Simple, easy to follow and entertaining.
It's amazing how much you can fit into a short episode and you see how much time they waste for longer productions. Love how they get straight to the mystery, the story and the motive. No time is wasted and Sherlock proves how fast he can act.
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Kingslaay29 October 2019
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Hitchcoc23 September 2008A weaker entry. A woman is made to look crazy. She sees a man playing a violin. She has supposedly had other hallucinations. Her stepfather has his own interest and wants to be rid of the fiancé. The young man is murdered on his way to 221B Baker Street. Anyway, Holmes smells a rat and begins the process of saving her. The problem is that evidence is scarce and they must get the man to act in order to prove his guilt. Holmes, Watson, and LeStrade cook up a plot to set the guy up and the rest is history. It just doesn't move very well but the acting is reasonable. Watch for Watson accusing the doctor of messing around with his wife, a ruse to get into the mental hospital.
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planktonrules9 October 2014This is the second episode of the Sherlock Holmes TV series I've seen that starred Ronald Howard. It's the weaker of the two, though both were awfully weak when it came to the writing.
The episode begins with a woman seeing some weird violinist in her room. She screams and he disappears when folks come to the room. Soon her step-father is talking about institutionalizing her, as she's obviously insane. No other evidence of insanity is shown but soon the woman's fiancé goes to Holmes for help--but it murdered just outside 221B Baker Street. Very obviously something is going on here!!
The biggest problems about this episode are that there is absolutely no doubt as to who is behind everything and that too much of Holmes' ''investigation' is based on prior knowledge. In other words, instead of seeing Holmes investigating, he says that he instantly KNOWS who is behind this because of his past research on the man. Huh? And, at the end, Holmes seems amazingly inept when it came to saving the lady! Not a particularly inspiring or interesting episode. -
Prismark108 September 2021An episode that has many of the ingredients of past Conan Doyle writings for Sherlock Holmes.
This is just undercooked.
Betty is a young woman who seems to be having nightmares or even hallucinations. One of which is a strange man in her room playing a singing violin.
Her stepfather wants her institutionalised in an asylum. However she is due to get married and her fiancé goes to consult Sherlock Holmes.
He is killed just outside Holmes house. Inspector Lestrade turns up as business is slack at the police station.
Holmes instantly knows who the murderer is.
Of course it's the dastardly stepfather. Betty is the daughter of his former business partner. He later married her mother who mysteriously died.
The stepfather controls Betty's affairs which he would lose when she gets married.
This are all facts that Holmes somehow knew. He never does explain how the stepfather killed the fiancé. Also Holmes was inept when trying to save Betty.