Alistair Duncan's Blog, page 58

Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke interview

An interview with Messrs Brett and Hardwicke from approx 1989* where they talk about the Granada series and their two-man Sherlock Holmes play.Read more »

May 4 1891

Remember the original fallRead more »

A 3 or 4 or 5 pipe problem?

When you think of the classic image of Sherlock Holmes (the Victorian one) the two items that leap to mind are the deerstalker hat and curved pipe.
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Baron Gruner – The villain I want to see

It was recently revealed that BBC’s Sherlock was going to dust down Charles Augustus Milverton (albeit a slightly renamed version) to be Sherlock’s nemesis in series three. This was widely expected and hoped for and while I am not unhappy about this I would have preferred to see Baron Gruner make an appearance.
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The original Reichenbach Fall

With a new series of Sherlock not too far away we know we will soon be learning how Sherlock survived.

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My tumblr is no more

I have, this morning, deleted my tumblr account.
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BBC Sherlock - Ignorance is bliss

I was ten when the Granada Sherlock Holmes series began in 1984 and I don’t recall being outraged or emotionally damaged when Holmes went over the falls (supposedly) at the end of The Final Problem. In this I find myself at the opposite pole to many younger fans of BBC Sherlock who seemed to go into a collective bout of hysteria at the conclusion of The Reichenbach Fall (if many blogs and Youtube videos are anything to go by).
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Two more items in the library

I'm not sure it's a saying but, if it isn't, it deserves to be - if you have space you'll attempt to fill it. When I was renting a flat I had a distinct lack of room and this curtailed my collecting of Sherlockiana (well I see it as curtailed, I suspect my wife would disagree).
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Le Figaro - again!

I had more or less forgotten about this but a few weeks ago I was approached once more by Le Figaro for my thoughts on the Murder Rooms series with the late Ian Richardson. I gave a relatively concise response and thought little more about it.
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Mycroft – The unwanted Holmes

Mycroft Holmes is an incredibly popular character from the Sherlock Holmes universe and it is not unreasonable to say that, of late, this is almost entirely down to his depiction by Mark Gatiss in Sherlock. In no other dramatization I can think of has Mycroft Holmes enjoyed such a presence (not evenGranada's). Most screen adaptations have tended to mirror the canon and have Mycroft as little more than a character making the occasional fleeting appearance.
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