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Ann Rutherford plays a scuzzy nose blowing jealous Wife

Perry tries to go on vacation and ends up in a hateful town that wants revenge on a hapless convict who tries to return home.

The criming criminals basically dig their own graves, they had it all planned out and murder outed the whole plot.

Barton McLane is a Sherrif who has a severe bias and he even has a nervous breakdown in the middle of testimony- but he is a friend of Perry's, so Perry was able to get everything calmed down.

No Della or Paul, Paul would have been helpful here.

"Amelia Armitage" was also in the episode about the fish food murders starring Cecil Callaway.

I love seeing these actors being recycled episode after episode. There was probably not a whole lot of new faces in central casting back in those days so they had to keep using whoever they could get.

Mister Sulu was in a few episodes back.

Oh yah, chief Sharky from voyage to the bottom of the sea is the prosecutor here and he gets schooled by Perry big time.

Vanessa Brown plays a part slightly offkilter, I give her a lot of credit for refusing plastic surgery from her first husband. That decision probably enabled her to continue working almost up until her death. Here, she is Donna Kress, a nightclub singer who is in the midst of recording a demo to be presented to a record company, star records. She does her Recording every night after her set at the nightclub.

But the problem is she is hung up on a guy who is married to $50 million and he's not willing to give it up just to have Donna.

And the way that Donna presents herself, I don't think she is worth losing $50 million for, she is clinging and irritating like the Wintry Wife or the Deadly Scarlett claws

The song that she sings is kind of irritating because we get to hear it about 25 times in this episode over and over, but it is not really a bad song and the music is arranged well.

Also, we get a good look at the state of audio engineering from 1959, that was when they sometimes used to record directly onto a disk. I'm not sure when they started doing Recording on tape, I am sure it was earlier in the 50s, Buddy Holly did some of the first multi track recording. Maybe they used tape in the late 30s and 40s. You can look it up in wikistikipeedia, i'm not going to do it here.

However, a television depiction is not really the best way to show how an industry really is. But some of the equipment that they had was authentic.

As far as the scummy Damaron family, Bruce Gordon is married to the daughter of the patriarch, but he is the one screwing around with Vanessa's character. She doesn't know when there are better choices right in the same room as she is.

Members of the Dameron family are involved in a hit and run accident and are guilty as hell, the mistake they make is believing that Money can erase murder.

And they hire Paul Drake to be their agent, but once he figures out what he's being lied to about, he wants to correct it.

But he should have been more careful like he normally is. But he did get a nice punch into Frank Thatcher's nose so that was great.

With everybody lying about what happened it looks like Paul Drake's goose is cooked, but leave it to Perry Mason to take the goose out of the oven, and cook the criming family instead.

Of course the actor playing crookity crook "Mark Douglas" is not the former new Christi minstrel's singer Barry Maguire, but an actor of the same name.

Another Reviewer did not like the actor, but I thought he pulled off the role of a scummy troubled punk beautifully. He was good, he had a young fresh face and a snotty attitude, and you could see by the expressions of his face the reflection of the crime he is trying to commit. And it all falls down on him, go boom.

This episode revolves around a psychiatrist that records sensitive sessions with his patients, somebody sees a way of making a new kind of crime about it.

I have had psychiatrists that recorded sessions. My current psychiatrist used to do it - When he still worked out out of his office, he would record it into his POS android phone, so he could quickly listen to our conversation, and write down notes. So the basis of this episode is not unusual at all.

Of course, these days the role of the psychiatrist has been split between the actual psychiatrist who does not do the therapy but rather only prescribes medication, and the therapist who is the agent that performs the therapy. Fortunately, I have a psychiatrist who actually does his own therapy, so I only have to see one doctor a month instead of two or three. This episode hails back to a time when that was mostly the case. But with today's managed care, everything has become specialized.

This is inconvenient because normally during any given month you have to meet with one doctor and talk about your medication and then you have to meet with a therapist who applies whatever Therapy (that doesn't work).

In the past the psychiatrist, because he is also a medical doctor, could also prescribe medications during a session so they could do forms of hypnosis. This is especially useful if you have dissociative disorder patients, but it can be used for any patient.

But the question in this episode is, which person needs therapy more? The psychiatrist? Or the head of an aviation company, Peter Haywood? His wife? Dr. Craig's nurse? Her brother?

ALL of these people have severe issues, but the character of Peter Haywood also has a psychotic, clinging, drunken wife who would just love to get any of these tapes with the recorded sessions. In fact, everybody here, the psychiatrist, his nurse, her brother Barry McGuire, the patient, and the patient's wife are all psycho. But it's Peter Hayward's wife (Andrea King) who becomes totally obsessed with acquiring one of these taped sessions of her husband (Philip Terry), she is willing to do anything to get her claws into one of these reels.

And when Marc Douglas (non-singing Barry McGuire), the brother of Dr. Daniel Craig's nurse, steals a tape and then tries to sell it to Barbara Haywood, increasing the price again, and again, Barbara makes it her life's goal to acquire this tape, no matter what.

This is insanity, pure and simple and it is anybody's guess which one of these folks is really in need of a psychiatrist.

And of course, Perry makes several mistakes when he is trying to communicate with the various people involved, they tell him basically to go to blazes and then everything goes whack a doodle. Until somebody loses an eye, and a life.

Episode has a nice trick ending similar to TCOT Cautious coquette, watch both episodes and compare.