Editing Perry Mason (section)

==Adaptations==
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===Film===
[[Warner Bros.]] released a series of six Perry Mason films in the 1930s.
* ''[[The Case of the Howling Dog]]'' (1934), with [[Warren William]] as Perry Mason and Helen Trenholme as Della Street.
* ''[[The Case of the Curious Bride]]'' (1935), with Warren William and [[Claire Dodd]] as Della Street.  Notable for the first-released American screen appearance of [[Errol Flynn]] as the corpse, who is seen alive but not speaking in a brief flashback.
* ''[[The Case of the Lucky Legs]]'' (1935), with Warren William and [[Genevieve Tobin]] as Della Street.
* ''[[The Case of the Velvet Claws]]'' (1936), with Warren William and Claire Dodd as Della Street Mason.
* ''[[The Case of the Black Cat]]'' (1936) (from ''The Case of the Caretaker's Cat'' [1935]), with [[Ricardo Cortez]] as Perry Mason and [[June Travis]] as Della Street.
* ''[[The Case of the Stuttering Bishop]]'' (1937), with [[Donald Woods (actor)|Donald Woods]] as Perry Mason and [[Ann Dvorak]] as Della Street.

The six Perry Mason films are available on DVD as a single-set release from the Warner Bros. Archive Collection.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wbshop.com/product/perry+mason-+the+original+warner+bros.+movies+collection+1000353783.do |title=Perry Mason: The Original Warner Bros. Movies Collection |website=WBShop.com |publisher=Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. |access-date=2015-07-12 |archive-date=July 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713081950/http://www.wbshop.com/product/perry+mason-+the+original+warner+bros.+movies+collection+1000353783.do |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The 1940 Warner Bros. film, ''[[Granny Get Your Gun]]'', was loosely based on the 1937 Perry Mason novel ''The Case of the Dangerous Dowager''. [[May Robson]] stars as Minerva Hatton. The film does not include Perry Mason or any of the regular characters.<ref name="Davidson"/>{{Rp|1463}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=5698 |title=Granny Get Your Gun |website=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films]] |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |access-date=2015-07-12}}</ref>

===Radio===
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Perry Mason was adapted for radio as a 15-minute daily crime series that aired from 1943 to 1955 on [[CBS Radio]]. It had little in common with the usual portrayal of Mason, so much so that Gardner withdrew his support for a TV version of the daytime serial that began airing on CBS in 1956. The general theme of the radio series was continued, with a different title and characters, as ''[[The Edge of Night]]''.<ref name="lackman"/>

[[File:Perry-Mason-Hopper-Burr-1959.jpg|left|thumb|220px|[[William Hopper]] and [[Raymond Burr]] in the [[CBS]]-TV series ''[[Perry Mason (1957 TV series)|Perry Mason]]'' (1957–1966)]]

===TV===
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====''Perry Mason'' (1957–1966)====
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The best-known incarnation of Perry Mason is from [[CBS]] which ran from 1957-66, with [[Raymond Burr]] as the title role. The series also featured [[Barbara Hale]] as Della Street, [[William Hopper]] as Paul Drake, [[William Talman (actor)|William Talman]] as Hamilton Burger and [[Ray Collins (actor)|Ray Collins]] as Lt. Tragg. The entire series has been released on DVD and reruns are a staple in syndication.

[[Paramount+]] has made available most of the episodes from seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 on its website for streaming.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbs.com/shows/perry_mason/ |title=Perry Mason |website=CBS All Access |publisher=[[CBS]] |access-date=2018-05-25}}</ref>

====''The New Perry Mason'' (1973–1974)====
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Several years after ''Perry Mason'' was cancelled, a new series, ''[[The New Perry Mason]]'', aired in 1973 featuring [[Monte Markham]] in the title role. A total of 15 episodes aired before being cancelled halfway through its first season.

====Television films (1985–1995)====
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American television producers [[Dean Hargrove]] and [[Fred Silverman]] resurrected the Perry Mason character in a series of [[television film]]s for [[NBC]] beginning in 1985. The two surviving stars of the CBS-TV series, [[Raymond Burr]] and [[Barbara Hale]], reprised their roles as Mason and Della Street. In the first telefilm, ''Perry Mason Returns'', Mason is an [[appellate court]] judge who resigns his position to successfully defend his secretary Della on murder charges. [[William Katt]], Hale's son, was cast as Paul Drake, Jr. [[William Hopper]], who played private investigator Paul Drake in the original TV series, had died years earlier; Hopper's photograph appears on Paul Drake Jr.'s desk. In the later TV movies, Mason used the services of attorney Ken Malansky, played by [[William R. Moses]].

