The moment where Holmes and Watson sit waiting in the abandoned house and discuss the significance of the bed is just wonderful. "It was clamped to the floor . . ." The dawning realisation of the horror that's being perpetrated in Burke's Watson and Holmes' palpable fear is just brilliantly conveyed. It gives me shivers.
The unbending of the poker is certainly one of my favourite Holmes moments. It is made all the more significant due to the fact that the antagonist is unaware of Holmes’s feat!
Boyhood me had a *huge* crush on Rosalyn Landor (Miss Stoner). She's a lovely woman, and her voice is just enchanting. This is one of the best episodes of the show, IMHO. The story is great, and Jeremy Brett is in top form.
Interesting fact about Arthur Conan Doyle: His "The Sign of the Four" and Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" were commissioned at the same dinner, with both authors sitting at the same table with the publisher proposing the deal. If you consider the stature of the figures involved, it is quite extraordinary to think about them meeting. According to Conan Doyle they got along quite nicely.
Gyles Brandreth recently wrote a series of books called 'The Oscar Wilde Mysteries' based on Wilde's friendship with Conan Doyle - highly recommended, yes...?!
Holmes and Watson are absolutely ADORABLE together, like, whether they are canon or not, they have such a healthy and understanding relationship. Like, whenever a case becomes too dangerous, he never wants to directly put Watson in harm’s way, and goes behind Watson and does the dangerous work himself and is always protecting him from anyone who tries to hurt Watson, it is truly beautiful and adorable
This is one of my favorite stories in the Conan Doyle canon and one of my favorite episodes of this series. The build up to the revelation is perfect and the idea of a snake in your bed is nightmare fuel. Kudos to Jeremy Kemp, whom I've mostly seen in sophisticated high-class roles, for playing the stepfather, a truly ruthless scoundrel.
I enjoyed watching you watching this for the first time. I read the original story when I was about ten years old, and think it is one of the best Holmes story. These are very good dramatizations. In the original story the sisters were twins. I suppose eliminating that saved money as they didn't have to hire a set of twins! I missed hearing about how Dr. Roylott beat a man to death in India but weasled out of a death penalty "because he did not know his own strength." Later his stepdaughter dismisses the bruises on her arm because "he does not know his own strength." The repetition reinforces our understanding of how much his social position protects him. Doyle used the plot device of a stepfather preventing a woman's marriage to keep control over her money several times.
This is my favourite David Burke as Watson episode. It's practically perfect in every way. It's interesting that the episode Mia watched before Halloween month was 'The Crooked Man,' and this is the first episode afterwards, because both include creepy, horror elements.
The actress playing Helen (she of the beautiful eyes) is Rosalyn Landor, daughter of an English father and an Irish mother. I saw her in many things in the 80s and 90s -- first as the young barrister Fiona Allways in the BBC series Rumpole of the Bailey (a hoot of a series, BTW), and later in a sexy (but also no-nonsense) role in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, where she used her mother's full Irish accent to great effect. She was great.
Oh, I just looked it up. It was on ITV in the 90s... Would not have had access to that. Sounds interesting, though! It has Sean Pertwee in it, as well as Derek Jacobi. I will have to look for it.
Another Sherlock reaction, yay! I was just thinking of you yesterday and wondering if you would pick up this series soon now that Halloween is over - and there you are already. Such a nice surprise, thank you!
Hittin' it out of the park again milady! Since the holidays are coming up, might I recommend "The Blue Carbuncle"? The only Sherlock Holmes Christmas story in the canon.
Enjoyed this reaction, of course! I remember I was a teen when I first read The Speckled Band, and I was so confused by what it was too. Was it a ring? A belt? A bird? I never guessed it was a snake! *Shudder*
Another fun, fantastic reaction, Mia! I really enjoyed this one! You cracked me up when you said “What a tool!” Tell us more about the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the various other iterations of Holmes & Watson in film & television over the decades, and tell us more about the actors in each episode!
I remember how this episode ends with outtakes over the end titles; sort of green 'night-vision' film of the snake and Holmes swatting at it; proper horror-movie stuff, and perhaps too much for the TV companies of the day, so they were left to the end.
