The Norwood Builder - Part 1 of 6 (Sherlock Holmes)

[@bluejjay]

I LOVE whenever he greets Lestrade, something really cheeky about it.

[@ambeckerful]

It's pretty cool to see an old fire engine in use! And Holmes's beguiling smile when greeting Lestrade :D

[@LadyOndyne]

@waterpimpernell I believe Brett was and will be best Holmes ever. What people don't understand I believe, it's the way gentleman carried themselves in that century. The way they talked, the way they acted....

[@10toMidnight]

Thank you for sharing this most excellent series!

[@14hoursahead]

Thanks so much for posting!! I haven't seen these episodes in such a long time and it's been lovely watching them again.

[@marichristian1072]

They raided a transport museum or two to get those wonderful old fire engines and the steam road repair machine. A wonderful episode of Sherlock Holmes with the inimitable Jeremy Brett.

[@TheCosmicVagabond]

one of the best episodes of the series!

[@vrushalibedekar4014]

Ah... Inspector Lestrade... We have been expecting you. 😀😀Very cheeky of him to say that. And the starting dialogue ..from the point of view of a criminal expert, London has become a singularly uninteresting city

[@catawampouz]

agreed, the acting was top notch, pinnacle, back in them days...

[@Tsnore]

Brilliant rendition here.

[@davephillips1263]

Thank you so much for posting these videos. I've become a great fan of Jeremy Brett and David Burke, and the production detail is marvelous. I know the books quite well, and this series is by far my favorite Holmes. I agree with another poster who opined that Basil Rathbone was also a terrific Sherlock, but those productions suffered in too many other respects. This series is so close to the original stories, the acting is wonderful, the sets are so detailed, etc etc. Well worth watching, indeed. :)

[@MladenMijatov]

Jeremy Brett, the best damn actor for this role. I watched so many actors fail to portrait this character.

[@2TCHOLMES]

I'll say; Brett has to be the most accurate Holmes ever. Of course, playing Holmes seemed to affect his actual personality and he actually became rather resentful towards Holmes, because he believed playing Holmes made him ill.

[@wakeoftheflood2]

haha 8:40 to 8:50 is awesome, sherlock actually bent so low as to thank scotland yard

[@CaptainPolaris]

"Have you read your newspaper?" "Not yet." "Then allow me... to give you mine and have you read it." :)

[@HobbitRules]

@AmonKhan96F I understand and respect your opinion on the matter. I disagree but, to each his own. And I completely agree with you about how Brett's portrayal has yet to be outdone.

[@mirrorcleworld]

"Arrest you? This is really most gratifying." We must not be selfish, Holmes.

[@mattdavies7398]

From when ITV was proper.

[@noaj8121986]

Thanks for posting this!!

[@cha5]

Thanks for the information, I'll be sure to check into it. Alan Moore also wrote a bit of a Wodehouse/Lovecraft short text story in which Wooster and Jeeves go up against the Cthulhu mythos in the graphic novel The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 3.

[@fanthy]

Thanks for sharing this !

[@arminfdordrecht]

Thank you for posting

[@cha5]

If the consensus is that's it's worth seeing I'll certainly go see it, if on the other hand it's considered to be the Ishtar of all Sherlock Holmes films I'll save my money thanks.

[@TheKulu42]

If you're interested in Holmes and the works of Lovecraft, check out "Pulptime" by P.H. Cannon. Sherlock Holmes meets H.P. Lovecraft. Cannon has also written some fun stories under the title "Scream for Jeeves," in which P.G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster and butler Jeeves have encounters of the Cthulu kind.

[@TheKulu42]

I"ll check that out. Thanks!

[@sebastian993]

having read every single doyle story in the series i don't recall sherlock holmes talking or dressing like a toff. Also, he did indeed smoke a calabash

[@silentbob8201]

Well the Ishtar of all Sherlock HOlmes films will come out soon but it is not staring Robert Downey Jr. It's a direct to DVD movie of the same name to cash in on the new movie. It's basically Sherlock HOlmes vs some Steam Punkish Ironman.

[@LordPuck]

@HobbitRules Yeah, it was definitely a detachment from what fans really like about Holmes and Watson. Downey, Jr. was too visceral, I thought, and I the movie intertwined a few too many different character lines. It was funny that Jude Law played Watson, considering he was also in a Granada Holmes episode, "Schoscombe Old Place," I think it was. Either way, I agree, the movie's too far removed from these great portrayals.

[@2TCHOLMES]

Right; I didn't know that. It's a shame he died. He was only in his sixties. He was so great. Still, I actually prefer these to the books.

