TCOT Podcast Episode 047 - Hateful Hero

 

TCOT Podcast Episode 047 - Hateful Hero

Season 6 - Episode 5

Originally aired - October 15, 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 6 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: Wesley Lau(41) - 82 eps of PM/90 roles from 1952 -1981 including Alfred Hitchcock/Twilight Zone/Land of the Giants/Mod Squad/Mission Impossible/Ironside/Gunsmoke

Lt Andy


Lt Tragg

Ray Collin


DA: Hamilton Burger

William Talman

Guest Stars:

Richard Davalos - 2 eps of PM/61 roles from 1953 -2008 including The Jeffersons/East of Eden James Dean’s brother/Cool Hand Luke/BJ and the Bear/Murder She Wrote

James Anderson (as Dick Davalos)


William Boyett(35) - 8 eps of PM mostly as cops(MM- PI at cabin)/217 roles from 1951 -1998 including ST:TNG/Dragnet/Family Affair/Dragnet/

Otto Norden


William Phipps - 2 eps of PM/236 roles from 1947 -2000 including Murder She Wrote/War of the Worlds/Twilight Zone/Alfred Hitchcock/Death Valley Days/Lassie/The Munsters/Baretta/The Waltons

Dwight Wilson


Mabel Albertson - only eps of PM/104 roles from 1928 -1975 including 18 eps Bewitched as Darrin’s mother/That Girl Donald’s mother/Andy Griffith Mrs Sprague, Howard’s mother/Red Skelton

Carrie Wilson


Leonard Stone - 4 eps of PM/148 roles from 1956 -2005 including Alice DooL/Quincy/General Hospital/Barney Miller/Sanford and Sons/3 eps of Ironside/Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (father)/2 eps Mod Squad/Lost in Space/

Jerel Leland


Frank Gerstle - 4 eps of PM/203 roles from 1949 -1970 including Hogan’s Heroes/Gomer Pyle/Banana Splits

Det. Steve Toland


Edmon Ryan

Arthur Morrell

Jeanette Nolan (51)- 6 eps of PM/205 roles from 1948 -1998 including Horse Whisperer (Last role as Grandma Ellen Booker)/Psycho(Norma Bates’ voice)/Alfred Hitchcock/Twilight Zone/25 eps of The Richard Boone/My 3 Sons/Ironside/Gunsmoke/Dirty Sally/2 eps of Columbo/Golden Girls Rose’s mother/

Erna Norden


Sue England

Fleta York


Mike Steele

Howard Duncan


Richard Tretter

Intern


George Ives

Police Board Chairman

S. John Launer

Judge

Leonard Bremen

Superintendent (as Lennie Bremen)

Jon Lormer

Autopsy Surgeon


Richard Tretter

Intern


George Ives

Police Board Chairman

S. John Launer

Judge

Leonard Bremen

Superintendent (as Lennie Bremen)

Jon Lormer

Autopsy Surgeon


Eddie Baker

Bailiff (uncredited)

Paul Cristo

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Lee Miller Sgt. Brice (uncredited)

Flower Parry

Courtroom Spectator

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

Venetian Blinds, scone lights

            Perry’s Office Window View 

Fashion

Cars

Cigarettes

Three large ashtrays on the table!

Money Translation


Adjusted for inflation:

$60,000 in 1962 is equal to $613,492 in 2024.

$25,000 in 1962 = $255,621.67 in 2024

$100,000 in 1962 = $996,158.94 in 2024

Email:

From Jennifer W

btw: I first began watching it with my maternal grandmother in the late 60s when it was being shown in the afternoons.


And for quite awhile because Perry Mason is kind of a happy place, I would listen to it on Paramount (before FreeVee had them) and I would drift off to them, so that some episodes I am discovering for the first time.


Btw: frndlytv does now stream 3 channels that have Perry Mason.

And it was through one of those (FeTV, I think?) where I first saw Paul Drake’s Dilemma for the first time.


FreeVee has most of the episodes including the ones on Season 6 that are a bit harder to find.

Paramount is completely missing both seasons 6 and 9.

Sent from my iPhone

Dee Spills the Tea:

The producer of Perry Mason–Gail Patrick

Gail Patrick was a bit of a badass. She was the executive producer of Perry Mason during the entire run of the show from 1957-66. She was one of the first female producers, and the only female executive producer in prime time during the nine years Perry Mason was on the air.

After she completed two years of law school, she entered a beauty and talent contest on a lark and won train fare for her and her brother to come to Hollywood. She was offered a standard contract for actresses at that time. But that was not for her. She visited studio officials to negotiate. She asked for $75 a week instead of the customary $50. She blacked out the clause saying she had to do cheesecake stills, because in the back of her mind after Hollywood she wanted to go home and practice law. She acted for almost 20 years and as far as I can tell she never became a lawyer. She stopped acting in the mid-50s.

Her third husband, Cornwell Jackson, was literary agent for Erle Stanley Gardner. After a series of disappointing Warner Brothers films and a radio series he despised, Gardner refused to license the Perry Mason character for any more adaptations. Patrick became friends with Gardner, she shared Gardner’s love of the law and earned his trust. Patrick, her husband and Gardner formed a production company, Paisano Productions with Patrick as president. Patrick developed the Perry Mason series and sold it to CBS. The rest, they say, is history,



Gail Patrick and Erle Stanley Gardner

Patrick served two terms (1960–62) as vice president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and as president of its Hollywood chapter. She was the first woman to serve in a leadership capacity in the academy, and its only female leader until 1983. Unbelievable!


Next Week’s Episode:

Season 7 Episode 30 - The Case of the Ugly Duckling