Sherlock Holmes (TV-1955) THE IMPROMPTU PERFORMANCE (S1E32)

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 IMPROMPTU PERFORMANCE: Set to die at dawn for the murder of his wife, Edward Brighton calls for Sherlock Homes. Edward explains that following a minor tiff with Phyllis, he returned home to find her dead. A clue overlooked by the police leads Holmes and Watson to the seedy part of town, part of the murdered woman's past. At a theatrical performance of Othello, the great detective finds his man treading the boards.

[@mickangelo2720]

by far and away the best Holmes series!!! Never before or since have Sherrlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade found such charming and humorous actors to play themselves! Conan Doyle would have been delighted! Thanks so much for sharing

[@ShannonFreng]

I disagree. Granada's production with Jeremy Brett was by far, the best.

[@TKGentryArt]

@@ShannonFrengcompletely agree. Brett was far closer to Doyle’s written character and far superior. But the older movies are enjoyable too.

[@ShannonFreng]

@@TKGentryArtThe earlier ones are. I don't know why Brett kept doing it for so long, as he deteriorated. It is obvious his performance suffered, as a result. But they couldn't have gotten anyone better than Gray, for Mycroft.

[@ronaldmessina4229]

J’ai suis d’accord

[@ShannonFreng]

@@ronaldmessina4229 La production de Grenade était de loin supérieure.

[@johnshields6852]

I'm old and I grew up with Rathbone Bruce as the duo, I didn't know of this series but it's pretty good

[@dinaanders4466]

I’ve seen so many Sherlock Holmes film/tv programmes over the years - but these are by far the best. So entertaining with good humour running through them. Thanks so much for uploading them - have become hooked after coming across them when browsing.

[@mariamurray3717]

I have to say that I think that these in my opinion are the best Holmes and Watson versions ever

[@brianhaskard1042]

Eugene Dekker's characters are always played so gloriously "over the top". Brilliant!

[@feralbluee]

i think he's just marvelous! wish i could see him in something else, but at least i get to see him in these shows :}

[@misskim2058]

He’s my favorite of their character actors. He’s delightful! And of course, the Case Of Harry Crocker was my favorite of his. That and the Shy Ballerina. A girl could always use such a loyal defender as he was in the latter.

[@Molekuelorbital]

@@feralbluee Did you mean Albert Dekker? Couldn't found anything about Eugene. 🤔

[@Molekuelorbital]

Oh, I just saw the name in the credits: Eugene Dekker, he played Pettyfoot. I'll have to look for him more thoroughly later, because yes, he plays wonderfully!

[@Molekuelorbital]

Looked again, unfortunately nothing more can be found about him today... 😐😕

[@reybarreto7979]

"Detectives and Shakespeare!" lamented the theatre director. I can't help but wonder how much an actor enjoys playing an actor or a theatre director, as in this episode. And I like how the actor playing the theatre director threw himself into his role with such gusto. Yes, it was a melodramatic performance and his character was nothing more than a stereotype of a theatre director, but I love the colorful way he brandished his monacle as he said his lines, especially when he says "the show must go on!" (at 19:00)

[@feralbluee]

i love the "plaid" style patterns in men's suits - and in good taste - suits now are are all the same, except in cut - charcoal grey, dark blue, pin stripes. how fun the suits look in this series - so much more artful and different.

[@roderickfemm8799]

I want a caped coat like Sherlock wears (constantly) in this series.

[@jessicabrown7274]

@@roderickfemm8799 I hope you do get your Sherlock caped coat.

[@christylovejoy5564]

Thank you so much PizzaFlix, for all these. Love them! So refreshingly different, not too scary but very engaging; wonderful loveable actors. What a nive service you do for us.

[@kimberlykasimoff1447]

This one had lots of nice out door scenes. I like how Holmes said that he liked "Greek" plays.

