****SPOILERS**** In the 271th and final episode of the "Perry Mason Show" Perry, Raymond Burr, gets himself involved in defending murder suspect TV producer Jackson Sidemark, Denver Plye, and later believe it or not the person accused of murdering him silent screen and early talkie movie queen Winfred Glover, Estelle Winwood! It was the full of himself TV star Barry Conrad, James Stacy, looking to get the coveted, to him at least, slime-ball of the year award by screwing and double crossing everyone who made his rise to stardom possible who started all this mess. Conrad predictably ended up getting killed himself on the set while the filming of him getting shot, with blanks, by the police was rolling. It's Sidemark, one of the many persons that Barry screwed, who's at fist charged with Barry's murder. It's when Sidemark finds out who really murdered him he gets murdered himself by the person who murdered Barry Conrad!
Perry who was to defend Sidemark now is set to defend the person accused of murdering him Mrs. Winfred Glover another one of Barry's many double crossing victims! It was in fact stagehand Pete Desmond, Jackie Cooper, who got Sidemark off the hook by purposely perjuring himself in court for the soon to be murdered Sidemark who gave him a job on TV when everyone else, in Desmond being a hopeless alcoholic, turned him down. With Mrs. Winfred found at the Jackson Sidemark murder scene and having earlier threatened to smash his skull in as well as being last person to see Sidmark alive she's arrested and made to stand trial in his murder.
***SPOILERS*** It's Perry Mason who discovers that an important roll of film made during the filming of the episode when Conrad was murdered was missing and it's that film that can not only get his client off but expose not only Conrad's but Sidemark's murderer as well! As we soon find out Conrad was murdered for personal reasons and Sidemark was murdered in order to cover up, in Sidemark finding out who murdered Conrad,in who murdered him! With all this murdering going on in this last Perry Mason episode it's the murdered scrip that took the worst of it. Nothing seemed to make sense at all with an ending that was so far out, and in how the double murderer broke down and admitted his crimes, that it's almost laughable.
P.S Check out the forever youthful but now the late, he passed away at age 82 on April 18, 2012, Dick Clark as TV script writer Leif "Early Bird" Early in what was supposed to be a breakthrough and serious role for him. That's in Clark finally getting the recognition as the serious actor that he, and only he, thought that he was . Clark was far more serious in him introducing the Rock & Roll singers and band groups on his American Bandstand show then in this Perry Mason episode. As for Raymond Burr this wasn't the end of his acting career as Perry Mason. Burr was to come back by popular demand almost 20 years later in 1985 as the famous defense lawyer in the new and in color "Perry Mason Mystery Movie" that ran for almost as long, eight years, as the original Perry Mason show did. And they, the "Perry Mason Mystery movies", only ended with Burr's death in September 1993. By the way the writer who in fact created the character Perry Mason back in the 1920's Earl Stanley Gardner has a cameo role here as judge #2 who presided on the State Vrs Winfred Glover trial.
Perry who was to defend Sidemark now is set to defend the person accused of murdering him Mrs. Winfred Glover another one of Barry's many double crossing victims! It was in fact stagehand Pete Desmond, Jackie Cooper, who got Sidemark off the hook by purposely perjuring himself in court for the soon to be murdered Sidemark who gave him a job on TV when everyone else, in Desmond being a hopeless alcoholic, turned him down. With Mrs. Winfred found at the Jackson Sidemark murder scene and having earlier threatened to smash his skull in as well as being last person to see Sidmark alive she's arrested and made to stand trial in his murder.
***SPOILERS*** It's Perry Mason who discovers that an important roll of film made during the filming of the episode when Conrad was murdered was missing and it's that film that can not only get his client off but expose not only Conrad's but Sidemark's murderer as well! As we soon find out Conrad was murdered for personal reasons and Sidemark was murdered in order to cover up, in Sidemark finding out who murdered Conrad,in who murdered him! With all this murdering going on in this last Perry Mason episode it's the murdered scrip that took the worst of it. Nothing seemed to make sense at all with an ending that was so far out, and in how the double murderer broke down and admitted his crimes, that it's almost laughable.
P.S Check out the forever youthful but now the late, he passed away at age 82 on April 18, 2012, Dick Clark as TV script writer Leif "Early Bird" Early in what was supposed to be a breakthrough and serious role for him. That's in Clark finally getting the recognition as the serious actor that he, and only he, thought that he was . Clark was far more serious in him introducing the Rock & Roll singers and band groups on his American Bandstand show then in this Perry Mason episode. As for Raymond Burr this wasn't the end of his acting career as Perry Mason. Burr was to come back by popular demand almost 20 years later in 1985 as the famous defense lawyer in the new and in color "Perry Mason Mystery Movie" that ran for almost as long, eight years, as the original Perry Mason show did. And they, the "Perry Mason Mystery movies", only ended with Burr's death in September 1993. By the way the writer who in fact created the character Perry Mason back in the 1920's Earl Stanley Gardner has a cameo role here as judge #2 who presided on the State Vrs Winfred Glover trial.