Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes documentary

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
Doyle was a prolific writer; other than Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the Mary Celeste.
Arthur Conan Doyle documentary
2017

[@judithgrace8359]

When I was a reading teacher I did a whole unit on Sherlock Holmes with my 7th graders. We read “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”. When we finished the stories, I told my 7th graders that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “killed” off Holmes because he got sick of his character. One of my students looked at me in complete shock and said, “you mean he wasn’t real?” Such is the power of the Sherlock Holmes character. He lives in our hearts and imagination.

[@srothbardt]

Verrrrry interesting. But stupid….. Kidding….Yes , most people, not just kids, don’t understand lit.

[@catgladwell5684]

@@srothbardt "Most people" - are you sure?

[@user-ic6nj4xo6q]

He was real, he was a mix of Sir Arthur's med school professor and evolved entities from the past through the spiritualist movement that he was a part of. His stories explain the spiritualist doctrine in allegorical fashion.

[@TheNBAfan101]

@@srothbardtyes calling a 7th grader stupid is definitely the way to behave 💀

[@travisash8180]

A Lemon Tree my dear Watson.

[@thebaggins5168]

Jeremy Brett is my favorite Sherlock Holmes. RIP JB. 🙏💙

[@_TheOneRing_]

My too👏🏻

[@pollyhelms5910]

Yes!

[@zzydny]

Although there have been many versions of Holmes, Jeremy Brett played the character with the greatest respect and the most faithfulness to the original stories. He will always be "the" Sherlock Holmes to me.

[@judithsweeney2553]

Oh, yes! Me too.

[@ktgiffin8147]

Same. Jeremy Brett didn't just play the character, he became him.

[@powellmountainmike8853]

The assertion in this video that Holmes "didn't listen to music" is wrong. He went to a concert by Wilhelmina Norman-Neruda in A Study In Scarlet, and both he and Watson attend a concert by Sarasate in The Red Headed League. We know he had a phonograph because it plays a part in the plot of The Adventure Of The Mazzarin Stone. So, from the stories, we have evidence that Holmes did enjoy listening to music.

[@kthomasaus]

That struck me too

[@a.s7902]

Absolutely correct!

[@georgen9755]

kthomasaus

[@mikelheron20]

I was about to make the same comment. The Redheaded League is one of many stories that make reference to Holmes attending concerts. It makes me wonder if the guy has ever read any Sherlock Holmes.

[@nancypotter6772]

He played the violin, and Watson hated it. That was mentioned on their agreement to share rooms.

[@shafiullakhan3967]

I never get tired of reading and watching Conan Doyle's Sherlock and of course Jeremy was the best to enact the consulting detective.

[@russellmarra8520]

Yes, but... consider - Frankenstein, Dracula, James Bond, and Sherlock Holmes. The faces you thought of reading those names were Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Sean Connery, and Basil Rathbone. All of these characters have been portrayed many times by many actors. Yet the faces we first go to are the ones I've listed. But yes, too, Jeremy Brett was perfect as Holmes.

[@noelryan6341]

I agree with you. For me, Jeremy Brett was the quintessential interpreter of the character of SH.

[@cv507]

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[@bookmouse2719]

Basil Rathbone.

[@kalyansubramani7076]

@@bookmouse2719 YES!

[@inkyguy]

One observation about the Holmes stories that is only alluded to here, at best, that I learned of in another video documentary was that in his stories, Conan Doyle shows a world in which crime and criminality exists within the upper classes, and is not limited to the lower classes. At the time of their writing, the popular conception was that crime and criminality was innately a phenomenon of the lower classes, that the upper classes were not only economically superior but also innately morally superior. Conan Doyle dashed that hypocritical stereotype by portraying members of the upper and ruling classes which were just as criminal as those of the lower classes.

[@marymarysmarket3508]

More so...as they have more to kill for

[@danacoleman4007]

Very interesting

[@M.Smith1]

Thank you all for creation of this documentary of Arthur Conan Doyle!

[@Annur375]

"I've heard of you before. You are Holmes the meddler, Holmes the busy body..." Fantastic, unforgettable, magnificent Sherlock Holmes! Thanks for sharing the life of his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Great documentary. Best to you.

