Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes documentary

แชร์
ฝัง
  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ธ.ค. 2021
  • Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
    Doyle was a prolific writer; other than Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the Mary Celeste.
    Arthur Conan Doyle documentary
    2017

ความคิดเห็น • 316

  • @judithgrace8359
    @judithgrace8359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    When I was a reading teacher I did a whole unit on Sherlock Holmes with my 7th graders. We read “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”. When we finished the stories, I told my 7th graders that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “killed” off Holmes because he got sick of his character. One of my students looked at me in complete shock and said, “you mean he wasn’t real?”
    Such is the power of the Sherlock Holmes character. He lives in our hearts and imagination.

    • @srothbardt
      @srothbardt 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Verrrrry interesting. But stupid….. Kidding….Yes , most people, not just kids, don’t understand lit.

    • @catgladwell5684
      @catgladwell5684 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@srothbardt "Most people" - are you sure?

    • @user-ic6nj4xo6q
      @user-ic6nj4xo6q 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He was real, he was a mix of Sir Arthur's med school professor and evolved entities from the past through the spiritualist movement that he was a part of. His stories explain the spiritualist doctrine in allegorical fashion.

    • @TheNBAfan101
      @TheNBAfan101 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@srothbardtyes calling a 7th grader stupid is definitely the way to behave 💀

    • @travisash8180
      @travisash8180 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      A Lemon Tree my dear Watson.

  • @thebaggins5168
    @thebaggins5168 2 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    Jeremy Brett is my favorite Sherlock Holmes. RIP JB. 🙏💙

    • @_TheOneRing_
      @_TheOneRing_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      My too👏🏻

    • @pollyhelms5910
      @pollyhelms5910 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yes!

    • @zzydny
      @zzydny 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Although there have been many versions of Holmes, Jeremy Brett played the character with the greatest respect and the most faithfulness to the original stories. He will always be "the" Sherlock Holmes to me.

    • @judithsweeney2553
      @judithsweeney2553 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Oh, yes! Me too.

    • @ktgiffin8147
      @ktgiffin8147 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Same. Jeremy Brett didn't just play the character, he became him.

  • @powellmountainmike8853
    @powellmountainmike8853 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    The assertion in this video that Holmes "didn't listen to music" is wrong. He went to a concert by Wilhelmina Norman-Neruda in A Study In Scarlet, and both he and Watson attend a concert by Sarasate in The Red Headed League. We know he had a phonograph because it plays a part in the plot of The Adventure Of The Mazzarin Stone. So, from the stories, we have evidence that Holmes did enjoy listening to music.

    • @kthomasaus
      @kthomasaus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That struck me too

    • @a.s7902
      @a.s7902 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Absolutely correct!

    • @georgen9755
      @georgen9755 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      kthomasaus

    • @mikelheron20
      @mikelheron20 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was about to make the same comment. The Redheaded League is one of many stories that make reference to Holmes attending concerts. It makes me wonder if the guy has ever read any Sherlock Holmes.

    • @nancypotter6772
      @nancypotter6772 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He played the violin, and Watson hated it. That was mentioned on their agreement to share rooms.

  • @shafiullakhan3967
    @shafiullakhan3967 2 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    I never get tired of reading and watching Conan Doyle's Sherlock and of course Jeremy was the best to enact the consulting detective.

    • @russellmarra8520
      @russellmarra8520 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, but... consider - Frankenstein, Dracula, James Bond, and Sherlock Holmes. The faces you thought of reading those names were Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Sean Connery, and Basil Rathbone. All of these characters have been portrayed many times by many actors. Yet the faces we first go to are the ones I've listed. But yes, too, Jeremy Brett was perfect as Holmes.

    • @noelryan6341
      @noelryan6341 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I agree with you. For me, Jeremy Brett was the quintessential interpreter of the character of SH.

    • @cv507
      @cv507 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ön the ´mäinLünD 0vi cäll $äm $häymähnce -.-
      one öFF the FevvehR? which may i säy ´zyrvviFe and enkäunterr vviß se devill´es xD

    • @bookmouse2719
      @bookmouse2719 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Basil Rathbone.

    • @kalyansubramani7076
      @kalyansubramani7076 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@bookmouse2719 YES!

