Perry Mason - General Discussion

[Ghost of TWOP Past]

As another librarian I can tell you that it's quite likely your library bought full sets but the disks were rapidly rendered unusable and had to be discarded. People are shockingly hard on our DVDs. We get things back that look like they've been dragged across asphalt. 

[Calvada]

On 2/20/2024 at 10:51 PM, Ghost of TWOP Past said:

As another librarian I can tell you that it's quite likely your library bought full sets but the disks were rapidly rendered unusable and had to be discarded. People are shockingly hard on our DVDs. We get things back that look like they've been dragged across asphalt. 

As a lifelong library patron and former library employee, I understand how terribly people can treat books, DVDs, etc. (the time a patron returned a book with several pages soaked in what we all agreed was blood is etched in my memory), so I agree these disks may have become damaged or worn.  But it is odd that the 2 libraries in my library system that have the PM DVDs are both missing Volume 2 of Season 9 and only those from the entire series.  Perhaps they were faulty from the manufacturer?  

I'm now into the early part of season 8.  I cannot believe they never updated the decor (if one can call it that) of Perry's office.  His desk looks like a project from a high school shop class.  And the walls - ugh.  

[shapeshifter]

1 minute ago, Calvada said:

But it is odd that the 2 libraries in my library system that have the PM DVDs are both missing Volume 2 of Season 9 and only those from the entire series. 

— which is why I suspect "theft," with the “thieves” maybe even thinking they could do a better job than a library of archiving these copies of the “rare” episodes — presuming the library would eventually discard them or that the discs would get damaged — which, as described above, is not a totally unwarranted concern.

My theory is based on experiences such as:
Before The Chicago Defender newspaper archives were digitized, the college library where I was employed had to move the microfilm reels to a locked cabinet because of theft issues. WorldCat shows just 18 libraries currently hold the Defender microfilm, and my former library is no longer one of them. 

Anyhoo —
Amazon is showing volume 2 of season 9 for 15 bucks, which is kind of a “steal,” heh: amazon.com/Perry-Mason-Ninth-Final-Season/dp/B00CL0MCN0

[dttruman]

Perry Mason apparently is becoming real popular, especially with my cable service and three networks that will carry this show. We all know that MeTV carries it twice, once in the morning and once at night, and the JUSTICE channel shows 4 consecutive episodes than repeats them late night. Now the GFAM channel will carry Perry Mason starting April 1st at around 2 pm

[chessiegal]

I've noticed there are multiple channels showing Perry on any given day.  I haven't found one episode I haven't seen before. There are some shows I can watch more than once. As much as I like Perry, he isn't one of them.

[dttruman]

3 hours ago, chessiegal said:

I've noticed there are multiple channels showing Perry on any given day.  I haven't found one episode I haven't seen before. There are some shows I can watch more than once. As much as I like Perry, he isn't one of them.

I like Perry, but I don't watch it all the time, I just like watching the episodes I like to watch. Especially the ones where you see the side of these special characters as in the "Weary Watchdog". It's not the case itself, but at the beginning when Della asks Perry how far would he go for a friend. Watch Della's reaction the next time it comes on.

[chessiegal]

23 minutes ago, dttruman said:

I like Perry, but I don't watch it all the time, I just like watching the episodes I like to watch. Especially the ones where you see the side of these special characters as in the "Weary Watchdog". It's not the case itself, but at the beginning when Della asks Perry how far would he go for a friend. Watch Della's reaction the next time it comes on.

I remember that one. Yes, Della's reaction is good.

[peacheslatour]

On 3/31/2024 at 7:13 AM, dttruman said:

Perry Mason apparently is becoming real popular, especially with my cable service and three networks that will carry this show. We all know that MeTV carries it twice, once in the morning and once at night, and the JUSTICE channel shows 4 consecutive episodes than repeats them late night. Now the GFAM channel will carry Perry Mason starting April 1st at around 2 pm

We have it starting at noon on GFAM. I'm really happy about it. I'd much rather watch Perry, even it I've seen it a million times than MSW. Something about dragging eighties fashions into the nineties bugs the crap out of me.

[Fool to cry]

 

 

[fairffaxx]

And she was married to Kit Carson!

[dttruman]

On 4/3/2024 at 1:33 PM, peacheslatour said:

We have it starting at noon on GFAM. I'm really happy about it. I'd much rather watch Perry, even it I've seen it a million times than MSW.

Now in our area, it's on from 10pm - 6am Mon thru Fri  and all day Sun. It's also on the Justice channel 10am - 2 pm and 10pm - 2am Mon thru  Fri.

[dttruman]

On 5/29/2024 at 10:17 AM, dttruman said:

Now in our area, it's on from 10pm - 6am Mon thru Fri  and all day Sun. It's also on the Justice channel 10am - 2 pm and 10pm - 2am Mon thru  Fri.

If you want to make it a weekend of Perry Mason, you can now watch 24 hours of Perry on Saturday from 6am to 6am Sunday on the Justice channel. Then on Sundays you can watch another 24 hours from 6am to Monday 6am on the Great American Family Network channel.

                 Enjoy All.

[shapeshifter]

On 6/20/2023 at 9:11 PM, shapeshifter said:

We were discussing closed captioning on another thread, but I can't find it?

Anyway, I missed the denouement of a Perry Mason episode that aired this morning on MeTV, 9.23 "The Case of the Tsarina's Tiara," so I was able to find it on FreeVee and Pluto (apps on my Roku TVs). 
I too always use closed captioning, and was surprised to see at about the 45 minute mark on both FreeVee and Pluto:

• [VYACHESLAV GERZNOV] She never told me about this bullshit Dorrow

which was a miss-translation for:

• [VYACHESLAV GERZNOV] She never told me about this Bolshevik Dorrow

Character Gerznov was played by Russian émigré and character actor Leonid Kinskey, whose accent may have confused the transcriber (human or machine) and/or "Bolshevik" was not in the word list used by the transcriber.

I guess it will be many months before it airs again on MeTV, so I won't get to see how it is transcribed into closed captions there. 😒

On 8/26/2023 at 11:45 AM, GHScorpiosRule said:

From the Retro thread. This episode aired on feTV last Saturday night. Watching it now and I doubt that this channel will show “bullshit” in the closed captioning as it edits out innocuous words. But will return and state what was used at the 45 minute mark.

ETA: it’s at the 52 minute mark and closed captioning spelled the name “Boleshevik” so fetv got it right. We’ll see if iMeTV does to when season nine airs.

9.23, "The Case of the Tsarina's Tiara," did air on MeTV July 4 at 9am EDT.

Caption on MeTV:

 

Caption on FreeTV:

It's linguistically interesting that the captioning that incorrectly interpreted "Bolshevik" as "bullshit" added the word "with," which means the character of Dorow was not being described as "bullshit," but rather the scheme with Dorow was "bullshit."

Edited July 4 by shapeshifter

[dttruman]

For what it is worth, I thought they could have done a better job of casting in the "Case of the Fancy Figures". Frank Silvera played Jonathan Hyett and Joan Banks played his daughter Valerie Brewster. Here is the discrepancy, Frank is only 4 years older than  Joan. IMO, either Frank or Joan was a last second replacement for the character they played.