Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter

Jan 6, 1991

1h 35m

★ 6.2

Overview

Perry is at TV station "KGGY" to be interviewed but thanks to the interference of main anchor-person Brett Huston the interview is pulled. Mostly everybody hates Brett as Brett knows all the station workers secrets. He has also written a memo insulting all of the main station players - Vic St. John - the station manager, Twyla Cooper - the producer, Chuck Gilmore - the sports reporter, Gary Slate - the weatherman, Cassie Woodfield - the reporter and Gillian Pope. Brett is shot dead with Gillian's gun and therefore is arrested for the crime. Gillian calls in Perry, Della and Ken to investigate. As Della and Perry set out to solve the mystery, Ken gets close to Cassie but she is a suspect and when it appears that somebody is trying to kill her, the mystery deepens..

Genres

Drama

TV Movie

Mystery

Crime

Production Companies

Dean Hargrove Productions

Fred Silverman Company

Viacom Productions

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Cast

Perry Mason

Raymond Burr

Della Street

Barbara Hale

Ken Malansky

William R. Moses

Twyla Cooper

Susan Sullivan

Vic St. John

Jerry Orbach

Cassie Woodfield

Mary Page Keller

Brett Huston

John James

Chuck Gilmore

Philip Michael Thomas

Al Shockley

Earl Billings

Sam Garza

Gary Giem

Judge Elinor Harrelson

Betsy Jones-Moreland

Gary Slate

Peter Jurasik

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