[@mikeloglio7550]

Glad someone can appreciate this ! Yeah Doyal was quite the intellect !

[@danielgregg2530]

"Holmes the Scotland Yard jack-in-office." haahahahahahahaha

[@tomhaskett5161]

Sir Grimsby Roylott?

[@29brendus]

I can still grasp the magical feeling and atmosphere that I had felt, the first time I came across the 56 short stories, all in one volume and having the wonderful illustrations. That first story was 'A Scandal in Bohemia'. I was about 10.y.o then and that was in 1966 in the school library in Ireland. Apart from the fascination of the stories, it was also a solid introduction to the structure of the English Language. The very first time I went to London in 1974, I looked for 221B Baker Street. I deduced, after careful observation and examination of the physical surroundings, that it was not there. Wonderful stuff and I'm still hooked. My favourite story is 'The Bruce-Partington Plans', followed by 'The Red Headed League' and 'The Dancing Men'.

[@michaeljohnangel6359]

Me too, right down to my 10-year-old self in 1955. Best of wishes, my dear!!

[@rezzer7918]

Very well written.

[@peterconnell2496]

"first time I went to London in 1974, I looked for 221B Baker Street. I deduced, after careful observation and examination of the physical surroundings, that it was not there." As one would...., but what are the details? Is there a 221 but no 221b, or does Baker St stop 100 etc?

[@29brendus]

@@peterconnell2496 As far as I know the numbers go to up 320. Even after many trips to London and having worked there for years, I never went back there to Baker St for another look. There used to be a Sherlock Holmes pub in Villiers St (Charing Cross) complete with Holmes' Parlour, but it is now moved to 9, Northumberland St, not far away from Embankment. So the Game is afoot!

[@adamodeo9320]

as a teenager, I read Doyle, yet I did not know what a great human being he was - thank you for this video.

[@livingdeadgirl8074]

After so many corny versions of Sherlock Homes I was not thrilled to find myself with nothing to read many years ago except a Sherlock Homes book. All I could say was holy shit was it good. I then read every book I could get by Doyle. I also ended up with a new appreciation for Sherlock Homes.

[@inkyguy]

That’s a great story. It’s wonderful to learn of someone who discovers the joys of wildly popular stories reproduced or extended as non-canonical “based on the characters of” Conan Doyle productions on stage, radio, film and television in the original literary source. Congratulations! I’ve tried to limit myself to the best adaptations, which have been almost exclusively the Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke adaptations. Unfortunately, Brett’s health did not allow all of the stories to be adapted as was originally intended by the producers. I had initial hopes for the Dominic Cumberbatch adaptations, and I thought the first episode was decent, but after that I thought they were ridiculous, almost campy.

[@TheDoctor1225]

@@inkyguy I will agree with that wholeheartedly. I grew up watching the Sherlock Holmes adaptations with Basil Rathbone and while I enjoyed his portrayal (I enjoy virtually everything that he is in) I loathed the way they portrayed Watson as he was nothing like the character from the books. I also agree that were I to recommend one adaptation for people to watch, it would be the series with Jeremy Brett, as I have found them to be the most faithful, overall. I have never watched any of the "modern" adaptations, not do I intend to, quite honestly. The movie adaptaion with Robert Downey Jr (best described as "A great movie UNLESS you know anything about Sherlock Holmes") and the TV version with the female, Oriental Watson were both enough to make me give them all a pass. I'll stick with the original canon stories, and Jeremy Brett.

[@michaeljohnangel6359]

@@inkyguy I agree with all you've written, including that about the Benedict Cumberbatch adaptations (the first season was good; the rest was rubbish).

[@lindsay3043]

Sherlock Holmes is so healing for me. I just love it so much. If I have a bad day I just jump into his books, shows or movies. Im always put at ease by his brilliance.

[@artscience9981]

When I was young Sherlock Holmes was truly one of my heroes. Looking back, maybe my lifetime interest in science was partly inspired by trying to be like him. This video is a wonderful evocation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s life and times. I loved that it has both English and French perspectives on Holmes and Doyle. Truly a gift to Holmes fans around the world!

