Perry Mason The Case of the Fanciful Frail (1957–1966) Online
- Original Title :
- The Case of the Fanciful Frail
- Genre :
- TV Episode / Crime / Drama / Mystery
- Year :
- 1957–1966
- Directror :
- Jesse Hibbs
- Cast :
- Raymond Burr,Barbara Hale,William Hopper
- Writer :
- Erle Stanley Gardner,Ernest Frankel
- Type :
- TV Episode
- Time :
- 1h
- Rating :
- 7.8/10
Ethel Andrews is a quiet woman, successful in her career at a financial management firm. She's understandably upset when her coworker, Bruce Strickland, leaves her standing at the altar. As if that weren't enough, she learns that $50,000 she signed for is missing from the office accounts. She decides to look for Strickland who supposedly went on vacation. While driving, she nearly has an accident causing another woman, Peggy Sutton, to run off the road and damage her car. Peggy Sutton, is herself, on the run after she receives an anonymous phone call telling her the mob has put a contract out on her. Ethel needs time to find out what happened to the money so when Peggy suggests they switch identities for a week, she accepts. When Ethel has a flat in Peggy's car, the man who changes the tires finds a package in the trunk which Ethel discovers contains over $50,000. Peggy is soon killed in a car accident and Ethel approaches Perry Mason to help her get out of the jam she's in. He finds ...
Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Raymond Burr | - | Perry Mason | |
Barbara Hale | - | Della Street | |
William Hopper | - | Paul Drake | |
William Talman | - | Hamilton Burger | |
Richard Anderson | - | Lt. Steve Drumm | |
Pippa Scott | - | Ethel Andrews | |
Barry Kelley | - | Mr. Park Milgrave | |
Arch Johnson | - | Frank Carruthers | |
Joan Huntington | - | Althea Milgrave | |
Coleen Gray | - | Martha Erskine | |
Abigail Shelton | - | Peggy Sutton | |
John Rayner | - | Tierney | |
Jack Betts | - | Bruce Strickland (as Hunt Powers) | |
Phil Arthur | - | Pit Boss | |
Henry Hunter | - | Reverend Alford |
This is based on the same premise as the season two show "The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll".
Peggy/Ethel looks up Perry Mason's phone number in a Los Angeles phone book. His number is MA 5-1190.
This episode (and at least one other) features an instrumental of the song "You Need Us," which was sung by the Honeybees on Gilligan's Island: Don't Bug the Mosquitoes (1965).
The actor who plays the hired killer is not credited even though he appears in three scenes and has lines in two of them.
The last episode broadcast to have been based on a novel by Erle Stanley Gardner.
The cash changes from real in the strong box to fake just before being burned. Also five dollar notes were added to the cash to be burned. Prior to that the cash was made up of only 50s and 100s.
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