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Actor Denver Pyle playing Robert Crane in Perry Mason, 1958
You can't make this stuff up! Unless Space Aliens have taken over the tube...
One of my nom-de-plumes was Helen Reedy, for a Lou Reed newsletter Helen Reddy meets Lou Reed, get it?
Here's an old Perry Mason Episode If Stephanie married gay Perry she'd be the old boat the PMS
Perry Mason Stephanie
We always assumed Stephanie an old battle axe!
One of the fictional characters is called "Bob Crane" 3/1/58
Seasons 1, Episode 24 The Case of the Deadly Double
Joyce Martell is the virtuous woman, Helen Reed
Perry: "Why did you leave your allergy" (her fur coat!)
Woman: At home with Helen Reed
Joyce Martell is capable of murder, Helen Reed is not!
Special guest on the show, not a joke....Constance Ford and Denver Pyle
If Bob Denver married Gomer Pyle he would be Denver Pyle
and "Bob Crane" is a fictional character in the show
kind of like a psychic look at TV in the 60s way before the days of Hogan's Hero and Gomer Pyle
Mr. Hale married Joyce Martell (fictional characters)
and Alan Hale was on Gilligan's Island
Crazy how many 60s TV names tucked inside this one episode of a 1950's show.
Oh, and Joyce Martell killed her "husband" David Reed
Quotes because Helen Reed was married to David Reed
Jekyll and Hyde
Sounds like an evening with Mark Rumley and his dual personalities
Joyce Martell was the occupant of Helen Reed's body at the time of the murder
Rumley has an excuse when he attempts to kill this writer...his dual personality
At the end of the coat Della Street (named after a street in Malden, honest to God! - Earle Stanley Gardner, the author, lived in Massachusetts) feels badly for the schizophrenic side of the woman and wants to keep the fur coat if she's not cured
Witty and funny, the Perry Mason show inspired Law & Order:SVU which is now the longest running drama in TV history.
But watch Law & Order: SVU and see how the format is exactly Perry - first half the crime, second half the courtroom, much like the lives of Stephanie, Mark, Brian, Leo, Roy, Paulette, Covino, Mackowski will be after the law catches up with them...in a perfect world! Finn and Caraviello and Frisadi too. Put them all in
SING SING and let them start SINGING!, Mr. Pamuso!