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Hopelessly obsessed with Sherlock Holmes

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Are you tired of refreshing the news every five minutes and need something nice to distract you from the current world situation? Do you need something to play in the background while making pancakes at 3am?? Do you want to listen something entertaining while rearranging your bookshelf for the fourth time in a row??? Do you have a sudden need to marathon a ton of Sherlock Holmes films and series and want to have access to all of The Content in the same place???? Here’s the solution! A master post containing a lot of classic Sherlock Holmes series, movies, documentaries and radio plays to watch (and listen) for FREE babey, enjoy! 

William Gillette Sherlock Holmes film (1916)

Silent Sherlock Holmes films (1900-1923)

Arthur Wontner Sherlock Holmes films (1931-1937)

Misc. B&W Sherlock Holmes films

Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes complete film series (1939-1946)

Ronald Howard Sherlock Holmes complete series (1954-1955)

Peter Cushing Sherlock Holmes series and films (1959, 1968)

Lenfilm (Russian) Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson complete series (1979-1986)

Geoffrey Whithead Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson series (1979-1980)

Young Sherlock Holmes series (1982)

The Baker Street Boys series (1983)

Granada Sherlock Holmes complete series (1984-1994)

Sherlock Hound complete series in Spanish (1984)

The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes documentary (1985)

Without a Clue film (1988)

Bert Coules Sherlock Holmes complete radio plays (1991-2010)

Sherlock Holmes: The Great Detective documentary (1995)

The Shackles of Sherlock documentary, presented by David Burke (2007)

Sherlock Holmes stories narrated by Edward Hardwicke

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Fellas you see that one the says “Ronald Howard complete series”

That’s the good stuff.

Like, if you want to have a good solid twenty minutes of utter comfort viewing.

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I just realized it's ✨pride month✨ and I can post whatever I want :))

Aromantic Sherlock Holmes be upon ye! 💚🤍🩶🖤

And some variations:

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i want a milkshake + i love my conditioner (my thoughts after being sleep deprived and writing this at 2 am)

@lestradelurkshere it came quicker than i anticipated!!!!

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Oh huh! I hadn't realized I didn't post this one here on Tumblr! I finished this study in early March and have plans to have it be one of 3 pieces to go together 🙂‍↕️

[ID: Digital painting of Sherlock Holmes and Toby the dog, a study of Leyendecker's "Man with a dog" (1909) for Collier's Weekly. Holmes is in his coat, striped pants, top hat and grey scarf, Toby following a trace by his side. They are painted mid-motion. /end ID]

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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

[ID: Digital painting, a recreation of one of Leyendecker's Interwoven Socks ads, of a gentleman sitting in a wooden chair before a wooden desk, clutching some envelopes in hand. Instead, it's Dr Watson as played by David Burke, and there's an assortment of chemistry vials on the desk as well as a microscope.

Watson's in a light suit and has a yellow flower pinned to his lapel. The chair he sits in is a swivel one. He sits before a solid coral background. /end ID]

(details and some rambling under the cut!)

While I mostly find that quote up there like a big backhanded compliment, there's a part of me that finds it really endearing.

I think, the question is, can pure sunshine be a conductor of light? Because that's what Watson, especially David Burke's, is to me.

I started this study on the day Mr Burke's passing was shared publicly without knowing if I'd finish it, but I ended up chipping away at it light by little these past few days. I hope I have managed to do him even the slightest bit of justice 💛

Anyway, deets!

[ID: An assortment of details of the above illustration, each focusing on a different part of the image. In order:

1: Detail focusing on Watson's face. He's smiling gently, eyes closed.

2: Detail focusing on his hand holding the envelopes and a couple of beakers on the desk behind him, propped up by a metal stand.

3: Detail focusing on the microscope on the desk.

4: Detail focusing on the leg he's got crossed, painted in such a way that the sole of the shoe is facing the viewer.

5: Detail focusing on the other leg planted on the ground and the desk drawers behind it.

