Perry Mason

Approval Rate: 66%

66%Approval ratio

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    spike65

    Wed Jul 30 2008

    The attorney you hope to have if you're ever arrested. Good show in most respects although I think Perry only lost once and I don't remember that episode.

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    trisha46

    Sat Nov 03 2007

    I loved this show and watch it today...

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    ahmad12

    Tue Aug 21 2007

    great stories.

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    nanhar

    Mon Aug 28 2006

    Timeless mysteries staring Raymond Burr as Perry Mason with sidekicks "Della Street" and "Paul Drake" who help solve the crime.

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    brian_j

    Thu Feb 02 2006

    A pretty good show, but a little hard to believe. I can remember F. Lee Bailey on a show and they asked him if anyone had ever broken down on the stand and confressed...he said it had only happened one time! Sometimes it was boring because you always had the same team...burger and Lt. tragg for example.

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    kattwoman

    Sat Oct 01 2005

    i actually became more interested in this show after i met one of the writers for the show when i lived in california. he was such an interesting and intelligent man that i wanted to see some of his work. he was also the one of the writers for the george burns/gracie allen show and he had some very funny and entertaining stories from his time working with them.

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    genghisthehun

    Mon Sep 26 2005

    Perry Mason was dramatic and interesting every week, but it was too interesting. It spawned about a million imitators, and many of them are on the air now. Looking back maybe we would have been better off culturally if Perry had lost about six cases in a row and the show folded.

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    numbah16tdhaha

    Mon Sep 26 2005

    Also a heck of an Ozzy tune.

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    adc103051

    Thu May 19 2005

    Wonder what his hourly billing rate was?

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    irishgit

    Fri Apr 01 2005

    Incredibly irritating and utterly predictable. Strong contender for worst crime series ever made.

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    vaneyck

    Fri Nov 12 2004

    As one who lived through the so-called Golden Age of TV I still share the opinion of the FCC Commissioner of the day that TV was a 'vast wasteland'. There were rare exceptions to that rule, and Perry Mason was one of them. The mysteries were well-plotted and mostly well acted, the courtroom drama was dependably satisfying, but it was the work of the five regulars, and above all Raymond Burr as Mason, that made these shows worth watching all these years later. And the other four were fine too. Barbara Hale as Della Street was the ideal secretary: beautiful, smart, and so dedicated to her work that she had no life outside her relationship to Perry and Paul Drake. Paul (William Hopper), the private eye, was a likeable and dependable adjunct, while Lt. Tragg (Ray Collins) was always a pleasure to watch as Perry's friendly police adversary. And Hamilton Burger (William Talman) was wonderful in one of the most ungrateful roles in series TV. Every week Perry would make a fool of him as, once... Read more

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    grouper

    Thu Jul 29 2004

    How did Burger and Tragg keep their jobs after arresting and prosecuting the wrong person week after week after week after week, ad nauseum

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    vinnyin

    Sun May 16 2004

    Perry Mason is the greatest TV lawyer of all time. People don't realize that without PM and it's creator Earl Stanley Gardner (sp?) there would be no Law and Order (A show that I can't stomach). I thank the Hallmark Channel for bringing this great show back to air, and 2 hours of it! Now if they would air Ironside it would be awesome! Raymond Burr was the MAN! The way he got the criminal to confess on the stand was the best (unlike Sam Waterston's constant whining). I also loved the movies in the '80s and 90's, too, except the ones where Hal Holbrook was in it due to Burr's unfortunate passing. Nobody could be Perry Mason but Raymond Burr.

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    tvtator

    Thu Nov 27 2003

    An ok show but nothing spectacular. The storylines were rather trite, repetitive and predictable. Raymond Burr played the part well, but he had better parts than Perry Mason(namely as the villian in Rear Window)

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    kolby1973

    Fri Aug 15 2003

    My grandmother, mother, and my uncle used to love this show so much, and for that reason I give it 3 stars. I personally thought it was too repetitious and boring. But for a show in the 60's, it was very moving I imagine. Every now and then I will find myself watching the show and can't pull away from it. :)

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    quincy

    Thu Aug 14 2003

    Cheers! to the Hallmark channel for running this classic series. Not only am I getting to watch it regularly for the first time in more than 25 years (and during daylight hours!), but I'm also seeing for the first time those latter episodes which were missing from the first syndication package. I struggled a bit deciding whether to give the show all five stars because, let's face it, the performances of some of the bit players was not exactly Shakespearian; plus even an above average episode could be tainted by a too-trite epilog ("why don't you propose to that girl already?"). It was usually in the more formulaic episodes that he more unlikely murder scenes played out, the kind in which Mason's client dazed the victim with a paperweight and ran away, whereupon the "real killer" would emerge from behind the curtain, pick up the same heavy object and bash the the poor soul's skull in. Variations on that same theme became too frequent to remain plausible, but then the cast and cre... Read more

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    moosekarloff

    Mon Apr 28 2003

    This show was very formulaic and predictable, hence, totally lacking in interest and suspense. Raymond Burr was a notably wooden attempt at an actor, while that guy William Talman, who played the prosecutor Hamilton Burger, acted rings around Burr episode after episode. Barbara Hale was pretty hot in her day, however...

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    classictvfanje_nny

    Sat Dec 07 2002

    Yes, it was orginally an hour show in the late 50's and early 60's. The color ones were later. I really enjoyed this series a lot. I still do. I am buying them through the Columbia House Video Club. Too bad they aren't being aired right now.

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    loneusfullhous_efan

    Thu Aug 15 2002

    The original Matlock. I am afraid I only see him in the movies now. Shame I can't seem to find the reruns anywhere.

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    galomorro

    Tue Nov 27 2001

    Hey! Help me out here! I always thought this was a 70s or early 80s show! The reruns I have been watching of this show were in color and it looked like 70s to me. Was there a 50s Perry Mason??? I don't remember seeing one of these from the 50s (B&W?) but since I like this so much anyway am gonna give it a "5". There just aren't enough two-hour murder mystery/courtroom drama shows these days. I hardly ever see these reruns anymore...

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    callmetootie

    Mon Jul 30 2001

    This show made me lose my mind. It was that bad.