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Re: PBS "Sherlock Holmes" Updated for the 21st century
« Reply #320 on: March 04, 2014, 09:57:53 pm »
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Re: PBS "Sherlock Holmes" Updated for the 21st century
« Reply #321 on: March 05, 2014, 02:49:08 am »
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Re: PBS "Sherlock Holmes" Updated for the 21st century
« Reply #322 on: March 05, 2014, 01:16:13 pm »
They should be on a case far from home and imbibe too much. When they wake up the world may have changed.  :laugh:
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Re: PBS "Sherlock Holmes" Updated for the 21st century
« Reply #323 on: April 25, 2014, 09:15:21 am »
Talk about "updated for the 21st century"! It tickles me that "Ms. Hudson," the person who comes in to clean for Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson in Elementary, is played by the transgender actress Candis Cayne.  :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candis_Cayne

I also find it amusing that the Diogenes Club is the name of the restaurants that Mycroft Holmes (Rhys Ifans) operates in London and New York.
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Re: PBS "Sherlock Holmes" Updated for the 21st century
« Reply #324 on: May 27, 2014, 12:36:29 pm »
I was chatting on my blog about seeing a couple of old Sherlock Holmes broadcasts at the tea I went to last Sunday. So, guess who played Sherlock Holmes in this mid-century broadcast?
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Re: PBS "Sherlock Holmes" Updated for the 21st century
« Reply #325 on: May 27, 2014, 08:21:13 pm »
What...no guesses?
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Re: PBS "Sherlock Holmes" Updated for the 21st century
« Reply #326 on: May 27, 2014, 09:37:16 pm »
By "mid-century broadcast," do you mean literally "on television in the 1950s"?
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Re: PBS "Sherlock Holmes" Updated for the 21st century
« Reply #327 on: May 28, 2014, 09:07:36 am »
On television, yes. 1950s? More like 1950s-1980s.
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Re: PBS "Sherlock Holmes" Updated for the 21st century
« Reply #328 on: May 28, 2014, 09:16:12 am »
Okay, this person played Moriarty in the show:

(Caution, this show is very difficult to find by Googling!)

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Re: PBS "Sherlock Holmes" Updated for the 21st century
« Reply #329 on: May 28, 2014, 10:38:53 am »
Maybe this is pointing to the fact that until recently all leading men looked very similar to each other.
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