[@Ubermensch201]

I just got the Barnes and Noble Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection, containing all 4 novels and 56 short stories that make up the "canon works" .. I've never read any of them I'm 31 now and just getting into all the classics after Conan Doyle I'm moving to Robert Louis Stevenson... I am addicted to the Leather Bound Classic Books now though lol

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

Lol nice 👍👍

[@acmehorse]

When I first read the canon I was surprised how modern it reads. A real page turner. Hope you enjoy them as much I did.

[@robertmcfetridge3480]

Goodness, so many new images. My passion for Conan Doyle has been in hiatus since 2005. An interesting documentary with some new perspectives. Thanks to the producers.

[@bruceweaver1518]

This author has always fascinated me. As he himself said, he wanted to develop a character who used science in place of chance. He was the one author who started the scientific apprehension of criminals through forensic evidence. I would dearly loved to have met him in person.

[@raimimar4488]

Arthur Conan Doyle is my favorite writer i have many books of him greetings from Bulgaria

[@tgdomnemo5052]

Thank You for making Sir Arthur visible in the long shadow of Mr. Holmes 😉🙏🏼🖖🏼

[@xr6lad]

The are some great online audio books of SH that I play when going to bed and sleep. Such nice stories to listen to. Magpie Audio is a great reader of the stories imo.

[@stevenfranks3131]

Thank you for posting this video. It's a delight from start to finish!

[@JJW77]

Your "Write Like" documentaries are well investigative, informative and lively.

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

Glad you enjoy them!

[@cavemanrob]

My great-great grandmother, Margaret Doyle Carmody, was his niece.

[@sharoncravenor2226]

Very cool!!

[@janetleefilia9970]

Because Ii am very old, and grew up with the Sherlock and Watson movies with Basil and Nigile, they ate the "true" characters. I adore them, even now, I go to sleep listening to their voices on laptop. Basil Rathbone's voice is soooo reassuring, there can be no other. Of course, I truly appreciated Jeremy and watched him devotedly, but my real devotion is with those old voices that gave me such cozy comfort and entertainment. Also, thank you for the doc on Arthur Conan Doyle. I had no idea he was such an amazing creature.

[@doonsbury9656]

Quite amazing how a fictional character created By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle can, to a very great extent, control his creators life....or certainly many of his decisions. Fascinating autobiography!

[@2msvalkyrie529]

The meeting between Wilde , Conan Doyle and the American Publisher took place at the Langham Hotel . Well worth calling in for afternoon tea .It hasn't changed that much.

[@inkyguy]

On of the great meetings of literary history.

[@susanmercurio1060]

I love Arthur Conan Doyle and read everything I could get my hands on when I was a child.

[@Hollylivengood]

Did you read his historical novels? They were really good.

[@adrianajaramillo6767]

I will look for it in Spanish, I love this type of documentaries, greetings from Medellin Colombia

[@JCPJCPJCP]

I know next to nothing about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and I've never read him, but I enjoyed this video and learning something about him. I try to watch all of your videos. Thanks again. 😊

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

Thank you. I really liked this one too 🕵️

[@inkyguy]

It’s always wonderful to encounter people who enjoy learning something for the sake of learning. 👍

[@russellmarra8520]

Now that you have been introduced to Mr. Doyle and Mr. Holmes, you owe it to yourself to read at least one of the stories.

[@JCPJCPJCP]

So many good books to read, so little time. ⏲️ ⏳️ 🕐

[@russellmarra8520]

@@JCPJCPJCP Yes, of course, still...

[@alanlawrence2954]

Holmes and Tom Sawyer were my constant companions growing up... To me, they were real, more real than the people who claimed to be real around me.

[@ringpop6177]

What a wonderful documentary! For anyone who loves Sherlock Holmes Magpie videos by Greg Wagland is the best Sherlock Holmes voice actor! I listen to the stories over and over. He is an excellent Sherlock 😃

[@axiomist4488]

In 1964, I read "The Compleat Sherlock Holmes", a thick book containing all the Holmes stories, including the ones written after his "death" .. I checked the book from the library and read it in 4 weeks . Watching this makes me want to read them again (I have the book). It occurred to me at the time that Doyle was, intellectually, Sherlock Holmes, since it was he who worked out all the cases and solved them. Doyle was Holmes and he was brilliant . I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank you .