  • @inkyguy
    @inkyguy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    One observation about the Holmes stories that is only alluded to here, at best, that I learned of in another video documentary was that in his stories, Conan Doyle shows a world in which crime and criminality exists within the upper classes, and is not limited to the lower classes.
    At the time of their writing, the popular conception was that crime and criminality was innately a phenomenon of the lower classes, that the upper classes were not only economically superior but also innately morally superior. Conan Doyle dashed that hypocritical stereotype by portraying members of the upper and ruling classes which were just as criminal as those of the lower classes.

  • @livingdeadgirl8074
    @livingdeadgirl8074 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    After so many corny versions of Sherlock Homes I was not thrilled to find myself with nothing to read many years ago except a Sherlock Homes book. All I could say was holy shit was it good. I then read every book I could get by Doyle. I also ended up with a new appreciation for Sherlock Homes.

    • @inkyguy
      @inkyguy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That’s a great story. It’s wonderful to learn of someone who discovers the joys of wildly popular stories reproduced or extended as non-canonical “based on the characters of” Conan Doyle productions on stage, radio, film and television in the original literary source. Congratulations!
      I’ve tried to limit myself to the best adaptations, which have been almost exclusively the Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke adaptations. Unfortunately, Brett’s health did not allow all of the stories to be adapted as was originally intended by the producers.
      I had initial hopes for the Dominic Cumberbatch adaptations, and I thought the first episode was decent, but after that I thought they were ridiculous, almost campy.

    • @TheDoctor1225
      @TheDoctor1225 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@inkyguy I will agree with that wholeheartedly. I grew up watching the Sherlock Holmes adaptations with Basil Rathbone and while I enjoyed his portrayal (I enjoy virtually everything that he is in) I loathed the way they portrayed Watson as he was nothing like the character from the books. I also agree that were I to recommend one adaptation for people to watch, it would be the series with Jeremy Brett, as I have found them to be the most faithful, overall. I have never watched any of the "modern" adaptations, not do I intend to, quite honestly. The movie adaptaion with Robert Downey Jr (best described as "A great movie UNLESS you know anything about Sherlock Holmes") and the TV version with the female, Oriental Watson were both enough to make me give them all a pass. I'll stick with the original canon stories, and Jeremy Brett.

    • @michaeljohnangel6359
      @michaeljohnangel6359 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@inkyguy I agree with all you've written, including that about the Benedict Cumberbatch adaptations (the first season was good; the rest was rubbish).

  • @29brendus
    @29brendus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I can still grasp the magical feeling and atmosphere that I had felt, the first time I came across the 56 short stories, all in one volume and having the wonderful illustrations. That first story was 'A Scandal in Bohemia'. I was about 10.y.o then and that was in 1966 in the school library in Ireland. Apart from the fascination of the stories, it was also a solid introduction to the structure of the English Language. The very first time I went to London in 1974, I looked for 221B Baker Street. I deduced, after careful observation and examination of the physical surroundings, that it was not there. Wonderful stuff and I'm still hooked. My favourite story is 'The Bruce-Partington Plans', followed by 'The Red Headed League' and 'The Dancing Men'.

    • @michaeljohnangel6359
      @michaeljohnangel6359 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Me too, right down to my 10-year-old self in 1955. Best of wishes, my dear!!

    • @rezzer7918
      @rezzer7918 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Very well written.

    • @peterconnell2496
      @peterconnell2496 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      "first time I went to London in 1974, I looked for 221B Baker Street. I deduced, after careful observation and examination of the physical surroundings, that it was not there."
      As one would...., but what are the details? Is there a 221 but no 221b, or does Baker St stop 100 etc?

    • @29brendus
      @29brendus 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@peterconnell2496 As far as I know the numbers go to up 320. Even after many trips to London and having worked there for years, I never went back there to Baker St for another look. There used to be a Sherlock Holmes pub in Villiers St (Charing Cross) complete with Holmes' Parlour, but it is now moved to 9, Northumberland St, not far away from Embankment. So the Game is afoot!

  • @adamodeo9320
    @adamodeo9320 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    as a teenager, I read Doyle, yet I did not know what a great human being he was - thank you for this video.

  • @artscience9981
    @artscience9981 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    When I was young Sherlock Holmes was truly one of my heroes. Looking back, maybe my lifetime interest in science was partly inspired by trying to be like him. This video is a wonderful evocation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s life and times. I loved that it has both English and French perspectives on Holmes and Doyle. Truly a gift to Holmes fans around the world!

