Perry Mason and Hamilton Burger, Nero Wolfe and Inspector Cramer spend more time fighting each other than they do in looking for the criminal.

Some movies ( Lancelot du Lac, Shakespeare in Love, Marion du Faouet, Sezneg ) and TV series ( Columbo, Perry Mason ) are also broadcast in Breton.

Wray appeared in three episodes of CBS's courtroom drama Perry Mason, the first of which was " The Case Of The Prodigal Parent " ( Episode 1-36 ) aired June 7, 1958.

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In 1963, Van Cleef made a rare TV appearance on Perry Mason in " The Case of the Golden Oranges.

( For example, the title of the Perry Mason detective novel The Case of the Negligent Nymph ( 1956 ) by Erle Stanley Gardner is derived from this meaning of the word.

* May 21 – Raymond Burr, Canadian actor ( Perry Mason ) ( d. 1993 )

The film network effort would fail after a few years, but Fox continued to dabble in television through its production arm, TCF Television Productions, producing series such as Perry Mason for the Big Three television networks.

The last names " Flintstone " and " Rubble ", as well as other common Bedrock surnames such as " Shale " and " Quartz ", are in line with these puns, as are the names of Bedrock's celebrities: " Gary Granite " ( Cary Grant ), " Stony Curtis " ( Tony Curtis ), " Ed Sulleyrock / Sulleystone " ( Ed Sullivan ), " Rock Pile / Quarry / Hudstone " ( Rock Hudson ), " Ann-Margrock " ( Ann-Margret ), " Jimmy Darrock " ( James Darren ), " Alvin Brickrock " ( Alfred Hitchcock ), " Perry Masonry / Masonite " ( Perry Mason as played by Raymond Burr ), " Mick Jadestone and The Rolling Boulders " ( Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones ), " Eppy Brianstone " ( Brian Epstein ) and " The Beau Brummelstones " ( The Beau Brummels ).

Nimoy's film and television acting career began in 1951, but after receiving the title role in the 1952 film Kid Monk Baroni, a story about a street punk turned professional boxer, he played more than 50 small parts in B movies, TV shows such as Perry Mason, and Dragnet, and serials such as Republic Pictures ' Zombies of the Stratosphere ( 1952 ).

In 1828 Josiah Mason improved a cheap, efficient slip-in nib in Birmingham, England, which could be added to a fountain pen and in 1830, with the invention of a new machine, William Joseph Gillott, William Mitchell and James Stephen Perry devised a way to mass manufacture robust, cheap steel pen nibs.

An early example of this overlapping form was Perry Mason, wherein the eponymous trial lawyer would usually defend his clients from their murder charges by investigating the crime before the trial, and dramatically revealing during the closing courtroom scene the real perpetrator, by calling some other person to the stand and interrogating him or her into confessing in open court of either having committed the murder or witnessed it being perpetrated by someone else instead of the defendant.

Raymond William Stacey Burr ( May 21, 1917 – September 12, 1993 ) was a Canadian actor, primarily known for his title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside.

He won two Emmy Awards in 1959 and 1961 for the role of Perry Mason, which he played for nine seasons between 1957 and 1966.

One year later, Burr became a television star as Perry Mason.

In 1956, Burr auditioned for the role of District Attorney Hamilton Burger in Perry Mason, a new courtroom drama based on the highly successful novels written and created by Erle Stanley Gardner that was to air on CBS.

The producers of the show allowed Burr to try for the title role and when Gardner, who was present at the audition, saw him he declared, " He is Perry Mason.

The series ran from 1957 to 1966, and Burr won Emmy Awards in 1959 and 1961 for his performance as Perry Mason.

In 1985, Burr was approached by producers Dean Hargrove and Fred Silverman to star in a made-for-TV movie Perry Mason Returns.

Burr recalled in a 1986 interview, " They asked me to do a new " Godzilla " the same week they asked me to do another Perry Mason, so I did them both.

Hale agreed and when Perry Mason Returns aired in December 1985, her character became the defendant.

