Thanks for uploading this. It is one of my favourite bbc documentaries: with background stories for Dracula, Frankenstein, Jekyll&Hide and Hound of the Baskervilles.
I want to join the others in thanking you for the posting AND pleading for the Frankenstein episode to be uploaded as well...When I made the switch from VHS tape to DVD so much of my collection was tossed-these classic documentaries...Still hurts when I think about it...
Dear Tom You (and others ) ARE the reasons this system works...The generosity with knowledge and items is stupendous!..There are a few crackpots but on average most of the participants GIVE something positive...MANY, MANY THANKS!
I also, lost approximately 1/2 (700+ films 🎞️) of my VHS tape, sci-fi/horror collection, when my brother callously sold, my family's home. Which in turn, gave me hardly any time, to retrieve them.
Delightful documentary, detailing the origins of 'The Hound'. I like the exploration of the Black Shuck legend and other black dog legends in the UK, as also of Conan Doyle's fascination with the paranormal. I agree that The Hound of the Baskervilles is the only Sherlock Holmes story gingerly balancing Doyle's rationalism with his interest in the occult.
Excellent. My one sadness about "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is that I have never seen yet a filmed dramatisation of it which stays totally 100% faithful to the original, and given my age I don't expect that will ever happen now. It is a great story and it doesn't need any changes.
Love the Sherlock Holmes', tales!! Grew up, with the Universal movies!! That famous paragraph, that Sir Christopher iterates @46:45, about 'the cold bitter wind', can be heard at the end of Sherlock Holmes' (Rathbone/Watson) film, "THE VOICE OF TERROR"(1942). It all came together, for me now.
Fascinating to see how the creative mind of a great writer transforms the raw materials by a kind of alchemy into an unforgettable ( almost mythical ) tale . Conan Doyle ought to be remembered for his now forgotten other works though. The Lost World..?....Micah Clark..? And not just the tenant of 221b....!
They get different breeds of dogs to play as the fearsome beast in each adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles". The three dogs were a German Shepherd, a Rottweiler and most of all, a Great Dane.
It's really frustrating trying to find the Frankenstein one. It was excellent. Why isn't part of this series found anywhere on the web? Is it a copyright issue or something else, I wonder? If anyone has it somewhere, a link to it would be much appreciated.
I loved hounds as a kid, I think a big reason was, it was foreign , I knew of England obviously, but the thought of the word hound, americans never used that word, and as a 5 year old kid on my bike, up ahead, it's the neighborhood herman sheppard, mean dog, so the fear of a blood thirsty hound was believable, and the English countryside was mystical to me back then, the moors, I pictured foggy, quick sand everywhere and a huge devil hound, scared me in such a safe way, I mean, England was way over there, and I love the British way, respectful, courtesy , well dressed, like, pardon me but I'm going to thrash you. It was so dignified, here they would say, hey buddy, I'm going to rip your head off, no taste, no tact or class.lol.
So Doyle stole the story of the Hound of the Baskerville from an Irish female storyteller. He simply changed the villian to a dog and the location to the Moors and then gave it a new name.. Interesting.
Any chance of someone getting the Richard Roxburgh Baskerville's on it's an arse to get hold of it came on TV boxing day 2002 not the worse version however the hound looked like spit the dog on steroids
EVERYBODY wants to see the Frankenstein episode! I recorded it on VHS when it was first shown on A&E back in 1996; unfortunately, the A&E version has several minutes cut out of each episode to make way for U.S. commercial advertising. Still, better than nothing, I suppose. In the comments on Eileen Daly's posting of the Dracula episode, Batrachious asked if they had the Frankenstein episode; she replied, "Yes we do, but youTube won't let us put it up." And nobody seems to know why!
"A hit or two of morphine or cocain." I knew about the use of coke, but I never knew injecting fucking morphine was something people did as casually as they drank or smoked lol.