  • @raimimar4488
    @raimimar4488 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Arthur Conan Doyle is my favorite writer i have many books of him greetings from Bulgaria

  • @Annur375
    @Annur375 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    "I've heard of you before. You are Holmes the meddler, Holmes the busy body..." Fantastic, unforgettable, magnificent Sherlock Holmes! Thanks for sharing the life of his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Great documentary. Best to you.

    • @mikeloglio7550
      @mikeloglio7550 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Glad someone can appreciate this ! Yeah Doyal was quite the intellect !

    • @danielgregg2530
      @danielgregg2530 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "Holmes the Scotland Yard jack-in-office." haahahahahahahaha

    • @tomhaskett5161
      @tomhaskett5161 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sir Grimsby Roylott?

  • @lindsay3043
    @lindsay3043 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Sherlock Holmes is so healing for me. I just love it so much. If I have a bad day I just jump into his books, shows or movies. Im always put at ease by his brilliance.

  • @M.Smith1
    @M.Smith1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Thank you all for creation of this documentary of Arthur Conan Doyle!

  • @tgdomnemo5052
    @tgdomnemo5052 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank You for making Sir Arthur visible in the long shadow of Mr. Holmes
    😉🙏🏼🖖🏼

  • @janetleefilia9970
    @janetleefilia9970 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Because Ii am very old, and grew up with the Sherlock and Watson movies with Basil and Nigile, they ate the "true" characters. I adore them, even now, I go to sleep listening to their voices on laptop. Basil Rathbone's voice is soooo reassuring, there can be no other. Of course, I truly appreciated Jeremy and watched him devotedly, but my real devotion is with those old voices that gave me such cozy comfort and entertainment. Also, thank you for the doc on Arthur Conan Doyle. I had no idea he was such an amazing creature.

  • @Ubermensch201
    @Ubermensch201 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I just got the Barnes and Noble Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection, containing all 4 novels and 56 short stories that make up the "canon works" .. I've never read any of them I'm 31 now and just getting into all the classics after Conan Doyle I'm moving to Robert Louis Stevenson... I am addicted to the Leather Bound Classic Books now though lol

    • @AuthorDocumentaries
      @AuthorDocumentaries  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol nice 👍👍

    • @acmehorse
      @acmehorse 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      When I first read the canon I was surprised how modern it reads. A real page turner. Hope you enjoy them as much I did.

  • @doonsbury9656
    @doonsbury9656 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Quite amazing how a fictional character created By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle can, to a very great extent, control his creators life....or certainly many of his decisions. Fascinating autobiography!

  • @robertmcfetridge3480
    @robertmcfetridge3480 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Goodness, so many new images. My passion for Conan Doyle has been in hiatus since 2005. An interesting documentary with some new perspectives. Thanks to the producers.

  • @xr6lad
    @xr6lad 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The are some great online audio books of SH that I play when going to bed and sleep. Such nice stories to listen to. Magpie Audio is a great reader of the stories imo.

  • @JJW77
    @JJW77 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Your "Write Like" documentaries are well investigative, informative and lively.

  • @cavemanrob
    @cavemanrob 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My great-great grandmother, Margaret Doyle Carmody, was his niece.

  • @stevenfranks3131
    @stevenfranks3131 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Thank you for posting this video. It's a delight from start to finish!

  • @2msvalkyrie529
    @2msvalkyrie529 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The meeting between Wilde , Conan Doyle and the American
    Publisher took place at the Langham Hotel . Well worth calling in for afternoon tea .It hasn't changed that much.

    • @inkyguy
      @inkyguy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      On of the great meetings of literary history.

  • @susanmercurio1060
    @susanmercurio1060 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I love Arthur Conan Doyle and read everything I could get my hands on when I was a child.

    • @Hollylivengood
      @Hollylivengood 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did you read his historical novels? They were really good.

