Sherlock Holmes
- Episode aired Nov 15, 1981
- 1h 50m
Professor Moriarty returns to kill Sherlock Holmes and unleashes a complex and clever plan to lure the great detective to his death.Professor Moriarty returns to kill Sherlock Holmes and unleashes a complex and clever plan to lure the great detective to his death.Professor Moriarty returns to kill Sherlock Holmes and unleashes a complex and clever plan to lure the great detective to his death.
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- TriviaThe original play had four acts. This production has five.
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Larrabee: Come away from him! Come over here if you don't want to get hurt!
Sherlock Holmes: My child, if you don't want to ged hurt then don't leave my side for a second.
Larrabee: Aren't you coming?
Alice Faulkner: No!
Craigin: Better look out, miss, he might get killed.
Alice Faulkner: Then you can kill me too!
Sherlock Holmes: ... Well, I'm afraid you don't mean that, Miss. Faulkner.
Alice Faulkner: I do.
Sherlock Holmes: No, no, you would not say it at another time or place.
Alice Faulkner: I would say it anywhere--always.
Sherlock Holmes: ... .
- Alternate versionsThe original 1981 HBO broadcast version does not show the entire Williamstown Theater Festival play. Instead it opens with a scene of Dr. Watson narrating the details of what is not shown. He fills in backstory for what is only implied in the deleted portion. His narrative then fades into the remainder of the play's Act I. This version ends with the final curtain of the play.
- ConnectionsRemake of Sherlock Holmes (1916)
Donald Morfogen chose to play Moriarty like Richard Nixon which I found odd and distracting but that may have been the director's intent. As it was, the Gillette play was done in a tongue and cheek melodramatic style, and that may come across to viewers of the stage play as corny.
Still, Frank Langella is a marvelous actor and always fun to watch, I just don't see him as MY Holmes.
In the original HBO presentation, included were the curtain calls as each character bowed to the audience, (Actually, only the star came out n "character" as I remember it.
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- Apr 26, 2011
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