![]() ![]() Grease was a Broadway smash, American Graffiti a blockbuster movie, and on TV, shows starring old favorites and revivals of classics filled network schedules. ![]() ![]() The 1950s and early '60s weren't too far in the past by the early 1970s, but a nostalgia for the period hit big anyway. With no tenth season, there were no more color episodes of Perry Mason. "When we got to the end of nine, they asked me for one more year in color, and they shot one show in color and I said 'no,'" star Raymond Burr told the Washington Post. As color took hold of TV by the mid-'60s, "Twice-Told Twist" was a test to see how Mason would look if it were renewed for a tenth season. The Oliver Twist-inspired February 1966 installment "The Case of the Twice-Told Twist" is otherwise a run-of-the-mill Perry Mason episode, except for the fact that it was produced in full color - the only episode in the original series run not presented in black-and-white. Perry Mason wasn't a serialized show - each episode generally focused on a single case, wrapped up within the self-contained story - so even dedicated fans probably wouldn't notice that the rerun package was one episode short for years. ![]() That provided syndicators with a huge volume of content to rerun on local stations hundreds of times over the ensuing 50-odd years. The original Perry Mason TV series ran from 1957 to 1966, and as a full season of a show back then ran around 30 episodes, a whopping 271 installments were produced. ![]()
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