  • @adrianajaramillo6767
    @adrianajaramillo6767 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I will look for it in Spanish, I love this type of documentaries, greetings from Medellin Colombia

  • @ringpop6177
    @ringpop6177 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    What a wonderful documentary! For anyone who loves Sherlock Holmes Magpie videos by Greg Wagland is the best Sherlock Holmes voice actor! I listen to the stories over and over. He is an excellent Sherlock 😃

  • @JCPJCPJCP
    @JCPJCPJCP 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I know next to nothing about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and I've never read him, but I enjoyed this video and learning something about him. I try to watch all of your videos. Thanks again. 😊

    • @AuthorDocumentaries
      @AuthorDocumentaries  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank you. I really liked this one too 🕵️

    • @inkyguy
      @inkyguy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’s always wonderful to encounter people who enjoy learning something for the sake of learning. 👍

    • @russellmarra8520
      @russellmarra8520 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Now that you have been introduced to Mr. Doyle and Mr. Holmes, you owe it to yourself to read at least one of the stories.

    • @JCPJCPJCP
      @JCPJCPJCP 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So many good books to read,
      so little time. ⏲️ ⏳️ 🕐

    • @russellmarra8520
      @russellmarra8520 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@JCPJCPJCP Yes, of course, still...

  • @axiomist4488
    @axiomist4488 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    In 1964, I read "The Compleat Sherlock Holmes", a thick book containing all the Holmes stories, including the ones written after his "death" .. I checked the book from the library and read it in 4 weeks . Watching this makes me want to read them again (I have the book). It occurred to me at the time that Doyle was, intellectually, Sherlock Holmes, since it was he who worked out all the cases and solved them. Doyle was Holmes and he was brilliant . I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank you .

  • @alanlawrence2954
    @alanlawrence2954 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Holmes and Tom Sawyer were my constant companions growing up... To me, they were real, more real than the people who claimed to be real around me.

  • @conniekampas7074
    @conniekampas7074 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The narrator voice is superb,perfect for this video. Thank you

  • @donaldkelly3983
    @donaldkelly3983 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Thanks for posting the bio of Doyle! I didn't know the details of his life and that he was an active journalist.

    • @AuthorDocumentaries
      @AuthorDocumentaries  2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No prob! I had no idea he struggled in the beginning

    • @becca5100
      @becca5100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AuthorDocumentaries Bio extremely well done! Do you have other bios elsewhere?

    • @GuitarandMusicInstitute
      @GuitarandMusicInstitute 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did they mention that he was Scottish and brought up in Edinburgh?

  • @julierobertson9397
    @julierobertson9397 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I had only the vaguest knowledge of Sir Arthur, mostly having to do with his activities regarding the spiritualist movement. Thank you for educating me on the range and depth of his involvement in the real world.

  • @RamonaMcKean
    @RamonaMcKean 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Enjoyable. Thank you.

  • @tommonk7651
    @tommonk7651 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I read "Hound of the Baskervilles" for school in the 6th or 7th grade in the early 70s. I've loved Holmes (and by extension Doyle) ever since....

  • @oldgringo2001
    @oldgringo2001 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Conan Doyle had a direct descendant named Richard Doyle. I've only read one of Richard's novels, and at this point I don't know if he ever published anything else, but *Imperial 109" was a rip-roaring globetrotting adventure set in the fateful spring of 1939 built around the last journey of an Imperial Airways flying boat from Capetown, South Africa to New York City. If you ever read it, you will quickly find a resemblance to the Indiana Jones movies--but this came out years before ""Raiders of the Lost Ark'". If you've read Ken Follet's "Night Over Water" you'll find it difficult to believe Follet didn't crib most of "Night" from "109. Both are set in 1939 before WWII started in Europe. Both take place mostly on large flying boat with a Boeing 314 in place of a Short C-class, which make westbound flights from the British Isles to New York.
    The Boeing 314 was actually the very first airliner to offer regularly scheduled passenger service from the United States across the North Atlantic. Only twelve were built, and none survive, but the flying boat used for live shots in "Raiders" does. It's a Short Solent at the Oakland Aviation Museum in Oakland, California.

    • @igrok__1
      @igrok__1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't think they are related.

  • @bruceweaver1518
    @bruceweaver1518 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This author has always fascinated me. As he himself said, he wanted to develop a character who used science in place of chance. He was the one author who started the scientific apprehension of criminals through forensic evidence. I would dearly loved to have met him in person.