[@mfjdv2020]

Thank you so much anish79 for posting. This is one of my favourite SH stories. But i'm not keen on Jeremy Brett as SH. Too old and far too bombastic (and also too fat in the later films). In the books Holmes cant have been more than 35 (JB looks at least 45), and in the Study in Scarlet he's probably in his late 20s. In His Last Bow (WW I) Holmes is about 55 or 60. I think Johnny Depp would have been a great Sherlock Holmes!

[@steemdup]

"...which might aid US in clearing it up." lolol

[@HobbitRules]

I just saw the preview for that movie. BLEH! That is all I can say for the very portrayal of mystery's most beloved character.

[@lindas.martin2806]

I am thinking that the art of raising children to be gentlemen or gentlewomen is a lost art, at least in the USA. Sad.

[@LadyOndyne]

Yes, I know....even he leant to write right-handed when he himself was left-handed.....

[@fflambeauutube]

J. Brett is very good as Holmes but these productions overall are even better: well put together, played, directed and with superb period sets. Brett, for me, at times is too eccentric; I prefer B. Rathbone (and his voice) even those productions were B grade movies, unfortunately, and even though his Watson was ridiculously thick.

[@Muck006]

The Rathbone productions were not "B grade", they were standard productions for the time ... and that is the problem, because it includes "full freedom" for the scriptwriters to do anything and just taking the name of Sherlock Holmes. The scriptwriters are what made the Rathbone episodes so absolutely terrible (just like all the "modernized" versions of today).

[@pirakoXX]

HELP!! But first thank you so very, very much for sharing these Holmes episodes and movies, and thanks for the info from all the fans here. (y) Back to HELP!!: I can't find part 6 of 6 of "The Greek Interpreter" ...?!! After part 5 of 6 (video 32), it jumps straight to part 1 of 6 of "The Norwood Builder" (video 33) ... Is it just me? Admit it wouldn't be the first (or last) time I mess up, but I just can't find part 6. And I would mind that much if it was any of the first 5 parts, but the last one, that's a small problem! * big smile I thank you and apologize for my poor English skills. Pia.

[@markaugustus1890]

look for Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett on Peach_Cider. You'll get 40 higher resolution episodes there, excluding the Norwood Builder

[@happycamper4315]

Mark Augustus How does that help?

[@TheRobin1976]

Is this the first appearance of Lestrade in the JB series? Btw is there a "correct" way to pronounce his name (heard both LestraYed and LestraRRd being used by various Holmes actors, interestingly Benedict Cumberbatch uses the "R" version in the new Sherlock series but the "Y" version in his audio book recordings of Holmes.

[@ShawDAMAN]

Hobbitrules: exactly. couldn't have put it better

[@Huntgoddessfishery]

It's interesting -- and sad. Just wondering where you've heard or read this.

[@cryptix23]

@MrMrdswoods The first time I saw Adrien Brody after reading Canon, I realized that I wanted to see him play Holmes SO badly. He even has the perfect nose.

[@mfjdv2020]

@LadyMingYee actuallu i've been converted to JB in the meant ime :-). He is very good. But Johnny Depp would be great too. Did you see him in that film about JM Barrie? Fabulous actor and he looks the part too.

[@ceruleanmist111]

Hahah, haha, just look at Holmes' expression sour and harden at 8:21 in indignation. XDD

[@yrti0121]

READ THIS FELLOW HOLMESIANS.... apparently sherlock holmes has the most fans than any other book/film/or television programme :) :) :) apparently, so please dont yell at me when you disagree with this comment!

[@jerrysweet8202]

LOVE

[@shadabahmed2634]

Can Anyone Tell Me About Where Can I Get The Intro Theme ??

[@ShawDAMAN]

This movie with Downey coming out looks like it's going to be a wretched typical modern hollywood fight-fest; they've as much as advertised it as emphasizing Holmes' fighting skills. I dread it, early hints are that it barely has anything to do with Doyle's Holmes, aside from the name which they are using for publicity.

[@magikmushie]

chakotay, it's Janeway. Get the Borg aliens to stopbeing weird! fart art at heart!

[@LadyOndyne]

@uncled40 The RDJ film is horrible! Not only because he's not Doyle's Holmes, but because his personality, style and caases are not Holmes'; for Brett's shake, no gentelman could be as dirty and helpless that RDJ's Holmes. Brett is the best Holmes ever I believe XD

[@Lyrictheac]

@AmonKhan96F I don't know....I didn't really like Watson's part. It was refreshingly different from the dumb Watson of earlier adaptations, and yet I think he was too assertive and Holmes too docile. I really didn't like Downey Jr. as Holmes either, but I'm just biased because I'm a Brett fan. :)

[@pravinasings8098]

dear me (happy, happy, happy)

[@ShawDAMAN]

I agree.

