9 Season
271 Episode
Perry Mason - Season 2 Episode 1 The Case of the Corresponding Corpse
Almost anyone is capable of a crime under certain circumstances.
Perry receives a telephone call from George Beaumont, a man who supposedly died in a plane crash nearly three years before. In reality, Beaumont missed the plane and after hearing about the accident decided to disappear leaving wife Laura with his life insurance money. Since then, Beaumont has been cavorting with girlfriend Ruth Whittaker and living under an alias. He has grown tired of this life and wants to return home but someone cuts short his return by sticking a letter opener in his back. Ruth is then charged with the murder.
- Year: 1966
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Mystery, Drama, Crime
- Studio: CBS
- Keyword: detective, based on novel or book, lawyer, los angeles, california, criminal lawyer
- Director: Erle Stanley Gardner
- Cast: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman, Ray Collins