Sherlock Holmes (TV-1954) THE MOTHER HUBBARD CASE (S1E10) 

There is not enough hype for this Sherlock Holmes series. It is so much fun.

I love these versions of Holmes and Watson. I read up about them - Ronald Howard played Holmes as a young version, enhtusiastic and to an extent still learning his trade (and as seen in some episodes, not yet the virtuoso on violin, as proved by the look on Watson's face when he picks it up), and H. Marion Crawford portraying Watson as intelligent, bluff and down-to-earth - a useful, though occasionally unwilling assistant, rather than than the bumbler he became in other portrayals.

Ron Howard is by far the most genteel Sherlock Holmes on screen. Love his soft, subtle mannerism.

Watson seems to have an inexhaustible supply of patience and tolerance as invariably every episode he states that Holmes has "gone too far"...

This episode is now near the top of my list.

Why is it that these episodes and black and white films in general of the 30's ,40's and 50's have such a calming effect on me ? It cannot be nostalgia as I am a young guy ....I find again and again these old films and serials to be very therapeutic .

My favorite version, the duo Sherlock and Watson is irresistible! 😊

9:42 love how the bartender places the towel over the camera 📷, genius directing 👍

Thank you very much for sharing this beautifully rivetling episode!

I love these two guys! These shows are so much fun to watch. Even Lestrade is almost likable!

surprisingly contemporary, cant get enough thank you

Love these episodes.Wish there were many many more.

It does the same to me also, very relaxing. They don't have vulgarity, perversion, and bad people get caught.

You know I must say that this Sherlock Holmes is quite mischief if he's trying to drop a match down into a suit of armour

Can’t say enough how much I’m enjoying these episodes Thanks for uploading

He's so good as Holmes and doctor as well. Humour great...

As I have said on many occasions Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce are the "serious, hard core Sherlock and Watson" They are interesting to watch but somewhat driven particularly Sherlock (Rathbone) Truly a priceless paring and a very good if not one of the best representations of Doyle's fine work. But honestly Ronald Howard and H Marion Crawford are simply as good (in my opinion) and just more fun to watch. The mutual admiration and rare if every condescension between them (always sporting when it does happen, not harsh or malicious as can be the case with Rathbone/Bruce) is always light hearted . The caricature of Holmes/Watson in this version is human, interactive and mutual. Not that Rathbone/Bruce do not have their moments as well but there are simply more "good warm hearted moments" here. These men, just like Rathbone/Bruce do the characters justice and would make Doyle proud in either case. I like this version thanks for the uploads.

An exceptionally good episode of "Sherlock Holmes" featuring H. Marion Crawford and Ronald Howard and a fine supporting cast. This 1954 series continues to have high standards of plot, pacing, and acting.

thank you for showing these old favorites

People spoke so nice in thoses days..good film.

This was a good episode. l would've preferred long time for the length of each episode, these were finished too quickly. Ronald Howard left acting and took up as an antique dealer in his shop. He just couldn't be bothered going along with the ambition of becoming a big star. He was a simple man.

I LOVE this series! It is the best Sherlock Holmes! I hate the newer ones...especially the one on BBC with a rude hyper Sherlock. Thanks PizzaFlix for posting!