[@2TCHOLMES]

There's just one major problem with this series: they pronounce Lestrade's name wrong. It's 'le-strarde', not 'le-strade'.

[@Huntgoddessfishery]

Really? I never knew that. Why did he believe that? Maybe he was right.

[@mfjdv2020]

@linyrocker SH would really be a good role for Depp, he likes playing offbeat types too. He was brilliant in From Hell, Sleepy Hollow and that film about JM Barrie. And he's got the right aquiline face for Holmes, and can do all sorts of British accents effortlessly and authentically. Don't think he'd be good as Poirot tho'. Too tall and thin! And for me, David Suchet is THE ONLY Poirot!

[@catherinespark]

@yrti0121 And more actors have portrayed him than any other character....about 75 actors so far!

[@wakeoftheflood2]

@CthulhuChick I know, of course he wasn't serious!

[@thedukeofantioch]

norwood is just up the road from me.

[@HobbitRules]

Well sure, there may be room for interpretation, and I might have been okay with him, but Robert Downey Jr.'s Holmes is really just a silly 19th century James Bond-esque action hero. I'm sorry but just from what I saw on the trailer, that movie pays only lip-service to Conan Doyle's great mystery stories.

[@ricksanchezandmortysmith1601]

The book is ALWAYS better.

[@2TCHOLMES]

Well, that is what I've about him.

[@cha5]

Sounds mediocre, Now a really interesting Sherlock Holmes short film would be an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Sherlock Holmes short story 'A Study In Emerald' which has Holmes going up against Professor Moriarty and H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, but the way Gaiman has constructed that story it could never work as a film.

[@waterpimpernell]

why is eveyone going on about how effeminate brett was it was well known he was bi sexual even if thats not the reason holmes was a gentleman who gestured with his hands i find it very sexy and ok 2009 sherlock can never beat jeremy brett but mr bretts no longer here and i for one thibk it wasnt the worst attempt at sherlock holmes anyone seen micheal caines sherlock enough said but brett is and always will be the best and he was a sexy man rip jeremy

[@JurishzteR]

yeah but maybe dracula is more popular than sir holmes.... hehe

[@HobbitRules]

@AmonKhan96F I understand your feelings about this subject, but I have to say that I completely disagree with your positive assessment of the 2009 movie version of Sherlock Holmes. And it's certainly not because it is new or made by an American company. Those both would be considered pluses by me. I just think that the movie did a rotten job of portraying the character of Sherlock Holmes. You, of course, are entitled to your opinion. But disagreeing with you does not make me unintelligent.

[@kaziabidhossain4849]

jhon mcfarlen is a innocent man

[@MidnightPixie79]

is sherlock suppose to be effeminate? his hand movements are too graceful for a guy or is that the way the english gentlemen gesticulate when they talk???

[@PillowKing]

@yrti0121 IM NOT YELLING AT YOU CUS I DISAGREE IM YELLING CUS I AGREE COMPLEATLY!!!

[@flaviarenevey6719]

4:23. Why a freemanson?

[@BrettLeMans]

+Flavia Renevey - Conan Doyle was a Freemason, and in this story he perhaps wanted to portray the character as "innocent & upstanding" from the beginning. Thus opening up the "who done it" part of the story, which is complex. Just my opinion. :)

[@flaviarenevey6719]

Ok..... Are you a Freemanson? ;-) No.... I'm kind of like Holmes and details are important to me...

[@MrRimant]

I believe that watson indicated the man's watch chain. That would suggest that there may have been some small medallion or trinket that may have had the masonic symbol or something similar attached to it.

[@keepdancingmaria]

Flavia, why do you keep saying Freemanson? Even though you've been corrected... It is freemason Free May Sun.

[@crystlark]

@@BrettLeMans Are they not ? What is wrong with them, I know nothing about their history yet Ive heard so much distain for them as if they are known for commiting crimes. However Ive never read anything of them as such in the news or elsewhere. One thing I do know whatever it is, it stems from the UK itself because Nixon fermenting at the thought of allowing " them " in the US. Do you have any reliable information I could read about the reason or reason they are despised by so many ?

[@jhwang49]

the intro violinist fails in comparison with the violinists who play in the other openings.

[@tylerjerabek5204]

jhwang49 it’s the same recording on all the openings

[@Textfailss]

Spoiler : John hector McFarland did not kill Jonas oldacre , oldacre was hiding in a secret door in his house

[@patrickgray6604]

+THE SHREddah Must you spoil the plot for those who've not read the books?

[@Textfailss]

+Patrick Gray yes bitch

[@pitbullsandcalicos]

COD MastterZ piss off