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Post by snsurone on Dec 13, 2018 22:54:47 GMT
That's a good one, Snsurone. Davalos actually struck me as a not too strong young man in that Perry; mentally, I mean, not physically, which made his character somewhat ambiguous. Jeanette Nolan was outstanding and very sweet in that one. Jeanette Nolan is one of my all-time favorite actresses. I've never seen anyone as versatile as she!
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Post by snsurone on Dec 13, 2018 23:01:55 GMT
This week, MeTV has been running the episodes where guest stars sat in for Mason because Raymond Burr was recovering from major surgery.
The first one was Bette Davis as "Constant Doyle". It was funny seeing her in that same fright wig she wore in that movie turkey DEAD RINGER. Three others starred Michael Rennie, Hugh O'Brian and the great actor Walter Pidgeon.
I'm glad that Burr was at least able to make token appearances--from a hospital room more luxurious than any I've ever seen, LOL!
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Post by telegonus on Dec 14, 2018 0:17:29 GMT
That's a good one, Snsurone. Davalos actually struck me as a not too strong young man in that Perry; mentally, I mean, not physically, which made his character somewhat ambiguous. Jeanette Nolan was outstanding and very sweet in that one. Jeanette Nolan is one of my all-time favorite actresses. I've never seen anyone as versatile as she! I know. Meryl Streep? Nah! Too much of a showboater, Oscar hunting one mo' time. With Jeanette it's like you're watching a real middle aged spinster, crafty old witch or farmer's wife, not an actress putting on a good show. Also, there was no self-consciousness to Miss Nolan's. She seemed to inhabit the characters she played.
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Post by snsurone on Dec 15, 2018 1:22:50 GMT
I have to admit that I found Hugh O'Brian's episode very confusing. The murder victim was the dictator of some unnamed Balkan state who had previously murdered a prominent dissident of that country. Outside of that, I couldn't make heads or tails of the story. I was especially puzzled by O'Brian's character; was he a "two-faced turnabout" as expressed in the episode's title? Did he really have a "doppelgänger"?
I hope somebody could explain it to me some day.
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Post by telegonus on Dec 15, 2018 5:28:16 GMT
The Hugh O'Brian Perry is a strange one. It's watchable, for what it is, but O'Brian seems out of place on the show, or does to me. No, it doesn't make much sense to me, either, and after a first revisit a year or so ago I probably won't watch it again.
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Post by snsurone on Dec 15, 2018 17:56:25 GMT
I may have to watch that episode again to see if I can make any sense of that script. But I gotta say: O"Brian was HOT!
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Post by snsurone on Jan 30, 2019 21:08:01 GMT
BTW, has anyone else noticed that--except for episodes based directly on Gardner's novels--all the titles are alliterative? LOL
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jan 30, 2019 23:37:34 GMT
BTW, has anyone else noticed that--except for episodes based directly on Gardner's novels--all the titles are alliterative? LOL
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Post by Ass_E9 on Jan 31, 2019 16:20:40 GMT
Hamilton Burger!
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jan 31, 2019 19:29:25 GMT
Ham(ilton) Burger!
Ham Burger!
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Feb 4, 2019 9:07:45 GMT
She was also on ten episodes of 'Murder, She Wrote' and 4 of 'Perry Mason' INCLUDING the MOST (IN)FAMOUS episode of the ENTIRE series.
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Post by snsurone on Feb 19, 2019 2:10:02 GMT
Today, I watched an episode called "The Case of the Bullied Bowler", where the "special guest attorney" was played by Mike Connors. According to the script, Mason was touring Europe (a well-deserved vacation, maybe?), but what was the real reason Raymond Burr did not appear, even in a cameo?
Maybe this episode was filmed right after Burr's surgery, and MeTV aired it out of sequence with the other ones.
Does anyone know?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 19, 2019 16:44:31 GMT
Today, I watched an episode called "The Case of the Bullied Bowler", where the "special guest attorney" was played by Mike Connors. According to the script, Mason was touring Europe (a well-deserved vacation, maybe?), but what was the real reason Raymond Burr did not appear, even in a cameo? Maybe this episode was filmed right after Burr's surgery, and MeTV aired it out of sequence with the other ones. Does anyone know? When Raymond Burr missed several episodes due to illness, he was replaced by several guest attorneys who were played by Bette Davis, Walter Pidgeon, Hugh O'Brian, Michael Rennie, and Mike Connors.
information available at IMDb
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 20, 2019 19:08:55 GMT
Maybe this episode was filmed right after Burr's surgery, and MeTV aired it out of sequence with the other ones.Does anyone know? The episodes are not necessarily shown in the order that they were made BUT MeTV is currently showing them in the order in which they first were aired (at least in the daytime episodes) PERRY MASON IMDB EPISODE LINKAGE for anyone genuinely interested www.imdb.com/title/tt0050051/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Feb 25, 2019 7:00:34 GMT
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Post by telegonus on Mar 13, 2019 5:52:19 GMT
I liked the one with Michael Rennie filling in for Burr the best. It was well written, and Rennie's urbane, low key playing was relaxing.
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Post by snsurone on Jun 3, 2019 16:48:33 GMT
Currently, MeTV (9AM, ET) is airing early episodes based on Gardner's books. Has anyone else noticed that in every episode, the defendant is the helpless "damsel in distress"? In fact, the only male client Perry had was in "The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink", where he was co-defendant to the aforementioned "damsel in distress". I'm sure Gardner wrote books where the defendant is male and most (if not all) of those books were filmed. I have a very dim early memory of Perry successfully defending a man accused of murdering his double-crossing fiancee. Can't remember the title but I wish MeTV would air it and others of that ilk.
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Post by amyghost on Jun 4, 2019 12:35:16 GMT
Trivia: Raymond Burr supposedly threatened to quit the series unless William Talman was reinstated after being forced out due to an infraction in the morals clause of his contract. If this is so, it may have been the nicest job of defense that 'Perry' ever did.
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Post by telegonus on Jul 12, 2019 6:51:38 GMT
Raymond Burr was a real pal. Talman was a nice guy, too, but he got into hot water (dope, some weird partying). Loyalty was a strong point of Burr's and of his longtime co-star Barbara Hale. They were loyal to old friends from radio, such as Les Tremaine, who was on a Perry tonight; and, of course, semi-regular judge, Willis Bouchey.
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