
Defense attorney Perry Mason defends dozens of falsely accused people over the course of this long-running courtroom drama, and he manages to clear each and every one of them, usually by drawing out the real criminal on the witness stand. He is capably assisted by investigator Paul Drake and secretary Della Street, and is a continual thorn in the side of District Attorney Hamilton Burger.

A simple case of divorce and blackmail evolves into murder.

A fight for supposedly oil-rich land designated for a housing development ends in murder.

Perry's case involves a duck that almost drowned, a blackmailer and a man executed for murder years before.

Perry resorts to legal trickery to prove his client's innocence.