TCOT Podcast Episode 067 - Paper Bullets

Season 8 - Episode 2

Originally aired - October 1, 1964

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 8 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: Frank Marth - 2 eps of PM/161 roles from 1949 -1994 including Young and the Restless/6Mill/Little House/Hogan’s Heroes/30 eps of Jackie Gleason Show/10 eps of Honeymooners

Carl Rohr

House Peters Jr. - 2 eps of PM/146 roles from 1935 -19x74 including Lassie/Lone Ranger/Gunsmoke and other Westerns

Lt. Jeffers

DA: Booth Colman - 2 eps of PM/187 roles from 1950 -2008 including Frasier/ST:Voyager/Young and Restless

Guest Stars:

Patrick McVey - 3 eps of PM(Dubious Bridegroom:DA)/111 roles from 1941 -1973 including Hazel/Gunsmoke/Maverick/

Harry Mardig 

Richard Anderson/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 

Jason Foster

Lynn Loring - only ep of PM/56 roles from 1951 -1975 including Mos Squad/M3S/Search For Tomorrow

Susan Foster

Jan Shepard SA - 4 eps of PM(Deadly Verdict)/89 roles from 1952-1989 including The Rookies/King Creole and Paradise, Hawaiian Style with Elvis, retired from acting in 1973

Margaret Foster

Melora Conway SA - 5 eps of PM(Curious Bride/Startled Stallion) 20 roles from 1959 -1970 including Mod Squad/I Spy/Bonanza
Alma Rice 

Ford Rainey - 4 eps of PM)Ugly Duckling/189 roles from 1949 -2017 including 9 eps Bionic Woman & 3 ep 6 Million Dollar Man same/Bonanza/Lost in Space
Randolph Cartwell

Arthur Space 288 roles Amos and Andy Leonard nebulous nephew
Edgerton Cartwell
 

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

Carl Prickett - 4 eps of PM/7 roles including Real Mc
Rufus Findlay

Lou Krugman Gambling Boss

Joel Fluellen - only ep of PM/128 roles from 1937 -1986 including Columbo/Mod Squad/Julia/Tarzan/A Raisin in the Sun/Porgy and Bess/Imitation of Life/The Jackie Robinson Story

Bartender

Paul Barselou

Coroner's Physician (as Paul Barselow)

Jason Johnson

Judge

William Tracy

Photographer

Ann Ayars

Woman Reporter

Robert Rothwell

Campaign Worker No. 1

John Truax

Taxi Driver

Time Capsule:

Furniture/Design

            Perry’s Office Window View 

Fashion

Cars

Cigarettes

Money Translation

$75 in 1964 = $744.53 in 2024

Dee Spills the Tea:

Joel Fluellen: an activist as well as an actor.

Fluellen was born in 1908 in Louisiana. Prior to beginning his acting career, he resided in Chicago where he worked as a milliner and store clerk. He gained his first role as a bit player in Cabin in the Sky in 1943. Fluellen, as a member of the Screen Actors Guild, tried to get SAG to protect their Black members against discrimination. He submitted numerous resolutions urging the union to do so. The guild, headed by Ronald Reagan at the time, repeatedly rebuffed his resolutions. Fluellen became an early member of the Negro Actors Guild of America, whose mission was to provide better opportunities for Black actors. Fluellen acted until the 1970s mostly as a film extra in mainstream films. He did, however, gain notable exposure in all-black films such as The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) and A Raisin in the Sun (1960). Unfortunately, Fluellen suffered health problems and was becoming blind toward the end of his life. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot in 1990.