[@louisevanwyk4376]

I would love to hear even more about ACD. I love Sherlock Holmes stories, but the author is infinitely more interesting

[@donaldkelly3983]

Thanks for posting the bio of Doyle! I didn't know the details of his life and that he was an active journalist.

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

No prob! I had no idea he struggled in the beginning

[@becca5100]

@@AuthorDocumentaries Bio extremely well done! Do you have other bios elsewhere?

[@GuitarandMusicInstitute]

Did they mention that he was Scottish and brought up in Edinburgh?

[@julierobertson9397]

I had only the vaguest knowledge of Sir Arthur, mostly having to do with his activities regarding the spiritualist movement. Thank you for educating me on the range and depth of his involvement in the real world.

[@conniekampas7074]

The narrator voice is superb,perfect for this video. Thank you

[@oldgringo2001]

Conan Doyle had a direct descendant named Richard Doyle. I've only read one of Richard's novels, and at this point I don't know if he ever published anything else, but *Imperial 109" was a rip-roaring globetrotting adventure set in the fateful spring of 1939 built around the last journey of an Imperial Airways flying boat from Capetown, South Africa to New York City. If you ever read it, you will quickly find a resemblance to the Indiana Jones movies--but this came out years before ""Raiders of the Lost Ark'". If you've read Ken Follet's "Night Over Water" you'll find it difficult to believe Follet didn't crib most of "Night" from "109. Both are set in 1939 before WWII started in Europe. Both take place mostly on large flying boat with a Boeing 314 in place of a Short C-class, which make westbound flights from the British Isles to New York. The Boeing 314 was actually the very first airliner to offer regularly scheduled passenger service from the United States across the North Atlantic. Only twelve were built, and none survive, but the flying boat used for live shots in "Raiders" does. It's a Short Solent at the Oakland Aviation Museum in Oakland, California.

[@igrok__1]

I don't think they are related.

[@tommonk7651]

I read "Hound of the Baskervilles" for school in the 6th or 7th grade in the early 70s. I've loved Holmes (and by extension Doyle) ever since....

[@garycarpenter6433]

This is my favorite author of all time and I've seen nearly every movie and I've got a few of his stories plus I've always wanted to see the Sherlock Holmes museum in London just to get an original hat,pipe and costume of Mr.Holmes and Dr.Watson doctor bag

[@RamonaMcKean]

Enjoyable. Thank you.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Conan Doyle wrote so many other great stories and novels - The Lost World for just one example . It's natural to focus on Sherlock I suppose but there's much more !!

[@brianwilling9403]

Fantastic documentary! My all time favourite character in fiction. Thank you

[@AnnieVanAuken]

At 17:43 this man is wrong that Holmes doesn't care about music. There are several examples on film and in print of him and Watson happily going off to enjoy a concert. Even here at 34:25 we briefly see Holmes mention that violin virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate woud be concertizing.

[@danielgregg2530]

