Sunday, February 15, 2009

Holmes TV Series



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Some facts about Sherlock Holmes:

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish-born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning and inference to solve difficult cases. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John H. Watson lived at 221b Baker Street between 1881-1904, according to the stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that feature Holmes. All but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend and biographer, Dr John H. Watson; two are narrated by Sherlock Holmes himself, and two others are written in the third person. An estimate of Holmes' age in the short story "His Last Bow" places his year of birth around 1854; most say his date of birth was 15 November 1854. At the beginning of "The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger", Watson states that Holmes "was in active practice for twenty-three years"; during seventeen of these years, Watson "was allowed to cooperate with him and to keep notes of his doings."

In almost all of the stories, Holmes is assisted by the practical Watson, who is not only a friend but also his chronicler (his "Boswell"). Most of Holmes' stories are told as narratives, by Watson, of the detective's solutions to crimes brought to his attention by clients. Holmes sometimes criticises Watson for his writings, usually because he relates them as exciting stories rather than as objective and detailed reports focusing on what Holmes regards as the pure "science" of his craft.

Holmes describes himself and his habits as "Bohemian". In his personal habits, he is very disorganised, as Watson notes in "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual", leaving everything from notes of past cases to remains of chemical experiments scattered around their rooms and his tobacco inside a Persian slipper. But this appeared to be more a form of organised chaos; what appeared to be a mess to an outsider made perfect sense to Holmes. Several times throughout the entire series of books Watson commented on Holmes diving among an apparently random mess of papers and producing exactly what he was looking for.

Historically, Holmes lived from the year 1881 at 221B Baker Street, London (in early notes it was described as being situated at Upper Baker Street), a flat up seventeen steps, where he shares many of his professional years with his good friend Dr Watson for some time before Watson's marriage in 1887 and after Mrs Watson's death. The residence is maintained by his landlady, Mrs Hudson. The 221b Baker Street was last used as a lodging house in 1936 and the famous 1st floor study overlooking Baker Street is still faithfully maintained as it was kept in Victorian Times.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

This episode is dubbed entirely in Chinese.

True poirot fan said...

please mention the episode name while posting comment. This is a single page where you see all the episodes. So I will not be able to see which comment is for which episode.

Anonymous said...

Thor Bridge, and others after it seem to be dubbed entirely in Chinese.

I've looked for them on other sources, but no luck.

Thank you, by the way, for taking the time to put the Holmes and Poirot episodes up!

True poirot fan said...

Hi Milford Abernathy,

I have updated those links. I am really sorry for the incorrect links. Thank you very much for pointing those out. Please keep reviewing.

Anonymous said...

Will do, and again my thanks!

Anonymous said...

If you're having trouble with Tudou loading try
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=chris55405&view=videos&query=the+crooked+man for this episode.
Thank you for a great mystery film website. I was finally able to play catch-up on all my Poirot and Holmes!

Anonymous said...

try http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=chris55405&view=videos&query=the+crooked+man

Anonymous said...

oh bother (: Try Chris55405 on you tube

Anonymous said...

Veoh has this one.

Anonymous said...

wtf...where are the links of the videos ?!?

Anonymous said...

thanks for chris55405 this really good

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