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bottom line is - any publication or compilation which attracts new or lapsed readers to the original stories can ONLY be a good thing

Wontner is just lovely, love the interaction with his Mrs Hudson The Missing Rembrandt is darn good too, his Sign Of Four is.... odd *lol

Isn't Nicolas Rowe in one of the Brett episodes? 'The Creeping Man' I think...? (a v small role as a shopkeeper or something)

I like the bit with the coffin but otherwise this is one of those stories that are so boring that I've forgotten most of it. Oh, there's a possible reference to the latter-day Baker St Irregulars, and Holmes in a disguise. But that's literally all I can recall *lol I won't be rereading this any day soon. I think even the tv versions are a bit boring.... Just me..?

i finally got the 'should-have-been-on-the-normal-relwase-anyway' special edition of series 3.... snarking aside, i'm glad i did, the first commentary for Empty Hearse is wonderful disappointed that the cover is the exact same as the standard release once you take it out the fancy slipcase though grr

Found out about this the other day, forgot to post here.... the Wilmer series is getting a tarted-up R2 DVD release by the BFI in May 2015 Includes all the restored eps AND reconstructions of the two missing eps! Plus some other bits and pieces too. This is great news. I hate having to get out my muktiregion DVD player every time I want to watch an ep of this *lol I had been hoping to hear news of full episode recoveries (hints that the same search that recovered lost Dr Who eps had also uncovered these lost eps and also some of the Peter Cushing ones may have been just rumours) but this is still fantastic. I had no idea clips from the 'missing' eps otherwise existed!

that said, Without A Clue is an all-time favourite you can't help but love :)

sorry but I cannot STAND Matt Frewer.... his version is so OTT and stereotypical. (I cringed during the "we English" bit in Hound when he meets Sir Henry.... this is the only version of Hound that made me GLAD Watson was the central character for most of it)

so apparently, on Twitter so haven't seen confirmed on any news sites yet, they have FOUND a copy of the film version of the William GIlette Holmes!!!! now, please pease please, get this cleaned up and put on Blu-ray, and in all Regions please!!!!!

i'd love for these to come out on DVD I have just gotten round to watching the first of the previous Russian series DVDs, which are also amazing, although obviously much more 'traditional'

^ I don't *think* so (but Watson made so many references to unrecorded cases i'm sure there's a few that have slipped me by!) I will try to look through some of my reference books soon and see if I can find something....

Moriarty had cause to remind Holmes that a loaded revolver was quite dangerous when concealed in the pocket (of his dressing gown!) There is no mention of holsters in the canon and they would have been singularly ungainly items given the hundred-odd layers that they seem to wore as decent Victorian gentlemen (maybe this is also why Watson is so reticent on the details of his amorous adventures... once he'd stripped off he was too tired to actually do any lovemaking. No wonder he and Mary never had kids...!) Um, I kind of digressed there....

whilst thinking on the subject of canonical writings, I scribbled together this blog post: http://spaceybox.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/sherlockiana-should-be-fun-fun-fun.html (quick version: taking it deadly serious can be boring, allowing a touch of the ridiculous makes it fun!)

Oh dear. Just realised that scene I mentioned isn't Ida Lupino in 'Adventures' but the actress who plays Kitty in 'Voice of Terror'. :/

Christopher Lee is brilliant in this isn't he? I gather a lot of the stuffed-shirts of Sherlock Holmes fandom at the time hated it, how anyone can hate this very charming and very funny (and very affectionate) film version is beyond me! (and I love the saucy looks the ballet boys give Watson *lol)

the funniest bit in that film is when Ida Lupino makes that stirring speech in the pub about being as English as you are.... in a blatantly American accent!! and as for Moriarty's hate/hate relationship with his manservant...! hehe

Carol, the Baring-Gould set is..... phenomenal!! Just so huge, it'll probably take me a lifetime to even begin to absorb everything in it, but what a book...!! I have the one-volume edition which means i'm reluctant to heft it out except when I really need to look up something. It weighs a ton *lol

It's weird.... and possibly quasi-heretical... but I find lately that for my Holmes & Watson hit i'm not going to the actual stories, but to my humble collection of books about Holmes & Watson. I'm sure you all have your own favourites of Sherlockian 'non-fiction' It's quite hard to pick favourites because most works of this nature all have their charms. In their willingness to play The Great Game some writers are mischievious, some pretending to be deadly serious, some make incredible deductions from aspects we may have missed on casual reading. (only occasionally are some enfuriating.... I had the displeasure to read one which had an Introduction basically slagging off anyone stupid enough to think that Holmes ever said "elementary my dear Watson" in the books... as if all those people who loved the films Don't Count) My first such book is one of my favourites precisely because it was my first. I was lucky enough to have Michael Harrison be my guide to Sherlockian scholarship, with his incredibly detailed, subtly hilarious (EVERYONE is really a front for the Prince of Wales!) and energetic 'The World of Sherlock Holmes'. I really should do a detailed review of it because it really did bring home to me just how vast and wonderful the characters and situations created by ACD really were, and still are to this day. What about you chaps?

ooh, the actual text has been reproduced in some books (e.g Peter Haining's books, all twelve hundred and three of them) but it's so funny the actual miniature is going to get its own wee-print!

I like the sound of this I hope in these episodes Holmes gives him a right telling off for that! lol

the series is proving to be a real delight episode one 221b was like a cross between Study In Scarlet and Black Peter, with a dash of Robert Downey Jr for good measure. I just saw from the comments on YouTub though that the actor playing Watson died last year... in fact, was murdered!!

these are fantastic the interpretation of Holmes is very different... and takes a bit of getting used to... but once you do...! I like the older and more experienced Watson too.

whats the 'Elementary' take on it?

well if ACD's anthropology was correct (clue: it wasn't) maybe the plane crashlanded there and the natives ate all the passengers