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The Case of the Prankish Professor: Directed by Jesse Hibbs. With Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman. Laura Hewes' divorce is nearly complete.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Jesse Hibbs
- 1963-01-17
"Perry Mason" The Case of the Prankish Professor (TV Episode 1963) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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From The Perry Mason TV Show Book (Revised) Professor Ronald Hewes suspects someone of trying to murder him. The stuffy, condescending English teacher is (secretly) the author of the salacious best-selling novel, L’Affaire Annabelle. Trouble is, he stole the idea for the book from a term paper written by one of his former students, who had killed h...
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Starring Raymond Burr in The Case of THE PRANKISH PROFESSOR Based upon characters created by Erle Stanley Gardner Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman, Ray Collins
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Directed by Jesse Hibbs Written by Robert C. Dennis Arthur Marks | Producer Gail Patrick Jackson | Executive Producer Jackson Gillis | Associate Producer Samuel Newman | Story Consultant Raymond Burr as Perry Mason Barbara Hale as Della Street William Hopper as Paul Drake Wiliam Talman as Hamilton Burger Ray Collins as Lt. Tragg Wesley Lau as Lt. Anderson
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Kent Smith as Dr. Curtis Metcalfe Constance Towers as Esther Metcalfe Patricia Breslin as Laura Hewes Barry Atwater as Professor Hewes Don Dubbins as Ned Bertell Joyce Van Patten as Sally Sheldon John Gallaudet as Judge Barbara Pepper as Mrs. Williamson Jack Searl as Ollie Benson John Bryant as Mike Estridge Lee Miller as Sgt. Brice Harold Goodwin as Clerk Chris Washburnas Moncton Uncredited Actors Bert Stevensas: 1. Bookstore Patron (exiting) 2. Hotel Guest
This would be the final of four appearances on Perry for Barbara Pepper playing Mrs. Williamson. Her first appearance was way back in 1957, TCOT Vagabond Vixen. Hard as it may be to believe now, Ms. Pepper began her career as a chorus girl for Ziegfeld Follies. She was a platinum blonde blue-eyed knockout until her husband’s accidental death in 194...
Ned was a graduate student so had to be at least 21. The killer said they did it in part to protect Ned because he could have been expelled for getting another student pregnant. I realize it was 1963, but considering this was a college, why should the possibility of students "dating" have any bearing on their ability to attend school? Back in the 1...
When he is murdered, Laura is charged. Professor Ronald Hewes, English professor at Euclid College, stages an exercise in observation in which someone he's hired bursts into his creative-writing class and shoot him with a gun loaded with blanks. The students are quickly calmed, but when he returns to his office the fake gunman that had he fired ...
This is the first of two Perry appearances for Kent Smith, the second being The Case of the Prankish Professor (1963) as Dr. Curtis Metcalfe. It's always good to see the ever-handsome Kent Smith. He was so perfect in those 1940s films. jfh 04Oct2017.
Perry Mason season 6 The Case of the Prankish Professor - Metacritic. Summary There are few actors so closely tied to a persona than Raymond Burr as Perry Mason. This long-running series was built upon Erle Stanley Gardner´s many novels about a brilliant defense lawyer and his staff, that solved many a crime with surprise witnesses and stern ...
The Case of the Prankish Professor. Available on Prime Video, Amazon Freevee. S6 E15: A professor's estranged wife is accused of murdering her husband shortly after he stages a fake shooting in one of his classes. Crime Jan 17, 1963 43 min. TV-G.
