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30 episodes

Perry Mason - Season 8

First aired Sep 23, 1964Season 8

Browse all 30 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

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drystyx

8.0

In case you haven't heard, this TV series is about all time winner lawyer Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) and all time loser lawyer Hamilton Burger (William Talman). Along with wizened homicide investigator Tragg (Ray Collins), Burger is the opposing force to Perry, who helps his clients get away with murder. I mean, he gets them off by having someone else confess to the murder. Helping Perry are his beautiful secretary Della Street (Barbara Hale) and wisecracking private eye Paul Drake (William Hopper). These five are forever known by their iconic roles in this courtroom series. What really drives this series is something called "atmosphere". In order to know what "atmosphere" is, one needs to watch this TV series. It defines "atmosphere". And it need atmosphere, because a lot of what happens is really hard to believe, but the five iconic characters keep you interested, as do other recurring characters.

Episodes

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Episode 1

The Case of the Missing Button

NR
Sep 24, 196452 min

A man's campaign to prove his estranged wife an unfit mother is interrupted when he's arrested for murder.

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Episode 2

The Case of the Paper Bullets

NR
Oct 1, 196452 min

Mason is caught in the middle when a romance develops between two members of rival political families.

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Episode 3

The Case of the Scandalous Sculptor

NR
Oct 8, 196452 min

Mona Harvey is the principal stockholder in a publishing company run by her uncle, Everett, and the wife of an eccentric sculptor named Hannibal Harvey who is being blackmailed. Unable to get at any money due to Mona's absence, Hannibal has ditzy model Bonnie Dunbar write a blackmail note to Mona's uncle. Everett gets the money out of petty cash and sends it to Bonnie. In the meantime, Mona returns, finds Bonnie's blackmail note, and decides to pay the model a visit. So does Hannibal. Without seeing each other, husband and wife both discover Bonnie's dead body. Mona gets arrested for the murder but she fears that Hannibal might be the real killer.

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Episode 4

The Case of the Sleepy Slayer

NR
Oct 15, 196452 min

Abner Gordon threatens to press charges if his niece doesn't replace the money she lifted from his safe.

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Episode 5

The Case of the Betrayed Bride

NR
Oct 22, 196452 min

A recently widowed women becomes tangled in a web of suspicion when she hastily remarries.

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Episode 6

The Case of the Nautical Knot

NR
Oct 29, 196452 min

Mason is summoned when Harvey Scott's efforts to retain temporary control of the family mining company lead to murder.

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Episode 7

The Case of the Bullied Bowler

NR
Nov 5, 196452 min

Attorney Joe Kelly agrees to represent Bill Jarvis, whose mother-in-law is trying to have his bowling alley shut down.

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Episode 8

The Case of a Place Called Midnight

NR
Nov 12, 196452 min

In an offbeat case, Mason becomes involved in international intrigue wheh he travels to Switzerland to meet a friend's future daughter-in-law.

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Episode 9

The Case of the Tragic Trophy

NR
Nov 19, 196452 min

Investigating the "other woman" in a betrothed man's life, Mason finds himself neck-deep in a murder mystery.

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Episode 10

The Case of the Reckless Rockhound

NR
Nov 26, 196452 min

Reba Burgess's control of her late husband's mining company is threatened when a man turns up with a partnership agreement—signed by Burgess before he died.

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Episode 11

The Case of the Latent Lover

1.0
Dec 3, 196452 min1 votes

An investment broker tops off a series of peculiar actions by commandeering a taxi to rob a bank.

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Episode 12

The Case of the Wooden Nickels

NR
Dec 10, 196452 min

Drake gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to act as courier in the sale of a rare Confederate coin.

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Episode 13

The Case of the Blonde Bonanza

NR
Dec 17, 196452 min

A model fails to read the fine print when she signs a curious contract paying her $200 a week to gain weight for an assignment.

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Episode 14

The Case of the Ruinous Road

NR
Dec 31, 196452 min

The foundations of a large company are shaken when the chief engineer uncovers evidence of budget tampering.

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Episode 15

The Case of the Frustrated Folk Singer

NR
Jan 7, 196552 min

Uninterested in her recently inherited fortune, an aspring singer is easy prey for a sinister agent.

