If you are still there, I'm sorry that you felt the need to delete all of your posts. i honestly wasn't being unfriendly. I was simply exasperated by your attitude.
I think it's a shame that you felt you had to flee from the board. Like you, I'm a fan of the show. We might have had much in common.
I would say, Was it something I said?
It obviously was......
So sorry about that.
Sorry to have bothered. I just noticed a few of your other posts on the site. I doubt we really do have that much in common. Sorry to have caused you so much distress. Happy trails.
shareI found some of his messages rather puzzling, but I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt in case he genuinely had difficulty understanding the replies to his posts and it wasn't just an act.
shareIt probably wasn't an act. Thinking it over, I do have the feeling that he just read things wrong. He is extremely defensive. I was sorry that he felt the need to delete and ignore me. Apparently, I came down on him a bit too hard. I'm sorry if I made him feel bad.
shareI enjoyed Diggy's writing immensely, even when I disagreed with him, which was often, his stuff was worth the effort and patience. Those of us who liked him might want to dry to track him down, with the downside being that he might not want to be tracked.
He may be an extreme introvert, but then so am I. Sometimes there's no accounting for people's behavior. The man truly did nothing wrong; he just took a powder.
❤️️Unfortunately and regretfully, at the time Diggy left, I wasn't as familiar with him and his ways as you. I was only thinking that he was a bit harsh with LivingMCM. When he suddenly gave me a piece of his mind and cleared out, I was surprised and a bit contrite. I certainly wish he would have stayed. I am not the most diplomatic person, as you can see.
I wish you well in trying to track him down, although I can't imagine how one does that. Good luck, and if you find him, I hope he will come back. I promise never to upset him again.
Thanks for replying, MissMargo. Dig shall likely have to return on his own steam if that's what he wants, which I suspect it isn't. Good grief, Perry Mason should be an easy show to discuss at length without much in the way of controversy. Some people are like that.
There was, btw, an excellent late 9th season entry on last night featuring, among others, Gary Collins (same) in the cast and a killer ending I had totally forgotten about. It was one of the biggest Big Reveals from the series, from my perspective anyway, as I often guess the perp right, or pretty close, but not this time.
That final season wasn't nearly so bad as it's often made out to be. Yes, the show was winding down, Burr and Hopper were gaining weight, Tragg was gone, Richard Anderson was a bland replacement, and so on. Yet it caught the Sixties zeitgeist, right down to rock and roll and even folk music. They even had strains of the Petula Clark monster hit "Downtown" in an episode.
My favorite seasons are the first two, and after that, the next two, with a slow decline (IMHO) afterward, then, allowing for some attitude adjustment (the Fifties are dead, and all that), a gradual return to form, albeit of a different kind from the earlier, more Noir Perry that was pretty much gone even before Ray Collins left the series.
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I'm always happy to chat, especially about one of my favorite shows!
I remember the episode with Gary Collins very well! That twist ending was something that most Perry Mason fans could have never seen coming. I could go on, but enough said!
While I preferred Burger and Traig from the earlier seasons. I did enjoy many of the later seasons of the mid 60s. I have to say that one of my favorites is the very last episode.It was fun, it was full of little inside jokes and Earl Stanley Gardner himself played the judge in that final trial!
I really have to say that this show got me hooked on any other type of courtroom drama, and there is so much out there, but I'll always come back to Perry.
As for Diggy, if you are out there, I really wish you would come back. You obviously loved this show too, and I believe you enjoyed discussing it. I only wish that it hadn't been me to drive you away. So sorry..... We might have had some spirited discussions if I had only known how to talk to you. I really should have lurked a while. I also should have minded my own business!
telegonus, I hope to see you around!
Thanks, MissMargo,--and for joy!--if you're home and in the mood the Final Fade-Out final Perry episode is on in twenty minutes on MeTV, aa digital channel that I get for free, cable-less as I am.
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LOL! I came back here to say something about that!
I went to bed last night and it was about time for Perry Mason. What do I see? The very episode I was just thinking about earlier. I almost got up to leave you a heads up, but decided against it..... too pooped! I watch it each morning and every night on MeTV.
That one had a really good cast, didn't it? For some reason I always forget that Dick Clark is in it. That's especially odd considering his part in the episode!
I loved that when the police were questioning the crew around the studio, that they were questioning many of the real crew on the Perry Mason show.
I hope that the fall TV scheduling doesn't shift things too much with this show on MeTV. In other words, I hope they don't take it off.
Hi MissMargo,
Perry's been sailing smoothly this year and I hope this can last forever. It's amazing how many people still watch it given the number of us (or me anyway) older folks who remember it first run when it was state of the art and not old-fashioned looking at the time.
Now it's a time capsule, and one of the the better ones on TV. It went off the air just in time. With prime time going all-color in the fall of '66 TV changed forever, and I find that the shows that came after feel less classic/iconic than the earlier ones.
The final season is, once more winding down. The Wendell Corey oil well ep is around the corner. Not too many left to go. I hope that the MeTV people will continue showing it. Yes, I know I can buy the entire series for a relatively low sum but I love broadcast television and this is my preferred way to watch. Go figure...
Miss Margo has had the good taste and sense to leave the site, pal.
We still communicate from time to time.