I agree completely. Oddly enough I thought Nigel Bruce and Basil Rathbone were the best actors of them all. The problem was their movies were what I think they called “quota quickies” back then in Britain. No actors could have saved some of those scripts. They were at least watchable tho.
I do remember one movie in which Nigel Bruce sang “Loch Lamond” with a girl who was portrayed as a professional singer. You could tell he was not lip synching but actually singing. He had one heck of a voice.
I have not even seen the latest BBC series but have heard good things about them.
Oops! Make that Loch Lomond. My spell checker changed it to Lamond and I didn’t realize that was wrong for a few seconds.