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Watching early Perry Mason shows after seeing the last episodes it was interesting to see how they evolved. In those early episodes Raymond Burr and William Talman really were quite antagonistic. Later on Hamilton Burger sort of resigned himself to being the Boston Red Sox to the 20th century New York Yankees.

Perry Mason is hired by Margaret Hayes hoping to hold on to her husband who is in the clutches of mantrap Greta Thyssen. But she doesn't hire him for a divorce attorney, she wants Perry to buy some stock and screw up a business deal that Thyssen is involved with her husband. When the mealticket doesn't work out, she reasons that Thyssen will quit the field.

The deal blows up, but one of the investors is killed and Hayes is suspected of the homicide. Now she really needs Perry Mason.

In the preliminary hearing Burr really blows up Talman's case leaving him quite frustrated. In the end though it's a devastating cross examination of Thyssen that clinches it for Hayes. Thyssen was duped into conspiring with another partner, who it was and why the murder was done is something you have to see the episode for.

You'd think just once Hamilton Burger would prosecute the right culprit.

I cannot get enough of the first season of 'Perry Mason'. Raymond Burr is energetic (something missing in the last two or three seasons) and highly emotional when dealing with others in the cast.

In this episode Perry must have been in a savage mood cause he seems ticked off at just about everyone. From his client to Hamilton Burger, he seems ready to call out anyone he thinks is not telling the truth or trying to use him in the court room.

The show starts out with Sybil Granger (Margaret Hayes) spying on her husband Bruce Granger (William Roerick) catting around with a blond bombshell Roxy Howard (Greta Thyssen 1951 Miss Denmark). Sybil does not want to lose her cheating husband and schemes with Perry to get the girl out of the picture. Perry is to buy shares in a development company so that her husband will not be Mr Moneybags to Roxy.

The CEO of the company, George Lutts (Richard Hale), finds out that Sybil has got Perry to buys shares and he go to confront her at the spying spot. A shot rings out and Mr Lutts falls down dead. And then we have a series of strange (or as I say) TV events.

Sybil runs to her car to get away from the scene. Before getting off the dirt road she runs into a ditch. She then makes her way to a rural road when low and behold the third car that passes is a cab. To make matter even worse,she left a loaded gun in her glove compartment.

In the next scene she is in Perry's office. And Perry takes her case as she is charged with murder of Mr Lutts after evidence is produced by the DA's office.

Along the way we get some good acting from the cast and good dialog from the writers. We even have Perry using some-would-say unethical conduct in getting his client freedom.

Anyway this is another good episode. Has all the things that made the Mason series great. Even some great scenes with Perry and Lt Tragg. Only one note-- we get to see Hamilton Burger wearing a hat. I don't think I saw that too many times in the entire series run.

Not really an episode review as that has already been ably done, but I love it when Perry is questioning the gun expert. After loading a blank into the pistol for demonstration purposes, Perry, without thinking, has the gun pointed right at the witness, who then pushes it away from his direction with an exasperated look on his face. The reason I like this is that so many times when the various characters are handling guns they carelessly point them at each other. That includes Perry, in this very episode, who not only points a gun at Roxy but pulls the trigger as well. Especially relevant considering recent current events. Never ever point a gun at someone even if you think it is not loaded!!!!

Of course, no PERRY MASON story would be complete without the introduction of some beautiful blonde who enters the scene to complicate things, right?

Margaret Hayes plays Mrs. Granger, who actually hires Perry to get blonde Roxy (played by Greta Thyssen) away from her husband and his company. Accordingly, she arranges for Perry to use her own money to buy thousands of dollars of shares in the business, thus trying to implode the relationship.

Very clever plot that will keep your attention, also the first episode that shows a murder being committed. Great trivia question.

You have to love it when Perry exits the company board meeting, and with a wry smile, holding all the cards.

Well written by Stirling Silliphant, master of detective stories. He wrote two episodes for the series, before creating two classic tv cop shows, ROUTE 66 and NAKED CITY. The producers were lucky to have him.

Applause to model and actress Greta Thyssen, who a year earlier was a stand-in for Marilyn Monroe in BUS STOP. She gained lots of fame working with the THREE STOOGES in three of their short films. A heroine to many of us kids. Greta lived to the ripe age of 90.

Listen to the tense music in this one, especially during the shooting scene, which kind of has the music feel of PSYCHO.

Looks to have been filmed in the San Fernando Valley, long before all the condos and strip malls.

SEASON 1 EPISODE 3 remastered CBS/Paramount dvd box set, 2006. Volumes 1 and 2.

One of the best episodes and I've seen 'em all.

Easy to follow, but with enough interesting twists to keep the entertainment factor on track.

You may shake your head over the final reaction of the loyal wife, just watch to find out.

A minor problem I've noticed in some of the early "Perry Mason" TV episodes is that the writers didn't really understand what exactly lawyers do. Perry was a lawyer who defended folks up on murder charges....yet in some episodes he's ALSO practicing corporate law (1.02) and here he appears to be dealing with divorces and marital infidelity! Unless you are a tiny town lawyer or practiced long, long ago, lawyers would NOT have branched out into all these areas....it would be like a brain surgeon ALSO doing psychiatry or plastic surgery!!