Daniel Gregg While an artistic and entertaining documentary, I shouldn't take it too seriously. It has quite a few errors of even basic fact which could and certainly should stand correcting, which when I have more time I might turn to setting straight. This is one of them. The truth is, while these putative experts rattle on in such self-satisfied authoritative tones, in fact it is plainly evident they are not experts at all in this particular subject matter. Thus the take the writer of this took was to pose Holmes as a kind of misanthrope, which is gross overstatement. While it is true that Doyle began developing him that way in the first two stories, both novels, that was quite promptly dropped once he got into the lucrative short-story mode which utterly dominates the canon. The drug abuse vanishes virtually entirely and instead Holmes evolves into a polymath who is as expert in manifold fields as another Thomas Jefferson (at least), and can discourse intelligently on subjects as diverse American Civil War & Reconstruction Period history to "warships of the future", alongside all sorts of odd knowledge of unusual fauna of the Empire, medieval palimpsests (rendered in Latin, naturally), and the ways of contemporary spycraft. His knowledge of contemporary politics, both domestic and international, appears as clear as that of a bona fide political commentator, and he takes rank with those of that school of thought for his time that foresaw the future of the world as a single nation with a government that would be an amalgamation of that of the British Empire and the United States. His "regular guy" side is revealed in his appreciation of everything from a quite Epicurean catered cold supper to cheap Italian food or rude sandwiches and beer, his enjoyment of the occasional bet on a horse, the use of every form of tobacco product (though he somehow overlooked the employment of the hookah, as sublime a smoke as anybody can ever enjoy), and the fact he knew enough of the common working class's lot to successfully impersonate a groom, a sealing captain, an opium fiend, a rustic parson, or a plumber named Escott with a rising trade which wins him a fiance named Agatha. He has a terrific deprecating dry sense of humor and is perfectly at home in any conversation likely to arise in genteel society as well as on the street or in an alley and most frequently will emerge dominant in such settings. He also can charm matronly women into a state of trust with just a few soothing sentences. In fact, if there is anything where Doyle really overreaches in terms of Holmes's abilities, it is in a couple of spots where he has learned a couple basic truths about women that it is hard to see he could have ever learned without living with at least one classic exemplar for some not inconsiderable length of time.

[@DrSchor]

AT 10:35, Doyle did not invent the modern detective story as related by Anthony Horowitz. Edgar Allen Poe did with his character Auguste Dupin in stories such as The Purloined Letter, written in 1844. "Where was the detective story until Poe breathed life into it" Doyle said. Dupin, a pipe smoker, was followed up by Inspector Bucket in Charles Dickens "Bleak House" in 1853. A study in scarlet was not published until 1887. In The Adventure of the Cardboard Box, Holmes states he uses a technique of following a person's thought's which was done before him by Dupin.

[@keepitsimple4629]

DrSchor, very astute observation there! Lots of online videos are full of inconsistencies that drive me nuts.

[@fidomusic]

Also Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone.

[@TheKoolbraider]

@@fidomusic I was telling the guy on screen here that Wilkie Collins was much earlier than Holmes. He probably didn't hear me. And: both Holmes and Watson appreciated good music.

[@michaeldillon3113]

This is such a great series . Thank you .

[@stardresser1]

As a parent, the Curious George episode called "Bask of the Houndervilles" I can highly recommend.😂

[@shawna620]

Enjoyed this very much! Thank you!!

[@maky977]

So, Sir Arthur would hate this documentary...as it is more about Sherlock, than about him ;)

[@vanjamatic3972]

What a funny funny portrait of Doyle and his Holmes and Watson. Thank you people. So funny.

[@AG-zt9gj]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was Scottish - born in Edinburgh.

[@Bamboule05]

So if a child of two italian Immigrants gets born in Edinborough, you also say this is a scott?

[@imoldgreggboosh3467]

Doyle created a memorable character in Holmes, but it was E.A. Poe who first created the clue gathering detective who solved the murders at the Rue Morgue.

[@davidphillips7321]

Very Interesting and Informative - Thank You, Stay Safe, Stay Strong...

[@kasondaleigh]

Really great video. Thanks!

[@FlyingAce1016]

The old guy in the tweed jacket is definitely my mental image of a sherlock holmes aficionado and super fan :D

[@gregforrester4851]

basil rathbone&nigel bruce are the best in my opinion they are great some funny things are said when they played thier parts.

[@robertmcfetridge3480]

My uncle used to say the same thing but as a fan of the Brett version I couldn't understand that. The Rathbone versions were not even based on the original Doyle stories. They seemed comic and silly to me. The Brett version had humour but it was not so childish.

[@noelryan6341]

At the age of three score and ten, now, it occurs to me in, retrospect, that the phenomenon of ACD & Sherlock Holmes has in more recent times had parallels in 'The Lord of the Rings' JRR Tolkien story cycle, or 'Star Wars' cycle of stories, for which we seem to have an insatiable appetite. ESCAPISM! A need to have 'heroes' to reassure us that 'Good Triumphs Over Evil'!

[@alidabaxter5849]

I still have the tattered paperback copy of The Hound of the Baskervilles that I bought long long ago when I was about 13. Subsequently I bought all the stories in collection form and love them, and for me Jeremy Brett was the most perfect Sherlock Holmes ever.

