Jeremy Brett As Sherlock Holmes

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Just a note from the other thread about favourite detectives - for all the Jeremy Brett fans I am currently recording the shows from series 1. They are on ITV 4 at 07.40 am each morning and then ITV 4+1 at 08.40 am. The last one of series 2 is on Thursday but you may be able to watch them from catch up.

[Blubster]

JB was the definitive Sherlock Holmes on TV - no other can match him.

There's some absolutely dire American Sherlock Holmes TV series - not counting those merely appropriating the name, but those trying to recreate a Victorian setting. How many spotlessly clean, well attired street urchins with perfect white teeth have you seen?

[jourdain2]

Definitely the best Sherlock by a country mile. I visited the set at Granada studios. Red herring - Edward Petheridge for Lord Peter Wimsey and Joan Hickson for Miss Marple make up the pinnacle of TV 'Tecs for me.

[zebo]

The Granada set was hired out for courses, we did a course in the upstairs living room of 22B.

[brainiac]

" the upstairs living room of 22B " - did they make a set for the whole of Baker Street?

[jourdain2]

Yes, they did brainiac. It was brilliant. There was a length of street which ran about equidistantly from 221B and then at the top there was a corner with about a couple of hundred yards of shops/houses. All 'premises' were peopled by costumed 'actors' and there was a small singing group which switched its content seasonally. Boot-black stand, everything.

[zebo]

Yes, the whole street was very lifelike and in the lunchbreak we had a walk round and found ourselves looking into Coronation Street, we saw a lot of the cast.

[andy-hughes]

I was always convinced that JB committed suicide in grief over the death of his wife, I have found out with a little research following this thread, that he actually died of heart failure.