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In what may be television's most thankless role, William Talman costars as district attorney Hamilton Burger, who nearly every week loses what looked to be an open-and-shut case, usually as the result of some dramatic surprise witness (in one episode, a parrot!), an unorthodox legal maneuver, or a cross-examination courtroom confession ("I didn't mean to kill him, your honor"). There is no delving into Mason's private life, although one episode hints at Mason being something of a ladies man. When Della suggestively tells him a new client is in his waiting room, he replies, "Blonde or brunette?" Cleverly plotted, and infused with a palpable noir sensibility , Perry Mason holds up as more than TV Land nostalgia, although it is fun to see such familiar faces as Jesse "the Maytag Repairman" White, Edgar Buchanan (Petticoat Junction), and Joseph Kearns and Herbert Anderson from Dennis the Menace. No extras, but these entertaining episodes will definitely please the court. --Donald Liebenson
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Francis D. Lyon, Gerald Mayer, Jerry Hopper, Jack Arnold, John Peyser, John English, Gilbert Kay, Ted Post, Robert Sparr, Bernard L. Kowalski |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 21 September, 1957 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Paramount |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Box set, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Television |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| MPN: | D851554D |
| # OF MEDIA: | 4 |
| UPC: | 097368515543 |
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Perry Mason - Season 2, Vol. 1
Perry Mason and I go way back...I read the Earl Stanley Gardner books in the 60's and loved them. The DVD's are excellent. The best part is...no commercials.
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I know of at least two episodes where it "could" be said that Perry lost a case.
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>Towards the end of the first season, aired on CBS-TV in Spring 1958, is "The Case of the Terrified Typist", an episode title that was actually used for one of Erle Stanley Gardner's "Perry" novels.
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>In this episode, at least the CBS-TV version, Perry defends a client by the name of Duanne Jefferson. It turns out that the "real Duanne Jefferson" by name is NOT guilty, but the person who has stolen the identity of Duanne Jefferson is guilty. Perry makes this clear towards the end, and claims to have won the case, since the NAME of Duanne Jefferson is who he really defended, not the individual who stole the identity, depsite the fact that the identity thief is the defendant that is sitting next to Perry throughout the entire courtroom scenes.
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>In the 7th Season, 1963/64, and I guess we'll have to wait 5-7 more years for CBS/Viacom/Paramount to release the DVD set of season?, there is "The Case of the Deadly Verdict". This episode starts off in a darkened courtroom, late at night. The lights are switched on, and we realize that this is a darkened courtroom at night, but filled with spectators. One of them asks the bailiff who just switched-on the lights, if the jury has come to a decision. The jury then files in, takes their twelve seats in the jury box, and the Judge, as well as Perry & Della, and Burger and either Tragg or Lt.Anderson (played by Wesley Lau, NOT Lt.Steve Drumm from 1965/66 played by Richard Anderson), are also all present.
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>The jury is asked by the judge or bailiff if they've come to a verdict... which was that Perry's female client was GUILTY AS CHARGED! The judge asks Perry if he has a statement to make, to which Perry replies, "No, your honor, not at this time", or something like that, while the music score starts up and then fade to the first commercial!
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>Throughout the episode, Perry tries to get a brand new trial, or appeal the case to higher courts, etc. The client is being transferred to Death Row, and all... but by the end of the episode, Perry is able to reveal the REAL guilty murderer, get them to confesss to all including Hamilton Burger, and then get his client cleared and released.
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>But as for the first season DVD Release, and the DVD Release of the first half of the second season -- and probably all future seasons or half-seasons released, themselves .... they are all JUST PERECT!
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>Excellent video and audio quality, and great content quality!
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>The cars, the fashions for both men and women, the office decor, the decor in people's apartments or mansions, etc. are just SO perfectly 1950s/60s, even though they are in B&W, which itself is even a plus!
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>I grew up in the 1960s/70s watching reruns of "Perry" in rerun syndication to local TV stations, and then in then watched/taped reruns on cable TV stations in the 1980s/90s. Even a local broadcast station, actually the CBS-TV affiliate which originally signed on the air in my TV market in Fall 1957 when Perry also premiered, reran Perry in syndication in the late 1980s/early 1990s!
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>Perry is in there with other numerous B&W 1950s/60s TV shows since it made me appreciate B&W TV shows and movies of the era!
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>Another "plus" for the series in the music score used in most seasons' episodes, the same music score used in other CBS-owned TV and Radio series, such as Twilight Zone, Rawhide, Gunsmoke (radio and TV), Have Gun Will Travel (radio and TV), Suspense (CBS Radio), Johnny Dollar (CBS Radio), and also CBS Radio dramas of the 1970s-era... ALL of these great CBS-TV and CBS-Radio dramas of the 1950s/60s (and even CBS-Radio of the 1970s) used this same great "haunting" package of music score! Even a non-CBS series, "The Fugitive", ABC-TV, QM/UA Productions, 1963-67, "borrowed" from this CBS music score package (although "Fugitive" also used other music score packages as well, including music score used on the 1959-63 Desilu/QM "Untouchables")!
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>And I can't wait for the first half of the first season and later packages of "Fugitive" to be released on DVD, as well as further seasons/half-seasons of "Untouchables"!