S H E R L O C K H O L M E S
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Robert Langford / Kenneth Baker Version
1967
First Show: Jul 3, 1967 Last Show: Aug 28, 1967
Number Shows: 9 Audition Show: none
Series Description:
The character of Sherlock Holmes may very well be the most frequently
done character on radio. The stories of Holmes' cases were first
heard on radio in the US on October 20, 1930. Sherlock Holmes was
first heard in the UK on July 3, 1943. Various series appeared on
the BBC up to the present day.
In 1967, the cases of Sherlock Holmes were heard in South Africa,
broadcast by the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Robert
Langford played the part of Sherlock Holmes with Kenneth Baker
playing Dr. Watson in this series of nine radio plays.
All plays were dramatized by Micheal Hardwick. He dramatized almost
all the Sherlock Holmes radio plays aired by the BBC in England that
aired from 1952 through 1969. These starred Carleton Hobbs, as
Holmes, and Norman Shelley, as Watson. The South African productions
most likely used the same scripts as the Hobbs and Norman BBC shows.
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Have just heard the first few of this series. Interesting, nearly operatic interpretation of Holmes by Langford. Almost feel like I was sitting in the front row of a London theater early in the 20th century.
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