Next Week’s Episode: Season 9, Episode 24 - Fanciful Frail

 

TCOT Podcast Episode 066 - Floating Stones

 

TCOT Podcast Episode 066 - Floating Stones

Season 7 - Episode 8

Originally aired - November 21, 1963

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tcot-a-perry-mason-podcast/id1665405923

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5ClQnPlUEHggGbQrmkRpPo?si=6GPhbqGgSVWiJWL8oonPnQ

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 7 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: Walter Brooke

Guest Stars:

Dale Ishimoto Japanese - only ep of PM/ Family Affair/Kung Fu/Twilight Zone

Lao


Richard Loo - only ep of PM/173 roles from 1932 -1981 including Kung Fu/Ironside/Bewitched/Family Affair

Mr. Eng


Victor Maddern - only ep of PM/185 roles from 1946 -1992 including 6 eps of Dr Who/Bonanza/

Gilbert Tyrell


James Hong SA - 2 eps of PM(Weary Watchdog)/461 roles from 1953 -present including Kung Fu Panda/Mike Tyson’s Mysteries/Elementary/Key and Peele/Big Bang Theory/Hangin’ With Mr Cooper/Maude/9 eps Kung Fu/Ironside/Family Affair/Gomer Pyle/actually Korean and played many Asian parts including Japanese

Louis Kew

Irene Tsu SA - only ep of PM/86 roles from 1961 -2021 including 2 eps Star Trek: Voyager/Ironside/M3S/My Favorite Martian

Juli Eng


Joyce Jameson - 2 eps of PM/119 roles from 1951 -1984 including Ironside/Gomer Pyle/Hogan’s Heroes/Andy Griffith/Franky and Johnny

Lorraine


Gertrude Flynn - 4 eps of PM/61 roles from 1953 -1987 including Gunsmoke/Alfred Hitchcock/Twilight Zone

Agatha Culpepper


Ken Lynch - 3 eps of PM/197 roles from 1947 -1983 including Battlestar Galactica/Ironside/All in the Family/Kung Fu/Bonanza/Mod Squad/Gomer Pyle/Andy Griffith/Star Trek/Dick Van Dyke/

Wendel


Jerry Oddo - 2 eps of PM/27 roles from 1957 -1963 including Untouchables/Bonanza

Ralph Iverson


James Forrest - 3 eps of PM/22 roles from 1957 -1973 including Bonanza/McHale’s Navy/Daniel Boone

Tudor Sherwin


Bill Zuckert

Judge


Gilchrist Stuart - only eps of PM/Sound of Music

Inspector Mac Ritchie (as Gil Stuart)


Walter Janovitz

Dr. Lefcourt


Baynes Barron - 3 eps of PM/116 roles from 1946 -1979 including Bewitched/I Dream of Jeannie/Ten Commandments/Lone Ranger

Chowen


Marshall Reed

Fisherman

Don Anderson

Customs Inspector (uncredited)

Steve Carruthers

Passenger in Ship's Lounge (uncredited)

Jimmy Dime

Henchman Arty (uncredited)

Flower Parry

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Time Capsule:

Furniture/Design

          Perry’s Office Window View 

Fashion and Cigarettes

Cars




Money Translation


$40,000 in 1963 is worth $411,498.04 today



Dee Spills the Tea:

In the 1960s, Tsu met Frank Sinatra in Florida where they were both filming. She wrote about it in her book A Water Color Dream: The Many Lives Of Irene Tsu. Her manager sent her to a networking lunch and when they met she said she got lost in his blue eyes. Later a dinner was arranged and Tsu was to meet Frank that night at 7:30. Now Frank was almost 30 years older than she was and he was married to Mia Farrow at the time. While she prepared for the date, Frank himself called and said: 'Baby, I don’t know if you heard, but my divorce has been announced and there’s paparazzi all over my property. I’m heading out to the desert. I want you to come with me. She went out there with him, they had a wonderful weekend and the two started dating.

They dated for over two years. Irene says her relationship with Frank ended amicably, and that he sent her a gift in 1971 when she got married.

She wrote 'I got a call from Frank one day and he said: "If you don’t tell me what you want as a wedding present you’re going to get a Ming vase." I said. "No Ming vase! But I could use a washer/dryer actually." He laughed so much. He said: "What are you going to do, open a Chinese laundry?’ But I got it,' she shared.



Next Week’s Episode: Season 8, Episode 2 Paper Bullets