Perry Mason

Perry Mason (1957)

31 mistakes - chronological order

(25 votes)

The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink - S1-E13

Plot hole: Perry Mason and Della Street are having dinner at a restaurant owned by Morey Allen. When waitress Dixie Dayton sees a diner who has been stalking her, she flees and is hit by a car. The next morning, Perry's incoming mail includes a retainer from Allen. His letter and check would not have arrived until the following day, at the earliest.

Steven Lee

The Case of the Empty Tin - S1-E25

Other mistake: Elston Carr, hoping to locate a former business partner's daughter, has a notice printed in the newspaper. His address is 133 North Remuda Drive in Los Angeles. When his home is shown, the number painted on the curb is 3972.

Steven Lee

The Case of the Substitute Face - S1-E32

Revealing mistake: While Perry and two other men are drinking brandy at a table onboard a ship, stock footage of a storm at sea is shown. To simulate the rocking motion of the ocean, the camera slowly tilts from side to side. This is obvious because the surface of the brandy in the glasses also tilts. If the ship were really rocking, the surface of the brandy would remain horizontal.

Steven Lee

The Case of the Lucky Loser - S2-E2

Visible crew/equipment: After leaving her husband at train station, Harriet takes a cab to meet a man at a cabin. After a few mins, she takes the man's car to go home. As she drives away, there's a reflection of a man, in suit with glasses (possibly the director) standing offscreen. (00:05:20)

Keiferct

The Case of the Pint-Sized Client - S2-E3

Other mistake: In an abandoned house, a 14-year-old boy finds a satchel filled with money taken in a holdup at a finance company. He uses $50 to buy a robe for his grandfather, then hides the rest of the money in his grandfather's house. During the trial of the grandfather, who is accused of being one of the holdup men, the police lieutenant says, "We found all the money except for $12,000. We conducted a second search of the home and found the rest of it." He should have noted that $50 was missing.

The Case of the Deadly Toy - S2-E27

Plot hole: Claire Allison spends the night in an upstairs bedroom in the Jennings' home. In the middle of the night, she opens a walk-in closet to get another blanket and finds a small printing press. Later in the day, Claire returns to the home, accompanied by Perry Mason, who tells Mr. Jennings that Claire has received threatening letters from Mrs. Jennings' former husband, who still has a key to the Jennings' home, and the printing press may have been used to address the envelopes. Mr. Jennings says, "We'd better investigate" and immediately goes upstairs and opens the closet, even though neither Claire nor Perry Mason said where Claire saw the printing press.

Hamilton Burger: Incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial.

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