  • @garycarpenter6433
    @garycarpenter6433 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is my favorite author of all time and I've seen nearly every movie and I've got a few of his stories plus I've always wanted to see the Sherlock Holmes museum in London just to get an original hat,pipe and costume of Mr.Holmes and Dr.Watson doctor bag

  • @louisevanwyk4376
    @louisevanwyk4376 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I would love to hear even more about ACD. I love Sherlock Holmes stories, but the author is infinitely more interesting

  • @brianwilling9403
    @brianwilling9403 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Fantastic documentary! My all time favourite character in fiction. Thank you

  • @2msvalkyrie529
    @2msvalkyrie529 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Conan Doyle wrote so many other great stories and novels
    - The Lost World for just one example . It's natural to focus
    on Sherlock I suppose but there's much more !!

  • @michaeldillon3113
    @michaeldillon3113 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is such a great series . Thank you .

  • @DrSchor
    @DrSchor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    AT 10:35, Doyle did not invent the modern detective story as related by Anthony Horowitz. Edgar Allen Poe did with his character Auguste Dupin in stories such as The Purloined Letter, written in 1844. "Where was the detective story until Poe breathed life into it" Doyle said. Dupin, a pipe smoker, was followed up by Inspector Bucket in Charles Dickens "Bleak House" in 1853. A study in scarlet was not published until 1887. In The Adventure of the Cardboard Box, Holmes states he uses a technique of following a person's thought's which was done before him by Dupin.

    • @keepitsimple4629
      @keepitsimple4629 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      DrSchor, very astute observation there! Lots of online videos are full of inconsistencies that drive me nuts.

    • @fidomusic
      @fidomusic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Also Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone.

    • @TheKoolbraider
      @TheKoolbraider ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@fidomusic I was telling the guy on screen here that Wilkie Collins was much earlier than Holmes. He probably didn't hear me. And: both Holmes and Watson appreciated good music.

  • @shawna620
    @shawna620 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Enjoyed this very much! Thank you!!

  • @kalyansubramani7076
    @kalyansubramani7076 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful documentary. Thank you.

  • @kasondaleigh
    @kasondaleigh 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Really great video. Thanks!

  • @imoldgreggboosh3467
    @imoldgreggboosh3467 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Doyle created a memorable character in Holmes,
    but it was E.A. Poe who first created the clue gathering detective who solved the murders at the Rue Morgue.

  • @maky977
    @maky977 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So, Sir Arthur would hate this documentary...as it is more about Sherlock, than about him ;)

  • @susanhepburn6040
    @susanhepburn6040 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you very much.

  • @michaeljohnangel6359
    @michaeljohnangel6359 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Loved it! Thanks!!!!!

  • @AG-zt9gj
    @AG-zt9gj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was Scottish - born in Edinburgh.

    • @Bamboule05
      @Bamboule05 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So if a child of two italian Immigrants gets born in Edinborough, you also say this is a scott?

  • @AnnieVanAuken
    @AnnieVanAuken 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    At 17:43 this man is wrong that Holmes doesn't care about music.
    There are several examples on film and in print of him and Watson happily going off to enjoy a concert.
    Even here at 34:25 we briefly see Holmes mention that violin virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate woud be concertizing.

    • @danielgregg2530
      @danielgregg2530 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Daniel Gregg
      While an artistic and entertaining documentary, I shouldn't take it too seriously. It has quite a few errors of even basic fact which could and certainly should stand correcting, which when I have more time I might turn to setting straight. This is one of them. The truth is, while these putative experts rattle on in such self-satisfied authoritative tones, in fact it is plainly evident they are not experts at all in this particular subject matter. Thus the take the writer of this took was to pose Holmes as a kind of misanthrope, which is gross overstatement. While it is true that Doyle began developing him that way in the first two stories, both novels, that was quite promptly dropped once he got into the lucrative short-story mode which utterly dominates the canon. The drug abuse vanishes virtually entirely and instead Holmes evolves into a polymath who is as expert in manifold fields as another Thomas Jefferson (at least), and can discourse intelligently on subjects as diverse American Civil War & Reconstruction Period history to "warships of the future", alongside all sorts of odd knowledge of unusual fauna of the Empire, medieval palimpsests (rendered in Latin, naturally), and the ways of contemporary spycraft. His knowledge of contemporary politics, both domestic and international, appears as clear as that of a bona fide political commentator, and he takes rank with those of that school of thought for his time that foresaw the future of the world as a single nation with a government that would be an amalgamation of that of the British Empire and the United States. His "regular guy" side is revealed in his appreciation of everything from a quite Epicurean catered cold supper to cheap Italian food or rude sandwiches and beer, his enjoyment of the occasional bet on a horse, the use of every form of tobacco product (though he somehow overlooked the employment of the hookah, as sublime a smoke as anybody can ever enjoy), and the fact he knew enough of the common working class's lot to successfully impersonate a groom, a sealing captain, an opium fiend, a rustic parson, or a plumber named Escott with a rising trade which wins him a fiance named Agatha. He has a terrific deprecating dry sense of humor and is perfectly at home in any conversation likely to arise in genteel society as well as on the street or in an alley and most frequently will emerge dominant in such settings. He also can charm matronly women into a state of trust with just a few soothing sentences. In fact, if there is anything where Doyle really overreaches in terms of Holmes's abilities, it is in a couple of spots where he has learned a couple basic truths about women that it is hard to see he could have ever learned without living with at least one classic exemplar for some not inconsiderable length of time.

