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Perry Mason: Season 4

28 episodes Premiered Sep 17, 1960 Updated Sep 25, 2026

Perry Mason Season 4 continues the overarching saga across twenty-eight episodes, following the cases of the master criminal defense attorney. The television series, classified under mystery, drama, and crime, explores the premise that almost anyone is capable of a crime under certain circumstances. As part of the ongoing narrative arc, the season presents legal mysteries and courtroom dramas centered on the defense

Previously on Perry Mason

Season 4 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Perry Mason is a master criminal defense attorney who handles challenging legal cases.
  • ⚡ The series explores the theme that almost anyone is capable of a crime under certain circumstances.
  • ⚡ The overarching saga is presented across twenty-eight episodes in this season.
  • ⚡ The program falls under the mystery, drama, and crime television genres.

Season overview

Perry Mason Season 4 continues the overarching saga across twenty-eight episodes, following the cases of the master criminal defense attorney. The television series, classified under mystery, drama, and crime, explores the premise that almost anyone is capable of a crime under certain circumstances. As part of the ongoing narrative arc, the season presents legal mysteries and courtroom dramas centered on the defense work of Perry Mason. The provided materials do not contain further specific plot details, episode titles, guest stars, or character names beyond the overarching description of the series provided by the source database.

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Season 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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S4·E1 Mytharc

The Case of the Treacherous Toupee

Sep 17, 1960 · 52 min

Tyrannical company president Hartley Bassett returns home after being presumed dead for two years. His first act is to fire Peter Dawson which makes Dawson the prime suspect when B

S4·E2 Core

The Case of the Credulous Quarry

Sep 24, 1960 · 51 min

Perry defends Richard Hammond who is charged with killing his former girlfriend by running over her with his car.

S4·E3 Core

The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker

Oct 1, 1960 · 52 min

Jim Ferris is having an affair with his uncle's bored young wife. They concoct a scheme to finagle $80,000.00 from the uncle by faking a kidnapping. Things go horribly wrong when s

S4·E4 Core

The Case of the Singular Double

Oct 8, 1960 · 52 min

Perry is accused of obstructing justice in this case when he defends a woman who had previously faked her own suicide by running her empty car off a cliff. It seems as though the p

S4·E6 Core

The Case of the Wandering Widow

Oct 22, 1960 · 52 min

When a man accused of a murder is freed from prison upon newly discovered eyewitness testimony, it starts a chain reaction of blackmail and murder.

S4·E7 Core

The Case of the Clumsy Clown

Nov 5, 1960 · 52 min

A circus clown is charged with the murder of its part owner when a gun is slipped to him during a gun act.

S4·E8 Core

The Case Of The Provocative Protégé

Nov 12, 1960 · 52 min

Washed up pianist David Carpenter is knocked out and pushed over a cliff for insurance money. Carpenter's beautiful protege, Donna Ross, immediately comes under suspicion by the po

S4·E9 Core

The Case of the Nine Dolls

Nov 19, 1960 · 52 min

Perry's fishing trip to Scotland is interrupted by seven year old Peggy Smith. Peggy is living at a boarding school and searching for her identity since she has no idea who her rea

S4·E10 Core

The Case of the Loquacious Liar

Dec 3, 1960 · 52 min

Lester Martin's life takes a horrible turn for the worse when a man breaks into his apartment, forces him at gun-point to drink half a bottle of Scotch, and then drives him into th

S4·E11 Core

The Case of the Red Riding Boots

Dec 10, 1960 · 52 min

Ann Farwell is miserable over the separation of her parents. Things aren't made any better when her father starts seeing Rita Conover, a scheming woman half his age. When Rita turn

S4·E12 Core

The Case of the Larcenous Lady

Dec 17, 1960 · 52 min

A suburban town mayor's secretary is accused of murdering the mayor's wife, who was engaging in blackmail to further her husband's career.

S4·E13 Mytharc

The Case of the Envious Editor

Jan 7, 1961 · 52 min

Slimy publishing tycoon Donald Fletcher buys controlling interest in a respectable but financially troubled publishing house. Fletcher turns things upside down by turning the publi

S4·E14 Core

The Case of the Resolute Reformer

Jan 14, 1961 · 52 min

Perry represents a citizen's group in hearings on a proposed aqueduct to be named after county engineer William Harper Caine. Perry gets a stop work order until a section of the pr

S4·E15 Core

The Case of the Fickle Fortune

Jan 21, 1961 · 52 min

Ralph Duncan is a civil servant whose job is to inventory the estates of wealthy decedants. One day, he returns home with $153,000.00 worth of old greenbacks he discovered while go

S4·E16 Core

The Case of the Waylaid Wolf

Feb 4, 1961 · 52 min

Womanizing playboy Loring Lamont has his sights set on Arlene Ferris, his father's shapely secretary. He lures her to his beachfront bachelor pad with seduction on his mind. Arlene

S4·E17 Core

The Case of the Wintry Wife

Feb 18, 1961 · 52 min

Inventor Walter Randall wants a divorce from his cold-blooded wife Laura in order to be with Phyllis Hudson. Laura decides to get back at Walter by blackmailing one of his assistan

S4·E18 Core

The Case of the Angry Dead Man

Feb 25, 1961 · 52 min

Willard Nesbitt faked his drowning death in a boating accident so his wife could collect the double indemnity life insurance money. Nesbitt thought he had only a short time to live

S4·E19 Core

The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff

Mar 11, 1961 · 52 min

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

S4·E20 Core

The Case of the Barefaced Witness

Mar 18, 1961 · 52 min

The setting in this episode is a small California town where because of a festival all men must wear beards. Paul Drake travels there to try to locate missing money which a former

S4·E22 Core

The Case of the Cowardly Lion

Apr 8, 1961 · 52 min

Hilde Fursten and Tony Osgood work at the San Diego Zoo. When a new baby monkey is found missing, Hilde Fursten is blamed by Dr. Walther Braun, a visiting dentist. Boris Zelbowsk

S4·E23 Mytharc

The Case of the Torid Tapestry

Apr 22, 1961 · 52 min

Hard luck Claude Demay was sent up for six years in prison for starting a fire in a warehouse containing the valuable Nathan Claver art collection. After his release, Demay devises

S4·E24 Core

The Case of the Violent Vest

Apr 29, 1961 · 52 min

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. Pe

S4·E25 Core

The Case of the Misguided Missile

May 6, 1961 · 52 min

Jerry Reynolds, an old war buddy of Perry's, is accused of killing an officer at Vandenburg Air Force Base during the investigation into some mysterious missile crashes.

S4·E26 Core

The Case of the Duplicate Daughter

May 20, 1961 · 52 min

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.

S4·E27 Mytharc

The Case of the Grumbling Grandfather

May 27, 1961 · 51 min

A young man has his head turned by, whatelse, a woman. In his haste to protect her, and her good name, the source of her pain turns up dead.

S4·E28 Mytharc

The Case of the Guilty Clients

Jun 10, 1961 · 52 min

Lola and Jeff Bronson are going through a divorce and can't wait to be rid of each other until Bill Ryder sabotages Jeff's business and makes a play for Lola. Ryder is then found d

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