Good Night, Mr. Holmes

The final episode in the Granada Sherlock Holmes series. One of the best. A woman receives two human ears, buried in salt, in a cardboard box for Christmas. Only Holmes and Watson can relate all the facts and come to the correct conclusion. But we are not finished! We will be back in about two months as we research and explore Hercule Poirot, as we prepare to dig into Agatha Christie's greatest (male) detective. (Marple gets a whole other series.) Thanks to everyone who's downloaded and/or listened! We love and appreciate you all!

Omertá. A landlady comes to see Holmes and Watson because she's got a lodger who will not come out unless it's to grab a tray and go back inside the room. Mrs. Hudson urges her on, and Holmes agrees to take the case. The Mafia is involved. But who is in the landlady's room?

Culverton Smith is manipulating his cousin and ensuring his death and societal destruction. Baby Hugh Bonneville and Susannah Harker turn this episode into a suspenseful saga of addiction and deception.

We were very mixed up about who the biddies were and who the twins were and also none of this should have ever happened. Happily, Hattie comes out on top, owning the manor house that she loved so much from a distance. And I guess that's what counts.

It starts in flames. Turns out, those flames destroyed the set - and the manor house - entirely. This is Granada's attempt to put Holmes against a vampire - could have been great, turns out it was...well, a mess. We discuss. Part two of two.

The slimy, oleaginous Charles Augustus Milverton meets his well-deserved end. Second of two parts.

Monkey glands! A more-than-midlife crisis! And the horrors of animal trafficking, which still continues today. The greatest primate actor of all time (Peter Elliott), and the immortal words: "If inconvenient, come all the same." Holmes and Watson aim to rescue more than one young woman from the fragility of the male ego.

Australians - and baby James Purefoy! We love this show because it introduces us to the nascence of our favorite actors. A man is lying dead by a lakeside. A gamekeeper talks too much. Star-crossed would-be lovers - and a forgotten past. It's too good, too delightfully grotesque.

A Brazilian wife, a blameless governess, and a whole lot of rhododenrons - Rachel and Laura unpack Winchester Prison, the Huguenots, and Cheshire vs Hampshire.

We're comparing the Richard Roxburgh version of Hound of the Baskervilles to the Jeremy Brett version. Roxburgh is a very different actor, and the story is told in a different way as well - leaving out the Lankford family entirely, and focusing more on wide panoramic shots of the moor. Sir Henry is not the son but the nephew of Sir Charles. And a host of other differences that true Sherlockians will enjoy.

"Mr. Holmes. They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" With that statement, Holmes and Watson - mostly Watson - are off to Dartmoor. A horrific, large, possibly supernatural dog is haunting the moorland, and Sir Henry Baskerville is the probable target. Is the moor truly haunted?

A cartography aficianado, a Spanish visitor (because we can't have an ACD story without the othering of the...other), and a rather sinister Inspector Baynes - and a spirited pair of children - bring Holmes and Watson to Surrey, where they have to solve a distinctly Iberian mystery.

Holmes is supposedly on vacation for his health - but he and Watson are interrupted by a vicar who is concerned about his parishoner Tregennis, who'd been playing cards with his siblings and then arrived the next morning to encounter them all dead or crazed. Is it poison? Or is it poison?