The Best Episodes of Perry Mason Season 7

#1 Fan Favorite
8.9/10(445 votes)
#1 - The Case of the Nebulous Nephew
S7:E19/26/1963
Con artist John Brooks comes up with a new twist to convince Sophia and Ninevah Stone that he's the rightful heir to their fortune. Perry ends up reluctantly defending Brooks when he's charged with murder.
Director:Arthur Marks
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Arthur Marks
Writer:Unknown
7.9/10(367 votes)
#2 - The Case of the Shifty Shoebox
S7:E210/3/1963
John Flickenger pulls off a carefully planned robbery without a hitch—until his young nephew finds the gun used in the heist.
Director:Arthur Marks
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Arthur Marks
Writer:Unknown
7.8/10(328 votes)
#3 - The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito
S7:E310/10/1963
This case has nothing to do with mosquitos but rather a hidden mine that could lead to a fortune. Plus murder.
Director:Jesse Hibbs
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Jesse Hibbs
Writer:Unknown
9.0/10(511 votes)
#4 - The Case of the Deadly Verdict
S7:E410/17/1963
Janice Barton is found guilty of the murder of her wealthy relative and sentenced to death. Can Perry find the evidence to clear her of the crime before the pellets in the gas chamber fall?
Director:Jesse Hibbs
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Jesse Hibbs
Writer:Unknown
8.1/10(293 votes)
#5 - The Case of the Decadent Dean
S7:E510/24/1963
Perry has to defend the dean of a prep school on charges of murdering a teacher who had been stealing, embezzling, and blackmailing.
Director:Earl Bellamy
Writers:Samuel Newman, Joseph P. Lamont
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Director:Earl Bellamy
Writers:Samuel Newman, Joseph P. Lamont
8.4/10(301 votes)
#6 - The Case of the Reluctant Model
S7:E610/31/1963
Crude but wealthy art connisseur Otto Olney throws a party to celebrate his purchasing a painting by famed artist Gauguin. Then a party guest, art expert Colin Durant, says that the painting is actually a fake. Olney then goes to Perry who decides to sue Durant for libel. Durant then claims he never said anything regarding the painting and the only witness, an art student named Maxine Lindsay, confirms his story. Perry then discovers the dead body of Austin Durant, fully clothed, in the shower of Maxine's apartment. Paul Drake then tracks down Maxine but the police are right behind him and they arrest her for murder. Guess who she hires to defend her?
Director:Jesse Hibbs
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Jesse Hibbs
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8.3/10(340 votes)
#7 - The Case of the Bigamous Spouse
S7:E711/14/1963
Gwynn Elston's best friend, Nell Grimes, asks her to move in with her due to the fact that Nell's husband, Felton, is often out of town on business. Gwynn, who has a door-to-door sales job, is then astonished to see Felton's picture in someone else's house where he's known as Frank Gillette. Felton, who's really a nasty mother, tries to poison Gwynn, when she confronts him but she survives and runs to Perry for help. Then Felton is found shot to death and things go from awful to good grief for poor Gwynn--she gets arrested for the crime.
Director:Arthur Marks
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Arthur Marks
Writer:Unknown
7.5/10(318 votes)
#8 - The Case of the Floating Stones
S7:E811/21/1963
Julie Eng needs Perry's help when some precious stones her grandfather left her turn up missing.
Director:Don Weis
Writer:Robert C. Dennis
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Director:Don Weis
Writer:Robert C. Dennis
8.3/10(356 votes)
#9 - The Case of the Festive Felon
S7:E911/28/1963
Wealthy but dying Bebe Brent gives the bulk of her estate to her loyal nurse. Needless to say, this act angers the remainder of the Brent clan and leads to a murder.
Director:Earl Bellamy
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Earl Bellamy
Writer:Unknown
7.3/10(308 votes)
#10 - The Case of the Devious Delinquent
S7:E1012/5/1963
Three teens cruise Hollywood Boulevard in a cool convertible lookin' for kicks! A liquor store goes down and the blackmail and plot twists begin. Lies and more lies and it's going from bad to worse for young Timmy Balfour who soon discovers that there's every bit as much delinquency from the adults when he's charged with murder.
Director:Irving J. Moore
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Irving J. Moore
Writer:Unknown
7.9/10(323 votes)
#11 - The Case of the Bouncing Boomerang
S7:E1112/12/1963
Grover Johnson manages somehow to talk his much younger bride Eula into living with him on a barren spread of ranch land. Needless to say, Eula hates it and can't wait to sell the property. Along comes wealthy Texas Nelson Barcliff who's ready, willing, and able to purchase the property. But is this big Texan really who he appears to be? Or is it just an elaborate real estate swindle cooked up by Eula? Either way, both Eula and Barcliff end up dead and Grover finds himself charged with Eula's murder.
Director:Jesse Hibbs
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Jesse Hibbs
Writer:Unknown
7.8/10(319 votes)
#12 - The Case of the Badgered Brother
S7:E1212/19/1963
Brothers Martin and Todd Baylor are feuding over ownership of a successful chain of clothing stores. Martin ends up with a knife sticking out of his back one night and Todd is charged with the murder.
