The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes was a ten-part series that ran on WBAI from 1983 through 1985. It was in part based on a script written by Daws Butler in 1976, parodying the Holmes canon and portraying Holmes as "a booby and Watson as a selfish intellectual using Holmes." Butler's original script, "Sherlock Holmes in Trouble," was adapted as the third episode of the series. For the series, Holmes was portrayed by Vernon Morris, while the role of Watson was taken by Henry J. Quinn, a retired FBI agent. Jan Meredith played Mrs. Hudson and Gwendolyn Lewis was Irene Adler.
WARNING: This is not your grandfather's Sherlock Holmes!
Readers of the original canon never got to discover the mystery of the Giant Rat of Sumatra because, as the great detective himself explained, "Matilda Briggs was not the name of a young woman, Watson...It was a ship which is associated with the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared."
The world may still not be prepared for this tale...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnl2BDbtPoY
And here I was thinking you were going to offer the Firesign Theatre's GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXHcSBhfkx8
ReplyDeleteWhich leads us to speculate how many creative and would-be creative people have taken up the challenge of that cited case...
--Todd Mason on Alice's computer at the moment.