EP09 - The Copper Beeches - The Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Podcast

In this installment, Holmes and Watson visit the mysterious Copper Beeches, a new Violet appears, and brain-fever once again rears its sweaty head. Also, Gus and Luke reflect on their interview with Stephen Fry, they discuss their latest adventures in the UK, Frank Middlemass gets a little extra love, and more. Plus, listener emails!
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0:00 The Copper Beeches
22:55 Joss Ackland Biography
26:15 The Copper Beeches
31:32 Natasha Richardson Biography
35:27 The Copper Beeches
45:17 Production Notes
47:06 Discussion with Gus and Luke
1:23:22 Listener Telegrams
1:38:46 Final Thoughts

[@rochelle2758]

One of my favorite things about Joss Ackland’s performance is how much it reminds me of Sydney Greenstreet, which makes this episode pair especially well with the next episode’s Peter Lorre homage. Also I wish you had talked more about Sherlock’s interactions with Violet: he touches her hair several times and her shoulder at least once. Does he just have a thing for women named Violet? (You did mention his interest in Violet Smith in that episode’s podcast.) I would love to know your thoughts! And thanks again for doing this marvelous thing.

[@thatsjustlikeyouropinionma3025]

Its not a "thing", He is trying to comfort her in his own awkward way, as well as studying her, Holmes isn't really interested in that sort of thing he is pretty much asexual he certainly admires certain traits in people like Irene Adler for example but was purposefully written by Arthur Conan Doyle as not interested in romantic relationships. Watson actually says "such feelings are beneath him"

[@SJHFoto]

I think of the laughing man in the Greek Intrepreter to be closer to a Peter Lorre homage. (I'm not saying you are wrong-I am just saying what my thoughts were)

[@-xirx-]

Bill Craig penned many episodes of the absolutely unparalleled t.v. series Callan. One of the few t.v. series that I can't decide if I like more than S.H.! Honestly, I highly recommend anyone who likes good British drama to check it out.

[@-xirx-]

@AMT they are all on KZbin!

[@-xirx-]

@AMT My pleasure! ✌👍

[@0504Revati]

Jeremy Brett is my favourite Holmes, so I'm glad that I discovered your channel. Thank you so much for your dedication and all the research that are necessary for making these excellent episodes. Keep up the great work! You mention that Joss Ackland regretted to appear in the music video Always On My Mind by the Pet Shop Boys. That particular video is edited from the 1988 feature film It Couldn't Happen Here, directed by Jack Bond, which has a strange story based upon PSB songs. Barbara Windsor, Gareth Hunt and Neil Dickson also starred in it. Some say it is weird, but I love PSB and like it very much.

[@Ryan_Hansen]

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[@SJHFoto]

Did you say that Joss Ackland stopped growing tea because it was too dangerous??? How can that be?

[@HJKelley47]

