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Sherlock Holmes - The Adventures / The Return

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 5037115073839
Label : ITV DVD
Manufacturer : ITV DVD
Publisher : ITV DVD
Release date : 2005-02-21
Title : Sherlock Holmes - The Adventures / The Return
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Suitable for 15 years and over
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 9
Region code : 2
Running time : 999
Studio : ITV DVD

Editorial reviews

Synopsis
Two Features. In 'The Adventures' Sherlock Holmes investigates thirteen cases, from a blackmailed king to an abandoned goose. Also features 'The Return'.

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-08-15 rating:

One more reason to buy this DVD
If you're only familiar with these episodes from catching repeats on ITV3 or (a few years back) Granada Plus, you're in for a treat. It turns out the versions in syndication have several cuts in them, whereas the ones on these DVDs are complete and unexpurgated. I didn't realise episodes like The Resident Patient and The Red-Headed League have entire scenes missing when you watch them on TV; it's been wonderful to discover the full-length versions here.

review by: date: 2008-07-10 rating:

you couldn't live off the difference
The series is brilliant - everyone has already said that.

The other reviews are misleading, though, when they announce, here, at last, is an improved dvd transfer to do justice to the series.
The transfer is only slightly improved over the previous dvd issue of this series. It still falls a long, long way short of a good transfer.

You need to know that if you already own the previously issued boxed set of these adventures. I just comnpared both releases of 'A Scandal in Bohemia,' and the transfer improvement is negligible. Granada and its offshoots continue to cut corners on their dvd releases disreputably.

If you don't yet own this series, then this transfer is the better one. If you already own the previous release, the grudging improvement is hardly worth the outlay to duplicate your collection and be short-changed for a second time.

It's a scandal, a scandal, I tell you, in Granadaland.

review by: date: 2007-11-06 rating:

A review for the ladies out there...
Ladies, buy this set for your husbands, boyfriends, etc. And if not for the man in your life, then buy it for YOU. Then sit back and marvel at the handsome and magnetic Jeremy Brett (as Sherlock Holmes). I have read much of the Doyle canon, and don't think I would have imaged that Sherlock Holmes could be such a sexy man. But Jeremy Brett turns his amazing acting talent on full force for these episodes, and what we get are funny, riveting, tremendously entertaining films. You will watch these again and again, and find something new to marvel at every time. And I cannot leave out the stellar performance of Watson by David Burke in Return. Brett and Burke act so well together -- it makes for such a delicious treat.

review by: wellerard_21 date: 2006-11-29 rating:

Faithful Adaptations To Stand The Test Of Time
The problem with Holmes on screen has always been two fold. Firstly that most productions have always been based on pastiches, or like, many of the Bond films bore similarity to the stories they were 'based on' virtually in title only. The second has been the portrayal of Doctor Watson. The middle aged bumbling idiot of Nigel Bruce's portrayal has always detracted from Basil Rathbone's performances, and is completely at odds in Doyle.

When Granada set out to do it in 1984, they did it the right way, and in these two series in particular, working heavily from the original texts and illustrations to guide them, and through the guidance of John Hawkesworth, who brought the nineteenth century to light in Duchess of Duke Street, they managed to work magic.

While the dramatisations are %90 faithful to the text, the characterisations are %100 solid. Brett doesn't just hold a candle to Rathbone, he burns him up, looking deeply into the soul of the sleuth and biting into the role, creating a self disciplined reasoner, whose only weaknesses surface when the work is not there. Filled with charm, yet steel, humour, and yet deep seriousness, and capturing all the Bohemian eccentricity of the character. Burke as the first Watson is enthusiastic, passionate, loyal, intelligent (though not as much as our hero) and steadfast. Hardwicke is a nice contrast, older, wiser, nd yet still capturing Burke's qualities.

Highly reccommeded.

review by: date: 2006-08-19 rating:

a worthy attempt on granada's part.
this is one of the better productions that i have seen based on sherlock holmes. the attention to period detail is exceptional and the dialogue resembles that of arthur conan doyle very accurately.
jeremy brett is a very good choice for the part of holmes; david burke is quite good as watson but i do prefer edward hardwicke who was burke's replacement for the following season. an interesting comparison though.
despite perfect production values, i'm afraid there is no way that brett could hold a candle to basil rathbone's effort, as he is truly sherlock holmes personified.
but this is a worthy effort.

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