Since all my IT shows are off air or net, the Sherlock Holmes Shows are usually accompanied by another unrelated show. You will have to bear with this since The shows are made that way and I do not believe in cutting up radio shows.
Read more…I've been looking for this Doctor Watson TV film/play for years. I believe it was only broadcast once.It popped up on Youtube 4 months ago. I search a few places for Holmes and Doyle content, and those are the search terms I use. Happening to look up and see Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim on my bookshelf yesterday whilst trying a few searches I recalled he wrote The Darkwater Hall Mystery, which lead to me searching for Darkwater, and up it popped. It's never had an official release on…
Read more…Trying to recall ACD's story Lot No. 249, I don't think there's anybody like Abercrombie Smith's friend, who I don't think is named but is played by John Heffernan, in the original story. There's plenty of Holmes in this friend. I didn't like what Mark Gatiss added to the adaptation of MR James' The Mezzotint a couple of years ago but I didn't mind the Lot No 249 "friend".Some bits I picked up in their conversation:To a collector of fairy tales no doubt fascinating, from HOUN. Escaped ape in…
Read more…John Stanley / Alfred Shirley 1947-48 Season First Show: Sep 28, 1947 Last Show: Jun 20, 1948 Number Shows: 39 Audition Show: none Series Description: After Basil Rathbone left the Sherlock Holmes series after the 1946- 1947 series, Nigel Bruce remained as Watson opposite Tom Conway as Holmes. Although Tom Conway was a good choice for the Holmes character, the radio audience didn't accept him. So, in the 1948- 1949 season, again a change was made. This time John Stanley was cast in the role…
Read more…I came across a review of an Austrialian version of Sherlock Holmes that I have never read about. The review is from the January 26, 1949 edition of Variety, page 42. See link below. Does anyone have any further info on this show?Variety (January 1949) : Variety : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Read more…T H E N E W A D V E N T U R E S O F S H E R L O C K H O L M E S --------------- ----------- 1946-1947 Season Tom Conway / Nigel Bruce Version First Show: Oct 12, 1946 Last Show: Jul 7, 1947 Number Shows: 38 Audition Show: none Series Description: From 1939 to 1946, Basil Rathbone played the role of Sherlock Holmes opposite his friend, Nigel Bruce as Dr. John H. Watson, both on the screen and on radio. On May 27, 1946, Mr. Rathbone portrayed Holmes for the last time in the last show of THE…
Read more…As well as starring in the most famous Sherlock Holmes movies, they played Holmes & Watson on the radio from 1939-1946.
Read more…For American radio, the heroine of Holmes on the radio was Edith Meiser, an actress who loved the stories and was convinced they would make great listening. She scripted several Conan Doyle stories and took them around. Meiser entrepreneured a fitting sponsorship for the show herself, and went back to the network triumphantly. Beginning in the early 1930's, she single handed wrote the show for over a dozen years, first working from the Conan Doyle canon, and then continuing to create stories in…
Read more…The BBC has released a commercial set of the Carleton Hobbs Sherlock Holmes stories. https://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmes-Collection-Full-Cast-Dramatisations/dp/B0BLSSF5VB/ref=sr_1_3?crid=15XTUFZ29U7BZ&keywords=Carleton+Hobbs+and+Norman+Shelley&qid=1676913958&s=books&sprefix=carleton+hobbs+and+norman+shelley%2Cstripbooks%2C88&sr=1-3 I have all of the short stories from the Radio Four Extra broadcasts, so I'm wondering if someone who has this set would be willing to share just the…
Read more…The Hound of the Baskervilles Drama on 3 “Standing over Hugo Baskerville, and plucking at his throat, there stood a foul thing, a great, black beast, shaped like a hound, yet larger than any hound that ever mortal eye has rested upon.” A desolate house on the moors, an escaped murderer, and a bloodthirsty supernatural beast – Conan Doyle’s best-selling mystery has all the ingredients of a classic thriller. Following the success of his adaptations of A Christmas Carol and The Wind in the…
Read more…(Icon picture by Tom Richmond) This group is dedicated to Sherlock Holmes in all his radio forms through the years. Brilliant Deductions and Stimulating Conversation Inside!
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Thanks for the offer, Lefevre. I'll check and look for gaps.
Is there any Holmes that you need? Just drop your titles in the Request group and I'll see what I can do to post your shows!
Thanks for this, Bob. I hope other people here give Telfer a try as well.
I've posted the entire HOUN, in case you have any more missing parts ans so those who don't know Telfer's incredible ereadings may sample one.
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I wonder if anyone can post Chapter 9, Second Report of Dr. Watson, from the Hound of the Baskervilles as read by John Telfer. I seem to have misplaced it. Many thanks.
Thank´s for having me!!! :)
Just noticed that Radio 4 EXtra, has the Sherlock Holmes v Dracula play available to listen/download for the next 23hours.........
LINK: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0084gr2
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