Perry Mason (2020 TV series)
Perry Mason is an American period drama television series created by Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald for HBO. Based on the character of the same name by Erle Stanley Gardner, the series stars Matthew Rhys in the title role and premiered on June 21, 2020.
Poster for the first season
Image: Robert Downey Jr 2014 Comic Con (cropped)
Image: Matthew Rhys
Perry Mason is a fictional character, an American criminal defense lawyer who is the main character in works of detective fiction written by Erle Stanley Gardner. Perry Mason features in 82 novels and 4 short stories, all of which involve a client being charged with murder, usually involving a preliminary hearing or jury trial. Typically, Mason establishes his client's innocence by finding the real murderer. The character was inspired by famed Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Earl Rogers.
Robert W. Douglass illustrated "The Case of the Crying Swallow" for the August 1947 issue of The American Magazine
Warren William as Perry Mason in The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935), with Genevieve Tobin and Patricia Ellis
Donald Woods portrayed Perry Mason in The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937)
William Hopper and Raymond Burr in the CBS-TV series Perry Mason (1957–1966)