I Just Watched...

[Hibi]

LOL. Della went far and beyond what a legal secretary would do. Seems she was available 24 hrs a day. She even put up some of Perry's client at her apt.!!!. She had no life beyond her job it seems (at least in tvland). Paul I could see. He was a private eye.

I believe part of that was her hidden love for Perry. She drops a few hints,
but he doesn't, for the most part, take the bait. It was a pretty exciting
life for a legal secretary, however unrealistic, and it seems she got a good
paycheck. And reference is frequently made to Paul being quite the man
about town. I always get a laugh out of scenes where Paul is watching some
hot babe being photographed and Perry has to snap him back to reality.

After my involuntary HD upgrade I now get METV. It's all by itself in the
shopping shows location. Now I may have too many classic TV choices.

Yes, Raymond Burr's attention was directed elsewhere! LOL. This being a family show, they couldn't really show Della really coming on to Perry, but you get the impression she was available if he was willing........At least Della wasn't stuck being the receptionist. They had Gertie for that.

Yeah, I have MeTV way up in the 900s! Dunno why its so up there. I don't have much else on nearby channels around it.

[CinemaInternational]

LOL. Della went far and beyond what a legal secretary would do. Seems she was available 24 hrs a day. She even put up some of Perry's client at her apt.!!!. She had no life beyond her job it seems (at least in tvland). Paul I could see. He was a private eye.

I believe part of that was her hidden love for Perry. She drops a few hints,
but he doesn't, for the most part, take the bait. It was a pretty exciting
life for a legal secretary, however unrealistic, and it seems she got a good
paycheck. And reference is frequently made to Paul being quite the man
about town. I always get a laugh out of scenes where Paul is watching some
hot babe being photographed and Perry has to snap him back to reality.

After my involuntary HD upgrade I now get METV. It's all by itself in the
shopping shows location. Now I may have too many classic TV choices.

Yes, Raymond Burr's attention was directed elsewhere! LOL. This being a family show, they couldn't really show Della really coming on to Perry, but you get the impression she was available if he was willing........At least Della wasn't stuck being the receptionist. They had Gertie for that.

Yeah, I have MeTV way up in the 900s! Dunno why its so up there. I don't have much else on nearby channels around it.

The 900s around here are mostly reserved for music channels and for subsections of the local channels, so MeTV is likely operated as a subsection of your local network CBS, NBC,ABC, or Fox station. (100s are general entertainment and home shopping, 200s seem to be general entertainment and basic movie channels, 300s tend to be religious channels, sport channels, and news channels, 600s tend to be HBo and the like, 700s are pornographic/sport on demand channels, 800s are Spanish Language)

[Hibi]

I believe part of that was her hidden love for Perry. She drops a few hints,
but he doesn't, for the most part, take the bait. It was a pretty exciting
life for a legal secretary, however unrealistic, and it seems she got a good
paycheck. And reference is frequently made to Paul being quite the man
about town. I always get a laugh out of scenes where Paul is watching some
hot babe being photographed and Perry has to snap him back to reality.

After my involuntary HD upgrade I now get METV. It's all by itself in the
shopping shows location. Now I may have too many classic TV choices.

Yes, Raymond Burr's attention was directed elsewhere! LOL. This being a family show, they couldn't really show Della really coming on to Perry, but you get the impression she was available if he was willing........At least Della wasn't stuck being the receptionist. They had Gertie for that.

Yeah, I have MeTV way up in the 900s! Dunno why its so up there. I don't have much else on nearby channels around it.

The 900s around here are mostly reserved for music channels and for subsections of the local channels, so MeTV is likely operated as a subsection of your local network CBS, NBC,ABC, or Fox station. (100s are general entertainment and home shopping, 200s seem to be general entertainment and basic movie channels, 300s tend to be religious channels, sport channels, and news channels, 600s tend to be HBo and the like, 700s are pornographic/sport on demand channels, 800s are Spanish Language)

Yes, Metv is an offshoot of something else locally I think. I'd forgotten about that. So that makes sense now.

[CinemaInternational]

(IN RE: THE ELAINE GIFS)

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!

I LIVE!!!!!!

