TCOT Podcast Episode 008 - Moth-Eaten Mink

 Recorded Friday, March 3, 2023

 

TCOT Podcast Episode 008 - Moth-Eaten Mink

Season 1 Episode 13

Originally aired December 14, 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.

Episodes of PM we are discussing in this section:

Restless Redhead

Black Eyed Blonde

Common Thread:

Though not the first to be televised, this episode was the pilot and was filmed several months before any of the others. Perry has a different hairstyle, he and Paul get around by taxi, Perry has a much larger office staff and refers to "one of my stenographers", and Della addresses

Perry as "Chief" and "Sir"

From IMDB trivia 

Guest Stars:

Robert Osterloh - 39 2 ep PM/2 ep Ironside/136 roles prolific from 1948 to 1972 some bit parts, and I can Rosemary’s Baby, but in a lot of westerns as well.

Morey Allen

Kay Faylen - 28 this was the last thing she acted in. She was the first wife of Regis Philbin of the Regis and Kathy Lee show. Only acted for a few years passed away in 2001.

Dixie Davton

Marc Krah

George Fayette

Brian G. Hutton - defendant in Sulky Girl

Parking Attendant [as Brian Hutton)

Connie Cezon - 17 eps PM

Gertie

Roxanne Arlen

Mae Nolan

Douglas Kennedy - 4 eps PM/211 actor roles/ died 57

Sgt. Jaffrey

Than Wyenn - 2ep PM/ prolific actor/Splash (1984), and Imitation of Life (1959). He died on January 29, 2015 age 95. He was survived by his wife of 71 years, Guy Wyenn, and their sons, Joel and Neil, and five grandchildren.

Frank Hoxie

Grandon Rhodes - 16 eps PM Judge

Judge Lennox

Jack Gargan

Bailiff

Lyn Guild

Drake's Operator

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

Nice open design for restaurant.

Perry uses phone booth ear piece

Hotel rooms look crummy appropriately

Both Paul and Perry have padded headboards

Fashion

Cute waitresses outfits

Cars

Cigarettes

Money Translation

$1000 - Morey’s retainer = $10000

$100 - Fayette’s Bail = $1000

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

Eating out to dinner together

Lyonnaise potatoes – in French pommes de terre sautées à la lyonnaise – are potatoes, boiled and then sliced and shallow-fried, served together with fried onions.

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)