Podcast going *in depth* on the Jeremy Brett / Edward Hardwicke stage play!!! 🎉

It was practically like being there!!

I know because I was lucky enough to actually see the play.

Part II is just commentary and is linked from this one

UPDATE: @ninasnakie asked if this was AI. I'm not sure if that means the whole play, but the the short answer is that if it was faked, it would have had better sound.

It's a little under a week until Christmas, for those who celebrate, and so please enjoy this hastily put together holiday poll, fellow mystery fans. Happy holidays!

Some of these aren't specifically Christmas-themed, but wintery or feel fun to watch during this time of year, so I added them in. I'm sure there are plenty of other Holmes pastiches and stories written for the season, so feel free to shout those out in the comments and tags!

As always, please reblog for a larger sample size, thank you and again happy holidays and happy New Year! ❄️

(Side note: I'm behind on Sherlock & Co, so if there's a more recent holiday ep, my apologies to the fans. I also couldn't find a holiday episode of Elementary, but I'm only on season 3 so let me know if I missed one.)

LeVar Burton Vs. Jeremy Brett

Propaganda

LeVar Burton - (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Roots) - as well as his wonderful performance as geordi laforge in next generation, levar burton had his breakout role starring as kunta kinte in the 1977 miniseries roots which set records for television viewership (its finale was estimated to have been watched by 130 million+ viewers, more than half the U.S. population at the time). he also directed numerous episodes of tng, ds9 (including the one where rom unionizes quark's), voyager and enterprise, and promoted literacy with his beloved pbs show reading rainbow, which he hosted for 23 years!

Jeremy Brett - (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Three Musketeers, BBC Play of the Month) - "Listen, I fell in love with One Man when I was 16 and have never regretted it. Jeremy Brett is Everything. Handsome, charming, sweet, amazing voice, delightfully eccentric. Shakespearean actor best known for playing Sherlock Holmes in the 80s, he is widely considered the definitive Holmes and for good reason. Bisexual and bipolar, devoted husband, he was known to serenade friends at restraunts and hold scavenger hunts in his home, where he hid the plunger in a chandelier. Often pigeonholed into period pieces, he owned them. He was a pretty young man who became not just handsome but arresting. He was one of those people who walked into a room and instantly commanded attention, and I for one have never regretted giving him my attention." Full text propaganda included below the cut

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never underestimate the power of granada holmes to cheer you up

thinking about how Granada Sherlock Holmes is a mostly 1 to 1 text to screen adaptation of ACD’s works BUT they decided to add in a bit to the Reichenbach fall where Holmes takes a moment to watch his husband friend scream his name and be sad about his death and even considers revealing to him that he’s alive before stopping himself because he knows he has an important mission ahead of him and he can’t risk it, so he just sits there and soaks in one more minute with his Watson with tears in his eyes will someone pls sedate me

As HE said.

If it cheers the gays up I'm thrilled.

And boy. it DOES cheer the gays up! At least the gay right here!

Holmestice is a twice-yearly digital fanworks exchange for the Sherlock Holmes multiverse. The name derives from the fact that the schedule for the exchange revolves around the Summer and Winter solstices. All versions of Sherlock Holmes media are welcome (movies, television shows, books, games, comics, radio dramas, podcasts, etc.). All characters, pairings, and ratings are welcome. All media types that can be exchanged digitally (fic, art, vids, podfic, graphics, original music) are also welcome.

Scamper on over to Dreamwidth and signup for another round. Open until October 6!

Follow the link for instructions and rules! Join us for another round if you’re an old hand at this, and be very welcome if you’re new!

No Holmes Barred!

Holmestice Winter 2024 Signups Begin September 22

What is Holmestice?

Holmestice is a twice-yearly digital fanworks exchange for the Sherlock  Holmes multiverse.  The name derives from the fact that the schedule for  the exchange revolves around the Summer and Winter solstices. All  versions of Sherlock Holmes media are welcome (movies, television shows,  books, games, comics, radio dramas, podcasts, etc.).  All characters, pairings, and  ratings are welcome. All media types that can be exchanged digitally  (fic, art, vids, podfic, graphics, original music) are also welcome.

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David Stuart Davies has left us.

Thank You for everything.

HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES!

If you've dropped off Letters From Watson, or you'd been meaning to pick it up but haven't yet, now is a GREAT time. We're about to read The Novel Everyone Actually Likes. (There are four novels. Sorry, other three novels.)

