An ASTOUNDING performance by Brett, as usual. And what's more, to make it all the more remarkable, this is in the third and last series he did as Holmes, when his health was fading fast and he was in terrible shape... RIP Jeremy Brett- you live on in every fan of Holmes heart.
Jeremy Brett brought a new dimension to the role of Holmes which was really very good, and no doubt coloured by his own severe bouts of depression. He was an excellent actor and is underrated in my view.
Another reason I love UA-cam: Taken in the aggregate, this series showed the most true-to-Doyle adaptations, ever. I will salute the Rathbone/Bruce films for being extremely well-acted and -made, fun to watch (and, due, in no small part to WW II England being not that different from Victorian England), surprisingly faithful to the plots and the mood of the originals, even though they were set in what was then (with two exceptions) a contemporary time.
Agreed, I love the start of this episode..Holmes deductive reasoning at its finest...executed with the patience and grace of a leopard and the eloquence of the finest wordsmith... "........a small occurence perhaps, but only small I think, in the way a vibrating needle may signal an earthquake...."
Jeremy Brett is the best Sherlock holmes!!!!! He has got everything to make the perfect Sherlock Holmes, his expressions, his language....Just Awesome!!!!!!!! Love Jeremy Brett!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I found this so touching! Sherlock Holmes lying asleep in the sofa. He mast have had a hard job just before. And then that other man is there, just to call his help for a new problem. Has Sherlock ever a moment done to work. He's not a machine that can work endlessly
At last, somebody values that detail as I do! Thanks for commenting on that. This scene at the beginning always touches me deeply because Jeremy always had the gift of humanizing Holmes. It is not the calculating machine that Watson describes to us in A Study in Scarlet or that we may see in other adaptations. We already know that back then Watson didn't know him well enough. However, in these series, Brett´s Holmes may be a genius, outstanding with his deductions and his sublime gestures, but at the same time, he lets us see his vulnerable side through Watson's eyes. I love that with Watson he always feels safe to lower his defenses and how Watson always protects him like when he want to give him one more moment to rest in private. They melt me. I'm still waiting for someone to write a one-shot fanfic about that scene... And the confidence and care with which Watson puts the card in Holmes´ breast pocket. It seems to me that those details are what speak wonders about their close relationship. We all need a friendship as intimate as theirs.
I completely agree with you. Basil Rathbone's version was a good one, but I always felt that his Holmes was a bit too much of a gentleman. As though his solving of crimes was a sort of side-line to his life as an English gentlemen. Kinda like a more serious, British and more sober Thin Man character. Jeremy Brett embodied the Holmes character completely. The good and the bad of the man. By far at the top of the game.
Brett certainly portrayed Holmes as a logical thinking machine like Doyle portrayed him in the original stories although he also let his humanity show through especially concerning his friendship with Watson unlike any other actor who has ever portrayed Holmes IMHO and he is someone quite a large number of Holmes fans feel will always be the essential Sherlock Holmes.
You kidding me? I love it when he rolls his R's - it's fun hearing him roll his R's. And you are mistaken about the artist as well. His grandma was a sister of Vernet, his great-uncle and the French artist. I'm studying up in his family tree, so I know.
@@donsylvester2372 really I know he died shortly after filming the last series and had wanted to do them all though I believe a study in Scarlet has never been made well not the proper book version anyway
Are we sure that, after Watson got married and moved away, he didn't actually buy the house and ask Mrs. Hudson to stay as (a first class) house keeper? We get to meet the two main characters when Watson and Holmes become flatmates sharing the rent, but as their careers take off, I'm not sure Holmes' relationship with 221B is mentioned much. Mrs. Hudson is there on Watson's arrival. After his faked death at the waterfall in Switzerland he is able to fake his death again at 221B after ... at least a year - suggesting that either he owned it and left rights for Mrs. Hudson to live there after his death or Mrs. Hudson new so little what she was about she forgot she needed to let the rooms. The former is more plausible. If he rented it from beyond the grave, his enemies would have rumbled his lie. Yes, Mrs. Hudson is gold. And essential. I used to rent and the agency never did anything like that much for me. No bacon and eggs, no late suppers, just adverts suggesting I extend my tenency. Bless them: "Money for nothing and your nothing at inflated prices" as Dire Straits put it.
