The Naval Treaty: A clerk named Percy Phelps (David Gwillim) who works in the Foreign Office finds that a naval treaty has been stolen by an unknown thief.
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Holmes quickly realizes that the drawings are a code but is unsure how or why it ties into the woman's past, possibly before she moved to England. It would seem to tie into a letter she got some time ago from Chicago but intensified when the drawing was seen on the wall of a garden. The Dancing Men: Hilton Cubitt (Tenniel Evans) comes to Holmes when his American wife of three years, Elsie (Betsy Brantley), becomes unusually scared by some primitive pictures illustrating some little dancing men. However, Adler is a considerably more formidable foe than he first imagined… The king hires Holmes and Doctor Watson (David Burke) to get the photo back and the great detective uses not only his skills of deduction but his mastery of disguise too. Given that the King is soon to be wed, she takes advantage of this opportunity by threatening to expose the picture but her motives for doing so remain mysterious as she has requested no ransom. The content that makes up this collection is presented in the following order:Ī Scandal In Bohemia: In this first adventure, Holmes runs up against an American actress named Irene Adler (Gayle Hunnicutt), a woman who is in possession of a rather incriminating picture that documents an affair that she once had with the King of Bohemia (Wolf Kahler). Brett passed away in 1995 after leading a troubled life but his legacy lives on, this set is proof of that. These were made while Brett was on medication for bipolar disorder and the side effects of the medication he was on did result in some noticeable weight gain but he soldiered on and even here, his acting and his take on the character are excellent. The set also includes the two made for TV movies in which Brett played the role, they being The Sign Of Four and The Hound Of The Baskervilles made in 19 respectively.
Though it reportedly took some convincing to get him to agree to the part, once he did he quickly proved not only a natural for the role but quite dedicated to presenting the character in a manner as close to that depicted in the original stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as possible.
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Brett played the role for the Granada Television produced series from 1984 until 1994 and over the course of that decade he indelibly left his stamp on the character becoming to many fans the ‘definitive' actor to play the part. MPI have collected the late, great Jeremy Brett's complete run as ‘the greatest detective who never lived' and released the material over twelve discs aptly titled Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Granada Television Series.
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