Author Archives: Kieran

I’m not sure how anyone can not like Young Sherlock Holmes though I’ve read some less than favorable reviews. It’s definitely not canonical but it is great fun. In the 1860’s a young Sherlock Holmes and John Watson meet in … Continue reading →

The more I look at the people who played Dr. Watson over the years the more I come to the conclusion that there were far more good representations of Watson than poor ones. This is the case of another good … Continue reading →

The first time that Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson were ever filmed in color was in 1959 by Hammer films. The story was “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, the most frequently filmed story of the canon. So far I … Continue reading →

Ian Fleming stared as Watson in four films with Arthur Wontner playing Sherlock Holmes. They started in 1931 with The Sleeping Cardinal (In the US it was called Sherlock Holmes’ Fatal Hour), The Missing Rembrandt (1932), The Triumph of Sherlock … Continue reading →

Patrick Macnee is certainly best known to the world as John Steed, that pillar of the English Secret Service in the long running Avengers TV show. He does however, appear in three made for TV movies as our hero, Dr. … Continue reading →

Debrah Farentino may not technically be a Watson but the character is the same. She plays Dr. Amy Winslow who happens to awaken Sherlock Holmes from his self imposed cryogenic sleep in the 1993 made for TV movie “Sherlock Holmes … Continue reading →

James Mason has always been one of my favorite actors and as Watson in “Murder by Decree” he does not disappoint. The movie is another matching of the great detective vs Jack the Ripper. It is the dramatization of the … Continue reading →

Roland Young played Dr. Watson in the 1922 silent movie “Sherlock Holmes”. The movie was not based on the Doyle stories directly but on the William Gillette play, “The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner”. It, in turn, was VERY loosely … Continue reading →