PS- IS THERE A SINGLE PERSON WHO POSTS HERE WHO IS FAMILIAR WITH "THE ENGLISH PATIENT EPISODE" THAT HASN'T FELT THAT WAY ABOUT SOME MOVIE EVERYONE WAS LOSING IT OVER COMPLETELY AT SOME TIME IN THE PAST????

(although I thought THE ENGLISH PATIENT was fine, even if JULIET BINOCHE was THE UNQUESTIONABLE LEAD and SCOTT-THOMAS's was clearly the supporting part)

Let's see. I was too young to have seen it at the time, but I felt that way when I caught up with American Beauty.

I am totally with you on AMERICAN BEAUTY.
I didn't see it when it was in theaters, but when I did see it, I was like YUCK!
I gave the movie a half star on Letterboxd.

Good for you for giving it half a star on Letterboxd. I think I gave it 1 and a half, mostly because I did like Annette Bening's perfromance in spite of the rest. I've always been lousy at rating films though, rating too high, etc. I hope you don't mind, but I went searching for you on Letterboxd (among all the people who gave American Beauty half a star), and I think I gave you a follow over there just now. I hope you don't mind (Meanwhile my account over there is a mess because there are hundreds of films I still have to track down and log, since I got out of the habit last year)

[txfilmfan]

I believe part of that was her hidden love for Perry. She drops a few hints,
but he doesn't, for the most part, take the bait. It was a pretty exciting
life for a legal secretary, however unrealistic, and it seems she got a good
paycheck. And reference is frequently made to Paul being quite the man
about town. I always get a laugh out of scenes where Paul is watching some
hot babe being photographed and Perry has to snap him back to reality.

After my involuntary HD upgrade I now get METV. It's all by itself in the
shopping shows location. Now I may have too many classic TV choices.

Yes, Raymond Burr's attention was directed elsewhere! LOL. This being a family show, they couldn't really show Della really coming on to Perry, but you get the impression she was available if he was willing........At least Della wasn't stuck being the receptionist. They had Gertie for that.

Yeah, I have MeTV way up in the 900s! Dunno why its so up there. I don't have much else on nearby channels around it.

The 900s around here are mostly reserved for music channels and for subsections of the local channels, so MeTV is likely operated as a subsection of your local network CBS, NBC,ABC, or Fox station. (100s are general entertainment and home shopping, 200s seem to be general entertainment and basic movie channels, 300s tend to be religious channels, sport channels, and news channels, 600s tend to be HBo and the like, 700s are pornographic/sport on demand channels, 800s are Spanish Language)

MeTV, MeTV+ and Catch Comedy (formerly Decades) aren't "cable" channels so they are not distributed directly to cable providers like other channels you may have (TCM, TBS, TNT, etc.) They are broadcast networks. If your cable system carries them, it's pretty much guaranteed that it's a local affiliate in your broadcast TV market. Having said that, they do have distribution deals with Direct TV and a couple of lower cost cable-replacement streamers (Frndly TV and Philo) and on Direct TV's streaming package for one or all of those channels.

[Andree]

Yes, Raymond Burr's attention was directed elsewhere! LOL. This being a family show, they couldn't really show Della really coming on to Perry, but you get the impression she was available if he was willing........At least Della wasn't stuck being the receptionist. They had Gertie for that.

Yeah, I have MeTV way up in the 900s! Dunno why its so up there. I don't have much else on nearby channels around it.

Yes. Too bad William Hopper wasn't into "alternative lifestyles." Could have been quite a scoop
for his mama, if not for publication at least for possible blackmail purposes. I used to think that
the reason Gertie was seen so infrequently was they cut her short scenes out in syndication, but
she wasn't in that many episodes, only 17 according to IMDb.

Mine is 77, easy to remember. I just found out there are a few more classic TV channels in the
same area. Decisions, decisions. One good new feature is that the guide gives the complete
date of the episode not just the year so one can tell what seasons it's from.

[txfilmfan]

Yes, Raymond Burr's attention was directed elsewhere! LOL. This being a family show, they couldn't really show Della really coming on to Perry, but you get the impression she was available if he was willing........At least Della wasn't stuck being the receptionist. They had Gertie for that.

Yeah, I have MeTV way up in the 900s! Dunno why its so up there. I don't have much else on nearby channels around it.

