Perry Mason

Based on the detective fiction of Erle Stanley Gardner.

Perry Mason is a landmark American legal drama television series that originally aired on CBS from 1957 to 1966. Based on the detective fiction of Erle Stanley Gardner, the show centers around the brilliant criminal defense attorney Perry Mason, portrayed by Raymond Burr. Mason, a calm and methodical legal mind, regularly defends clients accused of murder, often exposing the real perpetrator in a dramatic courtroom confession.

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Vampire Bats

Vampire bats hunt only when it is fully dark.

Vampire bats, species of the subfamily Desmodontinae, are leaf-nosed bats found in Central and South America. Bats are the only mammals that can fly, but vampire bats have an even more interesting distinction—they are the only mammals that feed entirely on blood. These notorious bats sleep during the day in total darkness, suspended upside down from the roofs of caves, old wells, hollow trees, or buildings.

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Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

I watched the 1933 restored version of the Warner Bros & The Vitaphone Corp. “Mystery of the Wax Museum” on Svengoolie. The preservation was done by UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation, funded by The George Lucas Family Foundation. I’ll have to say the film looks and sounds wonderful.

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