John Hamilton, George Reeves, Noel Neill, Jack Larson and Robert Shayne in The Adventures of Superman.
Tag: 50s tv
Gerald Mohr was a mainstay on television in the 1950s and 1960s. Here he is (right) with Raymond Burr and William Hopper in “The Case of the Unwelcome Bride” (12-16-1961) from Perry Mason.
The best thirty minutes on television
Someone once wrote that the courtroom was the perfect theater, as it
provided a stage for the entire range of human emotion, and this is
certainly true of Perry Mason. About half of each episode, more
or less, is spent in the courtroom, and I sometimes think you could skip
the entire first thirty minutes or so and still be enthralled by the
drama of Perry once again taking on Hamilton Burger (or whichever poor
soul winds up on the opposite side of the table)… [more]This post is part of the the 2015 Summer of Me-TV Classic Television Blogathon. Click here to view the lineup of all the great posts in this blogathon.
From: itsabouttv.com
Actor, director, and producer Jack Webb was born April 2, 1920. Best known to generations of radio and television fans as Sgt. Joe Friday of Dragnet, Webb got his start in radio in San Francisco before moving to develop his own programs. Among his early successes were Pat Novak For Hire and Jeff Regan, Investigator – a pair of hard-boiled noir mysteries.
After a role in a 1948 crime drama, Webb befriended Sgt. Marty Wynn, the firm’s LAPD technical consultant. Their conversations led Webb to develop a new kind of crime drama, one that would accurately depict the day-in, day-out work of police officers without the dramatic embellishments of shoot-outs and high-speed chases. The result was Dragnet, a show that changed the police drama forever and enjoyed long-running success on radio and television.
On Sunday’s episode of the podcast, we’ll hear Jack Webb in some of his radio roles. Today, in honor of his birthday, we’ll hear more from this old time radio legend. For more private eyes and dogged detectives from the Golden Age of Radio, click here to subscribe to the “Down These Mean Streets” podcast in iTunes.
District Attorney Hamilton Burger (played by William Talman) and criminal defense lawyer Perry Mason (played by Raymond Burr) on the popular series Perry Mason (CBS, 1957-1966).
Burger, as prosecutor, won only two cases against Mason during the entire run of the series, and Mason himself lost in some form or manner in three cases: “The Case of the Witless Witness,” “The Case of the Deadly Verdict,” and “The Case of the Terrified Typist.” (Wikipedia)
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