{"id":134807,"date":"2017-09-21T09:15:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T15:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134807"},"modified":"2017-09-21T18:21:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T00:21:05","slug":"happy-birthday-perry-mason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/21\/happy-birthday-perry-mason.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Perry Mason!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, the TV show at least — the book series by Erle Stanley Gardner<\/a>\u00a0is quite a bit older. Perry Mason<\/i> is such a rerun institution that people today forget how significant it was at the time — top rated for several seasons, based on one of the most popular book series of all time, and the first hour-long crime drama on TV. I always enjoy watching it when I run across it — it’s formulaic, but still fun.<\/p>\n

Originally shared by +Terence Towles Canote<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

My blog post on the 60th anniversary of the show Perry Mason<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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\nThe TV Show Perry Mason Turns 60<\/a><\/span>
\n“Who can we get on this case? We need Perry Mason Someone to put you in place Calling Perry Mason again.” (Ozzy Osbourne, John R W Purdell, Zakk Wylde, “Perry Mason”) It was sixty years ago today, on September 21 1957, that …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Well, the TV show at least — the book series by Erle Stanley Gardner\u00a0is quite a bit older. Perry Mason is such a rerun institution that people today forget how significant it was at the time — top rated for several seasons, based on one of the most popular book series of all time, and … Continue reading “Happy Birthday, Perry Mason!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Raymond-Burr-As-Perry-Mason.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137660,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/14\/because-the-world-needs-a-perry-mason-prequel.html","url_meta":{"origin":134807,"position":0},"title":"Because the world needs a … Perry Mason Prequel?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Jan-19 8:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Unlike most fans of the old Raymond Burr TV show, I've actually read a number of Perry Mason novels. 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