Granada Television - Featuring Jeremy Brett
============================================================ Selections Favorite Secondary Character Lines: 1. "Show them in, Khitmutgar, show them straight in to me! Your servant Ms. Morstan... your servant...mmm... gentlemen...mm... C'come in, come in, come in, come in t'to my uh, my little sanctum... I, I , I trust you have hvvv, no objection to uh, uh... tobacco smoke? The balsamic odour, of Eastern tobacco, heh... eh, I am, uh... a little nervous... and I, I find my hookah to be, heh... an invaluable... ... ... ... ... sedatiffff..." - Thaddeus Sholto in Sign of the Four @17:25, played by Raymond Lacey 2. "A cast of your skull sir, until the original becomes available... It is not my intention to be fulsome but I confess, I covet your skull!" - Dr. Mortimer in The Hound of the Baskervilles @6:05, played by Alastair Duncan 3. "I'm afraid it is quite essential. Oh it's a little fancy of my wife's. Latest fancies my dear madam... latest fancies must be consulted." - Jephro Rucastle in The Copper Beaches @13:00, played by Joss Ackland. 4. "Yes... yes! I'm sure... yes, yes... good morning!" - Duncan Ross in The Red Headed League @17:20, played by Richard Wilson 5. "I didn't say so Mr. Holmes... I didn't say so! We all have our own little ways... you will go yours, and I will go mine that WAS... the agreement, a heh heh heh heh heh..." - Inspector Baynes in Wisteria Lodge @34:10, played by Freddie Jones 6. "It might be useful to me as relics of my adventure but beyond that I... I can hardly see what use the... disjecta membra of my old acquaintance could possibly be to me ~ohnosirwithyourpermission I... I shall confine my attentions to the ~~EXCELLENT~~ bird which I...perceive upon your sideboard..." - Henry Baker, in The Blue Carbuncle @26:20, played by Frank Middlemass 7. "As for Mr. Garcia that's easily answered his uh, he was found dead on Okshot Common this morning. His head, had been beaten to a pulp by a sandbag, or somesuch object... which uh, crushed... rather than wounded. Apparently, he'd been first shook down from behind, but his assailant went on beating him long after he was dead, it was a very... furious assault." - Inspector Baynes, in Wisteria Lodge @19:50, played by Freddie Jones 8. "Have you something to trade? Tittle for tattle?" - "You still owe me a favour, dear boy. Remember? I shant destroy the paper, until you've returned the compliment. Remember? Tittle for tattle? Look at you, I mean what's all the... oohh, of course - we are above the bourgeois epatant costume. The revels have begun - life is mystery enough without your pale conundrums." - "Not me dear boy, not me! I withstand the blasts of time! Heh heh heh heh... Can't you see? Haa haa haa haa haa..." - Langdale Pike in The Three Gables @18:40 and 21:40, played by Peter Wyngarde. 9. "Vodka... I see! Everyday?" - Dr. Percy Trevelyan in The Resident Patient @20:40, played by Nicholas Clay 10. "I am a dangerous man... to fall afoul of." - Dr. Grimesby Roylott in The Speckled Band @13:00, played by Jeremy Kemp. 11. "Faithful Heidegger? Whatsir?" - Dr. Huxtable in The Priory School @21:06, played by Christopher Benjamin 12. "You must drop everything Sherlock... nevermind your usual petty puzzles of the police court, this is a real international crisis that you have to solve!" - Mycroft Holmes in The Bruce Partington Plans @8:50, played by Charles Gray 13. Emily Garideb: "Ancient blood courses through our veins!" Watson: "I'm relieved to hear it." - In The Mazarin Stone @3:10, played by Barbara Hicks and Edward Hardwicke ============================================================ Favorite Holmes Lines: 1. Holmes: "It saved me from ennui. You know sometimes I think my whole life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence" Watson: "No no, you are a benefactor of the race, Holmes." Holmes: "Well maybe it is of some little use after all. 'l'homme c'est rien -- l'oeuvre c'est tout', as Gustav Flaubert wrote to George Sand". ("The man is nothing, the work is everything") - The Red Headed League @49:25 2. "My Mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems... give me work... give me the most abstruse cryptogram, the most intricate analysis, and I'm in my proper atmosphere. Then I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own profession, or rather - created it. For I am the only one in the world... you have made the wrong diagnosis, Doctor. I have my stimulant... here." - A Scandal in Bohemia @5:20 2. Watson: "What are you going to do?" Holmes: "To Smoke... It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for 50 minutes." - The Red Headed League @23:10 3. "And the note is written by a German... you see... 'this account of you we have from all quarters received'... only a German is so uncurteous to his verbs." - A Scandal in Bohemia @8:40 4. "Watson! This is no time for Humbugs!" - The Six Napoleans @36:35 5. "Your advice is very excellent, Ms. Harrison!" - The Naval Treaty @26:40 6. "Watson, do you mind if I smoke a cigarette in your consulting room?" - The Empty House @16:20 7. "That the man is highly intellectual is of course obvious. And also that he was very well to do within the past three years although now he has fallen upon evil days. He had foresight, but less now than formerly, pointing to a moral retrogression, which when taken with the decline in his fortunes, seems to indicate an evil influence... probably, drink. This may account also for the fact that his wife has ceased to love him. He has however retained some degree of self respect, ahhh he leads a sedentary life. He's out of training entirely, he is middle aged, has grizled hair, which he has had cut within the last few days, and which he annoints with lime cream. It is also highly improbable that he has uh, gas, laid on in his house." - The Blue Carbuncle @16:50 8. "And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable , I mean how can you BUILD on such a quicksand? Their most trivial actions may mean volumes, or their most extrodinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling-tongs." - The Second Stain @18:00 9. "Written in pencil, on the fine leaf of a book, octavo size, no watermark... posted in graves-hand by a man with a dirty thumb, this is not your husband's writing, but the note is. Whoever... gummed down the envelope, had unless I am very much in error, been chewing tobacco... This is a triffle, of course, Watson ... but there's nothing so important as triffles" - The Man with the Twisted Lip @26:15 Click here for cursory thoughts on why The Man with the Twisted Lip is the best episode! ============================================================ Favorite Moments in the Series: 1. "There is an 'rrrrr' in the month, and the Diogenes Club has the most excellent oysters. I should like both you gentlemen to be my guests. Come along, Sherlock!" - Mycroft Holmes in The Bruce Partington Plans @51:00 - Note Mycroft's dancing hand as he starts this line. 2. Holmes: "But now, Doctor... our work is Done! It is we had some play. Sarasarti is playing at the St. James' Hall this afternoon." Watson: "A sandwich and cup of coffee?" Holmes: "And then off to violin land, where all is sweetness, delicacy, and harmony." Watson: "And no red headed clients to vex us with their connundrums!" All the afternoon he sat in the stalls, rapt in the most perfect happiness, while his gently smiling face, and his languid, dreamy eyes, were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuthhound, as it was possible to conceive. When I saw him, so enrapt in music, I felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set himself to hunt down. - The Red Headed League @26:20 3. "What a lovely thing... a rose is. There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary... ...as in religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest within the flowers. It is only goodness which gives extras. And so I say again, we have much to hope... from the flowers." ... Ms. Henderson: "Do you see any prospect of solving this mystery Mr. Holmes?"... Holmes: "Mystery?" - The Naval Treaty @24:19 4. Count Sylvius: "Please uh, if you wish. Be careful, it's a hair trigger. They uh, were a gift... from the Princess of Wales". Mycroft: "Such balance... such workmanship. A beautiful thing, fit strangely in the wrong hand." - Count Sylvius in The Mazarin Stone @15:35, played by Jon Finch. 5. Moriarty: "This is a duel between you and me, Mr. Holmes. You hope to place me in the dock... you hope to beat me. If you are clever enough to bring destruction on me, I shall do as much for you." Holmes: "You have paid me several compliments MISTER Moriarty, let me pay you one in return when I say that if I were assured of the former eventuality I would, in the interests of the public, cheerfully accept the latter." Moriarty: "I can promise you the one... but not the other!" - Holmes and Moriarty, in The Final Problem @23:30, played by Eric Porter. 6. "...his own wife... she was probably screaming at him, being French..." - Inspector Lestrade in The Second Stain @28:00, played by Colin Jeavons. ============================================================ Favorite Secondary Characters: 1. Thaddeus Sholto, in The Sign of the Four 2. Mycroft Holmes 3. Langdale Pike, in The Three Gables 4. Henry Wood, in The Crooked Man 5. Professor Moriarty ============================================================ Favorite Episodes: 1. The Final Problem 2. The Man with the Twisted Lip 3. The Sign of the Four 4. The Bruce Partington Plans 5. The Red Headed League 6. The Second Stain 7. The Crooked Man ======================================================================================================================== ======================================================================================================================== Selections Favorite Secondary Character Lines: 1. "Mr. Scott Eccles, we've been following you about all the morning, heh!" - Inspector Baynes, in Wisteria Lodge @14:05, played by Freddie Jones 2. "Tobacco and my work. That's all there is left of me. Tobacco, and my work. And now? ...Only tobacco." - Professor Coram in The Golden Prince Nez @22:15, played by Frank Finlay 3. "Nature doesn't give a damn for any of us." - Isadora Klein in The Three Gables @46:16, played by Claudine Auger ============================================================ Favorite Holmes Lines: 1. "Who knows, I may at least find Herr Heidegger's BICYCLE if nothing else." - The Priory School @15:25 2."Watson, go to 3 Pinchen Lane, London, and ask for Toby. I'd rather have Toby's help than that of the whole detective force of London." - The Sign of Four @45:50 3. "I think not. I fancy Chiswick... as the address most likely to find him." - The Six Napoleans @32:23 4. "Three days without food and water is one thing, but to be without tobacco I have found most irksome." - The Dying Detective @46:50 ============================================================ Favorite Moments in the Series: 1. Holmes and Watson at the barber shope "Now, you have been sitting there, frowning, eyes tightly closed, grrrinding your teeth, and all the time your fingers have been drumming like pistons on the arm of that chair...So, given all this evidence, even I cannot fail to deduce, that you have quarreled with our good housekeeper, and sought refuge in the sanity of the barber shop." - The Resident Patient @3:44 ============================================================ Favorite Secondary Characters: 1. Mrs. Hudson 2. Mycroft Holmes 3. Inspector Baynes 4. Jephro Rucastle 5. Thaddeus Sholto 6. Inspector Lestrade 7. Duncan Ross aka William Morris 8. Henry Baker 9. Isadora Kline ============================================================ Favorite Episodes: 1. The Blue Carbuncle