Perry Mason
1957-1966 | Crime | USA | Created by Erle Stanley Gardner
Overview
Raymond Burr defended the innocent for nine seasons with a record of confessions extracted on the witness stand. The courtroom formula: investigation, trial, trap, breakdown. Burr became the definitive tv lawyer from Gardner novels. The theme music alone is noir. Every legal drama owes the witness stand reveal to Mason.
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