From the first time I saw this series on A&E in my teens I always thought it was a great attention to detail that the intro music included a violin as the predominant instrument in honor of Holmes.
I love everything about Brett's portrayal of Holmes. From deduction, over mood swings to his very appearance... I love Brett's method, in general, he just amazes me whenever I watch him act.
i absolutely agree, it smells like late 19th century England. Personally, I love the incredible wood work in the interior scenes and the architecture in general.
The hairstylists of the production team nearly had a heart attack when they saw Brett appear on set one day with his hair cut so short. He had done it in the middle of one of his manic depressive episodes - I think he personally regretted doing that afterwards but what was done was done.
"Private detectices are a class with whom I have no sympathy--" "SIT!" Scott-Eckles shuts up and parks his butt on the sofa. Holmes, the cranky rich guy whisperer. XD
Brett: the ultimate master Holmes! In regards to other entries on the topic below, I personally like the Robert Downey Junior films. However, Downey isn't portraying Holmes at all in those films. Downey's character is enjoyable only if you forget they are supposed to be Sherlock Holmes films and think of them more along the lines of Indiana Jones type films.
Jeremy Brett IS Sherlock Holms! Cumberboch is great for the modern Holms but no one can replace Brett! It's great I can binge watch all of them. Pull out the popcorn!
I'd never hears of this series until a few months ago. Great stuff as I've always been a fan of Sherlock Holmes. I didn't even know who Jeremy Brett was but he is a great actor and I think he plays an awesome Holmes. BTW, I also liked the Guy Ritchie adaptation. It had a great story.
I haven't seen the movies yet, but Benedict Cumberbatch does an incredibly good job as Holmes in the modern setting. He keeps all the quirkiness of the character, and doesn't succumb to any kind of hollywood-style cliches. I completely love Jeremy Brett as Holmes, but I love Benedict as much.
While taking some liberties that are required by the medium, and some that are permissible by their reverence, there has never been a film rendering of Sherlock Holmes that is more faithful, both the letter, and to the spirit of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original creation, than the BBC's Sherlock Holmes series, featuring Jeremy Brett and Nathan Hardwicke. Few productions, across all A/V media, achieve the synergy, as does this; a synergy that is, for frame of reference, also struck by the CBS mini-series, Lonesome Dove. These are exemplary productions that optimize this storytelling medium to it's maximum power.
@mollitoff: by that time they had the Metropolitan Police Force (founded by Sir Robert Peel in 1820-something I think), they didn't have Bow Street Runners any more. But you are right, at that time members of the police force (and their predecessors, the Bow Street Runners!) were regarded as very low down the social order for some reason.
A faithful adaptation that actually improves on the story with a faster pace, H&W getting to the scene faster and taking part in the chase (instead of hearing about it later), a more active Watson, the dueling pistol bits, etc. But it left out why Eccles was important and the voodoo angle which was interesting. Very well done overall.
@bigbenboa To be absolutely precise (this being Holmes, he'd expect it), the medicine reacted badly with a scarred and damaged heart and with his heavy smoking. In the early days of medicating bipolar, lithium (the most common medicine used) tended to be used at the highest tolerable dose, compared to today when it's at the lowest dose that still works. The hot studio lighting might also have made the medicine more toxic if it was lithium. The combination of factors caused the problems.
While in college, my Engl. Lit Prof, a man with 3 Phds. one in World LIt, another in English-American Lit. he had done various 'study-time', and visited various sites in the Life of Doyle. as a member of a Doyle Society and a Holmes Society...he often discussed with the class about whom Doyle drew from his personal life to 'flesh-out' his characters....He was the 2nd personal, in my life, the fact that Holmes was a 'hodge-podge' of ADHD/AUTISM...a highly Intelligent Character, almost a 'savant' think in terms of 'Rain Man', but with a far better ability to personally interact. The Prof. indicated that when he was at the college where Doyle studied; he and the members of the Doyle Society met up with a local expert, who discussed the college acquaintance of Doyle, who helped lay the 'grounding outline' of the Holmes characteristics,,(Doyle, want to have a better friendship--But, the 'group of friends, put too much peer-pressure. upon him for 'hang'n' with some one who is 'damaged-goods'...the gentleman--said that a member of Doyle's college buddies was this outline for Holmes stature and looks..some upper-class rather good-looking Guy, who inspired 'crushes' or hopes of Bromances among his fellow students. This does NOT mean to infer a sexual nature to any of the 'relationships'. For,in fact, it was more than expected to have such a 'smash' or sling, whilst attending and helped to reinforce the tight Bonds that would follow in their later careers..
sorry-having some problems posting. I just wanted to finish by saying that i feel it is a great time to be a Holmes fan-just walk into your local bookstore -alot more fun stuff to read. Thank you for the video! I love Jeremy Brett. These collections are pricey in my opinion.
