Mona Freeman is the Perry Mason client in this episode. She and husband Bill Williams are the owners of the Los Angeles Wildcats pro football team, but things aren't happy. All those around Freeman on the team, coach Robert Quarry, team announcer, Regis Toomey, equipment manager Karl Swenson, and business manager John Conte take her side against the unpopular Williams. As for Williams he's a boorish lout with a big gambling problem who keeps threatening to sell the team to pay off his bookies.
When Williams dies as a result of an arson fire there are a lot of alternative suspects, not just the ones I mention. But it's Freeman who is arrested.
When the Perry Mason series started there was a lot of antagonism between Hamilton Burger and Perry Mason. Over the years a certain professional respect grew between the two of them. But in this episode William Talman returned to the old days. But considering how Raymond Burr blew the DA's case apart, Talman can be forgiven a bit of hostility.
In fact the solution here was like no other I saw on the television series, but the same gambit was used in one of the Perry Mason films.
When Williams dies as a result of an arson fire there are a lot of alternative suspects, not just the ones I mention. But it's Freeman who is arrested.
When the Perry Mason series started there was a lot of antagonism between Hamilton Burger and Perry Mason. Over the years a certain professional respect grew between the two of them. But in this episode William Talman returned to the old days. But considering how Raymond Burr blew the DA's case apart, Talman can be forgiven a bit of hostility.
In fact the solution here was like no other I saw on the television series, but the same gambit was used in one of the Perry Mason films.