This was one of the more off the wall episodes that the Perry Mason series ever had. The story went deep into melodrama with a young ADA in Hamilton Burger's office led down a garden path by a vixen who's got several men on a string.
The vixen is Karen Steele and the young ADA is Gary Collins. Collins is accused of tanking an investigation into corrupt activities of a pharmaceutical company president Douglas Kennedy. And it's on the word of Steele. Later on she winds up dead with Collins sitting over the body.
Where Collins got hired was through the intercession of his mother Fay Wray who has a nightclub voodoo act. It's intimated ever so gently that William Talman as Burger and Wray might have been item back in the day. If so it's one of the only times I remember Hamilton Burger having any kind of personal life hinted at. In fact William Talman has a great deal more screen time away from the courtroom than usual.
The plot wandered all over the lot though in this episode and you might have difficulty in following it.
The vixen is Karen Steele and the young ADA is Gary Collins. Collins is accused of tanking an investigation into corrupt activities of a pharmaceutical company president Douglas Kennedy. And it's on the word of Steele. Later on she winds up dead with Collins sitting over the body.
Where Collins got hired was through the intercession of his mother Fay Wray who has a nightclub voodoo act. It's intimated ever so gently that William Talman as Burger and Wray might have been item back in the day. If so it's one of the only times I remember Hamilton Burger having any kind of personal life hinted at. In fact William Talman has a great deal more screen time away from the courtroom than usual.
The plot wandered all over the lot though in this episode and you might have difficulty in following it.