I think in the late 1800's London ,Scotland Yard was a new and inefficient institution.Maybe that's why Sherlock Holmes got so popular with the public? I've read that England was in a major depression because they fell behind the times in industry and most people had to steal to survive.London was a dirty sprawl-that wasn't fog depicted in these films,it was pollution. I guess,coming from a depressed town myself i didn't mind the new Hollywood movie because i think
I agree. Also, it's good to remember that Holmes would have seemed very racy to Conan Doyle's Victorian reader: He boxed, took cocaine, rubbed shoulders with the lowest classes, slipped disguised into the grimmest slums. Bow Street Runners -- the closest profession to his at the time-- were far below Holmes' social class. I think the Downey role is playing with what was between the lines that Conan Doyle wrote. Jeremy Brett will always be the SH to me, but I look forward to the movie.
@Melchekzanikhar I sould've put it differently: I love how he portrays Holmes, how he portrays deduction and the whole process of it. Sorry you didn't understand me.
Arthur Wontner played Sherlock Homes in several movies in the early 30s. I prefer his interpretation of Holmes to Brett or Rathbone. His movies are found on UA-cam.
@jlovebirch Agreed. Granada tried to put everything into single timeslots, which over-compressed the story at times. There wasn't really enough extra to make two episodes of this story, even if they'd been inclined, so it's forgivable. Particularly, as you say, the adaptation is extremely faithful to the original and does polish and tighten it up. This is a brilliant production.
Salright LOL, Me I like the Irene Adler from 'A Scandal In Bohemia', the one in this upcoming film however... well I feel about her kind of like I do about Downey as Holmes, maybe this film will somehow be 100 times better than all the trailers out so far, we'll see.
What bothered me most about Robert Downey's interpretation (I think it utterly sucked) is that everybody seems to have forgotten that Holmes was a victorian gentleman, he would never act in such a vulgar (modern macho) way. I agree, Brett's Holmes is the closest.
i know what you are saying. If you read about JB, by this time he was battling mental illness. Still without a doubt the BEST Sherlock Holmes character actor ever. I am cringing at the thought of Robert Downey/Guy Ritchie's version.
Though I generally agree with everyone's comments about JB's portrayal of Holmes(I'm actually a Rathbone man myself-but what of that?).But I don't think it was just about how he played THIS role ,so much as his self-styled craft and observations as a thoroughly engaging physical and cerebral ACTOR perse. (not persay) That puts him ahead of the rest of the field---Unfortunately this type of artisan is in all too short supply in these times!!!!!
@bigbenboa I just watched it, and I must say it was.... tolerable. Barely. Mr. Brett, you will always be remembered fondly as THE Sherlock Holmes - without a doubt.
Personally I'm going to wait to see what the general consensus on this film is before going to see it, if Sherlock Holmes as a character isn't made into a one note joke by Guy Ritchie and Warner Brothers and they actually have some respect for the original source material I'll give it a chance, otherwise...
I agree Brett is the best to ever portray Holmes. I disagree however that Robert Downey Jr. was or isn't fit to play Holmes. Even personally he's much like Holmes. A great actor when on his game who struggled with an addiction and is a skilled martial artist. His version of Holmes was still very close to the stories. Both Sherlock Holmes and A Game Of Shadows were much in line with Doyle's style of the stories.
Jeremy Brett is nice, but he kind of makes Holmes a nerveous wreck or smthg... I have always pictured him as a sharp, reliable eccentric gentleman, whom stability radiates away from.. Just like watson described him: having "eagle-like" features.... I don't see it here... (sry all JB fans, he was good, respect... but it's just that I didn't picture Holmes quite so loud, jumpy or nervous...)
'Holmes' gets a knee to the crotch by Irene Adler, and has Watson accuse him of stealing his clothes and slugging him as well, not to mention apparantly he's never seen soap or a razor in this film, I'd call it not so much 'playing with what was between the lines that Conan Doyle wrote' as veering off the pages altogether.
I really like Jeremy Brett but Basil Rathbone and Christopher Plummer were also top notch; Robert Downey as Holmes? Another Hollywood botchamania or crapfest.
A well done series but I do not think that Brett is the definite Holmes; he is too eccentric, too melodramatic, and too harsh. The real star in this series, to me, is Dr. Watson. This one, Edward Hardwick is the son of the great actor, Sir Cedric Hardwick. He's a perfect Watson: loyal, not too bright (but not the bumbler Nigel Bruce was) and a very good actor in his own right.