Director:Earl Bellamy
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Earl Bellamy
Writer:Unknown
8.2/10(317 votes)
#13 - The Case of the Wednesday Woman
S7:E131/2/1964
A wife's ears perk up when an insurance investigator informs her that he has proof that her husband was wrongfully convicted of the crime for which he is imprisoned. Then the insurance investigator turns up dead. Goings on in an elevator highlight this episode.
Director:Irving J. Moore
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Irving J. Moore
Writer:Unknown
8.4/10(314 votes)
#14 - The Case of the Accosted Accountant
S7:E141/9/1964
Edward Lewis's increasingly bitter arguments with his father-in-law make him the suspect when the old goat is murdered.
Director:Arthur Marks
Writers:Samuel Newman, Albert A. Vail
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Director:Arthur Marks
Writers:Samuel Newman, Albert A. Vail
8.2/10(343 votes)
#15 - The Case of the Capering Camera
S7:E151/16/1964
Mystery clouds Mason's search for the murderer of a photographer who was shot while a model pointed a loaded gun at him but didn't pull the trigger.
Director:Jesse Hibbs
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Jesse Hibbs
Writer:Unknown
8.1/10(323 votes)
#16 - The Case of the Ice-Cold Hands
S7:E161/23/1964
Sweet but ditzy Nancy Banks wants Perry to cash a bundle of winning racing tickets for her. There's only one problem: her former employer claims the racing tickets as his own. Nancy then gets in even deeper feces when she's charged with her ex-employer's murder.
Director:Jesse Hibbs
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Jesse Hibbs
Writer:Unknown
8.1/10(341 votes)
#17 - The Case of the Bountiful Beauty
S7:E172/6/1964
20-year-old Deborah Dearborn has just written a best selling novel about a cold and calculating woman who bears a strong resemblance to her boyfriend's stepmother. Now Deborah is living at a beach house in Malibu and in the process of selling the rights to her book to a movie producer. Then the stepmother, Stephanie Carew, appears on the scene threatening to sue for libel. When Stephanie's dead body is found floating in a swimming pool, Deborah is charged with the crime.
Director:Irving J. Moore
Writer:Robb White
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Director:Irving J. Moore
Writer:Robb White
8.6/10(311 votes)
#18 - The Case of the Nervous Neighbor
S7:E182/13/1964
Mason's client: an amnesia victim on trial for the murder of her husband.
Director:Arthur Marks
Writer:Robert C. Dennis
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Director:Arthur Marks
Writer:Robert C. Dennis
7.4/10(341 votes)
#19 - The Case of the Fifty-Millionth Frenchman
S7:E192/20/1964
A Frenchman is giving money to an old lady love from his hometown, unaware that she's sharing the cash with her husband. When hubby turns up murdered guess who gets charged with the crime?
Director:Arthur Marks
Writer:Robert C. Dennis
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Director:Arthur Marks
Writer:Robert C. Dennis
8.1/10(318 votes)
#20 - The Case of the Frightened Fisherman
S7:E202/27/1964
Chemist Randolph James has started a successful company to develop a new antibiotic but his former boss, Hudson Bradshaw, files suit claiming that James developed the formula while in his employ. James' wife, Natalie, then begins selling her stock to Bradshaw which would give him control of the new company. James vows to stop his wife at any cost and she turns up dead. James claims that he was fishing at the time the murder occurred but things go from awful to good grief when he can't find the fellow fisherman who can substantiate his story.
Director:Arthur Marks
Writer:Jonathan Latimer
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Director:Arthur Marks
Writer:Jonathan Latimer
7.9/10(333 votes)
#21 - The Case of the Arrogant Arsonist
S7:E213/5/1964
A fire chief wants to bring a libel suit against a reporter who accuses him of burning down his own warehouse. Things get even worse for the chief when he's charged with murder.
Director:Jesse Hibbs
Writer:Samuel Newman
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Director:Jesse Hibbs
Writer:Samuel Newman
8.1/10(317 votes)
#22 - The Case of the Garrulous Go-Between
S7:E223/12/1964
A woman goes on trial for murder when a fortuneteller's deadly prediction becomes a reality.
Director:Irving J. Moore
Writer:Philip Saltzman
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Director:Irving J. Moore
Writer:Philip Saltzman
7.8/10(307 votes)
#23 - The Case of the Woeful Widower
S7:E233/26/1964
Certain that her employer is plotting to murder his wife, housekeeper Nellie Conway launches a counterattack.
Director:Jesse Hibbs
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Jesse Hibbs
Writer:Unknown
8.0/10(357 votes)
#24 - The Case of the Simple Simon
S7:E244/2/1964
Actress Ramona Carver is confronted by a young man who claims to be the son she gave up for adoption. Murder soon results.
Director:Arthur Marks
Writer:Robert C. Dennis
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Director:Arthur Marks
Writer:Robert C. Dennis
7.8/10(292 votes)
#25 - The Case of the Illicit Illusion
S7:E254/9/1964
Mason is hired by a woman who is convinced, after a series of bizarre events, that she's crazy.
Director:Irving J. Moore
Writer:Samuel Newman
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Director:Irving J. Moore
Writer:Samuel Newman