While watching this show I thought of just how many times you can do an episode on embezzlement. Seems that 'Perry Mason' series had done every form of the crime that can be done- and sometimes twice. So you have to change the characters in order to make the story interesting to viewers. I thought they did well on this episode.
The show opens with Rick Scott (Hank Brandt) being tended by a nurse, Joanna Monford (Anne Whitfield), in sunny Mexico. he is recovering from some accident and his Uncle Harvey Scott (Tom Tully) is running the family business back in the States.
Word gets out that Uncle Harvey is planning some merger with another company that none of the family knew was about to happen. So Scott's brother rushing to Mexico to bring Rick back to LA. In order to stop the merger Rick has to marry someone to get control of the company so he quickly marries the nurse Joanna. (At the time none of this is known to Joanna)
When they get back to LA, Uncle Harvey calls all the family for a very important meeting. As everyone is arriving, Joanna comes stumbling out of the house, covered with blood, saying Uncle Harvey is dead. And just so happens that Perry has also been called to the meeting and he is the one that goes inside to find Harvey beating with a poker. (Pokers were used a lot in Perry shows)
The story takes off from there with Joanne on trial for the murder. And we get to meet all the wonder Scott family during the courtroom drama. To me, nearly everyone was a suspect. So we have Perry to help us along the way to finding the real criminal.
Notes about the show- In this episode we have Paul and also Perry take the stand for the state. ---- Also there is one thing I found odd. When Perry was on the witness stand he said that when he felt Uncle Harvey he was still alive. But then he said his pulse stopped. If so Joanna, a registered nurse, came running out of the house with Uncle Harvey was still alive. Yet she said that he is dead I tried to help since I am a nurse.
Guess I watching too many Perry episodes. Not the greatest but a interesting set of characters to an old plot.