You mentioning 7:24 how we're often prompted to think that there might be something from "beyond the veil" behind what's going on, only to get the logical explanation at the end, reminds me that Arthur Conan Doyle was one of the best-known supporters of Spiritualism (the belief that ghosts and other paranormal phenomena were real and that there were people who could communicate with them) of his time. He lectured and wrote about the subject, bringing him into conflict with his friend, the magician Harry Houdini, who was dedicated to showing that so-called spiritualists and mediums were frauds. Another aspect of Doyle's life (you did ask us 1:19 to bring forth our genius 😁) you might cover is his involvement in the Oscar Slater case, where he, in a very Holmesian way, investigated and cleared a man who had been convicted and imprisoned for murder.
Indeed, and he was also a firm believer that the Cottingley Fairies were real. Something even a modest student of photography would have spotted as paper cutouts in an instant. However he fell for one of the most insidious logical fallacies: the wish to believe. Better to be a dispassionate observer.
Mia if you think the 2005 Keira Knightley Pride and Prejudice one of your favourite films, you have to watch the 1995 BBC version with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle, it's a treat. I promise you will love it, probably more than the movie.
That BBC series from 1995 is TEN TIMES' BETTER than the film.....a must watch Everyone raves about the 2005 film, yet completely ignores the FAR SUPERIOR TV series starring Colin Firth (who absolutely IS Darcy) and Jennifer Ehle 😔😔😔.....
So much fun watching somebody that doesn't know the ending of a Sherlock Holmes story. I have read, listened to and watched so very many versions of Sherlock over a lifetime. I have a short list of books that I can dip into to time, and time again without ever being disappointed. Including Sherlock Holmes, Maigret and Discworld. Forgot to also mention Poirot and Miss Marple novels by Agathe Christie.
I have a 50-hour long collection of Sherlock Holmes stories on Audible, narrated by Stephen Frye and as many of the Discworld books as are available. I don't remember reading any Maigret stories....
@@sallyatticum There were 2 classic Maigret TV series Rupert Davies (1960 - 1963) and Michael Gambon (1992 - 1993). The recent Rowan Atkinson series characterisation was nothing like the original. Georges Simenon wrote 75 Maigret books, many of which were adapted by BBC Radio. The Gareth Armstrong read versions on Audible/TH-cam are pretty good.
@@sallyatticum Check out the OXFAM online shop for the 12 episode DVD set. I don't think they are available to stream online free. The "Network Distributing" TH-cam channel have details of both series. They have control of a lot of classic TV series and movies.
One of the best Holmes stories I think. Keeps you guessing right up till the end! I've experienced multiple dramatized versions of this story: This 📺 version, the 1950's radio play, and several dramatic readings/book on tape versions by greats like Ben Kingsley, and Sherlock Holmes super-fan and actor Stephen Fry. (Stephen actually read the entire collected works of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes for audiobook.)
Hi Mia, the commercial tv station I.T.V. was in competition with the B.B.C. for sitcoms, children`s programs & costumed dramas, particularly between the `70`s & `80`s. The I.T.V. was made up of regional tv stations such as (Granada TV), who produced programs for themselves & the whole network. The whole tv audience was divided between the 3 channels incl. BBC 2 until Channel 4 came on the scene in the early `80`s. The BBC were renowned for their historical dramas, amongst which was the 1974 (Fall of Eagles), 13-part Mini-Series. It catalogued the events & intrigue of the three monarchies of Austro-Hungary, Germany & Russia between 1848 - 1918 which led to their downfall. The actress Gayle Hunnicutt who played Miss Adler in A Scandal in Bohemia, portrays the Czarina Alexandra in Fall of Eagles.
(Hopefully) fun fact: in 1927, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was asked by the Strand Magazine to draw up a list of his own twelve favourite Sherlock Holmes short stories out of the forty or so that had been published in book form by that point, and Speckled Band deservedly earned the top spot - after all, as Conan Doyle himself put it '...the grim snake story, “The Speckled Band....I am sure, will be on every list...' (For the record, the complete list was as follows: 1. The Speckled Band 2. The Red-Headed League 3. The Dancing Men 4. The Final Problem 5. A Scandal in Bohemia 6. The Empty House 7. The Five Orange Pips 8. The Second Stain 9. The Devil’s Foot 10. The Priory School 11. The Musgrave Ritual 12. The Reigate Squires...).
