I'm still watching episodes of Perry Mason. I finished season 4 today. The season started airing in September 1960. This season has 28 episodes which is 2 up over season 3. Season 1 had 39 episodes, which dropped to 30 the following year.
There's the usual Perry Mason law talking. He's always got plenty of help from his secretary Della Street (Barbara Hale) and PI Paul Drake (William Hopper). They all seem to work day and night so I guess the pay must be great. William Talman returns to play Hamilton Burger in a few episodes. He'd been let go because of a naughty party he'd been at that got raided. He was cleared of any wrong doing and the cast and crew of Perry Mason lobbied for his return. Ray Collins plays Lt Tragg in most episodes.
Like the other season's we meet some people, there's a murder and Perry gets called into to help. They change it up a bit and have the murders take place at different points in the story but they follow that pattern pretty much. All the cases have some investigating and some court room action.
The occasional episode takes Perry and the gang out of town. In one episode they visit a town having days and Paul gets arrested for not wearing a beard. The fact that they took mug shots comes in handy later. Another episode has locations shot at Vandenberg Air Force Base in a story about missile testing and murder.
There's plenty of good actors who stop in to play the guest cast: Robert Redford, Whit Bissell, Dabbs Greer, Francis X Bushman, Regis Toomey, Louise Fletcher, Edward Platt, Phillip Abbott, Faith Domergue, James Coburn, John Hoyt, Adam West, Simon Oakland, Dub Taylor, William Schallert and Otto Kruger. And those are the ones that I knew the names of, there's plenty more I didn't know that do a good job.
Now that I've seen that season it's onto something else. But what?
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