Episode
Perry Mason: The Case of the Clumsy Clown
Overview
A circus clown is charged with the murder of its part owner when a gun is slipped to him during a gun act.
Details
- Series
- Perry Mason
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 7
- Air date
- 1960-11-05
- Runtime
- 52 min
Episode context
The Case of the Clumsy Clown is Episode 7 in Season 4 of Perry Mason. It aired on 1960-11-05. The runtime is 52 min.
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Episode 6: The Case of the Wandering Widow
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.
Episode 8: The Case Of The Provocative Protégé
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 police.
More episodes from this season
Episode 5: The Case of the Lavender Lipstick
An heiress to a cosmetics company is charged with the murder of the company's owner.
Episode 9: The Case of the Nine Dolls
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 real parents are. After searching into the matter, Perry comes to believe that Peggy is the daughter of Clark Lawson and Margaret Jeffers Lawson. Margaret was the daughter of wealthy Courtney Jeffers who disowned her after she eloped with Clark. Both parents died shortly after Peggy was born. Jeffers, a mean and miserable old man, has his heart warmed after meeting Peggy and changes his will to leave everything to her. The next day, he is found dead, killed by a blow from a poker.
Episode 4: The Case of the Singular Double
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 police found the body of another woman in the wreckage.
Episode 10: The Case of the Loquacious Liar
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 the country. Lester's circumstances then go from awful to good grief when he's charged with the murder of his step-father who was trying to takeover the family boat company.
Episode 3: The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker
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 secretary Betty Wilkins, acting as a go-between, is charged with the murder of Jim Ferris.
Episode 11: The Case of the Red Riding Boots
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 turns up dead both Ann and her mother think the other committed the crime which causes Perry great difficulty in defending the ranch hand who's been charged.
Episode 2: The Case of the Credulous Quarry
Perry defends Richard Hammond who is charged with killing his former girlfriend by running over her with his car.
Episode 12: The Case of the Larcenous Lady
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.
Episode 1: The Case of the Treacherous Toupee
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 Bassett is found dead with two bullet holes in him.
Episode 13: The Case of the Envious Editor
Slimy publishing tycoon Donald Fletcher buys controlling interest in a respectable but financially troubled publishing house. Fletcher turns things upside down by turning the publications into scandal sheet featuring photographs of scantily clad women. Edmond Aitken, whose family once owned the publishing house, wants to oust Fletcher but Perry tells him he has no legal basis on which to do so. Not to worry. Fletcher is found murdered in his apartment but the prime suspect is Aitken's wife, Alyce, whom Fletcher had been blackmailing over lurid photos Alyce made during her younger days.