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Perry Mason/The Case of the Final Fade-Out
| The Case of the Final Fade-Out | |
| Season 9, Episode 30 | |
| Airdate | May 22, 1966 |
| Written by | Ernest Frankel & Orville H. Hampton |
| Directed by | Jesse Hibbs |
| Produced by | Arthur Marks, Art Seid |
| ← 9x29 The Case of the Crafty Kidnapper |
TV Movie 1 → Perry Mason Returns |
| Perry Mason — Season Nine | |
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The Case of the Final Fade-Out is the thirtieth episode of the ninth season of Perry Mason, and the two hundred seventy-first episode overall.
Starring: Raymond Burr (Perry Mason), Barbara Hale (Della Street), William Hopper (Paul Drake), William Talman (Hamilton Burger)
Richard Anderson (Lt. Steve Drumm)
James Stacy (Barry Conrad), Estelle Winwood (Winifred Glover), Jackie Coogan (Pete Desmond), Denver Pyle (Jackson Sidemark), Dick Clark (Leif Early), Gerald Mohr (Andy Rubin), Marlyn Mason (Erna Landry), Kenneth MacDonald (Judge One), William Tannen (Studio Guard), Margaret Shinn (Starlet #1), Linda Burton (Starlet #2), Maureen Crow (Adlib), Louis Elias (Stunt Man No. 1), Saul Gorss (Stunt Man No. 2), Lee Miller (Sgt. Brice)
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Plot Overview
The difficult star of a TV Western series is killed on set after someone replaces the blanks in a gun with real bullets. Perry defends the series' producer on the murder charge and clears him, but when the producer turns up dead, he has a new client, the aging film legend who discovered the murdered actor. He suspects that the same killer is responsible for both murders.
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Trivia
The Show
This being the series' final episode, the producers came up with a novel way to honor the crew for all their hard work on the series, and many members of the production crew appear as extras in the episode. Denver Pyle's character's name gives viewers a clue as to where to find Executive Producer Gail Patrick Jackson...his character's name is Jackson Sidemark (Jackson, side mark).
