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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 27, 2017 1:26:01 GMT
The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife (Season 1, Episode 26) Scott Shelby is jealous of the attention he believes handy man Frank Lawton is paying to his wife Marion. Scott sneaks his shotgun out of the house in a golf bag after loading it being careful to put no fingerprints on the shells. At a location away from his home he fires one barrel of the double barrel gun and then returns it to the rack in his house. That night from the boat house he calls Frank for help and to get his shotgun as he cuts the phone line there. Frank hears a shot, dresses, and retrieves the shotgun. He runs to the boat house but finds no one until Marion arrives. Meanwhile, Perry receives a telegram from Frank saying his unlucky army buddy is about to be arrested for murder. Perry and Della leave to meet Frank only to find the sheriff's department there looking for the missing Scott Shelby. The telegram and Frank's writings force Det. Sgt. Phillip Dix to arrest Frank. Perry believes Shelby skipped town due to being in debt but when his body turns up, the burden of evidence against Frank is overwhelming.
No reason except that a particularly favorite actor is in the guest cast AND I happened to have an copy of the original story by ESG. Nalkarj
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Post by Nalkarj on Jul 28, 2017 20:32:14 GMT
The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife (Season 1, Episode 26) Scott Shelby is jealous of the attention he believes handy man Frank Lawton is paying to his wife Marion. Scott sneaks his shotgun out of the house in a golf bag after loading it being careful to put no fingerprints on the shells. At a location away from his home he fires one barrel of the double barrel gun and then returns it to the rack in his house. That night from the boat house he calls Frank for help and to get his shotgun as he cuts the phone line there. Frank hears a shot, dresses, and retrieves the shotgun. He runs to the boat house but finds no one until Marion arrives. Meanwhile, Perry receives a telegram from Frank saying his unlucky army buddy is about to be arrested for murder. Perry and Della leave to meet Frank only to find the sheriff's department there looking for the missing Scott Shelby. The telegram and Frank's writings force Det. Sgt. Phillip Dix to arrest Frank. Perry believes Shelby skipped town due to being in debt but when his body turns up, the burden of evidence against Frank is overwhelming.
No reason except that a particularly favorite actor is in the guest cast AND I happened to have an copy of the original story by ESG. Nalkarj I'll have to take a look at it, Bat. Thanks. And--oh, boy--did ESG love the gun switcheroo or what?
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 6, 2017 20:16:56 GMT
Two shining examples of the Least Likeliest Person solution: The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece Season 1, Episode 2 The Case of the Crimson Kiss Season 1, Episode 8
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Post by Nalkarj on Aug 8, 2017 2:56:38 GMT
Two shining examples of the Least Likeliest Person solution: The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece Season 1, Episode 2 The Case of the Crimson Kiss Season 1, Episode 8 Thanks, Mike. I'll take a look at these.
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Post by telegonus on Aug 8, 2017 19:51:14 GMT
The Case Of The Sardonic Sergeant. I think it's second season. It's set on an army base for the most part, and the plot revolves large sums of money, paper money, presumably burned so as to not fall into the hands of the Japanese just prior to the fall of Corregidor; of the Philippines, in other words, in early 1942. I loved the premise, the way a real life event figured in the story, with the dead hand of the past coming back to haunt various characters.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Sept 8, 2017 17:50:26 GMT
In Melbourne, Australia, it began being shown in June 1958, aired on HSV-7 at 8:30PM on Tuesdays, preceded by "Father Knows Best" and followed by "20th Century". It aired against "Highway Patrol" and "Tombstone Territiry" on GTV-9 and films on ABV-2.
In Sydney, it was also shown starting in June 1958, aired at 8:30PM on Tuesdays on TCN-9, preceded by "Father Knows Best" and followed by "Have Gun - Will Travel". It aired against films on ABN-2 and "Highway Patrol" and "Tombstone Territory" on ATN-7.
If I bought a DeLorean and went back in time to June 1958, I would watch: 7:00PM - "Art and the Kids", HSV-7 7:15PM - "Oxford Show", HSV-7 (it was a live 15-minute musical variety show) 7:30PM - "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show", GTV-9 8:00PM - "The Millionaire", GTV-9 (re-titled "If You Had a Million" for some reason) 8:30PM - "Perry Mason", HSV-7 9:30PM - "In Melbourne Tonight", GTV-9 (live local variety)
....which honestly is a much better line-up of shows than anything on Australian TV these days.
