Will plan to watch this episode tonight on METV.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0673371/
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Peter Caine, driving drunk at night on a lonely road, hits a man and seriously injures him. Peter's companion, Debra Bradford, takes over driving and leaves without offering assistance. She learns the man's name is Joseph Witt and devises a scheme for Peter to pay damages to Grace Witt, Joe's wife. Peter will buy the Witts' property for more than market value, which he willingly does. At the county board meeting, chief county engineer William Harper Caine, Peter's father, sides with Perry Mason to stop construction by contractor Roger Quigley until another survey may be prepared. Such a stop order will bankrupt Quigley, who accuses Caine of conflict of interest, citing Peter's recent real estate purchase. When Caine writes a check to Debra as final payment to Grace Witt, Quigley and his associate, Charles Sistrom, burst in and take pictures of the exchange. Now they want Caine to resign. Perry and Paul Drake find Quigley at home, dead with Caine--gun in hand-- standing over the body. ...
If you can find the remote.... 😉
Will plan to watch this episode tonight on METV.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0673371/
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Peter Caine, driving drunk at night on a lonely road, hits a man and seriously injures him. Peter's companion, Debra Bradford, takes over driving and leaves without offering assistance. She learns the man's name is Joseph Witt and devises a scheme for Peter to pay damages to Grace Witt, Joe's wife. Peter will buy the Witts' property for more than market value, which he willingly does. At the county board meeting, chief county engineer William Harper Caine, Peter's father, sides with Perry Mason to stop construction by contractor Roger Quigley until another survey may be prepared. Such a stop order will bankrupt Quigley, who accuses Caine of conflict of interest, citing Peter's recent real estate purchase. When Caine writes a check to Debra as final payment to Grace Witt, Quigley and his associate, Charles Sistrom, burst in and take pictures of the exchange. Now they want Caine to resign. Perry and Paul Drake find Quigley at home, dead with Caine--gun in hand-- standing over the body. ...
Which Caine over the body, the father or son?
Someone shoulda told this contractor the COI existed before he began work yet he took on the project anyway-- so too bad, so sad!?ÿ ????ÿ
Is that the episode which involves a Meander Line??ÿ Perry discusses whether or not a meander line is a boundary.
True, true, true. Have absolutely no idea if there if even a way to turn the TV on without the remote, let alone switch channels or adjust the sound level.
Have absolutely no idea if there if even a way to turn the TV on without the remote, let alone switch channels or adjust the sound level.
The few newer TV sets I've had occasion to use either have buttons on the side for those functions, or else touch-sensitive areas on the front labeled in thin gray letters or symbols on black background so you won't notice them.?ÿ I'll bet yours has something similar.
That tendency for consumer equipment designers to do their best to make labels hard to read has been around for a long time (now-old hi-fi equipment for example) and one of my perennial peeves.
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Which Caine over the body, the father or son?
Father.?ÿ
Just a wee bit more.
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Here is a classic 'Perry Mason' show as we get all the aspects of a mystery and all the cover-up of the cast members. And as we all know this leads to an exciting episode.
It begins when Peter Caine hits a man while driving home drunk. His passenger, Debra Bradford, takes control of the car and they leave the scene. The next day Peter feels bad about the accident but instead of reporting the incident to the police, Debra tells him that she has checked and the man is not severely injured and it would be better to buy his property, he has been trying to sell, so him and his wife can retire. Peter goes along.
Peter's father, William Cain, is the County Chief Engineer and is responsible for an aqueduct being built. When the project is stopped for possible re-route, which will bankrupt the contractor Roger Quigley, he learns that the land purchased for the new pathway goes right through the property that Peter Caine purchased. Sounds like conflict of interest by the Chief engineer.
When Roger Quigley is found dead, William Caine is seen holding the gun. Mr Caine will be defended in court by Perry and will have a tough job of going through the mounds of testimonial evidence that looks poor for his client.
A very nice mystery. We will learn there are more things going on in this episode than meets the eye. When one unlikely witness advises that they were driving in an all-night motor rally the house of cards being to fall. Good watch.
Right. There are a few other episodes that have a Survey element as well. In "Roving River" the surveyor is the murder victim. In another ("Crooked Candle") a surveyor is the murdererer - although no actual surveying is done on screen. "Difficult Detour" involves a fraudulently altered survey map - again, the surveyor is the murderer.
In "Barefaced Witness" one character is a surveyor and talks about his transit in dialogue. "Ruinous Road" has scenes of a transit and Philly Rod, with the girlfriend of the surveyor holding the rod seen through the scope. The surveyor in that case being Mason's railroaded client. Finally there is "Golden Oranges" which revolves around a subdivision under development, with one peripheral character (played by Lee Van Cleef) the engineer/surveyor.
The instant case, "Resolute Reformer", talks about having surveys (and "studies") done but no on screen characters are surveyors.
The butler did it...........................
No, just kidding.?ÿ But, a street named Butler was involved in helping Perry get to the truth.
You will be thrilled to know it was the engineer who did it.?ÿ He killed the contractor.?ÿ No, it wasn't Mr. Caine, the County Chief Engineer.?ÿ It was his underling engineer who had worked for him for 21 years.?ÿ A fellow named Kent with distinctive glasses with thick black rims, reminiscent of another Mr. Kent who wore distinctive glasses with thick black rims and used to hang out in telephone booths when he was in a hurry.?ÿ There was discussion of surveys and studies but no surveyor or actual surveying.?ÿ Perry did state that he had hired several reputable engineering firms to investigate the key issue.?ÿ One or two would have been plenty. No need for several.
The great thing about Erle Stanley Gardner stories are that there are always several potential guilty characters to choose from.?ÿ A common circumstance with the Perry Mason stories is that the defendant or a relative have already consulted with Perry for some reason then later are the person who discovers a murder has occurred.?ÿ As they always have a motive to commit murder, the police always decide they are guilty.
Oh, this is perfect.?ÿ The actor who played the murderer was the son of an engineer.?ÿ Probably took this role to take a shot at the old man.
He made at least one major mistake in real life.?ÿ He was the third husband of Joan Crawford of Mommy Dearest fame.?ÿ That had to be tough.
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The only child of a San Francisco couple, actor Phillip Terry was born Frederick Henry Kormann on March 7, 1909. His father, a chemical engineer in the oil fields, moved about in his work so Phillip was sent to live with relatives in New Jersey to achieve more stable schooling.
If you want to see how people are actually tried and convicted then check out The Wrong Man (1956), a Hitchcock docudrama starring Henry Fonda.
The great thing about Erle Stanley Gardner stories are that ....
1. The murder victim was (nearly) always a sonofabitch that needed killing
2. Mason's client was a long suffering rube with plenty of opportunity and motive
3. The real murderer's motive and opportunity was more obscure, but just as valid.?ÿ ?ÿ?ÿ
And, when Hamilton Burger is involved, and even sometimes when it's a different attorney, Perry's questioning will be labeled as incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial and not directly tied to the prior testimony. Also, the judge almost always notes the time and decides it is time for a recess, which normally provides Perry the time to get some key information. Time and again, someone, somewhere in the court room will confess and explain their justification.
not directly tied to the prior testimony
a.k.a. not part of the "res gestae"
Y??all knowing Perry mason reruns -by name- need to get a life...
Perhaps. But I'm practically ignorant of movies made since about 1980. Nearly all the good movies are in B&W.
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