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[holmesoldfellow]

Promotional stills from "Sherlock Holmes" with Erich Schellow and Paul Edwin Roth (1967)

[flammentanz]

"Das Beryll-Diadem"

Erich Schellow: Sherlock Holmes Paul Edwin Roth: Dr. Watson Manja Kafka: Mrs. Hudson

Watson: "What's going on here? Who is that?" Mrs. Hudson: "I'm not allowed to say." Holmes: "But I have no secrets from Watson." Watson: "My master's voice."

[postcard-from-the-past]

Erich Schellow on a Dutch vintage postcard

[finalproblem]

Sherlockian Wednesday Watchalongs: Kids or Pets?

You can pick a side, or you can choose both. It's all good here, with four new-to-us watchalongs.

Wednesday, August 7 The Clue According to Sherlock Holmes (1980) Keith McConnell as Holmes!

Wednesday, August 14 Silver Blaze (1977) Christopher Plummer as Holmes!

Wednesday, August 21 Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007) Jonathan Pryce as Holmes!

Wednesday, August 28 Sherlock Holmes: Das gefleckte Band (aka The Adventure of the Speckled Band, 1967) Erich Schellow as Holmes!

Here’s the deal: Like Sherlock Holmes? You’re welcome to join us in The Giant Chat of Sumatra’s #giantchat text channel to watch and discuss with us. Just find a copy of the episode or movie we’re watching, and come make some goofy internet friends.

Keep an eye on my #the giant chat of sumatra tag and the calendar for updates on future chat events.

[silencervalkyrie]

Does anyone know where I could find the six episodes of the German Sherlock Holmes tv series aired between 1967-1968?

[gosherlocked]

German Johnlock, or The 1968 Copper Beeches

This is about the six-part German TV series of 1967-1968 which is a little treasure trove. For me the last episode is the best, Johnlock-wise. 

Violet Hunter: “The two of you are regarded as inseparable.” Watson: “True.” Violet Hunter: “I’m really pleased.” Watson: “So am I, for both of us.”

Holmes calls Watson his “Vertrauter” (someone who is very close and familiar and with whom you share almost everything).

But it gets even better. Holmes once promised Watson that he may help himself to the contents of Holmes’s tobacco tin “for life”. To put it another way: they intend to stay together. For life. Until death do part them. How could they be more married than that? 

To me this may not be the most dramatic or beautiful, not the most adventurous or colourful, but surely the funniest and most warm-hearted Holmes/Watson pairing I know. (And, what is more, they use the informal German “du” throughout, making it very intimate. Which the German dubbing of BBC Sherlock only introduced in the best man scene in TSoT)

(Thank you, @ebaeschnbliah​, for providing the screenshot)

@ebaeschnbliah​, @devoursjohnlock​, @loveismyrevolution​, @raggedyblue​, @possiblyimbiassed​, @the-signs-of-two​, @flammentanz​

[ebaeschnbliah]

The cane’s secret ...

Impressions from Sherlock Holmes, The Speckled Band, TV Series Germany 1967

Erich Schellow and Paul Edwin Roth as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

The Speckled Band

[acdhw]

Sherlock Holmes (1967), episode 4, The Bruce-Partington Plans.

With Erich Schellow as Sherlock Holmes and Paul Edwin Roth as Dr. Watson.

Aren’t they adorable???????

Thank you so much, @flammentanz!

[holmesoldfellow]

German Sherlock Holmes recommendations??? :D

Hey ho, for sure! I have a playlist for that right here. The most extensive German Sherlock Holmes I'm aware of (and probably my personal favorite) is the 1967-68 show with Erich Schellow and Paul Edwin Roth, which depicts six canon stories with some extra side quipping (including various hidden alcohol).

For films, there's the slightly more well known "Der Hund von Baskerville" from 1937, which frames the story a bit differently than other adaptations. From the same year there's "Der Mann, Der Sherlock Holmes War," otherwise called "Two Merry Adventurers," which is a non canonical comedy film about two detectives impersonating Holmes and Watson to get business, and apparently no one knows Holmes is a fictional character. Those are both Nazi era films, though the latter is the one with traceable hints of that. Then there's "Conan Doyle und Der Fall Edalji" from 1966, where ACD kind of becomes Sherlock Holmes, which I'm sure ACD would never resent.

I also just found the 1992 kids series "Sherlock Holmes und die Sieben Zwerge," in which a police officer named Holmes rescues a kidnapped Snow White??

There are other films and show episodes that were made, but either I personally can't find them, like the 1955 "Der Hund von Baskerville," or they're lost to time, like several 1920s silent films and the 1954 "Sherlock Holmes Liegt im Sterben," of which only a fraction remains. Many English language versions were and still are popular for German speakers, particularly Rathbone and Cushing, and East Germans are also likely to be Livanov Holmes enjoyers.

Unfortunately, I've only found the two 1937 films with English subtitles, though I'm sure the others can be found with English elsewhere. If anyone else knows of better links to these or of other German Holmeses that I missed, please let me know! (Maybe @flammentanz can help?)

[flammentanz]

Erich Schellow as Sherlock Holmes and Paul Edwin Roth as Dr. . Watson in "Das Beryll-Diadem"

[finalproblem]

Sherlockian Wednesday Watchalongs: Kids or Pets?

Sherlock Holmes: Das gefleckte Band (aka The Adventure of the Speckled Band, 1967)

Erich Schellow as Holmes! And a villain who decides the obvious answer to this month's question is: use your pets to kill your kids. 🍼🐍

We’ll watch and chat live at 8:30 pm US Eastern time (click for your local date/time).

Anyone is welcome to join us, even if you've randomly discovered this post. See you in The Giant Chat of Sumatra’s #giantchat Discord channel!

[ebaeschnbliah]

The Speckled Band ...

Impressions from Sherlock Holmes, TV Series Germany 1967

Erich Schellow and Paul Edwin Roth as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

Prepared for anything:  while Dr Watson’s cane contains a compartment for liquid, Sherlock Holmes’ cane contains a blade. :)

The cane’s secret

[acdhw]

Sherlock Holmes (1967), episode 5, The Beryl Coronet.

With Erich Schellow as Sherlock Holmes and Paul Edwin Roth as Dr. Watson.

This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's affection. (The Blue Carbuncle)

Here Holmes certainly doesn’t let his Watson go out untidy ;)

Thank you so much @flammentanz!

[flammentanz]

Erich Schellow as Sherlock Holmes and Paul Edwin Roth as Dr. . Watson in “Sechsmal Napoleon”

[flammentanz]

"Das gefleckte Band"

Erich Schellow: Sherlock Holmes Paul Edwin Roth: Dr. Watson Fritz Tillmann: Dr. Grimesby Roylott Astrid Frank: Helen Stoner

Watson: "What does that mean?" Holmes: "It means it's all over. Come on!" Helen Stoner: "What was this?" Holmes: "Go back to your room, we will come to you later." Holmes: "This was the speckled band." Watson: "A swamp cobra, the most dangerous venomous snake in India."