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Post by telegonus on Feb 8, 2018 8:34:33 GMT
Sorry to bring this up again--though perhaps I shouldn't be, as we all like Mason--but does anyone have a list of favorite episodes? I've been interested because I'm sure many people here have seen more episodes than I, and I'd love to know what everyone's favorites are... Two with Bobby Troup (and Walter Burke, too,--go figure): The Case Of The Jaded Joker, which is second season,--and the fifth season (I think...) The Case Of The Missing Melody. Both have show biz connections; music figures in both also; and there are somewhat avant gardeish aspects to each of these two episodes, too. The first, The Jaded Joker, has a couple of envelope pushing things to it: a scene of a character (Troup's, as it so happens) playing a piano and smoking a joint, right in front of Lt. Tragg, who shortly after entering the scene makes a remark about the "smell of tea" in the room. For all that, he doesn't bust Troup for possession, just questions him. Also in this ep there's a strong suggestion of a gay relationship between a character played by singer Frankie Laine and his best pal, played by Walter Burke. Good acting all-round in this one, especially from Troup and Laine.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Feb 26, 2018 22:28:20 GMT
One of those shows you can watch forever.
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Post by telegonus on Mar 17, 2018 8:09:40 GMT
TCO The Crying Comedian, featuring a very good straight dramatic performance from Tommy Noonan as the eponymous comedian.
TCO The Glittering Goldfish, with a fine supporting performance from Cecil Kellaway, one of the best I've seen in a Perry, and an offbeat story, a well written, sophisticated script. This one's not for dim bulbs. One has to pay even closer attention than usual when watching it.
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Post by geode on Mar 18, 2018 14:28:03 GMT
One of my favorite guilty pleasures from MeTV is watching Perry Mason. I was too young to have caught the show as a tyke--and besides, it was "adult drama," and something that wouldn't appeal to me. But now, as an older adult, I absolutely love every show. Such intricate plotting, with a great showdown in the courtroom. Anybody else have any love for Perry and the crew? Even though I was fairly young at the time, I watched it when it was first telecast and still think it is one of the best series ever produced. I am not even slightly guilty in saying this. It is one of the closest examples of "noir" style ever on TV, and I think was more effective for being in B&W than it would have been in color (only one episode in the final season was if I remember correctly). But I have a question. When you posted this was the Classic TV board split up by decades as it is now? If so, why place it in the 50s instead of the 60s? It spans the two, with 2 1/2 seasons in the decade it appears in now, but 5 1/2 seasons in the 60s. I posted last year that this sort of organization was a poor idea and was confusing. Posts about a series such as this proves this to be the case. Others argued differently and unfortunately won out. This is probably my first post in almost a year in one of the decade demarcated sections as a result. I am really put off by this organization. The only reason I knew this thread was hidden in the 50s board was because it was the most recent post of all of all decades so showed up under the umbrella "Classic TV" as the last post. All threads should be together no matter which decade(s) they appeared in my opinion.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Mar 20, 2018 3:00:55 GMT
Better than Ironside.
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Post by geode on Mar 21, 2018 10:52:50 GMT
Quite a bit better in my opinion.
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Post by snsurone on Oct 16, 2018 22:30:13 GMT
One of my favorite episodes is "The Case of the Prudent Prosecutor", where a close friend of Hamilton Burger is charged with murder. Burger recuses himself from prosecuting the case, and asks Mason to defend his paL.
There is one amusing scene where Burger is watching the hearing, and when the prosecutor yells, "Objection!", Burger mutters, "Oh, sit down and be quiet!" And when the judge overruled the objection, Burger muttered, "Good!".
The "epilogue" scene showed Mason and Burger on a camping trip with the friend. The last line of dialogue was Burger saying, "Y'know, I think I won this case." after which he and Mason clinked their coffee cups together.
BTW, has anyone else seen the anti-smoking ad from 1968, with William Talman which was made shortly before his death from lung cancer? Believe me, it was heartbreaking! Unfortunately, Big Tobacco was a powerful lobby, and it had the ad pulled. I just hope that Bill's spirit is at rest with the knowledge that cigarette ads have been banned on TV, replaced by numerous anti-smoking ads.
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Post by snsurone on Nov 22, 2018 18:11:41 GMT
Part of the fun of watching these shows was in recognizing future mega-stars in early roles. For example, an episode shown the week before depicted a mechanic played by the young Burt Reynolds!
