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It is tough to find a genuine reader who love detective fictions and crime thrillers who is not familiar with Sherlock Holmes. This fictional creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle got so much fame that at one point, the author himself started feeling overshadowed by his creation!! Yes, he thus decided to put it to an end. And, there came a Sherlock Holmes story, where Sherlock meet with his death! The reactions by readers were so aggressive that later the author have to bring Sherlock back by being declared as surviving from the death!
The detective fictions portraying Sherlock Holmes have created so much trends which were followed by almost all detective fiction writers. For example the idea of being a great observer, having a sidekick (named Dr. John Watson), and more… There is Ajit Banerji for Byomkesh Bakshi, Feluda have Tapesh, Poirot have Hastings and so on. Agatha Christie herself was influenced by Sherlock Holmes stories.
Most of work by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes is available for free at Project Gutenberg. These detective stories have always fascinated the makers to make Films, Plays, TV series and other stuff based on them. Some makes went to an extent to add something to the story from imagination, for example a movie named Young Sherlock Holmes was made with imagination of young Sherlock Holmes, how he could have met Watson and his raw with Moriarty, his possible girl friend, and much more. Without A Clue was also such kind of movie, where we see the roles and abilities of Sherlock and Watson are interchanged, it was also a nice imagination by the makers.
| TV Serial | : | Sherlock |
| Producer | : | Sue Vertue |
| Director | : | Paul McGuigan, Euros Lyn |
| Writers | : | Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Stephen Thompson |
| Based on | : | Characters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Musicians | : | David Arnold, Michael Price |
| Editors | : | Mali Evans, Charlie Phillips |
| Actors | : | Benedict Cumberbatch (William Sherlock Scott Holmes), Martin Freeman (John Hamish Watson), Rupert Graves (Detective Inspector Greg Lestrade), Vinette Robinson (Sergeant Donovan), Jonathan Aris (Philip Anderson), Andrew Scott (James ‘Jim’ Moriarty), Clive Mantle (Dr. Robert Frankland), Jalaal Hartley (Jonathan Small), Lars Mikkelsen (Charles Augustus Magnussen), Una Stubbs (Martha Louise Hudson (née Sissons)), Mark Gatiss (Mycroft Holmes), Louise Brealey (Molly Hooper), Amanda Abbington (Mary Morstan), Zoe Telford (Sarah Sawyer), Lara Pulver (Irene Adler), Bertie Carvel (Sebastian Wilkes), Katherine Parkinson (Kitty Riley), Lisa McAllister (Anthea), Yasmine Akram (Janine), Lindsay Duncan (Lady Elizabeth Smallwood), Gemma Chan (Soo Lin Yao), Al Weaver (Andy Galbraith), Daniel Percival (Eddie Van Coon), Paul Chequer (Detective Inspector Dimmock), Howard Coggins (Brian Lukis), Janice Acquah (Museum Director), Jack Bence (Raz), John MacMillan (Community Police Officer), Olivia Poulet (Amanda), John Lebar (Golem), and others… |
| Purchase Link(s) | : | Complete season One @ Amazon.com Complete season Two @ Amazon.com Complete season Three @ Amazon.com |
Recently we found the TV Series Sherlock which was originally aired on BBC is available as a set of DVDs. Actually all the three seasons are available as a set of DVD separately.
The first season contains 2 DVDs. These 2 DVDs are having all 3 episodes of first season in HD quality. In addition you can find commentaries and other interesting material to go for.
| Title | Director | Written By | Aired on (in UK) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Study in Pink |
Paul McGuigan
|
Steven Moffat
|
25 July 2010 |
| The Blind Banker |
Euros Lyn
|
Stephen Thompson
|
1 August 2010 |
| The Great Game |
Paul McGuigan
|
Mark Gatiss
|
8 August 2010 |
The second season contains 2 DVDs. These 2 DVDs are having all 3 episodes of in HD quality. In addition you can find commentaries and other interesting material to go for.
| Title | Director | Written By | Aired on (in UK) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Scandal in Belgravia |
Paul McGuigan
|
Steven Moffat
|
1 January 2012 |
| The Hounds of Baskerville |
Paul McGuigan
|
Mark Gatiss
|
8 January 2012 |
| The Reichenbach Fall |
Toby Haynes
|
Stephen Thompson
|
15 January 2012 |
The third season contains 2 DVDs. These 2 DVDs are having all 3 episodes of in HD quality. In addition you can find commentaries and other interesting material to go for.
| Title | Director | Written By | Aired on (in UK) |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Empty Hearse |
Jeremy Lovering
|
Mark Gatiss
|
1 January 2014 |
| The Sign of Three |
Colm McCarthy
|
Stephen Thompson, Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss
|
5 January 2014 |
| His Last Vow |
Nick Hurran
|
Steven Moffat
|
12 January 2014 |
The commercial and critical success of this series made the makers happy and a next series is also planned. Nice 🙂
This serial modernize the stores and it consolidates several stories in a long story. You can see Sherlock using mobile phone, laptop and other gadgets in this serial. More techno savvy Villains and Dr. John Watson as an army doctor who returned from war at Gulf, who runs his own blog, and other such twists make the stories more interesting. The serial is a marvel in terms of technology. We will be reviewing each episode individually so you can know more about various aspects of the same.
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