Those who have played Sherlock Holmes since 1893: Charles Brookfield - 1893 William Gillette - 1899-1930 - 1300 Performances over 30 yrs. Sherlock Holmes movie Baffled - 1900 Silent/Short - Max Goldberg John F. Preston - 1900 Charles Rice - 1904 Karoly Baumann - 1905 Maurice Costello - 1905 Viggo Larsen - 1908 Alwin NeuB - 1908, 1911, 1914 Otto Lagoni - 1910 Holger Rasmussen - 1911 Mack Sennett - 1911-1912 George Treville - 1912 Harry Benham - 1913 James Bragington - 1914 Francis Ford - 1914 H.A. Saintbury - 1916 Hugo Fink - 1917 Sam Robinson - 1918 Eille Norwood - 1921 Silent short movie - The Dying Detective Burt Lytell - 1921 Dennis Neillson-Terry - 1921 John Barrymore - 1922 Hamilton Deane - 1923-1932 Tod Slaughter - 1928, 1930 Richard Gordon - 1930-1933, 1936 Clive Brook - 1929/1930/1932 Arthur Wontner - 1931- 1937 - Movie Series Raymond Massey - 1931 Robert Rendel - 1932 Reginald Owen - 1933 Felix Alymer - 1933 Louis Hector - 1934-1935, 1937 Bruno Guttner - 1937, 1939, 1942-1943 Orson Welles - 1938 Basil Rathbone - 1939-1946 Cedric Hardwick - 1945 Tom Conway - 1947 Howard Marion-Crawford - 1948 John Stanley - 1948-1949 Alan Napier - 1949 Alan Wheatley - 1951 John Longden - 1951 Laidman Browne - 1951 Carleton Hobbs - 1952-1969 Ronald Howard - 1954 (39 episodes) Sir John Gielgud - 1954-1955 Peter Cushing - 1959, 1968, 1984 Christopher Lee - 1962, 1970, 1992 Douglas Wilmer - 1964 John Neville - 1965, 1970, 1978 Robert Stephens - 1970 Stewart Granger - 1972 John Cleese - 1973 Larry Hagman - 1974 Robert Powell - 1974 Rolf Becker - 1974 John Wood - 1974-1975 Leonard Nimoy - 1976 Douglas Wilmer - 1976 Roger Moore - 1976 Nicol Williamson - 1976 Kevin McCarthy - 1977 Christopher Plummer - 1977 Peter Cook - 1977 Paxton Whitehead - 1978 Barry Foster - 1978 Geoffrey Whitehead - 1979-1980 Graham Armitage - 1979-1980, 1985 Keith Mitchell - 1979 Charlton Heston - 1980 Frank Langella - 1980 Vasily Livanov - Russian TV - 1979-1981, 1983 & 1986 John Moffatt - 1981 Guy Henry - 1982 Tom Baker - 1982 Ian Richardson - 1983 Peter O’Toole - 1983 (animated TV films - Australian) Jeremy Brett - 1984-1994 Nicholas Rowe - 1984 Guy Rolfe - 1984 Dinsdale Landen - 1987 Tim Pigott-Smith - 1987 Anthony Higgins - 1987 Michael Pennington - 1987 Roger Rees - 1988 Ron Moody - 1988-1989 Clive Merrison - 1989-1998, 2002, 2004, 2008-2010 Edward Woodward - 1990 Simon Callow - 1990 Richard E. Grant 1992 Robert Powell - 1993 Patrick McNee - 1993 Anthony Higgins - 1993 1998-2019: John Gilbert - Episodes 1-18 Lawrence Albert - Episode 20 John Patrick Lowrie - Episodes 21-65 & 67-until Dennis Bateman - Episode 66 Jason Gray-Stanford - 1999-2001 - Animation for Kids Matt Frewer - 2000-2001 Joaquim de Almeida - 2001 Richard Roxburgh - 2002 James D’Arcy - 2002 Andrew Sachs - 2004 Rupert Everett - 2004 Jonathan Pryce - 2007 Javier Marzan - 2007 Roger Llewellyn - 2009 Robert Downey Jr. 2009 & 2011 Ben Syder - 2010 Nicholas Briggs - 2010-2018 Igor Petrenko - Russian TV Series - 2013 Benedict Cumberbatch - 2010-2016 Christian Rode - 2010, 2014 Samuel Tady - 2011, 2014, 2017-2018 (Tady Bros. Productions/on YTube) Johnny Lee Miller - 2012-2019 Benjamin Lawlor - 2013 Seamus Dever - 2014 Ian McKellen - 2015 Euan Morton - 2015 Gregory Wooddell - 2015 Paul Andrew Goldsmith - 2015-2016 Ewen Bremner - 2016 Jay Taylor - 2017-2018 Yuko Takeuchi - 2018 (HBO Asia - female ‘Holmes’) Orlando Wells - 2018 Johnny Depp - 2018 (animation) Will Ferrell - 2018 Nicholas Boulton - 2020 Henry Cavill - 2020 Ethan Bell - 2020 (Fan Film on RU-vid) Ethan Thomas Jung - 2020 Fan Adv. (Vagabond Repertory Theater Company-RU-vid) This list is not exhaustive. however, these are some of the many actors who have played Sherlock Holmes on stage, screen, radio and TV adaptations.

