Perry Mason Color Clip
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Perry Mason, Season Nine, Episode Twenty One, "The Case of the Twice Told Twist", a modern rendering of Dickens' "Oliver Twist" complete with a character named Bill Sykes. This was the only episode shot in color, for archival purposes, but it was broadcast in monochrome.
Victor Buono! One of my favorite Batman villains.
For my money there’s no one else I would want to play the bad guy than Victor Buono. IMO he’s the villain’s villain. Nobody on ‘60s TV did it better.
This is what Perry Mason would have looked if it would have gotten a 10th season.
Eric, yes, but with more normal coloring of the sets.
@@azz710 Yes, the sets look a bit drab grey here.
@@ChristopherSobieniak They definitely didn't go to great lengths to disguise the colors used for showing up better on B&W film....there's a bluish tint and I doubt any courtroom looked like this. That was common though, The Munsters set was famously a rainbow of bright pinks, greens, and yellows. This set does look kind of cool though.
@@KalOrtPor True. It's like Perry Mason remembering his glory days in a flashback!
A very interesting episode. I think there's something about it that made it look and feel very different from the rest of series, and not just because it was in color. The black and white episodes were done very much in the style of film noir. Here, it seemed to shift to a darker and grittier style that would be seen a lot more in various other crime shows and movies throughout the late 60's and early 70's. That said, if they had made more episodes after this, it just wouldn't have been the same show anymore. I suspect CBS was going to cancel the show anyway, and the producers made this last ditch effort to revitalize it and prove that it could still work within the changes that were underway.
That classic feel of the old episodes was steadily eroding during the 60's, and most of the 8th and 9th seasons had very little of it left, with the musical cues, lighting, camera angles, and editing giving much a sense of those late 60's crime dramas, even in black and white. It's highlighted and on full display here thanks to the color. Strangely the second-to-last episode The Case of the Crafty Kidnapper was one of the most noirish, with guys in trenchcoats hiding in shadows, silhouettes through frosted glass windows on doors in offices, etc.
In fact, CBS chairman Bill Paley was seriously considering renewing Perry Mason for a 10th season, but wanted to see how everyone looked in color, because the network was going to go full color during the 1966-67 season. Paley commissioned this episode for color (i.e., he said the network would pay the extra production costs) but, as it turned out, Perry Mason was cancelled as of this ninth season.
Perry Mason in color just doesn’t pack the punch of the Black & White ones.
No, this ep was colorcast on CBS in 1966.
sonofretrotvluver, That's interesting, but conflicts with reports I've read over the years. I did watch this, when broadcast, on a 5" Panasonic "tummy TV" in my dorm room, but, of course, it was monochrome. Will you tell us your source?
Although we did not quite yet own a color set at the time, I recall watching a still card promo on CBS, saying that that episode would indeed be colorcast on the network that Sunday night in 1966.
sonofretrotvluver, Ah! Well, in any case, I still prefer it in monochrome, even this silliest of all episodes. I have the whole series on DVD, as it's my favorite of all time, along with The Rockford Files, which I have on Blu-ray. Streaming is good enough for everything else!
Season 9 episode 21
Hey King Tut before the Batman series
Also played Jim Ignatowski's (Christopher Lloyd's) Dad on Taxi! And the memorable pianist Edwin in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (for which he got an Oscar nomination).
@@ferociousgumby I remember him appearing on The wild wild West as a villain
As a matter of fact; Perry Mason was the first official television show, to be released in color. I'm a sucker for cartoons. Even in color.🌈🌞
Huh? No, it was broadcast in black and white. All of the earliest series transmitted in "compatible color" were on NBC. For one thing, "Perry Mason" was shot on black and white film. I was there at the time, having been born in 1947.
@@azz710 Whereas, Hogan's Heroes only had one black-and-white episode (the pilot!) out of all its 168 episodes.
I believe Bonanza had them all beat. It was the first series where ALL episodes were in color, in fact sales of RCA tv sets went up as result
This episode was certainly broadcast in color originally, and aired with the "CBS Color Presentation" bumper before it. All primetime shows on all networks went to color months later. "Bonanza" was a pretty early color showcase from 1959. While "Adventures of Superman" began filming in color in 1954 which ate a large chunk of its budget, those episodes were never seen in color until after the show had ended. The producers had the foresight to anticipate the lucrative syndication market, a gamble which eventually paid off.
@@KalOrtPor The Lone Ranger was shot in color for it's final 52 episodes that aired on ABC but was still shown in black and white since ABC at the time had no color facilities available. The color Lone Ranger episodes still are aired in syndication.
I would like to see the entire color episode. Can anyone tell me how I can get it?
James Johnson Buy it. That simple.
Buy the season 9, volume 2 DVD set.
I watched it on Vimeo.
@@Paranormal_Gaming_ hey smart ass whats the name of it.?
@@garyv2196 SHUT THE HELL UP!!!