Sherlock Holmes (TV-1955) THE EXHUMED CLIENT (S1E31)

Hailed as the most faithfully filmed adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary characters. This acclaimed series stars Ronald Howard as the world-famous sleuth and H. Marion Crawford in a different portrayal of Dr. Watson than usual.
THE CASE OF THE EXHUMED CLIENT: Sir Charles Farnsworth's will states that Holmes is to investigate his death. He died in the cursed tower his heir, George Welbourne, had dared him to spend the night. When his body is exhumed he is found not to have died from a heart attack as Dr. Henry Reeves said, but from arsenic poisoning. Charles' sister, Elizabeth, and his ward, Sylvia Taylor, are also suspect. Lestrade wants to arrest Sylvia because she bought the grapes which were the last thing Sir Charles ate.

[@ronaldmessina4229]

This series of Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson is the very best of all of the presentations that I have ever seen, no foul language whatsoever, everyone is very polite, and even young children 👧 can enjoy the series 😊

[@PizzaFLIX]

Hi Ronald 🍕When I posted these forgotten episodes to PizzaFLIX over 10 years ago, the series received very few views. I'm overjoyed it has been rediscovered by viewers like you. Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you. 🍕

[@jamessmith7691]

I've watched these over and over, they are timeless. Thanks for airing these.

[@lindavalentin5582]

I love Ronald Howard as Sherlock Holmes. I like his bedside manner, wit, boyishness, kindness and empathy towards others.

[@montiemehsling2992]

He's my favorite, and Watson also... Great.

[@piehound]

Agreed. Thumbs up.

[@regina_smiles]

Same

[@lindabirtwistle2662]

I really enjoy these old Sherlock Holmes series I love old black and white films as well they have a erie feel to them a sort of mystery all of their own

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[@novanova1644]

WHAT A SUPERBLY CHARMING AND CLEVER BRITISH CLASSIC :) CAN WATCH EVERYDAY... THE FANTASTIC ACTIG IS AS ALIVE AS TRUE ENCHANTING LIVING CHARACTERS .. Many Thanks for publishing these little masterpieces!!!

[@kh23797]

Many thanks for these uploads. I'm so enjoying this low budget series from the mid-fifties, when I was just a wee'un. Never mind the inexpensive staging or the sometimes dodgy props-the ensemble acting from the sleuthing couple, and Archie Duncan's Lestrade too, is always a pleasure to watch, and the characterisation spot on for a young Holmes. The scripts are quite fun too. I'll be sorry when I've watched the final episode!

[@BpGregor]

They're fun to watch a second and third time even.

[@veronicasiczewski299]

Brilliant, brilliant episode! Thank you so much for sharing it!🤗

[@catpyjamas]

So there are many comedic episodes, but then you get the serious business ones, straight up suspense and us wondering who done it. Atmosphere and smart plots, yes please! Such a versatile series this, nothing quite like it. An acquired taste perhaps, but once acquired, I feel bad for those who couldn’t appreciate it.

[@stangets]

Thank you for these great programs with fantastic acting.

[@walterwheeler5465]

Another excellent episode from the 1954 television series of "Sherlock Holmes." I think that H. Marion Crawford and Ronald Howard do a fine "job" in their rendition of these famous sleuths.

[@QuatreMasques]

Agreed. Let's give proper credit to the subtle orchestral underscoring, the excellent film cutting, etc.

[@tinninfran9425]

Love these old films

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[@keithnaylor1981]

DEADLY SERIOUS episode, and surely the best. Everything comes together perfectly in this episode which has some wonderful tense moments. Definitely one to watch again later. KAN 7.19 UK

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Hungry pizza😆

[@843idfa]

It’s a typo.

[@Phooie]

Is that a pun?

[@NightingalePaperCo]

Really enjoyed the suspense in this episode!

[@mjonhouston]

10:15 - that door looks pretty good for being "broken down" recently., great repair job on the 800 year old 4-6" thick wooden door, and it's hardware.,...Great show as usual, thanks PizzaFlix!

[@ilanitdorani5377]

Intimidating and thrilling. Love this series. Suspense is life.

[@johnshields6852]

Something about b&w that I love, especially Sherlock stories

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Thanks for posting these. I’m really enjoying them.

[@jeffstewart1668]

Never saw this one thank you .

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Thank you so much!!!

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Nice! Thanks!

[@delvinray1]

Thank you for showing these! Over at Longbox Crusade we cover these shows in our Saturday Matinee Theater, come listen!

[@josephjohn31]

The credibility in Holmes's further strengthened by the will of Late Legend enabled trust, confidence and more popularity fustrated the suspected culprits and solved the mystery.

[@Nytowl14]

Thank you.