Brett was a great Holmes. To me, he was far more compelling than any of the others I saw, Rathbone, Cushing, Williamson, etc. Having read all the Holmes stories, I'd go so far as to say Brett was even sort of better, more interesting, than the character imagined by Conan Doyle
I've loved Sherlock Holmes for many years. Loved the old movies with Basil Rathbone, before I read any of the stories. When I first saw Jeremy Brett play the character on P.B.S., I became inthralled with the character and would not miss an episode. I don't know much about you, Jeremy. Don't know what you're doing now. But you gave me an appreciation for this iconiclastic character that had surpassed me prior to your portrayal of him. You made Mr. Holmes come alive for me. You'll be hard to beat.
+Sitarya Why "confiscate" opium, when you could simply buy it in a shop? Narcotica were NOT illegal in victorian times and even in WWI soldiers got "care packages" from their families in the trenches.
3.23 Huxtable gets up thinking he's talking with Dr. Watson. I like how stunned he is ( he goes silent) when he finds himself face to face with Sherlock Holmes instead. 😀
@Chef316 I love Basil Rathbone's portrayal of Sherlock Holmes. He's my second favorite after Jeremy Brett. I was never crazy about how Watson was depicted in the old films though. They made him look like kind of a buffoon, which he wasn't at all like in the books.
@AGDIRGIA It is called "Libera Me" written by Patrick Gowers for the soundtrack and can be found on the soundtrack cd and on his choral and organ music cd.
Agreed. But we'd both have to learn a new language. For example, I did not know that when Holmes says: "Do you, Watson, summon a cab", that was a request, not a question.
This is awesome!! Holmes is the coolest character ever! This series is much better than the movie by Downey, the movie is good though. Thanks a lot for uploading!
Do you know what overblown is? Livanov was memorable but Brett captured the essence of Doyle's character, besides I could never get used to having the whole Russian Symphonic Orchestra blasting away in 221B whenever Livanov appeared on the scene.
when I read the books, I can't help but imagine brett as holmes. I loved guy ritchie's version, and RDJ, but when doyle writes about holmes, that is brett
@CheeseGrater107 David Burke, the first Watson, left the show after "Adventures" in order to spend more time with his family. I believe he also personally recommended Edward Hardwicke to take over as Watson.
Brett is better, because he was allowed to show the weaknesses of Sherlock Holmes AND the Watson to Rathbone is forced to be an idiot AND the Rathbone movies were american ... which screwed up the stories completely.
Thanks for the info. I did not know that these actors had died. They created something that will live forever. Have they done anything else I should be looking for?
Cushing was memorable as was Rathbone in his own way although Nigel Bruce will likely never be surpassed as the worst Watson ever. As for Brett he brought a humanity to Doyle's detective and came closer to capturing him than just about anyone else.
@SuperJneel I remember once watching My Fair Lady ( from 1964!) and seeing a young Jeremy Brett in that film. Other than that, I don't really know. Why don't you google their names or look them up on Wikipedia. Btw- Did you know that Edward Hardwicke's father was the great British actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke (The Ten Commandments, King Solomon's Mines, The Winslow Boy, narrator for the original War O f The Worlds and The Picture Of Dorian Gray, etc.)?
I think this is a fair interpretation - as close to the books as you can get. And yes, BBC dramatizations keep closely to the words and it makes it more palatable. Never watch a movie that is 'based on the bestseller, XXXX' They are never as satisfying as the real thing...
I disagree about Bruce: An amiable bumbler in most of them (Watson was anything but), he was absolutely perfect in "The Hound of the Baskervilles," the middle third of which is his, and exactly as Doyle portrayed him.