[@kalyansubramani7076]

Beautiful documentary. Thank you.

[@tinkmarshino]

Totally enthralling..

[@366Gli]

No doubt Sherlock Holmes is the greatest. Some decades ago I went for a job interview in London, near baker street. I failed to find number 221 B. Not even a plate marking the historic place. I wonder if that disappointment made me decline that job offer. My very strong opinion is that if any Movies or TV shows are made, Sherlock and Dr. Watson must be played by actors that look very , very much like Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. If they don't I don't want to see the show..

[@lizday8140]

I notice no nod to George C. Scott, who did an amazing job as a actor portraying Holmes in the movie, "They Might Be Giants." Well, no spoilers, but I'll say that he mostly plays Holmes in the film. It is one of my all-time favorites!

[@highpsi11]

The Jeremy Brett series is the best, but I prefer Basil Rathbone's Holmes. Unfortunately Hollywood made a mockery of the Watson character played by Nigel Bruce by making him a buffoon. Brett was too "fey" for my taste - campy, mannered and affected. But the series was excellent - great production values! And Brett had "the look" in the early episodes when he was still healthy. And so did Christopher Lee.

[@LSMFT]

The ladies voice is amazing

[@NMansetJWard]

My mom had a first edition book with the inside cover with the wallpaper with bullet holes in it...I was in grade school and read the entire book, much like Edgar Allen Poe's complete edition...I began early with all of Doctor Doolittle's books, Mark Twain's books as well, then Sherlock Holmes... then Poe...I was an avid reader...Later in my teens I read Orwell, Bradbury, and many other authors as well...

[@michaeljohnangel6359]

Loved it! Thanks!!!!!

[@susanhepburn6040]

Thank you very much.

[@joannageorge7305]

Holmes was not an addict. He used drugs to cope with boredom. But he was never in the grip of an addiction.

[@ioloindeseo]

and jesus was not jewish either? of course - a piece of paper with ink on it could not be addicted to anything, except perhaps a reader's eye

[@robertburatt]

Holmes is best in his native environment, late 19th century when the World was still full of mysteries, borders of nations were permeable, old cultures still survived for many hundreds or even thousands of years, firm social~ class lines each of which had their characteristic features peculiar to themselves with their respective customs and daily life, low rooftops without the intrusive presence of the skyscraper, etc.

[@miriammerritt3438]

It's got to be basil rationed......he is handsome, urbane, and so right for the part......

[@TexasTimeLord]

Jeremy Brett was by far the best Holmes

[@Bamboule05]

I think Robert Stepens was

[@peterkirby1753]

I'd never made the connection between "House" and "Holmes" 🤦🏻 😁

[@ezb6798]

I love “the plains of Ooo-Tah.” So much more exotic than You-Taw.

[@valmarsiglia]

Nobody had done it before Doyle? Sorry, all modern detective stories begin with Poe. Auguste Dupin was the proto-Holmes (and proto-Poirot), down to the powers of deduction.

[@watermelonlalala]

I believe there was a novelist who wrote a Holmes like detective story before Doyle. I saw a story about him in Sherlock Holmes group on Facebook. I think the book might have been called something like The Amazing Detective.

[@valmarsiglia]

@@watermelonlalala That's really interesting, thanks. I'm not finding anything so far, but I just started looking. Please post any more info if you find it!

[@ioloindeseo]

yes, then, and when did the precursor to "modern" detective stories arise like a creation out of nothing? no one cared about solving a crime or mystery before, it just all went along as ... ?? lord, who left subtlety out on the porch

[@valmarsiglia]

@@ioloindeseo Huh?

[@watermelonlalala]

@@valmarsiglia I can't find anything on it, either. I asked the Facebook group if they remember that post. Nothing, so far.

[@montbrehain]

Excellent !

[@m.richard.helton1547]

Name is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle he had been knighted and should be honored that way for his great literature. Not the americanize it and shorten his name.

[@ijustpostedth1s724]

I will take a crack at Americanizing your name. You shall be known from now on as MARV the incompetent.

