![]() In large screen format, I imagine the feeling would be like sitting in the courtroom with Perry Mason. Some say many human eyes can’t discern between 4K and 8K, but it’s available if you care to spend the money. That’s very different from today’s 4K & 8K full-ultra high definition displays. No matter the antenna adjustment, the picture was rarely sharp enough to see all that was going on. PERRY MASON (1957) Image Credit: Courtesy of CBS Television Distribution Considered one of the most recognizable theme songs in TV history, the piece of symphonic R&B was originally titled Park. ![]() The family joke about TV reception at my grandparent’s-and many other people’s homes, was always something related to how bad the weather was in Perry Mason’s courtroom. Sometimes, reception was so bad that the image projected on the TV screen resembled something from a snowstorm. They were called rabbit ears because of the two adjustable (fore, aft, up, down) metal extension rods that protruded as high as 39 inches and rotated 360 degrees on a movable base, which typically sat on top of the television cabinet. Reception quality was driven by the strength of a signal that your rabbit ears, external television reception devices, could capture. The end of Perry Masons opening episode is just the first of many instances in which Blanchard is allowed to cut loose. There weren’t many television stations on eastern shore Virginia in the 1950’s and 1960’s, and poor television reception was the norm where my grandparents lived.
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