Two episodes from a South African series from the early 80s entitled The Stories of Sherlock Holmes. If anyone has any more, please don't be shy about posting them!
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Very interesting historical insight. I have finished the episodes posted and am on to Langford and Baker. So much great Sherlockiana here.
Thanks again.
Still curious if there is a log for this series. Otherwise I will start listening to them at random.
Thanks for posting this great stuff.
Estleman > Steve KosteleckyMarch 3, 2010 at 1:45am
Steve
I came across this on the web (but I don't think it would really matter if you listened to them at random:
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes - His Last Bow.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes - A Problem at Oxford.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes - The Crouch End Mystery.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 80-11-09 The Waldhausen Experiment.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 82-05-12 The Field Bazaar.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 82-11-28 The Beaumont Affair.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 82-12-12 The Porter Mews Mystery.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 82-12-19 A Matter of Conscience.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-01-02 The Snow of Brendan Woods.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-01-09 The Model Wife.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-01-16 The Basilton Estate.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-01-23 The Neen River Mystery.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-01-30 The Gray Goose.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-02-06 The Auction of An Oxford Crown.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-02-13 A Matter of Deduction.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-02-20 The Missing Inventor.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-02-27 Tragedy at Nettlebed.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-03-06 The Young Visitor.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-03-13 The Eldest Son.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-09-18 The Shrunken Head.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-10-09 The Unpaid Debt.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-10-16 Fog Over London.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-10-30 The Return of Irene Adler.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-11-06 The Pushkin Papers.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-11-13 The Runaway Runner.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-11-20 The Lulworth Cove Mystery.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-12-04 The Curious Case of Ira Pasha.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 84-06-17 The Greater Price.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-01-13 A Friend in Need.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-01-20 Lizard Point.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-01-27 The Italian Intrigue.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-02-10 The Raynor Road Case.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-02-17 The Bloemhof Diamond.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-03-03 The Spanish Doctor.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-03-10 An Item of Cartography.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-03-17 The Man Who Loved Beetles.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-03-24 A Hollow Victory.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-03-31 Rubber Faced Man.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-04-07 David Rensburg's Will.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-04-14 The Vanishing Quaker.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-04-21 Lack of Evidence.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-04-28 The Sarussi Pearls.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-05-05 The Man who came in from the Fog.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-06-23 The Final Problem.mp3
Thanks so much for the log. I looked everywhere I could think of and was unsuccessful. I guess it is the collector in me that wants to label and listen chronologically.
Thanks again.
I'd often wondered about the actors in these shows and was only recently able to discover something about them both.
Graham Armitage (Holmes)
Date of Birth: 1935, Manchester, England, UK
"Graham started his career in Britain, appearing in repertory in a string of West End successes, several of Ken Russells' films and on television," adds Rob. "He came to South Africa in 1973 to play in the Noel Coward revue Cowardy Custard and stayed on - soon becoming a well-known figure on local television (Westgate, Shaka Zulu and Trucking).
"He was always enormous fun to be with, he had an inexhaustible supply of hilarious stories about the theatre which he delivered in that clipped, totally distinctive voice with impeccable timing," Rob reminisces. "Actors enjoyed working with him and he coaxed fine performances from them. In later years, he concentrated less on the stage and more on film and television appea-rances where one always enjoyed spot-ting him in cameo roles, in which he was always excellent."
Well-known stage, radio and screen actor Graham Armitage passed away in Johannesburg on the 6th of March 1999.
"His death has broken another link with the days of Napac drama," says former Napac chief director Robert Cross.
Graham Armitage, who directed seven highly successful productions for Napac in the late 70s and 80s, first came to KZN to direct Ayckbourne's How the Other Half Loves and Wilde's Impor-tance of Being Earnest. On later visits he directed The Circle, Don't Drink the Water, When We are Married and Pygmalion - all well received by critics and audiences.
Kerry Jordan (Watson)
Kerry Jordan was a popular stage, television and radio actor in South Africa. Like a good number of his colleagues acting in South African radio in the early Seventies, Kerry was British and had made his mark there on stage and in film and television before relocating.
