TCOT Podcast Episode 017 - Crimson Kiss

 

TCOT Podcast Episode 017 - Crimson Kiss

Season 1, Episode 8

Originally Aired - November 9, 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.

Episodes of PM we are discussing in this episode:

Singular Double

Common Thread:

Sue England

Guest Stars:

John Holland - 4 eps of PM 3 times the victim/plays Anne Francis father in an ep of Alfred Hitchcock/ 149 roles from 1937 to 1986

Carver Clement


Jean Willes - first of two ep of PM victim in Romantic Rogue/205 roles from 1942-1976 including 8 eps of Burns and Allen

Anita Bonsal


Sue England - 5 eps of PM

Fay Allison


Douglas Dick - 7 episodes of PM Watery Witness/Writer 4eps

Bewitched, Family Affair 2eps, Dream of Jeannie 1ep The Mod Party

Dane Grover


Frances Bavier 55 - only ep of PM/ Andy Griffin Show 3 years after The Andy Griffith Show

1960-1968 188eps

Aunt Bee Taylor / Aunt Bee

Gomer Pyle: USMC

1967-1968 2eps

Mayberry R.F.D.

1968-1971 36eps

Aunt Bee Taylor / Aunt Bea

Louise Marlow


Howard Culver - 2 eps of PM

Dr. Hawley


Gloria McGehee

Shirley Tanner (as Gloria McGhee)


Joi Lansing - only ep of PM/played her self in an episode of I Love Lucy. Allegedly Desi Arnaz flirted with her and Lucy what is jealous and IRL

Vera Payson


Douglas Evans - 10 eps PM every season except 4/1 ep of I Love Lucy

Don Ralston


Connie Cezon

Gertie (credit only)


John Harmon

Lab Man


Frank Wilcox

Judge Randolph


Don Anderson - 129eps

Courtroom Spectator / Police

Officer / Bailiff / Restaurant Patron /

Plainclothesman / Policeman and many more

Courtroom Spectator / Restaurant

Patron (uncredited)


Jack Gargan

Court Clerk (uncredited)

Home


Larry Hudson

Police Sergeant (uncredited)

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

Old clock, Carver’s weird lamp

Fashion

Cars

Push button radio

Perry’s convertible with top up 

Cigarettes

Money Translation

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

Email!

Podcast deadly double

Great podcast. About William Talman, in addition to ESG going to CBS, Raymond Burr and Gail Patrick Jackson also went to them threatening to end the show if he wasn't hired back.

Loved it.

Tamara

TCOT Podcast Episode 016 - Singular Double

 

 Thursday, May 4, 2023

TCOT Podcast Episode 016 - Singular Double

Season 4, Episode 4

Originally Aired - October 8, 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. We discuss an episode of Perry Mason and talk about what we like about the episode, actors and fashion. Fun with Perry Mason. Write us at thatapril@gmail.com and follow us on instagram at @TCOTPodcast !

There will be spoilers!

Episodes of PM we are discussing in this episode:

Common Thread:

Paul vacation

Guest Stars:

Connie Hines - 2 eps of PM/best known as Wilbur’s wife Carol on the Mr. Ed show from 1961 to 1966. One episode of the Mod Squad and Room 222. She stopped acting in 1973, but lived until 2009.

Lucy Stevens


Mary Webster - only ep of PM/47 roles from 1955 to 1963 and retired and/2 episodes of Jeopardy in the senior tournament/passed away in 2017

Marjorie Ralston


Wilton Graff - 3rd ep of PM/always plays a businessman.

Hugo Burnette


Andrea King - 4 eps of PM/original ep of Columbo

Catherine Locke


Alan Baxter - 4 eps of PM/Leading lady in 40’s and 50’s

Whitney Locke


Sue England - 5 eps of PM/Defendant in Crimson Kiss

Switchboard Girl


Arch Johnson - 5 eps of PM murder victim in Traveling Treasure/5 eps of Bewtiched/Buddy Holly’s Father to Gary Busey

John Ruskin


Harry Townes

A.D.A. Grosvenor Cutter


Morris Ankrum - 22 eps of PM

Judge


Michael Fox - 25 eps of PM/26 eps of Burke’s Law at same time

Autopsy Surgeon


Dick Geary - 13 eps of PM/6 eps of Star Trek

Skin Diver (as Richard Geary)


George Bruggeman

Stenographer (uncredited)

Flower Parry

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Fred Rapport

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

Fashion

Marjorie’s Fur collared loose coat

Cars

Lucy’s Chevy

Perry’s Convertible

Cigarettes

Brunette Smoked

Money Translation

$60,000 is $611,829

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

The character of Hamilton Burger temporarily disappeared from the TV series during the series' third season. Talman was fired by CBS March 18, 1960, hours after he entered a not-guilty plea to misdemeanor charges related to his presence at a party that was raided by police.


