April 17, 1966 [267] "The Case
of the Dead Ringer"
Director Arthur Marks
TeleplayJackson Gillis
Perry Mason as a killer? Never! Except
this once. This episode is a rare bird indeed, and the
only time you'll see double when you see Burr. Raymond
Burr appears in his regular role as Perry, and also plays
Mr. Grimes, a murderer, troublemaker, and the spitting
image of Perry Mason. The "Mr. Grimes" role is
a lot closer to the characters Burr was used to playing
before he came to the Mason series.
Perry finds himself on the losing end
of a patent dispute case when his opposition leads the
jury to believe that Mason paid a witness to change his
testimony. How could this have happened? A cockney
merchant seaman named Grimes is a dead ringer for the
noted attorney. With a little makeup and some coaching,
Grimes merely impersonated Perry and passed an envelope
full of money to a key witness.
The civil case turns into a criminal
one when the winning party in the patent dispute is
murdered. The number one suspect is Perry's client,
Barbara Kramer, but the lawyer thinks the murderer may be
someone a lot closer to home.
Mr. GrimesRaymond Burr
Barbara KramerIndus Arthur
(defendant)
Otis SwansonOliver McGowan (victim)
JudgeGrandon Rhodes
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