Sherlock Wilmer comes to region 1 DVD

[didi-5]

According to BBC America's DVDs in the Works, the 1960s Wilmer and Stock Sherlock Holmes is getting dusted off for a full release in the autumn. So miracles can and do happen. I wonder if it will follow on region 2? And also whether they've located the missing bit of the incomplete episode.

[JamesDFarrow]

13 episodes?



James

[jaycad]

that's brilliant news!!

[didi-5]

I hope so James. It only has the one sentence about it at the moment admitting they've missed Conan Doyle's 150th anniversary.

[JamesDFarrow]

Thanks!



I got the Cushing set and am looking forward to this one.



James

[cornershop15]

name='didi-5']According to BBC America's DVDs in the Works, the 1960s Wilmer and Stock Sherlock Holmes is getting dusted off for a full release in the autumn. So miracles can and do happen. I wonder if it will follow on region 2? And also whether they've located the missing bit of the incomplete episode.

Wonderful news. Many Thanks, didi. It is very sad though that the series is not entirely 'intact'. From LostShows:



Misssing or incomplete episodes for programme SHERLOCK HOLMES.



20.03.65 The Abbey Grange (aired three days before I was born )

One or more sequences don't exist, but the complete programme is lost.



17.04.65 The Bruce Partington-Plans

Sound only exists - there is no picture.



Out of an original total of 13 episodes, one episode is missing and a further episode is incomplete.



Don't worry, folks, we will get to see them as well, in 'TV Heaven'. You can be assured of that.

[will.15]

Eleven complete episodes out of thirteen is still pretty good, and if the incomplete episode doesn't have the ending, you can always look up the story to find out how Holmes solves it.

[Harbottle]

The first reel of Bruce Partington survives, hopefully they will include this and continue with audio but no picture, perhaps using stills....but I doubt it somehow. Great news of a release at long last though but why yet again are we being denied this in R.2? I despair of the amount of classic BBC material we are being denied

[Gerald Lovell]

I do hope this comes about! Douglas Wilmer was the first Holmes I ever saw and it would be fantastic to get more than the two (edited) episodes the BBC released on VHS many years ago.

[JamesDFarrow]

Even just the 11 would be great!



James

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Sherlock Holmes BBC 1965 (Douglas Wilmer)



Season 1, Episode 0: The Speckled Band

Original Air Date: 18 May 1964

Season 1, Episode 1: The Illustrious Client Original Air Date: 20 February 1965

Season 1, Episode 2: The Devil's Foot Original Air Date: 27 February 1965

Season 1, Episode 3: The Copper Beeches Original Air Date: 6 March 1965

Season 1, Episode 4: The Red-Headed League Original Air Date: 13 March 1965

Season 1, Episode 5: The Abbey Grange Original Air Date: 20 March 1965 ~ missing the first reel

Season 1, Episode 6: The Six Napoleons Original Air Date: 27 March 1965

Season 1, Episode 7: The Man with the Twisted Lip Original Air Date: 3 April 1965

Season 1, Episode 8: The Beryl Coronet Original Air Date: 10 April 1965

Season 1, Episode 9: The Bruce-Partington Plans Original Air Date: 17 April 1965 ~ missing the second reel

Season 1, Episode 10: Charles Augustus Milverton Original Air Date: 24 April 1965

Season 1, Episode 11: The Retired Colourman Original Air Date: 1 May 1965

Season 1, Episode 12: The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax Original Air Date: 8 May 1965



Two episodes of the Douglas Wilmer series in the BBC archives are incomplete - "The Abbey Grange" is missing the first reel of two, "The Bruce-Partington Plans" is missing the second reel of two. Technically "The Speckled Band" is incomplete, in that it was first transmitted in "Detective" and all episodes of that series (its first series) had an introduction by Rupert Davies (as Maigret) - the version that exists of "Speckled Band" has the "Sherlock Holmes" series titles and is minus the intro.

[Dave Rattigan]

I assumed they were all missing, so this is great news.

[JamesDFarrow]

News Item here:



Sherlock Holmes DVD news: Announcement for Sherlock Holmes (1964) | TVShowsOnDVD.com



11 Episodes - And the price of $19.98 SRP is great news as well.



Great Stuff!



James

[didi-5]

It's a shame the material left from the other episodes can't be used but great to have a confirmed release date :)

[jaycad]

YES!!!!!!! something to look forward to-especially 'the retired colourman' which i haven't seen adapted before!

[Harbottle]

name='jaycad']YES!!!!!!! something to look forward to-especially 'the retired colourman' which i haven't seen adapted before!

Rather good with the excellent Maurice Denham

[Gerald Lovell]

This is indeed capital news, Watson!

I wonder, though, why no R2 release? Also, thankfully Douglas Wilmer is still with us - I read his interesting autobiography quite recently - and it would have been good if he could have provided an introduction or two to the episodes.

[jaycad]

name='Gerald Lovell']This is indeed capital news, Watson!

I wonder, though, why no R2 release? Also, thankfully Douglas Wilmer is still with us - I read his interesting autobiography quite recently - and it would have been good if he could have provided an introduction or two to the episodes.

I presumed that douglas wilmer had died years ago! I always thought that he would have made a good 'count dracula'!

[Windthrop]

name='Gerald Lovell']This is indeed capital news, Watson!

I wonder, though, why no R2 release? Also, thankfully Douglas Wilmer is still with us - I read his interesting autobiography quite recently - and it would have been good if he could have provided an introduction or two to the episodes.

He was on a documentary a few years ago about Holmes (it was about the Holmes fanatic that killed himself and Wilmer was an acquaintance). He looked in very robust good health.

[Gerald Lovell]

Douglas is a honorary member of The Sherlock Holmes Society of London and quite often attends their dinners.