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,'
Richard Burr minister, said that Burr is a 12th cousin of Aaron Burr, the former Vice President, Senator, lawyer, and Continental Army officer known most for killing Founding Father Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel and for being arrested, indicted, and ultimately acquitted for treason. Richard Burr is the first Burr in the Senate since Aaron Burr served as the Senator from New York—and only the second person with his last name to win election to Congress (the first being the presumably unrelated Albert G. Burr)—since Aaron. Sen. Burr himself has stated that there are no longer any direct descendants of Aaron