Blackmail was popular because, heavens, we don't want the world to know your mother had you out of wedlock!
But most of all when the 52 or 53 minutes of the episode were over, we had a definitive answer. Before the credits rolled, we knew who the bad guy was.
Wouldn't it be nice to know by a certain set time whether a new charter is good for Ashtabula, whether the recall of three council members would make the city progress? Wouldn't we like to know if Conneaut City Manager Robert Schaumleffel Jr.'s plans for the city fire departments will be in the best interests of the city?
Was the construction of the Lodge and Conference Center at Geneva State Park a good idea in the long run?
And what about that Obama stimulus package? Is all of that money going to help turn around our economy or is he dead wrong, the way all of the right-wing radio commentators who harp relentlessly on WWOW and other radio stations maintain.
In real life Burr was a closet gay who enjoyed making wine and was a pretty decent actor. In those 271 TV episodes and later movies, he is Perry Mason only and within a set time can give you all of the answers.
He knows who acted correctly, who made the wrong move and sees to it the person who is wrong pays for it.
He also explains how he came up with his conclusions in the one-minute epilogue at the end of the show, before the credits roll.
Too bad in this world of many colors, there is no definitive answer to our problems, not in 52 minutes, not in 52 years. The Obama package has renewed debate on the effectiveness of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal of the 1930s and whether it helped bring us out of the Great Depression. We still don’t have an answer.
It was about the time of Roosevelt's New Deal that Gardner started to shape his lawyer character, who will live forever in books and on TV, and not just in Portland, Ore.
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