*HOLMES:Geoffrey Whitehead was born on October 1, 1939 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. He is an actor, known for The Foundation (1977), A Legacy (1975) and Second Thoughts (1991).* *WATSON:Donald Pickering was born on November 15, 1933 in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England as Donald Ellis Pickering. He was an actor, known for The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997), The Pallisers (1974) and A Bridge Too Far (1977). He died on December 19, 2009 in Gloucestershire, England.*
Patrick Newell you will remember from the Resident Patient with Jeremy Brett which also had in it the guy who played Sir Lancelot in Excalibur with both Richard from Keeping Up Appearances & Capt. Picard. Did I drop enough names to get a like yet?
The large open sets are new for Sheldon Reynolds. Maybe he hired a designer and an art director for the later episodes. The cinemaphotography has improved... a few better angles, less inexpensive foggy night settings, but just about every scintilla of suspense has been thoroughly been carefully omitted in an incredibly droll treatment. Holmes himself alternates between the obtuse punctuating the frequently obvious, to which a stunned Watson or a dumbfounded LeStrade go along largely empty of character or will, mere talking props. The music provides a touch of suspense to the blandness; an afterthought inadequate to rescue each episode. Limited to a transplanted theatrical sensibility this series went the way of an abundance of television without a personality or a creative vision in control. Investors quickly fly from such scenarios.
everything about this is just horrible, film quality, the whole thing takes place in an echo chamber, and compared to the other actors these guys just don't measure up. don't worry the second part is worse and the inspector is a disappointment.