Watson has a pension from being in the army (I'm not sure whether his injury plays into that at all), which wasn't high enough for him to keep staying in a hotel (what would be?), so he ended up taking rooms with Holmes. He should be doing all right on that with the split rent.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself named "The Speckled Band" as his own favorite Sherlock story. In 1927, he listed his own favorite stories as: 1. The Speckled Band 2. The Red-Headed League 3. The Dancing Men 4. The Final Problem 5. A Scandal in Bohemia 6. The Empty House 7. The Five Orange Pips 8. The Second Stain 9. The Devil’s Foot 10. The Priory School 11. The Musgrave Ritual 12. The Reigate Squires As a huge SH fan myself for many years, I find it easier to list the stories I don't like rather than a "best of". There are just too many great ones.
Mia: You should read A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novelettes in the Holmes series. It describes how Watson met Holmes and gives greater insight into the depth of their characters. You will love it! Read an Unabridged version for full effect.
How do they fund their adventures? At some point, Holmes and Watson are rewarded 'handsomely' for a case, in which the safety of the nation was involved (perhaps 'A Scandal in Bohemia), and they did not lack for security from then on. Before that, Watson has a half-pay pension and a small medical practice with few patients. He later rooms with Holmes and the two also benefit from the slightly altered stories he writes.
I'm a newbie catching up. I appreciate your insight into the different movies/series that are shown. With Sherlock Holmes, one of my favorite British series, careful attention must be utilized. For half of the show you weren't sure as to who the culprit might be, yet @5:50 you should have heard Ms. Stoner say that her step-father's control of her deceased mother's money was contingent on the girls still residing at the house. That statement provided all of the motive needed to know that something was afoot.
When you have the time can I suggest Agatha Cristies Porot at some point. Great style and acting perfection in every episode, and there are alot of them.
After the subtlety of Norman Jones' lovely performance as The Crooked Man in the previous episode I find Jeremy Kemp pretty hammy. There's no doubt he's the baddie right from the beginning but that's ok in this one as it's much more of a 'how done it' rather than a 'who done it'. Also the premise is a bit of a stretch - if only the older Stoner sister had just said "argh, a snake!" instead the mystery would've been over a lot sooner..
Snakes are deaf and don't drink milk so in real life this would never happen. Still a fun cool mystery though... I recognized Jeremy Kemp and Rosalyn Landor from Star Trek TNG. Jeremy Kemp played Captain Picard's brother and in a different episode, Rosalyn Landor played Breanna O'Dell... This episode makes my eyes so happy seeing the handsome Jeremy Brett and the beautiful Rosalyn Landor in the same episode, just makes my eyes so happy.
To everyone who watches this episode of the Sherlock Holmes series in full, make sure you WATCH TO THE VERY END INCLUDING THE CLOSING CREDITS - they're an integral part of the whole thing.....
By the way, Mia, are you familiar with Conan Doyle's most famous non-Holmesian work, namely 1912's 'The Lost World', at all...? (If not, then the BBC did an excellent adaptation of it a few years back starring Bob Hoskins that might well be worth your reacting to some day...).
Dr Grimsby is portrayed by British actor Jeremy Kemp. He had a long career in both film and television. He had a significant role in another Sherlock Holmes movie The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976). The screenplay was adapted by Nickolas Meyer from his novel of the same name. It stars Nichol Williamson as Holmes, Robert Duvall as Dr Watson and Alan Arkin as Dr Sigmund Freud. The insertion of a real person into the story is kind of a gimmick and the plot feels borrowed from other Conan Doyle stories. But the acting is very good by all and it's quite a nice romp.
The Seven Percent Solution was the name taken by a very obscure rock band several years ago. The released their cd themselves in a very limited edition.