When the story begins, Perry and his client are looking through binoculars at the lady's husband with his bimbo. A bit later, Perry attends a stockholders meeting in which the husband and bimbo are attending...so now, in addition to practicing family law he's also some sort of corporate lawyer as this is a stockholder's meeting! And, in behalf of the wife, he ends up ruining the scheme the mistress and husband have cooked up to explore for oil.

As far as the wronged wife is concerned, while her husband is a jerk, she inexpicably says she wants him back....and she STILL loves the guy! She goes so far as to say that when he tires of the mistress, she'll be waiting for him to return to her! However, when a man standing next to the wife is shot and killed, immediately police think she was the killer...and it's up to Mason to solve this odd case.

There are a lot of problems with the plot in this one apart from Mason practicing all sorts of law. He encourages the accused to create a false alibi (which could have gotten him potentially disbarred) AND the entire episode hinges on someone on the witness stand incriminating themselves and someone else...this solving the crime with a 'Perry Mason moment'. In other words, a completely unrealistic solution, as folks is real life almost never admit to a crime on the witness stand! Overall, enjoyable but very weak due to the writing.

When a land deal is stymied by a wife who is turning her back on oil profits, one of the people controlling the property is gunned down. Tragg brings charges. Meanwhile a two bit husband who betrayed the wife gets away with it. A rather bland and looooong episode.

Excellent acting and high production values mark this and many other episodes of this fine series. I always love seeing Perry, Della, Paul Drake, Lt. Tragg, and Hamilton Burger. The trial judge was quite good on this episode. The actor who played George Lutts was especially good.

I won't summarize the plot, as others have done so. However, I do think it extremely unlikely that a shot from a 38 caliber pistol would be effective over the long distance demonstrated by the scene where Della waves from the hilltop. It's not clear how Mrs. Grainger's gun got involved in the crime. Also, not to reveal any spoilers, but the accomplices at the end seemed a rather unlikely pair.

Perry Mason does a bit of corporate law. He buys some stocks and shares on behalf of Sybil Granger.

She knows her husband Bruce Granger is seeing sexy blond Roxy Howard in an house up a hill. She is always spying on him. The land surrounding it might have oil.

Sybil plans to stop any oil exploration and thus ruin Roxy's budding relationship with Bruce Granger.

Only for the head of the company George Lutts to get shot dead. He confronted Sybil Granger when she came to spy on her husband.

Now Perry Mason defends Sybil and in the preliminary hearing he gets to all sorts of trickery.

Looking back at these old episodes of Perry Mason. It seems that no one did much by way of forensics. There would be no powder burns on Sybil Granger for a start who was innocent of the crime.

It is questionable how a handgun could fire a bullet such a distance. The fun is how will Perry Mason get a witness to break down in court.

Hadn't heard he was so wood-crafty and think this is the only time he mentions having a "workshop". Mason had a lot of talents. Anyway, loved the series when I was a child and still enjoy now. But I do have a question on the fingerprints - I thought you couldn't get those from knurled surfaces like gunstocks - that's emphasized in some later episodes - but Tragg says they were "all over" the binoculars, which have pretty much not much but knurling except for the focus rings. Just my observation here (I've only seen this episode about a dozen times and the fingerprint issue on the knurled/rough surface finally sank in).

****SPOILERS**** In her attempt to brake up an affair by her cheating husband Bruce Granger, William Roerick, with the hotter then a Forth of July firecracker blond bombshell Roxy Howard,Greta Thyssen, his abused and love sick wife Sybil, Margaret Hayes,is desperate to do anything to get him back. Sybil gets attorney Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, to short circuit Roxy's plans by keeping her from getting half of the real estate assets of the firm Bruce a co-partner in, the Sylvan Glave Devlopment Company, with the greedy and penny pinching George Lutts, Richard Hale. With Perry, using Sybil's money, buying $36,000.00 in shares in the company he keeps the firm from digging for oil, which as it turned out there there never was any, on the property thus leaving Roxy, who got Bruce to make her a co-owner, high and day in trying to get rich off it!

As things soon turn out Lutts in finding out what Sybil and Perry did confronts her, while she's spying on Roxy, and before he can as much say a complete sentence is shot and killed leaving Sybil, the last person who saw him alive, as the #1 suspect in his murder! The usual open and shut case that D.A Hamilton "Ham" Burger, William Talman, gets and as usual royally screws up has Perry do a number of legal maneuvers and acrobatics to get his client, Sybil, off. After putting everyone to sleep with his endless scenarios and mindless double-talk Perry finally goes for the jugular by brow beating the by now totally punch drunk Greta, from Perry's relentless cross -examination, to point out who really was behind Lutts' murder! The person to everyone watching this "Perry Mason" episode who was about as obvious as being the killer then anyone else in the cast!

P.S Were also entertained by Judge Hoyt played the "Eternal Colonel" himself Morris Ankrum who actually had a few lines to deliver including the most important one, when the killer tried to make his getaway, at the very end of the episode. This was Ankrum's first time being a judge, in a record number of 22 appearances, in a "Perry Mason" episode with his last appearance being broadcast some six weeks after his death in 1964!