The Case of the Fatal Fetish

Episode aired Mar 4, 1965
1h

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

301

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Crime Drama Mystery

Larry Germaine, asst. D.A. to Burger, has a girlfriend with expensive tastes. She is disliked by his mother and becomes a tool to make it look like Larry is messing with a legal case. He's s... Read allLarry Germaine, asst. D.A. to Burger, has a girlfriend with expensive tastes. She is disliked by his mother and becomes a tool to make it look like Larry is messing with a legal case. He's seen over her body stabbed with his mother's prop.Larry Germaine, asst. D.A. to Burger, has a girlfriend with expensive tastes. She is disliked by his mother and becomes a tool to make it look like Larry is messing with a legal case. He's seen over her body stabbed with his mother's prop.

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IMDb RATING

7.6/10

301

YOUR RATING

8User reviews

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Trivia
Raymond Burr's right arm is injured and is hidden under his coat. At the beginning of the story, it is not in the coat sleeve but under the coat. This also can be seen when he is sitting at the defense table. The camera never shows his right arm. Closeups of his face are used when he is in the scene, or, as in the final scene, his right arm is hidden (behind Gary Collins).

Goofs
Because Larry is an employee of Hamilton Burger, it would be unethical for Burger or anyone in his office to handle the prosecution. A special prosecutor would have been named.

Quotes
Paul Drake: Realities? Someone sticks a knife in a rag doll, then a curvy blond doll takes a step into nowhere. Some realities.

Connections
Spoofs Black Moon (1934)

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Featured review

4/10

That VooDoo that Fay does so well

This was one of the more off the wall episodes that the Perry Mason series ever had. The story went deep into melodrama with a young ADA in Hamilton Burger's office led down a garden path by a vixen who's got several men on a string.

The vixen is Karen Steele and the young ADA is Gary Collins. Collins is accused of tanking an investigation into corrupt activities of a pharmaceutical company president Douglas Kennedy. And it's on the word of Steele. Later on she winds up dead with Collins sitting over the body.

Where Collins got hired was through the intercession of his mother Fay Wray who has a nightclub voodoo act. It's intimated ever so gently that William Talman as Burger and Wray might have been item back in the day. If so it's one of the only times I remember Hamilton Burger having any kind of personal life hinted at. In fact William Talman has a great deal more screen time away from the courtroom than usual.

The plot wandered all over the lot though in this episode and you might have difficulty in following it.

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