Early roles in Britain included The Flying Scot, a 1957 train robbery film and in the television series, Private Investigator (BBC, 1959), in a two-part story entitled The Flight Captain. Between 1960-61, Kerry played a regular role as Mr. Macintosh in Glencannon, a comedy series concerning the exploits of a chief engineer working on a tramp steamer. This series was a British/American co-production transmitted in Britain on ITV.
Kerry Jordan appears to have moved to South Africa in 1964, his last British credit being the BBC Francis Durbridge thriller Melissa, a six-part serial broadcast in April and May of that year. That same year, in South Africa, Kerry won a role in the high profile Michael Caine star vehicle, Zulu, playing the Company Cook. The film also featured Avengers adaptor-director, Dennis Folbigge.
Further film roles followed in South Africa, with Kerry playing Colonel Anstruther in Majuba (1968) and participating in Mr. Kingstreet's War (1971), The Winners (1974, with Tony Jay and Clive Scott) and Heroes Die Hard, a hard-hitting drama from 1978. His last listed film appearance was in Safari 3000 (1982), where he appeared with Avengers alumni Hugh Rouse and Anthony Fridjhon.
In addition to his film work, Kerry Jordan also enjoyed success on television, radio and the stage in South Africa. In the 1980s, his television roles included the successful mini-series, Shaka Zulu (1986), in which he portrayed the Reverend Bellow, and Just Nuisance RN, an SABC series from 1989, where he appeared as a Royal Navy Admiral. His final television credit before his death was in Where Angels Tread, a 1994 tele-movie about the early days of aviation, appearing alongside Diane Appleby, Gillian Garlick and, again, Clive Scott.
Kerry's radio work in South Africa was extensive. He was often heard on Lux Radio Theatre, Tuesday Theatre and even featured in the occasional episode of the popular thriller series, No Place to Hide. His best remembered radio work is undoubtedly his part in The Stories of Sherlock Holmes (1979-1985, Springbok Radio), in which he took the role of Dr. Watson, alongside Graham Armitage's Holmes. On the English Service, he was heard in many editions of Radio Theatre and his last performance on the English Service was in 1989 in the play, The Stinger.
Ron Larocque > Gyongi FeketeNovember 16, 2009 at 4:19pm
Thanks so much G.F. for the interesting bios on these two actors. I've just discovered these shows,being a huge Holmes fan and they are really well done. - Ron L. Ottawa,Canada.
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I believe this title is a mondegreen.
The actual title is "Tragedy at Torridge Lodge:"
Thanks again for all your wonderful contributions.
Bob
A History of The Stories of Sherlock Holmes.mp3
Thanks again.
Thanks for posting this great stuff.
I came across this on the web (but I don't think it would really matter if you listened to them at random:
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes - His Last Bow.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes - A Problem at Oxford.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes - The Crouch End Mystery.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 80-11-09 The Waldhausen Experiment.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 82-05-12 The Field Bazaar.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 82-11-28 The Beaumont Affair.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 82-12-12 The Porter Mews Mystery.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 82-12-19 A Matter of Conscience.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-01-02 The Snow of Brendan Woods.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-01-09 The Model Wife.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-01-16 The Basilton Estate.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-01-23 The Neen River Mystery.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-01-30 The Gray Goose.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-02-06 The Auction of An Oxford Crown.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-02-13 A Matter of Deduction.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-02-20 The Missing Inventor.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-02-27 Tragedy at Nettlebed.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-03-06 The Young Visitor.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-03-13 The Eldest Son.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-09-18 The Shrunken Head.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-10-09 The Unpaid Debt.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-10-16 Fog Over London.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-10-30 The Return of Irene Adler.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-11-06 The Pushkin Papers.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-11-13 The Runaway Runner.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-11-20 The Lulworth Cove Mystery.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 83-12-04 The Curious Case of Ira Pasha.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 84-06-17 The Greater Price.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-01-13 A Friend in Need.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-01-20 Lizard Point.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-01-27 The Italian Intrigue.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-02-10 The Raynor Road Case.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-02-17 The Bloemhof Diamond.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-03-03 The Spanish Doctor.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-03-10 An Item of Cartography.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-03-17 The Man Who Loved Beetles.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-03-24 A Hollow Victory.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-03-31 Rubber Faced Man.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-04-07 David Rensburg's Will.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-04-14 The Vanishing Quaker.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-04-21 Lack of Evidence.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-04-28 The Sarussi Pearls.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-05-05 The Man who came in from the Fog.mp3
The Stories of Sherlock Holmes 85-06-23 The Final Problem.mp3
Thanks again.