What is this upperclass-twitty thingy? I think when he deal with this upperclass smart-asspish like the duke and this headmaster - he acts accordingly. I think he is wise and think objectively when he is cracking a case. Jeremy Brett give Holmes a personality - shows his weakness and strength and make him human at least for me to relate to him which I can't find in the book.
God, Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes is definitely one of those ten real-or-fictitious people I would invite to my dinner party- right up there with Jesus Christ and Woody Allen!
@ ForeverTheBeat7..I respectfully disagree with the RDJ/Jude Law version. I think it was a good movie, just lousy Holmes. Agreed on Mr. Brett however. Regards
I especially like the boy's Choir,they sang Holmes' drama Theme in vibration,with middle Age's feeling! About the show!It is not allowable to talk so loudly as Jeremy as Holmes in the school labby!
@kitzlaihel In 1885 (I think that's about when the stories were set) it would equal just over 500,000 pounds today ($US740,000). A lot of money in other words.
An ASTOUNDING performance by Brett, as usual.
And what's more, to make it all the more remarkable, this is in the third and last series he did as Holmes, when his health was fading fast and he was in terrible shape...
RIP Jeremy Brett- you live on in every fan of Holmes heart.
Jeremy Brett brought a new dimension to the role of Holmes which was really very good, and no doubt coloured by his own severe bouts of depression. He was an excellent actor and is underrated in my view.
Possibly THE best of the Brett series ❤️👍
I agree.
The Dancing Men and Musgrave Ritual also rate highly.
one of my favorite episodes. the locations are breathtaking
Another reason I love UA-cam: Taken in the aggregate, this series showed the most true-to-Doyle adaptations, ever.
I will salute the Rathbone/Bruce films for being extremely well-acted and -made, fun to watch (and, due, in no small part to WW II England being not that different from Victorian England), surprisingly faithful to the plots and the mood of the originals, even though they were set in what was then (with two exceptions) a contemporary time.
Jeremy Brett became a legend in such a role and no one equals him. He s the character in person who s turned into reality.
Agreed, I love the start of this episode..Holmes deductive reasoning at its finest...executed with the patience and grace of a leopard and the eloquence of the finest wordsmith...
"........a small occurence perhaps, but only small I think, in the way a vibrating needle may signal an earthquake...."
It was 1985/86. I was 9/10 years old When I saw this on TV for the first time . Thank you soo much from Portugal !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Genious !!!!!
Jeremy Brett is the best Sherlock holmes!!!!! He has got everything to make the perfect Sherlock Holmes, his expressions, his language....Just Awesome!!!!!!!! Love Jeremy Brett!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great to see Alan Howard as the Duke . 2 great actors in the same scene .
Alans voice was a remarkable instrument .
thank you so much for uploading this! i adore jeremy brett as sherlock holmes. he is truly the best.
JB always top form in all his works....❤️
I found this so touching! Sherlock Holmes lying asleep in the sofa. He mast have had a hard job just before. And then that other man is there, just to call his help for a new problem. Has Sherlock ever a moment done to work. He's not a machine that can work endlessly
At last, somebody values that detail as I do! Thanks for commenting on that. This scene at the beginning always touches me deeply because Jeremy always had the gift of humanizing Holmes. It is not the calculating machine that Watson describes to us in A Study in Scarlet or that we may see in other adaptations. We already know that back then Watson didn't know him well enough. However, in these series, Brett´s Holmes may be a genius, outstanding with his deductions and his sublime gestures, but at the same time, he lets us see his vulnerable side through Watson's eyes. I love that with Watson he always feels safe to lower his defenses and how Watson always protects him like when he want to give him one more moment to rest in private. They melt me. I'm still waiting for someone to write a one-shot fanfic about that scene... And the confidence and care with which Watson puts the card in Holmes´ breast pocket. It seems to me that those details are what speak wonders about their close relationship. We all need a friendship as intimate as theirs.
I completely agree with you. Basil Rathbone's version was a good one, but I always felt that his Holmes was a bit too much of a gentleman. As though his solving of crimes was a sort of side-line to his life as an English gentlemen. Kinda like a more serious, British and more sober Thin Man character.
