This is Not a Boxed Set!
For shame CBS/Paramount - and Amazon. This is NOT a "boxed set" - as it is clearly labeled in the PRODUCT DETAILS, FORMAT SECTION. And I will be returning this item unopened for a full refund.
This item is simply a shrink-wrapped collection of all the individual previous season releases. The first two seasons (4 volumes) are even boxed differently (exactly as they were originally released) and differ from the remaining seasons 3 - 9 which are packaged in narrower DVD boxes.
Worse, they have shrink-wrapped these DVDs in such a way you can't even read the details of even a single season to answer common questions such as format, language, running-time, or whether or not there is closed-captioning/subtitles.
According to the "official" www.cbsstore.com site, closed captioning or subtitles - they use both terms at the site - do not appear as a feature until Season 5, Volume 2.
I was hoping this "boxed set" would have finally rectified that...
Setting your expectations... Great fun, but not Great Art
Wonderful to see these old shows again.
To set some expectations...
Not a boxed set. The individually shrink-wrapped season packs are banded into one giant bundle and shrink-wrapped overall. (A lot of work to get it all unwrapped.)
Doesn't appear to include the bonus material that is part of the 4-disc "50th Anniversary Edition" sampler package. (The Anniversary Edition is inexpensive - and well worth buying for the test scenes alone. The contrast between William Hopper and Raymond Burr, each testing as Perry Mason is very interesting. Burr had already completely worked out the subtle character of Perry Mason. Burr as Hamilton Burger just didn't have the edge. No tests of Barbara Hale or William Tallman.)
The order of the episodes on the discs is apparently the order in which the episodes were filmed, which does not always match the order of first broadcast given in the IMDB and in the Wikipedia episode list. This explains why sometimes the...
When is Warner going to release the movies?
This set is all of the DVDs from all the season's 1-9, which were terrific but this is the same as all the single releases! When are you going to release all the made for television movies that were Perry Mason?
Raymond Burr was a great actor and without using foul language keep people engaged and coming back for more....
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