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Episode 16

The Case of the Thermal Thief

NR
Jan 14, 196552 min

Attorney Ken Kramer comes to the aid of an alleged thief accused of stealing a $50,000 necklace.

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Episode 17

The Case of the Golden Venom

NR
Jan 21, 196552 min

A woman hires Mason to nullify a clause in her late husband's will that disinherits her if she reopens the investigation of her son's death.

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Episode 18

The Case of the Tell-Tale Tap

NR
Feb 4, 196552 min

Balancing private investigation with legal gymnastics, Mason tries to iron out a case of embezzlement and murder.

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Episode 19

The Case of the Feather Cloak

NR
Feb 11, 196552 min

In Hawaii to handle an investigation for a hotel chain, Mason and Drake uncover a murder.

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Episode 20

The Case of the Lover's Gamble

NR
Feb 18, 196552 min

A woman turns to Mason when she becomes convinced that her boss is planning to murder his invalid wife.

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Episode 21

The Case of the Fatal Fetish

0.5
Mar 4, 196552 min1 votes

Burger tries to head off trouble when his young assistant falls for an unscrupulous woman.

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Episode 22

The Case of the Sad Sicilian

NR
Mar 11, 196552 min

Paulo Porro is a charming young man from Sicily with a clever scam for ingratiating himself with Italian-American families. But when he tries his charms on Enrico Bacio, Paulo runs into a problem. It seems as though there was bad blood between the Porro and Bacio clans back in Sicily. Bacio even believes that Paolo has come to kill him. When Bacio is later found with a file lodged in his neck, Paolo is blamed for the murder.

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Episode 23

The Case of the Murderous Mermaid

NR
Mar 18, 196552 min

Former swimming champion Victoria Dawn is now overweight, out of shape, and the owner of a chain of failing health spas. Desperate to regain some of her former glory she hires young actress Regina "Reggie" Lambert to impersonate her in a swim across the Catalina Channel to Los Angeles.

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Episode 24

The Case of the Careless Kitten

NR
Mar 25, 196552 min

Franklin Shore, supposedly dead for 10 years, telephones his niece, Helen, and gives her instructions on how to meet him. Then someone takes a shot at Helen's boyfriend and attempts to poison the "deceased's" wife, Matilda.

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Episode 25

The Case of the Deadly Debt

NR
Apr 1, 196552 min

Police detective Danny Talbert's father dies from a heart attack caused by stress from the fact that he was into mobster Steve Radom for a $10,000 debt. Or so Danny believes. When Radom is killed with Danny's gun, Perry steps in to clear his name.

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Episode 26

The Case of the Gambling Lady

NR
Apr 8, 196552 min

Pete Warren's estranged wife, Myrna, is killing time in Reno waiting for their divorce to go through. When Myrna gets involved in a counterfeit gambling chip scam, Pete makes the mistake of lying to protect her.

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Episode 27

The Case of the Duplicate Case

NR
Apr 22, 196552 min

An unsuccessful salesman has a lot of explaining to do when he throws down his sample case in disgust—and large sums of money fall out.

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Episode 28

The Case of the Grinning Gorilla

NR
Apr 29, 196552 min

Della buys the diary of a drowned woman at an auction and after reading the entries becomes convinced that the woman's death was not a suicide as was ruled at the time. This leads Perry into a case involving an eccentric millionaire, his two scheming assistants, and a kleptomaniac gorilla.

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Episode 29

The Case of the Wrongful Writ

NR
May 6, 196552 min

Lawyer Ward Toyama, a friend of Perry's, gets caught up in an illegal gunrunning operation and murder on the high seas after being contacted by a man claiming to be an intelligence agent. It's up to Perry to clear his friend's name when he's accused of murder.

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Episode 30

The Case of the Mischievous Doll

NR
May 13, 196552 min

Perry is paid a visit by a Dorrie Ambler who wants him to verify her identity. Shady private eye Phil Arthur has been paying her to frequent certain places around town and Dorrie thinks it's because she bears a strong resemblance to madcap heiress Minerva Minden. After some digging, Perry finds out that Minerva might have been involved in a hit-and-run accident and it appears as though Dorrie is being used to prove that.