Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

tedg Yet another appropriation of the Holmes character. In this case, they had 23 minutes to fill with enough attractiveness to sell stuff. The form demands light banter, very simple plots and secondary characters, and lots of slugging. Slugging is required. Among the episodes I watched was one where most of the resolution of the story had Watson and Holmes competing for good punches. Like other appropriations of the Holmes character, only the affect is used, and none of the dynamics. This is Holmes just barely in name only, and the use of Watson.

bkoganbing Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a few full length novels and several short stories about the adventures of his fabled detective Sherlock Holmes. And of course they were used as the basis for many of the episodes of this British TV series that starred Ronald Howard as Holmes and Howard Marion Crawford as his faithful scribe Dr. Watson.Howard and Crawford both do a fine job in the part as does Archie Duncan as Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard. But sad to say that in the few episodes I saw of this series, the stories compressed into a half and hour time slot don't really develop at all. The sleuth of Baker Street had to wait until the BBC gave him and hour time slot with Jeremy Brett a generation later. Howard and Crawford should have been given the same for this series.

Pete Garbett I found a boxed set of 25 of these films on 5 discs in The Works, the British remaindered books outlet, a year ago. (I don't think you have remaindered books in the USA - they're pulped, due to different laws.) The DVD set was produced by a Dutch firm, and not re-mastered - but the films are in quite good condition. They were made first in the year of my birth, 1954, so I did some research to find out why I had never seen them. I had seen episodes from every other British TV Holmes series, and heard, through archive material, episodes from every British and American radio series.All became clear: they were never shown in Britain! Even though most of the actors were British, with a handful of Americans and French - the series was shot in France - the series was made by an American producer for US TV.Most stories are good, some are excellent, some are terrible, and some are from the canon, with altered titles for some unfathomable reason (The Engineer's Thumb becomes The Shoeless Engineer, The Greek Interpreter becomes The French Interpreter).Nine marks instead of ten because of the three or four awful ones - a Red Indian sets up his wigwam inside 221B Baker Street in one of them! I'm glad I walked into that shop. I might never have known about this series otherwise! Enjoy.

Anna McNarin Howard is a believable Holmes, he carries off an almost absentminded humour in his portrayal of Sherlock. He is second in my book only to Jeremy Brett (except Howard has better hair, rather curly, which I found attractive).The writing and dialogue was well done and charming. Howard and Crawford play off each other beautifully, and obviously enjoy their roles.Some of the camera angles in this show are awful, but only add to the comedy (at least to me). It seemed a little too obvious at times that some actors were shot independently of the rest of the scene, and jumped places.In short I laughed a lot at it all, and loved every minute of it. If you haven't, go buy this show.