It should take us a couple of months, I think, at a chapter every four days. Come in! The water's fine! You may or may not be savaged by a ghost dog!

Melancholic Holmes and his green carnation

Granada Holmes has me positively KICKING my feet what do you MEAN Holmes and Watson are goofballs. What do you MEAN they’re actually friends. I’m absolutely delighted with them they mean the world to me <333

I am absolutely in love with the dynamic in The Dancing Men. Holmes has been excited and enthralled by the case from the beginning so much so he's been sort of rude (more like cold) to their client. Watson has been giving explanations and sort of apologetic looks. He has pointed it out but never once he demanded Holmes to change the way he spoke to people.

And later on, when the client died and Holmes is still interested in solving the case but not so happy about not being able to prevent possibly two deaths. When they're interviewing the servants, Mrs King was visibly upset and Watson, very quietly and politely suggests to Holmes (in his ear) to ask her to sit down. And my favorite thing of all is that Holmes does it, no questions, no "this isn't necessary", nothing.

This is a perfect example of how beautifully they work together. And how well they know each other. Holmes is observant sure, he can find clues and decipher codes. But Watson is also observant of body language and facial expressions. And they both trust each other to know when they right in their respective fields.

Holmes isn't a rude person, he simply wasn't interested in that part of the case so he didn't notice Mrs King being upset. But the second Watson points it out, he fixes it. He corrects his behavior and shows sympathy. In the same way Watson trusts every deduction Holmes makes without questions.

I love them and I love how much of a partnership their relationship is.

Many adaptations have done this but they make Holmes be rude at Watson's "stupidity" for not realizing things that are obvious. And Watson be rude at Holmes' "indifference" towards people. But not Granada Holmes. They have done it absolutely perfectly :')

The Secret of Sherlock Holmes bookbinding project!

I've really wanted a hard copy for a while of 'The Secret of Sherlock Holmes' play by Jeremy Paul, which was performed by Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke (and is very high on my list of things to go and see if I get a time machine, because there aren't any video recordings of it.)

ANYWAY it's long out of print and very expensive to buy so I figured... I can just make one myself!

First I bound the text block. It's so slim, at a grand total of 75 pages.

I bound the cover in honey-coloured book cloth, and then set about creating a cover design.

I wanted to use the official logo of the play and this amazing publicity photo, so I went into my paint package of choice (clip studio) and tweaked the photograph until I was happy I'd got a likeness of the actors only using black and white. I think Jeremy Brett lost a little of his handsomeness, alas.

A while ago I bought a cutting machine, a Silhouette Portrait, which comes with some great software which can automatically convert an image like this into a path for the cutting machine to follow, although I usually tweak it manually too.

For example, I figured the weave on Hardwicke's tie was too intricate so I removed it.

Then I set the cutting machine to work!

For a while I tried using self-adhesive vinyl to make covers, but I found that it wasn't very hard-wearing and would start peeling off. These days I use self-adhesive vinyl to make a stencil, and then paint onto the book cloth in acrylic. The fact that the stencil is self-adhesive reduces the chances of any paint sneaking in underneath!

(The stencil is gold just because I have a lot of spare gold vinyl - it's probably not the best colour to use.)

For this project I did something I've never done before, which is doing two layered stencils, a white layer underneath, and then a black layer on top.

I kind of regret not painting all of the figures in white because if you squint you can see the line where the white stops on the final piece.

And now for the really satisfying bit - peeling of the stencil when everything has dried!

I'm really pleased with the finished book, and it's so fun to possibly have the only hardback version of this play... ever...???

Come join the Sunday Watchalongs in ‘The Giant Chat of Sumatra’ On Discord. It honestly doesn’t matter if you are a Sherlock fan, or just randomly found this on the scroll, we would love to have you join us! We're starting our twice yearly Granada Holmes mega watch-through!

On 5th May we’re going to watch the First Two Episodes; 'A scandal in Bohemia' & 'The Dancing Men'. Granada Sherlock Holmes was produced by the British tv Granada Television between 1984 and 1994. And starred Jeremy Brett as Holmes. Watson was played by David Burke in the first series (Adventures).

Scandal: (Link) & Dancing (Link)

All of the watchalongs take place in the Discord Server ‘The Giant Chat of Sumatra’ and we start watching Promptly at 20:10 UK time (People usually turn up from 19:45 onwards to have a natter beforehand!) Click here to convert to your timezone. You do not need to have ever been to a watchalong before - anyone reading this can come along. If you wish to be tagged in these weekly reminders here please private message me on Discord.  

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