Are there other episodes where the case is solved with no courtroom trial as this episode was?
shareQuite a few. The best known is probably TCOT Velvet Claws, given that it's an adaptation of the first PM novel Gardner published.
shareThe Case of the Silent Partner with Lola Flory as employee/hostess at El Dorado
Club also has no trial/courtroom scene. Lola is the killer and this is one of
those "poisoned candy" episodes. She actually poisoned herself and yet the candy
was found to contain veronol, another name for sleeping pill medication.
TCOT Perjured Parrot technically was not a courtroom scene in that it was an coroner's inquest and not a trial or a preliminary hearing. It was more informal in that the coroner (Edgar Buchanan) kept on popping out of his seat.
shareSpeaking of Edgar Buchannon TCOT Lurid Letter had no courtroom scene. Instead it was a school board hearing.
shareThat's just a technicality. It was a court room scene in everything but name.
shareTCOT Lurid Letter had one of my favorite Paul Drake scenes. When the teenage thug attacked him and Perry with a wrench, Paul throws a pretty nifty smack down on him. It looked so natural, I wonder if William Hopper's UDT training came back to him?
sharePerry, Della, and Pal are interesting, appealing characters without their back stories. I'm glad a post-facto bio of each wasn't concocted during the series that would have slowed down the story.
shareA definite possibility. I remember watching TCOT Negligent Nymph for the first time, and I was impressed by Paul's dive into the water. When I watched the episode for the second time, I watched the scene in freeze-frame, and it is definitely William Hopper himself who dived into the water.
You may cross-examine.
Well, why not. He was a Navy diver in WWII.
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