Watson look so suspicious trying to cover up for homes breaking into the door LOL

I can't believe that the beach is Brighton. I was there when very young (a long time ago now) and the beach was all pebbles... Love this old series, thank you for uploading it.

DELIGHTFUL BRITISH CLASSIC - FOREVER

16:58 Holmes has no sense of personal space! lol 😂

I love this show so much.

Hilarious. Especially the tea/snake poison joke.

How I do wish that I could return to those wonderful times of yesteryear

I respect all of them, by jove, wonderful performances

One of my favorite episodes from this series, it has a sinister charm to it...

Nowadays, if you saw a grown man ask a young girl if she wanted him to take her home you would tackle the guy. Shit sure has changed in the last few decades. We are programmed to think this way btw. Most men want to be helpful but won't go near a child for the fear that they will be chastised. SAD! We are the protectors by the way.

2:37, Sherlock Holmes calls the skeleton “Nebuchadnezzar”

Watson& Holmes drinking tea. Watson-You first Holmes.

Ahhh, wunderful the original Musik. Gives me goosebumps. 😍

Hilarious as always! I love the entire series. Moriarty.

Bittersweet story. Grandmother driven mad by a lifetime of poverty, grueling work, and desperation to raise her granddaughter to hopefully enjoy a life of ease. Even tender regard for her "birdies". 😢

thank-you so much PF for your wonderful downloaads these make us all feel great escaping from reality so you are a boon to humanity right now

Cutest Sherlock Holmes

Thanks PizzaFlix! I enjoyed this very much! Watson is a good fellow indeed!

I am partial to the Rathbone versions, but these are very good.

In the scene at the front door of the house Holmes says the papers are at least a week old while inside before they find the body he says the papers are a day old mistakes or not these episodes are still brilliant 🙂💗👍

I couldn't stop laughing at several of Holmes' poker faced antics with Watson constantly losing it, although I find it rather sad that the grandmother had to do what she did to provide for her granddaughter, only to be exposed and arrested in the end. Life can be so cruel, and make the most decent people do things that they would never had done.

Young girl lost in the city, strangers offering to take her home. What happened to that world?

9:40 did you see that shot? the camera was in front of the 'butler' from the shelves and they shot the whole scene that way. then he covers the lens with the towel. wow! really cool shot :}

I very liked the Monty Python sketch at 16:34 in the middle of a Sherlock Holmes. Very unusual combination.

Sadly, elderly people in those days had to work till they dropped, unless there was a family member willing to look after them. I often wonder if the increase in longevity during the 20th century was not due to medical advances or improved nutrition, but to the introduction of the age pension.

Thanks again. 2 weeks quarantine now.

short but good, Ron Howard is so gentle and Watson cool and fun

Wilkins is so dear! Love when he turns up in a scene. :)*

Absolutely fantastic class series

This case is so sad.

If Sherlock Holmes and Dr.Watson were around, they would have solved the Covic-19 mystery and come up with the cure! I wouldn't have to be under lockdown for more than 2 months now!

Well done consy. Doesn't tire either. 💕

A particularly excellent episode.

Ronald Howard father was killed 1943 when his plane was shot down by germans rons father leslie howard played Ashley in gone with the wind

very good, thanks for the upload

Hard to believe that H & W would walk into a room containing a dead body without having to put their hands over their noses due to the smell, they would have as soon as the body tumbled out. At least in a previous film they shuddered as they got into their flat while brushing off the snow. Years ago I saw "The Mousetrap"and nearly stood up and shouted "Close that window again - this time wth feeling!" The actor had walked in from another room (?) and walking across merely said "Who's left this window open?" The wind machine was blowing snow flakes in through the billowing curtains. Loving the scenes of old London. Watson is so well played. Sir ACD would be chuffed for sure.

