Posted by David Vopicka on September 10, 2008 at 8:07pm
Sorry I don't have any episodes. Perhaps someone else does. I opened this group as a place to put them. Please contribute if you can. The Ben Wright Sherlocks were broardcast from 09/21/49 to 06/14/50.
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The pdf I mentioned is the Nostalgia Radio News. File title 'NN_V04_03_Mar77'. I'll upload it if anybody wants to check it but after searching through I could only find the section below. I've transcribed it so it can be copied into any type of document file if need be.
On Feb. 2, "The Sherlock Holmes Radio Theatre" featuring the KIIS Workshop Players, was announced for an early Spring start. The 39-week syndicated series based on the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will star Edward Mulhare ("The Ghost" in "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" TV series) as Holmes, and well-known radio actor Ben Wright ("Hey-Boy" on the radio version of "Have Gun, Will Travel") as Dr. Watson). Executive producer is William R. Baer and production is in association with Michael Anthony Productions. Theme music is by two- time Academy Award winner Al Kasha, scripting by Michael Hodel and Sean Wright, chief engineer is David Holman. Also in the cast are: Daws Butler, Hal Smith, Terence Pushman, Frank Birney, Ivor Barry, William Beckley, and celebrity guests. "The Red-Headed League," written in 1891, was selected for the premiere show. Other episodes will include "The Five Orange Pips," "Silver Blaze," and "A Scandal in Bohemia," plus others yet to be selected. The 39-week half-hour series will be syndicated nationally to selected markets weekly in early Spring (and probably will not be heard in Syracuse, Rochester or Buffalo!).
In a Google Group called "Alt.fan.Holmes" was an interesting (but short) discussion of the Mulhare Wright series. Locksley49 wrote in Sep 5, 1999:
John Stanley and then Ben Wright became Holmes (I had the pleasure of knowing Ben Wright, a very funny Brit given to reciting naughty, not dirty, limericks at parties - you can see him in half a dozen Twilight Zone episodes and scores of movies. His biggest role was as the Nazi who attempts to get Baron von Trapp to join the party in 'Sound of Music").
Ben played Watson opposite Edward Mulhare as Holmes in five episodes of a Holmes radio show directed by Daws Butler that I was associated with in 1976, in an abortive attempt to bring back dramatic radio for KIIS radio productions in Los Angeles. But more on this another time. --Sherlocksley
In another post on Alt.Fan.Holmes Locksley49 wrote in March 21, 2004:
I wrote a couple of episodes for a new SH radio show in the 1970s starring Edward Mulhare as Holmes and Ben Wright as Watson. Daws Butler was the director. Ben had been Holmes on radio in 1954, ending the radio series started by Rathbone in 1939. I never got to know Mulhare but Ben was hilarious.
I wondered if anyone had any info regaridng the planned 1977 Sherlock Holmes show featuring Ben Wright as Watson and Edward Mulhare as Holmes. It was due to be aired on KIIS and run for 39 shows?
EDWARD MULHARE as Holmes??? YES PLEASE!! He was one of my major childhood crushes & probably the reason I'm such an Anglophile & am still attracted to men w/ beards. :-) I think he'd do Holmes quite well. Any further info on this would be greatly appreciated (Thanks to Jake too!)- Karen
I have read something about this before so I thought I'd search. I came across the scarlet street forums thread which is where I originally read about this I believe.
I googled (without the quotes) 'Ben Wright as Watson and Edward Mulhare as Holmes 1977'
The scarlet street forum was the first google result and the page with The Universal entry being the second google result.
C18830. -- B4123. Frutig, Judith. "Is That You Again, Holmes?" The Christian Science Monitor (February 16, 1977), 2.
----------. ----------, The Christian Science Monitor [London] (February 28, 1977).
Previews of a new thirty-nine week, half-hour series called "The Sherlock Holmes Radio Theatre," with Edward Mulhare as Holmes and Ben Wright as Watson.
There's an old OTRR pdf from March 1977 amongst the google search results which looks like it might have something about this show or series. It's 16 pages long but it's not word searchable. I've downloaded it and will have a look through later.
I've seen a request for this on another list so of course came searching here to see if there had been any discussion of it. Was beginning to think it hadn't been covered, but on the 12th of 21 discussion pages I found this thread. Also there's a nice info page about the production here: http://www.cambridge-explorer.org.uk/HBWEB/VV341/BW-ES-Home.htm
this was the request that sent me searching. "The 1949-50 series starring Ben Wright as Holmes and Eric Snowden as Watson seems nowhere to be found. This particular sequence had 39 stories, and 38 are apparently missing." The one listed as being known is the one that Guy posted on this thread, the November 23, 1949 production entitled "The Duke Of Hollywell." I'm posting this again in case anyone has had any luck with this since 2008, or anyone new to the list has any input. Thanks! -Karen
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The pdf I mentioned is the Nostalgia Radio News. File title 'NN_V04_03_Mar77'. I'll upload it if anybody wants to check it but after searching through I could only find the section below. I've transcribed it so it can be copied into any type of document file if need be.
