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Perry Mason and John Keats: A reader writes to point out the “burrs” in Keats’s poem.
Masonic Toad
Perry Mason in Zippy.
Meta-Mason
I love when old television shows have the characters talk about television.
Media studies: file drawers, notebook, EXchange name
There are many ways to enjoy television.
No melodrama
“Thank you, Mr. Mason. You saved me from becoming a cheap and melodramatic anti-climax.”
Do Androids dream of Perry Mason?
A new use for an old phone.
Barbara Hale (1922–2017)
Della Street to Raymond Burr’s Perry Mason.
Separated at birth
Barbara Hale and Vivien Leigh.
“Try the wireless”
From a Perry Mason episode.
MetaTV
MeTV is MetaTV — and movies.
Masonic Ticonderoga
A Dixon Ticonderoga in a Perry Mason episode.
Overheard
Paul Drake may not be big in Japan, but he has a Japanese presence, if only in the form of a man.
Domestic comedy
”It’s like Godzilla meets Rodan!”
No diagram needed
“You know what I love about you? I never have to draw you a diagram.”
Perry Mason’s office
“The aim of this project was to make a floor plan drawing of Perry’s office suite based upon a careful analysis of what can be seen in the show.”
Streetside gum machines
Wall-mounted gum machines.
Perry Mason and Gilbert and Sullivan
Anything goes.
Fred Steiner (1923–2011)
He wrote the theme music for Perry Mason (and much else).
Perry Mason and John Keats
TV dialogue