TCOT Episode 022- Final Fade-Out

 The Case of the Final Fade-Out

Season 9 Episode 30  

Originally Aired May 22, 1966

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:

Common Thread:

Restless Redhead first episode

Last episode. 

Guest Stars:

William Talman

Hamilton Burger

Richard Anderson - 26 eps of PM/60 years of acting including MSW/5 eps of Ironside/Columbo/83 eps of Kung Fu: The Legend Continues/157 eps combined of BW & MDM

Lt. Drumm

Jackie Coogan - 4 eps of PM/149 roles starting in 1917 at age 3 including Uncle Fester from 1964-1966 through 1983

Pete Desmond

Marlyn Mason SA/1 ep of PM/135 roles still acting

Erna Landry

James Stacy - 2nd ep of PM Simple Simon/40 ep Ozzie & Harriet 2 emmy nominations and he was a freak. arrested several times for messing with underage girls, one night, drunk, he jumped off a cliff, but a branch broke his fall. In 1973 after a motorcycle accident, he had his left leg and arm amputated and his girlfriend died. He continued to act.

Barry Conrad

Gerald Mohr - 4 eps of PM/died of a heart attack in the evening of November 9, 1968, in Södermalm, Stockholm, aged 54.

Andy Rubin

Estelle Winwood - on PM/ 67 roles from 1930’s to 1980 including 5 Batman/Bewitched 

Born: January 24, 1883-Died: June 20, 1984 (aged 101)

Winifred Glover

Phil Shields

Denver Pyle Uncle Jesse/6 ep PM/ 6 ep Andy Griffith - Brisco Darling

Jackson Sidemark

Dick Clark - 1 ep of PM/52 roles mostly as Dick Clark 

Leif Early

Kenneth MacDonald

Judge #1

Erle Stanley Gardner

Judge #2 (uncredited)

William Tannen

Frank - Studio Guard

Margaret Shinn

Starlet #1

Linda Burton

Starlet #2

Maureen Crow

Adlib

Louie Elias

Stuntman #1

Sol Gorss

Stuntman #2

Lee Miller

Sgt. Brice

Don Anderson

Actor Playing Police Officer (uncredited)

Carl Biddiscombe

Bit (uncredited

Evelvn Carruth

Bit (uncredited)

Next Week:

Season 1 Episode 6

TCOT - Silent Partner

TCOT Podcast Episode 021 - Clumsy Clown

The Case of the Clumsy Clown

Season 4, Episode 7

Originally Aired - November 5, 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 episode:

Common Thread:

The Perry Pod Podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-perry-pod-a-companion-to-the-tv-classic-perry-mason/id1411719110

Guest Stars:

Chana Eden 1 ep of PM/33 roles from 1958 to 1964, 2 in 1980 passed in 2019

Lisa Franklin

Douglas Henderson - 6 eps of PM/Manchurian Candidate 

Felix Heidemann

Henderson committed suicide via carbon monoxide poisoning on April 5, 1978.

Kenneth Tobey

Deputy D.A. Jack Alvin

Margaret Hayes  4 ep PM - 2nd interesting wife. Ominous Outcast 88 roles starting in 1940-1965

Passed at age 60

Jovce Gilbert (as Maggie Hayes)

Walter Sande - only ep of PM/272 roles 1938-1972 including Gunsmoke & DD Show

Judd Curtis

Willard Sage - 3 eps PM/95 roles 1951-1974 westerns like Bonanza, DVDays, Gunsmoke and Hogan’s Heroes 

Heart attack 51

Tony Gilbert

Robert Clarke - 2 eps of PM/171 roles including MSW

Jerry Franklin

Ken Curtis - only PM/306 eps of Gunsmoke as Festus

Tim Durant

Lillian Bronson - 4 eps of PM 3 times as judge/188 roles from 1940’s to 1975 including Spencer’s Mountain 

Judge and the winner on The Andy Griffith Show episode the Beauty Contest 

Jon Lormer

Autopsy Surgeon

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

Fashion

Cars

Cigarettes

Smoking in the circus

Money Translation

$180,000 = almost $2 million 

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

Dee spills the tea: Were any of the actors really injured? 

In 1965, during season 8,  in four consecutive episode Raymond Burr wore a cast or sling on his arm and shoulder. Sometimes the sling was visible and sometimes the arm was hidden under his suit coat. He claimed he was injured in a helicopter crash on one of his many tours of Vietnam to entertain the troops. 

Author Jim Davidson wrote “The Perry Mason Book: A Comprehensive Guide to America’s Favorite Defender of Justice” which you can get in a Kindle edition from Amazon. 