On Feb. 2, "The Sherlock Holmes Radio Theatre" featuring the KIIS Workshop Players, was
announced for an early Spring start. The 39-week syndicated series based on the stories
of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will star Edward Mulhare ("The Ghost" in "The Ghost and Mrs.
Muir" TV series) as Holmes, and well-known radio actor Ben Wright ("Hey-Boy" on the radio
version of "Have Gun, Will Travel") as Dr. Watson). Executive producer is William R. Baer
and production is in association with Michael Anthony Productions. Theme music is by two-
time Academy Award winner Al Kasha, scripting by Michael Hodel and Sean Wright, chief
engineer is David Holman. Also in the cast are: Daws Butler, Hal Smith, Terence Pushman,
Frank Birney, Ivor Barry, William Beckley, and celebrity guests. "The Red-Headed League,"
written in 1891, was selected for the premiere show. Other episodes will include "The Five
Orange Pips," "Silver Blaze," and "A Scandal in Bohemia," plus others yet to be selected.
The 39-week half-hour series will be syndicated nationally to selected markets weekly in
early Spring (and probably will not be heard in Syracuse, Rochester or Buffalo!).
NN_V04_03_Mar77.pdf
From several sources:
Apparently the station support for the new Sherlock series wasn't there.
Several episodes were produced, but were not released.
Thanks Michael and Jim.
I wonder where these episodes are now? Wiped maybe?
In a Google Group called "Alt.fan.Holmes" was an interesting (but short) discussion of the Mulhare Wright series. Locksley49 wrote in Sep 5, 1999:
John Stanley and then Ben Wright became Holmes (I had the pleasure of knowing Ben Wright, a very funny Brit given to reciting naughty, not dirty, limericks at parties - you can see him in half a dozen Twilight Zone episodes and scores of movies. His biggest role was as the Nazi who attempts to get Baron von Trapp to join the party in 'Sound of Music").
Ben played Watson opposite Edward Mulhare as Holmes in five episodes of a Holmes radio show directed by Daws Butler that I was associated with in 1976, in an abortive attempt to bring back dramatic radio for KIIS radio productions in Los Angeles.
But more on this another time.
--Sherlocksley
In another post on Alt.Fan.Holmes Locksley49 wrote in March 21, 2004:
I wrote a couple of episodes for a new SH radio show in the 1970s starring Edward Mulhare as Holmes and Ben Wright as Watson. Daws Butler was the director. Ben had been Holmes on radio in
1954, ending the radio series started by Rathbone in 1939. I never got to know Mulhare but Ben was hilarious.
I wondered if anyone had any info regaridng the planned 1977 Sherlock Holmes show featuring Ben Wright as Watson and Edward Mulhare as Holmes. It was due to be aired on KIIS and run for 39 shows?
EDWARD MULHARE as Holmes??? YES PLEASE!! He was one of my major childhood crushes & probably the reason I'm such an Anglophile & am still attracted to men w/ beards. :-) I think he'd do Holmes quite well. Any further info on this would be greatly appreciated (Thanks to Jake too!)- Karen
I have read something about this before so I thought I'd search. I came across the scarlet street forums thread which is where I originally read about this I believe.
I googled (without the quotes) 'Ben Wright as Watson and Edward Mulhare as Holmes 1977'
The scarlet street forum was the first google result and the page with The Universal entry being the second google result.
C18830. -- B4123. Frutig, Judith. "Is That You Again, Holmes?" The Christian Science Monitor (February 16, 1977), 2.
----------. ----------, The Christian Science Monitor [London] (February 28, 1977).
Previews of a new thirty-nine week, half-hour series called "The Sherlock Holmes Radio Theatre," with Edward Mulhare as Holmes and Ben Wright as Watson.
There's an old OTRR pdf from March 1977 amongst the google search results which looks like it might have something about this show or series. It's 16 pages long but it's not word searchable. I've downloaded it and will have a look through later.
I've seen a request for this on another list so of course came searching here to see if there had been any discussion of it. Was beginning to think it hadn't been covered, but on the 12th of 21 discussion pages I found this thread. Also there's a nice info page about the production here: http://www.cambridge-explorer.org.uk/HBWEB/VV341/BW-ES-Home.htm
this was the request that sent me searching. "The 1949-50 series starring Ben Wright as Holmes and Eric Snowden as Watson seems nowhere to be found. This particular sequence had 39 stories, and 38 are apparently missing." The one listed as being known is the one that Guy posted on this thread, the November 23, 1949 production entitled "The Duke Of Hollywell." I'm posting this again in case anyone has had any luck with this since 2008, or anyone new to the list has any input. Thanks! -Karen
As far as I know the Hollywell show is still the only one in general circulation Karen. It's the only file in my 'Wright and Snowden' folder anyway.
Thanks for the response, Jake. I figured if ANYBODY had news of it, it would be somebody here.
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