Season 6

October 18, 1962

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

October 25, 1962

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.

November 1, 1962

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?

November 8, 1962

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.

November 15, 1962

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.

November 29, 1962

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.

December 6, 1962

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.

December 13, 1962

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.

December 20, 1962

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

January 3, 1963

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

January 10, 1963

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

January 17, 1963

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

January 31, 1963

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.

February 7, 1963

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

February 14, 1963

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

February 28, 1963

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

March 7, 1963

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

March 14, 1963

Mason's client: a man declared legally dead.

March 21, 1963

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

April 4, 1963

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

April 11, 1963

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

April 18, 1963

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

May 2, 1963

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

May 9, 1963

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

May 16, 1963

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