period hair, makeup, the period cars, the band and horses and it
was such a large scale for a TV show."
Georges also liked the parade down 5th Street, although he
describes it as "our most logistically challenging location." "We
did it in the middle of the Christmas holidays, when all local
businesses were trying to make money. Our time to shoot was
limited. The scene wasn't in the original script, but showed up in
the rewrite. We were, 'Okay, here we go. Let's find it and make it
happen.'"
World War I Ba‰lefield: Site where Perry Mason (Mahew
Rhys) flashes back to in his nightmares.
"The World War I
battlefield was pretty amazing and spectacular," Jansen says.
"That was our first two days of filming. Tim wanted to kickstart
the production by filming this large-scale battle first. We spent
three months prepping that location at Mystery Mesa. That and
Perry's farmhouse were the two biggest locations to prep. We
worked hard trying to find the right background even though we
knew we would spend a lot of time in the trenches."
Mason's Farmhouse: Perry Mason's family home. "Another location
that proved challenging to find was Mason's farmhouse, which
in the script was being taking over by an airfield," Jansen says.
"We were trying to recreate the what-would-have-been Van Nuys
Airport in the 1930s. We wanted to build an airstrip where we
could land planes outside of Mason's house. We were trying to