Conan Doyle's Watson was very "bright". Brighter than some of the detectives and inspectors he and Holmes worked with. Sometimes even seeing things Holmes overlooked or leading Holmes back on the right track. I dont know where this notion comes from that Watson should be in the least bit a simpleton.
From the first time I saw this series on A&E in my teens I always thought it was a great attention to detail that the intro music included a violin as the predominant instrument in honor of Holmes.
I love everything about Brett's portrayal of Holmes. From deduction, over mood swings to his very appearance...
I love Brett's method, in general, he just amazes me whenever I watch him act.
Jeremy Brett will for ever live in our hearts. I shed a tear when he died.
The best Holmes EVER! He’s a perfect Sherlock HOLMES!
What would I do without this intelligent, remarkably acted story.
This series production values blow my mind every time. Just the background details are amazing. Thanks for uploading!!!
i absolutely agree, it smells like late 19th century England. Personally, I love the incredible wood work in the interior
scenes and the architecture in general.
The hairstylists of the production team nearly had a heart attack when they saw Brett appear on set one day with his hair cut so short. He had done it in the middle of one of his manic depressive episodes - I think he personally regretted doing that afterwards but what was done was done.
"Private detectices are a class with whom I have no sympathy--"
"SIT!"
Scott-Eckles shuts up and parks his butt on the sofa.
Holmes, the cranky rich guy whisperer. XD
thanks a lot for posting this series...just loved to watch them all over again..make one go back in time..
Brett: the ultimate master Holmes! In regards to other entries on the topic below, I personally like the Robert Downey Junior films. However, Downey isn't portraying Holmes at all in those films. Downey's character is enjoyable only if you forget they are supposed to be Sherlock Holmes films and think of them more along the lines of Indiana Jones type films.
"SIT! Mr Scott Eccles." I love how Jeremy Brett can make the most unremarkable line into something you actually rewind and watch twice.
Jeremy Brett The Amazing Sherlock Holmes!! ✨👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I LOVE this episode.
Jeremy Brett IS Sherlock Holms! Cumberboch is great for the modern Holms but no one can replace Brett! It's great I can binge watch all of them. Pull out the popcorn!
Donald Churchill, the actor who plays Scott Eccles, also played Watson in the 1983 version of the hound of the baskervilles.
i remember this from the books. great story.
Thank you very much for uploading these episodes :)
I'd never hears of this series until a few months ago. Great stuff as I've always been a fan of Sherlock Holmes. I didn't even know who Jeremy Brett was but he is a great actor and I think he plays an awesome Holmes. BTW, I also liked the Guy Ritchie adaptation. It had a great story.
Funny how 'grotesque' has changed meaning in 100 years
Merci pour votre partage
i identify w Mr holmes so much, cos i too am afraid of boredom.
anyway,RIP Mr Brett, you are missed.
alexander dela cruz, that's strange, because you're a very boring person!
The day Jeremy passed away I felt as if it was a close family member of mine that passed. A very sad day indeed.
I haven't seen the movies yet, but Benedict Cumberbatch does an incredibly good job as Holmes in the modern setting. He keeps all the quirkiness of the character, and doesn't succumb to any kind of hollywood-style cliches. I completely love Jeremy Brett as Holmes, but I love Benedict as much.
While taking some liberties that are required by the medium, and some that are permissible by their reverence, there has never been a film rendering of Sherlock Holmes that is more faithful, both the letter, and to the spirit of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original creation, than the BBC's Sherlock Holmes series, featuring Jeremy Brett and Nathan Hardwicke. Few productions, across all A/V media, achieve the synergy, as does this; a synergy that is, for frame of reference, also struck by the CBS mini-series, Lonesome Dove. These are exemplary productions that optimize this storytelling medium to it's maximum power.
Jeremy Brett
What a personality greatest actor come from england and dynamic charm
@mollitoff: by that time they had the Metropolitan Police Force (founded by Sir Robert Peel in 1820-something I think), they didn't have Bow Street Runners any more. But you are right, at that time members of the police force (and their predecessors, the Bow Street Runners!) were regarded as very low down the social order for some reason.
Jeremy Brett WAS Sherlock Holmes!
A faithful adaptation that actually improves on the story with a faster pace, H&W getting to the scene faster and taking part in the chase (instead of hearing about it later), a more active Watson, the dueling pistol bits, etc. But it left out why Eccles was important and the voodoo angle which was interesting. Very well done overall.
