Stumbled onto this at Barnes & Noble a couple of years ago:
An early 60's TV show starring Peter Cushing as Holmes and Nigel Stock as Watson. It was said that only five episodes of this show survived, but, they were good ones:
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Sign of Four
The Blue Carbuncle
A Study in Scarlet
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Cushing, like Brett, Rathbone, Lee, Cumberbatch and RDJ brought his own unique take on the legendary sleuth and it was most enjoyable. I don't know if this collection is still in print or not, but, if you can find it, by all means, buy it.
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^^^never heard of that one. Excellent!
Does anyone else think ‘Larry Hagman’ when they think of Sherlock?
He wasn't that short. He was 1.82 m (or 5'11 1/2" in the old money). In my head, Holmes should be over 6', but I wont quibble over half an inch for an actor of Cushing's calibre.
I have that collection, but I haven't got around to watching it yet (I seem to be accumulating DVDs faster than I can watch them), but I did enjoy his portrayal of Holmes in the 1959 The Hound of the Baskervilles movie (which has Christopher Lee as Sir Henry baskerville).
Peter Cushing was 5' 11.5" (181.6 cm) tall, according to IMDB. I've never seen those TV episodes, but several times I've watched his Holmes in the 1959 movie version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. (Christopher Lee played Sir Henry Baskerville, and as you might guess from that pairing it was in fact a filme from the Hammer Films studio, directed by Terrence Fisher.) I rather enjoy this film, which was intended to be the first in a series of Holmes films starring Cushing, but since it did poorly at the box ofice Hammer went back to horror.
An actor who was "right" for Holmes physically was the 6' 2" (188 cm) Nicol Williamson, who played him in the 1976 film The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. Williamson played Holmes as quite a skilled athlete in fencing and tennis. In the film's climax, Holmes bests the villain in a sword fight atop a moving train!
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The 6' 1" Robert Stephens starred in Billy Wilder's 1970 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.
Christopher Lee played a condescending Mycroft splendidly.