[Nepeta]

The original “Perry Mason” series was one of the best ever. Everything about it was first rate and Della was a beauty.

After bad experiences with movies and radio, Gardner held off bringing Perry Mason to tv until he could exercise control over the series. That is probably why it is so well done throughout, and the characters are always themselves despite a number of scriptwriters.

Barbara Hale was something not seen in American tv or movies these days: elegant. You have to go to foreign movies to find actresses that have that kind of presence today.

[yarddog]

I ordered some of the Perry Mason show on DVD when I had a gift subscription to Netflix.

One of the discs had a lot of personal interviews and even a fairly long video of the entire cast visiting together at one of their houses. One of the more interesting things was Burr had a pretty large zoo.

Also noticed from some of the interviews that they were all, especially Hale and the guy who played Hamilton Burger, extremely intelligent. Also discovered that Barbara Hale was the Mother of the guy who played Paul Drake jr. on the later series.