Perry Mason — Season 6

Aired 27 September 1962 • 52 min

Perry and the team investigate the murder of an antiquarian bookseller with an interest in forgery.

Aired 4 October 1962 • 52 min

Carleton Gage, a major financial supporter of an orphanage, wants to keep it open but lapses into a coma and later assumes room temperature. Gage's nephew, George, wants to close the orphanage and he is being secretly aided by Ernest Demming. Joane Proctor, Carleton's sister-in-law, wants to keep the orphanage open but her good intentions are complicated by the murder of Demming.

Aired 11 October 1962 • 52 min

Boxing trainer Jimmy West thinks he's finally found a championship contender in Davey Carroll. Unfortunately, Davey has a hard time keeping it in his pants and his tangled love life leads to Jimmy being charged with murder.

Aired 18 October 1962 • 52 min

A company bookkeeper's wife is charged with the murder of a female employee who had been blackmailing her.

Aired 25 October 1962 • 52 min

Young cop Jimmy Anderson, cousin of Lt. Anderson, and veteran Otto Norden come across a robbery at the Wilson Plastics Company while on patrol one night. A shooting occurs and Otto is killed. Evidence then points to Jimmy as having been an accomplice in the burglary and he is suspended from the police force. Then the night watchman at Wilson Plastics, a disgraced ex-cop, is found strangled to death. Lt. Anderson then asks Perry to look into things and defend Jimmy against all charges.

Aired 1 November 1962 • 52 min

Phil Schuyler is a two bit songwriter who comes to a bad end on Halloween night. Someone enters his bungalow while Phil is taking a bath and tosses an electric heater into his tub thus turning him into a crispy critter. Damian White, husband of a famous musical comedy star, was seen entering the bungalow around the approximate time of the murder by an eyewitness. But what about all the trick or treaters?

Aired 8 November 1962 • 52 min

An unscrupulous uncle, who is in reality the father of his niece, returns home from the sea seeking money from the sale of oil leases on his land. When the uncle is found murdered, his shipmate is charged with the crime.

Aired 15 November 1962 • 52 min

Two brothers at separate times have claimed the same young girl as their daughter. One brother owns a fleet of tuna boats; the other is a mobster. Then banker Franz Moray reveals that $100,000 due to the girl via a trust fund has been mishandled. When Moray is found murdered Perry steps in and discovers an old family secret.

Aired 29 November 1962 • 52 min

Della asks Perry for $25,000 for her friend Janet Brent, who is being blackmailed. Edward Franklin, an employee of Janet's husband, has staged compromising photos of her in a motel. At a party, Janet confronts Franklin and hits him with a small statue of a "weary watchdog." The police arrest Della when they find her driving Janet's car from the scene of the argument. Franklin is dead, struck three times on the head with the statue. Perry defends Janet knowing that if he loses, Della will go to prison as an accessory.

Aired 6 December 1962 • 52 min

A young widowed high school English teacher in a small town is accused via letter of making passes and more towards some of her male students. But a small town is small town and it seems that all the key figures are involved somehow, the principal, the lawyer, the doctor, the local barkeep, and of course the oldest boy, who's really more of a man, in the high school.

Aired 13 December 1962 • 52 min

When Jennifer is alone after her father's heart attack, her only friend is her filly Tiger Lily. She's penniless until a present from her late father is dropped in her lap, but it turns out that the present is worthless, although Brad Shelby did pay $50,000 in order to capitalize on it.

Aired 20 December 1962 • 52 min

A wealthy woman is confronted by two girls who claim to be the daughters she was forced to abandon 20 years before.

Aired 3 January 1963 • 52 min

A chronic shoplifter later finds herself charged with murder. Her niece hires Perry for the defense.

Aired 10 January 1963 • 52 min

A young girl searching for the father she has never seen seeks Mason's help when she's charged with murder.

Aired 17 January 1963 • 52 min

On trial: the estranged wife of a professor who's written a lurid novel.

Aired 31 January 1963 • 52 min

Recently widowed attorney Constant Doyle comes to the aid of a young man charged with breaking into a factory and assaulting the night watchman. Later, she has to clear the young man of a murder charge as well as clear the reputation of her late husband.

Aired 7 February 1963 • 52 min

Professor Lindley is in a pit of trouble when he tries to help a kid dodge a murder rap.

Aired 14 February 1963 • 52 min

Columnist Elihu Laban is hit with a murder rap when his efforts to obtain secret papers backfire.

Aired 28 February 1963 • 52 min

Attorney Sherman Hatfield is sought out by a blackmail-plagued industrialist.

Aired 7 March 1963 • 52 min

Mason goes to the dogs when his defense of a murder suspect hinges on a surprise witness.

Aired 14 March 1963 • 52 min

Mason's client: a man declared legally dead.

Aired 21 March 1963 • 52 min

In a case woven with one woman's lies a politician and a murder are entagled.

Aired 4 April 1963 • 52 min

The victim of a swindle finds his trouble multiplying when he's accused of murder.

Aired 11 April 1963 • 52 min

A promoter's plan to frame his wife and business partner for embezzlement fails, but they're arrested anyway for his murder.

Aired 18 April 1963 • 52 min

Mason is hired by a sculptor charged with murdering the overbearing mother of his model.

Aired 2 May 1963 • 52 min

The ex-wife of an author who has written a lurid expose and is murdered.

Aired 9 May 1963 • 52 min

A jealous husband is teased into a tizzy after being led on by his sister's lies.

Aired 16 May 1963 • 52 min

A judge is accused of murdering a government witness who planned to expose him as a crook.