"Amateurs! Ain't done no time. Doe no nuffin'" - HEY! That's Ninianne - Merlin's Ma! Kim Thomson that is! I SWEAR Granada Productions sure did a top notch job in their portrayals of the Sherlock Holmes tales! Of course Jeremy Brett is THE penultimate Sherlock Holmes and the way they took a few of the "lesser" stories like The Mazarin Stone and The Three Garridebs and combined them for a riveting episode (especially since it gave the brilliant Charles Gray more screen time as Mycroft) - and being a Sherlockian since aged 10 in 1968 - I can honestly say Eric Porter is several levels above any other Professor Moriarity creation on screen that I'VE ever watched.

@JaneFrieman

5 жыл бұрын

I can remember Eric Porter acting in an earlier version of The Forsyte Saga alongside N. Dawn Porter and Susan Porter.

Brett is hard to look away from, he's got that special presence.

That is a nice touch: Leporello's aria from "Don Giovanni": "Madamina il catagolo e questo."

What a lovely woman "Kitty" is or rather, the actress who plays her.

This scene where Sherlock and the Baron meet is amazing. Those actors are just perfect. I find this scene even better than the one where Holmes and Moriarty meet. You can feel the tension. And I love at the end when Holmes says : "No. This is not the moment." Jeremy Brett is pure genious.

@lcbrown7990

6 жыл бұрын

Serendipity, I am a huge Jeremy Brett fan as Holmes and Freddy in 'My Fair Lady'

@margaretjaeger2064

5 жыл бұрын

OSerendipity

Just realized he's listening to the catalog aria from Don Giovanni... How appropriate!

Even the pavement is "properly muddy" ... oh I love this version of Sherlock Holmes.

@lcbrown7990

6 жыл бұрын

Muck006 Attention to story made/makes this a good series. Detail too.

@SiliconBong

6 жыл бұрын

Muck; *made a similar observation about a few Tarantino movies, everything from the length of the shadows to an extra spitting his tobacco wad in the background is timed and rendered with appropriate resolution.

"Holmes, have a care!..." love it!

who would marry a bald headed old guy as a young girl who already has money? The actor was in Body and soul and was great in it as a bad guy there too.

I think Brett would have been a great Dracula.GBH 🇬🇧

Kim Thompson was lovely. I had quite a thing for her back in the day ♥

@Tipper1941

4 жыл бұрын

runlarryrun77 she was in a P.D. James series, Cover Her Face. She has that beautiful Marilyn Monroe type skin. So perfect.

So one guy takes on 2 armed people...I foresaw a completely different ending.

God the, green eyes.

Strange to see a business card with no phone or email address, just 221b Baker Street, London W.

@Muck006

6 жыл бұрын

Actually ... that is a "calling card" which were invented because people came to a house and the persons you look for werent present at the time. Some of them even had printing on the corners at the back so you fold over the corner to leave a message of "has called", "will call again", "sends greetings" ... or whatever.

"persons..." (no matter how currish is their boss, english butlers are always cool!)

@SiliconBong

8 жыл бұрын

*replayed the first few seconds to relish the accent :)

So the illustrious client is a royal prince who's interested in the miss Merville?

watson has changed

Hindi hindi

WHAT THE HELL!!! Why all the thick pancake makeup on the actor that plays Holmes? It's disgustingly creepy!

@Adriann604

6 жыл бұрын

The actor was seriously ill in the time of these series

@mattropolis99

3 жыл бұрын

@@Adriann604 Terminally ill with cancer from years of smoking. I think by the final season he only had months left to live.

@graceskerp

Жыл бұрын

He was bi-polar and took lithium. This caused fluid retention, thus the weight gain and puffy face. Due to childhood illness his heart was scared and couldn't function properly, increasing the fluid retention. At the time of his death it was twice normal size. He died within a year of the last Holmes episode. It's amazing he soldiered on for as long as he did.