patrol, and the Loretta Young show

Mrs. Fedori lonescu


Morris Ankrum - 22 eps of PM

Judge


Eddie Quillan - 3 eps of PM/256 Roles from 1926 -1987 including 5 eps of the Adams Family/The Andy Griffith Show/Highway to Heaven/Little House on the Prairie/The Jeffersons/Chico and the Man/

Photographer


Will J. White

Sailor

Don Anderson

Man Leaving Ship

(uncredited)

John Barton

Courtroom Spectator

(uncredited)

George Bruggeman

Ship Passenger

(uncredited)

Dick Cherney

Reporter


Stuart Hall

Ship Passenger (uncredited)

Michael Jeffers

Crew Member (uncredited)

Joseph La Cava

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Harold Miller

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Lee Miller

Sgt. Brice (uncredited)

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

            Perry’s Office Window View 

Fashion

Cars

Cigarettes

Money Translation

Dee Spills the Tea:

Barbara Hale and Raymond Burr: What was the deal between those two?

We have speculated over and over about a romance between Perry and Della. But what about Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale, the characters’ real-life counterparts. Were they every romantically involved? Were they even friends? We needed to know. The answer to the first question is no, but the answer to the second is yes, they were very good friends. As a matter of fact, Hale described Burr as part of her family, like a brother.

Burr and Hale met at RKO studios, where they were both under contract. She said he was one of the first people she met at the studio when she started in the early 1940s. They got to know each other pretty well and they were both popular actors. They each appeared in over 50 movies and tv shows before they were cast in Perry Mason. During the show’s run, publicists tried to promote the idea of a romance between Burr and Hale, in reality that never happened. Burr visited with Hale and her family (a husband and 3 children).

After Mason, Burr went on to do Ironsides and Hale appeared in one episode. In 1985 Burr was approached to do a Perry Mason movie. He agreed, if Hale would appear as Della Street. Unfortunately, all of the other characters from the series had died. Burr and Hale did 26 Mason movies together.

They were both interested in horticulture. Burr owned an orchid company, and named one of his flowers the "Barbara Hale Orchid."

Burr was a world traveler and often upon returning from one of his trips would call Hale. “I’ll pick you up in an hour” he would say, and she and her husband and Burr would go out together. She said her husband loved it.

Hale is quoted as saying: "Raymond always said, 'When we started, I was holding your children and now we're holding your grandchildren.' " She also said Burr had a great sense of humor. They were friends up until Burr’s death in 1993.

In an interview after Burr’s death, Hale talked about the last Perry Mason movie they made “The last Kiss,” during which Burr had cancer and could barely stand. "He was my hero," said Hale, "He was in such pain, such terrible pain. But that man had such strength and such willpower. He was a very, very strong, beautiful human. I shall miss him all my life."

Hale was one of the few people who knew the truth about Burr’s relationship with Benevides, and she and Benevides remained friends after Burr’s death.

Next Week’s Episode:

4/24 The Violent Vest