  • @tinkmarshino
    @tinkmarshino 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Totally enthralling..

  • @noelryan6341
    @noelryan6341 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    At the age of three score and ten, now, it occurs to me in, retrospect, that the phenomenon of ACD & Sherlock Holmes has in more recent times had parallels in 'The Lord of the Rings' JRR Tolkien story cycle, or 'Star Wars' cycle of stories, for which we seem to have an insatiable appetite. ESCAPISM! A need to have 'heroes' to reassure us that 'Good Triumphs Over Evil'!

  • @vanjamatic3972
    @vanjamatic3972 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What a funny funny portrait of Doyle and his Holmes and Watson. Thank you people. So funny.

  • @alidabaxter5849
    @alidabaxter5849 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I still have the tattered paperback copy of The Hound of the Baskervilles that I bought long long ago when I was about 13. Subsequently I bought all the stories in collection form and love them, and for me Jeremy Brett was the most perfect Sherlock Holmes ever.

  • @davidphillips7321
    @davidphillips7321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very Interesting and Informative - Thank You, Stay Safe, Stay Strong...

  • @gregforrester4851
    @gregforrester4851 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    basil rathbone&nigel bruce are the best in my opinion they are great some funny things are said when they played thier parts.

    • @robertmcfetridge3480
      @robertmcfetridge3480 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      My uncle used to say the same thing but as a fan of the Brett version I couldn't understand that. The Rathbone versions were not even based on the original Doyle stories. They seemed comic and silly to me. The Brett version had humour but it was not so childish.

  • @zuzuspetals38
    @zuzuspetals38 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    L♥️ve Basil, Jeremy, and Benedict 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Never tire of Doyle’s stories. PS I forgot abt Robert Downey Jr 🤦🏻‍♀️loved him & Jude Law as well 🌟🌟🌟

  • @montbrehain
    @montbrehain 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent !

  • @FlyingAce1016
    @FlyingAce1016 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The old guy in the tweed jacket is definitely my mental image of a sherlock holmes aficionado and super fan :D

  • @joannageorge7305
    @joannageorge7305 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Holmes was not an addict. He used drugs to cope with boredom. But he was never in the grip of an addiction.

    • @ioloindeseo
      @ioloindeseo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      and jesus was not jewish either? of course - a piece of paper with ink on it could not be addicted to anything, except perhaps a reader's eye

  • @LSMFT
    @LSMFT ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The ladies voice is amazing

  • @NMansetJWard
    @NMansetJWard 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My mom had a first edition book with the inside cover with the wallpaper with bullet holes in it...I was in grade school and read the entire book, much like Edgar Allen Poe's complete edition...I began early with all of Doctor Doolittle's books, Mark Twain's books as well, then Sherlock Holmes... then Poe...I was an avid reader...Later in my teens I read Orwell, Bradbury, and many other authors as well...

  • @lizday8140
    @lizday8140 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I notice no nod to George C. Scott, who did an amazing job as a actor portraying Holmes in the movie, "They Might Be Giants." Well, no spoilers, but I'll say that he mostly plays Holmes in the film. It is one of my all-time favorites!

  • @rjfpac
    @rjfpac 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you....

  • @robertburatt
    @robertburatt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Holmes is best in his native environment, late 19th century when the World was still full of mysteries, borders of nations were permeable, old cultures still survived for many hundreds or even thousands of years, firm social~ class lines each of which had their characteristic features peculiar to themselves with their respective customs and daily life, low rooftops without the intrusive presence of the skyscraper, etc.

