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Perry Mason: The Case of the Latent Lover (1964)
Is he really crazy?
It seems that one reviewer NEVER likes an episode of Perry Mason! Makes one wonder why he "wastes" an hour watching all of them?
In this episode, a financial advisor suddenly starts having head aches and doing strange things-like trying to hold up a bank, thirty minutes before it opens. The lawyer for his firm convinces a judge to give him probation but the probation officer happens to like the probationer's wife.
The probationer accuses his PO of having an affair with his wife and has a PI follow her and get a surreptitious photo of her being comforted by a man.
Then there's the matter of a missing $250,000 from an irate customer.
When the wife gets killed (Marian McCargo of John Wayne's "The Undefeated"), the PO is charged!
Who is the real culprit?
Gunsmoke: The Summons (1962)
Matt's in trouble!
An outlaw (the future Ep Bridges) and his cohort have an argument. Knowing that the friend (Myron Healey) is wanted, John Crawford kills him by shooting him in the back. He brings him to Dodge City slung over a horse and turns the body over to Matt. Problem is, Matt doesn't have a wanted poster on him so he locks up Crawford for murder. After 2 days, Chester finds some wanted posters which he had misplaced and "voila" the dead man was wanted and had a $1000 bounty on him. When Matt sends for the money, he finds out that the poster had been revoked, leaving Crawford high and dry.
Swearing revenge, Crawford returns to "home" where he meets 2 other cohorts and a young lady they had basically captured.
They force a telegrapher to wire Matt saying there is a prisoner he needs to pick up. When Matt shows up he is beaten and kidnapped and prepared for a hanging.
How does Matt escape? Watch and see.
The Lone Ranger: Christmas Story (1956)
True meaning of Christmas
The Lone Ranger and Tonto come across a young boy who is looking for a tree to cut down for Christmas. The boy explains that his father has left the home to seek fame and fortune because he feels like a failure to his wife and son.
The Ranger and Tonto promise to try to find the father. They hear a rumor that he has been seen with a couple of outlaws. The outlaws say he left them and went to look for gold.
After searching some mining camps, the Ranger, in disguise, convinces the father that true success cannot be found in gold but in family.
The father is happily welcomed back home by his son and wife!
Perry Mason: The Case of the Misguided Model (1966)
Interesting story!
Mary Ann Mobley (former Miss America) plays a woman auditioning for a part for a soap company. The owner wants someone who is morally "pure" to sell her soap and Mary Ann appears to be just perfect.
However, she is being stalked by a former boyfriend and has her current boyfriend escort her home to her apartment. He hears a noise, enters the apartment, and is jumped by a man in the dark. They struggle and the current beau emerges unharmed but his adversary falls behind the couch. Mary Ann uses the pay phone in the hall to call the police and upon entering her apartment finds her stalker who is dead, lying behind the couch.
Her current beau moves the body to a nearby alley where police later find a wino standing over the body rummaging through the corpse's pockets. He is arrested for murder.
The beau goes to Perry and confesses so when the wino is brought up on charges, Perry knows he is innocent.
How the situation is solved is interesting. As for another reviewer, why Mary Ann's agent has a swimming head all the time is disclosed near the end. What had happened to him?
P.
Ironside: Accident (1971)
Mark regrets his actions
This episode has two plotlines which both deal with the city of San Francisco's insurance agent.
First, an important citizen gets the commissioner to appoint Ironside to quietly investigate the theft of valuable jewels from the citizen's former mistress.
Second, after several long days of a stakeout, Mark lets out the chief and Eve and takes the van to get serviced. On the way, the tired Mark strikes a black lady who darts out from the sidewalk.
She is taken to the hospital where Mark, sorry for his actions, visits her. He learns that she has a daughter whom she hasn't seen in years. Tipped off by a lawyer, the daughter shows up to the hospital from back East.
Connecting the two stories is Ed Binns playing the city's insurance agent. He may have to pay off Mark's victim and also pay for the jewels which were stolen.
The interesting part is learning why the mother left the daughter years ago and where the jewel thief has run off to.
Of course, Mark falls hard for the daughter!
Juanita Moore, who co-starred with Lana Turner in the 1950's movie "Imitation of Life," does a great job playing the accident victim.
Her feelings and interactions with Mark is also a plus!
Gunsmoke: The Schoolmarm (1974)
Warm and moving!
An EXCELLENT show showing how people interact and exhibit love and caring for each other! Lin McCarthy and Charlotte Stewart (Little House's Miss Beadle) work well together!
JAG: Touchdown (2003)
Great action!
Some seem to think that everything in JAG must be 100% accurate. This episode shows the emotions of several of the characters AND has great action footage. A few items of "poetic license" do NOT hurt the episode!