The Perry Mason series of TV movies continued until Burr's death from kidney cancer in 1993. ''The Case of the Killer Kiss'' was Burr's final portrayal of Mason. The film aired after his death, and was dedicated to Burr's memory. Thereafter, the title of the series was changed to ''A Perry Mason Mystery'' and starred either [[Paul Sorvino]] or [[Hal Holbrook]] as lawyers and friends of Mason. Hale and Moses continued in their roles; Mason was ostensibly out of town.

====''Perry Mason'' (2020)====
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In August 2016, [[HBO]] announced a potential new series.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2016/08/hbo-eyes-series-from-robert-downey-jr-true-detective-creator-nic-pizzolatto-1201803911/|title=HBO Eyes Series From Robert Downey Jr. & 'True Detective' Creator Nic Pizzolatto|last1=Andreeva|first1=Nellie|date=August 15, 2016|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|access-date=2017-09-05}}</ref> In August 2017 a change in the writing staff for the project was announced, with [[Rolin Jones]] and [[Ron Fitzgerald]] taking over for [[Nic Pizzolatto]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2017/08/hbo-perry-mason-reboot-robert-downey-jr-star-new-writers-rolin-jones-and-ron-fitzgerald-1202156373/|title=Perry Mason HBO Drama Project Starring Robert Downey Jr. Sets New Writers|last1=Andreeva|first1=Nellie|date=August 25, 2017|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=2017-09-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://metv.com/stories/robert-downey-jr-is-officially-bringing-perry-mason-back-to-tv |title=Robert Downey, Jr. Is Officially Bringing Perry Mason Back To TV |date=August 29, 2017 |website=MeTV.com |access-date=September 3, 2017}}</ref> In January 2019, [[Robert Downey Jr.]] announced on his Twitter page that [[Matthew Rhys]] would be portraying Perry Mason in the new production; Downey was originally going to portray Mason, but was forced to bow out due to scheduling conflicts.<ref>{{cite tweet |last=Downey Jr. |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Downey Jr. |user=RobertDowneyJr |number=1084903953941245955 |date=January 14, 2019 |title="Now it seems to me the place to start is at the beginning." Perry Mason ... |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/matthew-rhys-play-perry-mason-hbo-drama-1175887|title=Matthew Rhys to Play Perry Mason in HBO Drama|date=January 14, 2019|website=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=January 14, 2019}}</ref> The HBO revival and reboot adapted its setting to [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]]-era Los Angeles, some twenty years earlier than the CBS show (but in line with the earliest novels by Gardner).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Deggans |first1=Eric |title=HBO Releases A 'Perry Mason' Makeover |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/06/22/881826888/hbo-releases-a-perry-mason-make-over |access-date=September 7, 2020 |work=NPR.org |date=June 22, 2020 |language=en}}</ref> It features [[John Lithgow]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2019/05/john-lithgow-hbo-perry-mason-limited-series-team-downey-1202608975/ |title=John Lithgow To Star In HBO's 'Perry Mason' Limited Series From Team Downey |last1=Petski |first1=Denise |date=2019-05-07 |website=Deadline |language=en |access-date=2019-05-07}}</ref> and [[Tatiana Maslany]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2019/04/tatiana-maslany-hbo-perry-mason-limited-series-team-downey-matthew-rhys-1202594604/ |title=Tatiana Maslany To Star In HBO's 'Perry Mason' Limited Series From Team Downey |first1=Nellie |last1=Andreeva |first2=Denise |last2=Petski |date=2019-04-12 |website=Deadline |language=en |access-date=2019-05-07}}</ref> in additional roles.
This miniseries was created with a budget of around $74.3 million and released its first episode on June 21, 2020. In July 2020, HBO announced that the mini-series had been picked up for a second season, and that the show would become a regular series.

===Other adaptations===
The Perry Mason character has appeared in [[comic book]]s and a short-lived (October 16, 1950{{space}}– June 21, 1952) [[comic strip]]. He was also the inspiration for ''The Whole Truth'' (1986) by [[James Cummins (poet)|James Cummins]], a book-length collection of [[sestina]]s.

In 2008, ''The Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air'' began producing a series of full-cast audio theater dramatizations of Gardner's Perry Mason novels, adapted by M. J. Elliott.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.colonialradio.com/HTML/titles/perry_mason.html |title=The Perry Mason Collection |publisher=The Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air |access-date=2017-09-30}}</ref>