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	Perry Mason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Perry Mason is also the name of a television series which ran for nine seasons starting in 1957 and starred Raymond Burr in the title role.
		While the Mason novels were largely a form of pulp fiction of the sort that began Gardner's writing career, they are somewhat unusual in that the whodunnit mysteries usually involved two solutions: one which the authorities believed (in which case Mason's client was guilty) and an alternative explanation (in which Mason's client was innocent).
		Mason was portrayed by Raymond Burr in a television series which ran on CBS from 1957 to 1966.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Perry_Mason (2149 words)

	Perry Mason
		Perry Mason is the longest running lawyer show in American television history.
		Mason's fans include lawyers and judges who were influenced by this series to enter their profession.
		Mason, played by Raymond Burr, is teamed with two talented and ever faithful assistants: trusty and beautiful secretary Della Street, played by Barbara Hale, and the suave but boyish private detective Paul Drake, played by William Hopper.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/P/htmlP/perrymason/perrymason.htm (1041 words)

	Perry Mason - The Arc of Justice
		Perry Mason might sometimes get physical in subduing a murderer, but for the most part he did his fighting in the courtroom, using brains instead of brawn.
		Perry Mason may "bend" the law at times, but it's always in the service of justice: defending the innocent and rooting out the guilty.
		The universe in ESG's novels (and in the Perry Mason TV series) is a moral universe, one which is tough, gritty, and disturbingly realistic at times, but one in which justice always ultimately prevails.
	wildfaith.homestead.com /perrymason.html (607 words)

	PERRY MASON \| A TELETRONIC CLASSIC TV DRAMA REVIEW
		Perry (Como) won the initial battle, but a growing number of viewers became hooked on Perry (Mason); by the second season, Mason was beating Como in the ratings.
		Perry Mason's formula was straightforward yet predictable: A murder would be committed in the first act; Perry and his team would get involved to chase down clues and talk to the involved parties in the second and third acts.
		Perry Mason Returns aired in December 1985 on NBC; millions of viewers made it the highest-rated show for its week, proving the staying power of the franchise and the formidable talents of Burr.
	www.teletronic.co.uk /perrymason.htm (2029 words)

	Perry Mason
		The name Perry Mason was used for the Raymond Burr series, which had a whole new cast and which dropped the soap-opera elements.
		Perry never lost a case and this seemed to make D.A. Burger even more determined to to convict at least one of Mason's clients.
		Perry Mason was revived in 1973 with an all-new cast (by then, Raymond Burr was playing wheelchair-bound, Ironside).
	www.geocities.com /TelevisionCity/9348/perry_mason.htm (507 words)

	The Perry Mason TV Show Book (1.0)
		At one Point, Gardner's publishers had figured out that Perry Mason fans were buying his books at a rate of two thousand copies an hour, eight hours a day, six days a week, fifty-two weeks a year.
		"Perry Mason represents a member of the legal profession who is fighting for human rights and liberties," he wrote in the same article.
		He was once described as a kind of "preachy son of a bitch." Just as the character of Perry Mason was derived in good part from Gardner himself, a large measure of Gardner's life was taken up by Perry Mason.
	www.perrymasontvshowbook.com /pmb_c100.htm (2115 words)

	KBYU-TV \| TV Classics
		Perry Mason is hired by the wife of an Army officer to represent him before a general court-martial on a murder charge, but when he appears at the man's Army post he finds his client dead.
		Perry Mason is asked for advice on how to break a contract concerning a cure for gill fever developed by his client, but the case is complicated by murder, with Mason's chief client as suspect.
		Perry Mason goes to the aid of the district attorney of a nearby county who has been threatened with flmail because of a probe into alleged public building graft.
	www.kbyutv.org /tvclassics/perrymason (732 words)

	Perry Mason - Nostalgia Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		Perry Mason was television's most successful and longest running lawyer series, and was previously featured in films and on a radio series on CBS between 1943 and 1955.
		Perry being Perry, of course, went out and got the evidence himself, clearing her name anyway (the device that made the drama more of a mystery series than a legal show).
		Perry Mason returned to CBS for a short time in 1973 as The New Adventures Of Perry Mason, with Monte Markham as the title character, Sharon Acker as Della and Albert Stratton as Drake, but it didn't catch on.
	www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/drama/perrymason.htm (455 words)

	Perry Mason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		Perry went from being a respected member of the legal profession to being regarded by the police, judges and legal colleagues as something of an "old coot".
		Perry Mason was clever until you've seen an episode of Law and Order, and you realize that the show is so phony, written by people who have never been in court even to dispute a parking ticket.
		Perry Mason was a standard whodunit, which had more intelligence about it than successors like Murder She Wrote, Matlock, etc. You have to get past the 50's style acting and dialogue, but the stories are always interesting.
	www.jumptheshark.com /p/perrymason.htm (5660 words)

