Perry Mason
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Perry Mason is an attorney who specializes in defending seemingly indefensible cases. With the aid of his secretary Della Street and investigator Paul Drake, he often finds that by digging deeply into the facts, startling facts can be revealed. Often relying on his outstanding courtroom skills, he often tricks or traps people into unwittingly admitting their guilt. Product details and pricing info |
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- Another Home-Run for Brownstein
- There's no question about it. Paul Brownstein is the best producer of DVD boxed sets in the industry and he's proved it once again with PERRY MASON: THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, which includes twelve episodes (featuring future stars like Ryan O'Neal, Robert Redford, James Coburn, and Burt Reynolds) and is loaded with special features that, on their own, are well worth the purchase price. The extras include the original audition/screen tests for Hamilton Burger and Perry Mason, two Charlie Rose interviews with Raymond Burr, and a late 1950s episode of "Person to Person" in which Burr gives viewers a tour of his L.A. home. As if that wasn't enough, they've also got interviews, featurettes, and the "Perry Mason Returns" TV movie (I wish they'd included an episode from "The New Perry Mason," starring Monte Markham) If you you're a TV geek like me, you're going to love it. I also strongly recommend his amazing Gunsmoke - 50th Anniversary Collection, Volumes 1 & 2, The Dick Van Dyke Show - The Complete Series and The Wild Wild West - The Complete First Season.
- 2008-04-11, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Good Extras, but GET ON WITH SEASON RELEASES!
- I got my DVD set via UPS on Wednesday, April 9th, and started viewing it that evening. I hadn't seen the reviews on Amazon at first though. I agree that CBS/Viacom/Paramount should release Perry MUCH more frequently, and I'd rather see FULL season releases than this half-season nonsense. I bought this 50th Anniversary Special DVD set for the Bonus/Extra features, and to at least have SOME later season ep's on DVD. BTW, I have ALL 271 ep's on VHS taped off-air/cable, some ep's several times each, from back in the 1980s/90s, from WTBS-17, WGN-9, Hallmark, and local station, but frequently with 1980s/90s commercials/etc. not paused out, and also butchered-up ep's for more commercials. Thankfully CBS/Viacom/Paramount has been going back to original 35-mm prints, and keeping the 50-52 mins original length intact! Also, the extras/bonus features on this 50th Anniversary Special DVD eet are things you won't find anywhere else (although some private collectors have released some of this material privately on 16mm, VHS, DVD over the years). CBS/Viacom/Paramount's first two seasons seemed to have been reasonably good in keeping closing credits and the closing production logo/jingle intact. But for the ep's of this 50th Anniversary Special DVD, there are some ep's which have butchered up closing credits! And the closing CBS Production Logo/Jingle is MISSING its "season-specific" jingle music! Perry Seasons 3 (1959/60), 4 (1960/61), 5 (1861/62) all originally had a "generic" screen full of "CBS eye logos" like a "curtain", which was seen not only on Perry, but also on TZ, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, HGWT, and other CBS-owned shows of those years. Perry also hsd the statue-of-justice logo added (HGWT had the horse/knight chess-piece; TZ had a planet or asteroid, Rawhide had cattle, and Gunsmoke had a sketch of Matt facing an opponent on main street in Dodge). 1959/60 (and earlier) had ONE particular jingle music on all for these CBS-owned shows, 1960/61 had a DIFFERENT jingle-music for the closing logo for all of these CBS-owned shows, and 1961/62 had yet ANOTHER jingle-music on these CBS-owned shows' closing logos. Previous DVD releases of Perry, TZ and HGWT (and now with Gunsmoke and Rawhide) have retained the MUSIC jingle with these logos. But while the logos are retained in the Perry 50th Anniversary DVD, the music jingle has been muted out! And while on this subject, CBS/Via/Par has been inconsistant on the logos/jingles for old Desilu & Paramount shows such as Mission Impossible, Love American Style, and season 2 of Happy Days. Why can't they retain the ORIGINAL (Paramount) logo/jingle for the particular season that the show originally aired! (which was done properly with Bradys' first season vs. remainder of the series regarding the original Paramount logos/jingles). I hope that the proper original Desilu or Paramount logo/jingle that originally aired for that season will be retained for upcoming Mannix and future releases of Mission Impossible. And when 3rd/4th/5th seasons of Perry do come out on DVD, they will have the (correct) season-specific jingle-music on the closing production logo. And as for the slow release and/or half-season releases of classic CBS and Paramount/etc. shows... it isn't just Perry. Untouchables and Fugitive and others are all coming out in half-seasons and PAINFULLY slow! CBS/Via/Par is NOT presently coming out with "My Three Sons" on DVD though, but a couple of months ago, there was an inadvertant press release that the first half of the 1960/61 (first) season of M3S was coming to DVD in June. M3S ran TWELVE seasons, first on ABC (1960-65, the Bub/Mike years), and then on CBS (1965-72 the Uncle Charley/Ernie color years, and later with Katie, Polly, Dodie, Barbara, etc). That would mean TWENTY-FOUR DVD packages if they stick with half-season DVD releases for all 12 seasons! A day after the original press release on M3S on DVD, CBS/Via/Par withdrew the announcement. At least they came out with CBS-owned Wild Wild West in full season releases, and are coming out with full season releases of the 12-season CBS-owned H/50. But also to CBS/Via/Par... where is the second half of three seasons (Seasons 4,5,6) of CBS-owned HGWT (Have Gun)!? You wouldn't get away with tampering with Star Trek or TZ in the way you have with other CBS, Desilu, or Paramount shows!!!
- 2008-04-10, 2 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Shame Paramount, Shame!
- "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gunna take it any more!" With more than 3000 TV titles in our collection including the first 2 Seasons of Perry, The 50th Perry Mason Anniversary Collection will not be one of them! Get your act together Paramount, and start releasing full seasons and stop screwing the Mason fans with those half season rip-offs.
- 2008-04-04, 3 of 5 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- release of DVDs is tardy
- It's such a drag waiting for the release of subsequent seasons. I'm tempted to transfer my VHS recordings of all 271 episodes to DVD-R, but it would take up too much of my spare time and the resolution isn't there. I did that for The Fugitive, and that was only 120 episodes.
Many PM fans are willing to pay the price, but the timing is excruciating. Why couldn't they have been released as quickly as the Emma Peel episodes of The Avengers? Mrs. Peel's adventures came out as a full set. - 2008-04-03, 3 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Oh for Pete's sake
- Just release the entire series 271 episodes. Yes it may be high price ticket, but let us get it on DVD, if we can afford Gasoline we can afford The Complete Set of Perry Mason.
- 2008-04-02, 7 of 9 people found this review helpful, Rated:
