TCOT Podcast Episode 007 - Restless Redhead

 Thursday, February 23, 2023

TCOT Podcast Episode 007 - Restless Redhead

Season 1 Episode 1

Originally aired September 21, 1957

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.

I’m April

And I’m Dee

Be aware that this podcast contains lots of spoilers. As a matter of fact, it might be best to watch the episode before you listen in. We’ll tell you the next episode at the end of our session.

Guest Stars:

Whitney Blake - 2 episodes both in season one, the second one was the black eyed blonde. Meredith Baxter’s mother (Family Ties with Michael J. Fox)

Evelyn Bagby

Ralph Clanton - four episodes of Perry Mason/last performance was in trading places.

Mervyn Aldritch

Gloria Henry

Helene Chaney

Vaughn Taylor - was in everything!

Janet Leigh’s boss in Psycho

8 eps of PM/

Mr. Boles

Jane Buchanan

Mrs. Boles

Dick Rich

Sgt. Holcomb

Grandon Rhodes

Judge Kippen

Norman Leavitt

Mr. Redfield

Helen Mayon

Mary Thompson

Jack Gargan

Court Clerk

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

Small apartment, security by way of old fashion phone to allow people to come in. Small teeny tiny TV. No bad insight but later we find out she has a Murphy bed.

Aldrich has a drawing room. With double doors that close some thing we don’t have anymore. Most rooms are just opened. He also has a wooden couch. That is upholstered. And a globe

Fashion

Evelyn wears a cute sweater dress with like a full curve collar.

Cars

Evel

Cigarettes

Cigarette box on table. First thing she does is reach for one when she comes home.

Aldrich smokes, uses table lighter

Money Translation

$10,000

Perry and Della’s love life (or lack thereof)

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TCOT Podcast Episode 006 - Ominous Outcast

 Friday, February 17, 2023

TCOT Podcast Episode 006 - Ominous Outcast 

Season 3 Episode 24

Originally aired May 21, 1960

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.

Episodes of PM we are discussing in this section:

Simple Simon

Nebulous Nephew 

Ominous Outcast

Common Thread:

Abandoned children 

Guest Stars:

Robert Emhardt - 46

J. J. Flaherty

Jeremy Slate - 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.[4] Their adventures in the sexual freedom movement were chronicled in Gay Talese's 1980 book Thy Neighbor's Wife.[5]

Bob Lansing

Margaret Hayes - 44 - 

Vivian Bell (as Maggie Hayes) 4 ep PM - 2nd interesting wife.

Passed at age 60

Denver Pyle Uncle Jesse/6 ep PM/ 6 ep Andy Griffith - Brisco Darling, kidnapped Aunt Bea

Tom Quincy

Walter Burke

James Blackburn DA

Irene Tedrow - nun from Nebulous Nephew

Amy Douglas

Claude Stroud -  3 ep PM - Says he was going fishing in two of them

Jeff Douglas - married to Amy Douglas

Henry Norell

Frederick Bell

Willis Bouchey

Judge

(as Willis B. Bouchey)

Jack Holland

Autopsy Surgeon

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

Bob’s hotel room was nice and plain

Quincy had a nice cushy house

Radiator in Della’s “office” and a bath, nice hotel

Fashion

Della’s wearing some button earrings Dee’s Daughter made some just like them

Quincy and Bell are wearing pinky rings

Cars

Bob drives a convertible

Cigarettes

Perry gives Bob a cigarette at the end

Money Translation

$100,000 in 1960 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $1,010,709.46 today,

Perry and Della’s love life (or lack thereof)

TCOT Podcast Episode 005 - Nebulous Nephew

 Thursday, February 9, 2023

TCOT Podcast Episode 005 - Nebulous Nephew S7E1

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.

 Aired on September 26, 1963

Episodes of PM we are discussing in this episode:

Simple Simon

Nebulous Nephew 

Ominous Outcast

Common Thread:

Abandoned Children 

 

Guest Stars:

Wesley Lau - 82 PM one as defendant

Lt. Anderson - replacement for Tragg

Beulah Bondi - George Bailey’s  mother in It’s a Wonderful Life 

Sophia Stone 68

Meg Wyllie - 4 ep PM/Star Trek/4 ep GG/ Lila Quartermaine GH

Ninevah Stone 40

Ron Starr - stopped acting in 1972 still alive 

John Brooks

Kate Manx - Committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. Age 34  7 years later

Irene Stone

Mark Roberts - 8 ep PM/2 ep MSW

Wayne Jameson

Hugh Marlowe - 6 ep PM/Another World

1964-1982 1926eps Jim Matthews

/The Day the Earth Stood Still - Gort! Klaatu barada nikto! Klaatu barada nikto!

Ernest Stone

Ivan Dixon - 2 ep PM/142 ep HH/Defendant in Ironside/Judge in PM Movie/Patch of Blue Hogan’s Heroes

Caleb Stone

Arthur Space - episode of Amos and Andy

Leonard

Irene Tedrow - episode of Hogan’s Heroes 

Sister Theresa

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

Drawing Room was so big 

Curved staircase 

So much wallpaper damask

Irene and Ernest apartment very modern 

Fashion

Della’s hair a little bouffanty it’s called an artichoke hairstyle because the its a layered cut petalling out from the center of the crown or what would be the stem area of a real artichoke

Irene’s pearls Ninevah and Sofia wore pearls as well both 2 and 3 strands

Cars

Cigarettes

Money Translation

TCOT Podcast Episode 004 - TCOT Simple Simon

 

Thursday, February 2, 2023

TCOT Podcast Episode 004

Simple Simon Season Seven Episode 24

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.

Episodes of PM we are discussing in this episode:

Simple Simon

Nebulous Nephew 

Nine Dolls

Common Thread:

Abandoned Children 

Guest Stars:

Victor Buono he’s been in other episodes

John Sylvester Fossette

Virginia Field

Ramona Carver

Tom Conway

Guy Penrose

Douglas Lambert reminded me of Rick Moranis

Douglas McKenzie

(as Doug Lambert)

James Stacy 2 emmy nominations and he was a freak. arrested several times for messing with underage girls, one night, drunk, he jumped off a cliff, but a branch broke his fall. In 1973 after a motorcycle accident, he had his left leg and arm amputated and his girlfriend died. He continued to act.

Scott Everett

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

Dressing Room gave that feel

Bus was comfy no seatbelts

Water cooler  looks almost the same today 

Fashion

Cars

Cigarettes

Ramona in cafe

Money Translation

$5000 in 1964 $48,025 in 2023

Perry and Della’s love life (or lack thereof)