Perry Mason. The complete 1st season
Stylish, early '30s-set take on Erle Stanley Gardner's canny criminal defense lawyer from HBO casts Matthew Rhys in the title role, and picks up when troubled WWI vet Mason was still a contract gumshoe for L.A. attorney E.B. Jonathan (John Lithgow). Assigned to a notorious child kidnapping case, Mason would be steeped in a web of local corruption--and compelled to join the bar himself.