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Episode 153: The Rooms at 221B Baker Street

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It's always fun to take a Sherlockian field trip. The British are fortunate in that they can hop on a train or in a car and find themselves at some of the original locations that inspired places in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Or certainly to Ground Zero: the rooms at 221B Baker Street in London.<br />
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In the U.S., it's not always quite so easy (even though <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/other-bsi-events/" target="_blank">the Baker Street Irregulars have hosted excursions</a> in Salt Lake City, the Vermissa Valley, and elsewhere). Which is why it's a pleasure to be able to step back in time and through the doors of 221B Baker Street in the home of Denny Dobry, BSI ("A Single Large Airy Sitting-Room") in Reading, Pennsylvania.<br />
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Burt traveled to Denny's home and descended those 17 steps to talk with Denny about a number of things, including the inspiration behind his remarkable collection of items, the Sherlockian group dedicated to recreating the famous sitting room, the BSI Trust, the Beacon Society, and more.<br />
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Episode 153: The Rooms at 221B Baker Street

“a single large airy sitting-room” [STUD] It's always fun to take a Sherlockian field trip. The British are f...

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A Very Different Holmes and Watson

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<b>"It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy" [3GAB] </b></h4>
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We recently welcomed <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose152" target="_blank">Lee Eric Shackleford</a> to the show to discuss his play <i>Holmes and Watson</i>. It was a deep discussion, rooted in the psychology behind a decades-long friendship and supposing what the main characters' reactions would have been behind the scenes, so to speak.<br />
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There is a very different kind of approach to that coming to theaters later in 2018. And all you need to know to frame it in your mind are the names of the two stars: Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly.<br />
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Like <i>Without a Clue</i> before it, Holmes and Watson is a farcical approach to the time-honored friends and colleagues. But rather than a simple switched identity, this time it's slapstick, potty humor, and frat boy antics.<br />
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Here's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AKU-T7_rDA" target="_blank">the trailer</a>:<br />
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And as you can imagine, Traditional Sherlockians are outraged.<br />
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How dare Sony Pictures tarnish the name an honor of the greatest detective who (n)ever lived, and his stalwart companion?<br />
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They have a right to be upset. Just like some Sherlockians object to Benedict Cumberbatch or Jonny Lee Miller. Or Jeremy Brett before them. Or Basil Rathbone before many others. <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose106" target="_blank">Every generation has its Sherlock Holmes</a>. And every generation disagrees with how Sherlock Holmes is portrayed.<br />
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But who said that we have to take Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson seriously all the time?<br />
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Indeed, there are a number of instances of humorous takes on Sherlock Holmes from throughout the history of the Sherlockian world.<br />
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In <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pictorial-History-Sherlock-Holmes/dp/B000KFWY5Y" target="_blank">The Pictorial History of Sherlock Holmes</a></i>, Michael Pointer wrote:<br />
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"The massive testimony to the widespread knowledge and popularity of Sherlock Holmes is found not only in the repeated publications of the stories and all of the dramatizations and discussions of the same, but also, and especially, in the countless occasions when he has been used for comic purposes."</blockquote>
It starts as far back as 1893 with a comic strip called <i>The Adventures of Chubb-Lock Homes</i> and a stage parody called <i>Under the Clock</i>.<br />
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Not too many years later came <i>Sherlocko the Monk and Watso</i> (later named <i>Hawkshaw the Detective</i> and The Colonel).<br />
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And we daresay you've heard of the Shropshire Slasher, pursued by these fine fellows:<br />
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The succession of comedic movies about Sherlock Holmes is quick in the early days of film (we won't bore you with all of the titles, but suffice it to say Mack Sennett of 'Keystone Kops' fame was involved).<br />
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Into the 1940s, we had regular comic relief in the form of Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, who did so much damage to the reputation of the good doctor's intellect that to this day there are still people who view Watson as the <i>Boobus Britannicus</i>.<br />
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George C. Scott played a rich lawyer who has a breakdown and believes that he is Sherlock Holmes in the 1971 film <i>They Might Be Giants</i>. <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2016/08/remembering-gene-wilder.html" target="_blank">Gene Wilder</a> tried his hand at <i>The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes's Younger Brother</i>, with <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2016/03/remembering-douglas-wilmer-bsi.html#.W67se2hKjb1" target="_blank">Douglas Wilmer</a> reprising his role as Sherlock Holmes, with Thorley Walters as his Watson.<br />
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Neil Simon's 1976 film <i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074937/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" target="_blank">Murder By Death</a></i> was a spoof of many characters in detective fiction, and in an early version, Holmes and Watson made an appearance. On television that same year, we saw Richard B. Schull, BSI ("A Fine Actor") and John Schuck as <i>Holmes and Yo-Yo</i>, an ABC network comedy about a traditional police detective and his partner who happened to be an android. And not to be outdone, NBC had <i>The Return of the World's Greatest Detective</i>, with Larry Hagman as motorcycle cop Sherman Holmes, whose bike falls on him and causes him to believe he's Sherlock Holmes (aka <i>They Might Be Giants</i> for television).<br />
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John Cleese came along in 1977 with <i>The Strange Case of the End of Civilisation as We Know It</i>, followed by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>. The less said about each, the better.<br />
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We've survived the casting of Sherlock Holmes as <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2016/07/thirty-years-of-great-mouse-detective.html#.W67_72hKjb0" target="_blank">a mouse</a>, <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/04/the-first-appearance-of-sherlock-holmes.html" target="_blank">a muppet</a>, <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/03/the-earliest-sherlock-holmes-star-trek.html" target="_blank">a futuristic space traveler</a>, <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2016/09/sherlock-holmes-in-23rd-century.html#.W67_lGhKjb0" target="_blank">a time traveler</a>, <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose25" target="_blank">a singing detective</a>, <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2016/02/the-great-detective-pikachu-evolution.html" target="_blank">Pikachu</a>, <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2017/11/sherlock-gnomes-first-look.html" target="_blank">a garden gnome</a>, and a <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2011/12/arrived-upon-christmas-morning-blue_25.html#at_pco=smlwn-1.0&at_si=5baefee088c36ae8&at_ab=per-2&at_pos=0&at_tot=1" target="_blank">GIF</a>.<br />
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And we're supposed to have the vapors simply because Will Ferrell is involved now?<br />
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Puh-lease.<br />
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No, this certainly won't be a version of Sherlock Holmes that appeals to everyone. But to throw so much cold water on it as if to say it's a version that won't appeal to <b><i>anyone</i></b> is, to us at least, the antithesis of the Sherlockian world, as we've come to know and appreciate.<br />
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The more Sherlocks, the merrier, we say.<br />
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Some seem to think that the more merrier the Sherlocks, the more miserable Sherlockians will be.<br />
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<i>Holmes and Watson</i> premieres in the U.S. on November 9 and in the U.K. on December 26.<br />
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<i><b>Editor's note:</b> Keen observers of the trailer should watch for Hugh Laurie as Mycroft Holmes and notice that the song used in one portion is the same as in "<a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2010/10/must-be-very-familiar-to-you-empt_2.html" target="_blank">Baker Street: The Boys Are Back</a>."</i><br />
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A Very Different Holmes and Watson

