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My wife is 16 years older and no one has ever said a word about it. In fact, they always think she's years younger than her real age. We just passed our 43rd anniversary. :-)
So you're proud of making the same criticism you made fun of in the same paragraph? Talk about a hypocrite. LOL Yes. Laughing AT you.
It's been a WHILE since I saw that episode, but it's memorable. I believe the murderer saw Mason raise and lower the shade, and Ballard was getting a bit soft on keeping the secret. Then it was the murderer the detectives saw raise and lower the shade to retrieve the two bills, but he was a similar build to Perry so they thought it was him. And it seems like the trailer was taken because he thought the money or a clue to the money was hidden inside.
Again, Mason was the hero. But even in the books, Drake did straight investigation and Mason gave him explicit instructions on anything that got tricky, and that's because Mason could craft the tactics to keep them within the law and legal ethics.
Another good find for you, then. :-) You won't have ever seen anything quite like it. LOL
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"didn't Perry have a guilty one?"
In one episode, Perry had a female client who had been found guilty at trial, but he exonerated her days before her scheduled execution ... some years after her trial. VERY dark episode.
In another episode, the man sitting at the defense table with Perry WAS the murderer, but he'd assumed another man's identity and was being tried under the wrong name. Paul Drake found the "real man", being held as prisoner, and dramatically (no surprise LOL) produced him in court. Perry got to claim that since he had been hired via proxy by a South American diamond company to defend the accused "as named", that his real client was not guilty. Frankly, I thought that was a bit of a dodge. LOL But Mason DID prove that the accused "as named" was not guilty. He took great delight in Hamilton Burger's consternation at not being able to get a conviction during that trial because they'd arrested the right man under the wrong name. :-)
Not really, but he was written as less significant to the discovery of clues in the TV series as opposed to the books so that Mason was clearly the hero. In the TV series, they used Drake to present information Mason obviously wouldn't have had the time to get on his own. But if you pay attention, he very often follows an instruction from Mason, or hands him a key piece of information, close to the end of the show that gives Mason the last piece of the puzzle.
I agree. One of my favorite series of all time. I even liked it as a young kid. I never liked Ironside because they "stole" Perry Mason. ;-)
You might want to watch again and pay closer attention. ALL of those answers are in there ... unless maybe you're watching in syndication where some scenes are cut out for additional commercials.
He actually always stayed within the letter of the law. The novels were written by Erle Stanley Gardner, an attorney himself. Gardner was initially unwilling to allow a Perry Mason TV series, because he'd been very dissatisfied with the Perry Mason movies done in the 1930s. He finally agreed only if he had script approval, so unlike most legal dramas, the points of law and courtroom scenes are quite trustworthy.
No. But he was accused of tampering with evidence a few times, and bribing a juror once. He once defended [friend or family] of Hamilton Burger as a favor upon Burger's request.
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Back in the 80s, when it was on TBS, I probably cycled through the series five or six times. Believe me, once you go through all nine seasons, if you enjoyed them you can watch them again. You'll forget a few of the outcomes, but even the ones you remember are enjoyable. For one thing, Perry and Della and Paul Drake get to be like members of the family ... the branch of the family you actually LIKE. :-) You just enjoy spending time with them. And you'll anticipate favorite scenes and lines, like the witness who indignantly declared, "Murder isn't always the answer to EVERYTHING!" I imagine the writers laughed their asses off when they got that line on camera. LOL
I own the entire series on DVD and really need to cycle through it again. I imagine TBS cut several minutes out of each episode for additional commercials.
Another Zombie thread that started on IMDb, but Vinidici was right. Their appearance is due to their presence as regular cast, and this opening isn't as odd as Hamilton Burger and Lt. Tragg sitting at the defense table--and passing a document around--with Perry Mason in the early season openings of THAT series. LOL Not that I don't very much enjoy Perry Mason. I watched it back in the TBS days and probably cycled through it 5 or 6 times.
I always have to laugh at idiots and fools who ignore facts to type nonsense like that, and I always wonder why they're so eager to show off that pathetic brand of stupidity to the world at large.
That was after she argued the instruction. But the greater point is that people DO say things out of line "in the moment" that they later regret, and this whole concept was an antithetical romance, which means the romantic leads have to seriously dislike each other for the majority of the story ... at least one-sided, but the best antithetical romances have the antipathy going in both directions.
They hit on the whole "say things you later regret" concept much more strongly in "You've Got Mail", where that conversation comes up three or four times.
You REALLY want stories where everyone is perfect all the time? You'll get bored and stop watching movies and TV shows pretty quickly if that ever happens. LOL
Very cool. Thanks!
Have you seen Harvey?
Two VERY different films, and they're both great in their own way. We watch them back to back each years along with other seasonal favorites.
He was told by Matachek to remark on her blouse, and he couldn't "ruin her date". Without him there was no date.