In his final Perry Mason movie, The Case of the Killer Kiss, he was shown either sitting or standing while leaning on a table, but only once standing unsupported for a few seconds.

In 1993, as he had with the Perry Mason TV movies, Burr decided to do an Ironside reunion movie.

He also had a supporting role in Dennis Hopper's controversial film Out of the Blue ( 1980 ) and spoofed his Perry Mason image in Airplane II: The Sequel ( 1982 ).

Matthew Perry has expressed his similarities to the character such as his need to break an awkward silence with a joke and difficulties with women when first joining the show.

* Ulysses is the middle name of fictional character Dr. Perry Cox on TV show Scrubs and Guybrush Threepwood from the adventure game series Monkey Island series.

Examples of recurring characters include Mr. Gumby from Monty Python's Flying Circus ; Ted and Ralph from The Fast Show ; the Head Crusher from The Kids in the Hall ; Martin Short's Ed Grimley, a recurring character from both SCTV and Saturday Night Live ; and Kevin and Perry from Harry Enfield and Chums.

Perry Mason is a fictional character, a defense attorney who was the main character in works of detective fiction authored by Erle Stanley Gardner.

The character of Perry Mason was portrayed each weekday on a long-running radio series, followed by well-known depictions on film and television, including " television's most successful and longest-running lawyer series " from 1957 to 1966 starring Raymond Burr ; another series in 1973 – 1974, starring Monte Markham and Brett Somers ; and 30 made-for-TV movies filmed from 1985 to 1993.

Other than what we learn of his character from the novels themselves, we know very little about Perry Mason.

The 1930s films were not closely based on the character of Perry Mason as revealed in the books, and contain plot and character developments which are not accepted as canonical in the remainder of the books and adaptations.

* Granny Get Your Gun ( 1940 ), extremely loosely based on The Case of the Dangerous Dowager ( 1937 ) and not containing Perry Mason or any similar character.

* Perry Mason: The title character played by Raymond Burr in Perry Mason and the first twenty-six TV Movies listed below.

The 1995 Ozzy Osbourne album Ozzmosis features a song entitled " Perry Mason ", whose lyrics allude to the character.

William Hanna and Joseph Barbera stretched Gardner's character by creating " Perry Masonry " in the episode of The Flintstones in which the Rubbles adopt Bamm-Bamm.

In the 1985 film adaptation of the board game Clue, the character of Miss Scarlet cites Perry Mason to highlight Wadsworth's ( played by Tim Curry ) crime-solving capabilities.

Although authors such as Anne Perry wrote in the genre during the next decade, it wasn't until about 1990 that the genre's popularity saw a fairly quick ascent with works such as Lindsey Davis's Falco novels, set in the Roman Empire of Vespasian ; Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody novels, in which the main character is not only a Victorian lady but an early feminist and an archaeologist working in early 20th century Egypt ; Steven Saylor's " Roma Sub Rosa " novels, set in the Roman Republic at the time of Julius Caesar ; John Maddox Roberts's SPQR series set during the Roman Republic ; and P. C. Doherty's various series, including The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, the Hugh Corbett medieval mysteries, partly indebted to the hardboiled tradition, and the Canterbury Tales of Mystery and Murder.

In the highly successful Perry Mason series of made-for-TV movies, starting in 1985, the Paul Drake character was part of the back-story: his son Paul Jr. served as Mason's private investigator in the early films.

The idea of Perry playing a straight character who is mistaken for a homosexual is used as a joke in his role as Chandler Bing in Friends, although in Chandler's case the assumption was never taken to the extreme that it was in this film.

This character evolved from the earlier Perry Mason character on radio.

Perry began entertaining in his teens as a comic character actor.

Perry played comic relief roles in a number of films, all based on his character known as " The Laziest Man in the World ".

In 1989 reportedly Phoenix wanted the role of Neil Perry, the main character of Dead Poets Society, but the role was instead given to Robert Sean Leonard.