The Case of the Jilted Jockey: Perry Mason (TV Episode)

Plot

Jockey Billy Pearson, who skyrocketed to fame by winning big-time on the 1950s TV game show The $64,000 Question, is appropriately cast in this episode--not as a game-show winner, but as a jockey named Tic Barton. Banned from the track after losing a fixed race, Tic confronts the man who arranged the fix, racketeer Johnny Starr (Don Durant), knocking him down in the process. Naturally, when Johnny turns up dead, Tic is charged with the crime. Representing Tic in court, Perry (Raymond Burr) finds that the case against his client may be insurmountable--especially when it is revealed that the jockey's avaricious wife Gloria (Barbara Lawrence) was having an affair with the dead man. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi