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Sean Cholodenko is known for Early Edition (1996), Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster (1991) and Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter (1991).
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The original Perry Mason television series was broadcast on CBS television from 1957 to 1966. Raymond Burr starred as Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer Perry Mason, a character created by American author and attorney Erle Stanley Gardner. Television producer Dean Hargrove resurrected the Perry Mason character in a series of television films for NBCbeginning in 1985.
Casting
Dean Hargrove was able to bring back the two then-surviving major stars, Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale, reprising their roles as Mason and his private secretary Della Street. In the first telefilm, Perry Mason Returns, Mason resigns from his position as an appellate court judge to defend Street on a murder charge. William Katt, Hale's own son, was cast as private investigator Paul Drake, Jr., the son of original series’ private investigator Paul Drake. William Hopper, who played Drake, had di...
Filming
Budgeted at $3 million, Perry Mason Returns was filmed in Toronto, standing in for Los Angeles to save production costs. The second telefilm, The Case of the Notorious Nun, was filmed in Vancouver, while the third, The Case of the Shooting Star, was also filmed in Toronto. Because of lower production costs, many of the later TV movies (beginning with the fourth, The Case of the Lost Love) were filmed and set in Denver, Colorado rather than Mason's traditional locale of Los Angeles. Although l...
Perry Mason Returns, the first television film in the series, was the second-highest-rated TV movie in American television during the 1985–86 season.
All 30 Perry Mason television films are available on Region 1 DVD. They were released in five six-film sets that were initially available exclusively through Amazon.com. On June 7, 2016, the first four movie collections were given general retail release.
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A painter, believed to have died in an accident, returns to make allegations that a gallery owner is selling counterfeits of his work. Later, the artist is found murdered in his studio.
Jan 6, 1991 · Overview. Perry is at TV station "KGGY" to be interviewed but thanks to the interference of main anchor-person Brett Huston the interview is pulled. Mostly everybody hates Brett as Brett knows all the station workers secrets.
