Perry Mason (TV series): Difference between revisions

* [[Dramatic Downstage Turn]]: Used especially in the courtroom scenes to add movement and interest during witness testimony.

* [[Everybody Is Single]]: No one in the main cast is shown to be in any kind of committed relationship, at least during the first series.

* [[Friend On the Force]]

* [[For Great Justice]]: Often stated as the motivation of both the prosecution and the defense.

* [[Plea Bargain]]: Occasionally one will be offered to Perry's client, but he or she eventually turns it down.

* [[Pose of Supplication]]: "The Case of the Empty Tin." A wronged woman, sobbing, pleading for understanding, first holds her hands out in supplication and then collapses to her knees, throwing her arms around the man who holds her life in his hands... said man being Hamilton Burger. The woman is a murderess at least twice over.

* [[Private Detective]]: Paul Drake. Perry isn't far from one himself.

* [[Pull the Thread]]

* [[Role Reprisal]]: Burr and Hale in the TV movies.

* [[Sexy Secretary]]: Della Street.

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]

* [[Sore Loser]]: Burger, [[Brick Joke|the other half of the time]].

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