Sherlock Holmes on the Web: the Sherlockian.Net Holmepage

Sherlock Holmes on the Web: the Sherlockian.Net Holmepage

I have been reading the Handbook at night since I have had this favorite to view for years. There is a depth of scholarship on the Victorian Era that is a good complement to the knowledge of what the Strand reader of the era would have been thinking and known about the era and taken for granted. One of the best things about Sherlock Holmes is the friendship with Watson which is why I think Rathbone and Bruce movies hold up well after all these decades as do the radio programs. I am blessed to work out at the Fitness Formula on the treadmill listening to mp3 of radio programs of Sherlock Holmes from the 1930's to 1940's. It makes for a fast work out and I actually enjoy the commercials for the gleam of history you get of the era. This is a time of WWII with Victory Gardens and Bond Drives and welcome the soldiers home eventually to save your fat to Nigel Bruce asking 16 year old boys to spend the summer helping farmers bring in the crops due to labor shortage due to the war. It was a great generation. I played some for my Mom who could remember Uncle Marlin listening to a crystal radio set on the farm as a boy where you would drive a ground wire outside the window to make it work and listen to static filled Nashville stations and thinks like Fred Allen and Jack Benny whose comedy holds up because it was anything but topical. Most of the humor had Jack as the butt of the joke and it holds up well. Sherlock Holmes has many good series on DVD and one of the latest of all things is listening to a series in Russia using sub titles. The production values are quite high and you can follow the stories like watching a silent movie. I found the boxed set on Amazon and it works well. I am also watching lately Tom Corbett in space DVD since the star Frank Thomas also wrote a series on Sherlock Holmes I discovered written as pastiches that hold up well. I read that Frank Thomas was buried in his Tom Corbett costume and somehow that reminded me of Bela Lugosi and how he was buried with his cape. I was blessed as a student to attend a lecture by Vincent Price at Western as an old man who was so fascinating I wish there had been a series. He was great friends with Peter Lorre and when they went by the casket supposedly Lorre asked should they poke him just in case! Lorre also made a series of radio programs with his distinctive voice and many hold up well even today in the Suspense genre.