Jeremy Brett embodied the Holmes character completely. The good and the bad of the man. By far at the top of the game.
Brett certainly portrayed Holmes as a logical thinking machine like Doyle portrayed him in the original stories although he also let his humanity show through especially concerning his friendship with Watson unlike any other actor who has ever portrayed Holmes IMHO and he is someone quite a large number of Holmes fans feel will always be the essential Sherlock Holmes.
Brett commands the screen like few ever have, it's hard to take your eyes off him
You kidding me? I love it when he rolls his R's - it's fun hearing him roll his R's. And you are mistaken about the artist as well. His grandma was a sister of Vernet, his great-uncle and the French artist. I'm studying up in his family tree, so I know.
For me Brett was the best Holmes ever!
Jeremy Brett : probably one of the best actor we ever had :)
To anish79 and all others who upload these great episodes of Brett as Sherlock, much appreciation.
@SuperJneel Jeremy Brett died a number of years ago. It broke my heart because he was my favorite Holmes of all time
The terrible irony of it is that the last adventure he filmed was "the Dying Detective".
@@donsylvester2372 really I know he died shortly after filming the last series and had wanted to do them all though I believe a study in Scarlet has never been made well not the proper book version anyway
Whatever Mrs. Hudson's remuneration, tis not enough :)
+Jereme Bernier Holmes could own the house for what he pays her, according to Watson. But he is the worst tenant in London.
juanconchotube yes he shots holes in the walls.set up a lab ,and leaves the rooms in such a mess.
Jereme Bernier "You're underfoot again MRS. HUDSON!".
Are we sure that, after Watson got married and moved away, he didn't actually buy the house and ask Mrs. Hudson to stay as (a first class) house keeper? We get to meet the two main characters when Watson and Holmes become flatmates sharing the rent, but as their careers take off, I'm not sure Holmes' relationship with 221B is mentioned much. Mrs. Hudson is there on Watson's arrival. After his faked death at the waterfall in Switzerland he is able to fake his death again at 221B after ... at least a year - suggesting that either he owned it and left rights for Mrs. Hudson to live there after his death or Mrs. Hudson new so little what she was about she forgot she needed to let the rooms. The former is more plausible. If he rented it from beyond the grave, his enemies would have rumbled his lie.
Yes, Mrs. Hudson is gold. And essential. I used to rent and the agency never did anything like that much for me. No bacon and eggs, no late suppers, just adverts suggesting I extend my tenency. Bless them: "Money for nothing and your nothing at inflated prices" as Dire Straits put it.
I am going calling my doctor. I am addicted. Can't stop watching. Help😊😊😊😊😊
Mee too
To me he was the Sherlock Holmes, period.
He IS the Sherlock holmes. He will always live in our hearts
love Jeremy, he's one of the best Holmes-actors in the world (with Benedict Cumberbatch)
Amazing & Talented!!! Thank You Mr. Jeremy Brett!!! ✨👏✨👏✨👏✨👏✨👏✨👏✨👏
2023
Brett was a great Holmes. To me, he was far more compelling than any of the others I saw, Rathbone, Cushing, Williamson, etc. Having read all the Holmes stories, I'd go so far as to say Brett was even sort of better, more interesting, than the character imagined by Conan Doyle
The client stumbles in and collapses. It's a classic opening to a private eye story. At least the fellow does't have a knife sticking out of his back!
I've loved Sherlock Holmes for many years. Loved the old movies with Basil Rathbone, before I read any of the stories. When I first saw Jeremy Brett play the character on P.B.S., I became inthralled with the character and would not miss an episode. I don't know much about you, Jeremy. Don't know what you're doing now. But you gave me an appreciation for this iconiclastic character that had surpassed me prior to your portrayal of him. You made Mr. Holmes come alive for me. You'll be hard to beat.
He died shortly after filming the last series so never got to film them all
"Shit he passed out! What do we do?"
"Quick Watson, rifle his pockets!"
god I wish that was in the original script😂
"He did crash pretty hard... let's see if he has any opium we can confiscate for the benefit of the general public."