[@TheStockwell]

No offense intended, but there's no established tradition of compelling non-UK territories to use British titles - as most titled Brits would agree. I mean, Ben Kingsley doesn't complain about not being billed in films as Sir Ben Kingsley in his films, Laurence Olivier never demanded to be credited as Lord Olivier when he appeared onstage or in films, and Agatha Christie's estate doesn't force her publishers or the BBC to refer to her as Dame Agatha. The last time I checked, BBC Nature was proudly broadcasting documentary films narrated by David Attenborough, not Sir David Attenborough.

[@ioloindeseo]

@The Retirement Report as in - don't be surprised by your own dimness, and i'm so sorry you hadn't cottoned on sooner, but the person who needs the title needs far more than that, and so the title is still superfluous. one might put the title MASERATI all over a caddy, but, it will still be a piece of heavy pig iron from detroit. and how was the rally, for you. was there volume?

[@arturs2436]

Writer Anthony Horowitz by 17:44 states that Holmes"has no interest in music"...Thats wrong else why would there is visible at least on that Granada TV version of"The Red Headed League": that SH and Watson attend an live performance of the Spanish violin virtuoso Sarasate...During that segment Watson says"(...)When i saw him so enwrapped in the music(...)"...which is also proof that AH is also wrong when he by 17:48 states"he plays the stradivarius but he doesnt listen to music in any way"...wrong, he does.

[@kaydonahue]

Edgar Allen Poe wrote The Purloined Letter, The Murder of Rue Morgue, and the Gold Bug.

[@ioloindeseo]

don't forget Chesterton, among others - no one invents anything all on their own for the first time - they steal (borrow) it, yes, but invention all at once - what a fairy tale

[@zuzuspetals38]

L♥️ve Basil, Jeremy, and Benedict 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Never tire of Doyle’s stories. PS I forgot abt Robert Downey Jr 🤦🏻‍♀️loved him & Jude Law as well 🌟🌟🌟

[@dianefenster9787]

Anthony Horowitz is wrong! Holmes loved music and frequently went to concerts. He even wrote a monograph on the Polyphonic Motets of Lassus.

[@judithsweeney2553]

Yes, indeed. Not to mention his violin playing.

[@dianascrimger284]

How could anybody forget your birthday! Happy birthday!

[@ruthiecole8634]

The narrator is pretty good 👍

[@Kidraver555]

Bringing a character back from death is the ultimate story element, just ask Jesus.

[@KettyFormaggio]

this was very good

[@2011crackers]

Arthur Conan Doyle☘️ Oscar Wilde☘️ Bram stocker☘️ WB Yeats☘️

[@veralucianegreiros]

Tradução p/ o português. Agradeço mais um vez.

[@ezb6798]

It’s not true that Sherlock Holmes has no interest in listening to music. In the novels and stories, he frequently attends concerts and listens with absorption, even rapture.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

It's only fair to mention that he owed a debt to another 19 th century genius - Edgar Allen Poe .? Poor disturbed Poe unfortunately fell by the wayside .

[@susanmercurio1060]

In what way did Poe inspire a detective story? I read an awful lot of Poe.

[@danielgregg2530]

Yes, who was he, anyway?

[@danielgregg2530]

@@susanmercurio1060 "The Gold Bug", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", and "The Purloined Letter", to name but three.

[@heidimiller642]

It's just that my god parents are named Watson. My friend Melissa Browns' first husband was Moriarty. Our Seattle City Attorney in 2013 was named Holmes. This is way too many coincidences for my comfort.

[@carolannemckenzie3849]

Spooky! Is your cleaner called Mrs Hudson...? 😉

[@philthycat1408]

My Great great Grandfather, who was fictional as well, stayed across the road from Mr Holmes, at number 224b.

[@srothbardt]

O , yes -House comes from Holmes. Cooool. It’s a riot that people (Americans?) thought Churchill was a character. Well, he wrote history.

[@JamesBrown-ij1px]

Before there was Agatha Christie and ‘Hercule Poirot’ there was Arthur Conan Doyle and ‘Sherlock Holmes’. The world will always be grateful. 🙏

[@ruheerizvi5293]

And he played the violin well

[@Ramkumar-uj9fo]

Many people are not skeptical that Arthur Conan Doyle believed he saw a fairy, considering his strong advocacy for spiritualism and the Cottingley Fairies photographs. --- I couldn't believe this person can be fooled.

