Perry Mason

Perry Mason is the legal drama TV series starring Raymond Burr as Perry Mason, a defense attorney who with his secretary Della Street (Barbara Hale), and his investigator Paul Drake (William Hopper), takes on the tough task of clearing his clients of murder charges. Mason takes on cases where the evidence all leads to his client, but ones where Perry believes that the client is innocent in spite of the evidence. Perry and his team dig deep into the facts of the cases. Perry tries to trick and trap the real perpetrator by using relentless and creative questioning to expose the killer and clear his clients' name. His adversary District Attorney Hamilton Burger took offense to Mason's courtroom theatrics, and was always bitter as each week Mason defeated him again. The classic series set the stage for future legal dramas, being the first to use the chalk outline around murder victims, and the entertaining but unorthodox techniques used by Perry Mason. MORE