How many of the Holmes stories are about women being defrauded or murdered for their inheritances. Quite a few. The law had been changed to women's disadvantage is such matters, and he felt it unjust, and so he wrote and spoke about the many examples of abuse that resulted. The law was slow to change, nevertheless.
Sherlock actually had cases before Watson came into his life. He actually made notes about them. One of the early cases Holmes mentioned was "The Aluminium Crutch." He kept his early cases secret from anybody, including Watson, because so many of them were unsolved. We all know Holmes is a bit arrogant & didn't wanna be seen as weak. Unsolved cases made him look weak.
The Musgrave Ritual was a pre-Watson case, and so were a few others. The rest are still, along with Watson's notes on cases in which he was involved, in that famous dispatch box.
Can you do a reaction history of Hello Dolly with Barbra Streisand and there are facts from the movie. By the way the actress Marianne McAndrew who played Irene Molloy was dubbed by Gilda Maiken.
This episode always makes me feel uncomfortable. I suppose it's because of the other sister Holmes had no way of saving. Do you suppose that ruminates in his mind?
I'm so sorry you seem not to have watched the VERY END CREDITS, which in this episode show in a flashback the whole interaction between Holmes and the snake - everything which you DON'T see when it is actually happening.... It does it in SUCH an atmospheric, sinister and poignant way, with the music and everything, that if you don't watch it at the very end of the episode you REALLY miss out 😔😔😔😔😔
Basil Rathbone was the quintessential Holmes because he took direction well and had good scripts in a long motion picture format. Jeremy Brent is an angrier Holmes more suitable to the stage than television. The production is also constrained by budget and format; mostly television timing. As for Benedict Cumber-bun, that’s a wacked-out redo comparable to a Bad Robot production.
Basil Rathbone was a great Holmes, but IMO most of the scripts of his movies were not very good. The first few of the Cumberbatch Sherlocks were amusing, but they went downhill rapidly.
The moment where Holmes and Watson sit waiting in the abandoned house and discuss the significance of the bed is just wonderful.
"It was clamped to the floor . . ."
The dawning realisation of the horror that's being perpetrated in Burke's Watson and Holmes' palpable fear is just brilliantly conveyed.
It gives me shivers.
The unbending of the poker is certainly one of my favourite Holmes moments. It is made all the more significant due to the fact that the antagonist is unaware of Holmes’s feat!
Boyhood me had a *huge* crush on Rosalyn Landor (Miss Stoner). She's a lovely woman, and her voice is just enchanting. This is one of the best episodes of the show, IMHO. The story is great, and Jeremy Brett is in top form.
Interesting fact about Arthur Conan Doyle: His "The Sign of the Four" and Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" were commissioned at the same dinner, with both authors sitting at the same table with the publisher proposing the deal.
If you consider the stature of the figures involved, it is quite extraordinary to think about them meeting.
According to Conan Doyle they got along quite nicely.
Gyles Brandreth recently wrote a series of books called 'The Oscar Wilde Mysteries' based on Wilde's friendship with Conan Doyle - highly recommended, yes...?!
One of the Sholtos seems to be inspired by Wilde.
And we can watch Jeremy Brett in films based on both stories. Amazing.
Holmes and Watson are absolutely ADORABLE together, like, whether they are canon or not, they have such a healthy and understanding relationship. Like, whenever a case becomes too dangerous, he never wants to directly put Watson in harm’s way, and goes behind Watson and does the dangerous work himself and is always protecting him from anyone who tries to hurt Watson, it is truly beautiful and adorable
This is one of my favorite stories in the Conan Doyle canon and one of my favorite episodes of this series. The build up to the revelation is perfect and the idea of a snake in your bed is nightmare fuel. Kudos to Jeremy Kemp, whom I've mostly seen in sophisticated high-class roles, for playing the stepfather, a truly ruthless scoundrel.
I enjoyed watching you watching this for the first time. I read the original story when I was about ten years old, and think it is one of the best Holmes story. These are very good dramatizations. In the original story the sisters were twins. I suppose eliminating that saved money as they didn't have to hire a set of twins! I missed hearing about how Dr. Roylott beat a man to death in India but weasled out of a death penalty "because he did not know his own strength." Later his stepdaughter dismisses the bruises on her arm because "he does not know his own strength." The repetition reinforces our understanding of how much his social position protects him. Doyle used the plot device of a stepfather preventing a woman's marriage to keep control over her money several times.
This is my favourite David Burke as Watson episode. It's practically perfect in every way.
It's interesting that the episode Mia watched before Halloween month was 'The Crooked Man,' and this is the first episode afterwards, because both include creepy, horror elements.
Please, David Burke is one of my celebrity crushes 😩
Holmes being afraid of the situation adds to the drama as he has a fair idea of what is going on.
The actress playing Helen (she of the beautiful eyes) is Rosalyn Landor, daughter of an English father and an Irish mother. I saw her in many things in the 80s and 90s -- first as the young barrister Fiona Allways in the BBC series Rumpole of the Bailey (a hoot of a series, BTW), and later in a sexy (but also no-nonsense) role in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, where she used her mother's full Irish accent to great effect. She was great.
The scene where Sherlock and Watson sat facing each on the train, is an exact reproduction of a illustration from the Strand Magazine.
Oh, how fun! I just listened to this story on Audible, narrated by the fabulous Derek Jacobi, doing all the voices!
@Jamie Pritchard I don't believe so. It doesn't sound familiar.
Oh, I just looked it up. It was on ITV in the 90s... Would not have had access to that. Sounds interesting, though! It has Sean Pertwee in it, as well as Derek Jacobi. I will have to look for it.
Another Sherlock reaction, yay! I was just thinking of you yesterday and wondering if you would pick up this series soon now that Halloween is over - and there you are already. Such a nice surprise, thank you!
Hittin' it out of the park again milady!
Since the holidays are coming up, might I recommend "The Blue Carbuncle"? The only Sherlock Holmes Christmas story in the canon.
And one of my favorite episode.
She appears to be doing them in the broadcast order, and happily that one is the next one in line.
Enjoyed this reaction, of course! I remember I was a teen when I first read The Speckled Band, and I was so confused by what it was too. Was it a ring? A belt? A bird? I never guessed it was a snake! *Shudder*
Another fun, fantastic reaction, Mia! I really enjoyed this one! You cracked me up when you said “What a tool!”
Tell us more about the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the various other iterations of Holmes & Watson in film & television over the decades, and tell us more about the actors in each episode!
I remember how this episode ends with outtakes over the end titles; sort of green 'night-vision' film of the snake and Holmes swatting at it; proper horror-movie stuff, and perhaps too much for the TV companies of the day, so they were left to the end.
You mentioning 7:24 how we're often prompted to think that there might be something from "beyond the veil" behind what's going on, only to get the logical explanation at the end, reminds me that Arthur Conan Doyle was one of the best-known supporters of Spiritualism (the belief that ghosts and other paranormal phenomena were real and that there were people who could communicate with them) of his time. He lectured and wrote about the subject, bringing him into conflict with his friend, the magician Harry Houdini, who was dedicated to showing that so-called spiritualists and mediums were frauds.
Another aspect of Doyle's life (you did ask us 1:19 to bring forth our genius 😁) you might cover is his involvement in the Oscar Slater case, where he, in a very Holmesian way, investigated and cleared a man who had been convicted and imprisoned for murder.
Indeed, and he was also a firm believer that the Cottingley Fairies were real. Something even a modest student of photography would have spotted as paper cutouts in an instant. However he fell for one of the most insidious logical fallacies: the wish to believe. Better to be a dispassionate observer.
This was Doyle's favorite Sherlock Holmes story and the only one which he himself adapted into a full length stage play.
Mia if you think the 2005 Keira Knightley Pride and Prejudice one of your favourite films, you have to watch the 1995 BBC version with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle, it's a treat. I promise you will love it, probably more than the movie.
Yes, the Firth/Ehle version of P&P is my favorite!
I agree- it's wonderful!
Definitely my favorite as well.
That BBC series from 1995 is TEN TIMES' BETTER than the film.....a must watch
Everyone raves about the 2005 film, yet completely ignores the FAR SUPERIOR TV series starring Colin Firth (who absolutely IS Darcy) and Jennifer Ehle 😔😔😔.....
So much fun watching somebody that doesn't know the ending of a Sherlock Holmes story. I have read, listened to and watched so very many versions of Sherlock over a lifetime. I have a short list of books that I can dip into to time, and time again without ever being disappointed. Including Sherlock Holmes, Maigret and Discworld. Forgot to also mention Poirot and Miss Marple novels by Agathe Christie.
I have a 50-hour long collection of Sherlock Holmes stories on Audible, narrated by Stephen Frye and as many of the Discworld books as are available. I don't remember reading any Maigret stories....
@@sallyatticum There were 2 classic Maigret TV series Rupert Davies (1960 - 1963) and Michael Gambon (1992 - 1993). The recent Rowan Atkinson series characterisation was nothing like the original. Georges Simenon wrote 75 Maigret books, many of which were adapted by BBC Radio. The Gareth Armstrong read versions on Audible/TH-cam are pretty good.
@@corringhamdepot4434 Thanks! I will have to check them out on Audible! And I like Michael Gambon very much. I will see if any of them are on BritBox.
@@sallyatticum Check out the OXFAM online shop for the 12 episode DVD set. I don't think they are available to stream online free. The "Network Distributing" TH-cam channel have details of both series. They have control of a lot of classic TV series and movies.
As soon as I heard Rosalyn Landor speak, I thought, 'oh God, we really need to hear Mia's impersonation of those fruity tones.'
One of the best Holmes stories I think. Keeps you guessing right up till the end! I've experienced multiple dramatized versions of this story: This 📺 version, the 1950's radio play, and several dramatic readings/book on tape versions by greats like Ben Kingsley, and Sherlock Holmes super-fan and actor Stephen Fry. (Stephen actually read the entire collected works of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes for audiobook.)
I absolutely love granada holmes, please keep reacting to these i love hearing your opinions!
Hi Mia, the commercial tv station I.T.V. was in competition with the B.B.C. for sitcoms, children`s programs & costumed dramas, particularly between the `70`s & `80`s. The I.T.V. was made up of regional tv stations such as (Granada TV), who produced programs for themselves & the whole network. The whole tv audience was divided between the 3 channels incl. BBC 2 until Channel 4 came on the scene in the early `80`s.
The BBC were renowned for their historical dramas, amongst which was the 1974 (Fall of Eagles), 13-part Mini-Series. It catalogued the events & intrigue of the three monarchies of Austro-Hungary, Germany & Russia between 1848 - 1918 which led to their downfall. The actress Gayle Hunnicutt who played Miss Adler in A Scandal in Bohemia, portrays the Czarina Alexandra in Fall of Eagles.
The sister was describing the colour patterns on the Swamp adder that bit her when she said "speckled band"
(Hopefully) fun fact: in 1927, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was asked by the Strand Magazine to draw up a list of his own twelve favourite Sherlock Holmes short stories out of the forty or so that had been published in book form by that point, and Speckled Band deservedly earned the top spot - after all, as Conan Doyle himself put it '...the grim snake story, “The Speckled Band....I am sure, will be on every list...'
(For the record, the complete list was as follows:
1. The Speckled Band
2. The Red-Headed League
3. The Dancing Men
4. The Final Problem
5. A Scandal in Bohemia
6. The Empty House
7. The Five Orange Pips
8. The Second Stain
9. The Devil’s Foot
10. The Priory School
11. The Musgrave Ritual
12. The Reigate Squires...).
Watson has a pension from being in the army (I'm not sure whether his injury plays into that at all), which wasn't high enough for him to keep staying in a hotel (what would be?), so he ended up taking rooms with Holmes. He should be doing all right on that with the split rent.
Just watched this yesterday for the first time and loved it! Can’t wait to see your reaction ☺️
oooooh I love when you do episodes of Sherlock Holmes!
You need to react to the movie length "Hound of the Baskervilles" done by this production group
"Home Slice"? Was that a pun? I think that was a pun. Dad Joke Achievement unlocked.