Those who have played Sherlock Holmes since 1893: Charles Brookfield - 1893 William Gillette - 1899-1929 - 1300 Performances over 30 yrs. Sherlock Holmes movie Baffled - 1900 Silent/Short - Max Goldberg John F. Preston - 1900 Charles Rice - 1904 Karoly Baumann - 1905 Maurice Costello - 1905 Viggo Larsen - 1908 Alwin NeuB - 1908, 1911, 1914 Otto Lagoni - 1910 Holger Rasmussen - 1911 Mack Sennett - 1911-1912 George Treville - 1912 Harry Benham - 1913 James Bragington - 1914 Francis Ford - 1914 H.A. Saintbury - 1916 Hugo Flink - 1917 Sam Robinson - 1918 Eille Norwood - 1921 Silent short movie - The Dying Detective Burt Lytell - 1921 Dennis Neillson-Terry - 1921 John Barrymore - 1922 Hamilton Deane - 1923-1932 Tod Slaughter - 1928, 1930 Richard Gordon - 1930-1933, 1936 Clive Brook - 1929/1930/1932 Arthur Wontner - 1931- 1937 - Movie Series Raymond Massey - 1931 Robert Rendel - 1931/1932 Reginald Owen - 1933 Felix Alymer - 1933 Louis Hector - 1934-1935, 1937 Bruno Guttner - 1937, 1939, 1942-1943 Orson Welles - 1938 Basil Rathbone - 1939-1946 Cedric Hardwick - 1945 Tom Conway - 1947 Howard Marion-Crawford - 1948 John Stanley - 1948-1949 Alan Napier - 1949 John Longden - 1951 Laidman Browne - 1951 Carleton Hobbs - 1952-1969 Ronald Howard - 1954 (39 episodes) Sir John Gielgud - 1954-1955 Christopher Lee - 1962, 1970, 1992 Douglas Wilmer - 1964 Peter Cushing - 1959, 1968, 1984 John Neville - 1965, 1970, 1978 Robert Stephens - 1970 Stewart Granger - 1972 John Cleese - 1973 Larry Hagman - 1974 Robert Powell - 1974 John Wood - 1974-1975 Dinsdale Landen - 1974, 1987 Leonard Nimoy - 1976 Kevin McCarthy - 1977 Roger Moore - 1976 Nicol Williamson - 1976 Christopher Plummer - 1977 Peter Cook - 1977 Paxton Whitehead - 1978 Geoffrey Whitehead - 1979-1980 Keith Mitchell - 1979 Charlton Heston - 1980 Frank Langella - 1980 Vasily Livanov - Russian TV - 1979-1981, 1983 & 1986 John Moffatt - 1981 Guy Henry - 1982 Tom Baker - 1982 Ian Richardson - 1983 Peter O’Toole - 1983 (animated TV films - Australian) Jeremy Brett - 1984-1994 Nicholas Rowe - 1984 Dinsdale Landen - 1987 Guy Rolfe - 1984 Tim Pigott-Smith - 1987 Anthony Higgins - 1987 Michael Pennington - 1987 Roger Rees - 1988 Ron Moody - 1988-1989 Clive Merrison - 1989-1998, 2002, 2004, 2008-2010 Edward Woodward - 1990 Simon Callow - 1990 Richard E. Grant 1992 Robert Powell - 1993 Patrick McNee - 1993 Anthony Higgins - 1993 Matt Frewer - 2000-2001 John Gilbert - 2000 Joaquim de Almeida - 2001 Richard Roxburgh - 2002 James D’Arcy - 2002 Andrew Sachs - 2004 Rupert Everett - 2004 Jonathan Pryce - 2007 Javier Marzan - 2007 Roger Llewellyn - 2009 Ben Syder - 2010 Nicholas Briggs - 2010-2018 Johnny Lee Miller - 2012-2019 Benjamin Lawlor - 2013 Igor Petrenko - Russian TV Series - 2013 Robert Downey Jr. 2009 & 2011 Benedict Cumberbatch - 2010-2016 Nicholas Briggs - 2010-2018 Seamus Dever - 2014 Ian McKellen - 2015 Euan Morton - 2015 Gregory Wooddell - 2015 Paul Andrew Goldsmith - 2015-2016 Ewen Bremner - 2016 Jay Taylor - 2017-2018 Yuko Takeuchi - 2018 (HBO Asia - female ‘Holmes’) Orlando Wells - 2018 Samuel Tady - 2011, 2014, 2017-2018 (Tady Bros. Productions/on YTube) Johnny Depp - 2018 (animation) Will Ferrell - 2018 Nicholas Boulton - 2020 Henry Cavill - 2020 Ethan Bell - 2020 (Fan Film on KZbin) Ethan Thomas Jung - 2020 Fan Adv. (Vagabond Repertory Theater Company-KZbin) This list is not exhaustive. however, these are some of the many actors who have played Sherlock Holmes on stage, screen, radio and TV adaptations.

[@jodywho6696]

It's wonderful seeing all those who have played the complex character. Thank You✨

[@StevenSheridan23]

I came across this today, where Joss Ackland reads a letter he wrote to his wife. So incredibly moving and such a talent - kzbin.info/www/bejne/jH6uqJ6jgrh5racfeature=shared

[@lorrainem.swartzentruber3077]

Mrs. Rucastle reminds me of Gary Oldman in his white wig for Dracula. Maybe that is why she is so disturbing.😂

[@sherlockpodcast]

Just imagine if he had Gary Oldman's fingernails!

[@BryanPAllen]

What happened to episode #8?

[@sherlockpodcast]

Ah, good question! This one was actually posted before the official channel was set up, so we didn't re-post it, but it was our Sherlockian Conversation with Stephen Fry. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqS9inZ5nLt-ZpI

[@BryanPAllen]

@@sherlockpodcast Thanks very much. I really appreciated that interview.

[@triconcert]

This is the only episode that makes absolutely no sense to me. If, according to Mrs Toller, the bearded man stood by his woman, why does she scream when he uses his small axe to gain access to her? To me, Joss Ackland's role was really scary and I found it a bit overbearing. (May God rest his soul.) Holmes in his opening arguments is way too heated - the energy is over the top for a disputation on Watson' writing style. What of those precocious children? They seem too wicked and evil. I find the bearded man seems singularly unattractive so I couldn't understand the chemistry between him and his supposed suitor whom we take a while to see. A big 'F' for me. Sorry, hate to be uncharitable.

[@user-vs1hf3il9w]

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