Not on DVD?
I can't believe this is not on DVD. I think every other rendition of the Sherlock Holmes stories are available. PLUS it has Peter Cushing to boot! Come on BBC...release these for all the Holmes fans out there!
shareActually there are six episodes of this series on DVD, The Hound of the Baskervilles in two episodes, The Sign of Four, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Blue Carbuncle and A Study In Scarlet. No idea why they didn't release the others..... I would certainly be one of the first to buy them.
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Partly because they've been raving about it for years and it is in fact rather over-rated.
share"the episodes on dvd are the ones with peter cushing as holmes, aster he took over from wilmer."
-> But there are more than 6 Episodes with Cushing as Holmes (if the informaiton on imdb is right). Maybe the other episodes are lost forever :(
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A couple years after the post above, the Wilmer episodes are finally released. Here's a link: www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmes-1964-1965-Douglas-Wilmer/dp/B003NF97NA/ ref=pd_sim_d_3
shareTwo of the Wilmer episodes do not survive. 11 do ( I have the set). Charles Augustus Milverton is a Wilmer episode. Wilmer did not want to reprise the role when the series returned. However for my money Wilmer is even better than Cushing, though Jeremy Brett still holds first place for me. I also liked Arthur Wontner in the early 30's films.
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It's been said that TVE (Spanish Public TV) could still have the copies of these episodes because they were aired in Spain. I suppose they would be dubbed in Spanish, but at least wouldn't be totally lost.
shareThe BBC didn't "lose" the Cushing episodes, they were systematically wiped as was common practice at the time. And the BBC won't be releasing the Wilmer series on R2 DVD as the American set didn't sell very well - releases do have to be commercially viable, you know.
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