Best of 2024 (So Far)
Somehow we’re already halfway through the year. Here’s a look back at some of my favorites from the first-half of 2024.
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Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – The Speckled Band
- Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – The Speckled Band
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Sherlock Saturday takes us back to 221 B Baker Street and the Granada Television’s faithful adaptations of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. A locked-room mystery with a wicked reveal, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” is one of my favorite Holmes short stories involving a dastardly plot by a greedy stepfather as Doctor Grimesby Roylott (Jeremy Kemp) targets the second of his two stepdaughters preventing a marriage which would force him to give up a sum for their dowry. As Holmes (Jeremy Brett) puts it here: “When a doctor goes wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has nerve. He has knowledge.”
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The April Fools Day Adventure
Sherlock Saturday takes us back to another classic radio adventure featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Premiering on April 1, 1946 on The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes radio program, “The April Fools Day Adventure” offered the chance for Watson to join in on a little prank with Holmes leading to a genuine mystery and a first encounter with a character destined to be tied to the detective for years to come.
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Spin-offs We Should Have Gotten – Jamie Moriarty
We’ll kick of Sherlock Saturday with a What If… Several shows over the years have created spin-offs with varying degrees of success, but what of the shows we could have gotten, one could argue should have gotten, but didn’t? For example, I offer you the idea of Natalie Dormer starring in a show centered around criminal mastermind Jamie Moriarty. One of the most interesting versions of the character we’ve ever seen, combining both Irene Adler and Professor James Moriarty into a single nemesis to rival, and emotionally torture, Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller), she was the woman.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – The Crooked Man
- Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – The Crooked Man
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Sherlock Saturday takes us back to 221 B Baker Street and the Granada Television’s faithful adaptations of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. “The Crooked Man” is an interesting episode for a couple of reasons. The entire episode, except for the epilogue, take place outside of Baker Street. Also, it becomes a case in search of murder that reveals that no murder actually occurred. Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) and Watson (David Burke) are hired to look into the death of Colonel James Barclay (Denys Hawthorne) whose body was discovered along with that of his uncurious wife Nancy (Lisa Daniely) in a locked room after an argument.
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