+Sitarya Why "confiscate" opium, when you could simply buy it in a shop? Narcotica were NOT illegal in victorian times and even in WWI soldiers got "care packages" from their families in the trenches.
Just saw this episode on PBS - thank you so much for uploading. Mr. Brett really is phenomenal.
thank you excellent series with the jeremy brett as holmes, the best.
3.23 Huxtable gets up thinking he's talking with Dr. Watson. I like how stunned he is ( he goes silent) when he finds himself face to face with Sherlock Holmes instead. 😀
@Chef316 I love Basil Rathbone's portrayal of Sherlock Holmes. He's my second favorite after Jeremy Brett. I was never crazy about how Watson was depicted in the old films though. They made him look like kind of a buffoon, which he wasn't at all like in the books.
MsAppassionata there was something loveable about Watson being a bumble.maybe that's way they cast him so.
No one could replace Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes.
What would Holmes and Watson do without Mrs. Hudson :)
Starve lol its funny how the different Sherlock's treat her its one of the things I always norice
certainly my dear friend credits to Mrs. Watson😂😂
Jeremy Brett is a superb Sherlock Holmes. Alan Howard is a most wonderful Duke.
The best Sherlock Holmes. 2021.
@jinliangwei Mycroft first appears in the 'Greek Interpreter' and is also in the 'Bruce Partington Plans'... both are excellent episodes.
@AGDIRGIA It is called "Libera Me" written by Patrick Gowers for the soundtrack and can be found on the soundtrack cd and on his choral and organ music cd.
English in the Victorian period was way more classy and devoid of cheap slangs unlike today. I wish to be teleported to that period in England.
Agreed. But we'd both have to learn a new language. For example, I did not know that when Holmes says: "Do you, Watson, summon a cab", that was a request, not a question.
This is awesome!! Holmes is the coolest character ever! This series is much better than the movie by Downey, the movie is good though.
Thanks a lot for uploading!
Do you know what overblown is?
Livanov was memorable but Brett captured the essence of Doyle's character, besides I could never get used to having the whole Russian Symphonic Orchestra blasting away in 221B whenever Livanov appeared on the scene.
i just watched another episode on the TV. now i am addicted to the TV show! :P
“ Huxtable’s Sidelights on Horace may possibly recall my name to your memories ".
when I read the books, I can't help but imagine brett as holmes. I loved guy ritchie's version, and RDJ, but when doyle writes about holmes, that is brett
I love the opening theme to this show. :)
In real life, Dr. Huxtable ended up being a villain
@CheeseGrater107 David Burke, the first Watson, left the show after "Adventures" in order to spend more time with his family. I believe he also personally recommended Edward Hardwicke to take over as Watson.
Anyone else see the older version with Basil Rathbone as Holmes??? I enjoy both actors very much.
@SuperJneel P.S.- I believe Edward Hardwick (Watson) also passed away more recently.
i think jermy brett is sherlock holmes
Seema Desai best sherlock is basil
Brett is better, because he was allowed to show the weaknesses of Sherlock Holmes AND the Watson to Rathbone is forced to be an idiot AND the Rathbone movies were american ... which screwed up the stories completely.
He thought so too which made him so great.
I think its more Sherlock Holmes playing Jeremy Brett.
@@omkartanawde1536 no way Jose baaol was in quite poor productions which makes his performance all the better but he wasn't as good as Brett
Brett was the ideal Sherlock Holmes.
rip
jermey brett
I was watching some of his film s and tv
Besides just sherlock.what a total Fox.
'You may have heard of it...?'
'No.'
Thanks for the info. I did not know that these actors had died. They created something that will live forever. Have they done anything else I should be looking for?
@ForeverTheBeat7 I say to anyone who will listen, that Daniel Day-Lewis should play Sherlock Holmes.
That "HA!" at 5:05
Cushing was memorable as was Rathbone in his own way although
Nigel Bruce will likely never be surpassed as the worst Watson ever.
