8x1 – Der Fall mit dem strittigen Sorgerecht
Dirk Blake is in a tug of war with his wife over their daughter Button. He feels she is an unfit mother. He asked Vince Rome to obtain info to be used to fight his wife. Dirk is charged with murdering Vince after they are seen fighting.
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8x2 – Der Fall mit dem störrischen Stiefsohn
Jason Foster is running for senator but his teenage sister, whom he looks after, has fallen for Jason's opponent's stepson. When the stepson is murdered, Jason's wife is charged.
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8x3 – Der Fall mit dem berechnenden Bildhauer
While wealthy Mona Stanton Harvey is away, her husband tries to get access to $10,000 to pay a blackmailer. He uses his model to concoct his own blackmail scheme but it backfires when the model is murdered and Mona is charged with it.
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8x4 – Der Fall mit der nervenschwachen Nichte
Bruce Jay works as a secretary for the old curmudgeon, Abner Gordon, who has promised him $50,000. When Abner is killed, the spotlight is on his niece at the beginning as she shot him. But he was dead beforehand, so Bruce is charged.
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8x5 – Der Fall mit der betrogenen Braut
Marie Claudel trails her husband to the USA from France, as he left her and illegally married a wealthy heiress. When he is killed, she is charged as everyone begs Perry to help her. He must contend with very daffy and devious people.
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8x6 – Der Fall mit der keuschen Krankenschwester
Joanna Monford is a nurse tending to Rick Scott in Mexico. When Rick's brother appears saying there are problems with their uncle, Rick decides to return to L.A. and marry Joanna, but the uncle is killed and Joanna is charged.
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8x7 – Der Fall mit der herrischen Herzogin
Paul's friend, Bill Jaris, and his brother are fighting the matron of their town to keep their bowling alley open. She uses a health outbreak as an excuse to close it but the county health inspector is murdered. Bill is charged.
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8x8 – Der Fall mit dem mysteriösen Mitternacht
While in Europe, Perry makes a side trip, meeting the girlfriend of a family friend who's in the Army. He also meets an interesting group of characters. When an officer is murdered, his friend is suspected; Perry helps unravel the mystery.
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8x9 – Der Fall mit dem raffgierigen Regisseur
Movie producer Anthony Fry returns from Mexico supposedly engaged to aspiring actress Kathy Anders. In reality, she is trying to clear her father, who Fry claimed worked drunk on a film. When Fry is murdered, Kathy is seen leaving the site.
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8x10 – Der Fall mit dem verschlagenen Vertragspartner
Reba Burgess has kept a small mine functioning, which helps keep the locals in Burgess, California working, based on diamonds she found herself. When her dead husband's ex-partner returns, he wants half the diamonds but instead is killed.
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8x11 – Der Fall mit dem geisteskranken Gatten
Roy Galen is the head of the probation department, so when his friend's husband is arrested, he agrees to help by asking to have him examined. The husband says Roy is having an affair with his wife, so when she is killed, he is charged.
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8x12 – Der Fall mit dem merkwürdigen Münzsammler
Minerva Doubleday asks Paul to complete a secretive deal for her uncle involving the sale of a rare coin. Paul follows the instructions but finds himself at the uncle's shop where he stumbles into Minerva over a man shot to death.
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8x13 – Der Fall mit der blauäugigen Blondine
The gorgeous Dianne Adler is a friend of Della who has quit her job when a man signed her to a modeling contract that Perry discovers allows the agent to take half of any money she comes into. When the agent is murdered she is charged.
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8x14 – Der Fall mit dem kaltblütigen Kolumnisten
Adam Conrad, a junior engineer for a construction firm having cost issues, is uncovering issues with boss Joe Marshall. Joe frames Adam for embezzling causing Adam to go looking for Joe. Joe is murdered with Adam seen leaving the scene.
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8x15 – Der Fall mit der sentimentalen Sängerin
Backwoods Amy Jo Jennings arrives in LA to start a singing career. She is spotted by an agent who signs the naive girl to a contract. In reality she is a wealthy target of whom the agent takes advantage. When he is killed, she is charged.
