Season 3 - Episode 26
Originally aired - June 11, 1960
Hello friends! Love your PM podcast
Hello Miss April and Miss Dee,
I finally got ahold of the season 1 PM and have been loving your podcas
Just delightful, you are so enjoyable to listen to.
I love your observations about the 50s details we get to see -- the hats! the candlestick phones! the fedoras! the gigantic cars! All the smoking, all the drinking, how darling Della Street is.
It is really fun to hear the tiny bits in between, always an interesting surprise -- April was in the Marine corps! You two are apparently sisters!
I haven't heard you say where you grew up, but sometimes April will say a word that sounds like New York to me, so maybe that's where? Or maybe Philly?
OK just wanted to say hi, you are doing awesome, love, K
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 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:
DA:
Guest Stars:
Anne Benton - only ep of PM/12 roles from 1957 -1962 including Father Knows Best/Bonanza (passed in 2005)
Trudy Holbrook
Hayden Rorke - 3 eps of PM(Violent Vest)/151 roles from 1943 -1985 including Lone Ranger/ Burns and Allen/Andy Griffith-Hollywood/Dr Kildare/Dr Bellows - I Dream of Jeannie
Jay Holbrook #1
Francis X. Bushman - 3 eps of PM/231 roles from 1911 -1966 including Batman/Ozzie and Harriet/Silent Films
Lawrence King
Henry Beckman - 4 eps of PM(Dead Ringer/Captain’sCoins)/210 roles from 1950 -2002 including X-Files/Poltergist/Booker/Quincy/Welcome Back, Kotter/4 eps Ironside/Here Comes the Brides/I Dream of Jeannie/
David
William Allyn - 4 eps of PM/roles from 1950 -1983 including The Day After/Hogan’s Heroes/Producer of Peyton Place and Last Child
Wally Harper
Berry Kroeger - 7 eps of PM/107 roles from 1941 -1978 including Demon Seed (Proteus)/Bonanza/Mr Ed/WKRP
Donald J. Evanson
Francis De Sales - 6 eps of PM/174 roles from 1959 -1978 including Rabbit Test/Barnaby Jones/The Rookies/Columbo/Bod Squad/DOOL/ Green Acres
Jay Holbrook #2
Dan Riss - 2 eps of PM/101 roles from 1949 -1965 including Mod Squad/Dragnet/Lone Ranger
Peter Sample
Grandon Rhodes
Judge
Tom Fadden - 4 eps of PM/158 roles from 1938 -1977 including Gunsmoke/Petticoat Junction/Green Acres/Blondie
Gus Nickels
Arthur Hanson
Autopsy Surgeon
Betty Farrington
Housekeeper
Gail Bonney
Maid
Paul B. Kennedy
Court Reporter
George E. Stone
Court Clerk
Fun Stuff:
Furniture/Design
Perry’s Office Window View
see
Fashion
Cars
Dee Spills the Tea:
The sexiest man alive: Francis X. Bushman?
Can you believe the man who played Uncle Lawrence, the blind guy, the murder victim, Francis X. Bushman was once called the handsomest man in the movies? Today he might have made People’s sexiest man alive, but back then nobody talked about or mentioned the word sex.
As a young man he began a body building regimen that would give him his famous film physique. In his early years, he worked as a sculptor's model, often posing in the nude.
After appearing in the theater in his early years, Bushman launched his movie career and came to stardom in 1911. Over the next five years he appeared generally as the leading man in over a hundred silent films and became a matinee idol. Although by this time Bushman was married with five children, the studio’s publicity department kept his marriage secret. Bushman’s fans sent him thousands of letters, including hundreds of marriage proposals.
In 1918, he was the subject of a national scandal when the affair with his longtime costar Beverly Bayne became public. They made 24 movies together. Three days after his divorce from his first wife, Bushman married Bayne. Again, Bushman and his studios kept his marriage secret for fear of losing popularity.
It was during this time that Bushman became known as the handsomest man in the world.
If you’ve ever watched the Beverly Hillbillies, Aunt Pearl was in love with Francis X Bushman and mentioned him in several episodes. When she came to Beverly Hills, she kept wishing that she would get to see him.
https://youtu.be/BkQ_TVAfx3A?si=sdTOZcdND_U8WJyy
Next Week’s Episode: Season 4, Episode 11 - Red Riding Boots