[@saddadbadmadsholmes4000]

Aaaaah ...The grapes of wrath. Sounds like a good name for a book!!!

[@waderaney7]

Excellent

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Thanks for watching! May the Sauce be with you.

[@TarotKiller-o3d]

I see Watson at 1:05 in the upper right corner.

[@Phooie]

Awesome

[@kimberlykasimoff1447]

Another good one. I did however suspect the same person as Holmes did.

[@TarotKiller-o3d]

He said: "unto almighty God we commend his body to the ground..." whereas he should have said: "unto almighty God we commit his body to the ground..."

[@robertpodbery242]

The black and white and poor quality nearly make these seem as if they were real life of that time

[@cjamthepatricianakabilldoo7852]

Lord Vetinari would be proud

[@marthahanley6650]

Wow! The *only* one I actually solved before Sherlock! No, I'm not giving it away. :) :)

[@TaranAlvein]

There's one I've solved before Holmes, thanks to a report I did in fifth grade. I guess you could say the solution was... Elementary. In seriousness, it was from the original tales: The Adventure of the Lion's Mane. It was that report which set me on the right track from the start.

[@MB-dg3lr]

Really?? There are so many that are obvious. Mostly the ones with woman/man/family member/inheritance.

[@proudbluestaterful]

ronald howard, son of leslie howard of the movie petrified forest with bette davis, and humphrey bogart

[@JaneFrieman]

Ronald Howard's father, Leslie Howard, also did an outstanding performance in the movie version of Pygmalion.

[@Ndlanding]

Many thanks for the video. I'm not too sure I understood it all, and there was me thinking I was smart. I was waiting for a further development.

[@carlnapp8673]

at 1:22 The priest fellow isn't he the one who normally plays Lestrade's sergeant?

[@TheCastellan]

Yep, they recycled a lot of the actors. Even Lestrade's actor, Archie Duncan, played several other characters, including Lestrade's cousin.

[@Ndlanding]

@@TheCastellan Didn't Equity (the actors' union) have anything to say about that?

[@TheCastellan]

@@Ndlanding This was filmed in France. Also, the show is fine, I don't see the big deal. A lot of actors were recycled in Basil Rathebone's Sherlock films. So, no big deal.

[@Ndlanding]

@@TheCastellan I suppose that answers my question. And I wasn't making a big deal, just wondering. :)

[@Robbie_S]

The entire series was made on tight budget. They could not even make it to a full 30 minutes duration. Like how this episode was cut short by Narrator just when Silvia revealed she gave those grapes to her cousin before he went to sleep in the tower room.

[@johnwightman7549]

this is real early television. I think archie duncan, who played lestrade, played little john in Richard greene's version of Robin Hood

[@billycox2050]

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Another winner!

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[@rogerscottcathey]

British Anti-Lewisite (BAL, a heavy metal chelator) or dimercaprol wasn't developed til the great war, so one wonders what antidote Watson would have fetched for Holmes in the 1890's.

[@Ndlanding]

Viagra

[@rogerscottcathey]

One would think burying or tossing them in a cistern or tossing them in a burning fireplace would be a more practical way to dispose of the evidence than lighting the candles.

[@stevenmartz9919]

Unfortunately, we don't have those characters anymore.

[@Jo_Kuiper]

This is the case of the exhumed client, not of the impromptu performance.

[@mikefule]

The second time in this series that this method of killing, and this method of identifying the killer have both been used, in a very similar setting too.

[@LongliveKingRichard]

No. I think you must've accidentally clicked the "loop" button and are re-watching the same episode continually...

[@delphinidin]

it's weird that this series used almost the identical plot to this in another episode...

[@atri-us]

I love the fact that Watson here is not a useless idiot. 😊

[@ZER0--]

Almost every man has a moustache in this series, and even the girl at 18:35 does too.

[@BonnieAnneFox]

ZER0 #MoustachesMatter

[@feralbluee]

OMG - she does actually have shadow :}

[@doug1863]

Alexa Penn well it was the Victorian era

[@Ndlanding]

But hers is trimmed, not waxed. Or was it the other way around? Either way, she's a member of the Jimmy Edwards fan club.

[@lauramcclung9769]

Thanks cant afford paid t.v.so this is a blessing.

[@delphinidin]

sadly, the antidote to arsenic wasn't discovered until the second world war

[@addie_is_me]

Never mind that, Watson had one because Holmes needed one!

[@rogerscottcathey]

Elizabeth's first husband was hung by the limping man, now she's getting it for bad cooking. Will it never end?

