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.
shareI remember this show on A & E when I was a kid. I didn't appreciate it back then for the exact book translation it was (holmes taking morphine). I am hoping it's on Netflix Hulu or YouTube, I think the entire series is available on DVD through bestbuy and on amazon prime. I still like the black & white basil rathbone series the best.
shareOne Christmas, when I was in high school around 99/01, I caught Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) on TV one afternoon. I immediately loved it. I then went on to get the complete book collection. Soon after, I stumbled upon the Grenada series when they were being rebroadcasted on PBS. Holmes actually left my mind until I saw it again on PBS in 09/10(?), around the same time the movie came out, which then forced me to get back into the Grenada series, which I bought the DVD collection in 2011 after watching a lot of the episodes on YouTube.
I didn't get into this new Sherlock near the end of the 2nd season. I'm a purist and I thought I wouldn't like it. Boy, was I wrong.
Nope, never seen Sherlock (yet; not a priority). Discovered this show because I kept seeing the DVDs on the shelf at the library. Finally got into a Holmesian mood and decided to check it out.
shareYup---I never watched this show while it was on the air, because I wasn't into Holmes at the time---I do recall when Mr. Brett passed on,though. In fact, I wasn't even going to watch the new series until I found out Martin Freeman (pre-Hobbit) was on it, and he's really the only reason I bothered to even look at it. After seeing Cumberbatch's performance (he pretty much turned it upside down, inside out, and flat-out owns the role now) I was hooked. Went through all the Rahbone films (liked most of them) saw the episode "The Last Vampyre" from the '80's series, and after seeing "The Norwood Builder", I need to check out more.
I actually got back to watching the '80's Sherlock series after seeing The Seven Per Cent Solution--a really good and underrated Sherlock Holmes flick, in which he goes insane and has to go through therapy for his drug addiction, which was barely hinted at in the movies---it's worth seeing,though. Anyway, I'm gonna check out more of this series.
Yes, until about two years ago I was never interested in Sherlock Holmes or detective stories. Then I just accidentally happened to be in the same room when A Study in Pink was on and then it was one big roller-coaster ride... To another episodes, to Canon and pastiches, to Brett and then to Rathbone... And I love them all, but Sherlock and this series will always have a special place in my heart. They're both brilliant and yet completely incomparable.
shareNo, I was enjoying this series long before anybody had heard of Cumberbatch & Freeman. Brett has & always will be my favourite Sherlock.
I used to have the Willem Dafoe living under my bed.
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And may I just say that most of us in the Sherlock Holmes Society of London have been thoroughly enjoying Sherlock. Gatiss and Moffat really know their stuff, almost every line, especially in the first episode, is a reference to the original or a scholarly in-joke. The wandering wound, the Criterion coffee-cups, Mrs Turner next door, 'always 1895'... We've had both men, in consecutive years, as speakers at our Annual Dinner, and they were excellent. But of course there are some die-hard members who can't accept such a deviation from the Canon.
It's funny to remember now that when the Granada series was first aired, many people thought that Jeremy Brett's portrayal of Holmes was too extreme, weird, mannered and emotional - it was just as controversial as the new series is today.
All good fun - we thrive on disagreement!
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I did watch a few episodes back in the day, but it was reintroduced after I got into the show Elementary.
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I just read my first Sherlock Holmes book (I know...I know, he escaped me over the years) then became fascinated with the character, then looked up things on youtube.
Found a "best of" with Jeremy Brett and was WOWED. He IS Sherlock. BTW, I've never seen the Cumberbatch version nor do I want to. I like my book Sherlock and Brett captures him perfectly.
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I already owned this on amazon instant video. I had watched a few episodes but was not much interested, despite seeing that the acting was very good.
Then I saw 'Sherlock' with Benedict Cumberbatch. Went back and watched the Jeremy Brett Holmes and appreciated the series much more, enjoyed watching it much more. That's not to say that it is better than the current, more modern Sherlock. The two series complement each other.
I saw this show in it's original run, it is much better than that lame Cumberbatch series.
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