Who performed the best fan dance 💃🕺?

💃 Judy Tyler in a slightly more revealing outfit doing a fan dance on #PerryMasonhttps://t.co/ueQAtLa1wMhttps://t.co/gwbZUl5dKf pic.twitter.com/ufdEWitiN4

— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) May 23, 2019

Vandenberg was a guy's name not a town

Even though a shot of the entry sign to Vandenberg AFB with its name spelled correctly is included Perry Mason "The Case of the Misguided Missile"

the people typing closed captions still managed to misspell its name, presumably assuming Vandenberg referred to a town/burgh vs a man's name:

🇺🇸🎺Gen Hoyt S Vandenberg (1899 - 1954)- Served in WWII earned #SilverStar #LegionOfMerit #DistinguishedFlyingCross https://t.co/K3CpzafdOX pic.twitter.com/CkxhR2nnXP

— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) August 3, 2017

Additionally, Mr. grabby hands is engaging in sexual harassment of his secretary, but that didn't become a thing until Clarence Thomas was nominated for SCOTUS, and stopped being a thing whenever Democrats are accused of it.

A link to SNL's 1991 "CLARENCE THOMAS' PICKUP TECHNIQUE" sketch if player doesn't load

George Gershwin 's "The Man I Love" on #PerryMason

Constance Towers sings "The Man I Love" in the "Perry Mason" episode of "The Case of the Missing Melody"

Ella Fitzgerald's version of the George Gershwin standard:

Not a good idea to smoke cigarettes on a rocket launch pad

It's usually inadvisable to smoke cigarettes whilst loading rocket fuel on a launch pad, from Perry Mason "The Case of the Misguided Missile"

it's also a bad idea to drink liquor whilst on duty:

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur... pic.twitter.com/Zsu1Si9LeQ
— smartword (@smartwordUK) January 6, 2015

Happy Belated #NationalHatDay

I missed National Hat Day which was January 15 :-(

Btw, it's #NationalHatDay. Check out the Toscanini Family! @nyphil pic.twitter.com/VoSheXd0WC
— NYPhilDigitalArchive (@NYPhilArchive) January 15, 2015

Women don't seem to wear hats as much as they used to, I blame Vatican II.

From Perry Mason "The Case of the Duplicate Daughter"

Daniel Boone's wife, Patricia Blair, wore a funky hat in "The Case of the Badgered Brother"

Fancy people have fancy hats in "The Case of the Torrid Tapestry "

and poor, downtrodden people have poor downtrodden hats:

The Art of Manliness blog lamented the loss of men's hats on their March 1, 2008 post "Bringing Back the Hat" Not certain if it's fair to blame Vatican II for men not wearing hats, but I don't care about fairness and will blame VII anyway.

#BibleQuote in #PerryMason

Perry Mason quotes Proverbs 1:10 in "The Case of the Accosted Accountant "

from American Standard Version:

"My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not."

and from the original Hebrew:

בְּנִי אִם־יְפַתּוּ חַטָּאִים אַל־תֹּבֵא

1:10 B'niy im-y'faTûkhächa‡äiym al-Tovë

Hillary Clinton could never be a Communist Dictator in North Korea

I learned from PBS Frontline documentary "Secret State of North Korea" that it's illegal for commie women to wear pants in North Korea:

which might explain why Korean commie women goose step in skirts:

Since North Korean communists are such doctrinaire fashion police, it seems poor Hillary Clinton is never going to be invited to become a dictator in their workers' paradise:

Either @HillaryClinton is running for WH OR she's developing a line of Yoga pantsuits for @lululemon and Talbott's. http://t.co/7gGeHEuPRW
— Jonathan Allen (@jonallendc) September 13, 2014

However, the Clintons seem to have the typical US phony politician vendetta down pat, as illustrated from Perry Mason "The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll" episode:

From 20 JUN 2014  "RawStory" article "Conservative site slapped over copyright breach, library says, not Clinton vendetta"

"The University of Arkansas temporarily suspended research privileges for the Washington Free Beacon after the conservative website published audio recordings of Hillary Clinton discussing a rape case she defended in 1975....

The recordings — which were made in the 1980s by journalist, biographer, and author Roy Reed — contain comments made by Clinton about her representation of a man accused of raping a 12-year-old girl in 1975.

Clinton suggests in the recordings that she believed her client was guilty, although he had passed a polygraph test, and the man accepted a plea bargain and was sentenced to one year in prison, according to the Free Beacon report.The victim had said in 2008 that she believed Clinton was just doing her job, but she told The Daily Beast this week that the recordings had changed her view.

“It’s proven fact, with all the tapes, she lied like a dog on me,” the victim said. “I think she was trying to do whatever she could do to make herself look good at the time.”"

Perry Mason song sounds like "By Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg"

Perry Mason song on "The Case of the Avenging Angel" episode about a British wanna be Beatle w/ a tin ear:

sounds somewhat similar to "By Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg"

Pretty People get Lighter Sentences according to #PerryMason

Perry Mason in "The Case of the Fan Dancer's Horse" episode told his client that only ugly people get the death penalty and pretty people get lighter sentences:

Transcript from arktv:

Perry: Do you know what happens to little girls who lie to their lawyers? In murder cases, they wind up in death row at San Quentin, or, if they happen to be nice-looking, like you, they may have a fifty-fifty chance of making the women's prison at Tehachapi, cooped up in a cell with no makeup, the drab -- stop!

There does seem to be numerous studies that validate Perry Mason's seemingly outrageous claim that pretty people receive lighter sentences.


From a University of Oslo , Norway study described in 13 May 2003 Reuters article "Lighter sentences for good-looking criminals":

"Good-looking criminals are likely to get lighter sentences even when people only have a written description of their looks, a Norwegian study showed on Monday.

