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[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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[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

[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]

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]

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]

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]

Hi Pat,

The David Pirie books are really good. Have you seen the tv series Murder Rooms with Ian Richardson as Bell? I love them. Well worth a look if you haven’t seen them yet.

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

[Pcdunn]

Hi Pat,

The David Pirie books are really good. Have you seen the tv series Murder Rooms with Ian Richardson as Bell? I love them. Well worth a look if you haven’t seen them yet.

Hi, Herlock,

Yes, I know I've seen at least some of the "Murder Rooms" on our PBS channel. They were great!

[Herlock Sholmes]

Welcome, Dr. Whatsit. There are many on this list who are Sheockians and Holmesians. I am one of them.

I've recently read the first two mysteries featuring Joseph Bell and A.C. Doyle as investigators. Interesting twist on The Canon. Pretty good.

Hi Pat,

The David Pirie books are really good. Have you seen the tv series Murder Rooms with Ian Richardson as Bell? I love them. Well worth a look if you haven’t seen them yet.

[Pcdunn]

Welcome, Dr. Whatsit. There are many on this list who are Sheockians and Holmesians. I am one of them.

I've recently read the first two mysteries featuring Joseph Bell and A.C. Doyle as investigators. Interesting twist on The Canon. Pretty good.

[Fiver]

Watership Down.

[Al Bundy's Eyes]

[QUOTE=Doctored Whatsit;n764323]I read many threads on this forum enthusiastically before joining this "exclusive club"/QUOTE]

Mate, I'm in it. It ain't exclusive.

[Doctored Whatsit]

I read many threads on this forum enthusiastically before joining this "exclusive club", and noticed that we had a Sherlock Holmes, albeit one apparently taught by Dr Spooner, but there didn't seem to be a Watson, so I thought Ok, give it a go. But "spoonered" it became "Woctor Datson", which sounded like a Japanese car manufacturer re-located to Eastern Europe. So I decided to simply distort the name slightly instead. I thought there was no inspiration whatever for this, but I have wondered since whether an ancient memory resurfaced....

I recall now the crazy short story by John Lennon called, I think, "The singularge experience of Miss Ann Duffield", which featured, if memory serves me well, Doctored Whopper, with something like Shamrock Wombs and Jock the Nipple. If you don't know it, and why should you, it's a manic mix of nonsense, twisted English, and one or two slightly pythonesque moments, though it pre-dated Monty Python by several years. I don't actually recommend it, it probably is best left in the mid nineteen sixties where it belongs, although it was quite popular for a while. If you do check it out, don't do it when you're sober!

[Pcdunn]

[QUOTE=Ms Diddles;n756393]

Oh! Shiloh sounds like a beauty!

Seal Point combined with black long hair sounds gorgeous.

Yeah, I have had Siamese cats all my adult life.

I kind of inherited one from a friend of mine who went off travelling round the world.

At first I thought that the cat was a complete weirdo, as he was so different to the moggies which I had had previously.

Once we got to know each other though, I realised he was completely amazing.

I've been Siamese all the way ever since.

They are extremely high maintenance though, and continuously demand attention, but they are also amazingly intelligent, affectionate and hilariously funny sometimes too.

My current girl (Conchita - see avatar) has a special Miaow to let me know if there is an unseemly crease in her favourite towel over the radiator!

She has me well trained!

[QUOTE]

She sounds very typical of the tribe. Shi "talked" too.

No, Shilo's MOM was a long haired black cat. Her original name was "Punky" and my mother changed it to "Spunky". I remember seeing her bring the kittens a half-dead mouse and dropping it in front of them. They didn't know what to do, and it ran underneath something in my Dad's tool-shed. (He was not amused when I told him!) I imagine Spunky took care of Mousie in due time.

[Al Bundy's Eyes]

Sounds like he finally got paid cash in hand and his roadie stopped flicking the switch.

Ha Ha! The cynicism! That's a cracker Dave.