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The Many Watsons – Charles Simon

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Kieran

Sherlock Holmes by Anton Productions is a low budget film that can be seen on You Tube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iad2dYsD7c&feature=related. Just because it is low budget does not mean it is not worth viewing. It is a remake of the Rathbone … Continue reading →

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THe Many Watsons – Campbell Singer

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Kieran

Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared was a made for TV short (about 26 minutes) which was a pilot for a weekly show. It, like others, was a one-time event. The story is a variation on The Man with the … Continue reading →

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The Many Watsons – Val Bettin

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Kieran

The Great Mouse Detective is one of my favorite animations. Not because of the animation itself (there are many better quality ones), but because of the story and the quality of the voice actors involved as well as the imagination … Continue reading →

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The Many Watsons – Ian Hunter

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Kieran

The Sign 0f Four (1932), with Arthur Wontner as Holmes and Ian Hunter as Watson is an interesting tweak on the original story. Ian Fleming had been Wontner’s usual Watson. The story was “updated”, that is, it was moved from … Continue reading →

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The Many Watsons – Athole Stewart

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Kieran

Mr. Athole Stewart continues the list of single appearance Dr. Watsons. His single outing, however, is really quite notable. The movie was “The Speckled Band”. The year was 1931 and the talking pictures were still in their infancy, especially in … Continue reading →

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The Many Watsons – Frederick Lloyd

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Kieran

Frederick Lloyd is another of the many single performance Doctor Watsons. His single outing as Watson was opposite Robert Rendel as Holmes in the 1932 Gainsborough Pictures production of “The Hound of the Baskervilles”. I have to say that I … Continue reading →

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The Many Watsons – More to Come

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Kieran

The list of Watsons that have filled the silver screen, the television tube and trod the boards now seems endless. We have covered two score and two at this point. Some bad but the vast majority pretty darn good in the part. … Continue reading →

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The Many Watsons – Harry Reeves-Smith

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Kieran

The very first talking film that starred Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson was The Return of Sherlock Holmes with Clive Brook as Holmes and Harry Reeves-Smith as Doctor Watson. The movie is probably best known as having been the first … Continue reading →

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How to Write a Murder Mystery

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Kieran

This blog is about neither Watson nor Holmes. In perusing my collection of mysteries I was rereading some of my favorite Philo Vance stories and came across the rules of the game as proposed by S.S. Van Dine (actual name … Continue reading →

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Latest Review of Sherlock Holmes and the Irish Rebels

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Kieran

Holmes and Watson at the Easter Rising Kieran McMullen has described his new novel, Sherlock Holmes and the Irish Rebels, as a boys’ adventure story. That it is, and a good one. But I can’t help but think that female … Continue reading →

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