[@walterwheeler5465]

Another very good episode of "Sherlock Holmes" from the 1954 series with Ronald Howard and H. Marion Crawford. This episode has a good plot, pacing, and acting from the primary and supportive cast. It was well worth watching.

[@leoadian1229]

Walter Wheeler true

[@calgacusofcaledonia]

Walter Wheeler Indeed sir...indeed

[@phildouglas9086]

We need Sherlock Holmes investigating political leaders. And religious leaders who pal around with them. Investigating their official versions of news and Bible commentaries. To see if they are true or not.

[@michaelwertzy9808]

@@phildouglas9086, your imagination is very intriguing! I grok!

[@phildouglas9086]

@@michaelwertzy9808 You don't need to imagine 7 yr police veteran Joshua Carrier being in prison for the rest of his life... an openly gay policeman busted in bed with junior high school boys. Imagine having trained K9s able to identify boy poop on a man's hand. Carrier would have been busted molesting boys years before he finally got caught.

[@TheGoldfish03]

My favourite by far , think Ronald Howard is the best Holmes . Love the black and white film .

[@samsloanII]

Always a good show, thank you.

[@bibleredpill]

Brilliant performance as usual. I’m talking about Eugene Deckers.

[@cs_fl5048]

You know. seeing how this film wobbles reminds me of when I actually watched these on TV... they wobbled then. AND I have the entire box set of this version on DVD... Some of them wobble there too... Don't mind it... sort of a nostalgic feeling which enhances the warm feeling of watching black and white.

[@robertwalker5521]

I believe the cause of the wobble you see can be found in your liquor cabinet

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

​@@robertwalker5521👏🏾👏🏻🥂🍻👍🏼👍

[@glorialange6446]

Eugene Deckers was quite interesting in his parts in these Holmes shows... I especially liked when he played an escape artist... as the theater manager in this episode he was amusing.

[@HJKelley47]

Those who have played Sherlock Holmes since 1893: Charles Brookfield - 1893 William Gillette - 1899-1930 - 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 Fink - 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 - 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 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 1998-2019: John Gilbert - Episodes 1-18 Lawrence Albert - Episode 20 John Patrick Lowrie - Episodes 21-65 & 67-until Dennis Bateman - Episode 66 Jason Gray-Stanford - 1999-2001 - Animation for Kids Matt Frewer - 2000-2001 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 Robert Downey Jr. 2009 & 2011 Ben Syder - 2010 Nicholas Briggs - 2010-2018 Igor Petrenko - Russian TV Series - 2013 Benedict Cumberbatch - 2010-2016 Christian Rode - 2010, 2014 Samuel Tady - 2011, 2014, 2017-2018 (Tady Bros. Productions/on YTube) Johnny Lee Miller - 2012-2019 Benjamin Lawlor - 2013 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 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.

[@emperorhundredhead7007]

How nice to see Watson not being portrayed as a bumbling buffoon. Much more believable

[@DSpeir-pi6tm]

@doctorwho0077 And a excellent swords man I believe .

[@a.mariedixon-jenkins]

@doctorwho0077 Yes, there is some buffoonery with this Watson, but nothing like Nigel Bruce. Mr. Bruce's Watson ruins the version with Basil Rathborn for me.

[@j.dragon651]

@@a.mariedixon-jenkins agreed

[@j.dragon651]

Also, LaStrade gives credit where credit is due and isn't a complete hindrance.

[@michaelgmoore5708]

Yeah, Dr Watson was a Veteran of the Afghanistan war of the 1890s. A really tough guy with a punch like Mike Tyson!

[@charlesodell804]

"Holmes! This time you've gone TOO FAR!! I shall seek new lodgings AT ONCE!!"

[@delvinray1]

The Longbox Crusade covers the run of this series on our Saturday Matinee Theater, thank you for sharing these shows with us!

[@maricrismolina4147]

Eugene Decker was a great comedic relief. A great character actor.

