This isn't Perry Mason at its best, in fact it's near its worst. It involves the death of one the the two partners in the Curtis Franklin Circus. First of all, though billed as "The Funniest Man In The World", clown Felix Heidemann is about as funny as a rubber crutch and the actor who played him was a real sad sack. Love interest Lisa Franklin speaks with an annoying accent and agrees to a plot so ludicrous as to beggar description. Anyhoo, Curtis gets bumped off while Heidemann is doing his act. The script constantly tries to paint one character as the guilty party but he's just a red herring. Naturally Perry sees through all the nonsense and pins the murder on the circus owner Jerry Franklin who is ostensibly married to the aforementioned Lisa, who's really married to Heidemann but agree to a sham marriage because she thinks she set the lion loose on Franklin. Anyway, bad acting by the non-regulars, a really dumb plot and a very poor script make this a PM episode to avoid.
Review of The Case of the Clumsy Clown
