Perry Mason — Season 6

Sept 196252m

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

Oct 196252m

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.

Oct 196252m

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.

Oct 196252m

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

Oct 196252m

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.

Nov 196252m

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?

Nov 196252m

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.

Nov 196252m

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.

Nov 196252m

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.

Dec 196252m

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.

Dec 196252m

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.

Dec 196252m

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

Jan 196352m

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

Jan 196352m

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

Jan 196352m

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

Jan 196352m

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.

Feb 196352m

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

Feb 196352m

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

Feb 196352m

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

Mar 196352m

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

Mar 196352m

Mason's client: a man declared legally dead.

Mar 196352m

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

Apr 196352m

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

Apr 196352m

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

Apr 196352m

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

May 196352m

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

May 196352m

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

May 196352m

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