Originally aired - February 6, 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 7 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: Andy
DA: Burger
Guest Stars:
Sandra Warner - only ep of PM/23 roles from 1954 -1967(passed in 2022) including Twilight Zone/Some Like It Hot/Guys and DollsStephanie Carew
Ryan O'Neal (December 2023) - only ep of PM/66 roles from 1960 - 2017 including Bones/M3S/1970 Love Story/1973 Paper Moon (Tatum 10)/Peyton Place (64-69)/The Driver/Bridge too Far
John Carew
Zeme North - only ep of PM/17 roles from 1962 -1966 (2021)including M3S/Bonanza
Deborah Dearborn
Douglas Fowley - only ep of PM/337 roles from 1933 -1982 including M3S/The Lucy Show/
Rubin Cason
John van Dreelen - 2 eps of PM/166 roles from 1948 -1992 including Dynasty/Knight Rider/6 Million Dollar Man/Ironside/Mod Squad/Green Acres/Twilight Zone
Gideon Long
Maxwell Reed - only ep of PM/36 roles from 1946 -1968 including Bonanza/Daniel Boone
Chet Worth
Jean Carson (Feb 2023) - only ep of PM/75 roles from 1949 -1977 including Andy Griffith/Gomer Pyle/Twilight Zone (1960)/Bachelor Father/
Mrs. Mitchell
John Zaremba
Medical Examiner
Sydney Smith
Judge
George Cisar - 3 eps of PM/149 roles from 1948 -1970 including Bonanza/Ironside/Mayberry/Hogan’s Heroes/Andy Griffith/Mannix/That Girl/Petticoat Junction/Beverly Hillbillies/31 times as Sgt Mooney on Dennis the Menace/
Neighbor
Fifi D'Orsay - 2 eps of PM/47 roles from 1929 -1973 including Bewitched madam Wageir /The Lucy Show madam fifi/Bonanza
Mrs. Davis
Lonie Blackman - 2 eps of PM/15 roles from 1956 -1964 including ozzie and Harriet/Dr
Miriam Worth
Barbara Wilkin
Switchboard Operator
Fern Barry
Maid
Don Anderson
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Herb? = John Forsythe - Bachelor Father
Fun Stuff:
Furniture/Design
Perry’s Office Window View
Fashion
Cars
Cigarettes
Money Translation
$500,000 in 1962 is worth $5,191,192.05 today
Dee Spills the Tea:
Maxwell Reed – Did he or didn’t he?
Maxwell Reed (Chet Worth) was a matinee idol in British films during the 1940s and 1950s. Reed was the first husband of actress Joan Collins (of Dynasty fame), whom he married on May 24, 1952. He is reported to have raped her when dating and she married him out of shame. In a 2022 BBC documentary Joan claimed she was raped by Reed when she was a 17-year-old virgin. Collins alleged the incident happened after the actor, then 31, spiked her rum and Coke at his apartment.
In the same documentary she shared how the split between her and Reed came about. Collins said it occurred after a night out at the “terribly chic nightclub” Les Ambassadeurs in London. Joan said “Max had a habit of gravitating towards rich, elderly men, and I was starting to get a vague idea of what this was all about. That night he told Joan ‘He’ll pay you £10,000 for one night—and I can even watch.’ I looked at my handsome, loathsome husband and began to cry. ‘Never in a million years.’ I went home to Mummy.”
They were separated in 1954 and the marriage ended in divorce in 1956, after which Reed sued her for alimony, claiming that he had earned only $1,000 over the previous 12 months. He later withdrew this claim. Reed died in 1974 at the age of 55.
