TCOT Podcast Episode 073 - Crippled Cougar
Season 5 - Episode 22
Originally aired - March 3, 1962
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 x 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:
Mort Mills - 8 eps of PM 7 as Sgt. Landro(Playboy Pugilist/Golden Venom)/150 roles from 1951-1973 a lot of Westerns like Gunsmoke, Bonanza in the Big Valley/2 eps of Ironside/Mod Squad, Mission Impossible and the cop in Psycho
Police Sgt. Ben Landro
DA: Burger
Guest Stars:
Bill Williams - 4 eps of PM/115 roles from 1944 -1981 including BJ and the Bear/Ironside/The Rookies/Wild Wild West/Dragnet/30 Seconds over Tokyo with Spencer Tracy
Mike Preston
John Howard - 4 eps of PM(Festive Fellon-groom father)/117 roles from 1934 -1979 including Police Woman/Little House/Buck and the Preacher with Sydney Portier/M3Sons/
Hugh Jamison
Rita Lynn - 5 eps of PM(Lavender Lipstick Myra)/73 roles from 1946 - 1983 including Danny Thomas Show/TJ Hooker
Lydia Reynolds
Noah Keen - 2 eps of PM/101 roles from 1957 - 2006 including Sopranos/$6 Million Man/Shaft/Ironside/Twilight Zone/I Dream of Jeannie
Harlow Phipps
John Bryant - 6 eps of PM(bad fiance Footloose/conhusband Romantic Rogue/good husband Watery Witness/bad brother Nine Dolls)/109 roles from 1950 -1988 including Highway to Heaven/Mod Squad/My3Sons/24 eps of the Virginians/Lone Ranger
Arnold Keith
Simon Scott - 5 eps of PM(Paul Drake’s Dilemma brother)/143 roles from 1952 -1985 including 83 eps Trapper John/9 eps of Mod Squad and Mod Squad Returns/5 eps of Ironside/Dragnet
Elliot Dunbar
Abigail Shelton - 3 eps of PM(victim in Fanciful Frail)/47 roles from 1957 -1986 including Columbo/Medical Center/Bonanza
Paula Hamilton
(as Abbagail Shelton)
Tom Fadden - 4 eps of PM(Constable in Flighty Father)/158 roles from 1938 -1977 including Gunsmoke/Petticoat Junction/Green Acres/Blondie
Watchman
Willis Bouchey
Judge
Shary Marshall - X eps of PM/X roles from 19xx -19xx including
Girl (Airline's Counter)
Florence Wyatt - only ep of PM/6 roles from 1957 -1962 including Donna Reed Show
Grace Keith
Joe Benson
Deputy
Don Anderson
Restaurant Patron
(uncredited)
Eddie Baker
Bailiff (uncredited)
Time Capsule:
Fashion
Cars
Money Translation
$100,000 in 1962 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $1,045,049.67
The 3 I’s
Incompetent, irrelative and immaterial
Dee Spills the Tea: Guess who Mike Preston was married to IRL
Bill Williams (Preston), whose real name was Herman August Wilhelm Katt was married to actress Barbara Hale – our beloved Della Street! They met during the filming of West of the Pecos and married on June 22, 1946. They had two daughters, Jodi and Juanita, and a son, actor William Katt who you might remember from the tv show the Greatest American Hero. Williams appeared on three other episodes of Perry Mason (which we haven’t reviewed yet). He also appeared with his son, William Katt, in a final season episode of Ironside, bringing him together again with Raymond Burr.
Next Week’s Episode: Season 6 Episode 7 - Unsuitable Uncle
