reloha: gird-my-loins: HEY, FANS OF BBC!SHERLOCK WHO THINK IT MODERNIZED SHERLOCK HOLMES FIRST: Wron
reloha:gird-my-loins:HEY, FANS OF BBC!SHERLOCK WHO THINK IT MODERNIZED SHERLOCK HOLMES FIRST:Wrong, by 25 years! This information has been posted in the Elementary tag multiple times before but is STILL apparently unknown to many.CBS DID IT FIRST! The screencaps above are from the 1987 TV film “The Return of Sherlock Holmes,” in which Holmes is in cryogenic suspension for 80 years. He is unfrozen by a descendent of Dr. John Watson (who froze him), and HER name is JANE WATSON. She is a detective in BOSTON, where the film takes place. They solve crimes together.Sound familiar? SHERLOCK HOLMES AND WATSON (A WOMAN) SOLVING CRIMES IN A MAJOR CITY IN AMERICA IN THE MODERN ERA.And not only did CBS make this TV film in 1987, but they remade it in 1993 as “Sherlock Holmes Returns.”Both films are on YouTube in their entirety.Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_Sherlock_Holmes_%28film%29So ENOUGH ALREADY about how CBS stole the concept from BBC(And neither BBC or CBS was first to “modernize” Sherlock Holmes. The Basil Rathbone films, made in the 1940, take place in the 1940’s).And the films of Clive Brook, Arthur Wontner, Reginald Owen, and Raymond Massey, et al, in the ’30s, took place in the ’30s. And the silent films of Eille Norwood, John Barrymore, etc., took place when they were filmed also. By the time the 1939 version of The Hound was done with Rathbone and Bruce, it was groundbreaking to put them in the Victorian era. Of course, the ground didn’t stay broken for very long; a move to a different studio with lower budgets meant filming in their contemporary era.On a side note, I would love an episode of Elementary that had the previous female Watsons as guest stars. -- source link