One of my favorite Sherlock Holmes episodes ❤ the only problem with it is the fact that snakes 🐍 haven't the sense of hearing.
This was the first Holmes story I ever read and it got me hooked!
" I play the game for the game's own sake". Sherlock says to his brother, Mycroft, in The Bruce-Partington Plans.
I read this story when I was quite young - scared me a lot imagining how many nights she lay there with a snake in the bed, until....
Finally! Holmes & Watson return!
Hi Mia, Merry Xmas to you & your family. Compliments of the Season to your other subscribers & commentators !!
Same to you! Happy Holidays 😁
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself named "The Speckled Band" as his own favorite Sherlock story. In 1927, he listed his own favorite stories as:
1. The Speckled Band
2. The Red-Headed League
3. The Dancing Men
4. The Final Problem
5. A Scandal in Bohemia
6. The Empty House
7. The Five Orange Pips
8. The Second Stain
9. The Devil’s Foot
10. The Priory School
11. The Musgrave Ritual
12. The Reigate Squires
As a huge SH fan myself for many years, I find it easier to list the stories I don't like rather than a "best of". There are just too many great ones.
I’m surprised that The Final Problem was his 4th favorite! I’d‘ve thought it’d’ve been the 1st 😂😂
Mia: You should read A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novelettes in the Holmes series.
It describes how Watson met Holmes and gives greater insight into the depth of their characters. You will love it! Read an Unabridged version for full effect.
Magnifying glasses--for monocles, you must have been thinking of Lord Peter Wimsey. :)
9:27 Sherlock is a very wealthy gent because he lives frugally, has no spouse, no children and helps powerful people with discernment.
He also definitely seems to come from generational wealth, although his older brother Mycroft seems to have control of the family money.
How do they fund their adventures?
At some point, Holmes and Watson are rewarded 'handsomely' for a case, in which the safety of the nation was involved (perhaps 'A Scandal in Bohemia), and they did not lack for security from then on.
Before that, Watson has a half-pay pension and a small medical practice with few patients. He later rooms with Holmes and the two also benefit from the slightly altered stories he writes.
I'm a newbie catching up. I appreciate your insight into the different movies/series that are shown. With Sherlock Holmes, one of my favorite British series, careful attention must be utilized. For half of the show you weren't sure as to who the culprit might be, yet @5:50 you should have heard Ms. Stoner say that her step-father's control of her deceased mother's money was contingent on the girls still residing at the house. That statement provided all of the motive needed to know that something was afoot.
When you have the time can I suggest Agatha Cristies Porot at some point. Great style and acting perfection in every episode, and there are alot of them.
Ah one of my favourite episodes 🥰
After the subtlety of Norman Jones' lovely performance as The Crooked Man in the previous episode I find Jeremy Kemp pretty hammy. There's no doubt he's the baddie right from the beginning but that's ok in this one as it's much more of a 'how done it' rather than a 'who done it'. Also the premise is a bit of a stretch - if only the older Stoner sister had just said "argh, a snake!" instead the mystery would've been over a lot sooner..
Snakes are deaf and don't drink milk so in real life this would never happen. Still a fun cool mystery though... I recognized Jeremy Kemp and Rosalyn Landor from Star Trek TNG. Jeremy Kemp played Captain Picard's brother and in a different episode, Rosalyn Landor played Breanna O'Dell... This episode makes my eyes so happy seeing the handsome Jeremy Brett and the beautiful Rosalyn Landor in the same episode, just makes my eyes so happy.
My favorite episode!
Just came across this series this evening. You'll like the Sherlock Mondays podcast through the Rosenbach Museum. :)
first sherlock ever saw ....failed to solve it but was impressed and enjoyed it
To everyone who watches this episode of the Sherlock Holmes series in full, make sure you WATCH TO THE VERY END INCLUDING THE CLOSING CREDITS - they're an integral part of the whole thing.....
Jeremy Brent ,played Freddie Hill, in MY FAIR LADY,
1:19 How about deductive vs. inductive reasoning. Holmes uses deductive reasoning, though it's a hard thing to pull off on screen.
Loved your reaction! When's the next episode?