@bigbenboa To be absolutely precise (this being Holmes, he'd expect it), the medicine reacted badly with a scarred and damaged heart and with his heavy smoking. In the early days of medicating bipolar, lithium (the most common medicine used) tended to be used at the highest tolerable dose, compared to today when it's at the lowest dose that still works. The hot studio lighting might also have made the medicine more toxic if it was lithium. The combination of factors caused the problems.
What an astonishingly impressive thing to deduce :)
While in college, my Engl. Lit Prof, a man with 3 Phds. one in World LIt, another in English-American Lit. he had done various 'study-time', and visited various sites in the Life of Doyle. as a member of a Doyle Society and a Holmes Society...he often discussed with the class about whom Doyle drew from his personal life to 'flesh-out' his characters....He was the 2nd personal, in my life, the fact that Holmes was a 'hodge-podge' of ADHD/AUTISM...a highly Intelligent Character, almost a 'savant' think in terms of 'Rain Man', but with a far better ability to personally interact. The Prof. indicated that when he was at the college where Doyle studied; he and the members of the Doyle Society met up with a local expert, who discussed the college acquaintance of Doyle, who helped lay the 'grounding outline' of the Holmes characteristics,,(Doyle, want to have a better friendship--But, the 'group of friends, put too much peer-pressure. upon him for 'hang'n' with some one who is 'damaged-goods'...the gentleman--said that a member of Doyle's college buddies was this outline for Holmes stature and looks..some upper-class rather good-looking Guy, who inspired 'crushes' or hopes of Bromances among his fellow students. This does NOT mean to infer a sexual nature to any of the 'relationships'. For,in fact, it was more than expected to have such a 'smash' or sling, whilst attending and helped to reinforce the tight Bonds that would follow in their later careers..
agreed with LH99's comment that watching Jeremy Brett is always such a treat!
sorry-having some problems posting.
I just wanted to finish by saying that i feel it is a great time to be a Holmes fan-just walk into your local bookstore -alot more fun stuff to read.
Thank you for the video! I love Jeremy Brett. These collections are pricey in my opinion.
Brett is the best!!
best opening ever
I cannot see Jeremy Brett and Sherlock Holmes as 2 different individuals..........
THE ORIGINAL sherlock holmes !! jeremmy brett did only one thing
in his life. this character !
dupin is the original detective and poe was the first to popularize this genre.
Jeremy Brett WAS Sherlock Holmes!
JW
I think in the late 1800's London ,Scotland Yard was a new and inefficient institution.Maybe that's why Sherlock Holmes got so popular with the public? I've read that England was in a major depression because they fell behind the times in industry and most people had to steal to survive.London was a dirty sprawl-that wasn't fog depicted in these films,it was pollution. I guess,coming from a depressed town myself i didn't mind the new Hollywood movie because i think
I agree. Also, it's good to remember that Holmes would have seemed very racy to Conan Doyle's Victorian reader: He boxed, took cocaine, rubbed shoulders with the lowest classes, slipped disguised into the grimmest slums. Bow Street Runners -- the closest profession to his at the time-- were far below Holmes' social class. I think the Downey role is playing with what was between the lines that Conan Doyle wrote. Jeremy Brett will always be the SH to me, but I look forward to the movie.
I totally agree, but I do like Rathbone.
I think Amazon has these. They use to play on PBS, but stopped after "The Final Problem" which wasn't the "final" problem at all.
@Melchekzanikhar I sould've put it differently: I love how he portrays Holmes, how he portrays deduction and the whole process of it. Sorry you didn't understand me.
You're right. In fact Holmes himself notes that he considers such a comment an insult.
Dupin was the literary predecessor to Holmes - Conan Doyle admitted it.
Arthur Wontner played Sherlock Homes in several movies in the early 30s. I prefer his interpretation of Holmes to Brett or Rathbone. His movies are found on UA-cam.
it's on youtube. :) search for it
An "untide"percon,shuips things aside,not over his head.....
@jlovebirch Agreed. Granada tried to put everything into single timeslots, which over-compressed the story at times. There wasn't really enough extra to make two episodes of this story, even if they'd been inclined, so it's forgivable. Particularly, as you say, the adaptation is extremely faithful to the original and does polish and tighten it up. This is a brilliant production.
I see by the messages that I'm about 12 years late, that's about right. Thank you, good luck to all. 😁
Holmes: SIT!!!!!!!!!!!
hahahaha
THIS IS English! THIS IS THE accent!
Salright LOL, Me I like the Irene Adler from 'A Scandal In Bohemia',
the one in this upcoming film however...
well I feel about her kind of like I do about Downey as Holmes, maybe this film will somehow be 100 times better than all the trailers out so far, we'll see.
