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