As for Brett he brought a humanity to Doyle's detective and came closer to capturing him than just about
anyone else.
Sherlock Holmes playing Jeremy Brett.
lolz one of these episodes was my finals in school.
so awesome!!!
@SuperJneel I remember once watching My Fair Lady ( from 1964!) and seeing a young Jeremy Brett in that film. Other than that, I don't really know. Why don't you google their names or look them up on Wikipedia. Btw- Did you know that Edward Hardwicke's father was the great British actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke (The Ten Commandments, King Solomon's Mines, The Winslow Boy, narrator for the original War O f The Worlds and The Picture Of Dorian Gray, etc.)?
the choir is beautiful
And who would you have selected for the part? Any mention of RDJ wins you a kewpie doll and a raspberry.
Could someone tell me what the name of the choir piece those boys were singing in the beginning? Heavenly music, just took me out of this earth.
I think this is a fair interpretation - as close to the books as you can get. And yes, BBC dramatizations keep closely to the words and it makes it more palatable. Never watch a movie that is 'based on the bestseller, XXXX' They are never as satisfying as the real thing...
I disagree about Bruce: An amiable bumbler in most of them (Watson was anything but), he was absolutely perfect in "The Hound of the Baskervilles," the middle third of which is his, and exactly as Doyle portrayed him.
Brandy is the cure for everything.
No Jeremy Brett died in the 1990's and Ralph Fiennes plays Voldemort.
I love Jeremy Brett's facial tics....
What is this upperclass-twitty thingy? I think when he deal with this upperclass smart-asspish like the duke and this headmaster - he acts accordingly. I think he is wise and think objectively when he is cracking a case. Jeremy Brett give Holmes a personality - shows his weakness and strength and make him human at least for me to relate to him which I can't find in the book.
AND AGAIN WITH THE BRANDY!!!!!
dont try to tell me other wise i know damn well it's brandy.
@GlassCtiy Brandy actually is beneficial to drinkers as a mild source of antioxidants.
no one at all. or "anticipating what storm hath blown you hither".
i hate it because of one reason that is they didn't make study in scarlet
Dude Jeremy Brett WAS Sherlock Holmes
Absolutely not
He was a actor
*An
Watching in 2017
Jeremy in superb form here .!
Did he say the Abergavenny murders? Love that place!
i agree ..as he always said "elementry" my dear watson......
God, Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes is definitely one of those ten real-or-fictitious people I would invite to my dinner party- right up there with Jesus Christ and Woody Allen!
Dr.Huxtable was said to be the doctor that was whith Holmes in his dying moments.
@manojnanda001 actually, as he never said 'elementary, my dear watson. one of those famous quotes never actually existed. in the books, anyway.
In the opening at .28 what’s going on there? It looks like some kids came up and pickpocketed one of the adults.. it happens so fast... lol
Here here!
the boys choir is stuningg
I love the episode where sherlock's brother shows. Does anyone konw the title? Thanks!
The Bruce-Partington Plans, The Greek Interpreter, The Golden Pince Nez and The Mazarin Stone - as I remember.
@Wildave007 In which book was this mentioned?
Absolutely
Thank You!
@ ForeverTheBeat7..I respectfully disagree with the RDJ/Jude Law version. I think it was a good movie, just lousy Holmes. Agreed on Mr. Brett however.
Regards
anybody know of the hindi translation of this..now a days aired in Fox history in India?
Not as good as the book, but still worth watching. >> agreed
I especially like the boy's Choir,they sang Holmes' drama Theme in vibration,with middle Age's feeling!
About the show!It is not allowable to talk so loudly as Jeremy as Holmes in the school labby!
Absolutely, RDJ made Holmes fit his character but . Brett developed the Sherlock Homes character .;
@lordrandal90 Totally agree. Best regards from Portugal.
Thanks.
@firetrucksnfishcakes No way, Basil Rathbone was the ultimate Holmes!
@kitzlaihel In 1885 (I think that's about when the stories were set) it would equal just over 500,000 pounds today ($US740,000). A lot of money in other words.