What bothered me most about Robert Downey's interpretation (I think it utterly sucked) is that everybody seems to have forgotten that Holmes was a victorian gentleman, he would never act in such a vulgar (modern macho) way. I agree, Brett's Holmes is the closest.
did they ever make a movie of the hound of the baskervilles with jeremy brett?
Cooool
Downey jr is.. different..(?). I think Benedict cumberbatch is one of the best Holmes ever played after Jeremy brett and basil rathbone :B
@jwyche totally agree!, tho dont like the way hes styleing his hiar in this series..bit to informal
@gwatson678 Very true!
i know what you are saying. If you read about JB, by this time he was battling mental illness. Still without a doubt the BEST Sherlock Holmes character actor ever.
I am cringing at the thought of Robert Downey/Guy Ritchie's version.
holms is supposed to smoke a clay churchwarden when indoors.
Though I generally agree with everyone's comments about JB's portrayal of Holmes(I'm actually a Rathbone man myself-but what of that?).But I don't think it was just about how he played THIS role ,so much as his self-styled craft and observations as a thoroughly engaging physical and cerebral ACTOR perse. (not persay) That puts him ahead of the rest of the field---Unfortunately this type of artisan is in all too short supply in these times!!!!!
Apparently this video is very popular with spammers, lol It must be a keyword for the movie.
@bigbenboa I just watched it, and I must say it was.... tolerable. Barely. Mr. Brett, you will always be remembered fondly as THE Sherlock Holmes - without a doubt.
Personally I'm going to wait to see what the general consensus on this film is before going to see it, if Sherlock Holmes as a character isn't made into
a one note joke by Guy Ritchie and Warner Brothers and they actually have some respect for the original source material I'll give it a chance,
otherwise...
I don't think it has a separate name
I think the less dandyish or fopish and more action adapted Holmes and Watson would just work better for their environment.
@crockyoshighty I think that's the best comment I've ever read.
I agree Brett is the best to ever portray Holmes. I disagree however that Robert Downey Jr. was or isn't fit to play Holmes. Even personally he's much like Holmes. A great actor when on his game who struggled with an addiction and is a skilled martial artist. His version of Holmes was still very close to the stories. Both Sherlock Holmes and A Game Of Shadows were much in line with Doyle's style of the stories.
Did Scott Eccles just say "hrmm...looking foward to showing you my collection of..pornography"? Because it sure as hell sounded like it. Squick.
I do hope someone's paying all these spammers!
Jeremy Brett is nice, but he kind of makes Holmes a nerveous wreck or smthg... I have always pictured him as a sharp, reliable eccentric gentleman, whom stability radiates away from.. Just like watson described him: having "eagle-like" features.... I don't see it here... (sry all JB fans, he was good, respect... but it's just that I didn't picture Holmes quite so loud, jumpy or nervous...)
Sherlock Holmes- solves crimes, smokes, takes drugs and plays the violin like a professional. I wanna be like him :D
I beg you to read "A Study in Scarlet" and revise your comment.
i don't like jeremy's hair here. he looks more like holmes when it's slick back
My hat is topper than yours.
'Holmes' gets a knee to the crotch by Irene Adler, and has Watson accuse him of stealing his clothes and slugging him as well, not to mention apparantly he's never seen soap or a razor in this film,
I'd call it not so much 'playing with what was between the lines that Conan Doyle wrote' as veering off the pages altogether.
Um... cocaine.
I really like Jeremy Brett but Basil Rathbone and Christopher Plummer were also top notch;
Robert Downey as Holmes? Another Hollywood botchamania or crapfest.
@firetrucksnfishcakes ANYONE would be better than Robert Downey Jr...I detest that man and his acting!
yawn yawn - dont we all hate a know it all
A well done series but I do not think that Brett is the definite Holmes; he is too eccentric, too melodramatic, and too harsh. The real star in this series, to me, is Dr. Watson. This one, Edward Hardwick is the son of the great actor, Sir Cedric Hardwick. He's a perfect Watson: loyal, not too bright (but not the bumbler Nigel Bruce was) and a very good actor in his own right.
what about David Burke as Dr.watson...?
I love Nigel bruce.....
kitty baby Me too.....
Ian Richardson is also good.....
Conan Doyle's Watson was very "bright". Brighter than some of the detectives and inspectors he and Holmes worked with. Sometimes even seeing things Holmes overlooked or leading Holmes back on the right track. I dont know where this notion comes from that Watson should be in the least bit a simpleton.