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