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Perry Mason
1957 · TV series · 52 min episodes · 9 seasons
Created by Erle Stanley Gardner
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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I heard it used in the non-vocal sense once in a Perry Mason episode, and it took me a minute or two to realize what they meant.
/Perry Mason/ always struck me as a rather subversive inversion of the usual police procedural for this reason. Since the protagonist is a defense lawyer, every episode that I know about is one where the cops and DA accuse a totally innocent person of a capital crime. They are then exposed and humiliated when Perry gets the real guilty party to confess in open court, usually under oath on the witness stand.