Also off topic and not about radio, Burr's story reminds me of the Stephen King short story, The Revenge of Lard Ass Hogan.

Growing up, Hogan was tormented about his weight and called Lard Ass. After he grew up he got his revenge against his tormentors when he enterd the pie eating contest at the fair. He deliberately ate more than his stomach could possibly hold and threw up all over the people in the front row of seats. Then those people started gagging and throwing up too until the entire tent was full of pukers.

Burr got his revenge in a different way, by becoming successful.

Last edited by turkeytop (July 6, 2023 8:30 pm)

Dial Twister wrote:

Burr's Perry Mason is available on the free Pluto.TV app.

When we're in Florida, one of the TV channels has it on every night.
 

My Sirius XM channels are usually set on CBC, BBC, Netflix is a Joke Radio and Sirius XM Radio Classics at Channel 148. Raymond Burr features prominently on the Radio Classics channel, playing villains on shows such as Jeff Regan, Private Investigator and Pat Novak for Hire. He was given his own show, Fort Laramie, where he played Lee Quince, a cavalry officer stationed in the Old West in the aftermath of the Civil War. The show was produced by Norman McDonald, one of true legends of 1950s scripted radio. His use of sound to create atmosphere and suspense remains a benchmark for others to follow. Take 30 minutes to listen to this episode. You won't be disappointed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GqXtTpOhyw&list=PLlUoyloCGlWwqELX0b5w-HbhcPBkWIgLH&index=5

Last edited by BowmanvilleBob (July 7, 2023 1:42 pm)

Only one episode of the original series was filmed in colour.  On February 27, 1966, Perry Mason was shown in colour on CBS.  In the ninth season Raymond Burr and the cast were up against Bonanza on NBC Sundays at 9pm.  Some executives at CBS wanted to see how the show looked in colour.  The remaining 9 episodes in season 9 were in B&W.   The series final show was in May 1966.

Burr had long wanted to leave the series but was convinced by CBS to do one more for season 10.   CBS had agreed that all of season 10 for 1966/67 would be filmed in colour.   Three weeks later, Burr read in Variety that the show had been cancelled.  Nobody from the network had called him.

Here is the opening and closing of the one colour episode "The Case Of The Twice Told Twist" of the original Perry Mason series from February 27, 1966.   Note how CBS sort of cheated for the closing segment with black and white photos but colour graphics over top. 
https://www.google.com/search?q=which+episode+of+perry+mason+was+in+color&rlz=1C1GGRV_enCA751CA751&ei=lAuoZKu1BuueptQPspIk&start=10&sa=N&ved=2ahUKEwirz7LV0vz_AhVrj4kEHTIJCQAQ8NMDegQICRAQ&biw=1366&bih=657&dpr=1#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:49dd38f6,vid:qCxIdpPaVHI

About two blocks from where I live there’s an old church with a sign out front proclaiming that it was the site of Raymond Burr’s christening after he was born.

(I live in the city Burr was born in)

Talked with Raymond Burr a bunch of times on the set of the movie "Delirious". Burr would pop by John Candy's trailer where John and I were writing his U.S. radio series "Radio Kandy" between shots (if you've ever been on a movie set, there's a whole lot of down time for actors while they set up a new scene or change the lighting). Burr talked a lot about Canada. Both he and John were both proud Canadians despite having huge success in the U.S.  

And, isn't it interesting that both Bonanza and Perry Mason starred Canadians in the leading role.