http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...d_i=2625373011

I would love to have these, but will wait for a Complete Series deal down the line.

Some of these volumes are available as enrollments in CH.

ditto!:d

With all but the 9th season out, I'm betting the announcement for the complete season isn't far off.

One of the newer, low-level stations in our area has been showing lots of old TV shows like PM. In fact, PM is shown twice a day; once in the morning and later in the evening, and they aren't repeats. I've been watching for several months and it appears that the shows must be edited down a bit from their original airtime. It would be nice to see episodes in their entirety, but as much as I like watching Perry Mason I don't think I want to invest in the series on disk.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know if these are unedited or edited? And, if edited, by how much?

I can almost guarantee these shows were edited. Perry Mason episodes usually ran about 52 minutes. Current network TV hour shows run about 42-43 minutes, and many local broadcasts have even more commercials in them.

Mason episodes were very densely plotted, with an entire novel often being condensed into a one-hour episode. Cut ten or more minutes out of that and it's easy to lose a lot of the storyline.