And a later one featured the pre-Batman Adam West.
Thank goodness neither was the killer! LOL
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 22, 2018 22:23:19 GMT
Thank goodness neither was the killer! Yeah cuz they might have been sent to the chair and who would have played Batman or The Bandit ?
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Post by telegonus on Nov 28, 2018 8:45:30 GMT
Geode: Perry may well have run much longer in the Sixties than in the Fifties, but it was the earlier decade that "birthed" the TV series, and it remained true to the ambiance of its decade of birth till the final two or three seasons. One can feel the early Sixties "creep" soon enough, yet the fashions, men's especially, hadn't changed so drastically from, say, 1957 to 1962; and the social mores were largely the same as well.
Women's hats changed; and men's hats were disappearing in the Kennedy era Perrys. There was more focus on "Youth", troubled and otherwise in the Sixties era Perry entries; and younger folk had that surfer "vibe" thing going for them. Even with the times 'a changin' in the period of the later Perrys, the show itself remained grounded, and it stayed familiar, in its plots, storytelling, the rapport among the regular players, till the end.
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Post by snsurone on Dec 6, 2018 17:45:39 GMT
I'm a little puzzled about the cast billing during the closing credits. Just today, I saw an episode where Leonard Nimoy was billed third (after Margaret O'Brien and Lurene Tuttle)--and he wasn't a star then!
I'm wondering if the billing had been mechanically altered on the DVD's to reflect the then unknown actors who later became major stars.
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Post by telegonus on Dec 8, 2018 20:27:51 GMT
No, you're absolutely right, and I agree that there's a reassuring quality to it. Actually, a lot of mystery shows and books have that quality; maybe it's something about restoring justice at the end, making things right with the world? (Though that was not the case certainly in many of Ellery Queen's masterpieces, or in late Agatha Christie.) It's the same sort of thing with the other program I mentioned, Death in Paradise; the high-falutin', hoity-toity critics, nearly to a man, think it's garbage, but tons of people, myself included, love it, and part of that is due to the partnership amongst the lead players. My only concern with Perry (and it's a very minor one, a mere caveat) was that it comes off as mighty silly to have (usually) Burger say, "Here's the one case you can't win, Perry." I mean, you know (I know, I know, there were a few exceptions) he's going to win it, and Burger never realizes, "Gee, maybe I should keep my big trap shut after losing so many cases to Perry!" It's a minor, silly thing, but I also have to stifle laughter at that moment. It's got nothing to do with the characters, including Burger, who, I agree, are great. There's a parallel to The X-Files, of all things, here. I'm pretty much a newbie regarding the show, having watched only the first season--I'd never watched it before because I've never been a sci-fi guy, but a friend recommended it because of my fascination with unsolved mysteries, and I've got to say I love it so far. I think Gillian Anderson, who plays Scully, is an excellent actress--but the writers (in this first season at least) keep having her say, "Oh, come on, Mulder, you can't honestly believe that," etc., etc. I know she's the skeptic, but it's bothersome because in the last episode she just saw "x" (ghost, alien, monster, demon, etc.), and she comes away a little humbled by the "x"--yet in the very next episode she forgets all about that! It has nothing to do with Miss Anderson or even Scully's character and everything to do with the writers. Is that clear, or have I just confused the point even more? If Douglas Dick was in the cast, you can bet he was the killer! Oh, I dunno. I saw one in which Douglas Dick was a good guy recently, or not the killer anyway. The two Dicks, Douglas and Davalos, tended to play troubled young or youngish fellows; guys with problems or with chips on their shoulders. It's like they were easy targets, with their baby faces and all. They tended to get cast to type, but then that was typical of Perry: Simon Oakland, the blowhard; George Macready, upper crusty, educated, art collector and the like; Malcolm Atterbury, country bumpkin guy who's more in on the action than he appears to be.
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Post by snsurone on Dec 9, 2018 19:08:23 GMT
Dick Davalos played a police officer falsely accused of murder and successfully defended by Mason. He previously had been accused of cowardice and was fired from the force. In the happy epilogue, he had been restored to his job and joined Lt. Anderson and his late partner's mother for a supper of weinerschnitzel. Most of those epilogues were really sweet!
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Post by telegonus on Dec 11, 2018 9:20:40 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.
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