March 14 1960 newspaper Associated Press said that raiders found Talman and others nude or partly nude and “all were high on marijuana”


Eight people were booked on suspicion of possession of marijuana and lewd Vagrancy, a morals count.


The charges were dismissed in June that same year, but the network still didn’t re-hire him. It wasn’t until Earl Stanley Gardner (the creator) himself spoke out, together with millions of viewers that the network brought  Talman back to work in December 1960.


Next episode will be TCOT Crimson Kiss

TCOT Podcast Episode 015 - Substitute Face

  Friday, April 28, 2027

TCOT Podcast Episode 015 - Substitute Face

Season 1, Episode 32

Originally Aired - May 10, 1958 

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.

Common Thread:

Cruise

Housekeeping:

In Nine Dolls, April was trying to think of the episode where Paul was going on vacation and Perry put him to work. It was the Singular Double.


Guest Stars:


Theodore Newton - only EP of PM/acted in a lot of small rolls/passed away at the tender age of 58

Carl Houser


Maurice Wells - 5 eps of PM

Andrew Dale


Barbara Collentine - passed last year at 97/ 46 roles over 44 years inc 6 eps of MTS

Marta Lawrence (as Bobbie Collentine)


Maureen Cassidy - SA/24 roles from 1954-1961

Laura Houser


Lurene Tuttle - 6 eps of PM/this was her first/ 189 spanning over 50 years inc MSW, Psycho and 48 eps of Julia

Eliza Chambers

Main Results

Description

Chambers was the wife of Sheriff Al Chambers in Fairvale. She told Lila Crane that she helped Norman Bates pick out the dress his mother was buried in. It was periwinkle blue, she recalled.

Anna Houser


Joan Tabor - 2 eps of PM/died at 36 of accidental medication overdose

Evelyn Whiting


Ralph Dumke - 2eps of PM/Blushing Pearls

Roland Carter


Donald Lawton - Only ep of PM/48 roles from 51 to 69 lived to 1990,

Daniel James


Gavin Gordon -

Capt. Walters


Noel Drayton - 4 eps of PM Family Affair

Purser


Frank Wilcox -

Judge Romley




Stanley Farrar

Accountant

Bill Quinn

Christopher Walsh (as William Quinn)


Don Anderson

Bartender / Courtroom Spectator





Fun Stuff:


Furniture/Design


Old fashioned dictating machine with cylinder

DICTAPHONE DICTATION MACHINE 1935 / PERFECT WORKING CONDITION


Fashion


Nurse in courtroom turtleneck shirt with double strand of pearls over neck


In the inseam, Della is wearing a shirt dress with a scarf, not it at the neck


Cars




Cigarettes




Money Translation


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


Next Week:

Singular Double



Earl Stanley Gardner described Hamilton Burger as a a broad-shouldered, thick-necked individual with a close-cropped moustache".Asked how he felt about Burger losing to Mason week after week, Talman said, "Burger doesn't lose. How can a district attorney lose when he fails to convict an innocent person? Burger did defeat Mason twice on the television series: in "The Case of the Terrified Typist" (episode 1-38), and in "The Case of the Deadly Verdict" (episode 7–4),[

TCOT Podcast Episode 014 - Weary Watchdog

Thursday, April 20, 2023

TCOT Podcast Episode 014 - Weary Watchdog 

Season 6, Episode 9

Originally Aired - Nov 29, 1962

With April & Guest Host Tamara

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:

Deadly Toy

Common Thread:

Mala Powers

Guest Stars:

Doris Dowling - Get Christie Love/ 3 eps of Daktari

Zaneta Holmes

John Dall - 4 eps PM/Sparticus/ passed at age 50 of cardiac arrest in 1971

Edward Franklin

Judy Dan SA - MTS - Get Smart

Trixie Tong

James Hong SA - 2eps of PM/9 eps of KungFu/has over 400 acting credits. He received his star on the Hollywood walk of fame last year and is 94 years old.

