What is your favorite Raymond Burr TV series? (this will age us)

[WI_DEM]

Poll question: What is your favorite Raymond Burr TV series? (this will age us)

[calico1]

1. Did that prosecutor on Perry Mason ever actually

win a case? I don't recall Perry Mason ever losiing one!

[WI_DEM]

3. I read somewhere Mason lost one case but it was on some

technicality or something.

[FloridaPat]

7. He did win one. I remember watching it even. Don't remember

the details. I have trouble with yesterdays details.

[MuseRider]

2. Darn

I never liked him but my mother, well, I think she had a major league crush on him. We always had to be home for Perry Mason. I always liked Derwood Kerby (is the right?) better and I thought that Della was a dork.

[despairing optimist]

9. Raymond Burr was gay. His life partner was the Perry Mason series producer

Here's a link to his bio: http://www.glbtq.com/arts/burr1_r.html

Besides being an excellent movie and TV actor, he gave generously to people, including Pacific islanders as well as Californians. Oh, that California would have chosen HIM for governor instead of the two actors it ended up with!

[MuseRider]

10. Well now that changes

a lot. Boy would my mother be shocked if she was still living! I did not like his shows but he sounds like he was a great human being.

[despairing optimist]

11. He was a gentleman and a gentle man.

Burr and many of his contemporaries (Montgomery Clift, Rock Hudson, Richard Chamberlain, Jim Nabors, and others) hid their true selves behind a facade of women called beards. To do otherwise would have ruined their careers. Sadly, the practice survives to the present day, though not as pervasively.

But anyway, Burr did a whole lot of good. He could have gone through all his money or left it to some distant relatives, but instead he chose to give it back. Talk about a positive role model.

[MuseRider]

12. Now you have me

feeling terrible! It must have been so very difficult to have to live like that. As you say, it is not a lot better now and it makes me so sad. I will do a penance and watch Perry Mason once a week for a month in honor of a good man who I knew nothing about. :)

[flamingyouth]

4. I like both, actually

Perry Mason was before my time, but I love watching reruns. :)

[WI_DEM]

6. yeah Perry was before my time too, but like you I liked the reruns

and the TV movies that started in the 80's.

[Jade Fox]

5. The old Perry Mason series was one of the greatest shows ever....

from its remarkable theme music to its risque' (for the times) content.

And that Paul was such a snappy dresser!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. I'm with you on the theme music

It's one of my all time favorites.

More about Raymond Burr: he had a cover story to explain being unmarried, namely that he had once had a wife and son who had died.

That was in his official bio until some suspicious Hollywood reporter did a little investigating and could find no record of any marriage or any son.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

8. Ironside!