The pacing of these episodes always seems rushed to me. The endings are rather abrupt. They were good stories, but they didn't have the time to fully flesh them out. Probably would have been better as an hour-long show.

I sometimes wonder if anyone even notices the great background music provided by Paul Durand.

Hilarious close talking scene.🤣

Miss Enith was sure a scary, homicidal old lady! Great episode!

Love watching in 2021

This episode was so sad 😞

I think society was not so hurried. We're more stressed today and our lives are fast paced. Our movies and tv shows reflect that. The British movies were much slower paced than ours even in the 20's and 30's, but ours were less fast paced, too.

Thank you!🌸

Good series the year i was born 😊

Enjoying these two , like the humerus side .It is tea isn't it.

Love this series, and I like PARTS of this episode, specifically those where that horrible woman is not on screen. My gripe with this is that she gets sympathy in the end for being an old woman. Dude she killed like 8 people and destroyed the lives of all those around them, she does NOT deserve sympathy, she deserves the noose. There is no excuse for such villainy, so STOP LOOKING AT HER LIKE THAT WATSON YOU FOOL!

best SH series

Thanks visters

I guess the moral of the story is don't pick up strangers on the street?

Excellent

Thanks again Pizza.

Find it odd that in the beginning.. Dr. Watson goes to great length to praise the genius of Holmes.. speaking of how he loves to watch his mind at work.. and then spends the remainder of the episode fiercely doubting his every move, and addressing him as though he were a child - snapping at him at every turn, as if they were just meeting for the first time. Interesting, indeed.

Is there ever a Mrs. Hudson in this series?

Interesting episode , the encounter at 16:40 is comical.

I have no pity for this woman. If she could not care for the child, she could have placed her on adoption to a proper family. Or an orphanage. Eight innocent men died... imagine if one was a pedophile. To think there are truly perverse people in this world irl.

Robbery an murder with tea . Hard way to make a living .

Why oh why do I get the idea that most of the cast are French ? Great series. Bravo pizzaflix.

Another good one. I could not find information why Holmes named his skeleton Nebuchadnezzar. There's no Biblical or secular support for it.

...Different portrayal of Dr. Watson THAN usual.

22:27, Holmes pretends that likes the fudge but is aware of her wicked plan!

“No Marks for Servility” Dr Watson.

Reminds me of Arsenic and Old Lace. Oh my1

Which story was this based on?

A great series However I am a bit surprised at how nice they all were to that old murderous hag when they arrested her. They treated her as if she was being arrested for shoplifting chocolates for her granddaughter! And the guy at the beach describing her as sixty years old?! She was 75 if she was a day!

Lol what a polite, gentle and kind old lady murderer.

After watching the series with Jeremy Brett, this is like a comedy

Best Holmes/Watson team of them all! I just don’t understand this crime? If the little girl gets a man to take her to a different address each time, how does he end up sitting with Ms Enid in her house and getting poisoned and how does Enid end up then getting him into the flue of a strange house. I know she has they key, but you know, the rest of it? She poisons them to rob them? Why doesn’t the girl bring the man to the grandmothers address? What am I missing. Oh and on which Holmes story is this based?

An awfully sad episode . You wish she could have saved enough sooner

The inspector is so stupid that he will forget the cakes have been poisoned and eat one later on for his tea!

has anyone mentioned Delphine Seyrig's early cameo as the young fiancée?

Ask a grown man for help! I would call the police on that kid so fast....

Where have I seen the lady who played mrs enid before iv seen her in something else and I cant think what it is 🤔

It has a old world charm which appeals to our fine senses basically nature of all of us.Now a days they use trash language with no grace in words lack of utter decency .

Shades of Arsenic and Old Lace, this one!

Nice!

THAT LADY ISNT WEARING A BUSTLE!!!!! SACRILEGIOUS!!!!