Dean Chang


Mala Powers has appeared in different PM episodes her most famous ones were Weary Watchdog and Deadly Toy. She also appeared on Murder She Wrote.

Janet Brent


Keye Luke - 2 eps of PM/ began working in his early 30’s In a series of Charlie Chan movies as No. 2 son Lee/231 roles including Charlie Chan in a cartoon/Gremlins 1 & 2

C. C. Chang


Wesley Addy - 2 eps of PM/Ryan’s Hop & OLTL

Alton Brent


Robert Carson - 5 eps of PM/12 eps of Here’s Lucy & The Lucy Show

Commodore Galen Holmes

(as Robert S. Carson)


Beulah Quo - 90 roles/ 3 Kung Fu

Mrs. Tong


Wesley Lau appeared as a guest star in The Case of the Impatient Partner in season 5 episode 2 before he joined the cast in episode 4 of season 5

Lt. Anderson


Kenneth Tobey - 3eps of PM as DA/225 roles/Billy Jack/2 eps Daktari/

Asst. District Attorney Alvin


Philip Ahn -actually Korean and played many Asian parts including Japanese

James Wong


Tom Harkness - 6 eps of PM as judge/only one other role.

First Judge


Willis Bouchey - 23 eps PM as judge

Second Judge


Seamon Glass

Policeman



Fun Stuff:


Furniture/Design

The furniture is very classic style


Chandeliers galore

There is a wide doorway in Janet‘s room, presumably to a sitting room. There are curtains on each side, and a valance across the top. Gilded Frames. Fancy chairs. Scone lights and wooden carving along the tops of the walls.

Fashion

Trixie's silk floral sheath dress with mandarin  collar is gorgeous 

Janet’s black and white suit with fur trimmed collar and muffler screams money

Della’s cute sweater In restaurant 

Della's black striped outfit with black turtleneck in Janet’s bedroom is gorgeous. 

Mrs. Holmes' gown is very classic and timeless.

Trixie's dress is very classic sheath with details on the front.

Janet's dress is one shouldered tea length dress with oriental embroidery on the area by neck

Her dress at Brent Party is absolutely gorgeous and definitely shows her shape. If in color either a lavender or light blue in color and coordinate perfectly with silver shoes and purse. Her mink stole was expensive and showed her status.

Cars

Convertibles

Cigarettes

Money Translation

Adjusted for inflation, $10,000 in 1962 is equal to $98,932 in 20

$25,000 in 1962 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $249,864.24 today,

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

Tamara: Perry and Della were very much in a relationship. This episode showed them as not only being boss-secretary, but also the dynamics of exclusive lovers or common law couple.

April: if they were a couple, why wouldn’t they have this discussion at home and wouldn’t she ask him at home. She says as a friend.

amicus curiae

“friend of the court

amicus curiae, (Latin: “friend of the court”), one who assists the court by furnishing information or advice regarding questions of law or fact.

These are fan fiction stories related to this episode


The Case of the Tested Trust

Maragreenlee

https://archiveofourown.org/works/43249270

Mrandmrsperrymason

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14164464/1/


The Case of the Friend or Foe

MulderNScully4ever

https://archiveofourown.org/works/38298973

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14065804/1/



GraceBe

TCOT-Weary-Watchdog-RevisitedWeary-Watchdog-Missing-Moments


DellaandPerrylover

The Burning Verdict

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13299120/0

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19023367


Murphycat

Perry Mason: Never Happened

https://archiveofourown.org/works/954333

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9657220/1/

TCOT Podcast Episode 013 - Deadly Toy

Thursday, April 13, 2023

TCOT Podcast Episode 013 - Deadly Toy

Season 2, Episode 27

Originally Aired - May 16, 1959

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.

With April & Guest Host Tamara 

Dee will return in a couple of weeks

Episodes of PM we are discussing in this episode:

Nine Dolls

Common Thread:

One child no one wants, another everyone wants!

