Raymond Burr and Joyce Bulifant sat next to each other on the panel of Match Game (1973) for a week, beginning with the episode Episode #6.203 (1978).
Atypically for a Perry Mason episode, the courtroom scenes are a trial with twelve jurors present. Most episodes are set at preliminary hearings, with only the judge presiding.
One of the few cases where a witness is represented by counsel, the witness pleads the Fifth Amendment on the advice of counsel, and is granted immunity from prosecution by the DA's office. Immunity was a relatively new legal device at the time.
When Perry is in bed and the phone rings, you can see a "ghost" image pass across the left side of the screen. It is actually a policeman coming from behind a corner from the previous scene at a police station that was faded into Perry's bedroom scene.
Second and last appearance of Joyce Bulifant in the series. She was great at playing stupid twits, so quite naturally, she was the defendant both times.
Amusingly, Hamilton Burger calls her "the brains of the family" in his address to the jury.
Amusingly, Hamilton Burger calls her "the brains of the family" in his address to the jury.