Ah Sweet Mystery!

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Of all the actors who we are fortunate enough to have seen on both Batman and Perry Mason, the most prolific of them all was Neil Hamilton. He played Police Commissioner James Gordon on every episode of one series and faced off against Perry on seven episodes that spanned nearly the entire series, from Season One through Eight.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that in a murder mystery everybody lies. They lie about their motives, and they lie about their alibis because they don’t want to appear guilty in the eyes of the police. Naturally, the lies of the innocent make them appear guilty, and it is up to the sleuth to sort around this parliament of liars in order to find the culprit. <...

I’ve been having so much fun exploring all the actors who appeared on multiple episodes of Perry Mason. Since I’m covering the adaptations of the novels as I read them, here I’m focusing on the 144 episodes created from original teleplays. The bonus is that I get to shine a light on actors who you may only recognize by their faces or voices but who popped up all...

In the early, pre-Barnabas Collins, days of Dark Shadows, the show tried to behave like a normal soap opera, albeit with Gothic trappings. The main storylines centered around Victoria Winters, a grown-up orphan who had come to Collinsport to take a job as governess to the young Collins heir because of a hint she had received that she might find her true ancestry ther...