Perry Mason (TV Series)

The Case of the Libelous Locket (1963)

Michael Rennie: Prof. Edward Lindley

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Quotes 

• Hamilton Burger : Don't tell me you're planning to call a surprise extra-terrestrial witness, Professor?

  Prof. Edward Lindley : [giving a slight smile]  I might just do that, Mr. Burger.

• Prof. Edward Lindley : Could they be footprints?

  Lt. Andy Anderson : Red and five feet apart? Not unless they were left by a Martian nine feet tall.

• [first lines] 

  Prof. Edward Lindley : [lecturing to class]  Unlike the ancient legal code of Hammurabi, our laws are not forever chiseled out on 2-ton stone tablets, as some lawyers seem to think. Law is like language... changing, growing, maturing. When you become lawyers, remember this.

• [last lines] 

  Perry Mason : Professor, do you still believe the perfect trial lawyer is a cross between a parrot and a jackass?

  Prof. Edward Lindley : No, Mr. Mason. I now believe the perfect trial lawyer needs the eye of an eagle, the heart of a lion, and a lot of help.

  Perry Mason : My sentiments exactly.

• Prof. Edward Lindley : Someone once said, if you could cross a parrot with a jackass, you'd have the perfect trial lawyer. The parrot to remember the rules of court procedure, the jackass to bray them out.