[@phylis3917]

Thank you from San Francisco.

[@Issam102]

Really a piece of art 🎉

[@Тамара-ю7в1ц]

Какой блестящий, замечательный сериал, какие интересные сценарии, великолепная игра актеров, бесподобные Холмс, Ватсон, Лейстрейд и Уилкинс! Я так рада, что нашла это!

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

WILKINS

[@lauriecasillas2330]

Love love these! Thanks so much!

[@PizzaFLIX]

Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX

[@vrccim5930]

Thanks.

[@ShannonFreng]

If the quality of some of the British accents in this series is questioned, this is primarily due its having been produced in France, where they were constrained to having to use mostly local actors, for the supporting parts.

[@priyamd4759]

Eugene Deckers (Petty Foot in this episode0 is such a versatile actor. Bravo!!

[@feralbluee]

"Each minute's like an hour and each hour like a minute." 22:03

[@elinannestad5320]

brilliant

[@bonnielucas153]

I lov the intro music (which is the same as end piece with credits

[@josephjohn31]

An optimistic Holmes really made miracle finding the link providing some thrilling moments to save an innocent before few hours to the gallows inspite of all adversities.

[@paulbriggs3072]

Ronald Howard and Basil Rathbone were the most human and likable of the Sherlock Holmes'. Peter Cushing was also like this.

[@waderaney7]

Excellent

[@roqayamuhammad7867]

24:52 I like the way he moved his hand like "well her goes my filming career"

[@jerryumfress9030]

Lestrade could never figure out Holmes

[@lemilemi5385]

After watching this series, its cringing to watch anyone else play these 2 characters

[@janejames9173]

Awesome.❤️

[@feralbluee]

here he is again, again :} one of his (Dekker) terrific characters, but slightly toned down. i could watch him all the time (well, within reason.)

[@thekingtroll2]

I just found this series. Ronald Howard looks a lot like his actor father Leslie. Both great actors! That stage manager, Eugene Deckers was in 7 of these episodes. He wasn't that good so I wondered why. I'm binge watching these today. Campy fun!

[@PointyTailofSatan]

The series was filmed in Paris France. So there were not a lot of easily available English actors.

[@geraldinekearney542]

@@PointyTailofSatan not all episodes were filmed in Paris, and Eugene Deckers did a lot of his work in England

[@birdzene9925]

thanks

[@kuldipghosh3380]

Excellent......

[@ZER0--]

Elementary....

[@fritula6200]

Look how manly, all these men in Sherlock's time looked with moustaches ... look at Dr. Watson.

[@lordeden2732]

Rubbish Not all. The Police and Military wore Moustaches. In fact the Military insisted their men did. But not all civilians did I have a large collection of male family and their friends take during the mid to late Edwardian period and only a small number had moustaches!

[@kimberlykasimoff1447]

You forgot. The stage manager or is he the theatre owner. Anything but manly!

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

​@@kimberlykasimoff1447🧚

[@divaden47]

Wonderful, as ever. :P

[@haraldkoukkuluoma7823]

most men wore a tash in those days it was the fashion, my grandad and his mates all had beauties.

[@michaelwertzy9808]

I'll take a Scotch with a twist, thank you, I'm sure!

[@arghyadas2447]

Makes me remind of a boy who played Othelo was looking ridiculous in College play competition 😂😂

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

Oooo-kaaayy... 😬

[@ronaldmessina4229]

How I do wish that I could have lived in the time that these occurrences existed, in my opinion,a very (simple and relaxed time) , not in the world of today when everything is done in a hurry, and people are not very understanding and not very religious 8:40

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

But I'm sure the cellphone service would be lousy. 🫤

[@im-gi2pg]

Yes! Longing for the days of Jack the Ripper! Smart!

[@CreachterZ]

Does this quote make sense to y’all? If a man calls to me in his final hour, it may mean that we too shall be called upon to fulfill a final request.

