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Today, the theme song from Perry Mason is as iconic as its Emmy-winning star Raymond Burr; however, original composer Fred Steiner says its slinky feel didn't have a lasting appeal for everybody involved with managing the hit show. After Steiner had reworked the theme to fit different title sequences several times, the story goes that someone said they were tired of the theme.

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Baffling, we know, considering how timeless it is now. It's instantly recognizable, whether it's used for comic relief on later shows like Fresh Prince of Bel-Air or as a hook to add dramatic charge in major films like Kill Bill. See Also: 8 riveting facts about Perry Mason. To appease that one bored person's opinion, conductor Lud Gluskin pulled in a major composer to give it a refresh: Bernard Herrmann, likely most famous today for his creepy Psycho theme song.

In an interview with the Archive of American Television from , Steiner says that Herrmann told him his response was simply no, telling Steiner he said, "What do you want me to write a theme for? Steiner's is perfectly good.

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Save with. Perry's Pen Set can be seen on his desk it most every episode.

The set is a version from the famous Parker 51 series of fountain pens made by the Parker Pen Company. The pen set seen on the judge's bench in the Season 1 opening sequence is made by Esterbrook. More information here. It runs in the family: John M. Nickolaus, Jr. His father, John Nickolaus, was head of the film laboratory of M. Studios in Culver City, California during the s.

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Like father, like son! Submitted by Grace V. Baby Names: Searching the Popularity of a Name database at the Social Security Online site, I noticed that the name "Perry" hit it's most popular rank, , in the second and third years of the series. Could there be a connection? There doesn't seem to have been an equivalent trend with the name "Della.

See a ranking graph here. With week-ends off for cast and crew this requires nine elapsed days, not including cutting, dubbing, orchestration and other technical chores which turn the exposed film into a highly-polished hour-long show. Have you seen the Curious Coffee Set? It appears to be a very persistent prop. Cups from it have been spotted it at least seven episodes so far. Even stranger, it may have appeared in an episode of I Love Lucy. More information and some pictures here. Did you ever notice the colorful and evocative adjectives used in the episode titles, sometimes just for the sake of alliteration?

Some are used more than once. I Want to Live! See below for earlier items on this topic. More information, including Alan's methodology, here. Why it took three actors to voice one role, I'm not sure. Maybe they alternated lines depending on which vocal quality Hitchcock wanted, or maybe they were acoustically combined or edited together in some way.

What a menagerie!

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Did you ever observe how often an animal showed up in the episode titles? Twenty-four times! Among the creatures named, four were birds, four were canines, four were felines, five were equines, one was a fish, two were non-human primates, and three were insects. Have you seen this man?

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Taylor Agan would like to know. Family lore says that his great uncle Robert Wegner was in various episodes in uncredited roles. Perhaps in the jury or courtroom audience. There are some pictures of him here. If you've seen him, please let me know the episode so I can get a vidcap for Taylor. My email link is near the bottom of the sidebar. More here. Those Hats! Did you ever notice how some women's hats appear more than once in the series?


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See some repeaters here. Somebody please count them and let me know. The current record is 43 in North By Northwest see below. Thanks to Charles Richmond for spotting this. A total of Seventy-five episodes were adapted from Erle Stanley Gardner books or stories. Seven episodes were adapted a second time with new titles. Two episodes adapted from books were retitled for reasons other than remaking. Julie Adams and Virginia Field are the only two Perry Mason guest actors to receive top billing the first screen credit in four different episodes. Did you ever wonder what all of those objections Perry makes in court really mean?

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Find out here. Did you ever notice how often a color showed up in the titles? Fifteen times! Joan Camden , it should be noted, appeared in the last episode of Season 1 39 and the first episode of Season 2 Marshall Reed appeared in consecutive episodes and Has anybody else played in consecutive shows in a non-recurring part? Joan Camden had a lead role in 39 and In minor roles: Clark Howat in 1 and 2 and Richard Geary in and Semi-regulars and judges excluded.

There were actually three versions of the Park Avenue Beat theme song!


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    4. The first was used in seasons one and two, the second in three thru eight and the third in the final season. There seems to be at least two versions of the Park Avenue Beat theme song in the shows. The "first" version had really "hard" drums toward the end of the intro theme. The later version softened these a bit, and sounded more like it had been recorded in a proper studio with a better engineer - a little smoother sound. Here are some MP3s of the opening theme from show 1 , show 70 3rd season opener and show final season opener for comparison.

    The name of the theme is explained in the note at the bottom of this page.