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[Herlock Sholmes]

Murder Rooms is brilliant, five episodes. I keep them with my set of Sherlock Holmes video's

It’s a pity that they didn’t make more Wick. I’ve got pretty much every English speaking Holmes movie and tv series still available and Murder Rooms is up there with the best.

[Wickerman]

If I remember right You Tube has 41 of the Jeremy Brett series, it's the other 19 I hope they make someday.

[Herlock Sholmes]

If I remember right You Tube has 41 of the Jeremy Brett series, it's the other 19 I hope they make someday.

Brett always wanted to make the entire Canon but I’ll health and his untimely death prevented it. Eille Norwood made 47 in the silent era. I’m excited that at last they are being restored and will finally be released.

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/silent-s...es-restoration


I don’t know if you’ve heard the various radio play versions of the Holmes stories Wick but the one that I’d really recommend is the absolutely brilliant one with Clive Morrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson. They did the entire Canon and it’s as good as it gets on audio. Brilliant. After they’d done them all Michael Williams (husband of Judi Dench) died. They then did The Further Adventures using none Doyle stories with Andrew Sachs playing Watson.

[Wickerman]

Thanks for the heads-up on those silent versions, likely be a DVD package coming out then.

My favourite growing up was always Basil Rathbone, as looks go he was the ideal Holmes to my mind. It took me a while to warm to Jeremy Brett. What I didn't like about the Rathbone movies was bringing Holmes into the future, into WWII if I recall.
You just can't do that, the same applies today with all these modern TV adaptations modernizing Holmes. I wish they would just stay with the Victorian period and create new stories.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Thanks for the heads-up on those silent versions, likely be a DVD package coming out then.

My favourite growing up was always Basil Rathbone, as looks go he was the ideal Holmes to my mind. It took me a while to warm to Jeremy Brett. What I didn't like about the Rathbone movies was bringing Holmes into the future, into WWII if I recall.
You just can't do that, the same applies today with all these modern TV adaptations modernizing Holmes. I wish they would just stay with the Victorian period and create new stories.

Rathbone was great but we can blame Universal studios for the modern settings. 20th Century Fox made the first 2, The Hound and The Aventures, which were great and set in Victorian times but they gave up and Universal took over and wanted Holmes and Watson fighting Nazi’s and spies. I have this one framed.

https://www.google.com/search?q=rathbone+bruce+war+poster&rlz=1C9BKJA_enGB704GB704&oq=rathbone+bruce+war+poster&aqs=chrome..69i57.13445j1j7&hl=en-GB&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=ClLLdWLKBRWn-M

[caz]

Thanks for the heads-up on those silent versions, likely be a DVD package coming out then.

My favourite growing up was always Basil Rathbone, as looks go he was the ideal Holmes to my mind. It took me a while to warm to Jeremy Brett. What I didn't like about the Rathbone movies was bringing Holmes into the future, into WWII if I recall.
You just can't do that, the same applies today with all these modern TV adaptations modernizing Holmes. I wish they would just stay with the Victorian period and create new stories.

My school friend and I always called him Basil Bathrobe.

Love,

Caz
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