It is how I found this show. Stumbled across BBC's new show (which is great in its own right), and subsequently found this. Glad I did. Despite low production values and sometimes questionable acting (by supporting characters), I really could not ask for a better TV show. Fast paced, yet thoughtful and thorough. One of the few rare shows that rewards you for paying attention.
shareFraid not - I discovered this show when it was originally aired in 1984 - and by then I had already devoured all 14 Basil Rathbone films, several other miscellaneous SH films along the way and of course all the stories.
Love Rathbone because he was my first Holmes, but Jeremy Brett is really super. Splurged last year and bought the entire collection (and the TV book about the making of the series) on DVD and have never regretted it!
I really think you do need to remember that this series was filmed in the 1980's -- no way are the special effects, et al going to be as good as what you can find in 2012, but back then, they WERE hi tech!
Like the stunt guys going over the Reichenbach Falls -- those were real guys,m in really safety harnesses, and okay, they couldn't digitally remove the wires, but they were paid a mint (for then) to do that stunt -- like $2500 each!
And they had a whole sound stage mockup of Baker Street -- that ain't cheap. Just wish I could have seen it in person!
This Sherlock series was my mum's fav, & she was a Sherlock fan for years.
Unfortunately she did not live to see this newest BBC version.
[At the end of the "Scandal in Belgravia" I wept, since I think she would have especially loved that episode.]
As gifts, I bought her every episode which I still have. (They're on VHS.) Still unsure what to do with them.
"Despite low production values and sometimes questionable acting (by supporting characters)"
WTF?!!?
This was a lavish and expensive production by the standards of it's day and stands up remarkably well after nearly 30 years - I agree that the style of television drama has changed in that time (for the worse IMO) but I can't in any way relate the above observation to what's actually on screen; all film, 90% location, authentic props and costumes - they even built an entire chunk of Baker Street! I don't know how you've experienced the series or what part of the world you're from but here in the UK it's being repeated from remastered prints in HD and looks like it was made last year.
God knows what you'd make of the two 1960's BBC series!
you should watch them if you have a vhs player. i bet your mum would be sitting beside you enjoying them. :D
shareYup. Sure did. Never had the slightest interest in Sherlock Holmes before Sherlock. I always thought they were dusty, stodgy stories. The BBC's Sherlock changed my mind and made me curious enough to read Arthur Conan Doyle. Now I can't get enough--and even though I still love Sherlock and look forward to those next episodes, I have to say my heart belongs to Jeremy Brett and the Granada productions!
shareI first discovered Sherlock in the '70's in Los Angeles when a local TV station showed the Rathbone episodes at 11 p.m. Saturday (?) nights. I was totally hooked, and have also seen the Cushing version of "Baskervilles" and even the one with William Shatner as Stapleton (really!)
I give this link with respect, Mr. S....
http://shatnerstoupee.blogspot.com/2010/05/hound-of-baskervilles-toupological.html
And Cumberbatch puts an entirely new spin on SH, but I love it. And they are taking entirely too long coming out with the third season of "Sherlock"!!
As for the 1960's series, never seen them and I dearly wish they would turn up in a format where I could tape them...Turner Classics or something.
Last words: Jeremy Brett inhabited Sherlock, and Edward Hardwicke was the better, more mature and stable Watson.
I discovered this series by growing up watching Mystery! on PBS. I was fortunate to have grown up in a family that watched mysteries and documentaries and had little use for sports and most sitcoms.
share:) Someone after my own heart! :D I discovered Jeremy Brett as Holmes watching Mystery! as a small child. I watched it and forgot a lot of the stories, but loved when Sherlock looked at all of the clues and solved the case. But thanks to Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock, it renewed my interest and love for Mr. Brett's Sherlock!
shareNot I. I kept passing the box set at the library, picked it up a few times, but always reshelved it.
Then... I got into Holmes mode, and started watching the Rathbone series, so decided to pick this one up and immediately got hooked.
Sort of. I discovered BBC's Sherlock on Netflix, and those reawakened my old interest in SH, so I did a search for other Holmes shows and movies and discovered this. Pretty sure I saw at least one episode on TV back in the day, but don't really remember.
shareNo. I used to watch the series when I was a child but I'm glad that BBC Sherlock is helping others to discover Granada Holmes.
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