Sherlock Holmes

Watson – Redcoat / Wait for the Punchline

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  • Title: Watson – Redcoat / Wait for the Punchline
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The pilot episode of Watson was pretty rough. The next two in which Dr. John Watson (Morris Chestnut) helps a man believing himself to be a colonial British soldier (Damian O’Hare) after being shot in the head and a stand-up comedian who collapses from a hereditary condition, all while the minions of Moriarty (Randall Park) work through Watson’s friend to screw with the good doctor, does show some improvement. The Moriarty segments involving Shinwell Johnson (Ritchie Coster) remain incredibly awkward, and Watson’s team of doctors still hasn’t quite clicked although Ingrid (Eve Harlow) and Sasha (Inga Schlingmann) both get some nice moments over the two episodes, although I’m still not interested in any of their personal lives (I’m already tired of Watson’s as well).

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Watson – Watson

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  • Title: Watson – Watson
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Something akin to House with Sherlock Holmes trappings, the opening episode of Watson gives us Dr. John Watson (Morris Chestnut) starting up a cutting-edge clinic six-months after the deaths of Holmes and Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. The case of the week involves a pregnant woman (Anjelica Bette Fellini) believed to have a genetic disorder that will soon kill her, although Watson and his team begin to investigate alternatives as the episode runs through various false diagnoses before finding the true cause of her symptoms. Along the way we also get glimpses of Watson’s troubled relationship with his ex (Rochelle Aytes) who he abandoned to help Holmes on a final adventure that only Watson returned from.

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The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes

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  • Title: The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes & Silver Blaze
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Film Masters’ Restored Archive Collection collects the final two Sherlock Holmes movies starring Arthur Wontner in this double-feature single-disc Blu-ray. Based on The Valley of Fear, The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes gives us Wontner as a retiring Holmes who, with Dr. Watson (Ian Fleming), investigates the apparent murder of Mr. John Douglas (Leslie Perrins) of Birlestone Manor who turns out to be quite alive despite the machinations of a secret society and Professor Moriarty (Lyn Harding). The film incorporates an extended flashback to events in America (explaining the motives for wanting Douglas dead) as well as aspects of “The Final Problem” involving Moriarty’s visit to Holmes at 221B Baker Street and an apparent fall to death which ends the film.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – The Speckled Band

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  • Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – The Speckled Band
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Speckled Band

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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