Currently the secretary of a fictional Victorian.
I'm the same person as @jabbage and @beekeeperspicnic, I made this account while Tumblr had mistakenly banned my account and now I'm stuck with it so I put a lot of Sherlock Holmes things here!
🛸 - Watson is a Time Lord - Lovingly intricate series of crossover stories between the Granada series and Doctor Who. A collaboration with @jeremys-come-to-bed-eyes and @fruitviking
⌛The World Awry Series - Sherlock Holmes time travels to the 21st century. Aroace Holmes, platonic/queerplatonic relationship with Watson.
🕰️ The Time Enough Series - Watson has one of those 'spontaneous time travel' diseases causing him to live his life out of order, which explains his wonky grasp of chronology. Bisexual Watson having romantic relationships with Mary and Holmes at different points in his life.
👦🏻 Tabula Rasa - Someone cloned Sherlock Holmes. (I know, I know, you'll have to just trust me on this one)
💧 Drop of Water - Holmes comes to terms with his connection to a robot named Watson, and that robot's connection to a man named Watson. (SH22ndC)
🖊️ Nothing Without My Boswell - The Return of Sherlock Holmes... Or something like him. Watson performs a literary resurrection.
Collaboration with @fruitviking
Hiatus Stories:
☕ Kingdom of Tea - Victor Trevor is called to the deathbed of his tea-taster, a reclusive Frenchman called Pierre Laurent.
👴🏻 His Brother - Watson and Mycroft are united by a shared grief, and later, a shared joy. 4654 words, Gen
Retirement Stories:
👓 Golden Visions, Are Ye Flown? - Something seems to be wrong with Sherlock Holmes, but Watson is there to take care of him.
Miscellaneous
🧠 Compos Mentis - In which Nigel Bruce Watson and ACD Canon Watson are the same Watson
I've got too many half finished Watson is a Time Lord fics, help.
I try to avoid starting lots of fics and not finishing them, buuuuut they've kind of built up lately, whoops. I thought I'd do a poll gauging interest to see if it prods me into committing to finishing some of them.
Version of The Gloria Scott where a temporal bounty hunter ends up changing events with Victor Trevor and Holmes never becomes a detective.
A continuation/expansion of my fic The Island, where Watson is being held prisoner by Torchwood, which goes into Holmes' pov and how he sets about resucuing him.
Watson's TARDIS (Her Ladyship)'s consciousness has been shoved into a human being by rival Time Lord Moriarty and Holmes and Watson have to figure out how to put things right. Rathbone/Bruce versions of the characters!
Watson is a Time Lady version of The Illustrious Client, where Watson is badly injured by Baron Gruner's men, but her alien biology has some advantages... (writing this with @fruitviking!)
Holmes and Watson holding hands after a brush with death in “The Devil’s Foot” (1921)
I’ve created an improved version of this gifset because I found a higher-quality copy of the film and it somehow made this scene EVEN CUTER – in the darker footage I thought Holmes was just putting his hand on Watson’s shoulder in that last gif – turns out he’s actually touching his forehead omg.
Between 1921 and 1923, the Stoll production company made the most complete adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories ever, including all 45 short stories that had been published at the time and 2 of the novels. Leading actor Eille Norwood was apparently so devoted to the role he learned the violin for it, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle saw the series and praised it for its loyalty to the stories. And it's one of very few silent adaptations to feature Watson in his role from canon, rather than just a cameo (or absent entirely).
Unlike many silent films, none of the films in the series appear to have been lost, and in 2024 the British Film Institute announced a probably decades-long project to restore them all. Three of the films have already been restored and were shown at the BFI Film Festival. It looks like the BFI has digital viewing copies of all of the films (series 1, 2, and 3, and feature), but sadly it looks like they have to be viewed on premises at the BFI, I assume because the series will be under copyright in the UK until 2037.
Currently, only 4 of the films have been made available online by some generous denizens of the internet (the best versions of each that I could find are linked here): three short films from 1921 adapting The Dying Detective, The Devil's Foot, and The Man with the Twisted Lip, and the feature length The Sign of Four (1923).
Please enjoy this series of screenshots I took of Dying Detective while making pterodactyl noises, it's vey fun to see what decisions they made adapting this:
(Mrs Hudson passing on TO WATSON that delirious Holmes was calling Watson a "good old ass")
Holmes looking beautific while being ill:
Holmes: I've got a GUN!
Watson: And I've got A PEN AND PAPER!
And then there's The Devil's Foot. I took loads of screenshots of Holmes and Watson going on a clifftop walk together:
Turns out there isn't much room for getting consent from your friend to try out an unknown substance which causes psychosematic effects and eventually death when you only have title cards:
Between 1921 and 1923, the Stoll production company made the most complete adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories ever, including all 45 short stories that had been published at the time and 2 of the novels. Leading actor Eille Norwood was apparently so devoted to the role he learned the violin for it, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle saw the series and praised it for its loyalty to the stories. And it's one of very few silent adaptations to feature Watson in his role from canon, rather than just a cameo (or absent entirely).
Unlike many silent films, none of the films in the series appear to have been lost, and in 2024 the British Film Institute announced a probably decades-long project to restore them all. Three of the films have already been restored and were shown at the BFI Film Festival. It looks like the BFI has digital viewing copies of all of the films (series 1, 2, and 3, and feature), but sadly it looks like they have to be viewed on premises at the BFI, I assume because the series will be under copyright in the UK until 2037.
Currently, only 4 of the films have been made available online by some generous denizens of the internet (the best versions of each that I could find are linked here): three short films from 1921 adapting The Dying Detective, The Devil's Foot, and The Man with the Twisted Lip, and the feature length The Sign of Four (1923).
I've got too many half finished Watson is a Time Lord fics, help.
I try to avoid starting lots of fics and not finishing them, buuuuut they've kind of built up lately, whoops. I thought I'd do a poll gauging interest to see if it prods me into committing to finishing some of them.
Version of The Gloria Scott where a temporal bounty hunter ends up changing events with Victor Trevor and Holmes never becomes a detective.
A continuation/expansion of my fic The Island, where Watson is being held prisoner by Torchwood, which goes into Holmes' pov and how he sets about resucuing him.
Watson's TARDIS (Her Ladyship)'s consciousness has been shoved into a human being by rival Time Lord Moriarty and Holmes and Watson have to figure out how to put things right. Rathbone/Bruce versions of the characters!
Watson is a Time Lady version of The Illustrious Client, where Watson is badly injured by Baron Gruner's men, but her alien biology has some advantages... (writing this with @fruitviking!)
Maybe you saw the option. Maybe you beheld its breakthrough. Maybe you even felt a doubt or two gnawing as this year crawled on, and nothing more seemed to be heard of this Zine, this (overambitious?) overture to Fullmetal Alchemist's 25th anniversary...
Well, doubt no longer. It's here. It's live. If you've ever put pen to canvas, if you've ever loved the trials and tribulations of the brothers Elric, come help us celebrate 25 years of Shonen Peak by redrawing its entire first volume, page by loving page!
Automail awaits. Colonels await. Maybe even a certain doggy awaits...
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Hello, all! Due to a long, convoluted set of circumstances, I spent some time the other day creating an excel spreadsheet that lists all of the Suchet!Poirot series episodes by their airdates, who produced them, who wrote them, who directed them, appearances of recurring characters in each episode, and whether or not the episode counted as a Core Four episode (meaning an episode that stars David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Pauline Moran, AND Philip Jackson)... so!
Have you ever just wanted to watch all the Core Four episodes, or all the Hastings Episodes, or all the Miss Lemon Episodes, or all the Japp episodes, or all the Ariadne Episodes?
I made these episode lists to help you do just that!
They're right under the cut down below!
I can add different categories or coding to this post pretty easily, if you'd like (for ex.: which episodes star just Poirot, Hastings, & Miss Lemon, or just Poirot, Hastings, & Japp)! So if there's a category or code you'd like added to this list, let me know!
Sadly, I can't seem to find great places to stream certain episodes, so in this post, I simply present the lists of episodes by character and a link to where you can stream the Suchet!Poirot series on the PBS website (if it's available and if you're based in the US).
Stream seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 on the PBS website here!
NOTE: Certain episodes are not available to stream on the PBS website! I've marked those for you with a little " :( "
CORE FOUR EPISODES (28/70)
1.1 Adventure of the Clapham Cook
1.2 Murder in the Mews
1.3 Adventure of Johnnie Waverly :(
1.4 Four & Twenty Blackbirds
1.5 The Third Floor Flat
1.8 The Incredible Theft
1.10 The Dream
2.1 Peril at End House (Pts 1 & 2)*
2.2 The Veiled Lady
2.3 The Lost Mine :(
2.4 The Cornish Mystery
2.5 The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
2.6 Double Sin
2.7 The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
2.8 The Kidnapped Prime Minister
2.9 The Adventure of the Western Star :(
3.2 How Does Your Garden Grow*
3.4 The Plymouth Express
3.5 Wasp's Nest
3.7 Double Clue*
3.8 Mystery of the Spanish Chest
3.10 Affair at the Victory Ball
5.4 Case of the Missing Will
5.5 Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
5.8 Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan*
7.2 Lord Edgeware Dies* :(
8.1 Evil Under the Sun* :(
13.2 The Big Four*
* = The Core Four all appear in a scene together:( = The episode is not available for streaming on PBS
HASTINGS EPISODES (43/70)
1.1 Adventure of the Clapham Cook
1.2 Murder in the Mews
1.3 Adventure of Johnnie Waverly :(
1.4 Four & Twenty Blackbirds
1.5 The Third Floor Flat
1.7 Problem at Sea*
1.8 The Incredible Theft
1.9 The King of Clubs
1.10 The Dream
2.1 Peril at End House (Pts 1 & 2)
2.2 The Veiled Lady
2.3 The Lost Mine :(
2.4 The Cornish Mystery
2.5 The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
2.6 Double Sin
2.7 The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
2.8 The Kidnapped Prime Minister
2.9 The Adventure of the Western Star :(
3.1 The Mysterious Affair at Styles
3.2 How Does Your Garden Grow
3.3 The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
3.4 The Plymouth Express
3.5 Wasp's Nest
3.6 The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
3.7 Double Clue
3.8 Mystery of the Spanish Chest
3.10 Affair at the Victory Ball
3.11 Mystery of Hunter's Lodge :(
4.1 The ABC Murders
5.1 The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
5.2 The Underdog
5.3 The Yellow Iris
5.4 Case of the Missing Will
5.5 Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
5.7 Dead Man's Mirror
5.8 Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan
6.3 Murder on the Links*
6.4 Dumb Witness*
7.2 Lord Edgeware Dies :(
8.1 Evil Under the Sun :(
8.2 Murder in Mesopotamia* :(
13.2 The Big Four
13.6 Curtain*
* = The Episodes where just Hastings & Poirot appear together:( = The episode is not available for streaming on PBS
MISS LEMON EPISODES (32/70)
1.1 Adventure of the Clapham Cook
1.2 Murder in the Mews
1.3 Adventure of Johnnie Waverly :(
1.4 Four & Twenty Blackbirds
1.5 The Third Floor Flat
1.8 The Incredible Theft
1.10 The Dream*
2.1 Peril at End House (Pts 1 & 2)
2.2 The Veiled Lady
2.3 The Lost Mine :(
2.4 The Cornish Mystery
2.5 The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim*
2.6 Double Sin
2.7 The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
2.8 The Kidnapped Prime Minister
2.9 The Adventure of the Western Star :(
3.2 How Does Your Garden Grow*
3.3 The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
3.4 The Plymouth Express
3.5 Wasp's Nest
3.7 Double Clue*
3.8 Mystery of the Spanish Chest
3.10 Affair at the Victory Ball
5.1 The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb*
5.2 The Underdog
5.3 The Yellow Iris
5.4 Case of the Missing Will
5.5 Adventure of the Italian Nobleman*
5.8 Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan*
6.2 Hickory Dickory Dock*
7.2 Lord Edgeware Dies :(
8.1 Evil Under the Sun :(
13.2 The Big Four
*= Episodes where Miss Lemon actually gets some decent screen time:( = The episode is not available for streaming on PBS
JAPP EPISODES (40/70)
1.1 Adventure of the Clapham Cook
1.2 Murder in the Mews
1.3 Adventure of Johnnie Waverly :(
1.4 Four & Twenty Blackbirds
1.5 The Third Floor Flat
1.8 The Incredible Theft
1.9 The King of Clubs
1.10 The Dream
2.1 Peril at End House (Pts 1 & 2)
2.2 The Veiled Lady
2.3 The Lost Mine :(
2.4 The Cornish Mystery
2.5 The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
2.6 Double Sin
2.7 The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
2.8 The Kidnapped Prime Minister
2.9 The Adventure of the Western Star :(
3.1 The Mysterious Affair at Styles
3.2 How Does Your Garden Grow
3.4 The Plymouth Express
3.5 Wasp's Nest
3.6 The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
3.7 Double Clue
3.8 Mystery of the Spanish Chest
3.10 Affair at the Victory Ball
3.11 The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge :(
4.1 The ABC Murders
4.2 Death in the Clouds*
4.3 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe*
5.4 Case of the Missing Will
5.5 Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
5.6 The Chocolate Box*
5.7 Dead Man's Mirror
5.8 Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan
6.1 Hercule Poirot's Christmas*
6.2 Hickory Dickory Dock
7.1 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd* :(
7.2 Lord Edgeware Dies :(
8.1 Evil Under the Sun :(
13.2 The Big Four
*= Episodes where just Poirot & Japp appear together:( = The episode is not available for streaming on PBS
ARIADNE EPISODES (5/70)
11.1 Mrs. McGinty's Dead
11.3 The Third Girl
12.2 Hallowe'en Party
13.1 Elephants Can Remember
13.3 Dead Man's Folly
She deserved to be in more episodes, tyvm
There's an episode of the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce radio show from 1946 call The Living Doll, which is set in Holmes' retirement. I was delighted when I heard it to find out that the writers decided, as I did in The Beekeeper's Picnic, to give Holmes an inquisitive young neighbour who he befriends...
... but gosh, this kid has problems that Tilda thankfully does not.
(Audio slightly edited for comedic effect, but not all that much. I set myself a challenge to make this as quickly as possible so please forgive the roughness and limited likeness to Basil Rathbone!)
If you want a palette cleanser, the next time Cynthia shows up she's interrupting Holmes and Watson being Very Domestic together.
The next YeeH&W tale of mystery and intrigue has begun!
Sherlock heads off to investigate the murder of Charles McCarthy without John—though it's only a matter of time before the partners are reunited. With the local sheriff questioning them at every turn, can they find the true culprit before young James McCarthy meets the end of a rope?
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
I really like that Holmes fans on here seem to have collectively decided that we're in a post-Nigel-Bruce-hate era?
For a long time his Watson would always get ragged on for being buffonish and air-headed, and seen as a blight on portrayals of the character ever since, a hurdle to be overcome...
...but perhaps enough time has passed and Watson the character isn't in the shadow of that particular portrayal anymore, and so he's been gathering a new appreciation? I keep running into people who are quite fond of him.
Yes he can be pretty stupid. But Holmes adores him, and is pleased to have him around, so it's very easy to decide as a viewer to like him too.
Return to Hurlstone - the filming location of the 1986 Granada Sherlock Holmes 'Musgrave Ritual'
Ok, hold on tight everyone, this is about to get excruciatingly nerdy. On my watch-through of the excellent 1980s Granada Sherlock Holmes series I was really intrigued by the filming location for the fourth episode of the third series, The Musgrave Ritual - an eccentric moated manor house, which forms the setting for a treasure hunt in the show.
After some googling I worked out that the episode was filmed at Baddesley Clinton, which happens to be close to where I live. I had to go on my own little adventure to see what's there today, 36 years after filming! I think it gave me some fun insights into a few of the decisions the filmmakers made.
A little bit about Baddesley Clinton
Baddesley Clinton is a National Trust property in Warwickshire. Pay the (...fairly pricy imo) entrance fee and you can walk around the house and grounds, and enjoy amenities like a cafe, second hand bookshop in the stables and plant shop.
The house is incredibly interesting in its own right and has been inhabited by a colourful cast of characters over the years, mostly members of the Ferrers family. Perhaps most important for the setting of the Musgrave Ritual is the 'Victorian Quartet', two artistically-minded couples who lived at the house together in the mid 19th century and made extensive repairs and restorations. Their mediaevalesque tastes are responsible for its unique look, full of dark Tudor panelling, intricate carvings and paintings by Rebecca, a member of the Quartet.
The house was given to the National Trust in 1980 by the last member of the Ferrers family to inherit it, just six years before filming on The Musgrave Ritual took place.
The House Exterior
Because the Musgrave Ritual is a treasure hunt complete with pacing out steps and trees as landmarks, getting a real-world location which matches the description in Arthur Conan Doyle's story would be impossible. The writer for the episode Jeremy Paul notes in the script book for the episode that Baddesly Clinton itself helped to shape the story and direction.
For example, while the original short story involves the shadow of an oak tree and an elm tree, the filmmakers realised they could add an additional twist in the tale...
There was also an 'oak and sun' problem, solved, as if by an act of God, by the fortuitous presence of a weather vane with an ornamental oak on its top.
I was really hopeful that the oak tree weather vane would still be there since it apparently belonged to the house, but alas, the top of the weather vane seems to have been replaced at some point.
I was able to match up various shots in the approach to the house though, and consider how the filmmakers had cleverly used zoom and lens focal length to make things seem closer or further away than they are in reality.
The Water Door
One element which is also thankfully still intact is the water door, which is responsible for one of the most enjoyably goofy shots of the episode as Holmes seems to glide across the water before we cut to a side shot to see that Watson is actually rowing him across. Again, this isn't an element which is present in the original story but which Jeremy Paul suggests was inspired by the filming location:
We had fun with the notion that Holmes' steps led him to the edge of the moat, forcing him to cross to the house by rowing boat. Such visual conceits cannot be claimed as part of the dramatist's skills, but this one in particular offered me some reflected glory.
The only real change I could see is that there is now a small wooden jetty in front of the door, and no stone platform beneath it. There was also a weird little pedalo moored there. Some googling shows that it's been there over ten years, and I'd love to know where it came from!
If you're wondering what's BEHIND that door, then... look, if anyone from the National Trust is reading this then er... I just peeked in the keyhole, ok?
Ooh. Box files. Spooky.
The Great Hall
This room appears throughout the episode. Much of the furniture is different (most notably the chairs) but the layout of the room remains pretty much the same.
Note that for the episode the electric lights have been removed and little pictures hung up in front of the holes where they came from! Sneaky ;D
(Gasp, Holmes no! Don't put your feet on the furniture!)
I was really excited by the tapestry hanging on the wall as it is the
backdrop for a memorable scene where Watson is trying desperately to keep the conversation with their host together while Holmes is high as a kite.
Please feel free to use the image below as a Zoom background so that you can cackle wildly at your friends, family or work colleagues in a way which will make them think you've been at the seven percent solution.
The Kitchen
The kitchen appears briefly as the butler Brunton cleans his piccolo (...not an innuendo), and as far as I can tell all of the furniture is still the same as it was in 1986.
There is also a scene with Branston in the stables cleaning his piccolo (... that is an innuendo this time). There are stables at the house, but I couldn't pick out any distinguishing features to know if they were used for filming.
The Dining Room
The dining room makes an appearance for a breakfast scene where poor Watson gets hot coffee spilt on him by a hysterical maid. I wasn't able to wander freely through this room so I couldn't get any shots matching angles from the show, but you can clearly see the ornate cabinet that Holmes is sat in front of:
The Grounds
Tumblr only allows ten images per post so I won't post a lot of the grounds which are lovely - perhaps I'll do a follow up post sometime!
There are lakes a-plenty where someone could find the crown of England and/or a dead body. I did spend a while trying to match some of the shots where Holmes is sat on a bench wrapped on a blanket looking grumpy, but I think that the benches have all been replaced and are in different places.
So, that's about it! If you're ever in Warwickshire, I definitely recommend paying Baddesley Clinton a visit.
Just don't go down into any cellars with heavy doors over them, ok?
I have a really super important update to this post.
They found a weird trap door?
They found a weird trap door.
Ok it's a priest hole, and they always knew there was a priest hole in the house, but from what I understand recent renovations on the house revealed/reminded everyone that the existing "priest hole" being shown to visitors was the result of someone in the '70s knocking through a wall, and that the original priest hole was actually accessed via the first floor.
Anyway, continuing proof that the Granada film crew did a bang up job choosing this location.
