Granada Episode List

For everyone's future reference :) I keep mine in a notebook (I call it my Holmes Notebook - I wrote my entire rough draft of the Gold-Engraved Box in there, plus a bunch of blog post rough drafts and notes from an SH computer game my sister and I played :D) and put a little checkmark by the ones I have seen. Which...I've seen a lot, believe me. lol

And for those who don't know - Granada is the creator of the series with Jeremy Brett. You probably hear me (and Grace) talking about him quite a lot...he's our favorite actor who has portrayed Holmes on TV as of yet...he's irreplacable, in my honest opinion.

These are in order of their air date, I believe...don't quote me on that though :D Each episode is 1 hour long...unless I specify (there are 5 full-length movies :D)

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Series: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

A Scandal in Bohemia
The Dancing Men
The Naval Treaty
The Solitary Cyclist
The Crooked Man
The Speckled Band
The Blue Carbuncle (this is a good Christmas one :D)
The Copper Beeches
The Greek Interpreter
The Norwood Builder
The Resident Patient
The Red-Headed League
The Final Problem

Series: Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Empty House
The Abbey Grange
The Musgrave Ritual
The Second Stain
The Man with the Twisted Lip
The Priory School
The Six Napoleans
The Sign of Four (this is a full-length movie..2 hours I believe)
The Devil's Foot
Silver Blaze
The Wisteria Lodge
The Bruce-Partington Plans
The Hound of the Baskervilles (another 2 hour long movie)

Series: Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
The Thor Bridge
The Shoscombe Old Place
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
The Illustrious Client
The Creeping Man
The Master Blackmailer (2 hours - based on Charles A. Milverton)
The Last Vampyre (2 hours - based on the Sussex Vampire)
The Eligible Bachelor (2 hours - based on Noble Bachelor)

Series: Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

The Three Gables
The Dying Detective
The Golden Pince-Nez
The Red Circle
The Mazarin Stone (JB is only in this one for about...2 minutes - he was too sick to film. Mycroft and Watson solve it - this story is combined with the Three Garridebs. It's a little weird..but well done nonetheless.)
The Cardboard Box

They would've kept going, but the Cardboard Box was finished and released in April of 1994 - JB died September of 95...his health was declining rapidly. So...yeah. He was super sick. And only 61 :(

Anyway, enjoy the list, I hope it's helpful :D

Holmes Trivia 2: Solutions

1. The Five Orange Pips

2. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box

3. The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet

4. The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb

5. The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

6. The Adventure of the Yellow Face

7. The Adventure of the Illustrious Client

8. Jabez Wilson

9. Mrs. St. Clair

10. No client - just Holmes' curiosity :) (some would probably say Peterson brought the case to Holmes...but really, he just brought him the blue carbuncle. Holmes ended up catching a criminal as a result..but it wasn't really a presented case :D)

Holmes Trivia 2

Time for round 2!

This round contains 10 questions (yes, I changed it up a bit ;D).

Remember, no googling! Only use the books for reference if absolutely needed. Try to rely on your wits, you're all smart (otherwise you wouldn't be a Holmesian :D)!

This round, I am going to list a client's name - you list the case (the title of the mystery they brought to Holmes), or I'll list the case, you list the client's name (those are harder, believe me :D)

Tell me your answers in a comment, and I will put up the correct answers in a new post or another comment.

Name the Case:
1. John Openshaw

2. Susan Cushing

3. Alexander Holder

4. Victor Hatherley

5. Violet Hunter

6. Grant Munro

7. James Damery

Name the Client
8. The Red-Headed League

9. The Man with the Twisted Lip

10. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

Alright. I think it's all straightened out now...

Ok, I think I got this all fixed.

What I did, is import the old blog to this new one, which is, in fact, the exact same thing as the old one, with fixed html. The old link (if you need to go back) I changed, so that you guys would be automatically transferred to the new, fixed blog: www.diaryof-aholmesian.blogspot.com

Just so you know it's exactly the same, it just looks a lot better.

Nothing has changed, except for the followers. So, if you were a follower of this blog and actually had your name and picture down in the "Fellow Sherlockians" box, then please go ahead and follow it again.

I'll give it a couple of days and see how many people transfer before deleting the old blog. Hopefully everybody makes it alright!

Sorry about the confusion, I won't be doing this again anytime in the near future!
Bre

Under Construction...

Hey everybody...

You may have noticed in the past few days that something weird is going on with the blog...

I have been trying out new blog templates, and somehow the html got a little messed up with the blog description on the old layout.

So...I'm going to be messing around with this for a bit, and trying to get it back to normal. In the meantime, just know that nothing's wrong, and the old layout will be back soon (hopefully ;D)

Bre

The Baker Street Irregulars

A sometimes overlooked, but incredibly vital, part of Holmes' information network are the Baker Street Irregulars. Generally young waifs on the streets of London, the Irregulars can get into almost anywhere and observe almost anything.

I wonder, did the Irregulars know or guess the magnitude of their assignments? Did they realize the genius they were working for? Or were they only in it for the shillings it might garner?

Such are my musings, but, whatever the level of information or appreciation the boys may have known or felt about Sherlock Holmes, it is quite certain that Holmes' work would have been considerably less efficient without their valuable assistance.

The Dancing Men

I had to laugh when I ran across these photos someone posted on holmesian.net

Holmes explaining how he deciphered the code made up of dancing men...and showing live examples!

Oh how I love Jeremy Brett.

Haha...

Took a Sherlock Holmes quiz last night and thought I would post my results right now.

It basically tells you which character you would be from the canon...

I had to laugh. My number one result was Mycroft :D

Why? I have no clue.

But, my number two result was Sherlock. So that made me feel better, apparently the computer thinks I'm really smart if they put both brothers as my first two characters :) And they look like the same percentage, though there aren't any numbers.

Number three was Watson...

Number four was Irene Adler (!?) lol

Number five was Lestrade (haha)

Number six was Wiggins (lol...)

And then numbers seven and eight were Moriarty and Mrs. Hudson. But I don't have a percentage for those :)

Missing Tooth!!

Hah! Did I grasp your attention yet?

Yes, I said 'Missing Tooth.' And I said it for a reason.

While skimming the Holmes stories this morning for a reasonable and worthwhile blog post topic, I ran across this tidbit from "The Empty House"

.:. "My collection of M's is a fine one," said he. "Moriarty himself is enough to make any letter illustrious, and here is Morgan the poisoner, and Merridew of abominable memory, and Mathews, who knocked out my left canine in the waiting-room at Charing Cross, and, finally, here is our friend of to-night." .:.

However did we miss this, the first time, and even the second time through the canon? And, for some reason, I really cannot picture Holmes missing his left canine. I mean, be honest...

Any thoughts?

- Bre