Perry faced the same district attorney, Hamilton Burger, every time and almost never lost a case. And usually, the case was won when Perry got a witness to crack under cross-examination. This new "Perry Mason" returns to the era in which Gardner wrote and set the original stories, the early 1930s. LITHGOW: (As E.B.) [19], Talman had passed away by the time of the Perry Mason television movies of the 1980s and 1990s, but his character was referenced in the first of the series, Perry Mason Returns. "The Case of the Crying Cherub" (episode 3-20) debuts a pared-down title sequence that omits Talman; he is credited only in the four episodes he filmed before he was fired. Los Angeles is thrown into media chaos after the kidnapping and murder of a small boy whose parents Matthew and Emily Dodson (Nate Corddry and Gayle Rankin) attend Sister Alice's (Tatiana Maslany from "Orphan Black") evangelical temple, a fictional house of prayer based on Aimee Semple McPherson's real-life Foursquare Church. The new series is airing Sunday nights at 10 p.m. I was fond of Burger, the prosecutor, too. He was portrayed by Guy Usher. Let me speak for the dead and say your parents didn't want this for you. All rights reserved. Hamilton Burger first appears in chapter 10 of Gardner's 1935 novel, The Case of the Counterfeit Eye,[1] in which he is described as "a broad-shouldered, thick-necked individual with a close-cropped moustache". Some changes are made to give the characters not only depth, but increased relevance for a new generation. [14] Patrick said that the role of Burger would not be recast, but that various actors would play assistant district attorneys. HBO’s “Perry Mason” shares a title with its TV series predecessor — and that’s where all similarities end. Whether you're looking for news and entertainment, thinking of joining the military or keeping up with military life and benefits, Military.com has you covered. [22][a] Sotomayor granted that the defense attorney was the show's hero, "but my sympathies were not entirely monopolized by Perry Mason. We Insist: A Timeline Of Protest Music In 2020. I've helped him in the past - certain business matters which require discretion and finesse. Burger's cases inevitably involved prosecuting the wrong person, who was defended by Mason, who in the end, revealed the true criminal through a series of tactics that Burger characterized as courtroom tricks. HBO's new 8-part miniseries stars Matthew Rhys in the title role. If you'd like to catch up on FRESH AIR interviews you missed, like our interview with Eve Ewing, the author of a book about racial inequality in the Chicago schools and a book of poems called "1919," about the 1919 riots in Chicago after a black youth swimming in Lake Michigan was stoned by white people and drowned, or our interview with Michael Osterholm about where we are now in the pandemic and what to expect in this next phase, check out our podcast.