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in television world and since the old show went off in 1966. A lawyer like Mason simply cannot be even slightly naive. Mason must be sohpisticated, completely relevant and involved." The series is also showing Mason's apartment for the first time. A new courtroom and interrogation room set have been built at 20th Century Fox, modeled after the courtroom in Los Angeles' new courthouse. Attention will be paid to law changes, but courtroom procedures will still be simplified.

Della Street will have much more in-. volvement. "After all," says Markham, "Della is a top legal secretary, much too important to be asked to do 'gofer' chores." Will the verdict ever change? Will the DA ever beat Perry Mason? "'No way," says Cornwell Jackson have no doubt Burger wins five or six cases a week we just don't photograph them!" What makes stories about lawyers and courtrooms so popular? Erle Stanley Gardner's many books with 'the infallible criminal lawyer as their hero, have sold an incredible number of copies. Markham believes in the "rarified moment" theory. "Every segment of an attorney's life can be condensed into a 24-hour period of suspense and entertainment, and that's the secret of such shows.

The pace is swift, and viewers love that kind of speed. Mason is a very successful lawyer, very excited about what he's doing. has tremendous humor and intellect. He's vital. He loves the game.

-o The great strength of Perry Mason, as his creator Gardner was fond of saying, "is that everyone wants to have a knight on a white horse come to his rescue. Perry Mason is the knight." Markham, himself, is a "Perry Mason" buff, being fascinated by the legal aspects of the novels. The versatile actor once planned to be a criminal lawyer. He studied pre-law at the University of Georgia before he graduated with a master's degree in theater. Married and the father of a man likes flying, waterskiing, hydroplaning and riding horses.

When asked if he had any reservations about his success, he commented, I don't look forward to the whole fan club thing. But I do look forward to what it means success. Privacy is a horrendous thing to lose and I want to be able to take my kids to Disneyland without having to wear a false beard. But I'll have to face that when it happens." mendous changes in the two children. Markham is in television rugged, active who 2 St.

Joseph, News-Press, Spotlight, Oct. 13, 1973 Let's Meet Monte Markham as The New Mason' Monte Markham is the new Perry Mason, and the courtroom drama is now the new Perry Mason, airing Sunday evenings, at 6:30 on CBS. Just who is Monte Markham? His followers can skip the next paragraph, but, for the, uninitiated, Markham has starred in two television series (The Second Hundred Years and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town); Brett Somers stars as Gertrude Lane, receptionist to Perry Mason, the mous fictional defense attorney, on CBS-TV's new Perry Mason series which is presented each Sunday evening at 6:30. Sports on TV Sports SATURDAY 11:00 41 NFL GAME OF THE WEEK 11:30 9.

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Perry Mason, in the formidable personage of Raymond Burr, was an outstandingly successful series on CBS where it appeared each week from 1957 to 1966. It still continues in syndication both in the United States and overseas. Perry Mason was also a radio series for 14 years, the hate kin as The tall, blond," blueeyed, handsome Markham has this cross to bear. "Frankly," he says, "I'd rather there hadn't been a successful show before. I mean, the comparisons can't exactly help me.

new Perry Mason will just have to reflect me, my tempo and my style. I think each actor should bring his own style to a role, even one that has been done by others. 'Hamlet' is never done the same way twice. How boring that would be! We are doing a series about a man that has been done before, but we won't be doing 10:30 2 NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL 10:35 13 VINCE GIBSON MONDAY 6:30 6 OUTDOOR BEAT 8:00 2-7-9 NFL FOOTBALL Miami Vs. Cleveland TUESDAY 7:00 4-27 WORLD SERIES 7:30 6 HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL LeBlond Vs.

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8 KMBCKQTV 10 KTSB (27). 12 WIBW- TV 13 The Lives of Four Children Four Children Monte Markham starring as Perry Mason, detenas a gambler (Will Hutchins) charged with dering a man over seemingly worthless land deeds, in "The Case of the Deadly Deeds" on CBS-TV's new Perry Mason series Sunday evening at 6:30. the same series, and that's the difference. "The difference between how I play the role and how Burr did is the difference between Monte Markham and Raymond Burr." Cornwell Jackson, executive producer of the new Perry Mason has been intimately involved with Perry for a long time. First he was author Erle Stanley Gardner's literary agent, then his partner.

He was associated with the radio series for 14 years, and helped produce the earlier Perry Mason series. Jackson says, "Altogether we considered 315 actors to play Mason. We decided on Monte largely on the impression he's apt to make in the courtroom scenes. Monte's big, he's got a deep voice and penetrating eyes. "He must dominate the scene at all times, and we think he'll do that.

We've been looking for the new Mason for six months." Jackson notes that the late author himself never really pinned down in print what Perry Mason looked like, and that a Markhamlike figure was what Jackson had in mind from the start. Markham says he never really tested for the role. I did was to go to CBS studio in New York and make a tape for Mrs. Jean Gardner, to introduce myself. I talked about reading 'Perry Mason' in high school and college, and I told what kind of a person I thought Mason was." Albert Stratton stars as private detective Paul Drake on CBS-TV's new Perry Mason series seen Sunday evenings at 6:30.

Four Children, the first of a series of nine 60-minute prime time Young People's Specials, will be presented on KCMO-TV 5, Sunday, October 21 at 6:30 P.M. As the title implies, this particular program the lives of four children living in four different parts of the United States. They include Chris Twyman, an 11-year-old black youth living in the innercity of Cincinnati, Ohio; Vicky June Morgan, an Appalachian girl living in the mountain regions of Kentucky; Gus Quintero, an Indian youth from the Fort Apache Reservation in White River, Arizona and Maria Rodriquez, the Mexican-American daughter of a migrant Texas farm family working in Ohio. The final choice was in Mrs. Gardner's.

hands. Jean Gardner the widow of the late, great mystery writer, and his former secretary will act as script consultant for the new Perry Mason, a job her husband had on the old series. When Mrs. Gardner saw the tape Markham made, she had only one short comment "'That's Perry The series continues its formula of setting up a puzzling mystery, with the identity of the true culprit withheld until the dramatic finale and Mason always being firmly convinced of the innocence of his client. Jackson says.

doing more outside things, moving around, but the basic part of the show will always be in the courtroom." Producers Ernie Frankel and Art Seid add, "We're going to preserve the Gardner. concept that formula And of course the characters- remain the same, although they are all played by different actors. Harry Guardino costars as Mason's courtroom adversary, Hamilton Burger, district attorney of Los Angeles; Sharon Acker is Mason's secretary, Della Street; Albert Stratton plays private detective Paul Drake; Dane Clark is Lt. Arthur Tragg of the Los Angeles homicide squad; and Brett Somers portrays Gertrude, Mason's receptionist. So what's new about the new Perry Mason? Well, of course, there's Monte Markham and his ideas, "There have been tre- Stuppy's 364-1141 has Spring's Bright Idea! PLANT OUR DUTCH BULBS NOW! SAVE 'SPOTLIGHT' IT'S NEWSY Brake Overhaul Cars Most $3995 We Brakes Lee's Texaco 3601 Fred.

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