Okay, so there was a thread that was about monthly paid law advice. Someone mentioned Perry Mason. Forgot about that show.
Watched every episode with my mom in black and white, multiple times.
How many of you all watched this and enjoyed it?
Nowadays we get crap programming with mediocre acting. I miss the shows of my childhood and before.

Anyways, how many of you miss ole Raymond Burr and his acting as Perry Mason?

I watched many episodes of the show.

If I recall, Los Angeles District Attorney Hamilton Burger was nicknamed Ham-burger.

We started watching it on Amazon Prime. Very good show.

Here in the Yoop, Mason appears in court twice a day on MEtv.
I always found Burrs portrayal of Mason as such an upright defender of the innocent as ironic, given his many 1950s roles as a villain or heavy.
And I enjoy the old cars on the show!

His lady assistant was beautiful. That much I do remember about the show. My mother looked like her in her youth.

Well, being the trivia dynamo I am, I carry around in my head a statistic about the TV show Perry Mason: Perry Mason tried 300 cases in the series and lost 3.

Thank you. I'll be signing copies of my new book What I know about the TV series Perry Mason in the lobby after this thread. Available in hard cover for 27.95 or paperback for 13.95.

I watched many episodes of that show. Always enjoyed it.

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And there was also Ironside. Burr as paralyzed cop turned police consultant.

Just got done watching Season 1 Perry Mason again that my Mom bought me on dvd. Loved the show, the characters Della was very hot and had a great voice, Paul was very funny and always drove a different car, Perry was very clever and a bit of a smart aleck . At the height of the show Raymond Burr was the highest paid actor in Hollywood

Excellent Theme Song, “Park Avenue Beat”.

Thank you for the trivia, 99%!

As a small child I was unclear why Perry Mason was in “Godzilla”.

I set the DVR in my Plex server to record the show off MeTV so now I have all the episodes. Not only do they still hold up well this many years later but my now 12 year old daughter even liked them.

The Raymond Burr series is currently available on Amazon Prime. I watched season 5, episode 10 last night, it initially aired in 1961, and was about a revolutionary rotary engine race car.

I first watched the series on reruns while attending high school in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As I recall it came on at 10PM weeknights, and I would always fall asleep before the ending wherein the guilty party would confess. So I almost never found out who dunnit.

I really enjoy the old cars.

My whole family used to watch it every week, gathered around an old DeForest TV. I was the youngest so I had to smack the tv to get the tubes to work. Great show. All the folks are gone now, but I remember it all. Pretty good drama for it’s time.

I still watch them. Paul Drake had some great lines, like, "It's a beat joint. No lights, no liquor, no laughs."

William Hopper, who played Paul Drake, was the son of the famous Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. It is said he was initially rejected for the role, until he intimated his mother may have a column or two pending if he did not.

Yep, I really enjoyed Perry Mason. Back when TV was good.

The complete series is available on DVD for a modest price. I bought the set for my lovely wife and we enjoy watching it during supper when there is nothing else on TV worth watching. (Which is quite frequently these days) I think I remember reading that William Hopper was a frogman during WWII and was under so much stress his hair turned white.

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Perry Mason, Combat, Mr. Ed and Walter Cronkite on CBS News, when it was mostly news.
Another Lawyer show in that era was The Defenders.

Immortalized by Mort Drucker in Mad #48, 1949:








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William Hopper, who played Paul Drake, was the son of the famous Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. It is said he was initially rejected for the role, until he intimated his mother may have a column or two pending if he did not.

He was also a Navy UDT and was awarded a Bronze Star for service in the Pacific.