[@Irunwithscissors63]

Creatchture Exactly what I was thinking. Makes zero sense. 😆

[@zenden6564]

he missed his line and mangled it I think...

[@girlgeniusnyc272]

That theater director! Lol

[@miketee4276]

1955: "50 names? Holmes, that will take us DAYS to sort through!" 2023: "50 names? Holmes, ChatGPT will have it sorted in 30 seconds, or less."

[@robintonkin7448]

Very good indeed but i have all conan doyles books and many has not been written. But i admit they are very good indeed. 🤔😉👍

[@PizzaFLIX]

Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you.

[@thesilentgeneration]

It is ironic I think that whenever Mr Holmes and the Doctor pull up in front of the police station, the same lady in the same outfit crosses in front of the camera every time. It seems editing was in vogue even back in the 1950s.

[@maggieobrien7280]

this episode made me laugh !

[@axiomist4488]

What a mind, to solve a case in less than 7 hours !

[@dp-6730]

Watching in 2021

[@montiemehsling2992]

I suspect Sherlock was "Breaking Bad" before it was bad. He's always cooking something up.

[@caramelmosaicmosaic7940]

Anyone know the score for the music at 09:20 ? … it’s 🔥

[@iangallager4091]

I think the actor who murdered Brighton's newly acquired wife did him a big favour. Brighton had got himself saddled with a bully who would have given him grief for another possible thirty years. ' delicate mouth' he told Holmes she had. More like a sewer outlet.

[@ianpanton9475]

Fantastic. The pure nostalgia of pre-islamic, pre- globalist Britain.

[@isaiahberlin37]

Oh yeah, the height of the British Empire! Pre-globalist! Read much history?

[@Irunwithscissors63]

Or, rather, before British people were fully affected by both.

[@Irunwithscissors63]

Bill H. Yes indeed. Amen

[@elainelessack]

I absolutely love this Sherlock Holmes series. My only criticism is that very little attention was paid to the importance of proper laboratory technique! Of course it is too late to make a change! Yet I CRINGE when I watch Mr. Holmes contaminate bottle after bottle of his chemicals by not decanting a small estimated amount into a beaker, and then decant from it into a graduated measuring cylinder or a pipette, then into his chemical concoction! Just notice the concoction's foam on the lip of the chemical's now ruined chemical bottle! Yikes!

[@virnamisra1657]

Trigger Epileptic Fingers on the Dagger. An Uneasy 👑 Club in Town by the Sea

[@geraldinekearney542]

💕💕💕💕💕

[@Jo_Kuiper]

This is not the case of the Eifeltower, but of the impromptu performance.

[@amytessbayani4197]

J.M. K. A

[@emayion8358]

J.M.K. that's what it says on the title....THE CASE OF THE IMPROPTU PERFORMANCE,,yah?

[@BonnieAnneFox]

E Mayion The description lol

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

EIFFEL

[@LydellFisk]

Why no credit for the goof who played the murderer?

[@LydellFisk]

@Michael Smith Now WHO could argue with that?

[@dennisdaily5463]

Most men wore beards and mustaches well into the 20th Century because the easy-to-use razor blade had not been invented. Barber shops had long lines each morning of men who wanted a shave ... OUCH.

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

Tod Slaughter. Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

[@Phooie]

Mr. Pettyfoot is the most

[@leswhynin913]

24:28 telephone message? Telephone was just invented

[@johanne577]

installed in London by 1880s

[@sherylleelee]

They left the evidence in the tobacco shop.

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

No they didn't.

[@axiomist1076]

Ha, ha! Funny ending.

[@seosamhofionnaghain8699]

Video 32/39. 128,220 Views So Far February 22 - 2020.

[@Phooie]

242,942. 12-12-2022

[@redtobertshateshandles]

The make up thing I found amusing. My father in law is a little puritanical. 😂

[@gigikay1734]

💙💛💚💜

[@nanettecormier8513]

Television has made an idiot of Dr Watson, both a physician and author. Pity that.

