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* [[Nice Hat]]: Lieutenant Tragg's fedora.
* [[Official Couple]]: Perry and Della.
* [[One-Dollar Retainer]]: Played with in the episode "The Case of the Shapely Shadow": Perry takes a one-dollar retainer before opening a suitcase in the presence of his new client. What he discovers makes him think he's about to defend his client in a blackmail case, but the actual charge turns out to be murder and Perry accepts his usual fee.
* [[Perp Sweating]]
* [[The Perry Mason Method]]: Trope Namer.
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* [[Trickster Archetype]]: Perry is an interestingly lawful example - he often uses a mix of tricky guile and venerable wisdom to uncover clues and solve mysteries, but rarely actually uses coercion or trickery to ''make'' the guilty say something.
* [[True Companions]]: Perry, Paul and Della. Could be expanded to include Tragg ([[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|or Andy or Steve]]) and Burger.
* [[Written
** For awhile (around season six) there was a string of episodes that followed some associate of Perry's while the man himself was recuperating in a hospital room and was only seen in brief telephone calls. This was because actor Raymond Burr was recovering from surgery and couldn't handle the usual workload.
** Burr played the role with one arm in a sling during four season eight episodes
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