Sunday, June 15, 2014

#PerryMason "You Need Us"

Season 9, Episode 24 "The Case of the Fanciful Frail" is a remake of Season 2, Episode 15 "The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll" which is an adaptation of Erle Stanley Gardner novel of the same name:





"The Case of the Fanciful Frail" features an instrumental of the song "You Need Us," which was sung by the Honeybees on "Gilligan's Island: Don't Bug the Mosquitoes" (1965).




And the same song, using the second verse,  replacing pronoun "us" with "me" from the title, is used by MeTV to promote their programming:




and finally the original song from Gilligan's Island:



And, finally, the song made a cameo in another "Perry Mason" episode "The Case of the Golden Girls" that was a take off of the Playboy mansion versus prescient foreshadowing of the sitcom by the same name:


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