[@FredMoore-x1s]

Watson Nag nag nag , just like a woman.

[@carryon2197]

Ok

[@squareysquare3150]

"Hailed as the most faithfully filmed adaption"!! Who are you kidding? Sure they're vaguely entertaining but Ron Howards version is the most un-Sherlock interpretation ever produced. Try Jeremy Brett for a really faithful adaption with strict adherence to the canon.

[@oceanbrzzz]

Squarey Square Interpretations of literature allow for creativity. Many of us enjoy all the variations of Sherlock Holmes.

[@j.dragon651]

@@oceanbrzzz yes we do. Jude Law is my fave Watson.

[@j.dragon651]

Brett is a bit too neurotic.

[@squareysquare3150]

@@oceanbrzzz You miss the point; I didn't say that it couldn't be vaguely entertaining, my point of contention was that it can by no means be described as the "most faithfully filmed adaption" It's Sherlock lite, watered down into the half hour sit-com format, with a very chirpy, cheeky chappy interpretation of Holmes. (Reminds me a bit of Matt Smith go at doing Dr Who)

[@squareysquare3150]

@@j.dragon651 see my reply to @Marcia Davis. I thought Mr Downey had a lot of fun playing Holmes & I enjoyed it. Don't mind Cumberbatch either. (They certainly don't try to gloss over the drugs angle!) But for true, classic Holmes, you can't go past Mr Basil Rathbone himself-as long as you ignore those awful "patriotic" wartime movies where you get scenes like where Holmes is exhorting the Lumpenprole & criminal elements of London to unite to fight the Nazi's. Peter Cushing did also a classic, fog drenched Hound of the Baskervilles.

[@b.neighbors8249]

I am back in fb jail😇

[@cw1294]

Prison hats seem pointless

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

If they had points it would look like Guy Faukes Day.

[@ZER0--]

I like these short episodes, but does every fella need a tash?

[@Lucysnowe425]

Yes obviously

[@doug1863]

ZER0 this series takes place during the Victorian era , that was the fashion back then

[@Irunwithscissors63]

ZER0 Most every man had one in those days. How you wore it showed your ‘class’. It was also a milestone for young men. Their entry to manhood.

[@robertwalker5521]

Sherlock has a smooth upper lip !

[@patriciajrs46]

It's a wonderful episode. However, Pettifoot really is a stupid name! To catch a murderer, Sherlock would create anything. It's good.

[@TheFrog767]

Holes🗡 hahahahaha

[@freecitymoneyphoenixknowdg3252]

If somebody kills somebody who authorizes the next person to kill the person who just killed somebody. The next person who killed the person who killed the person is a Killer 2 ponder that

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

👁️👁️ 🐽 👅

[@rogerscottcathey]

so, what? they imply Holmes was suicidal? What's with the exploding drink then? What bumbling script writer got away with that.

[@misskim2058]

Not suicidal, but experimental, daring. He did ask Watson to have a stethoscope ready. The exploding was an experiment gone awry. They don’t always go as planned.

[@girlgeniusnyc272]

I disagree. What a wonderful stroke of "luck" that Holmes got distracted!! Possibly his stomach acid would have neutralized something in the beverage :)

[@rogerscottcathey]

Perhaps sadistic, as several has him ask Watson to be the guinea pig. Lol

[@mischabe3]

“Delicate little mouth” - I have a delicate little mouth and I hate it. I think a larger mouth is more attractive.

[@robertwalker5521]

In the 20s/30s/40s the cute actresses had lipstick only on the middle half of the lips, making their mouth look about one inch wide. Later: Martha Raye solved that.

[@mikemaben7485]

Your own jumbo cell and smokable s.

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

At the beginning of all of these, I keep wondering if that constable will wait until AFTER that carriage passes by before he crosses the street, but he never does. 🫣