This series wasn't faithful to the actual stories but they "were" faithful to the spirit of them. If you were a fan of Holmes and Watson then it was easy to love these episodes.
I'm just glad that Watson isn't portrayed as a bumbling moron in this version like in the Basil Rathbone version of Sherlock Holmes. Too many Sherlock Holmes TV series and movies portray Watson as an idiot rather than the competent colleague of Sherlock Holmes that he is in the books and in the Jeremy Brett version of Sherlock Holmes.
The "I don't speak English" part was brilliant. And, "What I believe in ... is nothing." The episodes of this show that go more into the characters and humor are the best.
I should have also said, really what a fantastic troupe of actors, like a family. I wonder if they got on in life so well as they seem to do on screen, the certainly play all their parts with gusto and to the hilt, God bless them all
@@jamessharpe6699I didn't know that😔. It's a shame and a waste how so many talented actors and actresses in the past have died too soon because of alcoholism, drug abuse, and drug overdoses. And also lung cancer because they smoked way too much and way too often.
Thank you PizzaFlix for sharing this absolutely wonderful series of Sherlock Holmes episodes. Love Ronald Howard and Marion Crawford in their roles. Sad, that there will never be anything like this again. Thanks again.
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 John Longden - 1951 Laidman Browne - 1951 Carleton Hobbs - 1952-1969 Ronald Howard - 1954 (39 episodes) Sir John Gielgud - 1954-1955 Christopher Lee - 1962, 1970, 1992 Douglas Wilmer - 1964 Peter Cushing - 1959, 1968, 1984 John Neville - 1965, 1970, 1978 Robert Stephens - 1970 Stewart Granger - 1972 John Cleese - 1973 Larry Hagman - 1974 Robert Powell - 1974 John Wood - 1974-1975 Leonard Nimoy - 1976 Kevin McCarthy - 1977 Roger Moore - 1976 Nicol Williamson - 1976 Christopher Plummer - 1977 Peter Cook - 1977 Paxton Whitehead - 1978 Geoffrey Whitehead - 1979-1980 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 Dinsdale Landen - 1987 Guy Rolfe - 1984 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.
A very good episode from this now 63 year old series. Dawn Adams was the featured actress in this episode, which successfully combined a serious subject of the time with humor. Dawn Adams had an early 1950's Hollywood career, appearing, among others, in "Plymouth Adventure" opposite Van Johnson in the 1952 release of the film.
Thank you so much for all these. I think i have seen them all. Gave you a like to every episode. I just love the whole Sherlock Holmes stories. Thanks again !
@@LL-vj5yp Not a baby dude. 90 percent of trimesters occur in the first trimester...where the embryo/fetus is the size of a pea. Which coincidentally is about the size of your brain.
good one :} thanks. . . reading some of the comments - these people have no idea what comedy is all about! it was a cute episode - yes, some flaws, but very good nonetheless. . .
Holmes gets involved with a persistent suffragette, and an anarchist makes a bomb, which kills Pimpleton, a parliament official. Scotland Yard, guided by Holmes, finds the murderer.
Ms Agatha was responsible for the crime and simply left the the room thus ending confusion as to the perputrator of the crime.with Lestrade having a senseless fit
This was pretty damn patronizing/dismissive of women and the suffrage movement. I know it was "typical of the times" (it first aired in 1955) but it's still pathetic.
Aah, to good old days, when one could advertise for someone to make them a bomb, and, take a ride to the chemist to buy the materials needed to make the bomb! Yes, this was probably the funniest of these shows. Even with headphones on and subtitles, I could not understand what the Chinese/Brazilian/Greek said about the bomb bag. "You no aska me." The C/B/G man speaks like an Italian!
itty bitty bomb... one that goes pfft... the whole thing is a comedy, holmes laughing about how he and watson thought the ad in paper for explosives expert was some sort of code
The half-hour format of these shows did not help with the stories. I find there is very little development of the solving of the mystery aspect, which is what I think most people like about the Sherlock Holmes stories. In a mere half-hour, these episodes seem rather shallow and rushed.
this is a handsome sherlock holmes... engaging and charming, good comedian, hard to imagine that the later holmes, jeremy brett was offered to be the next james bond
Women "We cook, we sew, we scrub. Why shouldn't we vote?" Men "Because then we may not be able to *force* you to cook, sew and scrub!" Hehe, they were right!!💃💃💃🎉✨
Really? I watch this series every night, BUT I have to find them again elsewhere, because out of 25-26mins of the episode there are 2-3 ads.... REAL annoying....
With a history of the OK City bombing, the IRA bombings and the Boston Marathon bombs, I just can't accept it when the subject is played for laughs. And if that is not enough, consider that even today, unexploded ordnance is found in Britain, Germany and Flanders at the rate of one a month, on average. Go ahead and laugh, if you think that is funny.
Of course it is no laughing matter. But there is little that can be done about the USA pulp fiction entertaiment machine pumping out millions of hours of garbadge (They call garbade trash) per year. But the joke at 12:01 I think was not making light or a comedy of people being killed, maimed or injured. They were laughing at the wealthy bourgeoisis Mr. Pinballton inventing a game where he always won by playing by himself. So it's more a laugh at a sportsman who never played with other sports men in case they beat him. Can you imagine telling people you just won the last 250 chess games straight? Lol. Or you just won 25 boxing matches with out being knocked out. Yet you were the only person in the ring. Competitive games or sports are usually designed for two or more competitors competing for a prize.
You do realize this was a previous time, representing an even more previous time? Don't watch it if it's not for you please don't ruin it for the rest of us...
You don't know what you're talking about. As Sherlock Holmes said "Why not give them the right to vote? Men haven't done much better!" How true, Sherlock- how true!
A very silly episode with some very poor acting by the supporting cast. However years later this kind of bizarre plot with even more eccentric characters would be made to work in The Avengers.
