Perry Mason: Season Six, Vol. 2

Episode List
In the second half of Season Six we continue to slip away from the early film noir feeling of this series, and more into a sixties flavor. The acting and writing are not at their peak. But Perry Mason is a great show no matter what. Here are the episodes:

1. The Case of the Prankish Professor
2. The Case of Constant Doyle - Bette Davis filling in for an absent Raymond Burr (who makes a short appearance on the phone, in his bathrobe)
3. The Case of the Libelous Locked - Michael Rennie filling in for Raymond Burr
4. The Case of the Two-Faces Turn-a-bout - Hugh O'Brien filling in
5. The Case of the Surplus Suitor - Walter Pidgeon filling in
6. The Case of the Golden Oranges - Perry is back!
7. The Case of the Lawful Lazarus
8. The Case of the Velvet Claws
9. The Case of the Lover's Leap
10. The Case of the Elusive Element
11. The Case of the Greek Goddess
12. The Case of the Skeleton's Closet
13. The Case of the...

The Case of the Missing Mason
Bette Davis, Michael Rennie, Hugh O'Brien...in early 1963 these were big stars. So with Perry (Raymond Burr) recuperating from some illness, the gang at Paisano Productions spared no expense getting credible substitutes for the ailing star. Actually, and to my surprise, it worked.

In the Case of Constant Doyle, one of only three episodes not titled "Case of the" with the "the" underlined, Bette Davis stars as the widow and law partner of a great lawyer who undertakes to represent a young man accused of, what else, murder. Better yet the murder is connected to one of her husbands old clients. The CEO gives sage advice like, there are opportunities for women lawyers in divorces and juvenile justice. Bette, a veritable Portia, tears up the prosecution as neatly as Perry ever did, undoubtably causing young girls of the sixties to wonder if there could be life at the bar for them. Consider that when I entered law school in 1972 we had 9 women in a class of 200, yet by the time...

the best
Number one on preorder. This should tell the powers that be, we want good clean shows to watch. Perry Mason has drama, suspence, and good acting. It does not have nudity, swearing or just plain blowing up things to fill in the space. Give us more of the old shows and we will buy them.

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