History YMMV / PerryMason

** The show's InstrumentalThemeTune, "Park Avenue Beat", by Fred Steiner. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paAIbMKb7eY Seriously, just listen]].

* HoYay: *The Case of the Jaded Joker": Comedian Danny Ross lives in a house with a man named Freddie Green, and they seem to spend a lot of time together. Danny is also adamant that Perry represent Freddie.

* LesYay:
** In "The Case of the Gilded Lily", Mrs. Brent and the secretary, Enid Griffin seem to take more of a liking to one another than one would expect for mere acquaintances.
** In "The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll", [[spoiler:the false]] Fern Driscoll seems to have a kind of thing for the just-dumped fiancée, Mildred.

* HilariousInHindsight: In one episode, Mason defends a man played by Robert Stack. Decades later, Raymond Burr hosted the first few episodes of ''Series/UnsolvedMysteries'' before Robert Stack took over the job.

** The theme song, "Park Avenue Beat", by Fred Steiner. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paAIbMKb7eY Seriously, just listen]].

* Ho Yay: *The Case of the Jaded Joker": Comedian Danny Ross lives in a house with a man named Freddie Green, and they seem to spend a lot of time together. Danny is also adamant that Perry represent Freddie.

** In "The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll", Fern seems to have a kind of thing for the just-dumped fiancée, Mildred.

* LesYay: In "The Case of the Gilded Lily", Mrs. Brent and the secretary, Enid Griffin seem to take more of a liking to one another than one would expect for mere acquaintances.

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Our heroes.
* InvincibleHero: Perry Mason. Legend has it that the TV writers wanted to do at least one episode where Perry lost, but Erle Stanley Gardner shot them down. Rescuing a client from the electric chair at the last possible moment was as close as it got.
** Perry actually lost 3 cases in the Raymond Burr series:
*** Episode 1.38, "The Case of the Terrified Typist" - the one most people who think "Perry only lost once" think of: the big case of the episode ends in Burger's favor. Too bad they were trying an imposter, invalidating the entire trial.
*** Episode 6.28, "The Case of the Witless Witness" - this is the easiest to forget, because it's not the main case of the episode, but one which he loses at the beginning.
*** Episode 7.04, "The Case of the Deadly Verdict" - another where the episode starts with Perry losing, this time because his client lied to him. He spends the rest of the episode setting things right.
** [[WordOfGod Barbara Hale]] (Della Street), however, said in a relatively recent interview that the cases lost by Perry had been declared mistrials off the air.
* MoralDissonance: Sometimes occurred when a novel was adapted into an episode without accounting for the moral differences between the television characters and their literary counterparts.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Perry clearly oversteps the boundaries of ethical behavior on occasion, but he's neither remorseful nor held accountable. When his opponents [[WhatTheHellHero bring it up]] they're portrayed as being petty or malicious.
* TheScrappy: David Gideon, an eager young law student brought in to assist Perry. He doesn't last.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Perry sometimes comes up against such a choice, though he barely hesitates (if at all) before choosing "good."

* LawfulGood: The main characters.

** The theme song, "Park Avenue Beat", by Fred Steiner. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCaCXXCM42Y Seriously, just listen]].

** Really? Because Perry actually lost 3 cases in the Raymond Burr series:

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The theme song, "Park Avenue Beat", by Fred Steiner. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCaCXXCM42Y Seriously, just listen]].

* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Perry sometimes comes up againt such a choice, though he barely hesitates (if at all) before choosing "good."

* TheScrappy: David Gideon, an eager young law student brought in to assist Perry. He doesn't last.

* TheCSIEffect: Real-life defense attorneys started to notice a "Perry Mason Syndrome" with juries becoming hesitant to acquit a defendant without a confession from someone else on the stand (the standard is, of course, reasonable doubt). Some prosecutors similarly noticed a hesitance to ''convict'' without a confession on the stand

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: To some extent. Perry clearly oversteps the boundaries of ethical behavior on occasion, but he's never sorry and we're apparently supposed to regard any WhatTheHellHero speeches from Burger or the police as petty.

* InvincibleHero: Perry Mason. Legend has it that the TV writers wanted to do at least one episode where Perry lost, but Erle Stanley Gardner shot them down. Rescuing a client from the electric chair at the last possible moment was as close as it got.

* TheCSIEffect: Real-life defense attorneys started to notice a "Perry Mason Syndrome" with juries becoming hesitant to acquit a defendant without a confession from someone else on the stand (the standard is, of course, reasonable doubt). Some prosecutors similarly noticed a hesitance to ''convict'' without a confession on the stand

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The theme song, "Park Avenue Beat", by Fred Steiner. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCaCXXCM42Y Seriously, just listen]].
* TheCSIEffect - Real-life defense attorneys started to notice a "Perry Mason Syndrome" with juries becoming hesitant to acquit a defendant without a confession from someone else on the stand (the standard is, of course, reasonable doubt). Some prosecutors similarly noticed a hesitance to ''convict'' without a confession on the stand