Graham Armitage (Holmes)
Date of Birth: 1935, Manchester, England, UK
"Graham started his career in Britain, appearing in repertory in a string of West End successes, several of Ken Russells' films and on television," adds Rob. "He came to South Africa in 1973 to play in the Noel Coward revue Cowardy Custard and stayed on - soon becoming a well-known figure on local television (Westgate, Shaka Zulu and Trucking).
"He was always enormous fun to be with, he had an inexhaustible supply of hilarious stories about the theatre which he delivered in that clipped, totally distinctive voice with impeccable timing," Rob reminisces. "Actors enjoyed working with him and he coaxed fine performances from them. In later years, he concentrated less on the stage and more on film and television appea-rances where one always enjoyed spot-ting him in cameo roles, in which he was always excellent."
Well-known stage, radio and screen actor Graham Armitage passed away in Johannesburg on the 6th of March 1999.
"His death has broken another link with the days of Napac drama," says former Napac chief director Robert Cross.
Graham Armitage, who directed seven highly successful productions for Napac in the late 70s and 80s, first came to KZN to direct Ayckbourne's How the Other Half Loves and Wilde's Impor-tance of Being Earnest. On later visits he directed The Circle, Don't Drink the Water, When We are Married and Pygmalion - all well received by critics and audiences.
Kerry Jordan (Watson)
Kerry Jordan was a popular stage, television and radio actor in South Africa. Like a good number of his colleagues acting in South African radio in the early Seventies, Kerry was British and had made his mark there on stage and in film and television before relocating.
Early roles in Britain included The Flying Scot, a 1957 train robbery film and in the television series, Private Investigator (BBC, 1959), in a two-part story entitled The Flight Captain. Between 1960-61, Kerry played a regular role as Mr. Macintosh in Glencannon, a comedy series concerning the exploits of a chief engineer working on a tramp steamer. This series was a British/American co-production transmitted in Britain on ITV.
Kerry Jordan appears to have moved to South Africa in 1964, his last British credit being the BBC Francis Durbridge thriller Melissa, a six-part serial broadcast in April and May of that year. That same year, in South Africa, Kerry won a role in the high profile Michael Caine star vehicle, Zulu, playing the Company Cook. The film also featured Avengers adaptor-director, Dennis Folbigge.
Further film roles followed in South Africa, with Kerry playing Colonel Anstruther in Majuba (1968) and participating in Mr. Kingstreet's War (1971), The Winners (1974, with Tony Jay and Clive Scott) and Heroes Die Hard, a hard-hitting drama from 1978. His last listed film appearance was in Safari 3000 (1982), where he appeared with Avengers alumni Hugh Rouse and Anthony Fridjhon.
In addition to his film work, Kerry Jordan also enjoyed success on television, radio and the stage in South Africa. In the 1980s, his television roles included the successful mini-series, Shaka Zulu (1986), in which he portrayed the Reverend Bellow, and Just Nuisance RN, an SABC series from 1989, where he appeared as a Royal Navy Admiral. His final television credit before his death was in Where Angels Tread, a 1994 tele-movie about the early days of aviation, appearing alongside Diane Appleby, Gillian Garlick and, again, Clive Scott.
Kerry's radio work in South Africa was extensive. He was often heard on Lux Radio Theatre, Tuesday Theatre and even featured in the occasional episode of the popular thriller series, No Place to Hide. His best remembered radio work is undoubtedly his part in The Stories of Sherlock Holmes (1979-1985, Springbok Radio), in which he took the role of Dr. Watson, alongside Graham Armitage's Holmes. On the English Service, he was heard in many editions of Radio Theatre and his last performance on the English Service was in 1989 in the play, The Stinger.