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Perry Mason is an American legal drama series originally broadcast on CBS television from September 21, 1957, to May 22, 1966. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner.
Raymond William Stacy Burr (May 21, 1917 – September 12, 1993) was a Canadian actor who had a lengthy Hollywood film career and portrayed the title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside.
"The Case of Constant Doyle" is the 169th episode (season 6, episode 16) of the television series Perry Mason. This was the first of four consecutive episodes in which a "special guest star"—in this case, Bette Davis—filled Mason's role as the defending attorney; Raymond Burr, who portrayed Perry Mason, was in the hospital for surgery during these episodes.
The original series ran for almost a decade, and there have been dozens of reboots. Since the first book was published in 1933, the Perry Mason character has been reincarnated on television, film ...
In season 2 of Perry Mason, months after the Dodson case has come to an end, the scion of a powerful oil family is brutally murdered. When the DA goes to the city's Hoovervilles to pinpoint the ...
Holland Taylor, playing Della's fill-in assistant, had co-starred as one of the prime suspects in the first Mason movie, Perry Mason Returns, 10 years prior. That gave Taylor and Hale the distinction of being the only two actors to have appeared in both the first and last Perry Mason movies of any kind.
At the time, Burr was starring in a series of telefilms for NBC playing his most famous character, Perry Mason. In the years between the end of Ironside in 1975 and the first Perry Mason movie in 1985, Burr's appearance had undergone some changes. His hair was grayer, he had gained a significant amount of weight, and after years of playing ...
Perry Mason is a fictional character, an American criminal defense lawyer who is the main character in works of detective fiction written by Erle Stanley Gardner.Perry Mason features in 82 novels and four short stories, all of which involve a client being charged with murder, usually involving a preliminary hearing or jury trial.