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granada holmes & sometimes acd. 1980s/1890s
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the rest of it
#figured if i'm letting yall read over my shoulder it's not very nice to refuse to turn the page#the empty house#the great hiatus#the new annotated sherlock holmes#my scans
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#there's more but it just gets more absurd#the empty house#the final problem#the great hiatus#the new annotated sherlock holmes#my scans
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#i have thoughts abt this ofc#first of all some dates are confused here#the final problem#the new annotated sherlock holmes#tuberculosis
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'an insupportable boast' don't be mean to watson u dont know his life
#arguing w the annotations now#would be interested in reading the referenced work tho#drug use#the missing three-quarter#acd#the new annotated sherlock holmes
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William Blake, Nebuchadnezzar, 1795
William Blake, The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve, 1826
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Davies on Holmes's drug-induced dream:
Brett worked on this with director Ken Hannam and put his own ideas in. Some of these consisted of contorted images of Holmes's struggle with Moriarty at Reichenbach; Holmes rubbing his eyes and dark red blood oozing from his clenched hands; Holmes wandering amongst the strange monoliths on the Cornish peninsula...
Brett on manic depression in 1995:
When clinically depressed, one has panic attacks, no energy and suicidal thoughts. When I was admitted to the Maudesley Hospital in 1986, I was so confused I couldn't relate to anything or anybody around me. All I could do was lie face down with my fists clenched in my face...
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David Stuart Davies:
As the third series, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, began filming in the summer of 1986, there were no obvious signs of Jeremy's illness. But to those who knew him well there were subtle differences in his demeanour... By the time of The Six Napoleons, the manic depression was taking hold, and colleagues were noting swings in his moods.
Shortly after finishing the first series of The Return, Jeremy was admitted to Maudesley Hospital in South London, well known for its treatment of mental disorders. He was there for about ten weeks.
When he finally came out of hospital, Edward Hardwicke picked him up and took him home where they had a meal with Edward's lovely wife, Prin. In those recuperative weeks, Hardwicke kept a watchful eye on his friend, inviting him home, meeting him for a meal, and ringing him regularly. He behaved, you might say, as Watson would have done towards Holmes.
As a result of this illness there was a delay in filming their first two-hour special, The Sign of Four. While Jeremy had been undergoing the traumas of his mental struggle, the viewing public had remained ignorant, so when The Sign of Four appeared on British television screens in December 1987 there was no erratic behaviour-watching.
By this time, the second series of The Return was filming, and Brett had suffered a second bout of severe manic depression. It was at this period that his hair was cut quite short. 'It was patently obvious it had not been cut by a barber - there were bits sticking up all over,' Hardwicke told me. The make-up department at Granada had to deal with the mangled thatch, as did producer Michael Cox, who, keeping up appearances, suggested that the shortlocks sherlock worked. I was dismayed, as were many other champions of the series. At that time, of course, we were not aware of the seriousness of Brett's illness.
The first episode was 'The Devil's Foot', a tale in which the detective is suffering from exhaustion and depression and is forced to take a holiday in Cornwall. Of course a crime presents itself and Holmes is able to shake off his malaise and solve it, but not before he has a chance to behave rather oddly. There is an air of self-indulgence about Brett's performance. At this time Jeremy was feeling rather 'up', entertaining members of the cast by singing to them at the dinner table in the evening. Jeremy's exuberance while filming 'The Devil's Foot' led him to make additions to the story, some not always in keeping with either Conan Doyle's Holmes or his previous performances...
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