This actually is a good story. You have Jason Foster (Richard Anderson) and Randolph Cartwell (Ford Rainey) running for state senate. Mr Cartwell's step-son is seeing Mr Foster's sister and this paves way for trouble in both election headquarters.
The boy, David Cartwell (Stewart Moss), also has some floating bad checks that just happens to be picked up by a rough guy that wants to use the checks to get a racetrack in the area. The girl, Susan Foster (Lynn Loring) lives with her brother and has already caused problems with Jason's bid for election. Anyway the boy, David Cartwell, ends up dead. And Mr Foster's wife, Margaret Foster (Jan Shepard) is accused of the murder. This leads Perry to defend Ms Foster in as neighboring jurisdiction away from the hall of the LA courthouse.
Everything is great up to this point. Then we have the courtroom scenes. And like Christmas Eve- we rush, at full speed, to the ending.
Most of the problem in this show was it needed longer than 52 minutes. And the writers spend most of the show's time getting to know the characters- there is not much time left to save Ms Foster and find the true murderer.
So we are left with a courtroom scene where there seems to be no rules or order of justice. There are spectators standing and giving testimony in the courtroom audience. Forget calling a witness, we go from one witness to another in the click of a camera in hopes of getting all the dialog presented before time expires. I felt like I was cooking a three minute egg and two minutes were gone.
There is also a weird scene in the courtroom where Susan Foster, played by Lynn Loring, is called to the stand. I hope she was not directed to acting in the scene because 'acting-up' was more of the wording. She goes into some fit and yelling at her brother accusing him of the murder. Then the very next scene they are hugged up like old time chums returning from war. How Ms Loring ever worked again is beyond me- she was bad.
Anyway this was a good story. This is one that could have been a real good 'Perry Mason' movie. Instead, the last 20 minutes, is like watching the last lap of the Daytona 500.
The boy, David Cartwell (Stewart Moss), also has some floating bad checks that just happens to be picked up by a rough guy that wants to use the checks to get a racetrack in the area. The girl, Susan Foster (Lynn Loring) lives with her brother and has already caused problems with Jason's bid for election. Anyway the boy, David Cartwell, ends up dead. And Mr Foster's wife, Margaret Foster (Jan Shepard) is accused of the murder. This leads Perry to defend Ms Foster in as neighboring jurisdiction away from the hall of the LA courthouse.
Everything is great up to this point. Then we have the courtroom scenes. And like Christmas Eve- we rush, at full speed, to the ending.
Most of the problem in this show was it needed longer than 52 minutes. And the writers spend most of the show's time getting to know the characters- there is not much time left to save Ms Foster and find the true murderer.
So we are left with a courtroom scene where there seems to be no rules or order of justice. There are spectators standing and giving testimony in the courtroom audience. Forget calling a witness, we go from one witness to another in the click of a camera in hopes of getting all the dialog presented before time expires. I felt like I was cooking a three minute egg and two minutes were gone.
There is also a weird scene in the courtroom where Susan Foster, played by Lynn Loring, is called to the stand. I hope she was not directed to acting in the scene because 'acting-up' was more of the wording. She goes into some fit and yelling at her brother accusing him of the murder. Then the very next scene they are hugged up like old time chums returning from war. How Ms Loring ever worked again is beyond me- she was bad.
Anyway this was a good story. This is one that could have been a real good 'Perry Mason' movie. Instead, the last 20 minutes, is like watching the last lap of the Daytona 500.