TCOT Podcast Episode 026 - Angry Dead Man
Season 4, Episode 18
Originally Aired - February 25, 1961
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 the random episode from season four 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.
Guest Stars:
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loria Talbott - 4 eps of PM/121 roles from 1945 -1966 mostly westerns including A Tree Grows in Brooklyn passed in 2000
Eve Nesbitt
Karl Held SA - 1st of 10 eps of PM 9 as David Gideon/70 roles1960 - 2017 including Falcon Crest
Bruce Nesbitt
Gordon Jones - Ozzie and Harriet
Deputy Gillis
Ray Montgomery - 2 eps of PM 5 years apart/
First Deputy
Les Tremayne - 8 eps of PM DA every season except 2/146 roles from 1950-1993 including War of the Worlds, North by Northwest, Edward Quartermaine GH and a slew of cartoons passed in 2003
Willard Nesbitt
Edward Binns - 2 eps of PM/183 roles from 1948-1988 including North by Northwest/12 Angry Men/Judgement at Nuremberg/passed 1990
Lloyd Castle
Carol Ohmart - only PM ep 53 roles from 1950-1974 including
Jenny Bartlett
James Millhollin - 3 eps of PM
Ben Otis
Frank Ferguson
Prof. Laiken
Naomi Stevens
Fanny Werbler
Wally Brown - 3 eps of PM/
John Givney
Juney Ellis
Helen - Receptionist
Kenneth MacDonald
Judge
(as Kenneth R. MacDonald)
Phil Chambers
Anderson
Charles Stroud
Court Clerk
Fun Stuff:
Furniture/Design
Fashion
Cars
Cigarettes
Money Translation
$75 = $780 in 2023
Sidenote: When did they start calling it the IRS? The Commissioner of Internal Revenue was created in 1862 to assess the nation’s first income tax to fund the American Civil War. The temporary measure expired a decade later. In 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment authorized Congress to impose a tax on income and led to the creation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. In 1953, the agency was renamed the Internal Revenue Service. Interesting that Della called it the Bureau. The Bureau of Internal Revenue is now named for the agency that assesses income tax in the Phillipines.
Dee Spills the Tea
The Nesbitt cabin on the lake should seem familiar to Perry and Della. According to billp, Perry stayed there in the TCOT Angry Mourner. It was also used in TCOT Watery Witness. it may have had some connection to the studio, cast or crew. Anyone notice that?
One goof: Lloyd Castle, on the stand, refers to Jenny Bartlett as Miss Barton. Did anyone notice that? Later, Perry correctly calls her Miss Bartlett.
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