6: Detail focusing on the wooden swivel chair. /end ID]

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Arthur Conan Doyle was born 155 years ago.

There are 55 Sherlockian cakes in my queue.

(Don’t worry, you can block #the cakebook of sherlock holmes if you want.)

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handy new flatmate

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One of the finest and most beloved Watsons ever to grace the screen has passed away. David Burke was 91 years old, just shy of his 92nd birthday, and he is survived by his wife Anna Calder-Marshall and his son Tom Burke.

By all accounts, he was a gentleman and a wonderful human being. He could have stayed on to play Watson much longer, which would have made many of us very happy, but he chose to leave the show to be nearer to his family, especially since Tom was very young at the time.

His was not the first intelligent and competent Watson, but this version marked a turning point in mainstream depictions, from comedic sidekick to a hero in his own right.

RIP, dear sir. You will be missed. Thank you for everything.

~*~

To read a longer and moving tribute, please check out the I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere website: https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2026/05/david-burke-first-watson-of-granada-era.html. The tribute includes a link to the interview that the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Podcast conducted with David and his wife a few years ago.

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I have regrettably finished all of Granada and so as an excuse to rewatch it immediately, I decided to make a painted collage of different scenes from A Scandal in Bohemia.

Yes I am considering doing this for every episode. I cannot get enough of the most beautiful vampire man I’ve ever seen and his long-suffering beefy sidekick.

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You know my methods.

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acd dump

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Made Miis of Holmes and Watson in Tomodachi life and they fell in love in .005 seconds of meeting 😂

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Portable Sherlock Holmes Mystery - Final Problem/Empty House combination. I still have to do some cosmetic things to the box itself and reattach the hardware, but all the fun stuff is done. On the left is Reichenbach falls, up top on the right is Watson's office, and below is the sitting room of 221b.

Here's a better picture of the furniture for Watson's office. The pile of clothes and hair in the chair is Holmes's disguise, and I made the books he brought and left space for them on the bookcase. It was fun to make that exam table! There's a stethoscope on top, but you can't really see it.

And a better pic of the sitting room furniture. The Persian slipper and jacknife and gasogene are on the mantle, and I made Holmes's chemistry table and desk. His pipe is in the basket chair, that's his violin case at the bottom, and on the little side table is a newspaper boy hat and a gavel. Those details are specific to this recipient - it's for the BSI's new Wiggins, if you know what that means, so those items represent him.

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Brutal. Devastating. Divorce material. Beautiful. I mean, horrible.

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Super Important Announcement for April 1st 2026

If you've been keeping up with this blog you'll know that after releasing my cosy Sherlock Holmes game The Beekeeper's Picnic, I've been working on another game called The Museum of Everything, an Edwardian gaslamp fantasy mystery where the Mona Lisa gets stolen from a giant museum housed in a space station.

BUT

The truth is, I just find myself so drawn to Arthur Conan Doyle's most beloved literary creation. I can't keep away.

That's why I've created a BRAND NEW GAME that you can PLAY RIGHT NOW featuring him.

And by 'him', of course I mean Professor Challenger.

Presenting...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt The Game!

An interactive retelling of the original sci-fi novella from 1913, with added silly bits.

Customise your characters profession and choose from appropriately Doylean hobbies. Will you be (for example) a spiritualist who can see ghosts, a wannabe cowboy with amazing science skillz, or  a doctor with strangely intense sexual magnetism?

I made this in 48 hours while chugging down lots of Mountain Dew so just temper your expectations, ok?

Screenshots of this real game which is real:

Play it online here: (Yes, this is entirely real, for real, it's real and I made it.)

A text-based adventure. A browser game made in HTML5

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To reassure @karl-von-moor-official and anyone else wondering, my rule with April Fools jokes is that I don't think it's funny to pretend you've made something and then... it doesn't exist? I guess it's more in keeping with the spirit of making people feel foolish, but I... don't really want to do that?

But I do think it's fun to genuinely make something silly and unexpected. So, this is a real game! Albeit a small, rough, buggy one!