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Series · CBS · 1957

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Perry Mason

63Watch it awake.

The case is the work. He is on the side of the person the room has already decided is guilty.

The review

Every week a client looks guilty, and the lawyer will not accept the look. The investigator finds the inconvenient fact. The secretary keeps the office. The district attorney is not a villain; he is a man doing the other half of the public job. The courtroom is where a story has to survive a question. From 1957 to 1966 this was the country's idea of a lawyer, and the idea is better than most of the ideas that replaced it.

The weakness is comfort. The right witness usually breaks on the stand, and real courts are not that theatrical. Say so. Then keep the part that is true: a person the room has decided about still gets a defense, and the defense is work. I would put one case on for a teenager who is starting to confuse a confident story with a true one. Ask who benefited from the lie before it broke.

Journal

Keep Perry Mason in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 63. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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Adolescence

78 instead of 63

Adolescence is still a drama show, and it scores 78 instead of 63. What you gain is household: The whole measure is a household that loved a child and did not know him.

The eight

8
Industry
Interviews, documents, and a trial are the labor, and the labor is the hour.
3
Household
Clients have families. His own life is mostly the office and the investigator.
4
Piety
A lie in a courtroom is treated as a serious wrong, which is a kind of reverence.
6
Courage
He stands next to a client the public has already convicted in the papers.
8
Republic
The debt is public: a court that can be wrong, and a defense that makes it prove the charge.
7
Temperance
The show is orderly. Appetite is not the entertainment. The answer is.
8
Truth
Somebody in the room is lying. The hour is built to find which one, and it does.
6
Stewardship
A house can inherit a respect for the question 'who has to prove it?'

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Series · ABC · 1963

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The Fugitive

63Watch it awake.

An innocent man and a lawman who is not a villain. The chase is not the whole debt.

The review

He was convicted of killing his wife. He did not. A one-armed man did, and a lieutenant believes the jury more than he believes the doctor's face, which is the lieutenant's job until the evidence moves. Each week the doctor lands in a town, does some good a fugitive cannot afford, and runs again. The country's appointment for years, and the last episode, just after this decade, was one of the most watched hours television had aired.

What I will keep is not the chase. It is that both men are serious. The law is not a fool, and the innocent man is not allowed to become a charming outlaw. I would watch an ordinary episode with an older child and ask why he stayed an extra day. The answer is usually a person. That is the number. The rating is not.

Journal

Keep The Fugitive in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 63. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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The Waltons

78 instead of 63

The Waltons is still a drama show, and it scores 78 instead of 63. What you gain is household: Parents, grandparents, and children are the subject, and they end by naming each other.

The eight

7
Industry
He works the jobs a fugitive can get, and the medicine is still in his hands.
4
Household
A murdered wife is the household behind him. The people he helps are the week.
4
Piety
Conscience is the reason he stops for a stranger when running would be smarter.
8
Courage
He stays in a town long enough to do the right thing, knowing the lieutenant is close.
7
Republic
The law is both the threat and the hope. The lieutenant wants the truth, not a scalp.
6
Temperance
The show does not gild the running into a romance of the open road.
8
Truth
He did not do it. The show does not wink about that, and the lieutenant's doubt is earned.
6
Stewardship
You inherit a man who will not purchase safety by walking past a person in trouble.

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