"It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy" [3GAB] We recently welcomed Lee Eric Shackleford to the show to...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – Short Stories

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Who among us hasn't been tempted to short-cut assigned classroom reading with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CliffsNotes" target="_blank">CliffsNotes</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_Notes" target="_blank">York Notes</a>, in those pre-Internet days when Wikipedia wasn't readily available?<br />
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Well, the more literary-inclined have not – a group to which Sherlockians generally tend to gravitate – but for the masses, let's agree they may have.<br />
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We're reminded of Watson's recounting of his doings in Hereford with Sherlock Holmes in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery," whiling away his time while Holmes ran down a few clues:<br />
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A yellow-backed novel? Was Watson perusing an early version of CliffsNotes? Hardly.<br />
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Yellow-backed novels were cheap (sixpenny or shilling) editions of a book with illustrated covers of glazed and vividly illustrated yellow boards, intended for railway travellers. According to a note in The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Leslie S. Klinger, BSI ("The Abbey Grange"),<br />
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Episode 152: Holmes & Watson

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We currently live in an age where smoker are something of pariahs. But Sherlock Holmes is probably the most famous smoker in literature. And as you can imagine, his smoking habits ranged widely. In Episode 83, we explore the incidence of cigars, cigarettes and pipes in <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles83" target="_blank">Smoke if You Got 'Em</a>.<br />
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On to Episode 84, where we continued our monthly feature "<b>Inside 221B</b>" that looks at some of the physical objects we find in the flat at 221B Baker Street. This time, it's a matter of <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles84" target="_blank">The Morocco Case</a> in which Holmes kept his cocaine syringe. Was it actually from Morocco?<br />
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Our next regular monthly feature, "<b>Unpublished Cases,</b>" has to do with tales that didn't make it to the public. Episode 85 is all about <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles85" target="_blank">The Sign of Four</a>. But wait, you say. That was a published case. You're correct. But it contained hints of more than one untold tale...<br />
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And finally, in Episode 87, it's a look at <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles87" target="_blank">The Good Doctor</a>. What kind of medical practice did Watson run (admittedly there were many)? And why was his medicine of choice typically brandy?<br />
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Over the years, we've seen a number of creative approaches to Sherlockian material through poetry.<br />
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For example, at one <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose11" target="_blank">Autumn in Baker Street</a>, we heard <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i> recited in the style of Robert Service. Isaac Asimov is legendary for his <i><a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2011/06/out-poetry-watson-reti_1.html#.W5SC5-gzrb2" target="_blank">Sherlockian Limericks</a></i>. Each BSI Weekend we look forward to the annual year-in-review poem in doggerel, written and performed by Al Rosenblatt, BSI ("Inspector Bradstreet") and Betsy Rosenblatt, BSI ("Lucy Ferrier").<br />
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And then there are the classics. Vincent Starrett's immortal "<a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/10/celebrate-national-poetry-day.html#.W5SScegzrb0" target="_blank">221B</a>," which gave us the now-legendary phrase "it's always 1895," and is often recited at the conclusion to Sherlockian society meetings. Or another favorite meeting-closer, Bill Schweikert's moving "<a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/11/when-i-spend-long-evening-with-holmes.html" target="_blank">A Long Evening With Holmes</a>." And the elusive and mysterious poetess laureate of the BSI, <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose135" target="_blank">Helene Yuhasova</a>.<br />
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Yes, we have plenty of poetry that touches on Sherlock Holmes. It's no mystery that when we link the heart and the mind, the magic happens – just like at Baker Street Elementary...<br />
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Baker Street Elementary – Analyze This

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