On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 7:05 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:

> One of my brothers loved watching Perry Mason reruns in college. Then
> again, he did a lot of drugs and drank excessively in college.
>

MeTV shows Mason reruns at 11:30 PM and I've seen a few whole episodes
while preferred late night shows were in rerun and lots of scenes when
switching over during commercials on the talk shows. They're pretty uneven
which is to be expected in a show that ran so many episodes for so many
years. The good episodes are interesting to watch. And it's always fun to
catch Angie Dickinson or James Drury or other actors before they became
names.

I also got a Perry Mason novel from the library to compare. Erle Stanley
Gardner was an attorney and Mason spent a lot more time in his office and
less at crime scenes. Paul Drake was described as skinny with a hawklike
nose and he was written as someone who would be pals with underworld types
like Nick Charles. Mason also had a law clerk for research and there was a
newspaper reporter he would go to when he wanted to get his side of the
story into the press.

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