Editing Raymond Burr (section)

===Television films===
{{main|Perry Mason (TV film series)}}
In 1985, Burr was approached by producers [[Dean Hargrove]] and [[Fred Silverman]] to star in a made-for-TV movie, ''Perry Mason Returns''.<ref name="Eugene">[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hg8pAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EOEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5630,7917306&dq=perry+mason+returns&hl=en Raymond Burr to Return as Perry Mason]. Eugene Register. November 30, 1985</ref> The same week, Burr recalled, he was asked to reprise the role he played in ''[[Godzilla, King of the Monsters!]]'' (1956),<ref name="Dougan2">{{cite news|last=Dougan|first=Michael|date=June 9, 1986|title=Raymond Burr: Much More than Just Perry Mason|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ProrAAAAIBAJ&pg=5668,2676035&dq=perry+mason+returns&hl=en|newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Nashua)|The Telegraph]]|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref> in a low-budget film that would be titled ''[[Godzilla 1985]]''.<ref name="Tom Shales"/>

"When they asked me to do it a second time, I said, 'Certainly,' and everybody thought I was out of my mind," Burr told [[Tom Shales]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]''. "But it wasn't the large sum of money. It was the fact that, first of all, I kind of liked 'Godzilla,' and where do you get the opportunity to play yourself 30 years later? So I said yes to both of them."<ref name="Tom Shales">{{cite news|last=Shales|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Shales |date=September 14, 1993|title=Appreciation|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/09/14/appreciation/2dda0265-5008-488f-9cab-70044418a33c|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref> Although Burr is best remembered for his role as Perry Mason, a devoted following continues to appreciate him as the actor that brought the Godzilla series to America.

He agreed to appear in the Mason movie if Barbara Hale returned to reprise her role as Della Street.<ref>''Burr Delights in TV Return''. ''Worcester Telegram & Gazette''. September 7, 1989. Retrieved March 26, 2010</ref> Hale agreed, and when ''Perry Mason Returns'' aired in December 1985, her character became the defendant.<ref name="Eugene" /> The rest of the principal cast had died, but Hale's real-life son [[William Katt]] played the role of Paul Drake Jr.<ref name="Eugene" /> The movie was so successful that Burr made a total of 26 [[Perry Mason (TV film series)|Perry Mason television movies]] before his death.<ref name="Thomas" /> Many were filmed in and around Denver, Colorado.<ref name="Dougan">{{Cite news| author=Dougan, Michael | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PeYyAAAAIBAJ&pg=6361,3224500&dq=raymond+burr&hl=en | title=Raymond Burr: A Man of Vast Appetites | publisher=[[The San Francisco Examiner]] for [[The Free Lance–Star]] | date= September 16, 1993 | access-date= March 25, 2010 | page=D1}}</ref>

After several of the TV movies, Burr's age and health issues forced him to use a cane onscreen, which was jokingly explained as a "skiing accident." By 1993, when Burr signed with NBC for another season of Mason films, he was using a wheelchair full-time because of his failing health. In his final Perry Mason movie, ''The Case of the Killer Kiss'', he was shown either sitting or standing while leaning on a table, but only once standing unsupported for a few seconds.<ref name="OConner">O'Connor, John J. [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/10/arts/review-television-case-of-the-missing-mason.html?pagewanted=1 ''Review/Television; Case of the Missing Mason''], ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 10, 1994. Retrieved March 26, 2010.</ref> Twelve more Mason movies were scheduled before Burr's death, including one scheduled to film the month he died.<ref name="Ill">[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4B0xAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_eAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5090,6447222&dq=raymond+burr&hl=en ''Raymond Burr Reported Seriously Ill at Ranch'']. ''The Sunday Gazette''. April 27, 1993. Retrieved March 27, 2010.</ref>

As he had with the ''Perry Mason'' TV movies, Burr decided to do an ''Ironside'' reunion movie. ''The Return of Ironside'' aired in May 1993, reuniting the entire original cast of the 1967–75 series.<ref>King, Susan. [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oHohAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EooFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3556,742826&dq=the+return+of+ironside&hl=en ''Ironside Returns to NBC Tuesday''], ''Los Angeles Times'', reprinted in the Daily Gazette, May 1, 1993. Retrieved March 26, 2010.</ref> Like many of the Mason movies, it was set and filmed in Denver.<ref name="Ill"/>