[@FlyingAce1016]

What sherlock holmes comics are these that appear here they look awesome!

[@markadams7597]

Interesting vid, thanks for posting. Near realized till this flick that the spiritual-cook Doyle has a Chrisitan cross over his grave. (His descendants must've not followed his spiritualism.)

[@ioloindeseo]

not all crosses are christian - get over it

[@frederickbowdler8169]

Bell apparently read the patients notes at the bottom of the ved😊!

[@rjfpac]

Thank you....

[@zzydny]

This is entertaining to watch but it is quite annoying when one of the "experts" gets a important fact wrong ( 17:44 "Sherlock Holmes has no interest in music") and then tries to backtrack to cover his error. If you can't trust one of the experts, can you trust any of them?

[@richardmattingly7000]

Doyle was so strident in his beliefs in the Supernatural that even when two of those he touted had powers revealed it was a trick it wouldn't sway him. Indeed his friendship with Harry Houdini he actually thought the Magician could dematerialize in some way during performances but their falling out was quite public. Houdini exposed the tricks Spiritualist used during a Seance like lifting tables to what's know as cold reading a believer saying they were in contact with the dead that really angered Doyle. It wasn't uncommon for those in the Victorian Era to believe that the deceased were still watching over the living that they'd paid for Spirit Photographs of themselves with a ghostly figure. Mary Lincoln had one supposedly of her husband seemingly with his arms around her in mourning clothes and one photographer was well know for taking them people sought him out. In the Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle wrote as if the demonic beast was real and even after it was revealed to have been dog trained to kill the author still left the reader to ponder what had pursued the family that its legend existed.

[@triconcert]

Is it true that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would have been born a Catholic?

[@richardmattingly7000]

To Mark, Doyle was born into an Irish Catholic heritage mainly thru his mother but came to reject it early in his life. His father was an alcoholic who's behavior landed his family nearly destitute, but what turned Doyle against organized faith was his early schooling. The author described that its academics were nearly mideval in nature and physical punishment\humilitation not learning were its hallmarks. He would later be schooled by Jesuits which broadened what was learned but he still became Agnostic for the rest of his life as well as embracing Spiritualism. Indeed Doyle later paid for much of the building of a Spiritualist Temple near London and laid its cornerstone believing it not Catholicism etc. was the truth about creation. His second wife outlived him by just a decade and even in death Doyle caused problems because if his beliefs as many objected to him being reburied in a church graveyard with her later in because of his Spiritualist-Agnostic Beliefs. Doyle likely felt that belief in the unseen and the unknowable not dogma of organized religion was the key to the afterlife as well as with the contact going both ways between the dead -living left behind.

[@triconcert]

@@richardmattingly7000 Thanks for the information. Revealing!

[@triconcert]

@@richardmattingly7000 I guess Doyle now knows the truth...

[@richardmattingly7000]

To Mark..Perhaps but in a way Harry Houdini wanted to be proven wrong and left a cipher with his wife before he died to challenge them. Each year the unsealed letter for decades was held at a ceremony open to all Spiritualists who rarely showed up asking if they could get in contact with him from the great beyond. A few years ago it was opened having passed the time limit for which was set and many famous magicians often were in attendance each time to catch fraudsters who might give it a go. Houdini hated those that made a living out such shenanigans because is was cash not consultation they were after and would do almost anything to get it. One debunked went as far as to offer a Million Dollar Prize to anyone who could prove Supernatural power stability under Scientific observation and many tried but not collected a penny. Indeed the late conjuror James Randi who offered the reward summed them up best when he said about them the dead were always calling from Heaven not Hell thru them and were quite creative in reading the living about the dead to keep them paying...

[@votemonty1815]

I'm in need of a consultant...a consultant detective.

[@jonathangagne7109]

Beautifully narrated, oh, a woman's voice!

[@user-kd6gr8mu8b]

Re Jeremy Brett - I very much agree he is the best of them.