Perry takes on the commies in this dated episode as he travels to East Germany to dish out some justice- Mason Style.
Professor Hans Ritter (Wolfe Barzell) and his wife Emma Ritter (Jeanette Nolan) have been contacted by the East Berlin authorities that their grand-daughter is in a orphanage. And if Prof. Ritter agrees to return to East Germany they will release the child to Emma so that she may live in the United States.
The Ritter's contact Perry to see if he could help in the exchange of the child. Perry does not agree with the decision for Prof. Ritter to return so he goes over to East Berlin to help negotiate a a better deal and to also prove that the child in indeed their grand-daughter.
And because the Ritters did not take Perry's advise- Prof. Ritter is in the hands of East Germany and Ms Ritter is in the East Berlin Jail accused of murder. Plus the child is still in the orphanage. So it went from bad to worse.
However through some nifty work, Perry is able to make everyone in the NATO region happy and everyone in East Berlin disappointed.
I am sure that at the height of the 'cold war' that this episode played well to viewers. But for todays audiences it played as well as watching a silent movie. It was not a bad script but just so out-dated and unreal. It was so far-fetched that at times seemed almost comical. About the only thing interesting was trying to find out who in the crew was providing information about the Ritters to the East Berlin authorities. Other than that we knew at the beginning how this was going to end.
Not one of the better episodes.