Television
"Cool & Lam" first appeared on television in the January 6, 1955 episode of Climax! based on the premiere novel "The Bigger The Come". It starred Art Carney as Donald Lam and Jane Darwell as Bertha Cool and is considered "lost."
A 30-minute pilot program called "Cool and Lam" was made in 1958 but never became a series. Billy Pearson was cast as Donald Lam and Benay Venuta as Bertha Cool. The pilot was loosely based on Turn On The Heat. One feature of interest is that, a few minutes after the start of the program, Erle Stanley Gardner is shown on the set of Perry Mason's office. He speaks directly to the viewer, introducing the characters, and talking about his pleasure in the casting and his hopes that the pilot will become a series. It is uncertain whether this pilot was ever broadcast and, if so, whether this segment featuring Gardner would have been included, since it pushed the running time of the program to the 30-minute mark and did not allow for commercials.
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