Guest Stars:

Norman Alden - 256 acting roles/50 years of consistent working/MSW 

Darrel Reed (as Norm Alden)

Dennis Patrick - 4 eps of PM/65 eps of Dark Shadows including opening credits-MSW

https://youtu.be/YMH06dHByro

Martin Selkirk

Mala Powers - 5 eps of PM/MSW/Cyrano de Bergerac with Mel Ferrerer

Claire Allison

Robert Rockwell - 5 eps of PM/6 eps of Different Strokes 

Dick Benedict

Jennifer Howard - 5 eps of PM/only 14 acting parts, including the twilight zone-Eye of the beholder

Lorraine Selkirk Jennings

Max Adrian - 3 eps of Doctor Who 

Ralph Jennings

Paul Cavanagh - 2nd ep of PM/164 acting roles/1st role in 1928/1888 - 1964 1st talkies in 1927

Horace Selkirk

Kathryn Card - 2 eps of PM/ Mrs. McGillicuddy from I Love Lucy-Lucy’s mom /1882-1964

Hannah Barton

Nancy Kulp - 2nd ep of PM/better known as Jane Hathaway from Beverly hillbillies. 

Katherine Collins’ Shenlso starred in Disney movies The Parent Trap and The Aristocats

Morris Ankrum - 22 eps of pm Judge/280 roles1897 - 1964

Judge

David Brady -  1 PM 5 yrs later Outer Limits

David Selkirk

Pitt Herbert

Autopsy Surgeon

Nina Stevens

Miss Walsh--Nurse

Richard Hervey

Airport Counterman

George E. Stone

Court Clerk

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

Fashion

Claire’s dress with sheer overlay 

Lorraine’s floral sundress  and cardigan is in style now

Claire’s suit  a classic cut

Claire’s nightgown was risque for this time

Della’s black and white collared suit was very classy and timeless

Her office attire a more laid back when in the office - button down shirt and skirt

Cars

We see Perry’s Cadillac Convertible

Cigarettes 

Perry lit up a cigarette in two scenes as well as Paul

Money Translation

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

Perry and Della had a healthy sex life out of the office/ Their constant touches and looks between them shows they are in a long term exclusive relationship.

The grown up David seeks revenge:

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/10707881/1/Perry-Mason-The-Best-Part-of-Me

Tamara’s Perry Mason FanFiction

https://m.fanfiction.net/u/11043275/MrandMrsPerryMason

TCOT Podcast Episode 012 - Nine Dolls

 Thursday April 6, 2023

TCOT Podcast Episode 012 - Nine Dolls

Season 4 Episode 9

Originally aired November 19, 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.

With April & Dee and this week's Guest Co-Host Tamara

***Warning, there will Spoilers for this episode and other episodes of Perry Mason!***

Episodes of PM we are discussing in this episode:

Deadly Toy

Common Thread:

One child no one wants, another everyone wants!

Guest Stars:

Lauren Perreau - 70 years old/8 at filming - 1 of only 9 roles

Peggy Smith

(as Laurie Perreau)


Eleanor Audley - last role 9 eps of My 3 Sons/15 eps of Green Acres Eddie Albert-Oliver’s mother

Headmistress Lorimer


John Banner - Schultz, passed in 1973 - 63/50 at filming

The Lucy show in hogans heroes did a crossover, and he was featured

A. Tobler


Fred Essler

Mr. Kringle


John Bryant - 6 eps of PM (Mike Estridge / Arnold Keith /

Larry Osborne / George Clark / Stacey Chandler / Bob Wallace)MTS

Larry Osborne


Margaret Field - Sally Fields’ mother(started acting in 1945, SF was born in 1946)/MTS - 2 eps of PM BBrunette

Linda Osborne (as Maggie Mahoney)


Frances Helm - 3 eps PM

Helene Osborne


Eugene Borden - extra and 225 parts. Including my Man Godfrey with Kringle.

Swiss Waiter


Jeanette Nolan - 6 eps of PM / prolific actor/

Martha Benson


Francis X. Bushman - 3 eps of PM 2 x victim

Courtney Jeffers


Gage Clarke

Edgar Benson


Robert Karnes

Deputy D.A. Chamberlin


Nelson Leigh

Judge


James Chandler

Police Sgt. Willoughby






Fun Stuff:


Furniture/Design

So many good sets.

Peggy’s room is acute boarding school room with dolls on the back shelf.

Kringles toy store is adorable

The restaurant is nice

Jeffrey’s drawing room has a awesome fireplace

Tobler’s hotel with nice couch and view


Fashion

In this episode with the exception of the last scene, Della is wearing shirt waist dresses instead of a suit. Also pleated skirts were a popular fashion trend because both Linda Osborne and Della both wear an outfit with pleats in it.

Cars

Nice train scene

Guest Host Tamara's Perry Mason FanFiction