Yes, like “The Engineer’s Thumb” and “The Five Orange Pips,” or the novels, “A Study in Scarlet” and “The Valley of Fear.”
Brett WAS Holmes.
I’ve always regretted that they didn’t begin the Brett/Holmes series a few years earlier. After about the second or third season, he was in obvious physical decline, coupled with his bi-polar issues.
Greatest Sherlock Holmes ever. Less well known...he had a supporting role in the movie musical My Fair Lady and had one of the iconic sequences in the film...”On The Street Where You Live.” I don’t know if he actually sang the song or if the voice was dubbed. If it was his voice, he was a wonderful vocalist.
By far and away, the best portrayal of Sherlock Holmes.
In all the may stories Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote, his most famous detective never went to the bathroom...
Great actor!
Thank you for this. I’ll look forward to seeing more of those fanvids.
There is an excellent bio of Brett-as-Holmes, called “Bending the Willow,” written by Holmes expert David Stuart Davies.
I have thoroughly enjoyed the modernized version of Holmes as played by Benedict Cumberbatch. But, sort of like Sean Connery as James Bond, Jeremy Brett was the real thing.
As everyone says, Brett was Holmes, no doubt.
Last time I visited London, I went to the recreation of Holmes’ flat at 221B Baker St. It’s just around the block from the Baker Street tube station. They have done a terrific job with all the furnishings and atmosphere that Conan Doyle described, right down to the Persian slipper of tobacco hanging from the mantle. I was prepared to be disappointed in what could easily be a tourist trap but somebody did a most credible job in the recreation.
(At the time of the novels/stories 221B Baker St. did not exist, but they have since sandwiched it in on Baker Street.)