How to be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
Timeshift Series 13 Episode 7 of 8
BBC Four
First broadcast: January 12th 2014
Duration: 1 hour
For over 100 years, more than 80 actors have put a varying face to the world's greatest consulting detective - Sherlock Holmes. And many of them incorporated details - such as the curved pipe and the immortal line 'Elementary, my dear Watson' - that never featured in Conan Doyle's original stories. In charting the evolution of Sherlock on screen, from early silent movies to the latest film and television versions, Timeshift shows how our notion of Holmes today is as much a creation of these various screen portrayals as of the stories themselves.
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File size : 635 MiB
Duration : 59mn 4s
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Width : 832 pixels
Height : 468 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
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Here's the standard definition version. I should have the HD 720p version link this evening.
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Thanks, Jake.
I knew that if you said that enough times Steve you were bound to hit it sooner or later. LOL -------------- R
I double checked. The odds were with me.
LOL, We do love to rib each other. it adds to the long distance friendships and the cohesiveness of the members of the site. ---------------------------- R
Amen.
Thank You Jake. I even have people thanking you for my posts. You're getting famous Jake. Thank You for all the enjoyment you have given me and the other members. ---------------------------------- R
I could never be as popular as you Rick. Just look at the Times Past Popular Content Top 10. I have two entries at 10 and 3. You have five entries at 9, 8, 5, 4 and the top spot number 1 ;)
All the best Rick.
How to be Sherlock Holmes (720p)
The file is just under 1 GB
I noticed they aired a clip of Wilmer & Scott's The Bruce Partington Plans. Without digging in my collection I think I'm right in saying it didn't appear in the DVD release of the Wilmer/Scott episodes. I also think I have some audio only from some of the episode. I guess the BBC don't have the episode in the complete form. Just some of it. Still - I'd be happy to pay for whatever they have. Maybe I should start a petition?!
Also caught Roger and Jean's names at the start of the credits.
Thanks, Jake.
Sadly, only the first half of "The Bruce-Partington Plans" survives. Particularly frustrating because: a) I remember Derek Francis as an excellent Mycroft Holmes, and b) the scenes on the London Underground were all shot on the Underground itself, which in 1965 needed very little set dressing to take it back to 1895.
The one episode that's missing in its entirety is "The Abbey Grange", in which Nyree Dawn Porter (older viewers will remember her as Irene in "The Forsyte Saga") was perfect casting as Lady Brackenstall.
Oh, and Douglas Wilmer's Watson was Nigel Stock - not "Scott". Douglas celebrated his 94th birthday last Wednesday...
Roger
When I typed Scott I did think hang on. I'm sure that's not his surname.
To tell you the truth I thought well I'm sure the group will know who I mean. It had been a long day and I just wanted to get the last of 4 large files uploaded.
A few weeks ago I got pulled somewhere because I gave an actor's surname as Stock when it wasn't.
I feel quite bad now Roger as Martyn Read's 221B as performed on radio by Nigel Stock is probably my Desert Island Disc of Sherlock Holmes audio. If I could only keep one title 221B would probably be the one.
I did mean to check Wilmer's age after watching on Sunday night but forgot. At the time I thought he looks around 70 but must be older.
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