Perry Mason Radio Show

Crime Serial, Based on the novels of Erle Stanley Gardner (1943 - 55)

When someone mentions the name "Perry Mason" the first image that runs through their mind is of a lawyer who unmasks murderers and crooks in the courtroom. Even though the television Perry Mason is the one everyone remembers, the original Perry Mason, whose derivation came from radio, is a lot different.

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John Larkin is one of several
actors who played the radio role

Raymond Burr played
the television role

The roll of Perry Mason shifted over the long run starting with Bartlett Robinson and then followed by Santos Ortega, Donald Briggs, and finally John Larkin who played the famous attorney after 1947.

The Perry Mason of radio would rather swap gunshots with evildoers than sit in a boring courtroom, waiting for the deliberation! Geared more towards action than courtroom drama, Perry Mason ran 12 seasons and later led to the development of the now-popular Raymond Burr television show, which started in the late 1950s.

(Please note that most of these recordings are of mixed sound quality and approximately 10 minutes long which allows for all the episodes to barely fit on a single MP3 CD. This collection includes every available Perry Mason recordings and unfortunately serial story lines are not complete)

See also the crime serials Front Page Farrell and The Clutching Hand. For more courtroom drama, see also:

• A Life in Your Hands
• Drama of the Courts
• Indictment
• Mr District Attorney
• Order in the Court
• Perry Mason
• Up for Parole
• True Legal Dramas
• You are the Jury