Four separate productions sharing one name across sixty six years: two hundred and seventy one episodes with Raymond Burr, a one season replacement nobody remembers, thirty television films, and an HBO series about a different man.
Four different productions, and only one pair of them has any relationship at all. The 1957 series and the 1985 films share Raymond Burr and follow on, twenty years later. The 1973 series recast the part entirely and connects to nothing. The HBO series from 2020 is a separate invention set decades earlier with a different Mason. So there is no single order: pick which Perry Mason you mean.
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Thirty nine episodes, and the version the name means to most people. Every episode stands alone.
Twenty years on, same actor, same character. The first of thirty films, and the only one that benefits from having seen the series.
A different show that happens to share the name. Watch it first, last or instead: it needs nothing and refers to nothing.
Then what? If the 1957 series lands, the thirty television films are the same man thirty years on, with Barbara Hale still beside him, and they run from Perry Mason Returns in 1985 to The Case of the Killer Kiss, broadcast on 29 November 1993 after Burr had died that September. The four that follow carry a different title, A Perry Mason Mystery, and write Mason out as unavailable while a substitute takes the case: Paul Sorvino once and Hal Holbrook three times. Those are for completists. The HBO series ends after two seasons without resolving its larger arc, because it was cancelled in June 2023, and that is worth knowing before you start it. The 1973 revival is the one to skip: fifteen episodes, cancelled at midseason after finishing seventy first of eighty shows, and interesting now only as a record of what happens when you recast a part the audience will not give up.
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