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27 September 2004

Paramount Pictures - Home Entertainment Division
5555 Melrose Avenue
Hollywood, CA 90038

Dear Sirs and/or Mesdames:

It has been brought to our attention that Paramount Pictures may own the distribution rights to the television series Perry Mason, which originally aired on CBS from 1957 to 1966. We are writing now to inquire about Paramount’s future plans for the series. Your website does not list Perry Mason amoungst the current or to come DVD/VHS releases. When can we expect it to be available for purchase? Considering the popularity of courtroom dramas (and television series season-by-season boxed sets in general), we assume--and indeed hope!--that the programme in question will be on shelves, both virtual and physical, within the next year.

At present, numerous FOX affiliates and PBS stations across the country, as well as a cable favourite The Hallmark Channel, televise Perry Mason. The programme’s already large fan base is growing and will only continue to grow as new viewers begin tuning in.

Perry Mason devotées that we are, we subscribe to relevant discussion lists and frequent the electronic bulletin boards which have cropped up on the Internet in the past few years. Membership to these lists and boards has increased dramatically as of late, particularly since Hallmark began airing the series two years ago. (Incidentally, it is interesting to note that many of the show’s fans fall within the eighteen to twenty-four age group.) The availability, or rather, the disappointing unavailability, of DVDs/VHS tapes is a much lamented topic that continues to surface again and again. Fans new and old alike want to be able to enjoy the series at home and commercial-cut free (even PBS nips out five minutes!).

If you are already aware of Perry Mason’s popularity, we’re sure that preparations are already being made to release the series on DVD. Fans have been eagerly awaiting the event, begrudgingly tiding themselves over with sliced, diced and logo-stamped episodes and the somewhat disappointing Columbia House releases (via Columbia House, subscribers receive episodes out of order and only 40 are available on DVD, 122 on VHS). So, please! Roll out those DVDs as soon as you can!

Thank you for taking the time to read our letter.


Warm Regards,



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