I have never been a big fan of Perry Mason, to me it is "always the same schtick," sort of like Columbo, which I can stand even less.
It always drove me crazy that on Perry I could never figure out who "did it," as per the huge reveal at the end of each show, it was always some insignificant character.
This show didn't seem to me to be very well written, or maybe it was TOO well written. It was like they overwrote the show and then edited out stuff before it was broadcast.
A while ago I was told about a Perry episode which was very similar in some ways to an H50 episode. You can read about this here:
https://fiveohomepage.com/5-0log10.htm#219
(the Perry stuff starts after all of the H50 stuff is done).
There were a lot of things about this show that were bad, aside from the script, which drove me crazy, I spent sooooo much time on this!!
No idea how this episode rates compared to the average Perry show.
I wonder if Raymond Burr had any input into the Perry shows, how "complicated" they were or whatever.
I am finding with Ironside, most of the shows are pretty bad, there are facts which are left out and other twists and turns with the plot which don't make sense, even if you think hard about them.
I don't know if Burr had any input into the writing of the Ironside shows either. I got a couple of biographies of Burr out of the library, they contain interesting facts about the show.
Here is an example of something "not explained very well."
Eve Whitney, one of Ironside's team, played by Barbara Anderson, was this society babe who helped Ironside with a case where she demonstrated she had "great powers of observation." As a result of this, Ironside seemingly got her a job on the police force without her having to do the usual number of going to the police academy. In the pilot episode, you see her naked from the back ... I dunno what is going on here, it's like she is a stripper or a hooker or something as well as a well educated dame. And there is no indication that when she appears naked she is on a case at the time (prior to getting the job with Ironside).
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