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Perry Mason is an attorney who specializes in defending seemingly indefensible cases. With the aid of his secretary Della Street and investigator Paul Drake, he often finds that by digging deeply into the facts, startling facts can be revealed. Often relying on his outstanding courtroom skills, he often tricks or traps people into unwittingly admitting their guilt.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #107973 in DVD
- Brand: Paramount
- Released on: 2012-10-23
- Rating: NR (Not Rated)
- Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 56
- Formats: Box set, Black & White, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
- Original language: English
- Dubbed in: English
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The Classic Courtroom Drama
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Perry Mason Seven Season Pack
The "Perry Mason" TV show lasted nine seasons, a record in that era. Few TV series lasted longer. Erle Stanley Gardner was "the World's Greatest Author" in his time, his books outsold the combined totals of his competitors. His stories were as stylized as baseball games. Season 1 used 36 of his novels for its 39 episodes, Season 2 used 15 of his novels for the 30 episodes. That was over half of his Perry Mason novels. The original novels are better. The films were the simplified and condensed versions of the novels, or new material. The later episodes became a formula where someone would confess in court at the end of the story. No story ever dealt with a false confession as in the 1947 movie "Boomerang". In its day "Perry Mason" was criticized for never losing a case. What is the record for most police TV shows?
Gardner's novels educated the readers by using examples from law and science or new technology. He dedicated novels to an important person in medicine or law. Gardner founded "The Court of Last Resort" to exonerate the convicted innocent. Gardner's stories warned of the dangers of invalid eyewitness identification, drawing the wrong conclusions from circumstantial evidence (guilt by inference), or prematurely accusing a suspect before all the evidence was gathered and evaluated. Some of this stories made the point that while ballistics can identify the gun that fired a bullet it cannot tell when it was fired (before or after the crime). "Perry Mason" advised his clients to never lie to the police, it was better to say nothing except call for a lawyer. There is a famous crime with these elements. You can read about Sacco & Vanzetti where they were convicted of robbery and murder in spite of their alibis. Many believed they were innocent and were convicted as part of the repression of the 1920s.
Erle Stanley Gardner generally avoided politics in this "Perry Mason" novels. Some of the "A.A. Fair" novels used political corruption in their stories. The 1967 novel "The Case of the Queenly Contestant" was publicized for the remark that a bullet found on a stretcher was not proof of anything. Dr. Milton Halpern was blacklisted by the government for criticizing the autopsy of JFK for its lack of an experienced medical examiner. A book written about the TV show said William Talman was not the first choice for DA Hamilton Burger. Raymond Burr played a DA in "A Place in the Sun" and a villain in earlier films like "Borderline". The Prosecutor in the Sacco & Vanzetti case was Frederick Katzmann, did he resemble William Talman?
There is a Perry Mason Television Book on this series, you can find it on the Internet.
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