Season 4
Episode Guide
The Case of the Treacherous Toupee
S4
E1
Sep 17, 1960
An executive who has been "missing" for two years returns on the day of an important stockholders' meeting and ends up being slain.
The Case of the Credulous Quarry
S4
E2
Sep 24, 1960
A shady lawyer, a client facing a murder charge and a woman witness demanding a payoff help complicate this case for Mason.
The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker
S4
E3
Oct 1, 1960
Perry Mason is hired by a harassed business executive who wants to rid himself of a larcenous, freeloading nephew.
The Case of the Singular Double
S4
E4
Oct 8, 1960
Perry Mason is hired by a distressed girl who assumed the identity of a non-existent cousin to report her own disappearance as a suspected suicide.
The Case of the Lavender Lipstick
S4
E5
Oct 15, 1960
Lawyer Perry Mason takes the case of a girl chemist accused of slaying her employer when planted evidence is found to indicate that she had sold secret formulas to a rival cosmetics firm.
The Case of the Wandering Widow
S4
E6
Oct 22, 1960
Perry Mason is hired by a woman who is being blackmailed by a long-missing witness in the six-year-old murder of her husband.
The Case of the Clumsy Clown
S4
E7
Nov 5, 1960
Perry Mason is hired by a circus clown to untangle a case of bigamy and head off a threat of blackmail.
The Case of the Provocative Protégé
S4
E8
Nov 12, 1960
Perry Mason is hired by a distinguished concert pianist's widow to determine whether the musician's fatal plunge off a cliff was murder or suicide.
The Case of the Nine Dolls
S4
E9
Nov 19, 1960
A little girl's plaintive request for help in learning who she is leads Perry Mason into an international quest and a murder trial.
The Case of the Larcenous Lady
S4
E12
Dec 17, 1960
A pretty secretary enlists Perry Mason's help when she finds herself framed in a blackmail plot, then is accused of the death of her employer's wife.
The Case of the Resolute Reformer
S4
E14
Jan 14, 1961
Perry Mason, helping a citizen's committee fight a proposed construction project, gets more deeply involved than he had planned as bribery, political blackmail and murder develop.
The Case of the Fickle Fortune
S4
E15
Jan 21, 1961
Going to Perry Mason for advice after $153,000 in estate money is stolen from his car, civil servant, Ralph Duncan, soon needs more than advice, when he is caught at the scene of a murder where part of the missing money is found.
The Case of the Wintry Wife
S4
E17
Feb 18, 1961
Vindictive Laura Randall is slain after she plots to blow up her husband's unique underwater sounding device.
The Case of the Angry Dead Man
S4
E18
Feb 25, 1961
Willard Nesbitt stages his own death so his wife can collect on a large insurance policy. Then he learns his business partner means to cheat the wife out of some mining property royalties. Nesbitt's "return to life" is short lived, and Perry Mason defend
The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff
S4
E19
Mar 11, 1961
Crooked jewelry store owner Karl Addison learns that he needs an operation which will temporarily blind him. Addison makes plans to rob his own store knowing that his sightlessness will provide him with a perfect alibi. Things go wrong when someone kills the scheming Addison and steals the already pinched jewels. James Kincannon enlists Perry's aid when he's charged with the crime.
The Case of the Barefaced Witness
S4
E20
Mar 18, 1961
When convicted embezzler Fred Swan returns to his hometown it means trouble for Iris McKay, a former client of private investigator Paul Drake.
The Case of the Difficult Detour
S4
E21
Mar 25, 1961
A road builder facing bankruptcy decides to have things out with the man responsible for his plight, only to wind up being charged with murder.
The Case of the Cowardly Lion
S4
E22
Apr 8, 1961
When a new baby monkey is found missing, Hilde Fursten is blamed by Dr. Walther Braun, a visiting dentist. That evening, Dr. Braun arrives at the zoo to perform oral surgery on a lion and is found dead in the lion's cage. Tony Osgood is accused of the murder when a witness sees someone wearing Tony's blue sportcoat near the lion's cage at the time.
The Case of the Torid Tapestry
S4
E23
Apr 22, 1961
A museum worker returns from prison, sent there after being falsely accused of setting fire to an art collection, to settle accounts with the man who framed him, only to find himself held accountable for murder.
The Case of the Violent Vest
S4
E24
Apr 29, 1961
Advertising executive Herman Albright is in the wrong place at the wrong time wearing the wrong clothes. These mistakes cost poor Herman his life in a case of mistaken identity. Perry is called on to defend the fashion model charged with the crime. It seems as though horny Herman had been hitting on her for quite a while with no success.
The Case of the Misguided Missile
S4
E25
May 6, 1961
A misfiring missile, an inquiry and death on a firing range lead Perry Mason to the defense of an Air Force officer court-martialed on a murder charge.
The Case of the Duplicate Daughter
S4
E26
May 20, 1961
A mixed up mess awaits Perry as he struggles to put all the pieces together. Blackmail, murder, a boyfriend who spent the night, all add up to one great case.
The Case of the Grumbling Grandfather
S4
E27
May 27, 1961
Young David Gideon has his head turned by, what else, a conniving woman. In his haste to protect her, and her supposed good name, the source of her pain turns up dead. Namely her estranged husband. David goes on trial for murder and this time things get past the preliminary hearing.
The Case of the Guilty Clients
S4
E28
Jun 10, 1961
It looks as though Perry Mason may finally lose a case when the man he is defending makes a dramatic courtroom confession.