Let’s bring the bowler hat back.
Because you know, of reasons.
Granada Holmes Rewatch | The Naval Treaty
On April 24th 1984, a new Sherlock Holmes series from Granada Television premiered for the very first time on our television screens. The series was titled The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the episode was “A Scandal in Bohemia.” It starred Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, David Burke as Dr. John Watson, and guest starred Gayle Hunnicutt as Irene Adler.
Reasons why Granada Sherlock Holmes is Perfect
- Jeremy Brett
- Edward Hardwicke (And David Burke too)
- Rainbows in 221B
- Lack of chronology snarls and other consistency errors
- Rainbows
- The Soundtrack
- Faithfulness to the canon (mostly)
- Lack of migrating bullet wounds
- Lack of Mary forgetting that John Watson’s name isn’t James
- Lack of a mysterious second (third? more??) wife for Watson
- Lack of love-at-first-sight bizarre romance subplots for Watson in general
- Holmes reaching for Watson’s hand in The Red Circle
- Holmes tickling Watson’s feet to wake him up in the morning
- Holmes calling Watson ‘Dearest’
- Watson implying that Holmes is his husband
- The entire Twisted Lip episode tbh
- Watson telling Holmes ‘My bedroom is at your disposal’
- Holmes referring to ‘their room’
- Watson’s model ship in Holmes’ bedroom
- Holmes bathing in front of Watson
- The Musgrave Ritual Blanket
- The Devil’s Foot Blanket
- The Dying Detective Blanket
- Holmes and his blankets
- Holmes and Watson being gloriously married
- Rainbows in 221b
- Rainbows
- RAINBOWS