Next episode (The Blue Carbuncle) will be out soon!
Thanks!
By the way, Mia, are you familiar with Conan Doyle's most famous non-Holmesian work, namely 1912's 'The Lost World', at all...? (If not, then the BBC did an excellent adaptation of it a few years back starring Bob Hoskins that might well be worth your reacting to some day...).
More Sherlock! More!
Ask and you shall receive!!
Dr Grimsby is portrayed by British actor Jeremy Kemp. He had a long career in both film and television. He had a significant role in another Sherlock Holmes movie The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976). The screenplay was adapted by Nickolas Meyer from his novel of the same name. It stars Nichol Williamson as Holmes, Robert Duvall as Dr Watson and Alan Arkin as Dr Sigmund Freud. The insertion of a real person into the story is kind of a gimmick and the plot feels borrowed from other Conan Doyle stories. But the acting is very good by all and it's quite a nice romp.
The Seven Percent Solution was the name taken by a very obscure rock band several years ago. The released their cd themselves in a very limited edition.
I think its so funny how they say that the snake lured with a whistle 😂
Ofc in real life snakes are almost deaf and not very smart.
3:35 I like mirrors, but only in passing.
In the book 📖 the cat 🐈 is a cheetah in this its a leopard 🐆 . The band is not a ghost 👻 .
I recommend my favorite from this series: The Sign of Four! Great characters, storyline!
How many of the Holmes stories are about women being defrauded or murdered for their inheritances. Quite a few.
The law had been changed to women's disadvantage is such matters, and he felt it unjust, and so he wrote and spoke about the many examples of abuse that resulted.
The law was slow to change, nevertheless.
12:40 I like grey. My dad had blue eyes, but I got my mom's boring brown eyes.
8:14 This episode gets better for me at this point.
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Have to ask Mia, the "F" on your sweater stands for ????
I don’t think it has a meaning 😅 it’s a generic college type sweater
@@MoviesWithMia I thought maybe you went to Fordham so I could say "Go Rams"!!😆
Sherlock actually had cases before Watson came into his life. He actually made notes about them. One of the early cases Holmes mentioned was "The Aluminium Crutch." He kept his early cases secret from anybody, including Watson, because so many of them were unsolved. We all know Holmes is a bit arrogant & didn't wanna be seen as weak. Unsolved cases made him look weak.
The Musgrave Ritual was a pre-Watson case, and so were a few others. The rest are still, along with Watson's notes on cases in which he was involved, in that famous dispatch box.
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Turns out in those days they could detect poisons like the ones that can be slipped into a drink but they couldn't detect snake venom.
Very much appreciate your spoiler disclaimer!
That is a great alluring hair style.
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Sherlock is much stronger than he looks.
Can you do a reaction history of Hello Dolly with Barbra Streisand and there are facts from the movie. By the way the actress Marianne McAndrew who played Irene Molloy was dubbed by Gilda Maiken.
By the way is the Comedy musical
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This episode always makes me feel uncomfortable. I suppose it's because of the other sister Holmes had no way of saving. Do you suppose that ruminates in his mind?
I'm so sorry you seem not to have watched the VERY END CREDITS, which in this episode show in a flashback the whole interaction between Holmes and the snake - everything which you DON'T see when it is actually happening....
It does it in SUCH an atmospheric, sinister and poignant way, with the music and everything, that if you don't watch it at the very end of the episode you REALLY miss out 😔😔😔😔😔
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Basil Rathbone was the quintessential Holmes because he took direction well and had good scripts in a long motion picture format. Jeremy Brent is an angrier Holmes more suitable to the stage than television. The production is also constrained by budget and format; mostly television timing. As for Benedict Cumber-bun, that’s a wacked-out redo comparable to a Bad Robot production.
Basil Rathbone is my favorite....
Basil Rathbone was a great Holmes, but IMO most of the scripts of his movies were not very good. The first few of the Cumberbatch Sherlocks were amusing, but they went downhill rapidly.
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I hope you review 'The Artist' soon! It's worth it.
That was a great movie!
@@MoviesWithMia I think everyone would be happy to get your input on that film!