The 500 university students surveyed handed down far milder punishments for crimes by a man described as 'handsome' or a woman described as 'pretty' than when the word was left out.

All the students were given a written description of crimes ranging from theft to rape and murder, but only half had a description of the looks of the offender.

The study revealed the clearest bias towards good-looking criminals who committed less serious crimes such as theft, smuggling and fraud. The students gave them about 20% lighter punishment on average."

"The Economist" in their Oct 6th 2012 "A judgment call"  article doesn't cite a specific study but just asserts:

"Attractive women and baby-faced men get shorter sentences."

However a "Science and Religion Today" MAY 18, 2010 article Juries Give Good-Looking People Lighter Sentences  reviewing a Cornell University study validates and corroborates data from the Norwegian study: 

"'Unattractive' defendants were found guilty 22 percent more often than good-looking defendants were, and they spent, on average, 22 more months in prison."

This is a meme (pun intended) in Alena Graedon 's novel "The Word Exchange" where it is averred that pretty people will receive preferential treatment from the police:

"Pretty enough to receive slightly preferential treatment (from police, customs officers, etc.)"

Even RFK averred on his Merv Griffin interview, before he was killed by a very unpretty PLO terrorist sympathizer, that pretty people receive preferential treatment and go to pretty people prison:

ott, other unpretty people, the Weather Underground published a how to manual for fellow terrorists, "Prairie Fire" dedicated to Sirhan Sirhan, the PLO terrorist who killed RFK, from  zombietime's October 22, 2008 "William Ayers' forgotten communist manifesto: Prairie Fire"

#PerryMason & #Benghazi

Perry Mason in episode "The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece" thinks it's unbelievable that someone would just go to sleep if they see someone is about to be killed:

which is precisely how people who are offended by Obama admin response, or lack thereof, to 9/11/2012 Benghazi attack against US ambassador in Libya feel:

“@PhxKen: BENGHAZI SUMMARY: 4 AMERICANS DIED, BLAMED ON A VIDEO, STALLED, LIED AND INTIMIDATED WITNESSES!!! pic.twitter.com/LsSv8KnJsz”
— PJR (@PhiliprolfePhil) April 9, 2014

Purry Mason on #svengoolie

MeTV svengoolie aired "The Shadow of the Cat". The plot, from imdb:

"The plot focuses on the common Gothic horror theme of a family and an inheritance. The family here is the Venable family, and the story starts properly when a rich old woman is murdered by her relatives because they're after her inheritance. The only witness to the crime was the lady's pet cat, and while normally anyone committing murder in this way would get away with it scot-free, this particular cat takes exception to the murder of its owner and sets about exacting its own revenge."

 which sounds like a typical Perry Mason episode, which explains svengoolie's "Purry Mason" spoof:

I thought Purry Mason looked like a road kill version of Mr. Roger's Henrietta Pussy Cat:

Conversely, other people thought Purry Mason looked like Bill from "Bloom County" cartoon:

The cat in the "Purry Mason" skit looked like he belonged in Bloom County. #svengoolie #ack!
— Nicole Cushing (@NicoleCushing) June 8, 2014

or, wacka, wacka, something the cat dragged in!:

"Jury Foreman: 'We find the defendant innocent. We also find that Purry Mason looks like something the cat dragged in!' "

Finally, Purry Mason also bears a striking resemblance to the non house trained missing "cat":

@TxAv8r @CNN @OBAMA_GAMES @cspanwj This cat is offended at being compared to Obama pic.twitter.com/5ucRwJmxaB
— Bossy Adagio (@adagioforstring) June 20, 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:

Background Music in #PerryMason "The Case of the Fraudulent Photo"

At first I thought the music in restaurant scene only described as " [ slow classical music plays ]" in online script of "The Case of the Fraudulent Photo" episode of "Perry Mason"

sounded like the US Civil War ballad "Weeping Sad and Lonely"

   

However, after more searching, it sounds more like  Enya "Marble Halls":

The song "Marble Halls" also made a cameo in a Svengoolie hosted film, "The Mad Ghoul"




and is also a favorite clip in PBS Classic Arts Showcase repertoire:

From wikipedia:

"I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls or "The Gipsy Girl's Dream" is a popular aria from The Bohemian Girl, an 1843 opera by Michael William Balfe, with lyrics by Alfred Bunn. It is sung in the opera by the character Arline, who is in love with Thaddeus, a Polish nobleman and political exile.^[1] It has been performed and recorded by many artists including Enya.^[2]"  

This choice of music is ironically appropriate for this episode b/c nasty characters embezzle money from hospital construction site and skimp on hospital structure safety to make up the difference. 

UPDATE:

imdb folks disagree:

"Yes, if you're referring to the string quartet playing in the background of the restaurant scene it is the composition called "Andante Cantible" and was written by Peter I. Tchaikovsky. It is an exquisite piece originally composed just for the stringed instruments in an orchestra. No brass, woodwinds, etc.

Through my YT channel dedicated to all genres of music, here is a recording of that song. It features the renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma"

This doesn't sound like the clip in the background of Perry Mason scene above to me, so perhaps they were referring to a different scene, or I have bad music recognition capability.

UPDATE 2:

This perhaps is the plot of a Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Prankish Professor"

"Professor Ronald Hewes teaches English at Euclid College and an exercise in observation, has someone he's hired burst into his creative class and shoot him with a gun loaded with blanks."

that illustrates how eyewitnesses, in this case earwitnesses, are unreliable and can describe the exact same event completely differently.

I feel vindicated, that the song played by the orchestra at the beginning of their repertoire is indeed  "Marble Halls"

However, imdb guy is also correct, the next song the orchestra plays is "Andante Cantible":

Now, I just have to figure out the song the orchestra plays at the end of the show: