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This blog will be dedicated to Sherlock holmes and Sherlock Holmes adjacent media, including the Rathbone movies, Granada series, BBC radio series, pastiches and more. Expect short essays, book reviews and reccomendations. I’ll also be posting my take on a Sherlock Holmes pastiche of sorts soon!

Hope you enjoy my ramblings about my hyperfixation!

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so called "serious" people

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his expressions are so good man even my autistic ass knows what he's feeling

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ITS SHERLOCH HOLMES DAY HUZZAH HUZZAH

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it’s also national but a musical instrument day which isn’t relevant but hey Holmes was a violinist

Everyone be like Holmes and get a musical instrument

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Rest in peace David Burke 🕊️🥀

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RIP to actor David Burke, one of my favourite Watson's.

He was the first Watson opposite Jeremey Brett's masterful Sherlock Holmes in the Granada series of the 80's.

No more the comedy relief bumbler (fun though that can be to watch) he ensured that this Watson was how the stories showed him to be: smart, well educated, but intelligent in a way very different to Holmes.

His decision to leave the role, was because he and his wife had been invited to join the Royal Shakespeare Company and felt that it would be a better arrangement as their son was still young and they wanted to be around him more.

And, with no offence to the superb Edward Hardwicke (Who Burke recommended as his successor), I preferred Burke's slightly more rigid Watson, someone who one felt had been in the military until recently and had been a man of the world.

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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.

This is a tragic week for Sherlockians, Granada fans, Baker street Irregulars, et al. We lost a truly amazing actor in the form of David Burke, one of the first actors to truly embody the man behind the Boswell. Burke truly made John Watson feel like he had his own intelligence, not living off of his flatmates or bumbling along behind him. He *made* Dr. Watson…a doctor.

“To me, he was always THE John H. Watson.” - Lyndsay Faye

#david burke #acd john watson #john watson #i am lost without my boswell #acd watson #rest in peace

*Casually pulls an Empty House and returns from the dead rq*

hi :D

#back from the dead #sherlock holmes #acd holmes #acd canon

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Me: *watching episode 1 of Granada Sherlock*

Sherlock: If this person should produce your letters for blackmail or other purposes, how is she to prove their authenticity?

Guy with enormous moustache: There is the writing-

Sherlock: poo poo forgery

Me: Wait, did he just say- *rewinds*

Sherlock: poo poo forgery

So, yes, I've started watching it. I thought it was the least I could do after all the grandada business (see previous posts). I like it, and I thought Jeremy Brett was very versatile in all those disguises. It wasn't the Watson I was expecting though. I guess they change him at some point. Or maybe he just gets older.

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The way i ran to my dvds SO FAST to check the subtitles anD SURE ENOUGH!

Im sure it’s meant to be “pooh, pooh” but i like this better😭

#sherlock holmes #granada holmes #granada sherlock #acd holmes #jeremy brett #I almost peed myself laughing when i realized this