He discovered that the truth is somewhat different. He writes that the injury - a torn bicep tendon - occurred on a beach in Hawaii, not Viet Nam, and there was no helicopter involved. Burr had a history of telling a few tall tales, and apparently, this was one of them.

During season 2, specifically, episode 17, the Romantic Rogue you’ll notice that Hamilton Burger is wearing a cast and ambling about on crutches.  Just before this episode was shot, William Talman injured his right leg; it’s disputed whether it was a broken leg or a simple injury. It was right before taping and the writers had no choice but to work this into the script. I would dispute it was a broken leg since he only wore crutches that one episode, but who knows?

If you have any further information about either of these injuries, let us know. 

And that the tea for today!

Next week will be: 

The Case of the Final Fade-Out

Season 9 Episode 30  

Originally Aired May 22, 1966

TCOT Podcast Episode 020 - Shifty Shoebox

Season 7, Episode 2

Originally Aired - October 3, 1963

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. You can find us on Instagram @TCOTPodcast and email us at ThatApril@gmail.com 

Episodes of PM we are discussing in this episode:

Deadly Double 

Ominous Outcast

Nine Dolls

Next Week we will be doing Clumsy Clown

Common Thread:

Constance Ford and Denver Pyle have been in a couple of other Perry Mason‘s we had talked including Deadly Double where DP was CF’s supportive brother and CF was a doting mother.

Children in PM world. Why wasn’t Miles in an orphanage? Why did other kids get Foster Moms?

Guest Stars:

Constance Ford - 3 eps of PM/Twilight Zone/25 years on As The World Turns 

Sylvia Thompson

Benny Baker - 1st of 3 PM/140 roles including Green Acres, Julia and Ironside

John Flickinger

Bill Mumy - SA only ep of PM/1st of 94 roles in 1957 age 3/two years earlier he played a kid with a gun in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock/November 3, 1963 aired the episode of Twilight Zone, It’s a good life. He played Darren turned into a boy in Bewitched/Will Robinson in lost in space 84 eps/Babylon 5, 108 eps as Lennier as well as the new cartoon version. also wrote some sci-fi.

Miles

(as Billy Mumy)

Denver Pyle Uncle Jesse/6 ep PM/ 6 ep Andy Griffith - Brisco Darling

Frank Honer

Joseph Sirola - 3 eps of PM/Andy Griffith musician Freddy Fleet

Bill Sheridan

Ray Teal 345 roles mostly sheriffs/Lassie

1956-1967 13eps/Bonanza

1960-1972 99eps

Sheriff Roy Coffee

Joe Downing

Diane Ladd SA- only ep/144 roles including Young Sheldon/still working 

Miss Frances

Russ Conway - 3 eps of Perry Mason victim in Barefaced Witness/257 rol s including Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

Deputy Sheriff

Willis Bouchey - 23 eps of PM mostly Judge/212 roles including last role in Jimmy Stewart show Julie Adams played wife, since 1951

Judge

Jim Boles - 2 eps of PM/147 roles

Night Man

Pat Coghlan SA - 1 ep of PM/Dennis the Menace - 4eps/The Andy Griffith Show - 1ep

Chuck

Henry Travis

TV Announcer

Lincoln Wilmerton

Deputy No. 2

Chuck Hamilton

Pool Hall Proprietor

(uncredited)

Fun Stuff:

Furniture/Design

Spaces under porches

Wallpaper in family home 

Fashion

Tight dresses 

Cars

Cigarettes

Bill smoking right after getting his head knocked in

Money Translation

50k

4k

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

Dee Spills the Tea

Perry was so good with Miles, I wondered if he had any children himself.

 

Burr reportedly was married at the beginning of World War II to an actress named Annette Sutherland. A son was supposedly born during this marriage, Michael Evan. Michael  was said to have died of leukemia in 1953 at the age of ten.  No evidence exists of the marriage, or of a son's birth, other than Burr's own claims. As late as 1991, Burr stood by the account of this son's life and death. He told Parade that when he realized Michael was dying, he took him on a one-year tour of the United States. "Before my boy left, before his time was gone," he said, "I wanted him to see the beauty of his country and its people." After Burr's death, his publicist confirmed that Burr worked steadily in Hollywood throughout 1952, the year that he was supposedly touring the country with his son.

There were many contradictions in Burr’s life story as it was also announced after his death that he was a homosexual. so I’ll let you decide if indeed he ever had any children. If Paul Drake were around, we’d have to put him on the case.

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