Raymond Burr series followed on CBS. The two-hour premiere of "The Jordan Chance" aroused little interest. On January 20, 1987, Burr hosted the television special that later served as the pilot for the long-running series "Unsolved Mysteries". In 1985, Burr was approached by producers Dean Hargrove and Fred Silverman to star in a made-for-TV movie, "Perry Mason Returns". The same week, Burr recalled, he was asked to reprise the role he played in "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!" (1956), in a low-budget film that would be titled "Godzilla 1985". "When they asked me to do it a second time, I said, 'Certainly,'
Raymond Burr fictional or not, they most admired. Burr was interred with his parents at Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, British Columbia. On October 1, 1993, about 600 family members and friends paid tribute to Burr at a private memorial service at the Pasadena Playhouse. Although Burr had not revealed his homosexuality during his lifetime, it was an open secret and was reported in the press upon his death. The "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" wrote that "People" magazine was preparing a story on Burr's "secret life" and asked, "Are the inevitable rumors true?" It received sensational treatment in the tabloid press; biographer Michael Starr wrote