Nothing to quote. Maybe the show needed Hamilton Burger to spice up the scripts. This was filmed during the period where he was fired.
An old guy (familiar “rich skinflint” as imdb.com calls Will Wright – he was the mean-spirited department store owner in Mayberry) was a property developer in LA and he began to think he couldn’t trust his adult dependent nephews, so he set a trap. Sure enough, he caught someone in his trap. And that someone later became the corpse du jour.
Perry and Paul discovered the victim’s body when they heard a car running in an enclosed garage. Paul opened the garage door, which was one of those one-piece jobs that tilt up. I’d forgotten such a thing existed. Paul has nice long arms and handled the door with ease. The guys looked at the body behind the wheel and said suicide. And then Paul took another look and noticed bruises on the man’s head. “I’ll call Lt. Tragg,” said Perry. Tragg always gets the cases that end up on TV.
One of the nephews (Bert Convy) was charged with the murder. At the end of the show Uncle Skinflint regrets not giving Bert a loan the time before when he asked and says he was happy to loan him money this time – for a honeymoon trip. Lucky bride who weds a man who has no job and has to borrow the funds for their honeymoon. She did not appear to have a source of income herself.
BTW, Burger’s replacement was some forgettable sort. When the camera landed on him at his courtroom table, I thought he was one of the suspects.
The first garage door automatically opened in this video on the "history" of garage-door openers is one of those tilt versions.