	Carleton College Professor Perry Mason Named to Sawyer Chair
		The five-year appointment honors Mason for his skills in mentoring colleagues in teaching, scholarship, and service, and for his ability to forge consensus on difficult issues, particularly through his leadership in important administrative roles and on key committees.
		Mason's areas of scholarly interest focus on the philosophy of religion, ancient Greek philosophy, the philosophy of psychiatry, and the philosophy of the social sciences.
		Mason has been chair of the faculty and of the philosophy department, spent three years as the vice president for external relations, and has served five separate terms on the College Council, an elected group whose members govern policies that concern the life of the campus at large.
	www.carleton.edu /campus/news/pr/PerryMason.html (693 words)

	Perry Mason TV Series: The Office
		The other doors are identified descriptively: the Law Library entrance door (from Perry's office), the Law Library hall door (to the reception area), the Law Library door to Della's office, the door behind Della's desk, the door behind Gertie's desk, the odd other door in Gertie's office and the mysterious door near the balcony.
		The bust of Voltaire in Perry's office moves along the wall between the entry door and the door to the law library.
		A waste basket on the angled wall between Perry's desk and the balcony wall was inferred from episode #108, The Case of the Envious Editor, where said waste basket is heard but not seen as Perry tosses something into it.
	www.perrymasontvseries.com /pm_office.htm (1705 words)

	COURTTV.COM ONAIR - PERRY MASON
		The world's most famous defense lawyer was created by attorney-turned-author Erle Stanley Gardner in his 1933 novel "The Case of the Velvet Claws." Six Perry Mason movies, a radio series, and even a comic strip (!) were created before Raymond Burr stepped into the title role for the 1957 premiere of the CBS television series.
		"Perry Mason" logged 271 one-hour episodes between its premiere in 1957 and the time it went off the air in 1966.
		She was considered to be such an important component of the Perry Mason success that, when offered the part for the TV movies, Raymond Burr insisted that he would not return unless Hale was brought back to play Della Street.
	www.courttv.com /onair/shows/perry_mason (527 words)

	Perry Mason Quiz
		Perry was so busy defending the innocent that he didn't have much time for hobbies.
		Perry finally asks her what's wrong and Della answers with the question: "Perry, how far would you go for a friend?".
		In the movie, Perry's investigating is done by Paul Drake, Jr., the son of the late Paul Drake.
	www.kbyutv.org /tvclassics/perrymason/quiz.html (276 words)

	Classic TV & Movie Hits - Perry Mason
		Perry Mason is a fictional defense attorney who originally appeared in novels by Erle Stanley Gardner.
		Perry was assisted by his secretary, Della Street (Barbara Hale) and always thorough Private Detective, Paul Drake (William Hopper), along with Gertie Lade, Mason's receptionist, played by Connie Cezan.
		Warren William starred in a series of Perry Mason movies from 1934 through 1936, and Donald Woods starred in the 1937 The Case of the Stuttering Bishop.
	www.classictvhits.com /show.php?id=271 (299 words)

	Perry Mason TV Series: The Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		The police and prosecution are often confounded by Perry's fancy footwork and almost illegal shenanigans.
		Perry solves the case and usually gets the guilty party to break down and confess (often while giving testimony on the witness stand).
		After the last commercial, Perry and some of the participants in the case get together and all is explained.
	www.perrymasontvseries.com /pm_show.htm (118 words)

	NPR : Perry Mason, Present at the Creation
		The first Perry Mason novel, The Case of the Velvet Claws, was published in 1933, and from the beginning Gardner had a very definite vision of the shape the character would take.
		The success of Gardner's novels convinced Hollywood that Perry Mason was a viable franchise, and a series of movies based on the character were produced, but met with little success.
		Of course, Burr was Perry Mason, and in the course of the show's initial nine-year run (from 1957-66), he nearly exhausted the possibilities for criminal defense.
	www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/patc/perrymason/index.html (946 words)

	Burr, Raymond
		In 1955 when he learned that the lawyer/detective drama Perry Mason was being cast for television, Burr was requested to audition--but for the part of district attorney Hamilton Burger, another "villain".
		At the time of Perry Mason's popularity Burr was one of the highest paid actors in series television, commanding a yearly salary of $1 million.
		During his time on Perry Mason, Burr and his character gradually merged so much that when the series was recast in 1973 with Monte Markham in the title role the audience refused to accept anyone else as Mason.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/B/htmlB/burrraymond/burrraymond.htm (1226 words)

	Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer - Movie Info - Moviefone
		Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
		Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason represents a former student who is accused of murdering a singing star.
		Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer - Cast, crew, movie showtimes, Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer info, trailer, plot summary,...
	movies.aol.com /movie/perry-mason-the-case-of-the-silenced-singer/1088367/main (218 words)

	Perry Mason ch. 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		Perry Mason is now most commonly known through syndicated reruns of the CBS television series that was first broadcast between September 1957 and May 1966, though this is only a part of the whole picture.
		Perry Mason is highly symbolic material in that it manipulates conventions of genre, form, and language to affect its commercial cultural product.
		Perry Mason was his first novel-length character, the one he wrote the most about, and the one who has most often appeared in television, motion pictures, radio, and other popular media.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/bounds1.htm (13183 words)

	Perry Mason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		At least the first two Mason novels, "The Case of the Velvet Claws" and "The Case of the Sulky Girl," were written in Gardner's law office before he became a full-time writer.
		Gardner's basic formula for the "Perry Mason" series was simple and effective, and it translated well to episodic television: Mason's client is innocent; Mason uncovers evidence that proves someone else committed the crime; and Mason gets the guilty party to confess, often on the witness stand.
		Mason didn't shy away from pushing the bounds of the law and resorting to legal trickery, but he often won his case by examining facts neglected by the prosecution.
	www.mysterynet.com /tv/profiles/perrymason (864 words)

	Perry Mason Photos--Slightly Paul-centric (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		The print of Mason they were airing was quite washed out (as are many of those in syndication), and I thought there might've been something a bit weird going on with his eyes.
		I said to myself, "So this is Perry Mason." I'd heard of the programme and had confused it with Ironside, or mixed it with Ironside, I should say; I thought Perry Mason was about a lawyer in a wheelchair.
		The reasons for my conjecture: His marriage is said (in The Perry Mason TV Show Book) to have gone on the rocks, so to speak, in 1962; he has a stepson; his stepson's mother (whomever she may be) dated Lenny Bruce.
	www.vividinfinity.com /perry_mason/notebook.html (5728 words)

	PMESG
		The currently televised versions of the Perry Mason mysteries with Raymond Burr as our hero that you are viewing (probably on the Hallmark cable channel) may be corrupted.
		The Perry Mason episodes were produced at 52 minutes back when only 8 minutes were taken for commercials.
		To view a listing of the Columbia House videos of the Perry Mason episodes in the order they were broadcast, CLICK HERE.
	www.storrer.com /masongardner/pmesg.htm (2493 words)

	Perry Mason: Perry Mason Returns - TV.com
		They then arrest her, and she then asks her old friend, Perry Mason, who is now an appellate court judge, to recommend someone who can defend her.
		Mason says that the best person who can defend her is him.
		This episode and the numerous Perry Mason reunion movies that followed aired on NBC not CBS.
	www.tv.com /perry-mason/perry-mason-returns/episode/81490/summary.html (531 words)

	Perry Mason
		Mason is definitely seen as a sort of Sam Spade-like character, willing to twist the law to serve his own higher ideals of justice.
		Nearly everyone is familiar with the Perry Mason in the hard-hitting novels of Erle Stanley Gardner and his ten year run on CBS television starring Raymond Burr.
		Mason's first appearances in comics were two comic book adaptations of Gardner novels in the late forties, in two issues of David McKay's Feature Books (issues 49 and 50, for those of you keeping scores).
	www.thrillingdetective.com /mason.html (1121 words)

	Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake - Movie Info - Moviefone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake
		Recommendations for Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake...
		Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake - Cast, crew, movie showtimes, Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake info, trailer, plot summary,...
	movies.aol.com /movie/perry-mason-the-case-of-the-lady-in-the-lake/1088356/main (253 words)

	Perry Mason TV Show - Perry Mason Television Show - TV.com
		Perry gets his accused killer off the hook but then HE turns up dead and an aging, eccentric actress is blamed for that one.
		Perry Mason the original attorney who could make a criminal sing the song of confession this real life drama touches the soul so deep you'd think you were the guilty.
		Perry Mason is the show that hooked me on crime dramas.
	www.tv.com /perry-mason/show/1039/summary.html (553 words)

	Perry Mason Television Series
		Perry never lost (OK, there was that one nagging case when the defendant would not help Perry get her acquitted.) and Hamilton Burger never won.
		Even though he is not the only person to play the famous lawyer, he is the one with the most longevity - playing in most of the 271 TV episodes, as well as the later batch of television movies.
		He will probably not be the last incarnation of Perry Mason, but it will be a while before another person can be cast in this role and be able to avoid his large shadow.
	www.grooviespad.com /esg/tv/OriginalSeries.htm (335 words)

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