Yes. Too bad William Hopper wasn't into "alternative lifestyles." Could have been quite a scoop
for his mama, if not for publication at least for possible blackmail purposes. I used to think that
the reason Gertie was seen so infrequently was they cut her short scenes out in syndication, but
she wasn't in that many episodes, only 17 according to IMDb.

Mine is 77, easy to remember. I just found out there are a few more classic TV channels in the
same area. Decisions, decisions. One good new feature is that the guide gives the complete
date of the episode not just the year so one can tell what seasons it's from.

Interesting. My on-screen guide provides the season and episode information almost always. Sometimes it doesn't match IMDb's data, though, but that's usually on British shows, or sometimes on M*A*S*H, when they had the odd hour-long episode that's chopped into two episodes for syndication.

[Lorna]

oh wow, I didn't know they ever showed GERTIE on the show (PERRY MASON)
I always thought she was a "MARIS"- shows you what happens when you only have access to syndication.

I always pictured GERTIE as working out of THE BROOM CLOSET and looking more or less like this:

[Lorna]

(she is of course chained to the table and DELLA pays her in cigarette nubs, of which there are plenty)

EDIT: and yeah, she gets high on the correction fluid- who THE HELL are YOU to JUDGE?

[Hibi]

Yes, Raymond Burr's attention was directed elsewhere! LOL. This being a family show, they couldn't really show Della really coming on to Perry, but you get the impression she was available if he was willing........At least Della wasn't stuck being the receptionist. They had Gertie for that.

Yeah, I have MeTV way up in the 900s! Dunno why its so up there. I don't have much else on nearby channels around it.

Yes. Too bad William Hopper wasn't into "alternative lifestyles." Could have been quite a scoop
for his mama, if not for publication at least for possible blackmail purposes. I used to think that
the reason Gertie was seen so infrequently was they cut her short scenes out in syndication, but
she wasn't in that many episodes, only 17 according to IMDb.

Mine is 77, easy to remember. I just found out there are a few more classic TV channels in the
same area. Decisions, decisions. One good new feature is that the guide gives the complete
date of the episode not just the year so one can tell what seasons it's from.

LOL! Hopper was good casting as Drake. I don't think he could've carried the show as Perry. I don't think it would've been the long running hit it became. Perry needed someone with gravitas. "Star Quality". Burr had it. Hopper was a good supporting actor.

I never realized they ever showed Gertie! Blink, I guess, and you miss her. I'll be watching for her appearances now! I don't think my cable lists the year of the tv episodes. I know it does for movies. I'll have to check next time. Also has the main cast list and pictures (often different than how they appear in the film or episode!)

[Hibi]

oh wow, I didn't know they ever showed GERTIE on the show (PERRY MASON)
I always thought she was a "MARIS"- shows you what happens when you only have access to syndication.

I always pictured GERTIE as working out of THE BROOM CLOSET and looking more or less like this:

Or Adele, Sheriff Metzger's wife on Murder, She Wrote!!! I didn't either, but now that I think of it, I think I did see Gertie once briefly. Usually it's just Della buzzing her on the intercom! But according to Andree she was on 17 times!! Hope she had other income coming in....

[Hibi]

(she is of course chained to the table and DELLA pays her in cigarette nubs, of which there are plenty)

EDIT: and yeah, she gets high on the correction fluid- who THE HELL are YOU to JUDGE?

LMREO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone lights up on this show! Did Della ever puff? I don't remember her smoking.

[Lorna]

(she is of course chained to the table and DELLA pays her in cigarette nubs, of which there are plenty)

EDIT: and yeah, she gets high on the correction fluid- who THE HELL are YOU to JUDGE?

LMREO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone lights up on this show! Did Della ever puff? I don't remember her smoking.

I'm reasonably sure DELLA smoked here and there in episodes and JUDGING FROM HER VOICE, so did BARBARA HALE in real life- from about (I'd say) AGE 8 up to the filming of the show.

She's HUSKY.

[Lorna]

she makes BARBARA STANWYCK sound downright DULCET-TONED in comparison.

[Lorna]

i was always bummed we never got to see ADELE.
Would've been an EPIC GUEST ARC for MARY WURONOV**.

**Who, yes, I know- appeared in the season 2 episode JESSICA BEHIND BARS.