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8x16 – Der Fall mit der trickreichen Taschendiebin
Lona Upton is tired of hearing her half-sister memorialize her dead husband so when Maxine Nichols arrives to return Lona's purse, she takes in Maxine as a friend. After Maxine steals a necklace and is murdered, Lona is charged with it.
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8x17 – Der Fall mit dem geheimnisvollen Gift
Lucille Forrest returns home after a year in Europe. Her husband died a year earlier and her son was killed before that. She believes her son was murdered and wants revenge. However, she is charged with killing the man she thinks did it.
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8x18 – Der Fall mit dem skrupellosen Spekulanten
Clyde Darrell is a young rising accountant at a company where the CEO's secretary has fallen in love with him. When she learns Clyde loves the niece of the CEO, she turns on him. After they have argued, she is found murdered.
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8x19 – Der Fall mit der gefährdeten Grabstätte
While in Hawaii to check on property for a hotel development, Perry is asked to help Anona Gilbert, who owns a critical piece of property. Her fiancé, who is involved in a scheme involving the land, breaks their engagement and is murdered.
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8x20 – Der Fall mit der kritischen Kunststudentin
Betty Kaster is offered the chance to live with her professor and his wife, who is recovering from an accident. She becomes suspicious that he may try to harm his wife who is set to inherit $2,000,000. When he is murdered, she is charged.
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8x21 – Der Fall mit dem absurden Aberglauben
Larry Germaine, asst. D.A. to Burger, has a girlfriend with expensive tastes. She is disliked by his mother and becomes a tool to make it look like Larry is messing with a legal case. He's seen over her body stabbed with his mother's prop.
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8x22 – Der Fall mit dem charmanten Schwindler
Italian Paulo Porro is seeing the sights and getting around by visiting Italian families. He visits the Bacio family which stirs up a family feud. The elder Bacio is killed and he is charged.
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8x23 – Der Fall mit der mörderischen Meerjungfrau
Paul meets aspiring actress Reggie Lansfield, who is game for stunts that will get her recognized. When she agrees to fill in for a famous female swimmer who is too ill to swim, the stunt blows up with the woman dead and Reggie charged.
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8x24 – Der Fall mit dem kranken Kätzchen
A frustrated Helen Kendall is living with her Aunt Matilda. She receives a call one night from a man claiming to be Matilda's husband, who has been missing for 10 years. Perry goes with her to meet him but they find another man - dead.
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8x25 – Der Fall mit der gestohlenen Geburtsurkunde
Danny Talbert, an LA cop, resigns when a mobster he is investigating contacts his family after Danny's dad dies. Danny's brother, Carl, works in his club and has been in trouble before. Danny is seen by Perry leaving the dead man's cabin.
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8x26 – Der Fall mit dem raffinierten Roulettebetrug
Peter Warren owns a novelty company and is divorcing his wife, who has developed a gambling habit. She becomes involved in a scheme to pass chips at Nevada casinos with evidence Peter made them. When she is murdered, Peter is charged.
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8x27 – Der Fall mit den ausgetauschten Aktenkoffern
Herbie Cornwall is a retired baseball player who is now working as a shoe insert salesman and not doing well while his gorgeous wife is an accountant at a store. After a fire in her office, she is murdered and her husband is charged.
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8x28 – Der Fall mit dem erstochenen Exzentriker
Perry helps Josephine Kempton after Della buys the diary of a girl who committed suicide. Her ex-boss has been telling people she is a thief so she sued him. Perry must rescue her from a gorilla trapping her with her dead boss.
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8x29 – Der Fall mit der erschwindelten Export-Lizenz
Ward Toyama is approached by a man claiming to be a government agent asking Ward to use his father's export business to help in a secret project. Ward comes to find the man is a first mate on a ship. When he is murdered, Ward is charged.
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8x30 – Der Fall mit der diebischen Doppelgängerin
Dorrie Ambler bursts into Perry's office so he can verify who she is. She won't give details but says she is mixed up in some scheme. Della spots a gun in her purse. When the man who hired her is killed, she is charged. But, who is she?
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