Review sherlock special8/1/2023 ![]() ![]() These films were made by 20th Century Fox, who although pleased by the films’ success, already had a long-running detective property in the shape of the Charlie Chan films. Of the fourteen Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock and Nigel Bruce as Dr John Watson, only the first two, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (both 1939), retained the trappings of Conan Doyle’s original stories. ![]() However, long-time fans of the Great Detective’s screen outings are used to seeing their hero outside of his usual Victorian milieu. Many viewers confessed themselves baffled at the show’s fractured narrative, scratching their heads as the Victorian Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) made his surmise while looking over modern-day Baker Street: “I have always felt I am a man out of his time…” Yes, they saw hansom cabs, street urchins, and suffragettes, but as ‘The Abominable Bride’ progressed, viewers began to realize the makers of Sherlock had a different game afoot why, for example, would the 1895 Mycroft Holmes remark upon data viruses?Īs became apparent, ‘The Abominable Bride’ wasn’t set in the 1890s at all, in so far as the Victorian adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson were part of ‘our’ Sherlock’s attempt to solve the riddle of his arch-enemy Prof. ![]() New Year’s Day 2016, and the BBC broadcast their long-awaited Sherlock special, ‘The Abominable Bride.’ What makes this particular episode so keenly anticipated by fans is its setting in the late Victorian era of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories, and they weren’t disappointed – at least to begin with. Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Paul Cavanagh ![]()
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