I watched the original run as a kid, but am lately more familiar with the films of the 30s, where Perry has gone from running a thriving practice in Los Angeles with dozens of associates and investigators to having a solo practice in San Francisco, where he's known for being a bon vivant and gourmet chef. By the third film, he's introduced as being dead drunk on the floor. I have no idea if this was considered a character arc by Warner Bros., but it's certainly been interesting to watch.
While Burr is a fine Mason, I'm more attracted to Warren William's portrayal, where Mason works just this side of the law, cutting corners wherever possible, while Allan Jenkins as "Spudsy" Drake does the legwork. While the code really wouldn't permit it, there's no doubt Mason is schtupping Della, something I don't really remember from the more-wholesome TV series. --Dave Sikula On Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 8:43:29 PM UTC-7, Tom Wolper wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 7:05 PM Kevin M. <[email protected] > <javascript:>> 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
