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Steiner also composed a number of variations on the theme, as well as stock music, for use as incidental music in the series. [6] "Park Avenue Beat" was reused in the NBC series of Perry Mason television films starring the surviving original cast members. [8] [9] [a] In 2001, "Park Avenue Beat" topped a Knight Ridder top 10 list of television ...
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).
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.
Dean Hargrove was able to bring back the two then-surviving major stars, Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale, reprising their roles as Mason and his private secretary Della Street. In the first telefilm, Perry Mason Returns, Mason resigns from his position as an appellate court judge to defend Street on a murder charge.
Barbara Hale (mother) William Theodore Katt (born February 16, 1951) is an American actor and musician. He is best known for his starring role as Ralph Hinkley/Hanley on the ABC television series The Greatest American Hero (1981–83).
An article he wrote for the Library of Congress, "Music for Star Trek: Scoring a Television Show in the Sixties", outlines and defines the contributions of all the original underscore composers of this series. [6] Perhaps the best-known of Steiner's works, "Park Avenue Beat", is the Perry Mason TV theme.
On television, Della Street was played by Barbara Hale in the series, for which she received an Emmy Award, and in the 30 made-for-TV movies. Sharon Acker played Della Street in the short-lived revival series The New Perry Mason starring Monte Markham as Mason. In the HBO series, Della Street is portrayed by British actress Juliet Rylance. [6]
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.