[@jaystermac9870]

I knew I recognized her lol good call

[@holoholohaolenokaoi2299]

Good job Holmes

[@anandnairkollam]

Wilkins has become the church priest

[@tempusfugit7127]

Thank you for your hard work , I find Sherlock Holmes an excellent way of relaxing at night ....just wondering if anyone else noticed Sylvia 's rather unusual hairy upper lip ?? Twas distracting me from the plot so I had to rewind . 😈😈

[@Ndlanding]

I thought she was a WW1 flying ace.

[@pantherwmn70]

Thought it was deliberate to make her look sinister!

[@lezamullen1427]

Sherlock is the man !!!!!

[@IK121266]

The house of the exhumed client obviously has a shortage of candles.

[@granny13ad33]

Hello again Pizza Flix. I hope you do like pizza. I like pizza but not enough to identify myself by it. "Dinner and a Movies" really did work better. Yet, you do present an interesting series of The Sherlock Holmes stories. I found this one to be quite good, very close to the excellent of the Rathbone and Bruce series on OTR and film. I don't know you age, but I have found that age often defines the ones who prefer one to another. I have a good friend who thinks the only Sherlock is that Jeremy Britt fellow. She adored this series. I found it deplorable, but then I am at least 20 years older. So it doesn't mean anything really who like what. It is just a matter of tastes given a particular time in life. I appreciate you providing this series for enjoyment of speculation. Keep Trucking!

[@cathyroberts1148]

I actually like these better than the Rathbone ones, but I know I'm in the minority there. ;)

[@davidswinfield7384]

Great series from the year I was born so much better than today's dross

[@darrenfry4695]

Quick watson the antidote lol . For arsenic poisoning there is no antidote apart from death.

[@FredMoore-x1s]

That woman should of known that homes would NOT of had the cops in that room If the candles were poison , NOY very Smart on her part.

[@juliannesmoak3088]

6:27 any time i try to be intimidating....o_0

[@artisallthat]

I would have buried them. Who would have known?

[@redblade43]

Sherlock Holmes

[@Phooie]

@@redblade43 funny

[@gertvenghaus3762]

Moustaches everywhere hahahaha, even the lady sports one. Unfortunately those artificial moustaches look hidiously out of place LOL

[@Ndlanding]

Including hers? Are you a mouser grouse?

[@BonnieAnneFox]

Watson could have easily carried Holmes out of that room.

[@Ndlanding]

Why should he have?

[@gringagringa3307]

🍒 this series the best in janra (sp). 07-31-19

[@pantherwmn70]

Genre: same catagory. The teacher in me had to reply to yr sp? OUSTtheGOP/KKKin2020&'24!

[@bluenetmarketing]

Watch out for those arsenic pizza fixes.

[@vingotaq777]

Alvys Maben as Elizabeth was an attractive woman ,

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[@jpp9876]

People blow out their candles before they go to sleep.

[@johanne577]

but alone in that tower? no way in hell lol

[@zacharyrussell9618]

Aha! The Devil's Foot!

[@philtyler7379]

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[@haroldwilkes6608]

Note to self: Buy arsenic impregnated candles for unwelcome guests...just kidding, of course. Note two: burn this comment.

[@jeanneratterman4174]

Got me chuckling! :-D

[@MichelleIbarraMHAEdD]

Did I see that right? The dark haired gal has a mustache?

[@SurendranNambiath]

Not quite the original background - haven't seen Mrs. Hudson yet, or Broughams/ Hansoms/ Dog Carts or even, too much of the English countryside. (Thank god Holmes isn't driving cars or whipping our Mobile Phones, a la Rathbone/ Cumberbatch!! Yeech!!!) Still, these plots are weak, though the actors, are quite ok. Dr. Watson is especially charming, adorable. The chemistry between the two is astonishing too! Going on to watch the 3rd story now...

[@kirkmattoon2594]

If the closing credits are anything to go by these were made in Paris, not London. One of the episodes even features the Eiffel tower.

[@dancingnature]

Do British people still call pharmacists chemists

[@ZaZa-hq7hy]

Elementary

[@usedscar]

This episode is very dramatic. On a much more serious side for the actors. Howard & co usually lean toward the funny side and defiantly more on the out side taking charge themselves.

[@cliftontaylor8392]

i think wilkins was the priest in the first clip.

[@faheemwaqar1472]

Both ls real Detective

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Video 31/39. 165,224 Views So Far February 15 - 2020.

[@shirleysavitts9647]

If the attempt to murder Sherlock had not been instrumented, the reason for the death in the room would not have been found out, and it would go back to the grapes,,hung jury. ? Nero Wolfe thinking with pursed lips. lol

[@denisepurcell4031]

We use both terms

[@Lee90000]

Nicole Milinaire? She's a Milinaire. She's rich.

[@jcolson19]

This episode was ok

[@andreamarshall5693]

Watson is so unreliable.

[@madderhat5852]

Spoiler Tonights Episode "The Grapes of Wrath"

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