  • @highpsi11
    @highpsi11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Jeremy Brett series is the best, but I prefer Basil Rathbone's Holmes. Unfortunately Hollywood made a mockery of the Watson character played by Nigel Bruce by making him a buffoon. Brett was too "fey" for my taste - campy, mannered and affected. But the series was excellent - great production values! And Brett had "the look" in the early episodes when he was still healthy. And so did Christopher Lee.

  • @stardresser1
    @stardresser1 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    As a parent, the Curious George episode called "Bask of the Houndervilles" I can highly recommend.😂

  • @JamesBrown-ij1px
    @JamesBrown-ij1px 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Before there was Agatha Christie and ‘Hercule Poirot’ there was Arthur Conan Doyle and ‘Sherlock Holmes’. The world will always be grateful. 🙏

  • @dianascrimger284
    @dianascrimger284 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How could anybody forget your birthday! Happy birthday!

  • @ruthiecole8634
    @ruthiecole8634 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The narrator is pretty good 👍

  • @Kidraver555
    @Kidraver555 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Bringing a character back from death is the ultimate story element, just ask Jesus.

  • @ezb6798
    @ezb6798 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love “the plains of Ooo-Tah.” So much more exotic than You-Taw.

  • @366Gli
    @366Gli 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    No doubt Sherlock Holmes is the greatest. Some decades ago I went for a job interview in London, near baker street. I failed to find number 221 B. Not even a plate marking the historic place. I wonder if that disappointment made me decline that job offer. My very strong opinion is that if any Movies or TV shows are made, Sherlock and Dr. Watson must be played by actors that look very , very much like Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. If they don't I don't want to see the show..

  • @peterkirby1753
    @peterkirby1753 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'd never made the connection between "House" and "Holmes" 🤦🏻 😁

  • @miriammerritt3438
    @miriammerritt3438 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's got to be basil rationed......he is handsome, urbane, and so right for the part......

  • @kaydonahue
    @kaydonahue 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Edgar Allen Poe wrote The Purloined Letter, The Murder of Rue Morgue, and the Gold Bug.

    • @ioloindeseo
      @ioloindeseo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      don't forget Chesterton, among others - no one invents anything all on their own for the first time - they steal (borrow) it, yes, but invention all at once - what a fairy tale

  • @stevenembree7669
    @stevenembree7669 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well done.

  • @heidimiller642
    @heidimiller642 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It's just that my god parents are named Watson. My friend Melissa Browns' first husband was Moriarty. Our Seattle City Attorney in 2013 was named Holmes. This is way too many coincidences for my comfort.

  • @TexasTimeLord
    @TexasTimeLord 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Jeremy Brett was by far the best Holmes

    • @Bamboule05
      @Bamboule05 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think Robert Stepens was

  • @2msvalkyrie529
    @2msvalkyrie529 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    It's only fair to mention that he owed a debt to another
    19 th century genius - Edgar Allen Poe .? Poor disturbed
    Poe unfortunately fell by the wayside .

    • @susanmercurio1060
      @susanmercurio1060 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      In what way did Poe inspire a detective story? I read an awful lot of Poe.

    • @danielgregg2530
      @danielgregg2530 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, who was he, anyway?

    • @danielgregg2530
      @danielgregg2530 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@susanmercurio1060 "The Gold Bug", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", and "The Purloined Letter", to name but three.

  • @cynthiahawkins2389
    @cynthiahawkins2389 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If one reads Poe's MURDERS IN ThE RUE MORGUE, you meet a twosome: two men gadding about and becoming involved in a frightening and puzzling series of murders. And helping to solve them...One of the men has a keen eye, a deductive mind, and is a clear eccentric. Conan Doyle used some of these personality traits no doubt to fashion his own immortal Mr. Holmes...adding heavy touches of Dr. Bell....

  • @arturs2436
    @arturs2436 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Writer Anthony Horowitz by 17:44 states that Holmes"has no interest in music"...Thats wrong else why would there is visible at least on that Granada TV version of"The Red Headed League": that SH and Watson attend an live performance of the Spanish violin virtuoso Sarasate...During that segment Watson says"(...)When i saw him so enwrapped in the music(...)"...which is also proof that AH is also wrong when he by 17:48 states"he plays the stradivarius but he doesnt listen to music in any way"...wrong, he does.

