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This is a list of episodes for Perry Mason, an American legal drama series that aired on CBS television for nine seasons (September 21, 1957 – May 22, 1966). The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner.
Raymond Burr and William Talman in Perry Mason (1958). Talman began his acting career on the stage. He was the leading man in the summer stock company at Ivoryton, Connecticut, where he met his first wife, and he played the male lead in Dear Ruth during part of the play's New York run.
He won Emmy Awards for acting in 1959 and 1961 for the role of Perry Mason, which he played for nine seasons (1957–1966) and reprised in a series of 26 Perry Mason TV movies (1985–1993). His second TV series, Ironside , earned him six Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations.
Raymond Burr and other cast members on the set of Perry Mason, from the front cover of Look magazine (October 10, 1961) "Perry Mason was television's most successful and longest-running lawyer series," wrote TV historian Tim Brooks. [67]: 590 "It remains, I think, the best detective series ever made for television," wrote film historian Jon Tuska.
Barbara Hale (April 18, 1922 – January 26, 2017) was an American actress who portrayed legal secretary Della Street in the dramatic television series Perry Mason (1957–1966), earning her a 1959 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She reprised the role in 30 Perry Mason made-for-television movies (1985–1995).
A 1959 episode, "The Case of Paul Drake's Dilemma", had Hopper's character on trial for murder. [8]: 65 Hopper continued to work in summer stock and to make movie appearances during his years on Perry Mason; however, after the series was cancelled in 1966, he
Atterbury made frequent appearances on television. He was cast in five episodes of CBS's murder mystery series Perry Mason during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Three times he played the murderer. He played Sam Burris in the 1957 episode, "The Case of the Angry Mourner".
Huntingdon (left), with Raymond Burr in a 1959 press photo promoting her Perry Mason episode. Huntingdon made occasional television and film appearances. In her first television role in 1959 she appeared on Perry Mason as defendant Kitty Wynne in "The Case of the Bartered Bikini."