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Episode Guide > Season 2, Episode 4

Perry Mason: The Case of the Sardonic Sergeant

 

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Air Date

October 11, 1958

Production Code

278372

Episode Summary

Major Frank Lessing, a payroll officer on an Army base, is found murdered and Sgt. Joseph Dexter is charged with the crime. The case hinges on a payroll robbery committed in the Phillippines years before. It seems as though some of the bills from that robbery were turning up on the base.

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  • For those who are curious, the Uniform Code of Military Justice allows military personnel charged with crimes to retain civilian attorneys as legal counsel in military judicial proceedings. []
  • Kevin Hagen would return in TCOT Gambling Lady and TCOT Fugitive Fraulein. Hagen is most familiar to TV viewers for his roles as Doc Baker on Little House on the Prairie and Inspector Kobick on Land of the Giants. []
  • Barbara Luna appears in one of her earliest television roles in this episode. Ms. Luna is familiar to fans of One Life to Live as the villainous Maria Vasquez. []
  • Robert Armstrong is most familiar to movie goers as reporter Carl Denham in the 1933 classic King Kong. Armstrong would return in TCOT Malicious Mariner, TCOT Playboy Pugilist, and TCOT Accosted Accountant. []

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