  • @jonathangagne7109
    @jonathangagne7109 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautifully narrated, oh, a woman's voice!

  • @user-kd6gr8mu8b
    @user-kd6gr8mu8b 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Re Jeremy Brett - I very much agree he is the best of them.

  • @philthycat1408
    @philthycat1408 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My Great great Grandfather, who was fictional as well, stayed across the road from Mr Holmes, at number 224b.

  • @veralucianegreiros
    @veralucianegreiros 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Tradução p/ o português. Agradeço mais um vez.

  • @ezb6798
    @ezb6798 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It’s not true that Sherlock Holmes has no interest in listening to music. In the novels and stories, he frequently attends concerts and listens with absorption, even rapture.

  • @MakerBoyOldBoy
    @MakerBoyOldBoy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Arthur Conan Doyle is legenday. What is generally unknown is that his stories were published one chapter per week in popular pulp newspapers as the Police Gazette stateside. My great grandfather was fanatic about the Holmes stories and I imagine he secretly dreamed to be that character but he couldn't because he was a whte whiskered Oklahoma dirt farmer. He did name his son Conan Doyle. I received middle name of Doyle. As a young kid I hated such a whimpy name and to save face I lied to friends that I was named after Sherlock Holmes creator. Only as an adult I casually asked my mother how I received the name Doyle. She told me the story and it turned out I never was s liar after all. I never really liked his stories and still find them dort of boring.

  • @srothbardt
    @srothbardt 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    O , yes -House comes from Holmes. Cooool. It’s a riot that people (Americans?) thought Churchill was a character. Well, he wrote history.

  • @valerieminster1626
    @valerieminster1626 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Basil Rathbone was my favorite Holmes.

  • @Ramkumar-uj9fo
    @Ramkumar-uj9fo หลายเดือนก่อน

    Many people are not skeptical that Arthur Conan Doyle believed he saw a fairy, considering his strong advocacy for spiritualism and the Cottingley Fairies photographs.
    ---
    I couldn't believe this person can be fooled.

  • @frederickbowdler8169
    @frederickbowdler8169 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bell apparently read the patients notes at the bottom of the ved😊!

  • @markadams7597
    @markadams7597 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interesting vid, thanks for posting. Near realized till this flick that the spiritual-cook Doyle has a Chrisitan cross over his grave. (His descendants must've not followed his spiritualism.)

    • @ioloindeseo
      @ioloindeseo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      not all crosses are christian - get over it

  • @votemonty1815
    @votemonty1815 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'm in need of a consultant...a consultant detective.

  • @valmarsiglia
    @valmarsiglia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Nobody had done it before Doyle? Sorry, all modern detective stories begin with Poe. Auguste Dupin was the proto-Holmes (and proto-Poirot), down to the powers of deduction.

    • @watermelonlalala
      @watermelonlalala 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I believe there was a novelist who wrote a Holmes like detective story before Doyle. I saw a story about him in Sherlock Holmes group on Facebook. I think the book might have been called something like The Amazing Detective.

    • @valmarsiglia
      @valmarsiglia 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@watermelonlalala That's really interesting, thanks. I'm not finding anything so far, but I just started looking. Please post any more info if you find it!

    • @ioloindeseo
      @ioloindeseo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      yes, then, and when did the precursor to "modern" detective stories arise like a creation out of nothing? no one cared about solving a crime or mystery before, it just all went along as ... ?? lord, who left subtlety out on the porch

    • @valmarsiglia
      @valmarsiglia 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ioloindeseo Huh?

    • @watermelonlalala
      @watermelonlalala 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@valmarsiglia I can't find anything on it, either. I asked the Facebook group if they remember that post. Nothing, so far.

  • @ruheerizvi5293
    @ruheerizvi5293 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And he played the violin well

  • @zzydny
    @zzydny 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is entertaining to watch but it is quite annoying when one of the "experts" gets a important fact wrong ( 17:44 "Sherlock Holmes has no interest in music") and then tries to backtrack to cover his error. If you can't trust one of the experts, can you trust any of them?

  • @donnadees1971
    @donnadees1971 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Add my admiration for Jeremy Brett.

  • @tj7870
    @tj7870 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Basil and Nigel!