[robowombat]

Is Mason a PI in this series instead of the trusty Paul Drake. The original Mason programs are on Memorable Entertainment TV. Watching them a half century later it is interesting how dark the plots were for their time. Not only does Mason unspin a complex plot but most of the principles, and some times even the person he defends are morally and ethically corrupt. When you are 12 you don't pick up on that so much.

[StoneRainbow68]

It’s an origin story, and I really enjoyed watching it. Mason is a WWI vet who is working as a PI for another lawyer. Drake is a black cop in the LAPD.

By the end, the lawyer Mason was working for is deceased, Mason has become a lawyer himself in partnership with Della, and Drake quits being a cop to work for Perry as a PI.

That’s where season 2 will start.

[Kaslin]

I used to watch the old Perry Mason series,but I don’t use HBO , so I don’t watch it. I used to read the novels by Earl Stanley Garner,