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 Navy cannot be confirmed, nor can his statements that he sustained battle injuries at Okinawa. Other invented biographical details include years of college education at a variety of institutions, being widowed twice, a son who died young, world travel and success in high school athletics. Most of these claims were accepted as fact by the press at the time of Burr's death and by his first biographer, Ona Hill. Burr was reportedly married at the beginning of World War II to a Scottish actress named Annette Sutherland—killed, Burr said, in the same 1943 plane crash that claimed the life of