Perry Mason Mysteries Boxset Packaging Review

Perry Mason Mysteries is a series of 30 tv movies that aired on CBS between 1985 and 1995. A continuation of the original series (1957-66), Raymond Burr and Barabara Hale returned in leading roles of Perry Mason and Della Street, with the first of the tv movies setting things up for Perry to leave his job as a judge and get back into practising as a criminal defence lawyer.  William Hopper had passed on and the detective role was filled by William Katt (Barbara Hale's real life son), playing the son of Perry's trusted detective Paul Drake.  Raymond Burr starred in 26 of the 30 tv movies, passing in 1993.  In the final 4 mysteries Paul Sorvino and Hal Holbrook take on the iconic role of Perry Mason.

 

 

Packaged in a plastic case with a cardboard slip this set contains 15 discs each with 2 ninety five minute movies on it.  Released by Paramount and CBS the discs themselves are a plain mat grey and silver.  Episode titles are listed on the interior cover as well as the discs.  Films are all in their original 4:3 aspect ratio and English subtitles are available on the episodes. This set is very similarly packaged to the other sets released by CBS/Paramount so far this year.  (Matlock, Cheers, The Untouchables)

 

More pictures of this set below and if you are looking for more specific information please feel free to ask.  I also have a video up on my youtube channel that you can see by clicking here or scrolling to the end of this post to watch. I hope this was helpful and that you have a great day!

 

 

Back of the case

Specs on the back of the case.

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30 years of Ferris Bueller's Day Off

I loved Ferris Bueller’s day off when I was growing up. I didn’t relate to any of the characters at a more personal level but I do think that the sibling relationships, as written from the point of how it feels when you are a teen, was well done and what anchored a movie that otherwise may not have had as much of an impact. For as much as we want to be Ferris I think it is from the sister that we get that as much as anywhere else. We would like to be that golden boy of course, but on a realistic day, we just don’t want to be the one playing by the rules and seeing someone else succeed and thrive while coasting/cheating their way to the top. Everybody knows someone or is related to someone, where that seems to be what happens for them and I think that is the in for making the audience want to be Ferris, his life just seems easier and less complicated than yours. In must be nice to be the piece of bread that keeps landing butter side up no matter how many times it seems to hurl itself at the floor. I think we all crave that as much as the fun that he has that most others would end up getting caught out at.

Ferris is a cacophony of youth. The glorification of the amazing days you have as high school comes to an end, I think the biggest thing the movie missed was that these days come charged with electricity no matter what or who you are and even if you don’t hijak a parade, steal a parents car, scheme your way into a great restaurant (or do amazing travel, have a boyfriend/girlfriend etc.) those days and moments will still happen, still be amazing, shape you whether you intended that to happen or not, and still be just as important when you look back at that time in your life. In many cases the little moments may have shaped you more and be more important to you when you look back on things. I wish the movie captured that better because outside of the museum sequence and the part at the end where they are at that look-out I think it completely misses it, and there it seems to only briefly go to that weird nothingness so full of something that the days are packed with. It captures the nothingness you are so despertly trying to turn into something meaningful or important without the awareness to show it has meaning without the big gestures or events.

It’s a movie about being young for the young and as much as I do love it for that and also for adding to what I expected high school or life to be like, I really doubt it would be one I would sit down and get much out of if I was watching for the first time now. Because you don’t have to talk to many adults to realize best moments are rarely the ones you could have anticipated being so ahead, and even less likely the more you try to force them.

So happy 30^th Anniversary Ferris, (Cameron, and Sloan). I hope life has treated you well.