About This Quiz
With his hound-dog eyes, deep voice and cunning intellect, Perry Mason spent a decade piecing together serious criminal cases of all kinds. Do you remember the courtroom drama of "Perry Mason"?Mason is a lawyer, fighting for truth and justice the American way. The show was incredibly successful, running for 9 seasons and 271 episodes.
Mason is a fantastic criminal defense attorney. He's so good, in fact, that he never, ever seems to lose a case … even after 9 seasons of court battles.
Murder is the name of Mason's game. Most episodes open with our intrepid lawyer piecing together the facts about an infamous killing.
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Mason is our savior -- Hamilton Burger is his courtroom nemesis. But Burger can no more withstand Mason's brilliance than hold back a hurricane.
In this season 8 episode, "Button" is a missing girl. A custody battle unravels into a murder case and Perry must save the day.
A woman named Claire is fabulously successful in her candy business, but she attracts too much jealousy … and murder ensues. Perry will have a sticky, gooey situation on his hands.
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In the very first episode of this legendary series, Mason helps a waitress who is arrested for homicide. But Mason enlists the help of a private investigator and they help prove that she's innocent.
Della Street is a critical character in dozens of episodes. She's Mason's secretary, always digging up pertinent facts that turn the tide of tough cases.
Burger's assistant pursues a less-than-moral woman and is later accused of murdering her. But Perry thinks there's more to the story than meets the eye.
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Della decides to purchase a diary during an auction, and upon reading the contents, she's sure that a suicide was really a murder. It's up to Perry to bring about justice for the deceased.
A mean actor dies suspiciously in this season 9 episode, and Perry has to sort through many of the man's enemies to find the killer.
Drake is Mason's best pal and he's also a private investigator. Together, the men untangle the twists and turns of dozens of complicated criminal cases.
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Perry must help a woman who is being charged with the murder of her husband. There's just one problem -- she's suffering amnesia and can't remember much of anything.
Hollywood lures a country girl to the big city. But things go south in a hurry and she's wrongly charged with murder.
A successful inventor is tired of his wife's philandering and decides to divorce her. But he's murdered … and Perry must figure out why.
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A woman named Marie is hot on the trail of her conniving husband, who has vanished to America to marry someone else. He winds up dead, and Mason must prove that Marie didn’t do it.
In this season 9 show, a golfer with an ugly spirit is murdered and the wrong man faces charges. Perry must find the real killer as soon as possible.
A con artist pretending to be a long-lost relative shows up so that he can steal a family's fortune. But then he is wrongly accused of committing homicide.
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In this season one episode, a gossip columnist is brutally killed and there are suspects galore. Perry must illegally tamper with evidence to find the truth.
Two brothers argue about their business venture and one turns up dead. Perry must rescue the innocent sibling from a wrongful murder charge.
In the '60s, bowling was no laughing matter. A bowling alley is forced to close and a murder unfolds … and Mason must roll a strike in his defense of the innocent.
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One woman swears she's innocent of murder and that a mysterious girl with a scary laugh is the real perpetrator. Perry must somehow find the wicked woman.
It's a land dispute that turns ugly, and a witness is killed by a bomb. Perry must determine who killed the man, and why.
With Perry, it's almost always murder. He tries to relax for once by catching a few bass ... but can't get away. He winds up dealing with blackmail and murder.
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A reporter is hot on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is pretending to be an upstanding citizen. When the reporter is killed, Perry must find the murderer.
In this season 9 episode, a mean-spirited oilman is murdered … and it turns out that he had a lot of enemies. Perry must save a suspect who was merely trying to do the right thing.
The old company older is angered that he sold his cherished business to a man who runs the company into the ground. But Perry doesn't think it's motive enough for murder.
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A man named Jamison Self fakes his own death, for which his wife stands trial. But then he reappears … and then dies for real.
A late night talk show host mixes it up with the wrong person and winds up shot to death. Perry must figure out what caused all the "dead air."
Grover's married life doesn't last long. His new bride is killed … and he is charged with her murder. But the thing is, he didn't do it, and Perry knows it.
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