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Post by Girl on Sept 4, 2008 19:21:27 GMT -5
Just surfed in on a review written for an Abbey Rd. poster at Amazon... has Bill been under our noses this whole time?  Dig who the guy says William Campbell is... Says he played Trelane in the Star Trek episode "The Squire of Gothos".  William Campbell  Never heard that one before! ;D OK, so... who sees a resemblance? Ears? rofl It says the show first aired in Jan. 67. Wonder when it would have been recorded. Such a trekkie, and I don't think I've ever seen this one, or if I did, I wouldn't have made the connection. |
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Post by JoJo on Sept 4, 2008 19:39:46 GMT -5
It's come up before, might have been that stretch when you were away.. Which if I'm not mistaken, led to a theory that John was replaced by.. another ST actor.  |
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Post by LOVELYRITA on Sept 4, 2008 20:03:19 GMT -5
at a glance, he looks like he could pass for Sylvester Stallone's father.....
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Post by TotalInformation on Sept 4, 2008 20:19:24 GMT -5
Too old.
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Post by Girl on Sept 4, 2008 21:11:07 GMT -5
Oh well, move along then, nothing to see here. ;D
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Post by iameye on Sept 4, 2008 21:37:55 GMT -5
at a glance, he looks like he could pass for Sylvester Stallone's father..... Flipper? |
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Post by Paul Bearer on Sept 11, 2008 22:44:13 GMT -5
Actually, he looks a bit like Doc Perplexed!
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Post by Doc on Sept 12, 2008 0:46:53 GMT -5
Actually, he looks a bit like Doc Perplexed! Huh? What'ja say? Sorry, I was out back in the Sub Rosa Garden. Somebody said to come inside and have a look see.........  |
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Post by Doc on Sept 12, 2008 0:55:33 GMT -5
OK, you've figured it all out---finally everyone caught on. Isn't it obvious? William Campbell WAS Raymond Burr until 1966, when they cancelled the TV series Perry Mason. Then he became Paul McCartney. Ironsides was played by Don Knotts in a fat suit. And my connection? OMG! I am Raymond Burr's only child. People thought I had died. I wasn't dead. (Sound familiar?) I was just hidden from view by the nuns....... It's a long story. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_BurrAnyway, now that we've at last all been outed, I guess there is nothing left to do but, well, pursue a career on the talk shows.  |
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Post by B on Sept 12, 2008 11:04:30 GMT -5
Perry Mason episodeswww.tv.com/perry-mason/show/1039/episode.htmlThe Case of the Restless Redhead [/b] (Doc ) First aired: 9/21/1957 Production Code: 233107 This, the First episode of "Perry Mason," was a real cliff-hanger. Perry drives to the scene of a shooting and finds the police recovering the body of Paul McCartney from a car that went over the side of a mountain. McCartney has a bullet in his body and a pillow case over his head. This is a coincidence, because Perry's client Eleanor Rigby, claims she was chased by a hooded man  in a car near the same cliff that day. She fired two shots at the man's car to scare him off, and now the police want her for murder. Amazing, isn't is? OK, I changed some things.  "This, the First episode of "Perry Mason," was a real cliff-hanger. Perry drives to the scene of a shooting and finds the police recovering the body of Harry Merrill from a car that went over the side of a mountain. MerriIl has a bullet in his body and a pillowcase over his head. This is a coincidence, because Perry's client Evelyn Bagby, claims she was chased by a hooded man in a car near the same cliff that day. She fired two shots at the man's car to scare him off, and now the police want her for murder. "
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Post by Doc on Sept 12, 2008 17:29:38 GMT -5
www.tv.com/perry-mason/the-case-of-the-dead-ringer/episode/79638/summary.html?tag=ep_list;ep_title;25Perry loses a case at the beginning of this episode. Actually, it's a civil case involving a patent dispute and he lost because the opposition led the jury to believe that Perry paid a witness to change his testimony. How did this happen? A merchant seaman named Grimes was paid to impersonate Perry and passed an envelope to a key witness. Grimes, it seems, is a dead ringer for Mason. The civil case soon turns into a criminal one when the winning party in the patent dispute is murdered.www.tv.com/perry-mason/the-case-of-the-fanciful-frail/episode/79636/summary.html?tag=ep_list;ep_title;23Things keep going from awful to good grief for poor Ethel Andrews. First she's left at the altar by her fiancee, Bruce Strickland, who also let's her take the blame for a $50,000.00 securities theft since her signature was on the transfer authorization. Ethel decides to leave town but nearly has an accident with a car driven by Peggy Sutton. Peggy, it seems, is on the run from a hired killer. Ethel foolishly agrees to swap identities with Peggy but then Peggy perishes in a car accident. Ethel then finds $50,000.00 in the trunk of Peggy's car and makes the mistake of informing Bruce Strickland who turns up murdered. Perry sends Paul Drake up to Lake Tahoe to find out about Peggy Sutton but it might be too late because the noose is getting pretty tight around poor Ethel's neck.
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Post by Doc on Sept 12, 2008 18:10:51 GMT -5
I love it. All the opening credits. www.perrymasontvseries.com/pm_credits.htmAnd here is the ORIGINAL 1957 opening credit. I only ever heard this in syndicated reruns in the mid 60's, and recalled that there was a wrong trombone note somewhere near the end. Yes, it's really there. It occurs in the trombone section on a back beat at second mark 00:57, where the 1st trombone MISSES what must be a written concert Eb (the harmony is an Aminor7 flat5, i.e. A, C, Eb, G and Mr. Trombone plays a nice loud E natural on the back beat. It's quite raunchy, but I love it. Also the recording quality is dry and coarse, and the musicians are playing with a slack, laid back looseness--they didn't know if this music was 50's 12/8 doo wop, or if it should be played terse and classical. It's a mess. Later recordings perfect the effect of Mr. Steiner's wonderful song--thoug I love this original recording BECAUSE it is rough.....) www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zlG-i2J6qI&NR=1 |
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Post by JoJo on Sept 12, 2008 22:35:37 GMT -5
Ah what a great show, briskly paced, and the payoff in the last couple of minutes, just in time. Brilliant writing. Of course many a judge will admonish the jury that this "isn't like Perry Mason". (well, maybe less at this late date)
However, I remember a police chief of a town I won't mention telling a group of us that court was like a "play" and whoever "gave the best performance" generally won the case.. Seemed a bit sarcastic and bitter about it.. Small claims cases do seem to be strictly about the evidence, I've seen a few in real life, no lawyers involved.
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in a car near the same cliff that day.