Some “Perry Mason” Notes

Earlier today, a truly fine episode of “Perry Mason” aired, called “The Crimson KIss.”

It was from a novelette by Erle Stanley Gardner, the person most responsible for the iconic “Mason” (dare I say) brand, no, call it a long lasting ,well done work.

Among the cast members as “Aunt Louise,” is Frances Bavier. She went on to television glory, as “Aunt Bee” on “The Andy Griffith Show.”

In the episode that originally aired on November 9,1957 (Milwaukee at the time housed the World Series winner and has not done so since– while the Detroit Lions were on their way to the NFL crown and have not played in a game for that prize after that year), the beautiful, loyal, “Della Street” played by Barbara Hale, calls Perry Mason, first “Chief” and then “Mr. Mason”, but not “Perry,” as she so often would in the episodes that followed.

Finally, I note the appearance of the sultry, Joi Lansing, once “Mrs. Superman, if only as bait, (but at the end she and Lois Lane are competing for him, leaving Clark Kent to reflect on the slim chance “regular guys,” such as he and Jimmy Olsen, have regarding Lois and Ms. Lansing’s “Mrs. Superman) in the episode, adding to a truly good one on MeTV.

The beautiful and talented Joi Lansing, pictured above.