An 1871 Malay States Commemorative Medal and a Far East coin collection
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"Perry Mason" was a one-hour television program which ran on the CBS television network from
1957 to 1966.
This episode is titled "The Case of the Captain's Coins" and was first broadcast on January 13, 1962.
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1. Program title
A passenger ship is shown to to introduce the fictional Farraday shipping company.
2. SS Mariposa
The SS Mariposa was owned by the Matson Lines shipping company.
3. Ben Farraday holding bag of coins
The "rare coins" in the bag are not treated very well being mixed together.
The collection's owner, Nickolas Trevelian, is a renown coin collector who is loaning his
"Far East" coin collection to a local museum for an exhibit.
4. Philip Andrews, Evelyn Farraday, Henry Cosgrove
Henry Cosgrove manages the local museum. He explains the Farraday family story.
5. Perry Mason, Della Street, Philip, Evelyn, Paul Drake
Della Street is Perry's assistant and Paul Drake runs a detective agency.
6. Ben Farraday and the coin collection
The coin collection is spilled onto the floor but the medal is missing.
7. Interviewing Philip and Trevelian
Philip becomes the chief suspect and is arrested.
Trevelian states that he has photographs of the coin collection including the medal.
8. Coins on the table
The coins are various foreign (non-US) coins and tokens.
9. Mason interviews photo shop owner
The shop owner describes the coin and the picture on it.
10. Paul, Della, Perry meet Trevelian at Farraday house
Trevelian shows them a photograph of himself and the collection.
11. Photo of Trevelian holding tray
Behind Trevelian is a picture of a British East Africa shilling which is dated 1941.
The coins in the tray are mostly the same ones on the table earlier.
Trevelian then points to a coin in the tray which is the infamous medal.
12. Developing photograph of medal
Old photographs of Thomas and Jonathan Farraday are compared to the medal picture.
13. Matching old Farraday photographs with medal
They conclude that the man on the medal is Thomas, the clerk who died.
14. Courtroom preliminary hearing starts
Philip Andrews is being tried for the murder of Ben Farraday.
15. Hamilton Burger questions Carter Farraday
Carter explains about the face on the medal and the consequences for the firm,
including that the "have-not" branch of the family will get a lot of money.
16. Hamilton questions Mrs. Ionescu
Mrs. Ionescu explains that her husband bought the medal from a dealer and that a
certificate of authenticity found later with the medal was a forgery not issued by the dealer.
17. Perry questions Edward Farraday
Edward Farraday explains Ben's scheme to send someone to Hong Kong with a fake certificate
and insert it into the Ionescu files.
18. Ship officer Evans confesses
Evans confesses that he had the medal and attempted to sell it to Ben.
Ben demanded that Evans give to him and they fought in the office leaving Ben dead.
19. Perry talks to Evelyn and Philip
He tells them that Uncle Carter and Trevelian are giving them something.
20. Evelyn and Phil with an envelope
It is, of course, the medal.
21. The 1871 Malay States Commemorative medal
Paul Drake asks "That face launched a thousand ships?."
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Cast, Directors, Writers:
Raymond Burr as Perry Mason
Barbara Hale as Della Street William Hopper as Paul Drake William Talman as Hamilton Burger Joan Patrick as Evelyn Farraday Herbert Rudley as Ben Farraday (Manager) Parley Baer as Edward Farraday Jay Novello as Nickolas Trevelian (Coin collector) Arthur Franz as Evans (Ship purser) Writers: Erle Stanley Gardner, Adrian Gendot |
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